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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, left, shakes hands with Hitler to seal the Munich Agreement. (Public domain)

Inside story'3.5 million Polish Jews appeal to His Majesty’s Government'

Uncovered, Polish Jews’ pre-Holocaust plea to Chamberlain: Let us into Palestine

By Steven E. Zipperstein

In March 1939, weeks before the notorious White Paper, Polish Jewry sent London a desperate telegram, published here apparently for the first time. At terrible cost, it was ignored

In this image provided by the US Consulate General in Krakow, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi places a memorial light on the monument to some 1.1 million victims of the World War II Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau during a visit to the site of the former camp just days before the 75th anniversary of its 1945 liberation by the Soviet troops, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, in southern Poland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (US Consulate General in Krakow via AP)

Pelosi, US bipartisan delegation visit Auschwitz ahead of liberation anniversary

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Holocaust survivor Maurice Gluck, poses for a photo in his home in Ya'ad, northern Israel, January 17, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Survivor stories spotlight Auschwitz liberation anniversary

President Reuven Rivlin seen visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on February 4, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Exclusive

Don’t rehabilitate anti-Semitism, Rivlin warns as European, world leaders fly in

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative. A police officer stands guard at a road block in Jerusalem in an undated photograph. (Israel Police)

'Operation Future'With 10,000 officers, police gear up to protect massive Holocaust commemoration

By Judah Ari Gross

The audience stands for the Israeli national anthem at the end of the memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust museum as Israel marks the country's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Many leaders, but few actual survivors invited to landmark Holocaust event

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks with the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, on December 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Polish PM: Soviets facilitated Nazi Germany, Russia is rewriting history

Morawiecki says Red Army failed to take opportunity to liberate Auschwitz in 1944; Polish president says won’t meet Katz until he apologizes for ‘suckling anti-Semitism’ comments

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Lithuania leader joins Poland in snubbing Israel event amid WWII row with Russia

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lord Alf Dubs speaks at a protest to demand protection for rights for refugee children, in Parliament Square in London on January 20, 2020. (Tolga Akemn/AFP)

British peer who fled Nazis challenges UK government over child refugee policy

By Alice Ritchie

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz (C) speaks to reporters during a visit to the Jordan Valley on January 21, 2020. (Elad Malka/Blue and White)

Gantz vows to annex Jordan Valley ‘in coordination with international community’

Netanyahu urges Blue and White head to support measure before March election; settler leader calls pledge ’empty,’ saying world powers will never accept such a move

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's special adviser and son-in-law, leaves 10 Downing Street in London on June 4, 2019, on the second day of Trump's three-day State Visit to the UK. (Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

Kushner heads to Israel, with Trump reportedly mulling peace plan reveal

By Eric Cortellessa

A picture taken in Tel Aviv on December 12, 2019, shows a billboard bearing portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American citizen imprisoned in Russia for drug offenses. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel media review

Russian a deal before Putin pen to paper: 7 things to know for January 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Scads of world leaders are on their way to commemorate the Holocaust, but Israel seems more concerned about other matters, from a prison break deal to bashing the ICC

Family, friends and supporters protest for the release of Naama Issachar in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Reports: Israel, Russia close to finalizing deal for release of backpacker

Rebecca Kowalsky

Kaddish through a screen darkly

I felt saying the mourner’s prayer would be comforting to my mother, but were the men on the other side of the mechitza hearing me?

Ronald S. Lauder

A social media campaign that brings people together for a conversation about the critical need for Holocaust education

Reading my last book with my children

We hope and pray our children will grow up, but we know that when they do, something will be lost forever

Holocaust remembrance without politics

Poland’s decision to skip this week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem over not being invited to speak is most regrettable

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 12, 2020. (Tsafrir Abayov / POOL / AFP)

Warning Iran, PM says lesson of Auschwitz is to confront evil when it’s small

By Raphael Ahren

In TV interview, Netanyahu warns Islamic Republic is en route to nuclear arms and needs to be stopped, calls for ‘concrete sanctions’ against International Criminal Court

Preparations under way at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on January 20, 2020, for a state dinner for world leaders attending the World Holocaust Forum events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. (Courtesy: Alon Fargo)

Israel said to warn Hamas against disrupting world leaders’ Holocaust gathering

In this Nov. 5, 2016 photo, Gen. Esmail Ghaani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran. A new Iranian general has stepped out of the shadows to lead the country's expeditionary Quds Force, becoming responsible for Tehran's proxies across the Mideast as the Islamic Republic threatens the US with "harsh revenge" for killing its previous head, Qassem Soleimani. (Mohammad Ali Marizad/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Iran warns that ‘freedom-seekers’ worldwide want to avenge Soleimani’s killing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman attends a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Shin Bet foiled 10 suicide bombings, 4 kidnappings in 2019, chief says

By Judah Ari Gross

Nadav Argaman says security service prevented over 560 terror attacks over the past year, including over 300 shootings

UK to end early release of terror prisoners

By AFP

Honduras officially declares Hezbollah a terrorist organization

Pompeo praises 3 South American countries for declaring Hezbollah a terror group

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Israeli troops respond to an infiltration by two Palestinian men from the northern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2019. (Yediot Mehashetah)

Live updates (closed)

IDF opens fire on 3 Gazans attempting to infiltrate Israel, attack troops

Netanyahu vows to annex all settlements ‘without exception’ after Gantz supports extending Israeli sovereignty over Jordan Valley

7:45 pm

3 Gazans infiltrate into Israel, attack IDF troops, are shot
7:24 pm

McConnell abruptly eases impeachment limits
7:04 pm

Weinstein lawyer says 'loving emails' are key to disgraced mogul's defense

(Illustration Avi Katz)

Groundbreaking Israeli microbe research scoops up €4 million in grants

Ben Gurion U prof Itzik Mizrahi plans to engineer microbial communities to reduce climate-warming methane and develop more sustainable methods of creating energy, treating waste

Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, holds a press conference in Jerusalem, on January 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bucking pressure, far-right Otzma Yehudit says it’s staying in Knesset race

Chairman Itamar Ben Gvir claims he received offers as lavish as an ambassador posting if he agreed to pull his far-right party out of contention

Rafi Peretz, then-leader of the Jewish Home party, in Petah Tikva, February 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Embattled Jewish Home head says he’ll allow a party leadership contest in June

Heba Yazbak at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for a hearing on whether to disqualify the Ra'am-Balad party from running in the general elections, March 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Explainer

This time around, Arab MK Heba Yazbak could be barred from Knesset run

Central Elections Committee expected to ban Joint List lawmaker from running in March; here’s why the ban may withstand Supreme Court review

MK Heba Yazbak of the Ra'am-Balad party holds a press conference in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Knesset set to ban Arab MK as Blue and White confirms it backs disqualification

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Pope Pius XII (Courtesy of PerlePress Productions)

Analysis

Renee Ghert-Zand

Documentary confronts cost of Pope Pius XII’s ‘Holy Silence’ during Holocaust

Premiering January 21 ahead of the imminent opening of the Secret Vatican Archives for 1939-1958, film provides historical context for 17 million pages of documents to be released

Pope Francis stands at the window of the Apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's Square during the weekly Angelus prayer on January 19, 2020, in the Vatican. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Pope denounces populism as fertile ground to foment anti-Semitism

By AP and ToI Staff

Strasbourg chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill looks at vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France, December 4, 2019. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP)

Less than half of French confident of government ability to tackle anti-Semitism

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

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A sign against same-sex marriage in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019. The Hebrew words say "Father and Mother = Family . The courage to be normal." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG says Jerusalem municipality was wrong to order removal of anti-LGBT ads

The second leader of Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, born Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi (Courtesy)

Report says top terrorist who oversaw operations around world is new IS chief

By ToI Staff and AP

A copy of a Senate draft resolution to be offered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican-Kentucky, regarding the procedures during the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump in Washington, January. 20, 2020. (Jon Elswick/AP)

Trump impeachment trial to begin with rules fight, long days

By LISA MASCARO, Eric Tucker and Zeke Miller

Avi Tsatsashvili, who was shot dead in Nahariya on January 12, 2020/ (Facebook)

10 arrested over killing of teen passerby during attempted hit on criminal

Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital, before COVID-19 had been identified, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, January 18, 2020. (AFP)

Health Ministry issues warning as alarm spreads over deadly Chinese virus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Screen capture from video of snow falling the northern city of Safed, January 21, 2020. (Twitter)

Snow in the north as cold snap drops temperatures across the country

Paramedics at the scene of an incident where the bodies of two young women were found in Jerusalem after an apparent fall from a tall building on January 20, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Cousins believed to have jumped to their deaths from Jerusalem building – report

A soldier stands on the roof of his jeep after the vehicle got stuck in a deep puddle caused by recent rains in the central israeli town of Kfar Yona on January 20, 2020. (Israel Police)

IDF jeeps stuck on train tracks, in deep puddle in separate incidents

By Judah Ari Gross

Firefighters at the scene of an explosion at a tanker truck garage in Tamra, January 20, 2020 (Israel Fire Service)

4 seriously wounded in large explosion at gas truck garage

Grammy-winning guitarist Steve Vai will offer a one-time master class at the Red Sea Guitar Festival on February 15, 2020 (Courtesy Larry DiMarzio)

Riff roundtableRenowned guitarist Steve Vai to play at February festival

By Jessica Steinberg

An illustration of the outside of the planned Mobileye office campus (Courtesy: Moshe Zur Architects & Town Planners Ltd.)

Mobileye scraps planned Jerusalem tower for low-rise HQ — report

Illustrative: A long exposure photograph of traffic on the Ayalon Highway through Tel Aviv, December 19, 2015. (Esther Rubyan/Flash 90)

Israel slips to sixth place in annual Bloomberg Innovation Index

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