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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 18, 2017

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US Vice President Mike Pence delivers a speech on the 2nd day of the 53rd Munich Security Conference (MCS) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS KIENZLE)

Pence: US will ‘never’ allow Iran to threaten Israel with nukes

By ToI Staff and AFP

At Munich Security Conference, vice president says nuclear deal has provided Iran with more resources to focus on state-sponsored terrorism

Russia calls for end to Western-dominated world order

By AFP and AP

Report: Trump transition team tried to block UN anti-settlements resolution

US remains ‘your greatest ally,’ Pence tells Europe

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

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

Munich conference cancels joint session with Liberman, Zarif

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Sparring ministers from enemy countries now to speak an hour apart on Sunday, with no moderated interaction, after Israel’s defense minister said he was relishing the chance to denounce Iran’s aggression in the presence of its foreign minister

Liberman: I hope Iran’s FM will stay in the hall when I denounce Tehran’s efforts to ‘blow up every state’ in the region

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Iran to hold new military drill despite US warnings

By AFP

Trump fears may thaw Iran, Gulf relations, analysts say

Dutch far-right politician and leader of the Freedom Party Geert Wilders (C) addresses journalists as he officially launches his parliamentary election campaign in Spijkenisse on February 18, 2017. (AFP/John Thys)

Dutch anti-Islamist presidential candidate calls Moroccan migrants ‘scum’

By AFP

At campaign launch, populist Geert Wilders says immigrants ‘make the streets unsafe,’ states his intention to ‘make the Netherlands ours again’

A scene from “Austerlitz,” a documentary that chronicles the tourist experience at two former concentration camps. (Courtesy of Austerlitz/Loznitsa)

‘Holocaust tourism’ laid bare in eye-opening documentary

By Gabe Friedman

Showing in New York on Sunday, Austerlitz, by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, captures thousands of visitors sauntering around Dachau and Sachsenhausen. Most seem as if they are walking in a mall, or perhaps an art museum

Toilet paper (photo credit: CC BY anyjazz65, Flickr)

What crap

Austrian woman convicted for pro-Hitler toilet sign

By AP

53-year-old fined 1,200 euros for Facebook post criticizing German soccer team for marking liberation of Auschwitz

In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017 photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, right, talks with David Friedman, center, nominated to be US ambassador to Israel, accompanied by former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman on Capitol Hill in Washington, during Friedman's confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Tensions over Trump deepen fractures among American Jews

ADL calls president’s response to question about spike in anti-Semitism in US since election ‘mind-boggling’

Reform movement opposes Friedman as US envoy to Israel

By JTA

Chuck Todd and others ask: Why won’t Trump denounce anti-Semitism?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

J Street’s Israel boss rejects Friedman’s remorse for ‘kapos’ remark

By JTA

Trump has broken all 10 Commandments

Graven images, coveting his neighbor’s possessions, adultery…The Donald pretty much violated all of them

A tale of love and parking

There’s no chutzpa like the chutzpa of an Israeli driver…but then sometimes they surprise you

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman talks to Israeli TV from a security conference in Munich, Germany on February 17, 2017 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Liberman: ‘Cool down’ on talk of West Bank annexation, sovereignty

Defense minister says Israel cannot do anything on settlements without careful coordination with Trump

US President Donald Trump addresses a crowd during the debut event for the Dreamliner 787-10 at Boeing's South Carolina facilities on February 17, 2017 in North Charleston, South Carolina.(Sean Rayford/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump calls media ‘enemy of the American people’

By AFP

President fires off tweet against New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN, deletes comment calling outlets ‘SICK!’

US President Donald Trump arrives at a meeting with members of Congress in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump admin. weighed use of National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants

By GARANCE BURKE

Protesters wearing white sheets shout at Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as he arrives for his confirmation hearing to be the US attorney general on January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Alt-right website tries to weed out Jews from drug reform

By Madison Margolin

A neo-Nazi ‘news’ outlet — the US’s top hate site — claims that ‘kikes’ are behind attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his ardent anti-drug policies

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cairo on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

UN chief: US blocking Palestinian pick for Libya envoy was ‘serious mistake’

By AP

At Munich conference, Guterres says DC should not have regarded Salam Fayyad as a representative of the Palestinian government

Violinist Yevgeny Kutik performs at Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts, on December 16, 2016 (Leah Kleiman)

Interview

‘Refugee’ violinist blends Russian-Jewish roots with modern tones

By Matt Lebovic

At Camp Ramah of the Rockies, campers live in tent cabins with no electricity or running water. (Camp Ramah of the Rockies)

These Jewish summer camps are proud to be basic

The ruins of the Kibbutz Ein Gedi beach on January 3, 2017. Sinkholes forced the closure of the beach in 2015. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Part II in a series of three articles

On land crumbled by sinkholes, Dead Sea locals try to shore up their livelihoods

By Melanie Lidman and Video by Luke Tress

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A picture of a page from the magazine Girgir featuring a cartoon showing Moses which was deemed offensive. (Courtesy Tweeter Ibrahim Kalin)

Publisher shutters Turkey weekly over ‘offensive’ Moses cartoon

By AFP

Illustrative: The cover of an IKEA catalog aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, which does not feature any women or girls in its images. (screen capture)

Modest furnishingsIkea Israel apologizes for female-free catalog

By AFP

The talking doll 'My Friend Cayla' on display at a 2014 toy fair in London. German regulators banned the internet-connected doll, warning on February 17, 2017 that it was a de facto 'spying device'. (AFP PHOTO/LEON NEAL)

Toy soldiersGermany bans internet-connected ‘spying’ doll

By AFP

Sofa Landver, Minister of Immigration, and Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Nefesh B’Nefesh with Lone Soldiers, February 2017. (Shahar Azran/Nefesh B'Nefesh)

Israeli civil servants muster to help 1,500 ‘lone soldiers’

By JTA

Adolf Hitler's personal traveling telephone is displayed at Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Md., February 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Bad ConnectionMaryland auction house selling Hitler’s phone

By AP

New Caledonia (via JTA)

New Chabad house opens in Pacific archipelago of New Caedonia

By JTA

In this Nov. 25, 2016 photo, special forces Lt. Col. Ali Hussein, right, listens to an Iraqi informant, center, giving information about Islamic State militant positions on a mobile map, in the Bakr front line neighborhood, in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iraqis risk all to spy on IS members in Mosul

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 17, 2017. (AFP/Christof Stache)

VP’s wife aims to raise awareness about art therapy

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Members of the Royal Malaysian Police man the main gate of the forensics wing of the Hospital Kuala Lumpur in Kuala Lumpur on February 18, 2017, where the body of a North Korean man suspected to be Kim Jong-Nam, half-brother of a North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, is being kept. (AFP PHOTO/MOHD RASFAN)

Was it brother? Lover? Crime gang? North Korea rumors abound

By KIM TONG-HYUNG

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