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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 8, 2017

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An aerial view of the illegal outpost of Maoz Esther in the West Bank. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Groups petition High Court to strike down outpost law

By Raoul Wootliff and Agencies

Two NGOs representing 17 municipalities file papers seeking to overturn ‘dangerous’ new legislation legalizing West Bank; Court gives state one month to prepare defense

Germany ‘disappointed,’ lost confidence in Israel after outpost law

By Raphael Ahren

Outpost law damaging Israel’s credibility, French envoy charges

Abbas: Settlement expansion ‘an assault against our people’

By AFP and Dov Lieber

Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 22, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Analysis

The true significance of Israel’s settlement legalization law

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The flurry of hand-wringing over the Regulation Law has largely missed what may be its most dramatic consequence — that it makes it harder for Israel to stick to its longstanding policy of permanent indecision in the West Bank

AG considering testifying against outpost law — report

Egypt: Outpost law ‘destructive’ to two-state solution

Poll: Most Israelis oppose annexing parts of West Bank

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meeting at Trump Tower in New York, September 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Analysis

Ahead of first Trump meet, Netanyahu keeps his cards close to his chest

By Raphael Ahren

While new US administration expects to learn how Israel wants to advance the peace process, PM seems set to defend the status quo

White House: Outpost law will be ‘topic of discussion’ between Trump and Netanyahu

By Eric Cortellessa

State Department silent as Trump forges foreign policy

By Dave Clark and Nicolas Revise

Trump aide: Holocaust statement criticism is ‘asinine’

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touring the INS Tanin submarine, built by the German firm Thyssenkrupp, as it arrived in Israel on September 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Submarines affair turns into criminal investigation – report

High Court gives state 30 days to respond to petition against Regulation Law; Abbas: All states that recognize Israel should recognize Palestine

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the Union for Reform Judaism president, speaking at the movement's biennial conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7, 2015. (URJ/via JTA)

Reform movement’s challenge: Protesting Trump and remaining inclusive

Jewish leaders have made opposing the president’s policies part of their agenda, leading to criticism by some that the movement should keep out of politics

Two prominent rabbis urge liberal Jewish groups to give David Friedman a chance

Federal judges skeptical on reinstating Trump travel ban

By AFP and AP

Pence breaks tie to confirm DeVos for education post

By Maria Danilova

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Religious leaders’ deafening silence

The Outpost Bill, once morally unthinkable, became palatable after years of stress and a history of victimhood

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Bannon’s love of Jews is conditional

Trump’s chief advisor plays a game of “good Jew-bad Jew” that smells a lot like old-fashioned bigotry

A look at the law — minus the politics

The Regulations Bill is legal and serves justice in the case of homes built on land that nobody claimed for years

Climbing to the other side of fear

That colossal mountain in Africa challenges her to find the strength to conquer not only its peak, but also her past

Illustrative images of Nobelist Robert Yisrael Aumann and his granddaughter studying Talmud in Uri Rosenwaks' documentary series, 'The Nobelists' (Courtesy Ruth Diskin Films)

Online library sets Talmud ‘free’ with full, no-charge translations

Members of the Palestinian terror group Hamas's security forces stage a mock raid on IDF post during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City on January 22, 2017. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Analysis

Hamas confirms it rejected Israeli prisoner exchange offer

By Avi Issacharoff and Jacob Magid

Source in the group say all prisoners released in Shalit deal and rearrested must be freed before talks can commence, deny Egypt involved

MK Karin Elharar (C), MK Merav Ben Ari (L) and MK Yaakov Margi attend a press conference regarding the State Control Committee's decision to publish parts of the State Comptroller's report about Operation Protective Edge, at the Knesset on January 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lawmakers approve publication of report on Gaza war tunnel threat

Information on Hamas attack tunnels will now be included in State Comptroller document set to be released in coming weeks

Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military wing, attend a memorial for Mohamed Zouari in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017, (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Analysis

Elite Hamas fighters defecting to Islamic State

By Avi Issacharoff

Despite losing a number of its top commandos, the Gaza-based terror organization continues to work with IS on smuggling, other fields

A dance performance at Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem, 2017 (screen capture: YouTube)

Government scrutinizes Jerusalem art gallery for hosting left-wing group

Culture minister pens urgent letter calling for event to be canceled, prompting mayor to question gallery officials

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara (L) attend a memorial ceremony for Ron Nahman, the founder of Ariel, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank on February 2, 2017 in Ariel. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Netanyhau said to deny he knew movie mogul bought champagne for his wife

PM reportedly told graft probe investigators he didn’t keep track of cigars he was given by Arnon Milchan, even bought some himself

The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli authorities investigating Teva over bribe allegations

By ToI Staff and Shoshanna Solomon

Probe comes after pharmaceutical giant reached US settlement over claims it paid off government officials in Russia, Mexico, Ukraine

Israel is a world leader in the field of assistive technology, which helps disabled people cope with their environment. (Iacopo Luzi/Times of Israel)

Tackling disability: The impact of assistive technology in Israel

Startup nation is a global leader in technologies that could benefit people with disabilities worldwide

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu to Belgium PM: Stop funding ‘anti-Israel’ groups

In Jerusalem meeting, PM asks Charles Michel to freeze payments, including indirect ones, to organizations that ‘act against IDF soldiers’

French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron speaking to the media in Berlin, Jan. 10, 2017. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/JTA)

In France’s elections, upsets turn surprise front-runner into top choice for many Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. (Ohad Zweigenberg/POOL/Flash90; Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

AnalysisTrump and Netanyahu: Where it can go right — and wrong

Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Nabi Avci, left, and Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin arrive for a press conference at the Israeli tourism conference in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2017. (AFP/Gil Cohen-Magen)

In first since rapprochement, Turkish minister visits Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Hamas rockets hit Israeli homes in a new Hebrew-language propaganda music video released by the terror group (YouTube screenshot)

Death, animatedHamas promises Israelis swift demise — in rhyme

Screen capture of French gay porn star Ibrahim Moreno. (screen capture: Mg MEDIA GRAPHIC/YouTube)

Rubbed the wrong wayGay porn star miffed over Israeli airport strip search

By Stuart Winer

Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, seen in a September 2014 video. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Belarus extradites Israeli blogger to Azerbaijan

A general view of Aleppo’s central prison, Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syria rejects Amnesty’s report of mass hangings as ‘untrue’

By AP

SELFLY's camera drone helps do away with old-fashioned selfie sticks (Courtesy)

Israel’s detachable camera drone makes selfie sticks redundant

By Shoshanna Solomon

Jewish Home party leader and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, right, party colleague and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, left, and opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) in the Knesset just prior to the passage of the Regulation Law that retroactively legalizes West Bank settlement homes built on private Palestinian property. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe state of the state’s soul

By Ilan Ben Zion

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