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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 9, 2017

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Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)

Islamic State claims Eilat rocket attack, threatens more

Group’s Sinai-based affiliate says it fired rockets ‘to teach Jews, crusaders a proxy war will not avail them of anything’

Egypt, Israel or accident? Mystery shrouds Gaza tunnel blast

By Dov Lieber and Judah Ari Gross

2 Palestinians said killed in strike near Gaza-Egypt border

Iron Dome intercepts three rockets from Sinai headed for Eilat

By Judah Ari Gross

Archaeologist Ahiad Ovadia digs carefully in cave 12 near Qumran. (Casey L. Olson and Oren Gutfeld, Hebrew University)

New Dead Sea Scroll cave found near Qumran, but scrolls are gone

By Ilan Ben Zion

Empty storage jars and a scrap of parchment unearthed in dig carried out by Hebrew U, IAA at site apparently looted in the 1940s

File: A general view of a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit, taken March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Analysis

As Trump era begins, what does Israel actually want in the West Bank?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The settlements grow apace, peace remains stalled and Israel’s intentions seem a genuine mystery in Western capitals. Yet the question has a surprisingly simple answer, one which hasn’t changed since 1948

Police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters during a demo against the arrest of Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a recruitment order in Jerusalem on February 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

‘Trump rapped Obama’s nuke deal with Russia in chat with Putin’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinian suspect arrested after Petah Tikva market attack injures 5; hundreds protest draft dodger’s arrest in Jerusalem, 24 arrested

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump meeting at Trump Tower in New York, September 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

AnalysisCoordinate, don't adulate

Netanyahu beware: Cheerleading for Trump risks Israel’s vital bipartisan US ties

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Agreeing on a path forward with the new president is crucial. Allowing Israel to be perceived as the uncritical ally of so unpredictable and divisive a leader would be disastrous

Left-wing activist protest outside the Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem, on February 08, 2017. The sign on the left says "Lehava ("Flame") - You don‘t turn me on." Photo by/ Lior Mizrahi/Flash90

Protesters from left, right face off at Jerusalem gallery served with eviction order

Talk by Breaking the Silence group goes ahead in venue set to be shut down by mayor, who is facing pressure from culture minister

New Israel Fund executive stopped at Ben-Gurion airport for questioning

Israel raises alarm over fears Ireland will recognize Palestine

Israel scolds Belgian envoy over his PM’s meeting with left-wing groups

By Tamar Pileggi

19 Rabbis were arrested in New York for a sit-in protesting the Trump Administration's refugee ban, February 6, 2017. (Gili Getz)

Arrested rabbis take Torah to the streets in defense of the vulnerable

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jewish spiritual leaders attempt to be prophetic voices in response to Trump policies perceived to target Muslim refugees

Republicans block House vote on resolution slamming Trump Holocaust statement

By JTA

Jeff Sessions confirmed as US attorney general

By AFP

Jewish immigration group files lawsuit against Trump refugee ban

By JTA

A new mission for Holocaust scholars

Trump’s omission of Jews from the Shoah calls for more than fact-checking: it demands rigorous inquiry into motives

Israel, Trump and the (other) wall

Israel undermines its own integrity when it shows intolerance for the religious expression of non-Orthodox Jews

Female clergy: What’s at stake

A response to the recent OU ruling: it’s not about feminism vs. tradition, it’s about securing Judaism’s future

Closing achievement gaps through Israeli community centers

Bakehila was founded in 2002 by Israeli entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician MK Erel Margalit; Margalit and his wife Debbie noticed that children in the nearby community of Kiryat Yovel in Jerusalem attended school without lunch and suffered from a 30% drop-out rate

A woman undergoes a CT scan. (Illustrative photo: Chen Leopold/FLASH90)

Revolutionary Israeli device can eliminate need for follow-up breast cancer surgery

By Shoshanna Solomon

An Israel Navy Dolphin-class submarine in the sea off the coast of Haifa, 2009 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Police open criminal investigation over submarines affair

Report says former navy chief recently questioned; Netanyahu’s attorney David Shimron, businessman Mickey Ganor and Maj. Gen. (res.) Eliezer Marom to also be grilled

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attends a meeting of the lobby for encouraging Bible study, at the Knesset, January 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu received jewelry gift from movie mogul last year — report

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A photo taken from the Golan Heights shows smoke rising from the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab. Israeli aircraft struck Syrian army positions after fire from its war-torn neighbor hit the Golan, September 10, 2016. (AFP/Jalaa Marey)

IDF fires on Syrian post after shell lands in Golan

No injuries or damage reported when ammo explodes in Israeli territory; army says it identified direct hit on enemy position

Mersad missile. (Screenshot)

Defiant Iran test-fires another missile days after US warning

Tehran launches short-range Mersad missile, testing Trump administration, following report Islamic Revolutionary Guards may be blacklisted

Aerial view of biblical tel believed to be site of ancient Kiryat Ye'arim, west of Jerusalem. (courtesy of William Schlegel)

Archaeologists to break ground at biblical site where Ark of the Covenant stood

By Ilan Ben Zion

Israeli and French researchers to excavate ancient site of Kiryat Ye’arim, outside Jerusalem, one of the few unstudied biblical tels

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (left) shakes hands with EU ambassador Lars Faaborg Anderson during a meeting on December 7, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel is merely paying ‘lip service’ to 2-state solution, complains EU envoy

By Raphael Ahren

Lars Faaborg-Andersen does not rule out steps against Israel after passage of Regulation Law, announcement of 6,000 new settler homes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (third from left) meets with Israeli ambassadors to African countries, February 8, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu: Israel seeks support of African states at UN

PM tells gathering of envoys to the continent that changing voting pattern there is a major diplomatic goal

The Ulpana outpost, adjacent to the Beit El settlement (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Newly approved settler homes financed by Trump’s Israel envoy pick – report

David Friedman heads organization that raised millions of shekels for construction in West Bank settlement of Beit El

An Israeli girl stands at the entrance to her home in the settlement of Amona in the West Bank, on December 17, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Turfed out Amona residents choose new outpost to call home

By Stuart Winer

Settlers evacuated from their hilltop decide to set up at the Geulat Tzion site in the Shiloh settlement bloc

Amon Goeth, the brutal SS commander of Plaszow concentration camp near Krakow, Poland (Wikimedia Commons)

Notorious Nazi’s house of horrors to become a luxury villa

By Stuart Winer

Developer plans to move his family into house used by Krakow-Płaszow camp commander Amon Goeth, featured in ‘Schindler’s List’

Palestinian supporters of Hamas at a rally marking the terrorist organization's 25th anniversary in the West Bank city of Ramallah (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Israel uncovers West Bank-Gaza terror cash pipeline

Smuggling carried out through transfer of debit cards between the Palestinian areas for use by terror groups

The pink peppercorn tree, native to South America, is found across Israel. In a store, pink peppercorns are considered a specialty item that can sell for NIS 150 per kilo. Heela Harel adds them to a foraged salad on February 2, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Tu Bishvat

Urban foragers give humble weeds their day in the sun

By Jessica Steinberg and Melanie Lidman

More Headlines

Circle dancing at the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, November 23, 2014. (Adam Ben Cohen/Chabad.org)

US Chabad rabbi faces deportation from Russia

By JTA

Jared Kushner and wife, Ivanka Trump, attending the 'Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, May 2, 2016. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for People.com, via JTA)

UnfairTrump tweet puts Nordstrom on the rack over Ivanka

Haifa's industrial area. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Haifa court temporarily shuts down city-threatening ammonia tank

By Stuart Winer

Dr. Clarence Epstein, foreground, director of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project, inspects the back of "Young Man As Bacchus" by Jan Franse Verzijl during a ceremony to formally return the painting to representatives of the Max and Iris Stern Foundation, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, February 8, 2017. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Painting stolen by Nazis returned to Jewish owner’s heirs

By AP

On the left, a March 1, 2003 photo obtained by AP shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. On the right, a photo downloaded from the Arabic language Internet site www.muslm.net purports to also show Khalid Sheik Mohammed in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The picture was allegedly taken in July 2009 by the International Committee of the Red Cross and released only to the detainee's family (AP/www.muslm.net)

9/11 mastermind says attacks prompted by US support for ‘occupier Jews’

By Olivia Hampton

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with American actor Chuck Norris, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 08, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

SidekicksChuck Norris meets Netanyahu, renders bodyguards obsolete

Illustrative: A firefighter works to put out a fire near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, on May 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Baby girl dies in Negev house fire

Sunset over Eilat, looking towards the Jordanian border. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Hebrew media reviewThings were going swimmingly, until they weren’t

By Joshua Davidovich

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