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What Matters Most On Monday, January 15, 2018

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with the Palestinian Central Council, a top decision-making body, at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 14, 2018. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian leader sets out his thoughts on Zionism

Rewriting history, Abbas calls Israel a ‘colonial project’ unrelated to Judaism

In speech ignoring Jewish ties to holy land, PA head implies European Jews chose to die in Holocaust rather than go to Palestine; claims Ben-Gurion forced Mideast Jews to Israel

Netanyahu: Abbas ‘helping’ Israel with anti-Semitic, anti-Trump rant

By Joshua Davidovich

Bitter Abbas to Trump: We reject your peace ‘deal of the century’

Rivlin slams Abbas for peddling ‘terrible’ anti-Jewish ‘conspiracies’

By Raphael Ahren

Abu Muhammad al-Akhtubut, a commander from National Syrian Liberation Front rebel group from the Syrian Golan Heights. (Courtesy)

Exclusive

Judah Ari Gross

In Syria, only ‘The Octopus’ and a motley crew of rebels keep Iran from Israel

Opposition commander tells The Times of Israel he’s readying for an assault by Assad and his backers in the last pocket of resistance on the Golan border

Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl (George Schneider)

Exclusive

New Austrian FM denies having compared Zionism with Nazism

By Raphael Ahren

Boycotted by Jerusalem due to her affiliation with the far right, Karin Kneissl says her controversial quote was taken out of context, affirms Israel’s status as Jewish state

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Did Abbas just give his valedictory speech, blaming everyone for his failures?

Saving his harshest rhetoric for Trump, 82-year-old PA president tells PLO Central Council, ‘This may be the last time you see me here’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C-R) speaks during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on January 14, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Opposition politicians denounce Abbas’s ‘false speech’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Defense minister: Abbas ‘lost his senses,’ gave up on peace

By Agencies and Dov Lieber

Russia ‘completely understands’ Palestinian anger at Trump

By AFP

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) as his wife Sara Netanyahu looks on at the start of a ceremonial reception at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on January 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / PRAKASH SINGH)

Netanyahu and India’s Modi meet on arms deal, regional issues

By Joshua Davidovich

Ahead of confab, Netanyahu says two countries on cusp of ‘new era’ of relations, hopes to revive canceled defense agreement

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) welcomes the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and his wife Sara Netanyahu (L back) during a ceremonial reception at the presidential palace in New Delhi on January 15, 2018.(AFP PHOTO / Prakash SINGH)

Netanyahu ‘disappointed’ by Modi’s rejection of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

By AFP

Delhi's Main Bazaar drag on December 12, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

In Delhi’s ‘mini Israel,’ visit by premier elicits collective Netanyawho?

By Joshua Davidovich

Yoav Mordechai. (Screenshot)

General says ‘Jewish brains’ have found solution to eliminate all Hamas tunnels

By Tamar Pileggi

Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai warns Gazans that ‘Israeli genius’ has come up with a way to prevent underground threat to Israel

Israeli ministers downplay accusations Israel behind Lebanon car bomb

Hamas tunnel was built to blow up main humanitarian crossing to Gaza — report

Liberman vows Israel will find and destroy all Gaza tunnels by end of 2018

By Tamar Pileggi

Orr Yakobi earlier this year (Facebook)

US-based Israeli ‘dreamer’ arrested, jailed after wrong turn into Mexico

By Raphael Ahren

College student Orr Yakobi, who has been living in the US since he was 7, spends almost a week in detention for violating terms of DACA program

US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Airforce One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on January 12, 2018, for a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago. (AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)

Blaming Democrats, Trump says immigration deal ‘probably dead’

Sixteen-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi (2-R) attends a hearing at the Ofer military court in the West Bank on January 15, 2018. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Live updates (closed)

Military court extends remand of soldier-slapping Palestinian teen

By Alexander Fulbright

Judge orders Ahed Tamimi held for another 2 days as he weighs prosecution’s request to keep her in custody for duration of trial

7:29 pm

UN envoy calls on secretary-general to condemn Abbas speech
7:15 pm

Palestinian arrested on suspicion of throwing rocks, shooting at West Bank road
7:02 pm

Russian officials move to shutter opposition leader's foundation

Congregants from Temple Hadar Israel in New Castle, Pennsylvania, gathering at the local Tifereth Israel cemetery to bury ritual objects from their defunct synagogue, December 31, 2017. (Alanna E. Cooper/JTA)

A Rust Belt synagogue faces the end with dignity and gathers to bury its past

By Alanna E. Cooper

Dancing with a convicted sex offender

When Chabad accepted a tainted Torah scroll it ignored victims of abuse — that’s par for the course

Avram Mlotek and Jonathan Leener

A mandate of morality on MLK Day

In 2018, the Jewish community is at risk of being indifferent to suffering

Africans, back to those shithole countries for you

Deporting African asylum-seekers is abhorrent, un-Jewish, and reverses recent strides in Israel-Africa relations

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on January 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump denies ‘shithole countries’ comments, insists: ‘I’m not a racist’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Following global firestorm, US president says widely panned statements denouncing immigrants from Africa and Haiti ‘weren’t made’

US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Airforce One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on January 12, 2018, for a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago. (AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)

The defining moments of Trump’s turbulent presidency, so far

By AFP

US President Donald Trump points to a reporter to ask a question during a media availability in the Rose Garden, October 16, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AnalysisThe Donald Trump show dazzles and shocks in first year

By Andrew BEATTY

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Chairman Moshe Gafni (c) leads the Finance Committee meeting on November 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lawmakers vote to give PM, government ministers a hefty raise

El Al flight 008 from New York to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Goose Bay, Canada, on January 14, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

El Al plane lands in Israel after passengers spend 13 hours at Canada airbase

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)

In compromise, US set to cut only some aid for UN Palestinian refugee agency

By AP and ToI Staff

Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's 'The Post.' (Courtesy 20th Century Fox)

Cover-upLebanon bans Spielberg film and Israeli adventurer biopic

By AFP and ToI Staff

Wilfrid Israel (middle), traveled far and wide, cultivating important friendships and connections. (Courtesy Yonatan Nir)

Wilfrid Israel, an unsung Holocaust hero, gets his due

By Jessica Steinberg

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and head of the Yisrael Beytenu party leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 8, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman submits proposal to legalize West Bank outpost of slain rabbi

New York City's historical Canyon of Heroes will keep the plaque honoring Vichy chief of state Henri Philippe Petain, who rounded up 10,000 Jews and turned them over to Hitler. (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)

NYC monument honoring Nazi collaborator to remain in place

By Danielle Ziri

Sivan Rahav-Meir. (Courtesy)

Times of Israel PresentsTV and radio star Sivan Rahav-Meir on journalism, Judaism and social media

The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teva to pay NIS 75 million to Israel authorities to settle foreign bribe claims

By Shoshanna Solomon

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends a meeting of the lobby for Israel–United States relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy sends condolence letter to family of rabbi slain in terror attack

In this January 10, 2018, photo, Palestinian cellphone provider Wataniya CEO Durgham Maraee speaks with the Associated Press at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian companies to offer 3G in West Bank after Israel lifts ban

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Anat Hoffman (r), chairwoman of the "Women of the Wall" organization seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem as she arrives for a hearing regarding the Western Wall deal, on January 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Women of the Wall to court: State’s proposal is humiliating

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