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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 21, 2018

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with Indiana Governor Michael Pence in Jerusalem on December 29, 2014. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Ahead of Pence visit, PM says no progress on peace without American involvement

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Netanyahu says calls by Arab MKs to boycott the US vice president’s address to the Knesset are a ‘disgrace’

Thousands of police deploy ahead of Pence’s visit to Israel

By Michael Bachner and Agencies

Jordan urges Pence to ‘rebuild trust’ after Jerusalem pivot

Pence tells Sissi US would still support two-state solution if sides agree

Demonstrators protest outside the Ashdod Municipality against the closure of businesses in the city on Shabbat, on January 20, 2018. (Flash90)

Thousands protest in Ashdod against Shabbat store closures

Demonstration comes as municipality has stepped up enforcement of bylaw preventing businesses in city from opening on Jewish day of rest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 21, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Netanyahu urges calm in spat between ministers over Shabbat

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism and Shas parties hold an emergency meeting at the Knesset on September 13, 2017. (Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox party calls on PM to rein in Liberman over Sabbath activity

Demonstrators outside a synagogue in Petah Tikvah where Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit was praying, January 20, 2017 (Hadashot News screenshot; footage: Ariel Shanbel / Makor Rishon)

'That's not democracy. That's violent thuggery,' says Shaked

Outcry as AG targeted at prayer by protesters over Netanyahu graft probes

Organizers of weekly demonstrations outside Avichai Mandelblit’s home distance themselves from incident

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters scuffle with police, attempting to block a vehicle transporting a dead body to a possible autopsy in the early morning, January 21, 2018. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox scuffle with police, trying to prevent autopsy

By Michael Bachner

Demonstrators protest in Ashdod against the closure of businesses in the city on Shabbat, on January 20, 2018. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewClosed shops, closed minds

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner (left), meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu thanks US for ‘behind-the-scenes’ work to end Jordan embassy impasse

By Alexander Fulbright

PM singles out Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt after agreement reached to resolve dispute over shooting at embassy compound

Live updates (closed)

Slovenia said nearing recognition of Palestinian state

By Joshua Davidovich

Other European countries also reportedly considering following suit; Pence lands in Israel, joins Netanyahu in trying to push Palestinians back to negotiating table

7:31 pm

Jailed ex-minister Misezhnikov asks for pardon
7:21 pm

Probe launched after report on Polish neo-Nazis
7:10 pm

Slovenia about to recognize Palestinian state -- report

Linguist and Arabic teacher Anwar Ben-Badis teaching and guiding in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood during one of his intensive courses (Courtesy Anwar Ben-Badis)

Al-salam alaikum! Is it finally time for Israelis to learn Arabic?

By Jessica Steinberg

Talli Rosenbaum

The dangers of demonizing masturbation

If your goal is sexually healthy and responsible Orthodox sons, don’t indict all sexual thoughts and behaviors as sinful

Jeff Ballabon and Bruce Abramson

The two-state delusion is the greatest obstacle to peace

Palestinian statehood is a dream; the Arab states must assume responsibility for the welfare of Arab refugees

Joshua S. Block

Iranian brutality, EU cowardice, US leadership

America can lead the way by cutting off Teheran’s sources of funding for its human rights violations

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Is Jared’s old high school pushing Trump?

Most Jewish schools advocate for Israel as a central part of their mission to instill Jewish identity

Dara Horn (Michael B. Priest)

Interview

Blessing or curse? A matriarch grapples with immortality in new Dara Horn novel

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: FBI agent (iStock)

Amid police inaction on binary options fraud, FBI pursues suspects in Israel

By Simona Weinglass

Analysis

Joshua Davidovich

In weaving India and Israel together, challenges loom

Officials see plenty of potential for closer ties both in trade and on the strategic front, but getting there may be more complex than Netanyahu’s whirlwind tour of India suggests

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, uses a spinning wheel as his wife Sara Netanyahu, center, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi look on during a visit to Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad on January 17, 2018. AFP/SAM PANTHAKY)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) signs a visitors book as his wife Sara Netanyahu (L) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi look on during a visit to the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad on January 17, 2018. (AFP Photo/Sam Panthaky)

India signs on with Israeli firm to fight drought

By JTA

Illustrative: A OneTable dinner in New York City, November, 2015. (Courtesy OneTable/David Joshua Ford)

There's an app for that

This Shabbat dinner pairing app isn’t for everyone — and that’s the point

By Gideon Grudo

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 21, 2018 (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Netanyahu says Africans slated for deportation ‘not refugees’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Protesters at the second annual Women's March in New York City, January 20, 2018 (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)

A year on, spirits still high at New York Women’s March

By Danielle Ziri

Abba Kovner stands at the center of the Vilna Ghetto Fighters, some of whom later joined the group 'Nakam.' (CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)

Film to show new details of Jewish post-war revenge plot to poison German cities

Turkish-backed fighters from the Free Syrian Army stand in the Tal Malid area, north of Aleppo, as they fire toward Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) positions in the village of Um al-Hosh, in the area of Afrin, on January 20, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Nazeer al-Khatib)

72 Turkish jets pound Kurdish militia in new Syria offensive

By Bulent Kilic, Stuart Williams and Fulya Ozerkan

Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Rubin, who died on January 19, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Doron Rubin, leader of daring missions behind enemy lines, dies at 74

By Judah Ari Gross

Barry and Honey Sherman (YouTube)

Billionaire Canadian Jewish couple were murdered, private detectives say

By AFP

New Orleans Mayor elect LaToya Cantrelle. (YouTube screenshot)

New Orleans mayor-elect disavows BDS-backed resolution she authored

By JTA

Illustrative: Passengers boarding an Egged bus in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Bus drivers announce warning strike over passenger violence

This photo published on Sunday, January 21, 2018 shows fake five-shekel coins produced by a 40-year-old engraver in Arad in southern Israel. ( Israel Police)

Making moneyPolice arrest two for counterfeiting millions in NIS 5 coins

By Michael Bachner

Tel Aviv city hall is seen lit up as a penguin in honor of Penguin Awareness Day on January 20, 2018.(Dor Nevo/Greenpeace)

Happy feetTel Aviv city hall lights up for the penguins

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