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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 24, 2018

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Illustrative: A Jewish man watches voting results come in at Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's election night event at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center November 8, 2016, in New York City. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Poll: Democratic support for Israel, Palestinians nearly identical

By ToI Staff and AP

Pew survey shows support for Israel increasingly partisan, with GOP backing for the Jewish state far outstripping that of Democrats

Deputy Minister Michael Oren at the Knesset, June 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel)

Michael Oren: Winning over Democrats must be a ‘strategic goal’ for Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli entertainer Gidi Gov with his wife, the late playwright and screenwriter Anat Gov, October 1, 2005 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

MKs call for singer Gidi Gov to be probed, blacklisted for ‘new immigrant’ slur

By Joshua Davidovich

Yisrael Beytenu members demand raft of actions after Gov makes dig at Avigdor Liberman’s Russian accent amid spat over Yehonatan Geffen and Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi

Kulanu MK Michael Oren, on June 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Deputy minister: Israel probed whether Tamimi family is ‘real’

By Raoul Wootliff

Ahed Tamimi (l), at the Ofer military court in the West Bank, on December 25, 2017. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWho are you, Ahed Tamimi?

By Joshua Davidovich

'Conglomerate of fragments' turned into 'meaningful text'

2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scroll deciphered, revealing 2nd Temple power struggles

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Written in encrypted ancient Hebrew that had always defied researchers, one of the last unpublished scrolls illuminates Qumran sect’s split with Jerusalem over control of calendar

Dr. Eshbal Ratson with an image of the newly deciphered Dead Sea Scroll. (University of Haifa)

Female reporters covering Mike Pence’s visit to the Western Wall on January 23, 2018. Tal Schneider is at left. (Michael Lipin/Twitter, via JTA)

Reporter to sue over gender segregation during Pence’s Western Wall visit

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Tal Schneider says female journalists being ‘sent to the back’ during US VP’s tour of holy site resembled ‘scenes from way back in history’

Female reporters covering Mike Pence’s visit to the Western Wall on January 23, 2018. Tal Schneider is at left. (Michael Lipin/Twitter, via JTA)

Female journalists protest being ‘penned in’ during Pence Western Wall visit

By AFP and ToI Staff

Outgoing head of the Lahav 433 police anti-corruption unit, Roni Rittman, arrives at the Police Investigation Department, Jerusalem, December, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police anti-corruption chief accused of sexual harassment resigns

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd R) arrives for a meeting with EU Foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium, on January 22, 2018. (AFP/ POOL / OLIVIER HOSLET)

Rebuffing Abbas gambit, US says Europe knows it can’t be lead peace broker

By Eric Cortellessa

Senior official says Palestinians also realize EU can’t play main mediating role, adds peace plan will place emphasis on ‘brighter future for Palestinians’

US President Donald Trump listens while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press prior to their meeting at the Palace Hotel in New York City ahead of the United Nations General Assembly on September 18, 2017.(AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Netanyahu and Trump to meet at Davos economic conference

By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff

Analysis

Visiting Jerusalem’s Old City, Pence is exacting in keeping things vague

The vice president’s ‘private visit’ at the Western Wall underlines the administration’s refusal to recognize any status for the eastern part of the city

Then-US vice president Mike Pence visits Jerusalem's Western Wall, on January 23, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. (Courtesy Core18)

ExclusiveBritain’s former chief rabbi behind Pence’s biblical Knesset address

By Raoul Wootliff

AnalysisMike Pence’s faith drives his support for Israel. Does it drive Mideast policy?

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Boycotting the boycotters

Why Israel is as bad at fighting BDS as BDS is at fighting Israel

Illustrative: Students protest at an anti-Israel demonstration at the University of California, Irvine. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

Illustrative: Children look out from a doorway as armed soldiers patrol outside a school in the Jewish quarter of the Marais district in Paris, January 13, 2015. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images/via JTA)

Americans more likely than Europeans to stand up to anti-Semitism, experts say

A member of the Hezbollah terror group holds Lebanese and Hezbollah flags during a press tour near the border town of Arsal on July 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

US urges Lebanon to sever Hezbollah from its financial system

By ToI Staff and AFP

Laws passed by Congress in 2015 and 2017 and a new Justice Department task force seek to disrupt Iran-backed terror group’s funding

A woman walks past a placard with the words European Parliament inscribed in several languages of the European Union member states outside the Espace Leopold on February 25, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images via JTA)

EU lawmakers grill visiting Iranian delegation on Holocaust denial, terror links

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his wife Sara Netanyahu, at Ben Gurion airport on January 23, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu to tell Europeans clock ticking to fix Iran nuke deal

By Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Davos, Switzerland, on January 24, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershon/ GPO)

Live updates (closed)

German sources deny PM’s claim Merkel ‘understands concerns’ over Iran nuke deal

By Raoul Wootliff

Rebuffing PM who said chancellor expressed sympathy for Israeli opposition, diplomats say she was talking about Tehran’s threat to region, not P5+1 agreement

7:22 pm

Rabbi Sacks defends role writing VP Pence's Knesset speech
7:02 pm

Abbas purchases $50 million private plane
6:46 pm

Washington is reportedly weighing 'real steps' against Abbas

Monkey hoodie vs Auschwitz T-shirt

One group rioted in response to a garment that deeply offended them, the other group did not: Here’s why

Human rights are universal, Amnesty, even for Jews

The organization’s move to cancel a debate featuring Hillel Neuer shows they have lost their way

Sherwin Pomerantz

Democracy in action at the Knesset

I was there for US Vice President Pence’s speech, and I am proud of how he was received

How VP Mike Pence reinvents leadership

Those who represent unshakable morality have recast Donald Trump, and everyone should be shocked by that

Visitors to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow viewing one of the many sculptures there depicting the history of Jewish life in Russia, May 21, 2013. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center/via JTA)

A son of refuseniks chronicles the slow dissolve of Russia’s Jews

By Penny Schwartz

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha speaking at the Union of Reform Judaism Biennial on December 7, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Courtesy URJ)

Flint water crisis whistleblower receives Union for Reform Judaism award

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

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

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

Al-Qaeda leader who urged attacks on Jews and Americans put on US terror list

By JTA and ToI Staff

File: Masked operatives from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas terror group, ride vehicles as they commemorate the 30th anniversary of their group, in Gaza City, December 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UN voices ‘deep concern’ over killing of Gaza man by his own family

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Timothee Chalamet, up for best actor this year for "Call Me By Your Name," shown at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, Jan. 21, 2018. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images via JTA)

The shlep of waterFive Jewish takeaways from the 2018 Oscar nominations

By Gabe Friedman

View of the a mosque in the Old City of Acre, in Northern Israel on October 24, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Knesset to advance bid to muffle Muslim call to prayer

By Michael Bachner

Eritrean activists held a mock slave auction to protest planned deportations outside of the Rwandan embassy in Herzilya on January 22, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

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

By Melanie Lidman

One of the vehicles involved in the fatal car crash on Route 557, near the settlement of Shavei Shomron in the northern West Bank on January 23, 2018. (Courtesy, Samaria Regional Council)

Israeli siblings, Palestinian killed in West Bank car crash

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Arnon Milchan, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu on March 28, 2005. (Flash90)

Netanyahu said to have asked Milchan for cigars when discussing US visa

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)

Far-right rabbi recorded urging ‘strong retaliatory act’ after terror attack

By Michael Bachner

A cannabis plant at the Knesset in 2009 for a meeting on medical marijuana in the parliament's Labor, Welfare and Health Committee. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Cannabis legalization can yield NIS 2.3b tax bonanza, report says

By Shoshanna Solomon

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