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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 3, 2018

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US President Donald Trump speaks with the press at the White House on December 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Haley warns US may not fund refugee agency UNRWA

Trump threatens to cut off US aid to Palestinians over Jerusalem dispute

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President says he’d planned for Israel ‘to pay’ diplomatic price for his recognition of capital, but with PA ‘no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make future payments?’

US warns it won’t fund UN refugee agency if Palestinians reject talks

By Alexander Fulbright

Top PLO official says Trump threatened to ‘starve Palestinian children’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rebuffing Trump aid threat, Palestinians say Jerusalem ‘not for sale’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Blog

Neshama Carlebach

My sisters, I hear you

I accept the fullness of who my father Shlomo Carlebach was, flaws and all. I am in this conversation. I am also broken.

Montage of Neshama Carlebach (Courtesy) and Shlomo Carlebach (YouTube screenshot)

Neshama Carlebach (Courtesy)

Neshama Carlebach writes about her father, victims and being molested as a child

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, early 1990s. (Shlomo Carlebach Legacy Trust)

After #MeToo, some congregations weigh changing their tune on Shlomo Carlebach

By Melanie Lidman

In Yaotsu, Japan, in November 2017, a bust of Chiune Sugihara at the Memorial Hall museum in his honor. (Michael Wilner)

In rural Japan, a pilgrimage site is now a Holocaust museum, with complications

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The European Union flag (Serge Attal/Flash 90)

Live updates (closed)

EU slams ‘inhumane’ death penalty after MKs advance bill

By Tamar Pileggi

Hours after lawmakers vote to advance legislation to execute terrorists, European embassy in Israel says capital punishment ‘incompatible with human dignity’

7:17 pm

IDF denies report 4th mortar shell fired at Israel from Gaza
7:11 pm

Israeli officials surprised by Trump threat to cut off Palestinian aid -- report
7:03 pm

Government said advancing plan to build artificial islands off coast

US Ambassador David Friedman (L) pays a condolence call at the home of Likud MK Yehudah Glick in the West Bank settlement of Otniel on January 3, 2018. (Courtesy Har Hebron Regional Council)

US ambassador pays condolence visit at MK’s West Bank home

Deflecting suggestions it is unusual for US officials to visit settlements, David Friedman says he only came to pay respects

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri leads his Shas faction meeting at the Knesset, January 1, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Deri defends effort to have MK attend Knesset vote after his wife’s funeral

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu delays Cyprus trip to vote on minimarkets law

US President Donald Trump signs a memorandum after he delivered a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC on December 6, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)

Analysis

Trump’s Mideast policy: Diplomatic Darwinism in the quest for the ultimate deal

On Twitter, POTUS contradicts his own position on Jerusalem, threatens to bankrupt the PA and to make Israel ‘pay more’ — yet this does not mark an abandonment of his peace effort

Palestinians: Law making Jerusalem division harder is a ‘declaration of war’

PA to resume full payments for Gaza electricity amid reconciliation bid

Goodbye Egypt, hello Kuwait: UN Security Council gets six new members

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Border Police officers guard a checkpoint in the West Bank on January 26, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Soldiers shoot, kill Palestinian teen suspected of having a gun — IDF

By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber

Incident takes place during violent demonstration near Ramallah in the West Bank; army says case is being investigated

Two mortar shells fired at southern Israel from Gaza in under two hours

By Judah Ari Gross

Islamic Jihad was behind Friday’s mortar barrage, IDF assesses

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas members in East Jerusalem could lose residency under new bill

By Marissa Newman

Muhammad Maharma, left, a Palestinian man accused of spying on behalf of Iran and planning to carry out terror attacks against Israel. And Backer Maharma, a Palestinian man living in South Africa, accused of connecting Muhammad to Iran. (Shin Bet)

Israel exposes alleged Iranian intelligence operation in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Three Palestinians indicted, accused of planning to commit terror attacks, collect information for Tehran

Tens of thousands said to gather across Iran for pro-regime rallies

Trump steps up rhetorical support for Iran protesters

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hebrew media reviewIn Israel and Iran, waiting for the other shoe to drop

By Joshua Davidovich

A New York-bound Delta Air Lines Flight 469 at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv (AP/Michael Simon)

Flight attendants sue Delta for anti-Semitism, ‘discrimination’ against Israelis

Former and current employees say the airline’s management has an ‘anti-Jewish, Hebrew, and ethnic Israeli attitude’

At 16, I could barely write my name in Hebrew

Day schools graduate compassionate, spiritual kids, who use good judgment, advocate for justice… and get into good colleges

Andrew Silow-Carroll

What is anti-Semitism? It’s complicated

It’s not just Nazi Jew-hatred anymore, but the Jewish right and Jewish left against each other

Don’t rush to say Kaddish for non-Orthodox Judaism

The American progressive denominations are developing engaging programs; we Orthodox should learn from them

Avrohom Gordimer

It is time to say Kaddish for non-Orthodox Judaism

We should all be extremely saddened by the impending mass disappearance of the bulk of American Jewry

Alice Cohn poses in front of the building in which she hid from the Nazis, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The photo was taken after the liberation of Europe in 1945. (Courtesy: National Holocaust Museum)

How artist beat ‘foolproof’ Nazi system to forge Dutch ID papers, save 350 lives

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Illustrative: Medics and police at the scene of a car crash, July 2017 (Magen David Adom)

Cellphones were number one cause of Israeli car accidents in 2017

Illustrative. A funeral for an IDF soldier on December 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Suicide, car crashes leading causes of death for troops in 2017

By Judah Ari Gross

Bitcoin. (AFP Photo/Karen Bleier)

Egypt’s grand mufti says bitcoin ‘forbidden’ by Islam

US President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. (Mandel Ngan and Ed Jones/AFP)

Trump to N. Korea: My nuclear button is ‘much bigger’ than Kim’s

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative. Israeli soldiers launch a Spike anti-tank guided missile during a training exercise. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)

India shoots down $500m missile deal with Israel ahead of Netanyahu visit

By Judah Ari Gross

Coalition chairman Likud party MK David Bitan leaving the Lahav 433 national crime unit of the Israel Police on December 10, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Major real estate developer arrested in sprawling investigation of Likud MK

By Raoul Wootliff

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announces new barriers to prevent terror attacks (YouTube screenshot)

NYC to install 1,500 barriers to stop ramming attacks

By Deepti Hajela

A general view of the Prime Minister's Office building in Jerusalem (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Police probing possible corruption at Prime Minister’s Office

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) looks at his wife Franni Bryson, before walking to the Senate chamber to announce his resignation on December 7, 2017 on Capitol Hill. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Franken officially resigns from Senate after groping allegations

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv University campus. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

Arab Israeli students heckle Egypt lecturer for ‘normalization’ with Israel

Alabama attorney Richard Jaffe (YouTube screenshot)

Rough justiceRoy Moore’s Jewish lawyer voted for Doug Jones

Gal Gadot at the 'Wonder Woman' premiere at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California, May 25, 2017. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/via JTA)

T and wineGal Gadot, Weinstein among top tongue twisters of 2017

By JTA

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