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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 18, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Moshe Holtzberg, the son of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivky Holtzberg, who were killed in the November 26, 2008, terror attack in Mumbai, during a memorial for the victims of the attack at Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai on January 18, 2018. (GPO)

Child rescued from Mumbai Chabad massacre makes emotional return

By Joshua Davidovich

Accompanied by nanny who helped rescue him 9 years ago, Moshe Holtzberg unveils memorial to slain parents

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at a joint press conference in the president's house in New Delhi, India, on January 15, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu: Israel looking for ‘direct, simple’ flight route to India

By Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren

Indians welcome Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 17, 2018 (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel staff)

In Modi’s home state, cheering crowds for Netanyahu flaunt India-Israel romance

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli security forces carry out raids in the West Bank city of Jenin in pursuit of the Palestinian killers of Israeli rabbi Raziel Shevach on January 18, 2018 (Israel Police)

In Jenin, Israeli forces kill Palestinian terrorist said behind murder of rabbi

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Second terrorist captured; two Israeli officers wounded as elite unit comes under fire in West Bank operation to nab killers of Raziel Shevach

Illustrative: Palestinians clash with IDF soldiers in the West Bank city of Jenin, January 18, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Confusion over who died in Jenin; Hamas says suspect in rabbi’s killing a martyr

Israeli security forces carry out raids in the West Bank city of Jenin in pursuit of the Palestinian killers of Israeli rabbi Raziel Shevach on January 18, 2018 (Israel Police)

Israeli leaders applaud operation targeting terrorists behind rabbi’s murder

US President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, January 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Rebuffing Netanyahu, Trump says US embassy won’t move to Jerusalem within year

Israel among few countries that like Trump more than Obama, poll finds

Israeli officials: Trump considering ‘interim measures’ to speed up embassy move

Pence visit exposes dilemma facing Egypt, Jordan over Jerusalem recognition

By AP and ToI Staff

(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personal lawyer David Shimron, his former diplomatic envoy Yitzhak Molcho, his former bureau chief David Sharan, former deputy national security adviser Avriel Bar-Yosef and former commander of the Israeli Navy Eliezer Marom. (Flash90)

Police said set to recommend indictments for PM confidants in submarines scandal

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu’s lawyers, former chief of staff, national security pick and navy chief suspected of corruption in purchase of naval vessels from German shipbuilding company

MK Eitan Cabel (Zionist Union) at the Knesset, June 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition MK, newspaper publisher grilled in Netanyahu corruption probe

By Michael Bachner

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (l) and his wife Yaffa seen leaving their home in Jerusalem, on May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interior Minister Deri questioned for sixth time in graft probe

Jewish protesters link arms in a Senate office building asking for protections for undocumented immigrants who arrived as children, Jan. 17 2018. (Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism via JTA)

Dozens of US Jewish activists arrested at rally defending ‘Dreamers’

By JTA

Host of Jewish Democrat senators stop by protest to show support for the demonstrators, many of them clergy

Anish Kapoor walking in a march in London in solidarity with migrants currently crossing Europe, Sept. 17, 2015. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images via JTA)

Anish Kapoor’s Genesis Prize money goes to 5 groups assisting refugees

By JTA

File: Migrants and refugees arrive on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on October 14, 2015. (AFP Photo/Dimitar Dilkoff)

Jewish and Muslim groups join efforts to help refugees in Greece

By JTA

Artist Zoya Cherkassky poses in front of one of her works in her solo exhibition 'Pravda' at the Israel Museum. (Eli Pozner/Israel Museum)

Zoya Cherkassky paints her truth in first solo Israel Museum exhibition

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp, on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

Poland jails Belarussians who stripped naked at Auschwitz, slaughtered lamb

By AFP

Court sentences two men to 18 months and 14 months respectively for desecrating a memorial site and animal cruelty

British opposition Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn (L) walks near Portcullis House in central London on June 28, 2016.(AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

UK’s Labour drops candidate who linked Holocaust to Gaza ‘ghetto being shelled’

By JTA

Wolfgang Gedeon, member of the right-wing populist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) in the regional parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg, southern Germany, leaves a session of his party's parliamentary group on July 5, 2016 at the regional parliament in Stuttgart. (AFP/dpa/Bernd Weissbrod)

Berlin court: Jewish leader can call far-right politician a Holocaust denier

By JTA

IDF vehicles drive over the Awali bridge as they retreat from Lebanon on February 16, 1985. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

IDF soldier injured in Lebanon War dies after 31 years in vegetative state

By Michael Bachner

Friends and family remember Sgt. Avraham Ajami as ‘special’ 19-year-old who ‘never stopped smiling’

Civilians inspect the site of a bomb attack near restaurants and coffee shops filled with customers in central Baghdad's busy commercial Karradah neighborhood, Iraq, Sunday, May 3, 2015 (AP/Hadi Mizban)

In rare gesture, Jerusalem expresses sympathy for Iraqi terror victims

By Raphael Ahren

These headshots provided by the Bulgarian Interior Ministry shows Canadian citizen Hassan El Hajj Hassan, right, and Australian citizen Meliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein, left, both suspected of being involved in the July 2012 Burgas bombing. (courtesy Bulgarian Interior Ministry)

Bulgarian trial begins over deadly 2012 terror bombing of Israelis

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mourners attend the funeral of 17-year-old Mohammed Jawawdeh, who was killed when he allegedly attacked a security guard at the Israeli embassy compound in the Jordanian capital with a screwdriver, on July 25, 2017, in Amman. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

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Jordan says Israel apologized for July shooting deaths at Amman embassy

Spokesman Mohammed al-Momani says Israel agreed to pay restitution to families of two Jordanians killed in incident

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Overnight storms to bring powerful winds, snow, 23-foot waves, flash floods
6:46 pm

Jordan says Israel apologized for July shooting deaths at Amman embassy
6:34 pm

Russia at UN warns collapse of Iran deal would be 'alarming'

6 ways to stop sex abuse in the Jewish world

It’s time to create a culture in which nobody ever again has to say #MeToo or #GamAni

But Trump is good for the Jews!

Orthodox Jews support the US president despite his flouting all the values they want to instill in their children

Baltimore in denial

It’s painful to realize one can be a phenomenal rebbe and camp counselor AND a predator

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Circumcision: Why risk your child’s welfare?

Monuments of stone may disappear; acts of commitment to God, ethics, or Jewish identity resound forever

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Rabbi Krawatsky (R) faces allegations for child sexual abuse at Camp Shoresh. He continues to work with children. (Camp Shoresh Pinterest/Youtube)

From our partnerDid Baltimore’s Orthodox community turn a blind eye to child sex abuse?

Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on September 5, 2005, in Warren, Connecticut (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)

Philip Roth calls Trump a ‘massive fraud’ and ‘boastful buffoon’

By Eric Cortellessa

Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends the funeral of Rabbi Raziel Shevah, 35, in the West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad on January 10, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett apologizes for describing rabbi’s calls to fire IDF chief as ‘insolent’

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: Female soldiers in the army's infantry instructors course take a water break during an exercise on November 19, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hebrew media reviewWomen leap from the front lines to the headlines

By Adiv Sterman

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

In your faceUS Muslim blogger turns down Revlon award over Gal Gadot role

By Michael Bachner

Lahav Shani who was appointed to succeed Zubin Mehta as the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. (Courtesy Marco Borggreve)

Lahav Shani, 29, to succeed Zubin Mehta as head of Israel Philharmonic

By Jessica Steinberg

With an array of fun learning aids, STEM education is no chore. (Courtesy HAFTR)

New York school funding law means STEM fields could see more yeshiva grads

By Cathryn J. Prince

Palestinians protest against the US for withholding $65 million from Palestinian aid programs, in front of the UN Relief and Works Agency offices in the Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, January 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Belgium counters US cuts with $23 million for UN Palestinian fund

By AP and ToI Staff

Yehoshua Elitzur during his initial trial (screen capture: Channel 2)

Brazil extradites Israeli convicted in 2004 killing of Palestinian

Director-actor Woody Allen onstage during American Film Institute's 45th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Diane Keaton at Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California,June 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/KEVIN WINTER)

Woody Allen backlash grows as daughter says she’s telling truth

By Jennie Matthew

This undated file photo provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Department shows 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein. (Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP, file)

Former classmate charged with murder in Jewish college student’s killing

By AP

Sherman is among a group of 10 Israeli hedgehogs that had to go on a diet after overeating. (Screenshot from euronews via YouTube)

Trim the hedgesDiet is slimming down Sherman, the overweight Israeli hedgehog

By JTA

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