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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 12, 2017

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

As Trump criticizes settlements, Netanyahu prepares for their first summit

By Raphael Ahren

PM convenes ministers and top defense officials ahead of Wednesday’s Oval Office meet; will also see Pence, Tillerson, Ryan

Netanyahu chills right-wing ‘excitement’ over Trump meeting

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu under pressure to turn right when he meets Trump

By Raoul Wootliff

From the WebFor Kushner, Israel policy may be shaped by the personal

German tennis player Andrea Petkovic was on the court during the US Tennis Association's national anthem gaffe on February 12, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

US Tennis Association plays Nazi anthem at Fed Cup, apologizes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Outdated version of Germany’s national song heard at opening ceremonies, drawing outrage

Zionist Union's MK Tzipi Livni at a party faction meeting in the Knesset on January 16, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Will Tzipi Livni be the first Israeli deputy chief of the UN?

Antonio Guterres meets the Zionist Union MK twice in three weeks; move seen as effort to garner support for a former Palestinian PM as Libya envoy

Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, seen here when still in office, heads a cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 16, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Netanyahu hails US veto of ex-Palestinian PM as Libya UN envoy

By AFP

German parliamentarian Volker Beck of the Green Party (Screen capture: YouTube)

Over 33,000 Israelis have taken German citizenship since 2000

Green Party pol calls to expand dual-nationality rules to include citizens of Jewish state, some 13,000 of whom live in Germany

Qatar's Gaza envoy Mohammad al-Amadi addresses a ceremony in Gaza City in honor of the construction of the new city of Hamad on January 16, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Interview

Qatar’s Gaza envoy hails his ties to Israel, says PA is stalling on solution to Gaza power shortage

By Avi Issacharoff

In first talk with Israeli press, Muhammad al-Amadi details efforts to rebuild Strip, lauds ‘excellent’ relations with Jerusalem officials

AnalysisYahya Sinwar can ignite Israel’s south — and may want to

By Avi Issacharoff

Ministers accuse one another of ‘opportunistic’ warmongering

By Raoul Wootliff

Qatari-funded neighborhood inaugurated in south Gaza

Israel Shemtov, one of Crown Heights' most distinguished tailors, poses next to a photograph of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. (Madison Margolin/Times of Israel)

Back in black

In ultra-Orthodox fashion, you can tell a lot about a person by his button holes

By Madison Margolin

Crown Heights Jews set themselves apart with such nuance that getting the lowdown on Hasidic chic takes a trained eye

Michael Bennett’s foul choice

The NFL defensive end allowed himself to be used by supporters of BDS, whose leaders deny Israel’s very legitimacy

Sivan Rahav Meir

Telling secrets

Educators across all sectors of Israel are using theater to revolutionize the fight against child sex abuse

Where are the women?

The OU misses the value of female pastoral roles; the world badly needs all voices of wisdom and compassion

File: Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, interviewed on Channel 2, February 11, 2017 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Liberman: All the ‘Palestinians’ in Israel should go live under Abbas

Defense minister urges Netanyahu to seek deal with Trump on expanding sovereignty into West Bank, but says their White House meet should focus primarily on Iran

Security forces gather on July 1, 2016 near the entrance of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Troops thwart Palestinian stabbing attack in Hebron; none hurt

Woman arrested by Israeli security forces after pulling knife at Cave of the Patriarchs in flashpoint West Bank city

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during an event hosting Israeli ambassadors to European countries, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, January 1, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin said to warn outpost law redolent of ‘apartheid’

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

President reportedly says the government ‘cannot’ apply Israeli law ‘to territories not under its sovereignty’

Demonstrators march against the immigration polices of President Donald Trump and other issues on February 11, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

US agents conduct first Trump-era raids targeting undocumented migrants

By Ivan Couronne

Immigrant groups, Democrats slam arrests, but officials insist operation was planned before Trump took office

Israeli police stand next to a vehicle that crashed into police officers in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, January 18, 2017. (Israel Police)

Footage shores up claim police shot first during Bedouin demolition op

Audio recording synced to police video seems to confirm Umm al-Hiran incident that left officer and local teacher dead was not terrorism

Joint (Arab) List party chairman Ayman Odeh reacts during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab Israeli leader accuses Trump, Netanyahu of ‘race-baiting’

Ayman Odeh pens New York Times op-ed slamming Israeli government for ‘bulldozing democracy’ with discriminatory policies on Arab housing

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech from Beirut, Lebanon on May 12, 2016. (Screen capture: Press TV)

Live updates (closed)No unchecked settlements under Trump, Netanyahu warns

By Ilan Ben Zion

File: A man walks past a television screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on October 20, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)

North Korea test-fires missile, in first apparent challenge to Trump

By Eric Talmadge

Pyongyang hails expansion of strategic strike capabilities, as US president, Japanese PM decry ‘intolerable’ move

Arnon Milchan (center) with Shimon Peres (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu, March 28, 2005. (Flash90/File)

PM’s testimony in gifts probe said to clash with police evidence

Channel 2 says Netanyahu claiming ignorance over champagne given to his wife, insists pricey cigars were purchased, but detectives have receipts

At HaMalabiya, the menu is malabi, sahleb and backgammon (Courtesy HaMalabiya)

Wake up and smell the rosewater

By Jessica Steinberg

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Cardinal Rainer Woelki (C) leads a mass at the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish in Tabgha, on February 12, 2017, upon its reopening following eight months of renovation. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Jesus ‘Loaves’ church reopens 20 months after arson attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo. (CC BY-SA, World Economic Forum, Wikipedia)

Ex-Peruvian president said to flee to Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Haifa's ammonia tank (screen capture/Channel 2)

Haifa court orders ammonia tank emptied

An Israeli flag waves in front of the minaret of a mosque in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on November 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Ministers green-light revised mosque-muffling bill

Dominican paper, El Nacional, accidentally ran a picture of Saturday Night Live actor Alec Baldwin instead of US president Donald Trump alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 27, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Fake newsNewspaper uses Alec Baldwin photo for Trump

By AP

France's far-right political party Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen speaks during a lunch meeting on September 5, 2015 in Marseille. (AFP/BORIS HORVAT)

Jean-Marie Le Pen charged over apparent anti-Semitic pun

By AFP

The Guggenheim Museum, New York. (Wikipedia/Wallygva/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Guggenheim celebrates immigrant roots in age of Trump

By Thomas URBAIN

Illustrative image of a hacker at work (Pixabay)

Israeli-made spyware reportedly used to track Mexican activists

By AP

The Australian Stock Exchange (Courtesy)

Aussies visit Israel to drum up listings on securities exchange

By Shoshanna Solomon

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