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What Matters Most On Monday, January 1, 2018

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US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and their son Barron arrive for a new year's party at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 31, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Trump says ‘time for change’ in Iran, people ‘hungry’ for freedom

By AFP

Regime is ‘failing at every level’ despite the ‘terrible nuclear deal’ signed by Obama, US president tweets

At least 12 killed in widespread protests, Iran state TV says

As protests persist, Rouhani warns Iran will respond to ‘lawbreakers’

By AFP

Anger against regime grows, but Iran protests still driven by economics

By Eric RANDOLPH

Likud top body votes to urge annexing parts of the West Bank

Resolution passed by Likud Central Committee is not binding, but carries political force, as lawmakers need support of 3,000-member body to succeed in party primaries

Members of the Likud Central Committee vote in favor of annexing parts of the West Bank at the Avenue Conference Center, near Ben Gurion Airport on December 31, 2017. (Courtesy)

Abbas says Likud bid to annex parts of West Bank has US blessing

German foreign minister under fire for accusing Israel of ‘apartheid’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Government okays EU cooperation deal that excludes settlements

Found 100 meters from Jerusalem's Western Wall, the First Temple period sealing published in December 2017 bears an inscription stating, 'Belonging to the Governor of the City.' (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

2,700-year-old seal impression cements existence of biblical Jerusalem governor

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Five members of the Steinberg family from Scarsdale, New York, and four members of the Weiss family from Belleair, Florida, were among 12 people killed when the plane in which they were flying crashed in Punta Islita, Guanacaste, Costa Rica on December 31, 2017. (Costa Rica Civil Aviation press office via AP)

Two Jewish families killed in Costa Rica plane crash

By AP and ToI Staff

Five members of Steinberg family from New York and three members of Weiss family from Florida identified as victims

University students attend a protest inside Tehran University while a smoke grenade is thrown by anti-riot Iranian police, in Tehran, Iran, December 30, 2017. (AP Photo)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Foreign Ministry says Iran demos weaken regime, threaten its stability

By Alexander Fulbright

Classified ministry document said to say increasingly critical tone adopted by protesters shows Iranians no longer afraid of demonstrating

7:00 pm

Army: Gaza rocket strikes field in southern Israel
6:59 pm

PA envoy to US to return stateside 'immediately' after Jerusalem consultations
6:36 pm

Pence’s office denies delay in upcoming trip

Muhsan, an anti-regime protester in Tehran, speaks (right) to Israel's Channel 10 news on December 31, 2017. (Channel 10 screenshot)

Iranian protester tells Israeli TV: The regime has to fall

In interview from Tehran, ‘Muhsan’ says Iranians are rallying nationwide, and the suppressed protests of 2009 show they will only get their rights if the leadership goes

Bidding farewell to 2017, Trump tweets new support for Iranian protesters

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Haley says Iran being ‘tested by its own citizens’

By AFP

Israeli minister wishes Iranian protesters luck, says murderous regime will fall

Opposition, Yisrael Beytenu won’t ‘offset’ absence of Likud MK after wife dies

By Marissa Newman

Coalition accuses opposition of ‘losing its humanity’ but Zionist Union says government can just delay vote on shuttering shops on Shabbat

File: Yehudah Glick and his wife at a press conference at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on November 24, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative: A City Market store in Jerusalem's Cinema City, seen on January 31, 2017. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

Coalition said struggling to muster majority for Shabbat bill

Aerial view of the central Israeli city of Givatiyam. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Givatayim passes bylaw to preempt Knesset Shabbat bill

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) looks on after laying wreath of flowers on the tomb of the late Yasser Arafat during a celebration marking the 53rd anniversary of the creation of the Fatah party in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 31, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Abbas warns Israel: Rethink your ‘aggressive’ policies ‘before it’s too late’

PA president slams IDF and ‘settler terrorist groups’ for ‘crimes’; declares Jerusalem ‘the eternal capital of the Palestinian people’

PA recalls envoy to US for consultations after Jerusalem recognition

By AFP and ToI Staff

As Gaza heats up, Israel points an accusing finger at Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet breaks up alleged Hamas cell planning West Bank attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians burn Israeli flags next to a poster bearing images of US President Donald Trump (R), US Vice President Mike Pence (C), and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a demonstration at the al-Quds Open University in Dura, a village on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Hebron, on December 13, 2017.(AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Pence visit indefinitely postponed due to ‘scheduling conflicts’

By Raphael Ahren

Trip delayed by US tax vote had originally been rescheduled for January 14, the day Netanyahu takes off for India

US President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City on May 22, 2017. (AFP /POOL /RONEN ZVULUN)

Trump touts Jerusalem announcement among 2017 successes

By AP and ToI Staff

University students attend an anti-regime protest inside Tehran University while a smoke grenade is thrown by Iranian anti-riot police, in Tehran, Iran, December 30, 2017. (AP Photo)

Hebrew media reviewNew year, new Mideast

By Adiv Sterman

A woman walks past a New Year's balloon in central Jerusalem on December 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

10 from 2017: Times of Israel staff on their most memorable reporting moments

We stood amid parts of the Western Wall hidden for 1,700 years, slogged on foot to a blocked-off West Bank village, rescued snails in the rain. Read what touched us this past year

A couple kisses during New Year's celebrations just after midnight in Ljubljana, Slovenia on January 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Jure Makovec)

After a year marred by terror attacks, revelers around the world welcome 2018

By AFP and ToI Staff

Medics treating a patient on December 31, 2017. (Courtesy/Yissachar Weiss)

Israelis brave cold and rain to celebrate New Year’s – er, Sylvester

More Headlines

South Koreans watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's New Year's speech, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, January 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Kim Jong Un urges mass production of nukes, says North Korea ready for war

By AFP

Amir Abdel Hakim Jabara, left, and Ibrahim Abdel Halim Sheikh Yusuf, right, alleged members of an Islamic State terror cell in the Arab Israeli village of Tayibe. (Shin Bet)

Islamists sentenced for trying to prevent concert with arson attack

Indian Prime Minister, left, embracing 11-year-old Moshe Holtzberg, whose Chabad emissary parents were killed in a 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on left in Israel, July 5, 2017 . (Haim Zach/Israeli Government Press Office)

Child whose parents were killed in 2008 Mumbai attack to return to Chabad House

By JTA

An ad published in the Washington Post excoriating pop singer Lorde on January 1, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter)

Russian to judgmentRabbi calls Lorde a bigot in full-page Washington Post ad

In 2018 we will choose: Democracy or annexation

Israel can’t claim to be democratic if it systematically denies basic political rights to many of its residents

Eat up!

Imagine if an app got us to pay attention to all the gory details about food production… Oh wait, Judaism can do that

Alan Dershowitz hosts ILTV's 'One on One' program (photo credit: Gidon Markowicz/Flash90)

Interview

Alan Dershowitz’s friends on Trump: ‘Oy vey! He’s tweeting about you!’

By Tracy Frydberg

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