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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 7, 2017

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New prefabricated homes are seen under construction in the West Bank between the Israeli outpost of Amona and the settlement of Ofra (background), north of Ramallah, on January 31, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

In historic first, Israel legalizes West Bank outposts with sweeping new legislation

By Raoul Wootliff

Controversial law recognizing building on private Palestinian land passes final Knesset votes by 60 to 52, despite warnings it could land Israel in international court

MK thanks Trump after Knesset legalizes West Bank outposts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Minister says court shouldn’t be able to overturn outpost law

Palestinians say Regulation Law aims to ‘legalize theft of Palestinian land’

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing Street in London, February 6, 2017. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Hours after Netanyahu visit, UK slams Regulation Law

By Raphael Ahren

Freshly passed legislation retroactively legalizing illegal West Bank outposts ‘damages Israel’s standing with its international partners,’ top official says

Muslim world slams ‘provocative,’ ‘unacceptable’ outpost law

By ToI Staff and AFP

US keeps mum on Israeli law legalizing West Bank outposts

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Jewish groups slam Israel’s move to legalize West Bank outposts

A man praying at the illegal outpost of Amona, with a view of West Bank settlements, on February 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UN chief: Outpost law will have ‘far reaching legal consequences’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Secretary-General Guterres says legislation a violation of international law; EU also slams the law

Hours after Netanyahu visit, UK slams Regulation Law

By Raphael Ahren

Muslim world slams ‘provocative,’ ‘unacceptable’ outpost law

By ToI Staff and AFP

US keeps mum on Israeli law legalizing West Bank outposts

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians run for cover as sand and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas post in the northern Gaza Strip on February 6, 2017. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Israel pounds Gaza, vows rocket fire won’t be tolerated

By Judah Ari Gross

Planes, tanks bomb Hamas posts in Strip in response to rocket, small arms attacks as tensions mount along border

After Gaza flare-up, ministers hear war drums as army seeks return to calm

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet nabs Hamas terror cell ‘plotting attacks in Israel’

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas: Israel ‘fully accountable’ for any escalation in fighting

Illustrative photo of people on the streets of downtown Haifa during a cultural event. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Downtown Haifa goes upscale with urban makeover

By Jessica Steinberg

After years of neglect, port area is showing signs of rebirth as trendy pubs and restaurants and funky designers set up shop

Orthodox clergy-women: Here to stay

The Orthodox Union’s statement against female spiritual leaders is an expression of weakness and fear

A man praying at the illegal outpost of Amona, with a view of West Bank settlements, on February 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court orders demolition of 17 outpost homes, leaves others

Judges say West Tapuah houses built on private Palestinian land must be removed by June 2018; 18 other homes there may be allowed to remain

Raoul Wootliff on the politics of Amona

By ToI Staff and dennis zinn

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei tells Trump Iranian response to threats coming soon

By AFP and ToI Staff

Shrugging off US sanctions, regime head says Tehran will demonstrate the ‘kind of stance the nation takes when threatened’

President Donald Trump speaks to troops while visiting US Central Command and US Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump says media deliberately fails to report terror attacks

President says news outlets ‘have their reasons’ for not speaking of ‘genocide’ perpetrated by Islamic State; White House releases list of supposedly under-reported attacks

Jared Kushner at a meeting between President Trump and auto industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Jan. 24, 2017. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

Jared as Trump Whisperer? How a hoary cliché can’t be good for the Jews

A group of rabbis protesting outside of the Trump International Hotel in New York City on Feb. 6, 2017. (Ben Sales via JTA)

18 rabbis arrested during NY protest over Trump travel ban

By JTA and ToI Staff

Religious leaders refuse orders to disperse after taking part in demonstration in front of Trump Tower in support of refugees

An image posted by Benjamin Netanyahu on Facebook shows him standing with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in the room in London's Foreign Office where Arthur Balfour signed his famous 1917 declaration. February 6, 2017 (Facebook)

PM: Invite to Balfour centenary ‘speaks volumes’ about Israel-UK ties

Netanyahu contrasts May’s warm outreach to Israel with Palestinian Authority plan to sue UK over landmark 1917 Declaration

The four Pixies, including vocalist Black Francis, lead guitarist Joey Santiago, bassist Paz Lenchantin and drummer David Lovering (Courtesy)

Here comes your band

Alt rockers Pixies return for Caesarea gig

By Jessica Steinberg

Boston band heading to Israel 3 years after last visit and 7 years after canceling a gig amid boycott

A Wednesday, June 4, 2014 file photo of Britain's Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow as he walks through Central Lobby before Britain's Queen Elizabeth II delivered the Queen's Speech at the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)

UK Jewish lawmaker opposes a Trump address to parliament

By AFP and JTA

Speaker of Britain’s House of Commons slams president’s travel ban, says a speech to MPs ‘not an automatic right, it is an earned honor’

In this combination of two photos of Omar Alshogre, a 21-year Syrian former detainee, now living in Stockholm, Sweden. The left picture is of Alshogre taken on January 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. The right picture is of Alshogre in July 2015 in Antakya, Turkey, a month after he got out of Syria's Saydnaya prison, near Damascus. While in detention, Alshogre said he heard men escorted to be hanged and had himself been called for "execution" but was spared after a brief trial. (Handout by Omar Alshogre via AP)

Report: At least 13,000 hanged in Syrian prison since 2011

By Sarah El Deeb

Amnesty International says 20-50 people killed each week in 2011-2015 at Saydnaya Prison under authorization of senior Syrian officials

The staff at Zak the Baker’s new kosher deli in Miami, from left to right: chef Melissa Sosa, Zak Stern, general manager Ashley Dugdale and server Ricardo Araujo. (Courtesy of Zak the Baker/via JTA)

This new kosher deli may be Miami’s hippest restaurant

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

Foodies and hipsters brush elbows with Orthodox Jews in the gritty Wynwood area; uniting them is the stripped-down, traditional Ashkenazi fare of old

Israeli national Ben Hassin, who was jailed for killing a taxi driver in an unnamed Arab country, where he went to fight Islamic State. (Courtesy)

Charity says no taker for cash meant to free Israeli held in Arab country

ZAKA may return $120,000 after no local officials available to accept restitution money, secure release of Ben Hassin, 21, held on murder charges since 2015

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Construction workers work on clearing land for new caravans in the Jewish settlement of Ofra, in the West Bank, on January 29, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/FLash90)

US Jewish groups slam Israel’s move to legalize West Bank outposts

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu giving a news conference at Google’s Tel Aviv office, Dec. 10, 2012. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

On trade and travel, Trump has an opportunity to bolster US-Israel ties

By Daniel Shapiro and Scott Lasensky

Geert Wilders, leader of the right-wing Dutch Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid -- PVV), at the Senate at the Binnenhof in The Hague, Holland, November 17, 2016. (AFP/ANP/Bart Maat)

Dutch anti-Islam MP sparks fake news row

By AFP

Channel 2 prepares to infiltrate a weapons-carrying journalist at the Western Wall on a recent sabbath (Channel 2 screenshot)

Armed journalist shows up security failings at Western Wall

Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni (R) seen at the Rishon Lezion Magistrates Court on March 10, 2016, (Flash90)

Ashkelon mayor indicted for bribery, fraud, breach of trust

From left, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, outgoing IDF Spokesperson Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz and incoming spokesperson Col. Ronen Manelis in an undated photograph. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Eisenkot aide named new army spokesman

By Judah Ari Gross

Fadi Kassar hugs his young daughters for the first time in over 2 years after his family was reunited at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, February 2, 2017. (Bill Swersey/HIAS)

Jewish group helps reunite Syrian family kept apart by Trump ban

By JTA and ToI Staff

BlogTevye is killing it in Poland. Here’s why

Alec Baldwin, left, playing President Donald Trump in a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch that aired February 4, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Shabbat Night Live3 must-watch Jewish moments from this week’s SNL

By Josefin Dolsten

Protesters burn tires at the entrance to the illegal outpost of Amona, on February 1, 2017. Residents of the West Bank outpost of Amona have been given 48 hours to leave the hilltop community ahead of its court-ordered demolition. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOutpost-Zionism

By Joshua Davidovich

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