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What Matters Most On Friday, February 3, 2017

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White House press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily White House briefing, Monday, Jan.uary 23, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Tillerson phones Netanyahu

White House says new Israeli settlements ‘may not be helpful’

By Tamar Pileggi and Agencies

Trump administration’s first mild criticism of Israeli policy follows Netanyahu’s vow to Amona residents to establish new community in outpost’s stead

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely attend a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, December 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel hits back at US: Settlement expansion is not the problem

Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, speaks to the UN Security Council after it passed an anti-settlement resolution, December 23, 2016 (UN Screenshot)

Danon: US statement on settlements is no Trump U-turn

Former resident of the Amona outpost Tamar Nizri sitting with one of her eight children in the Ofra Seminary campus, February 2, 2017. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

'He's made up promises before and hasn't been able to deliver'

Netanyahu’s new settlement? ‘Abandoned’ Amona evictees aren’t holding out hope

By Raoul Wootliff

Residents of the evacuated West Bank outpost are not taking pledge for granted: ‘This fight is not over,’ they say. ‘We’ve just moved to the next stage’

US President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump says Iran ‘playing with fire,’ as White House plans new sanctions

By Vivian Salama and Matthew Lee

Up to two dozen Iranian individuals, companies and government agencies could be penalized in first US response to missile tests

US said set to sanction 25 Iranian entities after missile test

Iran rejects Trump’s ‘baseless, provocative’ missile warning

By Stephane Barbier

AnalysisUS setting up a confrontational approach with Iran

By Adam Schreck

Police officers guard the access to the Louvre museum in Paris,Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Machete-wielding man yelling ‘Allahu akbar’ tries to stab soldier in Paris, is shot

By AP

Terrorist in serious condition after hit 5 times by armed patrol outside Louvre; second man arrested, although link unclear

Protesters removed from the synagogue at Amona smash a window to escape after they were placed on a bus by police, during the outpost's evacuation on February 2, 2017 (screen capture: Channel 10)

Amona protesters smash windows of bus taking them from outpost, flee

Other demonstrators blocked the road as bus with activists removed from Amona synagogue was heading to nearby settlement

Herzog compares Amona synagogue protesters to Duma killers

Netanyahu welcomes US warning to Iran on ballistic missile tests

Police brace for ‘price tag’ attacks in wake of Amona evacuation

US President Donald Trump speaks to House and Senate GOP lawmakers at the annual policy retreat in Philadelphia, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Analysis

On Israel-Palestine, Trump might end up another George W. Bush

By Raphael Ahren

Seeking to seal ‘ultimate deal,’ new president is not rushing to dramatic changes. He doesn’t mind Israel building in settlements blocs, but could soon push for two-state solution

Haidy Wasef (left) with a student in her Arabic class at Gann Academy in Waltham, Massachusetts, 2016 (Courtesy)

American Jewish day schools say ‘ahlan’ to Arabic

By Renee Ghert-Zand

At request of pupils motivated by politics and peace, US high schools adding courses in Israel’s ‘other’ official language

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony in memory of Ariel mayor Ron Nachman, in the Israeli settlement of Ariel. February 02, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu welcomes US warning to Iran on ballistic missile tests

PM says upcoming meeting with Trump of ‘great importance’ to Israel; Washington puts Tehran ‘on notice’ for launch

Paramedics attend to an Israeli wounded in a car ramming attack north of Jerusalem on February 2, 2017 ( United Hatzalah)

3 hurt in suspected West Bank car-ramming attack

By Judah Ari Gross

2 cops, civilian lightly wounded at guard post outside settlement; Palestinian woman arrested at scene, said to admit to attack

The courtyard of Amsterdam’s National Holocaust Museum, through which hundreds of Jewish children were smuggled into safety during the Shoah, January 15, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Where 500 children ‘disappeared’ from Nazi clutches, a new Dutch Shoah museum emerges

By Matt Lebovic

US President Donald Trump, left, congratulates then senior counselor to the president Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Report: White House nixed Holocaust memorial text that mentioned Jews

Politico says State Department draft was ignored by administration in favor of generic condemnation that omitted Jewish genocide

Steve Bannon, chief White House strategist to President Donald Trump, left, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus stand in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, before President Donald Trump arrives to announce Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The man behind the curtain, Bannon is quiet power in Oval Office

By Nancy Benac and Jill Colvin

The conservative media executive’s fingerprints are on virtually every significant move taken by President Trump

US President Donald Trump speaks with members of the head table at the National Prayer Breakfast February 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump vows to stop IS, calls for united front against ‘enemies’

By JTA and ToI Staff

At annual National Prayer Breakfast, also attended by Jordanian king, president says terrorism is fundamental threat to religious freedom

A section of the border fence between Israel and Egypt, January 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Senate report compares Israeli, US-Mexico barriers

Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican chair of Homeland Security Committee, cites Israeli fences as cheaper, more effective than US’s

Illustrative: A woman leads a partnership minyan at a conference in New York of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, December 2013. (Mike Kelly/JTA)

OU bars women from serving as clergy in its synagogues

By JTA

A response to handful of women with ritual or prayer leadership roles, ruling forbids formal religious guidance positions or delivering sermons during services

Anti-Israel protesters rally outside the annual AIPAC conference on March 20, 2016 (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

Groups seek to fight Israel’s delegitimization with a bigger ‘big tent’

Not all critics are enemies, say ADL and Reut Institute, and knowing the difference can separate critics of Israel’s policies from opponents to its existence

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Beloit College campus, Beloit, Wisconsin. (Photo by: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images/JTA)

Jewish student at Wisconsin college receives note: ‘You should be gassed’

By JTA

De-Levie Agriculture Produce promotional video showing a shipment of sheep. (YouTube screenshot)

Court orders reduced suffering in animal shipments

Nazi zombies from the 2009 movie "Dead Snow." (Screen capture: YouTube)

D-Day for the undeadJ.J. Abrams working on Nazi zombie film

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

Protesters call for Netanyahu’s resignation at Tel Aviv rally

Renowned Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir. (YouTube screen capture)

Israeli scientist wins Japan Prize for cryptography work

By JTA

French Michelin Chef Lionel Levy praised the 'diversity of spices and vegetables' in Israel. (Mona Grid/via JTA)

French chef brings touch of Michelin magic to Tel Aviv

Julian Edelman can safely be called the best Jewish player in the NFL. (Getty Images/Illustration by Lior Zaltzman/via JTA)

Kosher pigskinPatriots star Julian Edelman’s 5 most Jewish moments

By Gabe Friedman

Israeli settlers barricade themselves inside a building on the second day of an Israeli police operation to evacuate the illegal Amona outpost on February 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Hebrew media reviewBastards of Amona

By Joshua Davidovich

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