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What Matters Most On Monday, February 12, 2018

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 9, 2018. SAUL LOEB/AFP)

Trump: Not sure Israel truly wants peace, settlements ‘complicate’ peacemaking

By AFP and ToI Staff

US president tells Israel Hayom both sides would be ‘foolish’ to not seize unique opportunity for deal; Palestinians are not seeking accord

Amid legislative push, Rivlin backs annexation with full rights for Palestinians

By Marissa Newman

Deputy FM: ‘No doubt’ Israel can reach agreements with Trump on annexation

By Marissa Newman

Labor head: West Bank annexation would be a ‘diplomatic terror attack’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting in the Knesset on February 12, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Court rejects bid to muffle police recommendations on Netanyahu

Petition was submitted as investigators geared up to recommend indictments against the PM this week

7:23 pm

Police: Powder Trump Jr's wife exposed to not dangerous
7:16 pm

Amid escalation on northern border, Tillerson has ‘no plans’ to stop in Israel
6:59 pm

Lebanese man crosses into Israel, is arrested

In this image made from video provided by Yehunda Pinto, the wreckage of an Israeli F-16 is seen on fire near Harduf, northern Israel, February 10, 2018. (Yehunda Pinto via AP)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

IDF may need to alter its Syrian air strategy, but not because of a downed F-16

Army, analysts agree: Israeli aerial superiority shouldn’t be in question because one plane got shot down — but Russia’s reaction to this weekend’s events is a different matter

US defense secretary: Israel has ‘absolute right to defend itself’ against Iran

Minister: Iran-allied Russia is ‘not against us, which is amazing’

By Marissa Newman

InterviewIsraeli official: Iran’s aggression from Syria escalated faster than expected

By Raphael Ahren

'We were extremely lucky. The blast could have killed us'

Crew of downed F-16 say they had almost ‘no time’ to escape damaged jet

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Pilot and navigator of Israeli fighter lost to Syrian missile reportedly testify that they ejected right after strike; investigators probe causes, including technical failure

View of the remains of an F-16 plane that crashed near Kibbutz Harduf on February 10, 2018. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

Pilot was right to eject from damaged fighter jet, air force chief says

Pilot downed in Saturday Syria strike out of intensive care

IDF: We ‘will not allow’ Iranian entrenchment in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli soldiers stand atop a military position on the Golan Heights near the border with Syria, on February 11, 2018. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Israeli assessment: Next bout with Iran only a matter of time

By Judah Ari Gross

IAF’s large-scale reprisal raids, which destroyed much of Syria’s air defenses, meant to deter Assad from future attacks on Israeli jets

Israel will teach Iran a lesson it won’t forget, minister tells Saudi outlet

Israel said to have conveyed a warning to Iran before Saturday’s flareup

Hebrew media reviewCrash into the danger zone

By Joshua Davidovich

People in Jenin surrounding a car with two Israeli soldiers in it, on February 13, 2018.

Soldiers attacked, gun stolen after accidentally entering Jenin

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians pelt vehicle with rocks, bloody the pair, before soldiers are extricated with help from Palestinian security forces; IDF launches investigation

Israeli author David Grossman (Kobi Kalmanovitz)

David Grossman, critic of Israeli policies, awarded Israel Prize for literature

Announcing choice, Education Minister Naftali Bennett lauds left-leaning author’s ‘deep wisdom, sensitivity to fellow human beings and unique linguistic style’

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev seen with fans before the start of a match between Beitar Jerusalem and Bnei Sakhnin F.C., at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on January 22, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Israel to boycott opening of Israeli film fest in Paris

Ethiopian-Israeli activists plead with the Interior Ministry to allow their families to immigrate from Ethiopia at a State Control Committee meeting on February 12, 2018. (courtesy the Knesset)

Government approves immigration of 1,000 Ethiopian Jews for 2018

By Melanie Lidman

Prime Minister’s Office and Interior Ministry say names of 1,000 immigrants, largely parents who already have children in Israel, will be okayed in 4 weeks

An Eritrean musician performs outside the Holot detention facility, January 29, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

First group of asylum seekers could face deportation by weekend

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative: Kosher meat slaughtered in Poland bears the symbol of the Warsaw rabbinate. (JTA)

Again angering Jews, Polish government eyes bill to limit kosher slaughter

By Stuart Winer and JTA

Animal rights legislation would severely restrict methods used by Jewish abattoirs, as well as export of the meat, impacting supplies across Europe and in Israel

Zionist Union MK Ayelet Nachmias Verbin reacts during a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset foreign affairs committee to urge recall of Israel’s envoy to Poland

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki talks to the press during his visit on January 2, 2018, to the Ulma Family Museum, which documents the fate of the Polish Ulma family, killed in March 1944 by Nazi Germans for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust, in the village of Markowa, southeastern Poland. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)

Polish PM tells his people to avoid anti-Semitic remarks

By AFP and ToI Staff

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the 15th annual Jerusalem Conference of the B'sheva group, on February 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

A smiling Rivlin hints he believes Netanyahu should resign if indicted

Longtime benefactor Sheldon Adelson, asked by journalist whether he hopes PM will emerge unscathed, declines to defend Netanyahu

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

PM rebuffs ‘ridiculous’ report he paid purported crony to follow police

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks during a ceremony of the Israel Bar Association's in Tel Aviv, January 31, 2018. (Flash90)

AG orders police to wait with Netanyahu investigation conclusions

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

A scene from "Schindler's List" that Eva Lavi says is mostly accurate: Nazis separated her from her mother, but Schindler saved her by telling the guards he needed her small fingers to operate machinery. (YouTube screenshot)

Now 80, the youngest Schindler’s List survivor won’t stop telling her story

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Search me — please!

As long as the security guard is checking that hijab-wearing woman’s bags, he should also check mine

Israel is fighting BDS the wrong way

Americans will only stop viewing Israel as a brutal occupying power if Israel changes its policies

Poland of lead and of gold

‘The souls of Jew and Gentile floated up in lightness to somewhere under the synagogue ceiling…’

War is coming; will Israel prevent it?

The Jewish state must resolve its conflict with the Palestinians if it wants to be a real stabilizing force in the region

More Headlines

Rabbi Avi Feldman and his wife Mushky Feldman visiting Reykjavik, Iceland, on December 14, 2017. (Chabad.org)

Northern exposureChabad to end rabbinical cold spell in Iceland

By JTA

Lawrence Bacow speaks as he is introduced as Harvard University's 29th president during a news conference on February 11, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images/AFP)

Lawrence Bacow named next Harvard president

By AP

Malka Leifer (YouTube screenshot)

Teacher wanted in Australia for child sex abuse arrested ahead of extradition

Harvey Weinstein arrives at The Weinstein Company and Netflix Golden Globes afterparty in Beverly Hills, California on January 8, 2017. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/File)

New York sues Weinstein Co. for failing to protect workers from producer

By AFP

Reps. Steve Cohen, left, and David Kustoff knew each other long before they entered politics. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Memphis bipartisan duo crosses the aisle in Congress, and in synagogue

Illustrative: Graffiti found sprayed on a car in East Jerusalem, February 12, 2018. (Israel Police)

Cars vandalized, daubed with Hebrew graffiti in East Jerusalem neighborhood

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Likud MK Nurit Koren leads an event on the Yemenite Children Affair in the Knesset on June 21, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Bill that allows exhuming lost Yemenite children okayed for final vote

Illustrative: Senator Joe Lieberman (left) with Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (right) and Haim Taib, founder and chairperson of the 'First Israeli Congress on Judaism and Democracy.' (Erez Uzir)

Israeli, Diaspora leaders mind widening gap at glitzy Jerusalem event

By Tracy Frydberg

Marcos Gershkovitch, chef and co-owner of Angelica, one of Jerusalem's first upscale kosher restaurants (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Interview

A chef dishes on gourmet cooking in Jerusalem’s provincial dining scene

By Jessica Steinberg

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