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What Matters Most On Friday, February 9, 2018

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US President Donald Trump signing a proclamation that the US government will formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, December 6, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump tells Israel it will also have to make ‘hard compromises for peace’

In excerpt from interview with conservative Israeli newspaper, US President says his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was a high point of his first year

File: Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2017. (Flash90)

Abbas spokesman blames US envoy for ‘crisis’ in US-Palestinian relations

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)

Trump thanks Guatemalan president for his support on Jerusalem embassy move

By AP and ToI Staff

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends the lobby for Israel-US relations at the Knesset on July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy Friedman tears into left-wing daily for op-ed disparaging him

Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken slams Friedman in turn, accusing Trump administration of backing Israel’s ‘policy’ of ‘obstructing peace process, perpetuating apartheid’

PM blocks settlement annexation bill from coming to vote

Palestinians call to blacklist, punish Arab journalists who visited Israel

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Stabbing foiled at IDF post in West Bank, near Hebron

Palestinian protesters wave national flags during clashes with Israeli security forces on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, near the border with Israel, on January 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Palestinian said killed, two hurt in rioting in Gaza, West Bank

500 reportedly clashing with Israeli forces at several flashpoints after heeding calls by Fatah, Hamas for yet another ‘day of rage’

Palestinian held after trying to enter Hebron holy site with knife

Qatar working closely with Israel to channel aid to Gaza, says Doha official

By AP and ToI Staff

Qatar leader promises Hamas emergency aid for struggling Gaza

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a welcoming ceremony for his appointment, held at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu questions objectivity of his police graft probe

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime minister says claim by police chief that private investigators were hired to shadow case officers casts doubt on purity of entire investigation

Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan. (YouTube screenshot)

Police said mulling charges against billionaire in Netanyahu graft probe

Chief of Police Roni Alsheich seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a welcoming ceremony held in Alsheich's honour, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewStraight outta Balfour Street

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative photo: Israeli police officers in Bet Shemesh, on March 17, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

Israeli law enforcement woefully lax, says study by Chief Economist

By Simona Weinglass

Israel prosecutes far fewer criminals and has weaker contract enforcement than other developed nations. ‘We’re giving a green light to criminals,’ warns one economist

Explainer

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Complicity of Poles in the deaths of Jews is highly underestimated, scholars say

According to a 1970 article, 200,000 Jews died at the hands of their Polish neighbors. A new law in Poland could make it difficult to publish these findings today

Holocaust survivors and activists take part at a protest at the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Neo-Nazi leader and US House candidate Arthur Jones (right) appears on CNN New Day on February 7, 2018 (Screen capture)

Confronted on CNN, GOP House candidate calls Holocaust ‘poppycock’

By Eric Cortellessa

Holocaust survivors and activists take part at a protest at the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Holocaust survivors storm Polish embassy to protest contentious bill

By Michael Bachner

2018 Winter Games'We want to be there 24/7'

As Winter Olympics open in PyeongChang, Seoul Chabad vies for international Jews

By Rich Tenorio

Anticipating thousands of Jewish visitors, the outreach group seeks to overcome logistical challenges and provide kosher food, prayer services, Torah classes for guests

Rabbi Osher Litzman with then-South Korean prime minister, Han Seung-soo. (Courtesy)

Aimee Buchanan of Israel competes in the ladies short program at the US International Figure Skating Classic, Day 2, at the Salt Lake City Sports Complex, September 16, 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Getty Images)

Olympian Aimee Buchanan is from Boston via Dallas, but she’s skating for Israel

By Jori Epstein

Israel's Alexei Bychenko competes in the figure skating team event men's single skating short program during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung on February 9, 2018. (AFP /Mladen ANTONOV)

Israeli Bychenko skates country into Olympic medal race

By ToI Staff and AP

Majdi Halabi, the Israel correspondent for the London-based Arabic news site Elaph. (Courtesy)

Interview

How a Saudi publisher is helping Israel speak to the Arab world

Druze children pass Israeli army signs warning of a minefield on their way home from school in Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. (Lior Mizrahi / FLASH90)

Army: Syrians shot at IDF drone, but hit a house in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Attack comes day after air force reportedly conducted strike outside Damascus; in unrelated incident, Israeli sailors open fire at Lebanese buoys

AnalysisAnalysts: Israel’s headed to a war in Syria, and only Russia can stop it

By Judah Ari Gross

Intense Syrian air strikes hampering aid to 400,000 people — aid group

By AFP

Ghouta death toll soars above 220 as Syrian regime bombards rebel enclave

By AFP

Girlilla warfare

That yeshiva where a rabbi teaches ‘women are nothing’? It must do more than apologize

Trump should listen to urgent Gaza warning

The dire humanitarian crisis in the Strip poses a severe security risk to Israel

The power of empathy

The Egypt experience taught Jews that the best response to having suffered is to help those who suffer (Mishpatim)

But people aren’t really EVIL, are they?

Why our brains insist that clearly barbaric behavior must be a delusion

'Fiddler on the Roof' lyricist Sheldon Harnick. (Courtesy)

With a new show in London, 93-year-old ‘Fiddler’ lyricist is still hard at work

Israeli chef Eyal Shani prepares a pita in the New York branch of his Miznon restaurant chain. (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)

First he takes Manhattan

Celebrity chef Eyal Shani joins Sabras taking a bite of the Big Apple

By Danielle Ziri

More Headlines

President Reuven Rivlin, right, addresses a conference of Israeli ambassadors and diplomats at the President's House in Jerusalem, February 8, 2018. (Mark Neiman/ GPO)

Supporting deportations, Rivlin says Israel’s own come before African migrants

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Smoke billows from an area near the Iraqi town of Nawaran, some 10km (six miles) north east of Mosul, as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters march down a dirt road on October 20, 2016, during the ongoing operation to retake the city from the Islamic State group. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

Iraqi Kurds accused of carrying out ‘mass executions’ of IS suspects

By AFP

Illustrative: A worker tends to cannabis plants at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed, August 31, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Israel reportedly halts medical cannabis export plan to avoid upsetting Trump

By JTA and ToI Staff

In this Wednesday, September 20, 2017 file photo, Blackstone Group chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman speaks at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Billionaire Trump adviser gives $10m to Israel’s National Library

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A sign at the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. (Jeffrey M. Vinocur/Wikimedia Commons)

Cornell puts Jewish frat on probation over sexist ‘pig roast’ contest

By JTA

Lebanese chef Alan Geaam, who began life in Paris sleeping on the streets and who taught himself to cook, won a Michelin star for his restaurant near the Arc de Triomphe. (YouTube screenshot)

Rising starHomeless Lebanese dishwasher becomes Michelin-starred chef

By Paloma SORIA BROWN

Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the Academy Awards on March 2, 2014 (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

LA police send Weinstein sex assault cases to prosecutors

By AFP

This file photo taken on September 11, 2013, shows an aerial view of the island of Male, capital of the Maldives. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)

Israel warns its nationals to leave crisis-racked Maldives

By ToI Staff and AFP

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