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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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Likud MK Yehudah Glick speaks during the funeral of his wife, Yaffa Glick, at the Har Hamenuhot Cemetery in Jerusalem, on January 1, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

MK Glick was pressured to go from wife’s funeral to Knesset for vote — spokesman

By Raoul Wootliff

Shas leader admits he asked rabbi to permit the bereaved lawmaker to support coalition bid to shutter shops on Shabbat, forgoing traditional mourning practices

An MK speaking to almost nobody during a Knesset filibuster, on December 27, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Panton/Knesset spokesperson)

Coalition advances primaries bill, shelves mini-markets legislation

Likud MK Yehudah Glick speaks during the funeral of his wife, Yaffa Glick, at the Har Hamenuhot Cemetery in Jerusalem, on January 1, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘You taught me how to love,’ tearful MK Yehudah Glick says at wife’s funeral

Iranian students protest at the University of Tehran during a demonstration driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017. (AFP/ STR)

Israel assesses Iran protests could come to threaten regime — report

In memo, Foreign Ministry said to tell PM and diplomats worldwide that Tehran was caught off-guard by unrest; Iranians have breached ‘fear barrier’ created by 2009 crackdown

9 killed in Iran in violent overnight protests — state TV

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump blasts ‘brutal and corrupt’ Iranian regime, nuclear deal

By AFP

Supreme leader blames Iran’s ‘enemies’ for unrest

By ToI Staff and AFP

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House, on February 15, 2017, in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Among Netanyahu’s reasons for backing Iran protests: aligning with Trump

By Raphael Ahren

PM overrules some of his own security advisers, believing demonstrators need to know the Mideast’s only democracy supports their struggle, source says

Netanyahu ridicules idea Israel behind Iran protests, chides Europe for silence

InterviewMinister: Why does Iran spend billions on overseas wars?

By Raphael Ahren and Avi Davidi

Kuwaiti report: US gives Israel go-ahead to kill powerful Iranian general

Pictured on left, the Weiss family: Hannah, Leslie, Mitchell, and Ari. At right: Bruce and Irene Steinberg and their sons Matthew, William and Zachary. All nine were killed when a Cessna crashed Sunday, January 1, in Costa Rica. (Facebook)

'We are in utter shock and disbelief'

Communities mourn Jewish families killed in Costa Rica plane crash

By Renee Ghert-Zand and Agencies

The Weisses and Steinbergs account for 9 out of the 12 people who died when a Cessna failed shortly after takeoff

IDF chief: Calls for massive retaliation in Gaza are ‘irresponsible’

By Judah Ari Gross

In wide-ranging speech, Gadi Eisenkot says Iran remains the main threat to Israel through Hezbollah and terror-funding throughout the Middle East

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on January 2, 2018. (Adi Cohen Zedek)

IDF bid to recruit older immigrant doctors halted amid backlash

By Judah Ari Gross

Army chief denies claim by ex-PM Barak that officers might refuse orders

By Judah Ari Gross

Military court indicts soldier-slapping teen Ahed Tamimi, her mother

A picture taken from the Mount of Olives shows the Old City of Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock shrine in the center, on December 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

In late-night vote, Knesset passes law to hinder East Jerusalem withdrawal

Legislation requires special two-thirds plenum support to approve relinquishing any portion of the city to a foreign power under any future peace deal

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

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett leads a faction meeting at the Israeli parliament on December 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Bennett chides Yair Lapid as ‘Meretz dressed up in blue and white’

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley during a press briefing at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, December 14, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Live updates

US envoy says Palestinians may lose aid if they don’t return to negotiations

PA ‘not coming to the table but they ask for aid. We’re not giving the aid,’ Nikki Haley tells reporters at UN, insisting, ‘We very much still want to have a peace process’

12:17 pm

Knesset committees discussing applying new laws to settlements
7:29 pm

US envoy suggests Palestinians may lose aid if they don't return to negotiations
7:26 pm

UN chief following protests in Iran, 'evaluating' how to help

Illustrative: This photo taken on September 14, 2017 shows British musician and former Beatles member Ringo Starr speaking to the press to promote his new album 'Give More Love' in London. (AFP PHOTO / CHRIS J RATCLIFFE)

With a little help

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr to hit Tel Aviv in June

By Jessica Steinberg

77-year-old rocker to play Israel with his All Starr band on European tour in support of new album ‘Give More Love’

Jonathan Spyer (left) poses for a picture with Syrian Minister of Reconciliation Ali Haidar and Minister of Information, Mohammed Tourjeman (right), while on a government-sponsored tour of Damascus in April, 2017. (courtesy)

Syrian minister said fired over visit by Israeli journalist, who met him twice

By ToI Staff and AP

Jonathan Spyer tells ToI he was in group that met Information Minister Mohammad Ramez Tourjman on recent trip; Tourjman insisted he had no idea Spyer was Israeli, Al-Arabiya says

The postman didn’t ring once

I tried to send my pen-pal an Israeli souvenir, but Spanish politics stole my mail

Textbook terrorism and its Western funders

The PA’s new curriculum promotes radicalization more than ever — time for donor nations to cut off funding

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)

Hebrew media review

Imagining Iran’s day after, before the revolution really begins

By Joshua Davidovich

Optimistic protesters and their backers make it into Israeli tabloids, but one pundit notes that they have yet to really be tested

Iranian students protest at the University of Tehran during a demonstration driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Iran protest videos get out, despite regime’s muzzling attempts

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini after their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, April 16, 2016. (AP /Ebrahim Noroozi)

EU, European powers urge Iran to guarantee right to protest

Richard Aronowitz, author of 'Five Amber Beads' and provenance researcher for looted Holocaust art for Sotheby's auction house. (Courtesy)

Lost and found

How his novel led an author into the intriguing world of WWII art restitution

By Nadine Wojakovski

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Asher Elmaliach, the security guard stabbed outside the Jerusalem Central Bus Station on December 10, 2017. (Facebook)

Security guard stabbed in Jerusalem attack is on the mend

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)

White House denies Pence’s trip to Israel canceled

By Raphael Ahren

Pupils from Benzion Netanyahu school in the Samaria-area settlement Barkan at their school archaeological excavation. (Roi Hadi)

First-graders uncover 10,000-year-old flint knife during school dig in Samaria

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A knife recovered by soldiers from a Palestinian man who apprached IDF troops while carrying the blade at the Bein Anun junction in the West Bank, on January 1, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests Palestinian with knives at West Bank junction

By Judah Ari Gross

Activists in Tunisia demonstrate against a Holocaust exhibition held at the National Library there, on December 15, 2017. (Screen capture: MEMRI)

Tunisian activists damage Holocaust display, calling it Zionist ‘propaganda’

Gal Gadot in a scene from 'Wonder Woman.' (Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)

Wonder womenActresses, including Gal Gadot, fuel 2017’s three top-grossing films

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