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What Matters Most On Friday, February 17, 2017

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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room at the White House on February 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images, via JTA)

Trump shouts down ultra-Orthodox reporter who asks about anti-Semitism

By JTA and ToI Staff

Queried about bomb threats against Jewish centers, president says he hates the question and it’s insulting, and that the journalist is dishonest

After dressing-down, Jewish reporter defends Trump against anti-Semitism claims

By ToI Staff and JTA

US Jewish groups berate Trump for ‘besmirching’ reporter over anti-Semitism question

Hate crimes against Jews in NY have doubled in ’17, police say

By JTA

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (left) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (Flash90 and AFP)

Liberman, Iranian FM to share stage at Munich security meet

By Judah Ari Gross and AP

Israeli officials say defense minister will speak first and there won’t be dialogue; Liberman meets with US counterpart James Mattis, tells him Israel’s problems are ‘Iran, Iran and Iran’

PM: I’m speaking up about Iran threat on behalf of Arabs too

World leaders hoping for clarity on US policy at Munich security meet

By David Rising

Hezbollah chief threatens Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor

By Dov Lieber and Alexander Fulbright

PM Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at the White House, February 15, 2017 (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

AnalysisDiplomatic cryonics, Middle East-style

Despite Trump’s indifference, the two-state solution isn’t dead… yet

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu won’t say the words, and Abbas won’t come to the talks, but it’s still the two-state deal, and no other, that they’re not doing

US ‘absolutely’ favors 2-state solution, UN ambassador says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jewish Home leaders vow new settlement will be built

Netanyahu, Pence discuss mechanism for coordination on settlements

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

David Friedman, nominated to be US Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump’s Israel envoy pick heckled, expresses remorse at confirmation hearing

By Eric Cortellessa

Friedman regrets calling J Street supporters ‘worse than kapos,’ says two-state solution ‘most ideal’ way to resolve the conflict

In Beit El, Trump’s Israel envoy pick a well-known figure

By Alon Bernstein

Trump’s Israel envoy financed illegal building on Palestinian land – report

AnalysisA broader Israel-Arab deal — rare opportunity or diversion?

French Jewish historian Georges Bensoussan (YouTube screenshot)

French Jewish scholar’s hate speech trial divides anti-racism activists

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Georges Bensoussan, one of the world’s leading experts on Jews in Arab lands, said anti-Semitism is transmitted to Arabs ‘with mother’s milk’

Illustrative: A swastika spray-painted at a playground in Lakewood, New Jersey, August 2016. (AP)

Swastikas found posted on LA, NY homes

By JTA

Hand-drawn swastikas and hate messages left on private houses and Chabad building in Los Angeles suburb

Boston high school turns to local synagogue after swastika found

By JTA

S. Carolina man arrested for planning synagogue shooting

Israel’s Miami consulate evacuated after bomb threat

Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, speaks at the CEO summit during the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru, November 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

The Zuckerberg manifesto: How he plans to debug the world

By Barbara Ortutay

Facebook founder hopes social network can encourage more civic engagement, an informed public and community support

Helen Gottstein

Kellyanne meet Yitro

The art of listening can make all the difference, whether you’re a presidential advisor or simply miss your mother

Justice or peace?

Because the lesser judges who helped Moses had to hear both sides of a conflict, they brought the people together (Yitro)

Nitzan Caspi Shilony

The rabbinic courts’ alternative facts

The court’s faulty stats blame get refusal on the very women who await divorce, and not the real culprit: the court itself

Thwack! Matkot and the Start-Up Nation

The Tel Aviv beach game is quintessentially Jewish, pushing players to work together even as they rebut each other

Rabbi Alvin Kass addressing members of the press. (Courtesy Lt. Steven A. Jerome)

Rabbi celebrates jubilee as chief NYPD chaplain

By Rich Tenorio

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

PM to reconsider pledge to build a new settlement – report

After Trump meeting, Netanyahu may go back on promise to compensate families evacuated from Amona outpost

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel speaks during the G-20 foreign ministers' meeting at the World Conference Center on February 16, 2017 in Bonn, Germany. (AFP Photo/Sascha Schuermann)

Germany says settlement construction could lead to war

By Alexander Fulbright

Sigmar Gabriel says unrestrained Israeli construction in West Bank endangers the possibility of a two-state solution

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives an interview to MSNBC on February 16, 2017 (screen capture: MSNBC)

Netanyahu: Settlements ‘an issue, not the issue’ in conflict

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

PM tells US media meeting with Trump was ‘very, very warm,’ with ‘a great sense of kinship and friendship’

Twin stories link Holocaust and Syrian refugees in UNICEF video

By Jenni Frazer

Nationalists carrying a picture merging Pepe the Frog and Kazys Skirpa during a march in Kaunas, Lithuania, on February 16, 2017. The banner reads: 'Lithuania will contribute to a new and better European order.' (Defending History via JTA)

Nationalists celebrate Nazi collaborator, Pepe the Frog near Lithuania execution site

By JTA

170 people attend march in Kaunas, passing close to Lietovus Garage, where locals butchered dozens of Jews in 1941

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Likud lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi, right, at the weekly Likud party meeting at the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid pressure, PM to step down temporarily from Communications Ministry

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Netanayhu says he will appoint Tzachi Hanegbi to head the ministry for three months; Herzog: It’s a ‘sad joke’

Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion prepare for a hike as part of their training on September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Co-ed battalions to get new home in Border Defense Force

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Israel Bar Association Conference in Tel Aviv on December 20, 2016. (Flash90)

‘Let’s talk,’ says defense minister, in overture to Gaza residents

Avigdor Liberman vows Israel will invest in seaport, airport, industry in Strip… as soon as Hamas gives up on tunnels and rockets

Illustrative: Bedouins from the town of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev, southern Israel, seen in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, November 20, 2013. (Flash90)

Arab feminists fear Israel’s anti-polygamy plan is opening volley in a war of wombs

By Marissa Newman

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Illustrative: Firefighters respond to an ammonia leak at a factory in Kibbutz Eilon, September 15, 2015. (Zebulon Fire Station)

Police shut northern road after ammonia spill

A robot device defuses an explosive device placed under a car in Ramat Hasharon, February 17, 2017. (Israel Police)

Explosive device found under car of soccer star, 2 arrested

Illustrative image of newborn baby (Getty Images)

Paperwork prevents fathers, babies returning to Israel from Mexico

Steven Matz pitching against the Miami Marlins in Miami, Sept. 6, 2015. (Alan Diaz/AP Images)

Kushners won’t buy Marlins if current owner becomes France envoy

By JTA

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dance the traditional Mitzvah dance during the wedding of the grandson of head Rabbi of Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok with the daughter of the head rabbi of Beregsaz in Beit Shemesh on February 7, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Saving togetherKnesset weighs tax breaks for studious newlyweds

David Rubinger, a JerusaLENS contest mentor, photographs the Women of the Wall in the same pose as his famous 1967 paratrooper pictures (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Snap judgementCash prizes for best photos of Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

Israelis shop at the Cofix café chain in Tel on September 30, 2013, (Photo by Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Heating up5-shekel coffee chain steams price up to 6

'Fly Guy' Roy Iddan in South Korea (Courtesy Boaz Arad)

Travel bug‘Fly Guy’ takes armchair travelers to offbeat locales

By Jessica Steinberg

President Donald Trump, second from right, and wife Melania, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wife Sara, left, at the South Portico of the White House, Feb. 15, 2017. (Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)

Hebrew Media ReviewOne state, two state

By Adiv Sterman

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