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What Matters Most On Monday, February 20, 2017

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Opposition leader Isaac Herzog speaks at the 14th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog: Netanyahu caved to right-wing ministers, scuttled regional peace deal

By Raphael Ahren

Opposition leader says ‘history will judge’ prime minister for allowing his allies to derail agreement that would have ‘changed the region’

Liberman: Israel would be crazy to defy Trump on settlements

At secret summit, Netanyahu said to have offered freeze outside settlement blocs

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

Bennett says Netanyahu seems to be dropping 2-state solution

By Raphael Ahren

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)

US Jewish leaders urge Israel to query Trump on anti-Semitism

By Marissa Newman

In Jerusalem, JCC chair says dozens of bomb threats have made members fearful and US president ought to address it

Inviting Trump to Israel, Rivlin says he’s worried by divides in US society

Jewish Dems to Trump: Don’t allow religious groups to discriminate

By JTA

Revised US travel ban said to target same 7 countries

By Vivian Salama

Illustrative: Screenshot from an Islamic State video on Wednesday December 14, 2016, claiming a rocket attack on Israel two days earlier.

Two rockets from Sinai hit southern Israel, IDF says

By Judah Ari Gross

No injury or damage caused by the projectiles, which land near Gaza; incoming missile alert system doesn’t go off

Islamic State claims five members killed in Israeli drone strike

Egyptian president tells US Jews peace deal at top of agenda

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Egyptian lawyers file lawsuit to prevent settling Palestinians in Sinai

Anas Haj Yihya, a 35-year-old Arab Israeli man accused of planning to carry out terror attacks in Israel on behalf of the Islamic State. (Shin Bet)

Arab Israeli charged with planning TA bus bombing, teaching IS how to make nerve gas

By Judah Ari Gross

Anas Haj Yihya allegedly intended to blow up bus full of soldiers on Dizengoff Street on behalf of Islamic State

Illustrative: Doctors at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem performing surgery, Jerusalem, March 5, 1990. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Israeli hospital helps deaf Palestinian children hear for first time

Jerusalem medical center carries out 16 cochlear implant surgeries as part of Peres Center for Peace project

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, speaks on the last day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Sunday Feb. 19, 2017. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)

Praising Trump, Saudi FM urges progress toward peace with Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Days after Trump and Netanyahu talk of regional deal, Adel al-Jubeir says his country ready to stand with others in Arab world ‘to promote’ a deal

Iran says Saudi Arabia, Israel working to damage country

By ToI Staff and AFP

Top minister: Peace ‘possible’ under ‘very supportive’ Trump

By Marissa Newman

Minister: Secret summit shows Netanyahu right about regional plan

By Marissa Newman and Raphael Ahren

Protesters holding placards gather near the Houses of Parliament as an anti-Trump protest gets underway in London on February 20, 2017 (AFP/Justin TALLIS)

Live updates (closed)

Swede PM raps Trump as film claiming migrants driving crime called faked

By Joshua Davidovich

Policemen interviewed say documentary maker stitched answers to other questions to mislead viewers; JCCs threatened again, but not all evacuated; Russian envoy to UN Churkin dies suddenly at 64

Salt stalactite formations at the Dead Sea. (courtesy Noam Bedein)

Last in a three-part series

After Sderot, photographer trains lens on a disappearing Dead Sea

By Melanie Lidman

Noam Bedein has captured the beauty in destruction wrought by rockets in Israel’s south. Now, he’s taking aim at the rapid demise of a natural heritage site

Donald Trump is not an anti-Semite

Save your outrage and take a good look at the steps this president is taking to make the world far safer for Jews

He holds his irritation with the loud Muslim early adhan at bay by casting it as ingenious protest or his own spiritual alarm clock

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

The Rabbinate’s alternative facts

Claims that women outnumber men in refusing to grant divorce distort truth and amplify women’s suffering

Gerald M. Steinberg

The lucrative ‘war crimes’ industry

Why NGOs’ allegations and reports on Israeli “violations” should be taken with far more than a grain of salt

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC on February 15, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Netanyahu said to backtrack on pledge for new Amona settlement

By Raoul Wootliff

Amid Trump request to ‘hold back’ on construction, Netanyahu reported to tell cabinet that government may renege on promise to evicted families; ministers mum

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspects an honor guard with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at Istana presidential palace on Monday, February 20, 2017 (Haim Zach/GPO)

No understandings with Trump on settlements yet — official

US President Donald Trump addresses a rally at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport on February 18, 2017 in Melbourne, Florida. (AFP/ NICHOLAS KAMM)

White House: Trump’s Sweden remark was about ‘rising crime’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President says apparent (and false) terror claim at rally was made after watching Fox News story on immigrants in Scandinavian country

Vancouver Jewish teenager Justine Balin competes on Chopped Canada Teen, January 2017. (Food Network Canada)

Interview

Vancouver Jewish teen wows ‘Chopped’ judges to win Canadian TV cooking competition

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speak at a press conference in Singapore, February 20, 2017. (Haim Zach GPO)

Netanyahu: Israel and Singapore are ‘kindred spirits’

In joint press conference with counterpart Lee Hsien Loong, PM praises two small nations that have become ‘global powers’

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, briefs the media as Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan listens after unveiling the surface-to-surface Fateh-313, or Conqueror, missile in a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day, Iran, August 22, 2015. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

US senator calls for new sanctions against Iran

By ToI Staff and AP

Lindsey Graham says US must pressure Tehran through policy, resolutions to give up missile program

Illustrative: A man sits outside the courtroom as he arrives for a hearing at the Haifa court on February 19, 2017. (Flash90)

Health minister orders crackdown after nursing home abuse revealed

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Officials raid more facilities, may close Haifa old-age home where workers were filmed punching, neglecting residents

Video still of IDF soldier serving demolition order on illegal structure in Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin camp north east of Jerusalem (Screen capture: Twitter)

Israel issues pre-demolition orders for Bedouin village

IDF soldiers serve ‘cease construction’ notices to residents and school in Khan al-Ahmar, near Jerusalem

Igal Hecht shooting his 2013 film 'A Universal Language' in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)

Israeli-Canadian filmmaker gives Jewish state’s minorities a major role

By Robert Sarner

Efraim Halevy (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Analysis

Ex-Mossad chief to discuss Trump’s America, Russian intel, Israeli strategy and more at Times of Israel event

By David Horovitz

Efraim Halevy to give rare public interview in Jerusalem next Sunday

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

Hitler’s phone sells for more than $240,000

By AFP

Imam Sayed al-Ghitawi speaking at the al-Andalous Islamic Center in Montreal in 2014 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Montreal imam probed for viral call to ‘destroy accursed Jews’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Mobileye provides technology in the area of software algorithms that could enable autonomous cars. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Mobileye installs anti-crash tech on NYC cars

By Shoshanna Solomon

Omri Casspi #18 of the Sacramento Kings dunks the ball over Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors at ORACLE Arena on December 28, 2015, in Oakland, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/AFP)

Omri Casspi to be traded to New Orleans Pelicans

Illustrative photo of kosher seals. (Photo credit: Kosher symbols image via Shutterstock.)

Tennessee prison inmate sues for better kosher food

By JTA

Illustrative: Staff at Camp Harlam in Pennsylvania. (Courtesy of Camp Harlam/via JTA)

Security at summer camps: What you need to know

A man suspected of elder abuse sits outside the courtroom as he arrives for a court hearing at the Haifa court on February 19, 2017. Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewScandalized anew by a story old as its victims

By Joshua Davidovich

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