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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 2, 2017

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Israeli police forces evacuate people from the synagogue of the illegal outpost of Amona, on the second day of the eviction on February 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amona evacuation comes to violent end as protesters pulled out of synagogue

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Swastika and other vicious slogans painted on walls; police say ‘chemical materials’ used against them; police minister condemns ‘hooligans’; protesters claim they were attacked; outpost rabbi silent on accusations of desecration at place of worship

Police minister: Holed up Amona protesters ‘hooligans’

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebookHurling guilt on top of rocks, Amona protesters target police’s hearts and minds

By Judah Ari Gross

Accepting Palestinian petition, High Court rules Amona settlers can’t move to nearby plot

By Tamar Pileggi

Israelis take part in a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, on February 2, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

1,500 protesters call for PM’s resignation in Tel Aviv rally

Trump: Nothing off the table in response to Iran missile test; 2 cops, civilian lightly hurt in Palestinian car-ramming; Herzog likens Amona synagogue vandals to Duma killers

Israeli security forces carry a settler away as they evict residents from the illegal Amona outpost, northeast of Ramallah, on February 1, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/Thomas COEX)

PM compensates Amona settlers with first new West Bank settlement in 25 years

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu vows to make good on earlier promise to rehouse outpost residents in new community if unable to prevent evacuation

EU warns new settlements risk making two-state solution ‘impossible’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians rejoice as Amona outpost evacuated

By AP and ToI Staff

Slowly, amid clashes and tears, Israel evacuates Amona outpost

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Rex Tillerson (L) as Tillerson's wife Renda St. Clair looks on after Tillerson was sworn in as Secretary of State in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump puts Iran ‘on notice,’ denounces ‘terrible’ nuclear deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

US president warns Islamic Republic over recent missile test, says it ‘should have been thankful’ for agreement with world powers

Iran said to test second nuclear-capable missile

Rex Tillerson confirmed as US secretary of state

Angry White House puts Iran ‘on notice’ over ballistic missile tests

By Eric Cortellessa

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)

JCC bomb threat probe hindered by tech disguises

Challenges to FBI investigation into some 65 threats include how to identify caller with masked voice who appears to be calling from inside building

Sorry Israel, US Jewry just isn’t that into you

The love affair lasted just 3 decades; but intractable conflict and intolerance for liberal Jews are deal-breakers

Emily B. Landau and Guy Landau

Why Trump’s order isn’t a #MuslimBan and why that matters

Op-Ed: The entry ban sent a message to countries deemed a threat to the US — it also trampled core American values

Outshining darkness in Montana

A spiritual response to counter the neo-Nazis of Whitefish: a gift of Torah to spread the light and fight the hate

Deborah Lipstadt

Denial and fake news

The Hollywood flick about her ordeal makes the timely point that lies, yelled loudly enough, can morph into fact

Witness to Amona

Families lost homes, vineyards, and sheep farms, but the greatest loss of all was their trust in a caring government

Donniel Hartman

The tragedy of Amona

The trauma of evicting people from their homes must not become an excuse to not plan for peace in the future

Rabbi Ariel Finzi, second from right, with Episcopal Vicar Raffaele Mangano (far left), Shavei Israel chairman Michael Freund (left of Finzi), and vice president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Giulio Disegni in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

500 years after being wiped out, Sicilian Jewish life is reborn

By Rossella Tercatin

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 30, 2016. GPO)

Six weeks after UN vote, Israel buries the hatchet with Kiev

By Raphael Ahren

Breaking ban on high-level contacts with states that backed anti-settlement UN resolution, PM speaks with Ukrainian president

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, speaking at the Homeland Security Department in Washington, January 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Islamism to become focus of anti-extremist program under Trump

By Stuart Winer and AFP

Some experts concerned that rebranding the Countering Violent Extremism service will alienate US Muslims

A fire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos burns on Sproul Plaza on the University of California at Berkeley campus on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP/Ben Margot)

UC Berkeley talk by Trump-supporting Breitbart editor canceled amid violent protests

By Jocelyn Gecker

Demonstrators hurl smoke bombs, break windows to protest address by ‘Jewish’ right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos

Illustrative: A truck with the words 'fuck off' and another with swastika graffiti on it were found outside a Jewish school in a Hasidic neighborhood in London, November 14, 2016. (Shomrim N.E. London/Twitter)

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Anti-Semitism in UK at highest level on record, new study shows

By Justin Cohen

Anti-Semitic incidents across country up by 36% in 2016, according to Community Security Trust report

Ivor Montagu with his wife, Eileen, Feb. 24, 1927. (Sasha/Getty Images)

How the Queen of England got involved in a secret Jewish wedding

By Josefin Dolsten

The 1927 elopement of the son of a British Jewish baron and his wife, daughter of a shoemaker, prompted a condolence call by Mary of Teck

A first grader raises his hand in a classroom in Nitzan, southern Israel. (Edi Israel/Flash90/File)

Why Yoni and Yael can’t do math

By Simona Weinglass

Ofek Buchris arrives at military court on February 2, 2017. (Flash90)

General convicted of sexual offenses demoted under plea bargain

By Stuart Winer

Ofek Buchris, accused of rape, also given 7-month suspended sentence after confessing to unspecified sexual offenses

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan (second left) and his delegation meet with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (second right), in the Knesset on April 4, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Knesset speaker pushes US counterpart Ryan on embassy move

By Alexander Fulbright

Yuli Edelstein tells House leader that Congressional backing ‘will lead to worldwide and regional support’ for relocation, but Paul Ryan’s statement doesn’t address issue

Gil and Jenna Lewinsky plan to open an ecological heritage park and educational farm for their 113 sheep, pictured here on January 15, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

After bleating a path to Israel, Jacob’s sheep frolic in new home

By Melanie Lidman and Video by Luke Tress

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Illustrative: A student writing. (Getty images)

Cartoon of IDF soldiers on NY state exam called ‘anti-Israel propaganda’

By JTA

Rod Stewart performing in Hamburg, Germany in October 2013. The singer will perform on June 14 in Tel Aviv (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

People Get ReadyIsrael hopes for summer of rock amid talk of bookings

By Jessica Steinberg

Anna Chipczynska, president of the Jewish Community of Warsaw, right, and Ania Bakula holding the contents of a package they sent to a TV director on Jan. 22, 2017. (Photo Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Warsaw)

SchooledPolish Jews send matzah to ‘anti-Semitic’ TV boss

By JTA

Jon Stewart appearing on the 'Late Show' dressed as US President Donald Trump, January 31, 2017. (screen capture: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert/YouTube)

Executive disorderJon Stewart makes comeback as ‘vindictive’ Trump

By AP

The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (JTA/Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images/File)

Sign of the timesPoles drive message on German death camp culpability

By Stuart Winer and AFP

Israel seeks to create a digital equivalent to the Iron Dome to fend off cyber attacks (Talucho/Flash90)

Israel works on ‘digital Iron Dome’ for cyberdefense

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Apple Watch introduced on stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube video)

Wrist motion eyed as means to detect forgeries

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rabbi Herman Schaalman. (Screenshot)

Rabbi Herman Schaalman, oldest Reform rabbi, dies at 100

By JTA

Two Jewish boys cry during the evacuation of the illegal Amona outpost in the West Bank on February 1, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHome is where the hurt is

By Joshua Davidovich

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