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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 11, 2018

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, January 10, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Despite threats, Trump to extend sanctions relief for Iran — sources

By Matthew Lee and Josh Lederman

US president likely to link decision with new, targeted sanctions on businesses and people connected with regime

EU ministers raise alarms over scrapping Iran deal

By Michael Bachner and Raphael Ahren

Iran threatens to ramp up enrichment beyond pre-nuke deal pace

By Michael Bachner

Congressmen introduce bill to sanction Iran for taking hostages

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: Police officers close off the area around Jerusalem Central Bus Station, after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed a security guard there, on December 10, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Terror attacks tripled after Trump Jerusalem recognition, Shin Bet stats show

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, right, and other senior officers from the army's Central Command visit the area where a terror attack took place the night before on January 10, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

After killing, army unlikely to heed calls for revenge against Palestinians

Since outbreak of violence in October 2015, IDF chief has practiced restraint, forgoing collective punishment, and that’s not liable to change in wake of Raziel Shevach’s murder

Friends and family attend the funeral of Rabbi Raziel Shevach, 35, in the West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad on January 10, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Frustration boils into calls for revenge at funeral of slain rabbi

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers search the area around the West Bank city of Nablus on January 11, 2018, as part of a manhunt after the perpetrators of a lethal terror attack outside a nearby settlement. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldiers search for rabbi’s killers near Nablus, keep roadblocks in place

By Judah Ari Gross

MK Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, January 8, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Interview

Lapid: No regional stability as long as Iranian forces in Syria

By Raphael Ahren and Avi Davidi

Speaking to Times of Israel Persian, opposition party leader largely backs government’s Iran policies, but claims he would be better at getting US on board with Israel’s goals

Isaac Herzog says he sees Saudi Arabia role at Jerusalem holy sites

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)

Live updates (closed)

EU urges Israel to reverse approval of latest settlement homes

By Tamar Pileggi

Spokesperson says a 1,000 new Israeli units in the West Bank ‘will further jeopardize the prospect of a contiguous and viable future Palestinian state’

7:29 pm

French publisher shelves reprint of Celine's anti-Semitic texts
7:13 pm

MK calls Deri’s attempt to bring him to vote after wife’s funeral ‘uncalled for’
7:04 pm

France condemns terror attack, latest settlement homes

Leader of the Shas party Interior Minister Aryeh Deri leads a party faction meeting at the Knesset, January 01, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Minister says he won’t enforce law to shut mini-markets on Shabbat

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Aryeh Deri now claims change in legislation he supported, threatened to resign over, wasn’t his idea or even necessary, and can’t be put into practice

Abbas looking to fill US-sized hole with more support from EU — report

Pan-Arab daily says PA president will head to Brussels later this month with 3 demands: recognize Palestine, support UN membership bid, increase financial aid

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) speaks with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini during a press conference following their meeting at the European Commission in Brussels on March 27, 2017. ( EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Netanyahu praises US envoy for blaming lack of peace on Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinians reject US envoy’s blame accusation after deadly attack

By AFP

PM calls on Abbas to condemn West Bank shooting, end terrorist stipends

Construction in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit, with the Arab village of Wadi Fukin in the foreground, on June 17, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel green-lights 1,126 West Bank settlement homes

As settler leaders call to avenge Raziel Shevach’s murder with more construction, Civil Administration approves fewer than half the amount of homes it authorized last meeting

Lorde performs at the 2017 Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco, California. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Lorde help us

US group looks to prep visiting performers for onslaught of BDS pressure

By Tracy Frydberg

Even before celebrities announce their visits, they must be braced to weather the inevitable boycott storm, says pro-Israel artists’ collective

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

India may revive canceled $500 million deal for Israeli missiles

By Michael Bachner

Days ahead of Netanyahu visit, Indian media says Delhi considering restructuring agreement for Spike anti-tank weapons as a government-to-government pact

Illustrative image of a cigarette (sercansamanci, iStock by Getty Images)

With a flick of the hand, app aims to help smokers kick the habit

By Shoshanna Solomon

Dr. Ivan Berlin, an expert in addictions, says Israeli-founded Somatix’s gesture analysis software is ‘revolutionary’ in detecting cigarette use

Michael Hilkowitz

Deporting Africans is a gift to Israel’s enemies

Packing 40,000 people off to a dangerous future is both immoral and self-defeating

Avraham Edelstein

The ripples of a stone in Beit Shemesh

A Haredi response to extremism: Judaism is soft and gentle and kind, let’s join hands and begin to talk

Elchanan Poupko

To Roy Moore’s lawyer: You’re Jewish, come home

A rabbi’s message to Christian Jews: Judaism is a family — hard to get into, even harder to leave

Can I be a Zionist but hate El Al?

When the national airline defies every effort to polish Israel’s image, complaining may be all I can do

Ori Pfeffer as Yoel in 'The Testament.' (Courtesy Gum Films)

Warning: Spoilers!

Holocaust film ‘The Testament’ breaks poignant new ground in a flooded genre

By Jordan Hoffman

Israeli director Amichai Greenberg unfolds a number of surprises in a movie which asks when ‘Never Again’ evolves from ideology to liturgy

More Headlines

German Chancellor Angela Merkel lays a wreath at the International Memorial of former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, southwestern Germany, during a ceremony to mark 70 years since it was liberated by US forces on May 3, 2015. American army trucks rolled into Dachau, northwest of Munich, on April 29, 1945 to discover the unspeakable horror that had led to more than 41,000 people being killed, having starved or died of disease. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE)

German politician urges concentration camp visits for all, including migrants

By ToI Staff and AP

A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a Palestinian man and children on top of a Hamas outpost along the border, on February 25, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Hamas says fighters shot at Israeli drone over Gaza

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

A member of the Israeli team sent to Zambia that included two physicians and one water engineer, in Lusaka, Jan. 8, 2018. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center via JTA)

Israeli hospital sends delegation to cholera-stricken Zambia

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: Palestinians try to retrieve items from the rubble of a house after it was destroyed by IDF tractors near the West Bank village of Susya in 2011. (Najeh Hashlamoun/ Flash90)

Hundreds of US Jewish clergy urge Netanyahu not to demolish Palestinian village

By JTA

Family members of Ethiopian Jews wait their arrival at Ben Gurion airport, outside of Tel Aviv on June 06, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90.)

US revamps travel warning, ranks Israel as needing ‘increased caution’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli star Gal Gadot features in an advertisement for Revlon in a video released January 9, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Lip serviceGal Gadot named new face of Revlon

Iranian students scuffle with police at the University of Tehran during a demonstration on December 30, 2017. (AFP/STR)

Iran arrests dozens for ‘terrorist’ acts linked to protests

By AP

Former Argentinian foreign minister Hector Timerman (CC BY-MRECIC ARG, Flickr)

Argentina ex-FM accused of Iran cover-up released from house arrest

By AFP

A demonstrator holds a poster 'Nazis out of the parliament' during a demonstration prior to the swearing-in ceremony of the new Austrian government led by a conservative and a nationalist party in Vienna, Austria, December 18, 2017. (Ronald Zak/AP)

Jewish community shuns Austria’s new far-right ministers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Blaze Bernstein (Facebook via JTA)

Missing Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein found dead

By JTA

Illustrative: Thousands of evangelical Christian pilgrims pray during a prayer gathering on the Dead Sea shore in Ein Gedi on September 20, 2013 in the Judean Desert, during their annual visit to Israel to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and to express solidarity with Israel. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Support for Israel among young evangelicals dips, says new survey

By Josefin Dolsten

A picture taken on December 18, 2017 shows Israelis visiting the National Memorial Hall for Israel's Fallen next to the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, which contains the names of every man and woman who died during their military or security service since 1860. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Mount Herzl memorial to fallen, an architectural gem, up for top design prize

By Jonah Mandel

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