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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 1, 2017

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Israeli security forces clash with protesters at the Amona outpost, February 8, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

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Police, protesters gird for battle over Amona synagogue as evacuation nears end

By Raoul Wootliff, Judah Ari Gross and Joshua Davidovich

Some 60 people estimated holed up inside buidling; police say eviction operation to continue slowly and steadily, with no deadline pressures; two dozen police officers injured by youths hurling solvents, rocks and glass

MK likens Amona outpost evacuation to ‘brutal rape’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Bennett: Amona evacuation will lead to West Bank annexation

By Marissa Newman

Skirting roadblocks, protesters stream to Amona as evacuation looms

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli settlers scuffle with security forces at the Amona outpost during an evacuation operation on February 1, 2017. (AFP/Jack GUEZ)

Slowly, amid clashes and tears, Israel evacuates Amona outpost

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Over 2 dozen of the 42 homes cleared as protesters hole up inside illegal settlement, passively resist eviction; operation to continue overnight; 20 cops and two protesters hurt; 13 arrests made

A man holds Israeli flag as Israeli security forces gather ahead of the evacuation of the illegal outpost of Amona, on February 1, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police begin evacuation of Amona outpost

Sunset over a construction site next to the Jewish East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo on November 21, 2016. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

Israel okays another 3,000 new settlement homes

By ToI Staff and AP

Netanyahu and Liberman approve widespread construction, including outside major blocs, saying Israel ‘returning to normal life’ in West Bank

Ex-US envoy voices support for ‘carefully’ moving embassy to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Knesset speaker goes to Washington to push for embassy move

AnalysisFor Netanyahu, Trump brings friendship — and risks

By Josef Federman

Illustrative photo of police tape at the JCC in Nashville, Tennessee, after the community center received a bomb threat on January 9, 2017. (Screenshot: The Tennessean)

This is what a JCC bomb threat sounds like

By Ben Sales and Josefin Dolsten

A recording of one of the ominous phone calls that have recently caused repeated evacuations of Jewish centers in the US

An Israeli passport (Flash90)

Israelis born in Arab states excluded from Trump travel ban

Controversial executive order will not be enforced against Jews born in 7 countries hit by entry bar, US embassy says

Did Shabbat keep Jared and Ivanka in the dark about ‘Muslim ban’ crisis?

Trump travel ban may block Iraqi Yazidi lawmaker from rights prize

By JTA

Trump ban order leads Florida authorities to hold 7 Jews for over 6 hours

By JTA

Liz Glusman, from Washington, joins a crowd protesting in Lafayette Park near the White House during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the US on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Washington. (AP /Alex Brandon)

In US ‘sanctuary cities,’ Jewish groups work to provide safe harbor for immigrants

By Cathryn J. Prince

Signed on Holocaust day, President Trump’s injunction against undocumented immigrants says that jurisdictions that fail to report to ICE are ‘willfully’ violating federal law

This is how we replace the UN

On a new plan that’s in the works to defund the global body and create a ‘Covenant of Democratic Nations’

Light through the cracks

Taking comfort in Jewish resilience, human empathy, and community, as her beloved liberal landscape shifts underfoot

Lawrence Grossman

Holocaust memory without Jews

Trump’s purely universalist message stripped the Shoah of its actual victims — and hence much of its meaning

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The Chief Rabbinate and its disgrace

The Talmud is careful to label ‘great’ only those who make a sincere effort to reduce the pain of fellow human beings

Western Wall prayer fight must go on

She vows to keep seeking equality: One year since a historic compromise was announced but never implemented

A social media post by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, includes a total of Jews and non-Jews killed in the Holocaust that historians say is greatly exaggerated. (Twitter)

‘Remember the 11 million’? Why an inflated victims tally irks Holocaust historians

An oft-cited statistic of 5 million non-Jewish Holocaust deaths has no basis in fact, experts say, and may be contributing to denial efforts

Deborah Lipstadt (YouTube screenshot)

Trump administration ‘flirting’ with Holocaust denial, says Deborah Lipstadt

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley at UN Headquarters in New York on January 31, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

US raises alarm at UN over Iran missile test

By Carole LANDRY and Ali Noorani

Envoy Nikki Haley calls recent launch ‘absolutely unacceptable,’ says Washington is ‘not naive’ and will call Tehran out on violations

Members of the Hamas armed wing attend a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (AF /SAID KHATIB)

Hamas military capabilities said restored to pre-2014 war strength

By Tamar Pileggi

Terror group has rehabilitated network of cross-border tunnels, missile arsenal, Israeli defense sources say

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat gives a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, August 23, 2010. (AP Photo)

‘God help us’ if Trump keeps on like this, says top PA official

By Stuart Winer

Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat claims US president shunning the Palestinians, slams ‘ban on Muslims’

Elor Azaria, who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant, arrives at the military court in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2017. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Prosecution asks for 3-5 years in jail for Hebron soldier

By AFP and ToI Staff

Elor Azaria’s commanding officer urges leniency for IDF sergeant who shot dead a wounded and disarmed Palestinian stabber

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto arrives at the Lima Convention Center to speak at the APEC CEO Summit in Lima, Peru, on November 19, 2016. (AFP/Ernesto Benavides)

Rivlin says sorry, but Mexico says ties ‘hurt’ by PM’s support of Trump wall

By Tamar Pileggi

In call to Mexican counterpart, Israel’s president apologizes, claims there’s been a misunderstanding, hopes issue is now resolved

In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, Natan Sharansky, the Jewish Agency's chairman is seen during a press conference (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)

Israel allows 9 Venezuelan Jewish converts to immigrate

By Daniel Estrin and Joshua Goodman

Authorities had initially rejected group’s bid, saying they did not meet criteria, but Jewish Agency has mediated a compromise

People walk past piles of garbage at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, caused by a strike of the Jerusalem municipality, January 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem strike ends after Netanyahu intervenes

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Mayor Nir Barkat agrees to renew municipal services after PM puts capital’s budget woes on agenda of next cabinet meeting

Pastoral, Henri Matisse, 1905 (WikiArt)

Picasso, Matisse and other art from 2010 Paris heist may be in Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘Spiderman’ burglar on trial over $100m haul of five paintings; one accomplice suspected of selling them to Israeli collector

This undated handout photo provided by Deux Beaux Garcon Films shows a scene from the movie 'In Between', the new award-winning film about Arab women battling their conservative society, (Itay Gross, Deux Beaux Garcon Films via AP)

Israel’s Arabs divided by film’s portrayal of changing world

By Areej Hazboun

‘In Between’ shows independent young Arab women dealing with sex, drugs, homosexuality and rape in the community

PM Benjamin Netanyhu speaks at CyberTech 2017 (Courtesy: Gilad Kavalerchik)

Israel sets up cyber education center to draw students to field

By AFP

Facility to have 5-year, $6 million budget, prime minister says at Tel Aviv’s Cybertech 2017 conference

Illustrative photo of a woman giving credit card details over the phone (Photo credit: Istock Highway-starz photography)

Lost your money to binary options? Here’s how some victims got it back

By Simona Weinglass

More Headlines

The Blindow vocational school in Leipzig, Germany (YouTube screenshot)

A firm handGerman school expels Jewish teen over Nazi salute

By JTA

This image of a Muslim girl and Jewish boy has been retweeted over 220,000 times. (Screenshot from Nuccio DiNuzzo/Twitter)

Political playdateJewish, Muslim kids protesting Trump go viral

By Gabe Friedman

Hebrew poets Rachel (left) and Leah Goldberg (right) on new NIS 20 and 100 banknotes. (Courtesy of the Bank of Israel)

Bank of Israel unveils new banknotes featuring women

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert is seen departing Maasiyahu Prison in Ramle on July 11, 2016, for his first leave from prison since he began his sentence in February. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Seeking pardon, jailed ex-PM Olmert says he’s suffered enough

Left to right, MK Yael Cohen Paran, MK Dov Khenin, Ori Shavit protesting live animal imports, January 28, 2017, (Or Keren)

Stop shipments of live animals to Israel for slaughter, protesters urge court

Haifa's industrial zone. The ammonia tank is visible on the jetty jutting into the sea at the right. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Hundreds of thousands of lives in danger from Haifa ammonia operation: report

By Stuart Winer

Participants in a specialized Birthright trip focused on yoga. (Courtesy of Hillel International/via JTA)

Zio-niche tours 7 off-beat Birthright trips for yogis, foodies and more

By Gabe Friedman

Israeli security forces gather ahead of the evacuation of the illegal outpost of Amona, on February 1, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAmona, no way to it nor path

By Joshua Davidovich

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