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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 7, 2018

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Yael Shevach (L), the wife of Raziel Shevach who was gunned-down in a January 9 terror attack near the Havat Gilad outpost consoles Miriam Ben-Gal, the wife of Itamar Ben-Gal, who was stabbed to death in a February 5 terror attack. Photo taken at Ben-Gal home on February 6, 2018. In the middle is Miriam's grandmother Esther. (Courtesy)

Husbands murdered weeks apart, West Bank widows lament their common bond

Yael Shevach makes condolence visit to Miriam Ben-Gal, whose husband Itamar was stabbed to death in Ariel terror attack

Israeli guard lightly wounded in Gush Etzion stabbing attack

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Israeli troops raid home of terrorist who stabbed security guard

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian killed in Nablus clashes as IDF hunts for Ariel terrorist

By Judah Ari Gross and Khaled Abu Toameh

Illustrative: a National Insurance Institute building. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Government is defrauding the public of national insurance funds, official says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Head of National Insurance Institute’s Audit Committee says the state helped itself to NIS 200 billion of the NII’s reserves, and is therefore tightening restrictions on benefits

Bezeq workers installing fiber optic cables. (Courtesy)

Activist investor calls for new independent directors at Bezeq

By Shoshanna Solomon

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the deportation plan, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Thousands of African migrants protest deportations at Rwandan embassy

‘Would you deport me if I were white?’ ask white-painted demonstrators as Israel’s expulsion effort gets underway

Detained African migrants standing outside the Holot detention center, located in Israel's southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border, February 4, 2018. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

African migrants in Israel opt for jail over deportation

By Jonah Mandel

Yossi Klein Halevi

Shame

Jewish memories and values — not just international law — must guide Israel’s treatment of asylum seekers

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

In the West Bank, a violent storm is brewing

With Palestinians losing faith in their leaders and lionizing terrorists, the post-Abbas era is shaping up to be tumultuous

Illustrative photo: IDF troops operate in the Jenin area on February 3, 2018 in pursuit of Ahmad Jarrar, a suspect in the killing of Rabbi Raziel Shevach. (Israel Defense Forces)

Ariel killer was briefly detained by soldiers a day before attack

Fatah condemns Israel for killing Hamas terrorist behind rabbi’s murder

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Hebrew media reviewAfter me, the blood

By Joshua Davidovich

A Google Earth view of a Syrian scientific facility in Jamraya, near Damascus, before it was allegedly struck by Israeli warplanes in late January 2013. (photo credit: image capture from Google Earth)

Israel said to strike targets near Damascus

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

Live updates (closed)

Police chiefs ‘unanimously agree’ to recommend indicting Netanyahu

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime minister again proclaims innocence ahead of police’s expected endorsement of charges in corruption affair

7:31 pm

Bahrain accuses Iran of training oil pipeline 'bombers'
7:01 pm

Olmert says he hopes Netanyahu will end his tenure 'quickly'
6:52 pm

UN to meet this week on humanitarian crisis in Syria

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, left, talk during a meeting of the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, February 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

In first, German coalition agreement slams settlements

By Raphael Ahren

Also unprecedented is opposition to Jerusalem being recognized as Israel’s capital and calls for ‘democratic progress’ in Ramallah

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), gets out of her car as she arrives for further talks to form a new government in Berlin, February 6, 2018. (DPA/Gregor Fischer/AFP)

Germany’s top parties said to reach deal on Merkel coalition

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, May 11, 2017. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Abbas, Putin to discuss new peace talks mechanism sidelining US – report

By ToI Staff and Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinians seeking to oust Middle East Quartet from process, and have Russia play a much more prominent role

Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas (C) attends the "Jerusalem Conference as the Capital of the Islamic Youth" in the West Bank city of Ramallah on February 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Abbas: We never said no to resuming peace talks

By Khaled Abu Toameh

How not to have a conversation

Yelling between cars is just not the way to show you’re willing to listen

Sheldon Adelson, we have things to discuss

We may disagree on every political position, but we both want to connect young Jews to Israel and Jewish life

Jennifer Gerber

Palestinian child prisoners

How strange that the UK only notices the juvenile offenders from the West Bank

The country that shall not be named

Deporting Africans to somewhere in Africa reflects a disdain that is rooted in racism

Malcolm Hoenlein (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

InterviewAbbas's 'anti-Semitic' speech was 'turning point' for Trump

Hoenlein: Like UK, France of old, Iran and Turkey are trying to carve up region

By David Horovitz

Jewish leader says he can’t understand why people don’t see what’s happening, urges US to support its allies more visibly; warns against giving up on bipartisan support for Israel

Iran will abide by nuclear deal even if US pulls out, assures Rouhani

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hezbollah threatens to target Israel’s offshore gas platforms

On northern border, Netanyahu warns enemies: ‘Don’t test us’

By Tamar Pileggi

Poland's President Andrzej Duda gives a press conference on February 6, 2018 in Warsaw to announces that he will sign into law a controversial Holocaust bill which has sparked tensions with Israel, the US and Ukraine. (AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI)

Polish president: Enforcing Holocaust law may be ‘unrealistic’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘The point is not to punish anyone,’ says Andrzej Duda of controversial legislation that sets jail time for suggesting nation’s complicity in Holocaust

Debate over Polish Holocaust law prompts an anti-Semitic media backlash

By Katarzyna Markusz

France hits out at Poland’s ‘ill advised’ Holocaust law

By AFP

Poland isn’t the only country trying to police speech about the Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

File: Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends a committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 23, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education minister disavows rabbi who called women ‘weak-minded’

‘This is not what Judaism believes,’ Bennett says after Yosef Kelner of Eli pre-army academy tells students women lack intellect, spiritual capacity

Rabbi Yosef Kelner (YouTube screenshot)

Rabbi tells IDF recruits women ‘weak-minded,’ incapable of spirituality

By Tamar Pileggi

Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg is brought for a court hearing at the Kiryat Shmona Magistrate's Court on July 2, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Safed rabbi sentenced to 7.5 years in jail for sexual assault

By Raoul Wootliff

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A cartoon released by Egypt's interior ministry in January (YouTube screenshot)

Early warningEgyptian government cartoon encourages kids to inform on neighbors

Liev Schreiber (center) receiving a gift from Tel Aviv University president Joseph Klafter (right) and Raz Joseph, who heads the university's film and television school (Courtesy Yisrael Hadari)

Illuminating everythingDon’t be narcissistic, Liev Schreiber advises Israeli film students

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a tour of the Jerusalem Police headquarters at the Russian compound in Jerusalem, October 7, 2015. (GPO)

Police to present recommendations in PM corruption cases next week — report

By Raoul Wootliff

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy takes off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on February 6, 2018, on its demonstration mission. (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)

With sports car on top, SpaceX launches world’s most powerful rocket toward Mars

Kai Beckmann, CEO of Performance Materials at Germany's Merck (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Israel innovation makes up half of Merck healthcare revenue, top official says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sawyer Goldsmith is the religion/education vice president for the international board of USY (Courtesy of USY)

First openly transgender teen elected to board of Conservative youth group

By Josefin Dolsten

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