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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 4, 2018

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Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, her husband, senior adviser Jared Kushner, their two children Arabella Kushner and Joseph Kushner, Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon, second from right, and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, walk to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ivanka Trump wants to be first woman president, new book claims

According to ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,’ Bannon sought to relocate embassy to Jerusalem, cede West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt

Trump fears being poisoned, expected to lose election, new book claims

By AFP

Devil's advocate?Chelsea Clinton’s exchange with ‘Church of Satan’ stokes rage

Trump slams ex-aide Bannon, says he’s ‘lost his mind’

By Andrew BEATTY and Chris Lefkow

Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld, who died at the age of 85 on January 4, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

1932-2018

Aharon Appelfeld, literary giant who gave vivid voice to Holocaust, dies at 85

By Jessica Steinberg

Winner of multiple literary awards, the prolific Appelfeld published his most recent book just three months ago

Illustrative. Palestinian children stand next to a crater in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on August 22, 2016, following an Israeli airstrike the night before that targeted Hamas positions in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave that hit the Israeli city of Sderot. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

IDF appears to have hit Gaza tunnel in response to mortar attacks

In vague statement, army says it targeted ‘significant terror infrastructure,’ warns it will strike ‘above and below ground’

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks with the press at United Nations headquarters in New York City on January 2, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

After Haley threat, US evaluating funding for UN’s Palestinian refugee agency

By Eric Cortellessa

This photo taken on May 19, 2017, shows handicapped Palestinian demonstrator Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh waving a Palestinian flag during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the blockade on Gaza, near the border fence east of Gaza City. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

IDF opens criminal investigation into Palestinian double amputee’s death

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

File: US special envoy Jason Greenblatt (C) shakes hands with Palestinian Water Authority chairman Mazen Ghunaim during the launch of a project to improve access to wastewater treatment and water for Palestinian farmers, on October 15, 2017, in the city of Jericho, in the West Bank. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Analysis

How much aid does the US give Palestinians, and what’s it for?

Washington has been the largest international donor to the PA since the early 90’s with over $5 billion in USAID funds alone — and that’s only half the story

AnalysisAs economy crumbles and with ‘nothing to lose,’ war in Gaza grows likely

By Avi Issacharoff

10 Palestinians injured, 2 critically, in clash with IDF

White House: Trump won’t subsidize Palestinians if they criticize him

By Eric Cortellessa

Chiune Sugihara (seated, center) with family and then foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir in Tokyo, 1985. (courtesy Nobuki Sugihara)

Modern day Rashomon

Japan’s ‘Schindler’: A genuine hero tangled in a web of myth

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer (Weev/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Neo-Nazi who co-runs Daily Stormer has Jewish relatives on both sides of family

By JTA

Newsweek report on Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer, who has called to kill the Jews, marks first time a family member has confirmed his background

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, at the Knesset on October 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

With PM’s blessing, Knesset advances bill for death penalty for terrorists

By Marissa Newman

Citing case where killer ‘laughed’ as he butchered Israelis, PM says in ‘extreme’ attacks, terrorists ‘will be executed’

Illustrative: Gallows (CristiNistor/iStock)

Hebrew media reviewIn putting terrorists to death, coalition seen trying to save own skin

By Joshua Davidovich

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives at the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Footage of Liberman denouncing death penalty emerges after MKs advance his bill

By Tamar Pileggi

Guatemala's Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel listens questions during a news conference in Guatemala City, December 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Interview

Guatemala offers to help countries move their embassies to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

‘We want to make sure that it gets done, and that it gets done right and at the proper time,’ says FM Sandra Jovel

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to reporters at United Nations headquarters,New York, January 2, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Haley fetes ‘friends’ who supported US against UN Jerusalem resolution

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Glass shards on the road after a car accident (Berezko, IStock Getty Images)

Live updates (closed)

Two dead in vehicle collision outside northern village

Three more critically and seriously hurt near Arab town of Barta’a in Wadi Ara region

7:21 pm

German man sentenced to prison for making fun of Holocaust
7:10 pm

Macron: Change in Iran must come at home, not from abroad
7:07 pm

2 reported dead in Wadi Ara accident

Illustrative: A cancer patient and a perfusion drip. (CIPhotos, iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv University study augurs hope for pancreatic cancer patients

By Shoshanna Solomon

Researchers find genomic pattern typical of longer-term survivors; develop nanoparticle ‘taxi’ that delivers tumor suppressors straight to cancer tissue

Illustrative photo of pregnant woman taking a pill. (Andrey Popov/iStock images, Getty Images)

Women who take vitamins, folic acid are ‘73% less likely to have autistic child’

These are the faces of the Jews left behind

The last official aliyah flight from Ethiopia has flown to Israel; what will happen to the remaining 8,000 Jews?

America is no longer a doormat

Donald Trump has reestablished the US as a moral, pragmatic leader on the world stage

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Arab nurses doesn’t mean equal opportunity

If you don’t hire Arabs because they ‘take Jewish jobs’ or might one day turn terrorist, that’s racism

Women on the rise

Every man knows that the women in his life, from his mother to his co-workers, should be treated with respect

Diamond particles flowing on a black background (Illustrative: iStock)

Diamonds are a scammer’s best friend

By PIERRE-SIMON ASSOULINE

More Headlines

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers New Year wishes to the press at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on January 3, 2018.(AFP PHOTO / POOL / LUDOVIC MARIN)

France: Israeli, US rhetoric on Iran ‘would lead us to war’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pro-government demonstrators hold posters of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and Iran's founder of Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during a march in Iran's holy city of Qom on January 3, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mohammad ALI MARIZAD)

More pro-regime rallies as Iran declares ‘sedition’ over

By Eric RANDOLPH

Asylum seekers protesting at the Holot detention center in the southern Negev Desert of Israel, February 17, 2014. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)

Uganda denies it will host migrants deported by Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Yehudah Kimani blows a shofar on December 13, 2017, in his home of Kasuku in the highlands of Kenya. (courtesy Yehudah Kimani/Facebook)

Kenyan Jewish leader, denied entry to Israel, can reapply for visa

By Melanie Lidman

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives for the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister wants High Court to stop ruling on Palestinian land claims

By Tamar Pileggi

African migrants take part in a protest in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu said looking for ways to forcibly deport illegal migrants

By ToI Staff and AFP

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat holds a press conference at the Jerusalem Municipality regarding his dispute with the Finance Ministry over the city's budget, on January 1, 2018. (Flash90)

Jerusalem Municipality begins firing over 2,000 workers amid budget crisis

Netanyahu's lawyers and advisers David Shimron (L) and Yitzhak Molcho (R). (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90 and Michal Fattal/Flash90)

PM’s former special envoy questioned for fifth time in submarine affair

Graffiti in one's underwear (Courtesy Yigal Ophir)

A lot of nerveWhen it comes to Israeli chutzpah, the proof is in the pictures

By Jessica Steinberg

Sarah Silverman participates in a panel during the Hulu Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Killing with kindnessSarah Silverman does a mitzvah for her friend, a former Twitter troll

By Tracy Frydberg

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