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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 7, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 7, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Netanyahu wants UNRWA gradually shut down, backs US cuts

Amid Israeli officials’ concern about humanitarian fallout, PM accuses UN agency of perpetuating conflict by serving the Palestinian ‘right of return’ narrative

Illustrative: UN trucks carrying building materials for projects funded by UNRWA arrive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip after crossing the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing on December 10, 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90/ File)

Haley said clashing with State, Defense over slashing UNRWA funds

A Palestinian checks a truck loaded with humanitarian aid from the US as it arrives in the Palestinian town of Rafah through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip on August 6, 2014.

Israel backs UNRWA funding cut, but looking to minimize fallout

Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan at a Likud party conference in Lod, on December 31, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel publishes blacklist of BDS groups to be barred from country

Strategic affairs minister says the country is moving from defense to attack against organizations that seek to harm the Jewish state

Maayan Shemer, excavation director for the Israel Antiquities Authority, showing a half-million year-old hand axe found at Jaljulia. (Samuel Magal, Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Half a million years ago, Homo erectus made prehistoric ‘Swiss Army knives’ here

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Large-scale remains of flint-knapping industry uncovered in salvage excavation in Jaljulia, which reveal a thriving, longtime home for a direct ancestor of modern man

US President Donald Trump sits in the driver's seat of a semitrailer as he welcomes truckers and CEOs to the White House in Washington, DC, to discuss healthcare, March 23, 2017. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Hebrew media review

A song of genius and fire

By Joshua Davidovich

Israelis don’t shy away from adding their own sounds in reaction to the ‘Fire and Fury’ book and Trump’s, like, really smart tweets

Illustrative: An American Muslim man standing next to an American Jewish man. (Adam Berry/Getty Images/via JTA)

By 2040, Muslims predicted to outnumber Jews in the US

Some 100,000 Muslims join American population each year, concentrated largely in coastal states, while Jewish growth projected to taper off

National Union of Students President Shakira Martin (Twitter video)

UK student union omits Judaism from religion survey, for second time

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a statement to journalists on May 3, 2017. (John MacDougall/AFP)

German bill seeks deportation of migrants who express anti-Semitism

A tour guided by the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah terror group shows one of the group's fighters standing next to an artillery gun in a mountainous area around the Syrian town of Flita near the border with Lebanon, August 2, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)

Live updates (closed)

Security cabinet holding ‘significant’ meetings on threats along northern border

By Tamar Pileggi

Details of meetings barred for publication by IDF censor, but reports suggest high-level forum focused on activities of Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah

7:17 pm

Car bomb kills 18 in Syrian rebel-held city
7:08 pm

Barkat hosted Likud MKs in bid to shore up support against Kahlon, in budget spat
7:00 pm

CIA chief denies agency role in Iran unrest, predicts new violence

An 'AM PM' convenience store, which open on Shabbat, in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2016. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Coalition heads reach compromise on Shabbat bill, but majority not guaranteed

By Raoul Wootliff

Amended bill would allow gas station’s convenience stores to stay open on Jewish day of rest but would not exempt tourist city of Eilat as some MKs had hoped

Likud MK Sharren Haskel at a faction meeting in the Knesset, May 30, 2016 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud seeks to oust MK for opposing Shabbat bill

By Raoul Wootliff

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, right, and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, left, on September 19, 2016. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Chief rabbi comes out against death penalty bill

Illustrative: Israelis take cover during rocket attack siren warning in kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Israel and Gaza border, Israel, December 29, 2017. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Gaza rocket attacks doubled, but terror tally plummeted in 2017, army says

By Judah Ari Gross

Amid rising tensions with Strip, IDF says last year saw 35 projectiles launched; 99 terror attacks elsewhere, compared to 269 in previous year

Haredi women lead change

Ultra-Orthodox women marry young, have many children, run their homes, and pursue higher ed like never before

The Tamimis and the so-called ‘rule of law’

An entire system has been created to humiliate and penalize a 16-year-old on the grounds that ‘she has no fear’

Sivan Rahav Meir

Traditional Jews also welcome Shabbat

If minimarkets are allowed to open, it’s the non-Orthodox who will lose out

Michael Eisenberg

Jerusalem’s brand? It’s the City of Empathy

Let Tel Aviv be famous for its startups: A city needs to build appeal around its core values and assets

Members of the 'This is Bahrain' group during a visit to Israel in December 2017. (This is Bahrain)

With rare Israel visit, Bahraini delegation seeks new dialogue for coexistence

Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur. (Courtesy of MJLF)

France’s foremost female rabbi faces flak over Jerusalem stance

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Reform leader targeted by right-wing Jews for saying that East Jerusalem could become future Palestinian capital

Illustrative: A soldier looks at the IDF's Facebook page at the army spokesperson's office in Jerusalem in November 2012. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Interview

When a Gazan girl and Israeli officials battle head-to-head for social media

By Tracy Frydberg

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Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo (1st L), French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd L), and others pay their respect during a memorial ceremony outside the Hyper Cacher supermarket to pay a tribute to the shoppers at the kosher store who were killed three years earlier by an Islamist gunman in Paris, January 7, 2018. (AFP photo/Pool/Christian Hartmann)

France marks three years since Charlie Hebdo attack

By AFP

Ikea store in Netanya, 2007 (photo credit: Hagit Rabinowitz/Flash90)

IKEA to open Beersheba store next month

Youth arrive at the Netiv Ha'avot illegal outpost in a solidarity Shabbat event ahead of a planned March demolition. (Courtesy: Campaign to save Netiv Ha'avot)

Recruiting support ahead of demolition, outpost hosts 1,000 youth for Sabbath

Michael Steinhardt attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish philanthropist Steinhardt raided over suspected antiquities thefts

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaking to alumni of the Shin Bet's Protected Persons Unit in December 2017. (Channel 10 screen capture)

In rare comments, ex-PM Olmert admits to making ‘quite a few’ mistakes

Shoppers walk past piles of garbage left by striking city workers, at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, on January 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem workers strike called off as layoffs rescinded

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, right, in New York on September 19, 2017. (Avi Ohayun)

Egyptian media instructed to promote acceptance of Jerusalem recognition

From left to right: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita pose during a meeting in the Jordanian capital Amman on January 6, 2018. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Arabs to seek world recognition of East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

By AFP and ToI Staff

The entrance to the Hiriya waste processing plant in central Israel, taken on September 19, 2008. (Shnili/Creative Commons)

Palestinian arrested over body found at Hiriya recycling site

Thousands of Israelis attend the weekly anti-corruption protest in Tel Aviv on January 6, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands rally against ‘crime minister’ Netanyahu in Tel Aviv

Myrna Herzog' damaged viola. (Facebook)

On a sad noteIsraeli says Alitalia destroyed 300 year-old viola

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives an interview to The Associated Press at his office, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Report: Ex-Iranian president Ahmadinejad arrested for inciting unrest

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