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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 22, 2020

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Holocaust scholar Prof. Yehuda Bauer addresses world leaders at a dinner at the President's Residence in Jerusalem as part of the World Holocaust Forum on January 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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Renowned Holocaust scholar: WWII started because of Hitler’s anti-Semitism

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8:04 pm

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7:54 pm

Germany returns artwork stolen by Nazis to French family

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)

World Holocaust Forum

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Who’s coming and who’s boycotting the event? Who will be allowed to speak? Will Putin sit next to Pence? What are the leaders doing in their spare time? And what’s on the menu?

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on drafting constitutional changes at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, January 16, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Poland calls on Putin to tell truth at WWII event in Israel

By AP

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Director of Auschwitz Museum slams holding of World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem

Piotr Cywinski accuses organizers of trying to replace annual ceremony in Poland; fumes that ‘it’s simply so provocative and immature that I do not find the words to comment on it’

Auschwitz Museum director Piotr Cywińsk (Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz)

A wagon stands on the railway tracks from where hundreds of thousands of people were directed to the gas chambers to be murdered inside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau or Auschwitz II, in Oswiecim, Poland, December 8, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud party campaign event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on January 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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By Joshua Davidovich

Portraits of Holocaust survivors are displayed at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, as a vintage German train car, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz and other death camps, is lowered onto tracks outside the museum in New York, March 31, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)

Most Americans know what Holocaust was; don’t know 6 million Jews were killed

By Joshua Davidovich

Major Pew survey finds fewer than half of US adults know how Hitler came to power, other Shoah-related specifics; situation is even worse among teens (but not young adults)

Illustrative: The Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Trump, Putin, pope vow to fight anti-Semitism in collection of missives

Holocaust survivor Naftali Fuerst speaks at the opening of the exhibition "Survivors - Faces of Life after the Holocaust" by German photographer Martin Schoeller on Holocaust survivors at the Ruhr Museum in Essen, Germany on January 21, 2020. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)

Luftwaffe flies Holocaust survivor to Germany for exhibition

By Ina FASSBENDER

'We have a responsibility to stand up for ourselves'

100 European legislators visit Auschwitz, urged to be tougher on anti-Semitism

By Yaakov Schwartz

Ministers and members of parliament attending 2-day Krakow confab are handed drafts of stricter laws on hate speech, education, and Nazi memorabilia trade

Eva Umlauf poses for a photo in Munich, Germany, January 8, 2020. (Matthias Schrader/AP)

Auschwitz survivor who was just 2 at liberation still nurses scars

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Eva Umlauf shows her tattooed number in Munich, Germany, January 8, 2020. (Matthias Schrader/AP)

After Auschwitz, survivors bear witness to past, fear for the future

By Vanessa Gera and Aron Heller

France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, meets his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in New York, September 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Ludovic Marin)

Macron vows to go tough on Iran as Rouhani warns Europe not to violate nuke deal

‘Iran will not have a nuclear bomb,’ French leader says after meeting Netanyahu in Jerusalem; Iranian president counters by vowing his country ‘will never seek nuclear weapons’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) hosts French President Emmanuel Macron at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, January 22, 2020. (Koby Gideon/GPO/File)

World Holocaust ForumHosting Macron for breakfast, Netanyahu kicks off marathon of meetings

By Raphael Ahren

US soldiers stand at the site of an Iranian bombing at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar, Iraq, Jan. 13, 2020. (AP/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)

More US troops evacuated with possible injuries from Iran missiles

By AP

US President Donald Trump, left, turns to give a pen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, at the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019 after signing the official proclamation formally recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. From left, White House adviser Jared Kushner, US special envoy Jason Greenblatt, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (AP/Susan Walsh)

US said to oppose Israeli annexation of Jordan Valley before peace plan rollout

Hinting at potential future support for such a step, US officials tell Israeli TV that Jerusalem is aware of Trump’s opposition to any unilateral moves ahead of release of proposal

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

After Netanyahu vows major West Bank annexations, Bennett urges: ‘Do it now’

By Stuart Winer

Blue and White MKs Benny Gantz (C) and Moshe Ya'alon (R) at the Vered Yeriho lookout point in the Jordan Valley, January 21, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Reversing course, Gantz urges Trump to ‘move up’ peace plan rollout

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania and Russia: Two peas in a pod?

While hurling charges of history distortion, the Lithuanian president, would do well to stop whitewashing a WWII war criminal

A society that neglects its children

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The text enumerates the lessons of genocides past and lays out a path toward preventing the evil that can lead to mass atrocity

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Judaism teaches that a trial that is distorted by fear of the accused’s powers will cause deep and enduring damage to society

Interview'I think that Netanyahu has been similarly victimized'

As impeachment trial starts, Dershowitz casts self as Trump’s reluctant hero

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Media-friendly attorney says he didn’t want to take the case and won’t represent the president — just the constitution — but he still thinks he can ‘kick the winning field goal’

Professor Alan Dershowitz (right) listens to US President Donald Trump speak during a Hanukkah Reception in the East Room of the White House, December 11, 2019. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America/AFP)

In this image from video, White House counsel Pat Cipollone waits in the US Senate chamber to be recognized by the presiding officer, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the US Capitol in Washington, January 21, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)

Republicans reject witnesses as impeachment trial kicks off with rules battle

By Paul Handley

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives at the Senate for the start of the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, January 21, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

As Trump impeachment trial begins, top Republican eases rules

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Israeli soldiers salute by the fresh grave of Zachary Baumel, who went missing at the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in 1982, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military cemetery in Jerusalem on April 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF: 2019 soldier fatality rate the lowest ever

By Judah Ari Gross

27 troops designated as ‘killed-in-action,’ compared to 43 last year; number includes Zachary Baumel, who was killed in ’82 but hitherto officially deemed missing

A picture taken from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank near the border fence with the coastal enclave on August 1, 2019, following a firefight with a Palestinian gunman. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF kills 3 Gazans who infiltrated Israel, threw explosive at troops

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Incident comes amid rising tensions along the border between Israel and the Strip’s Hamas rulers, with sudden return of balloon-borne bombs and threats of further violence

Haniyeh meets Malaysian PM with history of anti-Semitism, thanks him for support

Incendiary balloons from Gaza persist as world leaders gather in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli forces seize dozens of guns from Palestinians in crackdown

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to deliver a statement regarding his intention to file a request to the Knesset for immunity from prosecution, in Jerusalem on January 1, 2020. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

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Blue and White MK who heads Arrangements Committee aims to have 6 sessions in one week, which will be possible if Knesset votes next Tuesday to form House Committee

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud party campaign event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on January 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Launching campaign, Netanyahu vows to annex all settlements ‘without exception’

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Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda sits in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, September 27, 2016. (AFP/ANP/Bas Czerwinski)

ICC delays jurisdiction ruling on Israel war crimes case over document length

By ToI Staff and AP

Judges say prosecutor didn’t follow procedure in asking to submit more than 30 pages in request, tell her to try again; Netanyahu set to rally world leaders against Hague body

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