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What Matters Most On Friday, January 12, 2018

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on prison reform in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 11, 2018. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

UN says Trump slur on ‘shithole’ countries is ‘shocking’ and ‘racist’

Spokesman Rupert Colville: US president’s comments open the door to ‘humanity’s worst side’ and ‘go against universal values’

Trump denies calling Haiti, African nations ‘shithole countries’

By AP and AFP

Trump denounces immigration from ‘shithole countries,’ is accused of racism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Africa startled by Trump’s sudden and vulgar attention

Op-ed

In Wolff’s book, Bannon, not Trump, emerges as reckless on Israel

The bestseller strafes the president over the Middle East as on all else, but his ex-chief strategist, the source of much of Wolff’s ammunition, comes off far worse

US President Donald Trump and then-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon are seen in the State Dining Room of the White House, February 3, 2017 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Democrats want to interview Ivanka Trump in Russia probe

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Bannon to testify before Congress on Russian interference in 2016 election

By ToI Staff and AP

Trump: ‘I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un’

By AP

In this January 9, 2017, photo, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md. listen as US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Europe wary of unpredictable Trump as his decision on Iran deal looms

By Dave Clark and Damon Wake

US president expected to again approve sanction waivers, but EU leaders can’t be certain he won’t act to undermine nuclear accord

Steven Mnuchin testifying during his Senate Finance committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 2017. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)

US treasury secretary ‘expecting new sanctions on Iran’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump (right), speaks to British Prime Minister Theresa May at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, May 25, 2017. (AP/Matt Dunham, Pool)

Trump cancels London trip amid threats of mass protests

By AFP and ToI Staff

US president blames predecessor Obama for ‘bad deal’ on new embassy he was set to open, while Theresa May’s office says state visit still planned

US film director Steven Spielberg poses on the red carpet on arrival for the European premiere of his film 'The Post' in London on January 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Steven Spielberg: I will back Oprah if she makes White House bid

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Conference of Israeli ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on January 3, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In cost-cutting measure, Foreign Ministry to close 7 missions over three years

But ministry backtracks on plans to fire workers; budget agreement will see injection of some NIS 175 million to boost programs in 100 diplomatic postings

Ministers pass NIS 400b state budget in bid for political stability through 2019

Hebrew media reviewThe son sets on the prime minister

By Adiv Sterman

MK Glick pans Deri’s attempt to bring him to vote after wife’s funeral

Shabtay Bendet then (left) and now

Profile

A former settler is bent on dismantling outposts he once toiled to establish

Actor Gal Gadot attends the National Board of Review Awards gala in New York City on January 9, 2018. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for National Board of Review/AFP)

Fashion disaster

Lebanese designer under fire for praising ‘flawless’ Gal Gadot

After social media backlash, Elie Saab deletes Instagram post featuring Israeli ‘Wonder Woman’ actress in dress he designed

Illustrative: A Palestinian protester throws a firebomb during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of al-Ram, near Ramallah, on September 27, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Clashes break out in Nablus as soldiers search for rabbi’s killers

By Judah Ari Gross

Manhunt for terrorists behind Tuesday’s northern West Bank shooting attack enters fourth day; army says checkpoints remain in place

Palestinian leaders to discuss Trump Jerusalem response

By Nasser Abu Bakr

PM orders illegal outpost hooked up to power grid after terror attack

UK condemns Israel green-lighting some 1,100 new settlement homes

Yikealo Beyene, left, an Eritrean refugee, with Joey Low, an American Jewish philanthropist, in Washington, DC, Jan. 8, 2018. (Ron Kampeas via JTA)

As Israel threatens to deport African migrants, some US Jews push back

Kids at a Dortmund Jewish Community Youth Center Hanukkah event. (Marc Neugroschel/Times of Israel)

80 years after being banned by Nazis, Bnei Akiva is back in Germany — sort of

By Marc Neugroschel

Making the desert bloom with florid prose

A writer’s retreat revealed how the Negev is so much more than beautiful scenery along the drive to Eilat

Sabha, the Bedouin woman

This intelligent pioneer would give up the hot shower to be able to live in the desert village again

Commercial drones threaten our skies

Israel’s security forces are racing to protect vulnerable areas before it’s too late

Freewill: Use it or lose it

Don’t take freedom for granted: even Pharaoh could lose it; even a nation of slaves acquired it (Va’era)

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Germany's Holocaust memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe in the heart of Berlin (CC BY-SA Chaosdna/Wikipedia)

German far-right wants place on board of Berlin’s national Holocaust memorial

By JTA

Ahmad Alhaw, a 26-year-old Palestinian man, waits in a courtroom on January 12, 2018 in Hamburg. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Christian Charisius)

Palestinian in dock over Hamburg ‘Islamist’ knife attack

By AFP

Conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, California, April 18, 2017. (AP/Noah Berger)

Facebook updates News Feed to make friends a priority, reduce content from media

By AFP

Illustrative. An IDF doctor treats a baby born with a birth defect during a humanitarian aid mission to the Philippines following a typhoon on November 18, 2013. (Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)

Following backlash, IDF launches revised rules for enlisting immigrant doctors

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli Ambassador to Egypt David Govrin at his home in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, on June 5, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel said to complain to Egypt over exclusion from diplomatic briefings

Posters and pictures of French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine, June 17, 2011.(AFP/Lionel Bonaventure)

French publisher shelves reprint of Celine’s anti-Semitic texts

By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS

Eric Greitens speaking at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York, May 7, 2012. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation via JTA)

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens denies use of blackmail to keep affair secret

By JTA

Amir Benayoun, the Israeli singer who composed the music for 'The Last One,' an ode to Holocaust survivors (Courtesy YouTube)

Tell the storyIsraeli singers to perform ode to last Holocaust survivors at UN

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli mentalist Lior Suchard, right, gestures as he stands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the annual toast with the foreign media in Jerusalem, January 10, 2018. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Guess againNetanyahu drawing stumps mentalist Lior Suchard

Attorney Matthew Haberkorn (YouTube screenshot)

Not ‘Jew,’ but ‘through’: NY socialite says ‘anti-Semitic’ remarks were misheard

By JTA

Blogger Alison Chabloz, accused of posting anti-Semitic songs on her site, arrives at Westminster Magistrate's Court in London on January 10, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

British blogger on trial for posting Holocaust denial songs online

By JTA

Illustrative: A Saudi woman tours a car showroom for women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on January 11, 2018. (AFP/Amer Hilabi)

Open roadFirst women-only car showroom opens in Saudi Arabia

By AFP

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