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What Matters Most On Friday, January 5, 2018

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican members of the Senate on January 4, 2018. (AFP/ JIM WATSON)

White House ‘reviewing’ aid to Palestinians after threats to slash funds

By Eric Cortellessa

Official says move in reaction to PA’s ‘recent conduct,’ days after Trump warns he might shut spigot over Ramallah’s refusal to enter peace talks

Palestinians receive their monthly food aid at a UN distribution center in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip in November 2012 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Netanyahu urging Americans not to cut funding for UNRWA — TV report

Palestinian children attend a class at the UNRWA elementary school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, in April 2013 (Illustrative photo: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Top minister backs US threat to cut UNRWA aid, contradicting Foreign Ministry

Screenshot from a video produced by the Islamic State's Sinai Peninsula branch in which the terror group declares war on Hamas and executes one of its own members for smuggling weapons to the Palestinian group. The video was released January 3, 2017. (Screenshot)

Islamic State in Sinai declares war on Hamas in gruesome execution video

IS member accused of smuggling weapons to Gaza rulers is shot in back of head as tensions between rival terror groups erupt; Hamas dismisses clip as ‘Zionist production’

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar wave during a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Islamist terror movement, in Gaza City, on December 14, 2017. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Hamas said prepared to place its weapons under PLO’s control if it can join

Nour Tamimi (C) who is being detained after a viral video showing her with two members of her family allegedly assaulting two Israeli soldiers is seen in a military court at the Ofer prison in the West Bank on December 28, 2017. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Judge orders release of older Tamimi cousin filmed slapping soldier

An illustrative photo of the construction of new houses in the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, on September 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel set to green-light over 1,300 settlement homes next week

Among plans are retroactive building permits for 11 of the 15 homes sanctioned for demolition in illegal Netiv Ha’avot outpost

Illustrative: (From left) Magen David Adom Director Avi Bin, Sheldon and Miriam Adelson unveil one of five new bullet proof ambulances that the Adelsons donated to four West Bank settlements. (Courtesy: Magen David Adom)

Adelsons donate 5 armored ambulances for West Bank settlements

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican members of the Senate about immigration at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2018. (AFP/Jim Watson)

All those around Trump questioned his fitness for office, says Michael Wolff

By AFP

Author also says he spent several hours with president, while Trump, who tried to halt publication of bombshell ‘Fire and Fury,’ denies ever meeting him

Author of insider look at Trump White House no stranger to controversy

By Chris Lefkow

Trump ‘disgusted’ with Bannon as West Wing tell-all set to come out early

By Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire

Trump-Bannon feud drives wedge through their populist movement

By Zeke Miller and Steve Peoples

Illustrative image of a pair of hedgehogs. (iStock)

More hog than hedge

Overweight Israeli hedgehogs go on lifesaving diet

By Josefin Dolsten

Prickly pair shedding pounds at Ramat Gan Zoo after they were found struggling to curl into balls to defend themselves against predators

Fall foliage in Japan's UNESCO world heritage site, Shirakawago. (courtesy)

A Jewish journalist’s wild, watery adventures in land-locked Gifu, Japan

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In this photo provided by Tasnim News Agency, Iranian demonstrators burn representations of US and Israeli flags in a pro-government rally in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. (Nima Najafzadeh,Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Pro-government rallies planned in Iran after Friday prayers

By Jon Gambrell

Government claims 42,000 participated in anti-regime protests, apparently in order to contrast with scheduled mass demonstrations in support of regime

AnalysisWith nuke deal tottering, Iran protests could be death blow or saving grace

The new Iranian long range missile Khoramshahr is displayed during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of its devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, on September 22,2017 in Tehran. (AFP PHOTO / str)

US sanctions Iranian missile firms, says protesters will not be forgotten

By AFP

The beach in Tel Aviv on a stormy winter day in Tel Aviv, January 5, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Two children rescued from roof of car stuck in flooding

Roads closed by trees, potholes due to severe winter weather, Sea of Galilee rises three centimeters

Hebrew media reviewRaining on everyone’s parade

By Joshua Davidovich

Heavy rains, floods and even hail batter Israel’s north in worst storm of season

At least seven dead as massive storm hits US

By Philip Marcelo

A Kurdish Jew handles a string of worry beads in northern Iraq (Ziv Genesove)

Stranded in Iraq, some Jews say Israel abandoned them

By Ziv Genesove

God loves those who argue

In Judaism, a ‘safe space’ is a place to dissent, as Moses does, for the sake of truth, instead of mere victory (Shemot)

Yafi Glick’s world of pain

What happens when a wife witnesses her beloved husband shot at point-blank range?

In Iran, a ray of sunshine after 39 years of darkness

Despite the lies the Islamic Republic will keep telling, the protesters are simply demanding what is theirs

Naftali Rothenberg

Death penalty contradicts Judaism

If we start with terrorists, we risk cheapening human life, and degenerating to a new moral low

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Illustrative: People watch a board showing price fluctuations at the Tel Aviv stock exchange. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israel moves to keep cryptocurrencies off Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

By Simona Weinglass

A scene from the BBC mini-series 'McMafia,' which depicts Russian mafia operating in the UK and Israel. (Screen capture: YouTube)

BBC drama ‘McMafia’ slurs Israeli businessmen, group alleges

By JTA

Shas MK David Azoulay during a Knesset committee meeting. February 13, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Shas backtracks on scheme to make sick minister resign ahead of Shabbat vote

By Raoul Wootliff

Mathew Haberkorn confronting Jacqueline Kent Cooke after she allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks and hit him around the head with a glass purse. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Millionaire socialite accused of anti-Semitic assault on Jewish attorney

By JTA

Toys that belonged to Dutch Jewish sisters who were murdered during the Shoah, seen at Amsterdam’s National Holocaust Museum on January 15, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Dutch Holocaust survivor ordered to pay taxes on forced labor pension

By JTA

German Neo-Nazis at a rally in Dresden, 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)

German neo-Nazi sentenced to prison for making fun of Holocaust

By AP

An illustrative photo of students at a Jewish day school. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

Sticker shock

Many middle-income households must ask for ‘handouts’ for kids’ Jewish education

By Cathryn J. Prince

Jonny Daniels meets with Moshe Tirosh on January 13, 2015 in Karmiel, Israel. (Photo by Elan Kawesch via JTA)

Meet Poland’s best-known, and most controversial, Jew

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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