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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 8, 2018

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Labor leader Avi Gabbay, left, attending a news conference in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2017; Yair Lapid attending a conference in Herzliya, June 22, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90; Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

PM: Commissioner's allegations 'shocking' and 'false'

Opposition: Netanyahu ‘acting like a criminal’ in attack on police chief

By Raoul Wootliff

Gabbay, Lapid slam PM for tirade against Alsheich as corruption investigations near completion and political temperatures rise

PM proclaims innocence as police said ‘unanimous’ on proposing bribery charges

By Michael Bachner

Hebrew media reviewNetanyahu’s moment of truth

By Tamar Pileggi

Yesh Atid MK Peri steps down amid misconduct allegations

By Raoul Wootliff

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

As war clouds gather, northern storm looks more foreboding

Hamas disinterest in conflict despite humanitarian deterioration makes Israeli war with Hezbollah over Iran’s missile manufacturing the more likely course

Israeli soldiers (top L) and UN peacekeepers (top R) look at Lebanese supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah movement attending a rally against the US president's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, on January 28, 2018, in the southern Lebanese village of Alma al-Shaab, on the border with Israel. (AFP PHOTO / Mahmoud ZAYYAT)

Israel said to convey message of deescalation to Lebanon

US kills 100 in rare strike on Syrian government-backed troops

By Lolita C. Baldor

Lebanon tells army to confront Israeli ‘aggression’ amid border tensions

By AP and ToI Staff

A rare Roman mosaic from the 2nd–3rd centuries CE, bearing an inscription in ancient Greek, uncovered in Caesarea during conservation work by the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Rare Greek inscription and colorful 1,800-year-old mosaic uncovered at Caesarea

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israel appoints new envoy to Jordan, moving on after diplomatic crisis

By Raphael Ahren

Amir Weissbrod to replace Einat Schlein, who left Amman embassy hurriedly in July after Israeli security guard shot and killed 2 Jordanians

Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Amir Weissbrod (Courtesy MFA)

Guatamalan President Jimmy Morales speaks alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not pictured) at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 29, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Trump thanks Guatemalan president for following US on Jerusalem embassy move

By Alexander Fulbright

At Washington meeting, US president expresses his gratitude to Jimmy Morales for supporting Israel and America

7:19 pm

State Department: Syrian chemical attacks 'must stop now'
7:07 pm

Syrian regime assault on Damascus suburbs kills 56
6:44 pm

Iran's deputy FM: No talks on missile program if nuke deal not 'successful'

The asylum seekers: What needs to be done

Item 1: In place of Israel’s conscious efforts to ostracize migrants, set up a proper refugee status determination system

Moshe Simkovich

Who’s afraid of Tova Mirvis?

Should her memoir about leaving Modern Orthodoxy be required study material for day school students?

Judith Colp Rubin

My son is religious, not brainwashed

Tel Aviv friends are appalled, but my kid chose Jewish observance freely and it enriches his life

Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market is eye-popping

When’s the last time you had a chance to eat at a hummus joint built to look like a synagogue?

Ahmad Nassar Jarrar, 22, head of the terror cell who shot dead Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the West Bank on January 9 (Twitter)

Hamas: PA ‘lead’ helped IDF track terrorist behind rabbi’s killing

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Terror group’s military wing slams Abbas’s security coordination with Israel as ‘a clear act of collaboration’

IDF busts large gun-smuggling operation in southern West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

More troops sent to West Bank following uptick in attacks

Palestinian who tried sneaking into settlement in army uniform turns himself in

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

UNHCR in talks to send African migrants to ‘safe’ countries, let others stay

By Melanie Lidman

UN’s refugee body confirms talks with Israeli and foreign governments on a deal that would enable some asylum seekers to stay in Israel permanently, resettle others

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against their planned deportation in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya on January 22, 2018. (Flash90)

Meretz MKs head to Africa to ‘expose’ state’s migrant deportation plan

Cholent with roast goose leg and home smoked brisket at Fulemule in Budapest. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Why Budapest is the (treif) cholent capital of the world

By Yaakov Schwartz

An employee of the Palestinian health ministry checks the Beit Hanoun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after it stopped its services on January 29, 2018, after it ran out of fuel. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

UAE donates $2 million to prevent shutdown of Gaza’s hospitals

Infusion should be enough to keep critical medical services in the Strip running for at least a few months

Palestinians wait to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 16, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egypt opens border gate into Gaza Strip for three days

By Khaled Abu Toameh

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)

US peace envoy blasts Abbas for failure to mention Jerusalem’s Jewish connection

Andre Nathan, who was born the same year that the Nazi-allied Vichy government revoked the French citizenship of Algerian Jews, recalls taking this picture of his parents and siblings outside the Oran synagogue on a Jewish holiday in the 1950s. (Courtesy of Nathan via JTA)

Algerian Jews see ‘some justice’ as Germany recognizes their Holocaust suffering

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

More Headlines

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks during a conference in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2018. (Flash90)

Ex-PM Olmert says he turned down better swap deals to free Shalit

By Michael Bachner

Al Jazeera staff work at their TV station in Doha, Qatar, on June 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Malak Harb)

American pro-Israel lobby girds for Al Jazeera exposé

Masked female Palestinian protesters with shirts and flags of PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party are seen during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Fatah warns Palestinians against attending IDF ceremony

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Illustrative: Youth aligned with the settler movement burning tires in Jerusalem in 2012 to protest an outpost demolition. (Abir Sultan/ Flash90)

Shin Bet holding ‘gentle’ talks with far-rightists to head off revenge attacks

Participants in the Eurostars trip to France in 2015 at the Louvre Museum in Paris. (Courtesy of Yachad/via JTA)

Jews from all over Russia win trips to Paris — by studying Judaism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Mennel Ibtissem performed “Hallelujah” on France’s version of “The Voice.” (Facebook via JTA)

Adored by many, French-Muslim singer hits sour note with Facebook posts

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A powerful gust of wind musses Donald Trump's hair while he boards Air Force One in early February 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Bald eaglePowerful gale lays bare the mechanics of Trump’s hair

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Air India planes parked on the tarmac at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Saudis reportedly okay airspace for direct India-Israel flights; Riyadh denies

Prison guards escort Yosef Haim Ben-David, convicted of murdering Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014, as he arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for his appeal, on February 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court upholds sentences of Israelis who murdered Palestinian teen

By Michael Bachner

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the House Democratic Issues Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, February 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

After Charlottesville, Biden ‘couldn’t remain quiet’ about Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

Ozzy Osbourne (left) and Sharon Osbourne, at a press conference in their home ahead of Osbourne's final tour, No More Tours 2 (Courtesy official Facebook page)

Mama, I'm coming homeOzzy Osbourne’s wife on Israel gig: ‘We play where we want’

By Jessica Steinberg

George Soros speaks onstage at Lincoln Center on April 18, 2017, in New York City. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Physicians for Human Rights/AFP)

British paper leads with George Soros’ ‘secret plot to thwart Brexit’

By ToI Staff and AFP

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