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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 19, 2017

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US Vice President Mike Pence, second from left, stands behind the gate with the infamous writing "Labor makes free" during a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Amid anti-Semitism row, Pence tours Nazi concentration camp

By AP and ToI Staff

US vice president’s visit to Dachau follows criticism over administration’s omission of Jews from Holocaust Remembrance Day statement

In reviewing ‘Hobby Lobby’ opinion, Jews see reasons to diverge over Neil Gorsuch

Merkel to security summit: Islam is not the source of terror

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump working on new ‘streamlined’ travel ban

By AP and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman, November 13, 2014. (AFP/Jordainian Royal Palace/Ho/Yousef Allan)

Netanyahu said to have rejected regional peace plan last year

By Raoul Wootliff

While he’s now pursuing a similar idea, PM reportedly claimed he couldn’t get coalition support for proposal put forward by US, backed by Egypt and Jordan, in February 2016

Iran seeks new regional dialogue, but not with Israel

In Munich, Liberman calls for coalition of ‘moderates’ against Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu hails ‘a new day’ after ‘historic’ talks with Trump

By Raoul Wootliff

President Reuven Rivlin and Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations CEO Malcolm Hoenlein, February 19, 2017 (Mark Neiman / GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin says ‘polarization’ in the US is concerning

Contradicting boss, US defense secretary says media isn’t the enemy; Shin Bet arrests Palestinian teens for shooting attacks

A Yakhont missile at a Russian air show in 1997 (CC BY-SA, JNO, Wikimedia Commons)

Hezbollah said to have obtained ‘game-changing’ anti-ship missiles

By Alexander Fulbright

Russian-made Yakhont would give Lebanese terror group the ability to strike Israeli gas platforms and ships in the Mediterranean

Israeli warning prompted Hezbollah threats last week — report

Lebanon president issues warning to Israel in spat over Hezbollah

Iran to hold new military drill despite US warnings

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong seen during the welcome ceremony at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on April 19, 2016. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Netanyahu embarks on first trip to Singapore and Australia

By Raphael Ahren

During trip aimed at strengthening economic and security ties, PM to meet with political leaders and local Jewish communities

The five NFL players who came to Israel visited briefly at Jerusalem's Kraft Stadium Saturday night, February 18, 2017. From left to right, they are Dan Williams, Calais Campbell, Cameron Jordan, Delanie Walker and Mychal Kendricks, with AFI founder Steve Leibowitz in the foreground (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Football fantasy

Fans swarm NFL players at Jerusalem meet and greet

By Jessica Steinberg

5 remaining players on controversial Israel trip take selfies, sign footballs for eager admirers at Kraft Stadium

US President Donald Trump points to his wife, first lady Melania Trump during a campaign rally Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, at Orlando-Melbourne International Airport, in Melbourne, Fla. (Chris O'Meara/AP)

Revived by rally, Trump turns back to governing

By Catherine Lucey

US president spends weekend in his private Florida club interviewing candidates to fill NSA vacancy left by Flynn

Answering Trump, McCain warns a free press is vital to democracy

By AP

Trump rallies supporters, rips into ‘dishonest media’

By Catherine Lucey and Julie Pace

Veteran Israeli diplomat predicts premature end to Trump presidency

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Leopold David, first mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. (Courtesy AJM)

For the past 150 years, Alaskan Jews have blazed trails in the last frontier

By Rich Tenorio

With a spotlight on the dramatic rescue of 40,000 Yemenite Jews by Alaska Airlines, the Alaska Jewish museum marks the anniversary of ‘Seward’s Folly’

Binary St / St Binary from the inside (Iacopo Luzi)

I trained as a binary options salesman for a day. It wasn’t pretty

Times of Israel intern Iacopo Luzi got himself a start at a Ramat Gan firm; he’s relieved to report that it didn’t work out too well

Arnold M. Eisen

Israel in the winter sun and cloud

He loves the Jewish state and cannot believe that political crisis will destroy all its physical and spiritual achievement

The struggle for mastery in Europe

A series of elections across the continent will unleash violent clashes over the Muslim immigration wave

Aryeh Ben David

The need for God in Jewish education

For hard-won Jewish literacy to yield a sense of ultimate purpose, its purveyors must live an inner life of awe

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

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addresses London's anti- anti-Semitism rally Sunday, August 31, 2014. (courtesy Adam Arnold)

Act on rising anti-Semitism, Jewish students tell UK universities

Spate of recent incidents include appearance on campuses of swastikas, flyers praising Holocaust denial

People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Tugs of war

Do Holocaust memories eclipse WWI tragedy for Warsaw’s Jews?

By JP O’ Malley

A picture taken on January 19, 2017 shows the exterior of the Amir Shakib Arslan mosque designed by Lebanese architect Makram el-Kadi at the entrance of the Druze heartland village of Mukhtara in Lebanon's Chouf mountains. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)

In Lebanon, Druze leader builds avant-garde mosque to preach coexistence

By Sara Hussein

New house of worship re-imagined to promote ‘diversity’; despite practicing an offshoot of Shiite Islam, the Druze do not worship in mosques

Fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitaries sit in a heavily-armed vehicle near defensive positions on the outskirts of Tal Afar west of Mosul, where Iraqi forces are preparing for the offensive retake the western side of Mosul from Islamic State (IS) group fighters, on February 18, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Iraq forces launch operation to retake west Mosul – PM

By Ammar Karim and Jean-Marc Mojon

The city is the Islamic State’s last major stronghold in Iraq; forces expected to begin assault on local airport

Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind spiritual leader of Egypt's largest Islamic extremist fundamentalist group Gamaa Islamiya, faces photographers and reporters during a news conference in Jersey City on April 6, 1993. (AFP/Hai Do)

Blind sheikh linked to 1993 WTC bombing dies in US prison facility

By Maggy DONALDSON

Egyptian-born cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, seen as jihadist spiritual leader, passes away from natural causes at 78

Asaf Ventura posing with his floating gym at an Israeli army rehabilitation center in Haifa, June 2015. (Courtesy Asaf Ventura via JTA)

At a prestigious Jerusalem art school, disabled students find value in difference

By Andrew Tobin

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Prisoners at forced labor building the Dove-Elbe canal in southeast Hamburg, Germany, circa 1941-1942. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of KZ-Gedenkstatte Neuengamme)

Wurst. Decision. Ever.Fury over planned meat factory on site of Nazi labor camp

The Neot Kipat Hazahav old age home in Haifa. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

5 employees of Haifa old-age home arrested for senior abuse

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

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)

A month of Trump, by the numbers

By AP

Illustrative photo: students and teachers protest outside Sheva Mofet high school in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2016 (FLASH90)

6,000 students strike over school violence in Bedouin community

In this photo posted on August 21, 2014, Syrian civil defense rescuers in white helmets carry one of their comrades during a training session, in Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP/Civil Defense Idlib)

Syria’s White Helmets to travel to US for Oscars

By AFP

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, walk to a closed intelligence briefing with FBI Director James Comey, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators want materials saved for Trump Russia probe

By Deb Riechmann and Eileen Sullivan

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault addresses a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris on February 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Patrick Kovarik)

Paris denounces cyberattacks blamed on Moscow

By AFP

Illustrative: Israel Police officers at a crime scene, November 14, 2016 in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Modiin Illit couple held on suspicion of abusing sick child

A woman shows off her middle fingers as she and others look on at the media during a campaign rally by President Donald Trump at the AeroMod International hangar at Orlando Melbourne International Airport on February 18, 2017 in Melbourne, Florida. (Joe RaedleAFP)

Hebrew media reviewPeople of the enemy

By Joshua Davidovich

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