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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 4, 2018

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Eritrean migrants protest in front of the European Union embassy in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, calling for the EU to try the Eritrean leadership for crimes against humanity, on June 21, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel begins handing out deportation notices to African migrants

By Tamar Pileggi and Michael Bachner

Eritrean, Sudanese asylum seekers to be expatriated to unnamed country that has ‘developed tremendously’ in the last decade, notices say

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundation, waits for the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on April 27, 2017. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu: George Soros behind bid to thwart migrant deportations

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: South Sudanese refugees line up to fill their plastic containers with water from a tap at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda,, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Rwanda, Uganda trade barbs over treatment of refugees

By AP and ToI Staff

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat in his Ramallah office, November 23, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Erekat says US is pushing a Palestinian ‘coup,’ tells Nikki Haley to ‘shut up’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Top PLO official rails against the Trump administration for criticisms of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, but insists Palestinians are not looking for confrontation with US

PLO to mull revoking recognition of Israel, urges end to security coordination

By Khaled Abu Toameh and AFP

Hamas leader unfazed by placement on US terror list

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Israel said to consider sending direct aid to deteriorating Gaza

A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag portraying Yasser Arafat during a demonstration in front of Rome's Colosseum Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Secret diaries of Arafat come to light, confirming PLO pact with Italians

The Associated Press photographs the third anniversary of National Socialism's accession to power in 1933 widely celebrated throughout Germany on Feb. 11, 1936. At noon, Adolf Hitler assembled 25,000 of his oldest stormtroop comrades in the Lustgarten in Berlin. In his address, Hitler reiterated Germany’s will to peace. This is a general view of the banner and flag bearers in Berlin. (AP Photo)

Polish Holocaust bill

German FM: The Holocaust was carried out by us ‘and nobody else’

By AP and ToI Staff

Sigmar Gabriel seeks to reassure Warsaw that Berlin will condemn attempts to tar the Polish people with Nazi crimes, but urges no restrictions on free speech

Former minister Rafi Eitan in a video message sent to members of the AfD party in Germany on February 1, 2018. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Israel slams ‘shameful’ former minister who endorses German far-right party

Poland's most powerful politician Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling party, speaks to denounce anti-Semitism and praise Israel at a ceremony honoring Poles who protected Jews during the Holocaust, in Warsaw, Poland, September 18, 2017.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s top politician says Holocaust bill ‘misunderstood’

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his way to the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 4, 2018. (AFP photo / Pool / Jim Hollander)

Ministers decry ‘Death to Bibi’ chalk messages scrawled on Tel Aviv sidewalk

By Michael Bachner

As police open investigation, Likud lawmakers urge severe punishment, slam ‘grave incitement’ and say writing is ‘literally on the wall’

Social Affairs Minister Haim Katz attends a Labor and Welfare committee meeting in the Knesset, June 08, 2015. (Alster/FLASh90)

Police recommend welfare minister be indicted for corruption

Officers say Haim Katz, his son and top Israel Aerospace Industries officials should be tried for bribery, fraud, breach of trust

Likud MK David Bitan leaves his home en route to an interrogation at the Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit's headquarters in Lod, January 4, 2018 (Flash90)

4 suspects, including Tel Aviv deputy mayor, detained in Bitan graft probe

By Michael Bachner

The West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad, January 10, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cabinet votes to advance legalization of slain rabbi’s West Bank outpost

Proposal states the move will only apply to land that does not belong to Palestinians, hinting at a significant hurdle

Illustrative: IDF soldiers search for the perpetrators of the terror attack that killed Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the northern West Bank village of Burqin, on February 4, 2017. (IDF spokesperson)

IDF says accomplice in Havat Gilad terror attack arrested

Zionist Union head Avi Gabbay leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor chairman: I’ll promote West Bank disengagement if peace talks fail

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Hollander)

Netanyahu: Israel not seeking war, but will do ‘everything’ to defend itself

Amid tensions on northern front and Gaza border, PM says Israel is the ‘main factor’ hindering radical Islam in Middle East

Explosive materials discovered by Crossing Authority checkers inside a shipment of medical goods to the at the Kerem Shalom Crossing on February 4, 2018. (Defense Ministry)

Israel seizes Gaza-bound material used to make bombs

By Judah Ari Gross

Paratroopers make their way down to earth during a parachuting exercise in central Israel on February 19, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

Israel to hold largest paratroop drill since 2012

By Joshua Davidovich

George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, at a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on April 27, 2017. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Soros denies ‘false’ Netanyahu claim he’s funding anti-deportation protests

By Alexander Fulbright

Jewish billionaire condemns Israeli efforts to expel African migrants ‘back to countries where they may be persecuted or killed’

7:25 pm

Greenblatt slams Hamas for pursuing terror rather than improving Gazans' lives
6:55 pm

Heavy pollution shutters schools in Tehran
6:34 pm

Schumer urges Trump to support release of Dem memo

Blame BDS for the Cape Town water crisis

For the first time, a major city is about to run out of water — for no good reason whatsoever

22 namesakes for murdered teen Gil-ad Shaer

It is no small gift to name your own precious future after someone else’s legacy

Joshua Hammerman

Why God and Ben Franklin pick the Patriots

I have a foolproof way to pick the Super Bowl winner using Jewish sources and I’m almost never wrong

David Makovsky and Lia Weiner

Hamas failures in Gaza are changing Israel’s stance

Israeli right-wingers are among the many others seeking to help remedy the humanitarian crisis in the Strip

An activist holds a #MeToo sign during a news conference on a Title IX lawsuit outside the Department of Education January 25, 2018 in Washington, DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media review

Exposé leads to suicide, but media won’t play blame game

By Joshua Davidovich

Pundits have a lot to say about Boaz Arad’s death in the wake of a report detailing his sexual misconduct, and it’s almost all in defense of the real victims and the fourth estate

Actress Uma Thurman arrives on the red carpet for the Golden Globe awards in Beverly Hills, California in 2014. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

Uma Thurman breaks silence, says Harvey Weinstein attacked her too

By AFP

Director Woody Allen poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Cafe Society, at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 11, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)

French film distributor comes to Woody Allen’s defense amid sexual abuse claims

By Thomas Adamson

Stars of David are worked into the facade of the Soldiers Synagogue in Tomsk, Siberia, which was built by conscripted Jews and only recently returned to the local Jewish community, January 2018 (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Reclaiming synagogue, Siberian Jews recall child soldiers who kept the faith

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel warns of rise in digital banking fraud

By Shoshanna Solomon

A man and his son diving to avoid a car heading toward them in Antwerp on February 3, 2018. Screen capture: YouTube)

Man held in Belgium after car nearly rams Hasidic man, son

By JTA

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara speaks at a Likud party event in Lod on December 31, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Minister claims mystery ‘prince of Bahrain’ is visiting Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

As far as the eye can see: the Tel Aviv view from the Azrieli observatory (photo: Courtesy)

S&P holds Israel’s rating at investment grade, with a positive outlook

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this file photo taken on January 30, 2018 US President Donald Trump smiles during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the US House of Representatives on in Washington, DC. (AFP / POOL / Win McNamee)

Trump claims ‘total vindication’ after FBI memo released

By AP

Illustrative: A man suspected of sexual abuse at a court hearing in Jerusalem. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Convicted pedophile arrested for contacting minors online

The Dormition church on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90)

Jerusalem municipality freezes millions from UN, churches’ bank accounts

By Michael Bachner

Natalie Portman brought back 'Natalie Raps' segment during second time hosting 'Saturday Night Live' (YouTube)

Cursing QueenNatalie Portman drops sequel vulgar rap video on SNL

By Tracy Frydberg

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