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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 23, 2020

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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Putin: Nazis’ European accomplices were often ‘crueler than their masters’

By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren

At Yad Vashem, Russian leader claims 40% of Jews killed in genocide were Soviet citizens; event organizer warns there ‘could be no Jews left in Europe by 2050’

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the inauguration of the Memorial Candle monument commemorating the people of Leningrad during the Second World War Nazi siege on the city, in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP)

Israel and Russia dedicate Jerusalem memorial to WWII Leningrad siege

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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, on December 7, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP/File)

Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary

By Vanessa Gera and Aron Heller

Illustrative: Rockets are launched from Gaza Strip to Israel, May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Labor's Peretz: We need plan based on two-states, not on one-sided annexations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020 (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Warning of Iran, PM tells Holocaust forum: We remember the world turned its back

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Netanyahu condemns ‘tyrants of Tehran,’ says Jews learned they can only rely on themselves for defense; Rivlin: ‘Racism and anti-Semitism is a malignant disease’

AnalysisIran uses violence, politics to try to push US out of Iraq

By David Rising

How Iran’s military outsources its cyberthreat forces

By Dorothy Denning

Coffins draped in US and Israeli flags seen at Tehran protest exhibition

Moshe Kantor, the head of the European Jewish Congress, is pictured during an interview with AFP in Jerusalem on January 6, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

As Holocaust memorial begins, organizers deny event becoming politicized

By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren

Moshe Kantor claims world forum has succeeded in using Holocaust remembrance to highlight ‘the crisis of anti-Semitism,’ adds, ‘It’s ‘a shame that Poland is not part of that’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City on January 23, 2020 (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Ukrainian president, delegates give their seats at Holocaust event to survivors

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport on January 23, 2020, to attend the World Holocaust memorial which marks the 75th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz. (Oded Balilty / POOL / AFP)

Putin, Pence arrive as world leaders gather for major Holocaust commemoration

French President Emmanuel Macron asks Israeli police to leave the 12th-century Church of Saint Anne in the Old City of Jerusalem on January 22, 2020. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Macron yells at Israeli security to leave French church during Jerusalem visit

By AFP and ToI Staff

French president loses his temper, says he ‘knows the rules’ at Church of St. Anne, a French territory; incident similar to dust-up with Jaques Chirac in 1996

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meeting at the PA presidential headquarters in Ramallah on January 22, 2020. (Wafa)

Hosting Macron, Abbas says he hopes France will recognize Palestine

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and President Reuven Rivlin at a press conference in Jerusalem on January 22, 2020. (Jacques Witt/Pool/AFP)

Macron tells Rivlin ‘anti-Semitism not different from anti-Zionism’

Britain's Prince Charles, center, meets with President Reuven Rivlin, left, and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis at his official residence in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020 (Victoria Jones/Pool via AP)

Prince Charles meets president, survivors on first-ever official visit to Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Rivlin welcomes future king, recalling his youth during the British Mandate period; royal plants tree as ‘symbol of hope’

French President Emmanuel Macron asks Israeli police to leave the 12th-century Church of Saint Anne in the Old City of Jerusalem on January 22, 2020. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Israel media reviewIf this is a story: 6 things to know for January 23

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2020. (Jim Watson/ AFP)

Kushner cancels Holocaust Forum participation, citing weather in Davos

World Holocaust Forum

At ‘historic gathering,’ Rivlin swears leaders into fight against Jew-hatred

By Raphael Ahren

President warns dignitaries visiting Israel for summit on anti-Semitism against any attempts to rewrite history; Spanish king says ‘remembrance alone is unfortunately not enough’

Mohammed al-Issa, the secretary-general of the Muslim World League, speaking on April 25, 2018 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. (Screenshot: American Sephardi Federation)

Senior Saudi religious leader set for ‘groundbreaking’ visit to Auschwitz Thurs.

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)

Full textHolocaust scholar’s speech to world leaders: Anti-Semitism destroys your nations

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Yaffa Issachar, mother of Israeli citizen Naama Issachar who is jailed in Russia for a drugs offense in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020 (Aleksey Nikolskyi, Sputnik Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Jailed backpacker’s mother: Putin said he’d return my daughter home

Yaffa Issachar, whose daughter Naama was sentenced in Russia to 7.5 years on drug offense, says there was no date set for a possible pardon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, smile as Yaffa Issachar, second left, the mother of Naama Issachar, who is imprisoned in Russia, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020, ahead of the World Holocaust Forum. (Heidi Levine/Pool/AFP)

Hinting at possible pardon, Putin tells jailed backpacker’s mom ‘all will be ok’

Jews in Salonika registering at Libery Square in July 1942. (Bundesarchiv)

Analysis

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

The Jew who worked for the Nazis and hunted down refugees in WWII Greece

The story of Vital Hasson, leader of Thessaloniki’s Jewish police who sent families — and his own relatives — to Auschwitz, shows that identity doesn’t always determine destiny

Illustrative: A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/ AFP/File)

Germany returns artwork stolen by Nazis to French Jewish family

By AFP

Trupa Trupa (Courtesy)

Polish post-punk band rages against populism, hatred, and Holocaust denial

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Jeff Goldblum on an episode of "Finding Your Roots." (Screenshot from PBS via JTA)

Jeff Goldblum, Terry Gross and Marc Maron get emotional tracing Jewish roots

By Gabe Friedman

Latest episode of PBS’ celebrity genealogy show ‘Finding Your Roots’ helps three celebrities discover details on their ancestors who fled anti-Semitism in Europe

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces his intention to seek Knesset immunity from prosecution, in Jerusalem on January 1, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

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By Cnaan Liphshiz

Harvey Weinstein, center, accompanied by attorney Arthur Aidala, right, arrives at court for his rape trial, in New York on January 22, 2020. (AP/Richard Drew)

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