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What Matters Most On Friday, January 24, 2020

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Benny Gantz at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society organized by the Israel Democracy Institute, December 17, 2019 (Michal Fattal)

Blue and White debating whether Gantz should reject White House invite – reports

Party said to be wary of facilitating ‘re-election gift’ to Netanyahu ahead of March 2; PM and centrist chief invited to Washington on day of Knesset immunity vote

Avigdor Liberman speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on December 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman on peace plan timing: ‘Next Tuesday we must focus only on immunity’

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a conference in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right-wing politicians wary, left-wing alarmed by reports on Trump peace plan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US President Donald Trump, right, speak at Ben Gurion International Airport prior to the latter's departure from Israel on May 23, 2017. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Trump: Reports about peace plan details 'purely speculative'

Trump plan said to give Israel sovereignty throughout Jerusalem, all settlements

TV report: Palestinian state only if PA accepts Israel as Jewish state and Hamas is disarmed; no big refugee influx; if Abbas rejects plan, Israel can start annexing

US President Donald Trump arrives at Miami International Airport en route to attend the Republican National Committee winter meetings, January 23, 2020. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump says he’ll likely release plan before Tuesday meet with Netanyahu, Gantz

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump leaves for Doral, Florida, from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on January 23, 2020. (Eric Baradat/AFP)

Trump confirms PM, Gantz to visit; rejects ‘speculative’ reports on peace plan

US President Donald Trump smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, after signing a proclamation formally recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Analysis

Trump’s plan isn’t about peace between Israelis and Palestinians

As rivals Netanyahu and Gantz get White House invite, Washington’s proposal could be a basis for long-elusive Israeli unity government, and a springboard for annexing settlements

US President Donald Trump sits in the driver's seat of a semitrailer as he welcomes truckers and CEOs to the White House in Washington, DC, to discuss healthcare, March 23, 2017. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Israel media reviewTrump makes plans and Israelis laugh: 7 things to know for January 24

By Joshua Davidovich

A Palestinian man rides a donkey on a main road in the Jordan Valley, near Tubus, in the West Bank, September 11, 2019. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Poll: Only a third of Israelis support unilateral annexation of Jordan Valley

US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Who needs the deal of the century right now? Only two people

The West Bank has been atypically calm of late. The release of a US peace plan seen as unprecedentedly pro-Israel and at deep odds with Palestinian positions could change that

Abbas spokesman warns US and Israel not to cross ‘red lines’ with peace plan

Jordan’s FM warns annexation would end chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Blue and White said to accuse US of trying to help PM delay immunity hearings

A delegation of Muslim religious leaders perform prayers during a visit to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, in what organizers called “the most senior Islamic leadership delegation" to visit, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 23, 2020. (American Jewish Committee via AP)

'We are deeply affected by these horrible crimes'

This must never happen again, says Saudi cleric as Muslim group tours Auschwitz

By Yaakov Schwartz

Unprecedented visit by Muslim World League head Mohammed al-Issa and group of Islamic clerics with American Jewish Committee shows interfaith efforts working, participants say

A delegation of Muslim religious leaders at the gate leading to the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, together with a Jewish group in what organizers called “the most senior Islamic leadership delegation" to visit the former Nazi death camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 23, 2020. (American Jewish Committee via AP)

25 Muslim faith leaders make ‘groundbreaking’ visit to Auschwitz

By Vanessa Gera

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)

Op-ed

Among dozens of world leaders in Jerusalem, Putin proves the dominant presence

Speaking at two ceremonies, making headlines for days in the lead-up to Holocaust Forum, president sets out Russia’s WWII and Shoah narrative, exudes authority, boosts Netanyahu

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020, to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Speech‘This crime had accomplices’: Full text of Putin’s World Holocaust Forum speech

Moshe Kantor, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

SpeechEducate, legislate, enforce: Full text of Moshe Kantor’s Holocaust Forum speech

Israeli-American Naama Issachar, jailed for drug smuggling, attends her appeal hearing at the Moscow Regional Court on December 19, 2019. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)

Kremlin: Jailed backpacker hasn’t requested pardon, delaying possible release

Moscow appears to take step closer toward freeing Naama Isaachar, jailed in Russia for 7.5 years on drug offenses, day after Putin sounds reassuring at meeting with her mother

Naama Issachar, sentenced to 7.5 years in Russia, in an undated photo (Courtesy)

Israeli imprisoned in Russia: I believe Putin that ‘everything will be okay’

Aleksey Burkov, a Russian hacker slated for extradition to the United States, arrives for a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem on November 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Russian pleads guilty to US fraud in case linked to fate of Israeli backpacker

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Mike Evans at the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2017 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

US evangelical leader announces he’ll give ‘Friends of Zion’ award to Putin

By Simona Weinglass

Mike Evans, an adviser to Trump on Israel, says he wants to thank Russian president for the Soviet role in WWII, his help to Jews, and his support of Israel

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier 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)

At Yad Vashem, German president says Germans haven’t learned lesson of Holocaust

By Raphael Ahren

Frank-Walter Steinmeier addresses memorial forum ‘laden with guilt,’ says today’s Jew-hatred seen in Europe is the ‘same evil’ as during Nazi era

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier 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)

Speech‘Laden with guilt’: Full text of German president’s World Holocaust Forum speech

Charles, Prince of Wales, speaks during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, January 23, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prince Charles: ‘Hatred and intolerance still lurk, and seek new victims’

British royal recalls his grandmother’s heroic rescue of a Jewish family in Athens, tells world leaders the ‘lessons of the Holocaust are searingly relevant to this day’

Charles, Prince of Wales, speaks during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, January 23, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

SpeechJewish and universal tragedy: Full text of Prince Charles Holocaust Forum speech

US Vice President Mike Pence delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

Speech‘We marvel at Jewish resilience’: Full text of Pence’s speech to Holocaust Forum

Attendees, including Holocaust survivors, at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020.(Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

‘I am here’: Holocaust survivors mark Auschwitz liberation

By Rosie SCAMMELL

Survivors who join political leaders at World Holocaust Forum laud the ‘simple people who helped’ Jews in WWII, lament a world that still ‘keeps quiet’ in the face of atrocities

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 January 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

SpeechThe survivors ‘are our miracle’: Full text of Rivlin’s Holocaust Forum speech

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)

SpeechThe world turned its back on us: Full text of Netanyahu’s Holocaust Forum speech

The difference between a plan and a deal…of the century

Just because you like the idea of turning straw into gold and tell the world you can do it doesn’t mean you will actually pull it off

It’s not fair that God hardened Pharoah’s heart. Or is it?

The longer we dig in our heels, the harder it is to shift gears — whether you’re Pharoah or a get-refuser or anyone who has ever argued anything (Vaera)

The ordinariness of Auschwitz

The Gates of Hell have a parking lot, a nearby pizzeria, and students in tight jeans and UGG boots chewing gum, waiting to have a look inside

My administration will devote $1 billion to combat anti-Semitism

Pete Buttigieg: A 2-state solution that achieves legitimate Palestinian aspirations and meets Israel’s security needs is the only viable way forward

Palestinians visit a torched mosque in the Arab neighborhood of Sharafat in East Jerusalem on January 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Jerusalem mosque hit by arson and graffiti attack in suspected hate crime

Firefighters quickly control blaze, minimizing damage to Muslim house of worship in Sharafat neighborhood; wall daubed with reference to Kumi Ori flash point outpost

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Congressional Progressive Caucus member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Ilhan Omar launches reelection bid with massive funding, no real challengers

By Steve Karnowski

Minnesota congresswoman running in liberal, progressive district without any threats from right or left; attention from Trump has helped her raise millions for campaign

More Headlines

Illustrative: French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, center, followed by Strasbourg Chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill, second right, walk amid vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France, December 4, 2019. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP)

Times of Israel PodcastsLISTEN: New AJC survey finds rising anti-Semitism in France is mainstream worry

Quds Force chief Esmail Ghaani. (Courtesy)

US official warns Soleimani’s successor faces ‘same fate’ if he kills Americans

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London, Jan. 22, 2020. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Next stop, Brexit: Britain’s EU divorce bill becomes law

By Jill Lawless

Jesse Eisenberg (L) attends the Child Mind Institute's 2019 Child Advocacy Award Dinner in New York City, Nov. 19, 2019 (Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images via JTA); at right, Marcel Marceau performs at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood California, July 31, 2002. (Michel Boutefeu/Getty Images via JTA)

Silent treatmentJesse Eisenberg feels link to Marcel Marceau who he plays in new movie

Christopher Cantwell, speaker for Unite the Right, shows off his weapons in this screenshot from Vice documentary 'Charlottesville: Race and Terror,' screened August 14, 2017. (Screenshot)

‘Crying’ neo-Nazi leader quotes Hitler in Charlottesville federal court motion

An American-Israeli Jewish teenager, accused of making a slew of antisemitic bomb threats in the US and elsewhere, is escorted by police as he leaves a courtroom in Rishon Lezion, on March 23, 2017. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Supreme Court shortens sentence of JCC hoax bomber

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the III Hemispheric Ministerial Conference of Fight Against Terrorism in Bogota, on January 20, 2020. (Raul ARBOLEDA/AFP)

Pompeo announces sanctions on firms accused of doing business with Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Popular Mobilization Forces members stand by a burning truck after a drone attack blamed on Israel near Qaim border crossing, in Anbar province, Iraq, August 25, 2019. (AP Photo)

Unidentified aircraft reportedly strike Hezbollah base in Iraq

In this January 9, 2019, file photo, Annabella Sciorra attends HBO's "The Sopranos" 20th anniversary at the SVA Theatre in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Annabella Sciorra: Harvey Weinstein held me down, raped me

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

Bradley Cooper poses for photographers upon arrival at the BAFTA Film Awards in London, Feb. 10, 2019. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Something's comingBradley Cooper will direct and star in Netflix film about Leonard Bernstein

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev speaks at an event marking the Jewish new year in the northern Israeli city of Safed on September 3, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Handy guideRegev writes Argentina president’s name on her hand for airport meet

By JTA

Police cars are seen at the site where a shooter, believed to have a personal motive, launched an assault on January 24, 2020 in the town of Rot am See in southwestern Germany. - (Photo by Sebastian Gollnow / DPA / AFP)

6 killed, several injured in Germany shooting

By AP

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