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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 16, 2018

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Illustrative: Police close the streets around a Christmas market after a suspicious object was found in Potsdam, Germany, on Dec. 1, 2017. (Julian Staehle/dpa via AP)

Israel bolsters security at its embassy

Germany hunts for Iranian agents who reportedly spied on Israeli, Jewish targets

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Local media says 10 suspects are from al-Quds Force, a branch of Iran’s military engaged in covert operations abroad and considered a terror group

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the PLO Central Committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Op-ed

Abbas couldn’t make peace with the Jews; he believes his own lies about us

In 2008, the Palestinian leader rejected Ehud Olmert’s unsurpassable peace offer. Sunday’s revolting speech in Ramallah underlined why

Op-edAbbas’s speech is a grenade in the Israeli right’s lap

By Avi Issacharoff

Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the UN, speaks at the General Assembly on December 21, 2017, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Israeli envoy: UN must condemn Abbas’s ‘vile fabrications’

Senior Palestinian official Salim Zaanoun reads a statement at the end of a meeting of the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 16, 2018. Palestinian leaders voted today to call for the suspension of recognition of Israel. ( AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Palestinian leaders vote to urge PLO to suspend recognition of Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lebanese Parliament speaker urges boycott of White House

UN defends Palestinian refugee agency, says its work ‘is critical’

By AP and ToI Staff

Hebrew media reviewAbbas — unfiltered and alone

By Adiv Sterman

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara pose for a photograph at the Taj Mahal in the Indian city of Agra on January 16, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / STR_

Tourist for a day

Netanyahu finds love at the Taj Mahal

By Joshua Davidovich

PM and wife Sara strike a pose outside Indian icon in a rare ‘moment of relaxation on a very intensive visit’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on January 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MONEY SHARMA)

Indian official: Our UN vote against Trump Jerusalem move won’t harm Israel ties

By Joshua Davidovich

Moshe Holtzberg, center, a young boy whose parents were killed at the Chabad House in Mumbai during a 2008 terror attack, arrives with grandparents at the site of the attack on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Child orphaned in 2008 Mumbai attack makes first visit to site

By muneeza naqvi

US President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchange greetings at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 12, 2017. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

US withholds $65 million from UN agency for Palestinians

By Gavin Rabinowitz

State Department official confirms Washington gave $60 million to UNRWA, is freezing rest of funding to ‘undertake a fundamental re-examination’

7:18 pm

US withholds $65M from UN agency for Palestinians
6:58 pm

Hebrew grammar book from 16th century returns to Prague
6:52 pm

Austrian Jews to boycott Holocaust ceremony if far-right ministers attend

Rescue and medic personnel, including ultra-Orthodox paramedics, carrying a wounded woman at the scene of where the top floor of a building collapsed after a gas tank exploded in the Gilo neighborhood, Jerusalem, January 20, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Major Hasidic sect bans volunteering in paramedics, police

By Stuart Winer

Gur dynasty issues edict prohibiting service in emergency organizations for men under 30, threatens to expel from schools children of those who do

Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox protest against compulsory drafting into the army, in Beit Shemesh on March 1, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox man arrested for stoning soldier’s car, causing him to crash

By Judah Ari Gross and Stuart Winer

Chairman of the Finance Committee, Moshe Gafni, leads a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 6, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds of non-Jewish inspectors being trained to uphold Sabbath store closure

Actvist Bluts Iyassu Zeru in south Tel Aviv on January 13, 2018, prior to a weekly meeting of Eritreans United for Justice, an opposition group dedicated to uniting diaspora Eritreans in order to overthrow the Eritrean dictator. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Ahead of forced deportations, an Eritrean activist pleads for understanding

By Melanie Lidman

Prime Minister’s Office says ‘no comment’ after Rwanda and Uganda deny having agreed to accept thousands of asylum seekers from Israel

African migrants clash with Israeli soldiers after they left Holot detention center in southern Israel and walked towards the Border with Egypt near the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nitzana, Friday, June, 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

US Jewish groups to Netanyahu: Deporting Africans ‘betrays Jewish values’

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative. Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray near the compound of Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus on June 10, 2013. ( Yaakov naumi / Flash90 )

Bomb planted at West Bank holy site, is detonated safely

By Judah Ari Gross

After controlled blast, some 1,000 Jewish worshipers visit Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus, as residents riot and stone their buses

Rabbi Raziel Shevach (c) with his family, in an undated photo (Courtesy of the family)

Court gags new developments in probe of deadly West Bank shooting

Jenin's Arab American University. (YouTube screenshot)

Father suspected as Arab Israeli student stabbed, critically injured in W. Bank

In this Jan. 14, 2018 photo, Palestinians receive food aid at a UNRWA warehouse in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Across the Mideast, Palestinians brace for Trump aid cuts

Any reduction in US funding could ripple throughout region, with potentially unintended consequences in countries already grappling with other crises

Palestinian trucks loaded with supplies enter the southern Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah, on November 1, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Israel to reopen Gaza crossing after destroying terror tunnel underneath

By Judah Ari Gross

The family of the late IDF soldier Hadar Goldin speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on November 5, 2017, announcing their intention to file a petition to the High Court. (Flash90)

Israel to ban all humanitarian visits by Hamas members

#BlackLivesMatter in Israel too

Does the Law of Return, that basic tenet of Zionism, not apply to all Jews, regardless of the color of their skin?

The hunt for Jascha Heifetz’s quarry

Imagining the reverb of a 1926 violin concert in the silent valley near Kibbutz Ein Harod jumped me back in time

Top five visual Israeli startups that ‘rocked it’ at CES 2018

The 2018 edition of the oh-so-awesome Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas gave many Israeli startups a chance to shine on the world stage, and boy did they!

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The trials of a Florida self-driving car

Giving rides to retirees one pharmacy stop at a time (Humor)

At the Westerbork museum in the Netherlands, Bas Kortholt demonstrates a new virtual reality simulation based on the former Nazi transit camp's appearance during the Holocaust (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

At Westerbork, virtual reality simulations ‘recreate’ the Nazi transit camp

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Blaze Bernstein (Facebook via JTA)

Hundreds attend funeral for slain college student Blaze Bernstein

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the International Conference on Digital Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on December 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Foreign Ministry official slams budget cuts as a ‘strategic terror attack’

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli actress Gal Gadot signs autographs and greets fans during the Latin American premiere of the film 'Wonder Woman' in Mexico City, May 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

If you will itNazareth Illit names cinema for ‘Wonder Woman’ Gadot

By AFP

The Shalem police station in Jerusalem. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

3 Jerusalem policemen charged with assaulting, threatening detainees

By Michael Bachner

Jay Kay, the lead singer of Britain's funk jazz band Jamiroquai, which will perform in Israel on May 2, 2018 (Courtesy Jamiroquai Facebook page)

Virtual insanityBritain’s Jamiroquai announces May concert, first in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel to celebrate 70th birthday with 70-hour spectacle

Oliver McAfee (Police Spokesperson)

British tourist missing in Negev may have ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’

A homeless woman. (Channel 10 screenshot)

25,000 people said homeless in Israel; social services treat under 10% of them

Illustrative: A motorbike rider. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Sign of troubleDriving student gets ticket for running stop sign during test

An undated photo of Artyom Vilov, 37, whose body was found on December 31, 2017, at the Hiriya recycling site in central Israel. (Courtesy of the family)

Man suspected of murdering his friend, dumping body in trash

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man shot dead in apparent underworld hit

By Stuart Winer

Peanut butter pie with bacon at the 'Trefa Banquet 2.0.' (Lydia Daniller)

First personPulled pork kugel and other transgressive traditions from a treif banquet

By David A.M. Wilensky

Ori Lahav, the co-founder of Outbrain, organizes a sailing trip once a year for tech entrepreneurs (Courtesy)

A day in the (tech) life

Running a startup is a marathon; pace yourself, Outbrain founder says

By Shoshanna Solomon

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