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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 15, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson in Washington, D.C., February 15, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

White House: Trump will not insist on two-state solution to Mideast conflict

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Peace deal a priority, but US will not ‘dictate terms’ official says; Netanyahu said set to tell president Palestinian state impossible in current climate; PM meets Tillerson

Top PA negotiator floats single state as US casts doubt on Palestinian independence

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

CIA chief meets Abbas ahead of Trump-Netanyahu talks

By Agencies and Dov Lieber

Palestinians puzzled by diluted US view on two-state solution

By Agencies and Eric Cortellessa

Dennis Ross speaks at the Zionism 3.0 conference in Palo Alto on September 18, 2016 (Michelle Shabtai)

Dennis Ross: Trump likely to restore Bush-Sharon agreement on settlements

By Eric Cortellessa

Veteran peace negotiator says a return to Bush’s ‘roadmap’ would be an accomplishment for Netanyahu and relieve him of pressure from Israeli right

Trump’s Israel envoy to apologize for calling liberal Jews ‘kapos’

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

Two states not a ‘magic solution,‘ says J Street head

By Raphael Ahren

For some left-wing groups, Trump-Bibi meet-up is not top protest priority

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC February 15, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / Mandel Ngan)

Live updates (closed)

GOP Jews: Trump-Netanyahu meet ‘welcome sign of new era’

By Joshua Davidovich

Rightists fete ‘end of 2-state solution’ after Trump withdraws support; no immediate reaction from Ramallah as leaders enter Oval Office for private powwow; Netanyahu defends Trump from charges of anti-Semitism

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with teachers, school administrators and parents in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 14, 2017. (AFP/SAUL LOEB)

CIA airing Trump ties to Russia to prevent blackmail – report

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

US intelligence figure said to tell Israeli counterpart publicizing information will leave no secrets to compromise president

Visitors to the Kigali Genocide Museum in Kigali, Rwanda on February 14, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

At Rwanda Holocaust tribute, ‘Never Again’ is a hopeful slogan

By Melanie Lidman

Genocide may be ‘the same everywhere,’ but in one African nation education and grassroots justice enable victims to come to terms with the crimes perpetrated by their neighbors

Illustrative image: Money laundering (iStock)

Returning to Zion, loaded with tax-free cash

Did a little-noticed tax exemption law turn Israel into a criminals’ paradise?

By Simona Weinglass

In 2008, the Knesset passed an amendment exempting new immigrants from tax on income abroad. Critics say it opened the doors to tax evaders and money launderers

Talking about Gaza in New York

How she held her tongue when her new Palestinian friend expressed his take on Zionists and the land she holds dear

An indefensible law that weakens Israel

The Settlements Law has created a political, diplomatic and legal morass that harms the country’s interests

Andrew Silow-Carroll

NFL players upend Israel’s PR game plan

Here’s why pro-Israel celebrities vs. BDS celebrities aren’t really a fair fight of promotion and public diplomacy

My love letter to Hebrew

The revival of an ancient language is miraculous; to speak it, even poorly, is to join in that miracle

The Roman-era gateway and tower found at Beit She'arim in late 2016 by University of Haifa archaeologists. (Adi Erlich/University of Haifa)

Archaeologists shocked to find ancient gateway at ‘House of Gates’

By Ilan Ben Zion

File. An Easyjet Airline flight at Ben Gurion International Airport (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

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UK cops called after ultra-Orthodox men refuse to sit down on flight from Israel

In ‘worst Easyjet flight in 11 years,’ disruptive passengers escorted off by police, but ‘no offenses’ were found to have been committed, Jewish News reports

An Air Canada flight at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, September 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Tel Aviv-bound flight diverted to London over ‘disruptive’ passenger

File. An Easyjet Airline flight at Ben Gurion International Airport (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Plane collision narrowly averted at Ben Gurion Airport

Control tower orders Easyjet flight to pull out of landing to avoid Turkish Airlines plane readying to take off

Installing the satellite dish that will receive the data transmitted from BGUSAT and send it to the ground station at Ben-Gurion University's Earth and Planetary Image Facility, March 2016. (Dani Machlis/BGU)

First Israeli research nanosatellite launches from India

By Shoshanna Solomon and AFP

Foot-long, 11-pound BGUSAT orbiter successfully reaches space, will study weather, desertification, airglow and other phenomena

Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Michigan (Joshua Nowicki/Facebook)

Canadian kids can’t go to Detroit Holocaust center due to ‘safety concerns’ at border

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Southwestern Ontario school district cancels class trips to US in response to Trump Muslim ban

Israel ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the UN Security Council on January 17, 2017 (Courtesy)

BDS demonstrators disrupt talk by Israel’s UN ambassador

Danny Danon tells anti-Israel students to ‘sit down instead of inciting – maybe you’ll learn something’

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order as then chief of ftaff Reince Priebus looks on in the Oval Office of the White House, on January 23, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Trump allegedly orders dossier on PM’s scandals after remark on his personality

By Alexander Fulbright

Israeli paper that has long feuded with Netanyahu reports White House looking into investigations of Israeli leader after he was quoted warning ministers about the president

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)

Syrian shell lands in Golan Heights

No injuries reported as ‘errant fire’ hits Israeli territory amid fighting on opposite side of DMZ

Laurie Cardoza-Moore, who has spent more than 15 years in pro-Israel work, says she has seen evangelicals rallying to the cause. (Courtesy of Cardoza-Moore)

Evangelicals are ready to speak for Israel in Trump’s Washington

By Andrew Tobin

Some American Jews worry that right-wing slant of religious Christian advocacy could turn Israel into a partisan issue

YouTube star PewDiePie reacts to two Indian men fulfilling his $5 request to hold up a sign that read "Death to the Jews" in a January 11, 2017, video.

Following Disney, YouTube cancels PewDiePie show over anti-Semitic videos

By AFP and ToI Staff

Social media star’s 2nd season nixed amid controversy over video showing 2 Indian men, who were paid $5, holding a banner reading ‘Death to all Jews’

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The planet Mars, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team / STScI/AURA)

Promised landingUnited Arab Emirates plans to colonize Mars

A Jewish wedding in a West End synagogue, London in 1969. (Nick Hale/Getty Images)

Struck5 Jewish love stories for Valentine’s Day

By Josefin Dolsten

Ironi Nahariya basketball player Jonathan Skjoldebrand (screen capture/YouTube)

Shin Bet bars basketball team from game in Turkey

By AFP

The four women of HBO's 'Girls,' which just began its final season on YES (Courtesy YES)

Television hookupHBO and Israel’s YES to co-create new shows

By Jessica Steinberg

Former Joint Arab List member Basel Ghattas arrives for a court hearing at the Lod Magistrate's Court, January 8, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Lawmakers take up bill to deny MK Ghattas a salary

Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze'ev Elkin seen with newly elected Gush Eztion Council head Shlomo Ne'eman at Ne'eman's election headquarters in Alon Shvut, Gush Etzion, February 14, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Major settlement bloc south of Jerusalem chooses new leader

By Stuart Winer

Vehicles seized by Israeli security forces late Tuesday night, February 14, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

20 arrested, vehicles seized in IDF West Bank sweep

Illustrative image of an El Al plane at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor court delays EL AL pilots’ resignation, orders more talks

This file photo taken on January 4, 2017 shows Michael Flynn, then National Security Advisor designate, arriving at Trump Tower for meetings with US President-elect Donald Trump in New York. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Hebrew media reviewIn like Netanyahu

By Joshua Davidovich

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