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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 25, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting on January 25, 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. (AFP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Trump exposed Palestinian disinterest in peace with Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

At World Economic Forum, prime minister claims PA wants to ‘escape from a genuine discussion on real peace that includes recognition of the Jewish state’

7:20 pm

Erykah Badu says Hitler remarks 'taken out of context'
7:07 pm

British Labour party opposes call for blanket ban on Hezbollah
7:00 pm

Top PLO official and ex-Nablus mayor Ghassan al-Shakaa dies at 74

Illustrative. Palestinian protesters burn tires and clash with Israeli troops following protests against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Support up among Israelis, Palestinians for violent solution to conflict — poll

By Michael Bachner

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt attends a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, on July 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)

Trump envoy meets families of Gaza captives, slams ‘despicable’ acts by Hamas

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: A Palestinian woman outside the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza City, August 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra/File)

Leaders of global aid groups urge US to reverse fund cuts to UNRWA

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: A business jet. (CC-BY-SA Wost01/ Wikimedia Commons)

Amid funding cut fears, PA purchases $50 million private jet for Abbas — report

Hadashot news reports plane will be delivered to Amman within weeks, will be stationed there for use by Palestinian leader

Washington said reexamining entirety of US aid to Palestinians

US Consulate may have purchased site near future embassy

Fatah deputy chief: US has never given Palestinians anything substantial

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 24, 2018. (GPO)

Macron says he won’t recognize Palestine in response to Trump’s Jerusalem move

Ahead of meeting with Netanyahu, president reaffirms France’s position of Jerusalem as capital of ‘both sides’ in final deal

Ariel Sharon, second from right, as commander of an armored division in the Sinai during the Six Day War (Courtesy Israel Defense Force Archive)

Hebrew media reviewShooting down planes, shooting down deals — or not

By Joshua Davidovich

Jordan's King Abdullah (R) speaks with CNN's Fareed Zakaria at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 24, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Abdullah: US must get a major Israeli concession after Jerusalem recognition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (GPO)

Netanyahu agrees to Rwandan demand to only deport migrants there lawfully

Meeting Kagame, PM appears to concede he won’t sent forcibly deported migrants to Rwanda, day after Kigali denies signing secret deal to accept them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, at the president's guest house, in Washington, DC, February 14, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/ GPO/ File)

Israel’s US envoy said to warn PM of fallout from expulsion of African migrants

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustrative: Students and teachers from Seminar Ha'kibbutzim protest against the deportation of African asylum seekers, in Tel Aviv, January 24, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/ FLASH90)

Doctors, pilots and Holocaust survivors oppose plan to deport African migrants

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, on June 7, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu to make whirlwind trip to Moscow to discuss Iran, Syria with Putin

By Raphael Ahren

After India and Switzerland, and before Germany and the US, PM to visit Russia on Monday to ensure Israeli forces can continue to act in Syria as needed

German chancellor Angela Merkel attends the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 24, 2018 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI)

ExclusiveBerlin denies it expressed understanding for Israel’s rejection of Iran deal

By Raphael Ahren

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

In Davos, Netanyahu urges world leaders to act on Iran nuclear deal

'This exhibition is for the brain, not the heart'

Yad Vashem stages ambitious show of rare photos taken by Nazis and their victims

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s national Shoah museum focuses on the impact of thousands of now iconic images from ghettos, camps, and liberation

At Jewish-Roma Holocaust event, bowing heads to the ‘forgotten victims’

By Marissa Newman

Finland to probe troops’ alleged role in the Holocaust

By JTA

Alleged German neo-Nazi on trial for targeting Jewish immigrants in 2000 bombing

By Richard HEISTER and Deborah Cole

A segregated bus stop in Johannesburg in 1982. (UN/DB)

South Africa levels apartheid charge at Israel, drawing seething response

By Raphael Ahren

Israel protests after Pretoria diplomat at UN Human Rights Council says Jewish state is the only apartheid state in the world

Illustrative: Arab Israeli students at the campus of Givat Ram at Hebrew University, on the first day of the new academic year, October 26, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Number of Arab students in Israeli universities grows 78% in 7 years

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked seen at a ceremony for newly graduated lawyers at the Jerusalem Congress Center, January 24, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Justice minister says AG okays legalizing terror victim’s West Bank outpost

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Waze in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Route of all evil

Waze navigation app sends US driver into lake

By AFP

Jeep in Vermont directed onto boat ramp and onto ice-covered Lake Champlain, where it eventually sinks; driver and passengers unharmed

The Larry Nassars won’t change; we must

If a child tells you he or she was abused, believe it!

Gary Rosenblatt

They allowed him to keep working with young boys

Pledges of zero tolerance and policies against child sexual abuse are admirable, but not enough

Perpetual #PenceFence

For Women of the Wall, the discrimination against female journalists at the Kotel plaza was just more of the same

Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

At 102, she’s now the darling of the art world

The Israeli painter Tova Berlinski is one of the remarkable older woman who are finally gaining recognition

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Glenn Selig, in a picture posted to Facebook on March 27, 2017.

Publicist, synagogue president named among dead in Kabul attack

Larry Nassar, during the seventh day of his sentencing hearing, in Lansing, Michigan, January 24, 2018. (Carlos Osorio/AP)

US gymnastics doctor who molested athletes sentenced to 40 to 175 years in jail

By DAVID EGGERT and Mike Householder

Wizcom's electronic pen aims to help children with dyslexia and reading disorders (Courtesy)

Israel’s Wizcomtech designs pen to make reading easier for kids with dyslexia

By Urvashi Verma

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, left, and head of the IDF military rabbinate, Eyal Karim, at a ceremony in Jerusalem, November 1, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Liberman lets IDF chaplain meet with chief rabbi on women’s enlistment row

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives for a weekly general audience in St Peter's Square, on January 24, 2018, in Vatican City. (AFP PHOTO / Andreas SOLARO)

Snake oilPope: ‘Fake news’ is evil, like serpent in Garden of Eden

By Nicole Winfield

Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo in their new show, 'Alone Together.' (YouTube)

Bosom buddiesFor a couple of Jewish millennial BFFs, poor and platonic equals funny

By Tracy Frydberg

Phil Basser with his grandson Josh Potter at the Eagles’ NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings in Philadelphia, January 21, 2018. (Courtesy of Fox 29 News)

Phil PhanaticJewish grandpa, 99, flies high as Eagles’ unofficial mascot

Connie Sawyer, Hollywood's oldest working actress, died at 105. (YouTube)

Show's overHollywood’s oldest working actress Connie Sawyer dies at 105

By Tracy Frydberg

Jennifer Mendelsohn (Matt Mendelsohn Photography)

Using #resistancegenealogy, journalist exposes immigration hardliners’ hypocrisy

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israeli singer Aviv Geffen at the EMI, the Israel Artists Association, lifetime achievement awards ceremony, held in Petah Tikva on February 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Culture minister nixed Independence Day act by left-wing singer — report

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Hadashot news says Aviv Geffen was asked to perform at opening of torch-lighting ceremony but then dropped from show

Gidi Gov, right, ahead of a concert in Tel Aviv 2013. Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

Flap between Yisrael Beytenu, singer Gov reignites with fresh exchange

By Joshua Davidovich

Culture Minister Miri Regev arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel’s culture minister welcomes Oscars’ snub of Israel’s entry ‘Foxtrot’

By AFP

Erykah Badu performs during the 2015 Neighborhood Awards Weekend at the Georgia World Congress Center on Friday, August 7, 2015, in Atlanta. (Photo by Robb D. Cohen/Invision/AP)

R&B star Erykah Badu says she sees good in Hitler

By Eric Cortellessa

Singer criticized by nonplussed interviewer, ADL for bewildering comments about history’s greatest monster being a ‘wonderful painter’

In this Wednesday, March 9, 2016 photo a man walks past a campaign poster of right-populist AfD party reading 'It's enough - Saxony-Anhalt elects AfD' in Magdeburg, Germany (AP Photo/Geir Moulson)

Leading member of Germany’s far-right AfD converts to Islam, resigns

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Udo Landbauer. (YouTube screenshot)

Austrian fraternity investigated for Nazi lyric songbook

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