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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 23, 2018

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US Vice President Mike Pence visits Jerusalem's Western Wall on January 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Pence visits Western Wall, says it’s a ‘great honor’

US VP says Psalm at holy site, writes ‘God bless the State of Israel’ in guestbook; female journalists kept in separate area

White House says no contact with Palestinians since Jerusalem recognition

PA boycotting Trump team, but open to US role in multilateral peace bid

Rivlin calls on world to tear off ‘mask of hypocrisy,’ recognize Jerusalem

By Alexander Fulbright

Screen capture from video of Khalid Batarfi, a senior figure with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (YouTube)

Qaeda leader urges attacks on Jews, Americans over Trump’s Jerusalem recognition

By AFP and ToI Staff

Yemen-based Khalid Batarfi publishes video saying Muslims in ‘the occupied land’ must kill using every weapon available

In Jerusalem, Pence urges Europeans to change Iran nuclear deal

By Raphael Ahren

In Jerusalem with Pence, Netanyahu roasts Europe over Iran stance

By Raphael Ahren

Hebrew media reviewSecond to Trump, but president of the pro-Israel fan club

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Liberman seeks radio ban on poet who compared Palestinian agitator to Anne Frank

By Michael Bachner

AG says defense minister has no authority to impose Army Radio boycott of ‘drunk’ songwriter Yehonatan Geffen over post likening soldier-slapper Ahed Tamimi to Holocaust victim

Minister calls Arab MKs ‘traitors’ for interrupting Pence’s speech

By Michael Bachner

Hamas praises Arab Israeli MKs for ‘Jerusalem is Palestine’ anti-Pence protest

Palestinian negotiator slams Pence’s ‘messianic’ Knesset speech

By Alexander Fulbright

US Vice President Mike Pence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Residence, in Jerusalem, January 22, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Analysis

While PM cements US support, Abbas fails to recruit EU as new peace broker

On the same day as Netanyahu celebrated a Pence lovefest in Jerusalem, Palestinian leader was told in Brussels that Washington remains an indispensable part of any peace process

Slovenian minister confirms his country poised to recognize Palestine

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu leads chorus of Israeli praise for Pence speech

By Raphael Ahren and Alexander Fulbright

Border guards foil stabbing attack in West Bank — police

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Amena Khan (Screen capture: Twitter)

Muslim L’Oreal model steps down over anti-Israel tweets

Amena Khan apologizes for the ‘upset and hurt’ caused by her posts calling the Jewish state ‘illegal’ and ‘sinister’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wife Sara prepare to take off for Davos, Switzerland, on January 23, 2018 (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

US official: No country can take over US peace role

By Itamar Sharon

As Pence departs, White House officials say ties with PA severed following Jerusalem recognition; Netanyahu to tell EU leaders: ‘Last chance to amend Iran deal’

6:46 pm

Channel 10: Milchan asked for visa help, PM asked 'Have you brought cigars?'
6:36 pm

Associates of AG: If PM indicted but acquitted, law enforcement will be in ruins
6:17 pm

Austrian far-right candidate under pressure over Nazi songbook

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)

Analysis

President Kagame: Don’t accept forced deportees!

Israeli refugee aid groups beseech the Rwandan leader to only allow in his country those who come willingly

Holocaust survivors say they’ll harbor asylum seekers to stymie deportations

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

El Al pilots refuse to fly African asylum seekers being deported

By ToI Staff and Melanie Lidman

Rwanda denies ‘secret deal’ to accept asylum seekers deported by Israel

By Melanie Lidman

Jewish men need to talk about #MeToo

Rejecting Harvey Weinstein, et al as role models is a no-brainer; having the conversation about sex and power is the challenge

Baby, it’s cold inside

Winter in Tel Aviv means… bringing a sweater when you go to the beach

IDF’s ‘sky riders’ fly high under first female commander

By Judah Ari Gross

Artillery Corps’ elite drones unit sheds light on its operations as two new UAV models are set to be put to use

Crop of the RTI photographic depiction of Apulian pottery portraying Dione and Aphrodite found in Israel's e-Tell site near the Sea of Galilee. The image is apparently the copy of a design found at the Parthenon in Athens, from the 5th century BCE. (Hanan Shafir, Bethsaida Excavations / Michael Maggen, The Israel Museum)

Imaging technology reveals birth of Athena on 2,300-year-old shard from Galilee

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Moishe Mana at a party in Miami, December 6, 2017. (Romain Maurice/Getty Images for InList)

Israeli who founded NY Moishe’s Moving empire wants to make NJ an artists’ mecca

People protest against closing of business on Shabbat in the Southern Israeli city of Ashdod, January 20, 2018. (Flash90)

In Ashdod, secular and religious politicians shop (for voters) on Shabbat

By Marissa Newman

More Headlines

A screen capture from Samuel Maoz's film 'Foxtrot.' (Courtesy)

Israeli film ‘Foxtrot’ misses out on foreign language Oscar nomination

Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)

Israel approves exhumations of 17 Yemenite children presumed dead

Neil Diamond performs at the 84th Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting at the Rockefeller Center on November 30, 2016 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images/AFP)

Song Sung BlueNeil Diamond says he has Parkinson’s, retires from touring

By AP and ToI Staff

US Second Lady Karen Pence (left) and Sara Netanyahu hold up drawings during a session with art therapists in Jerusalem on January 22, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Artist-in-residenceSecond Lady joins Sara Netanyahu at roundtable with art therapists

Former Balad party MKs Hanin Zoabi, right, and Jamal Zahalka, center, both of the Joint (Arab) List Faction, seen at the court hearing of fellow faction member MK Basel Ghattas at the Rehovot Magistrate's Court, January 5, 2017. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Police recommend fraud charges for three Arab MKs

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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)

Netanyahus head to World Economic Forum in Davos; Trump will be closing speaker

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