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What Matters Most On Monday, January 27, 2020

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

Trump to tell Israelis they have 6 weeks to get peace plan moving — report

US official tells Reuters that proposal won’t be released ahead of US president’s meetings with Gantz and Netanyahu to ensure he has their support before details announced

US President Donald Trump, joined by the Easter Bunny, speaks from the Truman Balcony of the White House in Washington on April 22, 2019, during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Israel media reviewAnyone you can meet, I can meet better: 6 things to know for January 27

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) meets with settler leaders in his office on February 25, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/File)

PM invites settler leaders to join him in DC for rollout of Trump peace plan

Abbas said to refuse to take phone call from Trump

PA president reportedly turned down multiple requests over last few days as US prepares to roll out peace plan already rejected by Ramallah

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas talks to reporters at the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June. 23, 2019. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, chairs a cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley village of Fasayil, September 16, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Palestinian Authority PM calls on world to boycott Trump peace plan

By AFP

Palistinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressing Palestinian and Arab journalists in the PA presidential headquarters on July 3, 2019. (Wafa)

Savaging Trump peace plan, Palestinians again threaten to dissolve PA

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, second left, visiting the Jordan Valley on January 28, 2019. (Yaakov Cohen/Shas campaign)

Interior minister claims officials already prepping West Bank annexation

Visiting Jordan Valley, Aryeh Deri lauds Netanyahu’s ‘vital and historic mission’ ahead of unveiling of Trump peace plan; agencies won’t confirm if administrative legwork underway

The security fence running through the hills near Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Trump plan would see Palestinian state on up to 70% of West Bank, reports say

Jordanian King Abdullah II gestures as he delivers a speech at the European Parliament, on January 15, 2020, in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Photo by Frederick FLORIN / AFP)

Jordanian king expresses reservations over Trump peace plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the Kohelet Forum Conference at the Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The Deal of the Century

The unnoticed speech in which US envoy to Israel revealed contours of peace deal

By Raphael Ahren

Israel’s right to the West Bank is ‘obvious,’ Ambassador Friedman said on January 8, but also noted that Palestinians are ‘indigenous’ to the land and deserving of ‘independence’

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett gives a statement to the media in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, January 26, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Bennett conditions support for Trump peace plan on immediate annexation

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley during an interview with Israel's Channel 12 news, January 26, 2020. (Channel 12 news screenshot)

Former US envoy Haley defends timing of Trump peace plan rollout

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Palestinians arrive to cross into Gaza at the Erez Crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip on September 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shin Bet security service busts two Israeli citizens in Hamas spy ring

By Judah Ari Gross

Rami Amoudi, Rajab Daka allegedly tasked with gathering intel on military installations, helping guide rocket-fire; both are Gazans granted citizenship under family reunification

Illustrative: Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, on November 13, 2019. (Anas Baba/AFP)

Rocket fired from Gaza hits southern Israel; IDF strikes Hamas post

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

President Reuven Rivlin meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Krakow, Poland, January 27, 2020 (Amos Ben Gershon/GPO)

Rivlin to Polish counterpart: ‘Many Poles’ stood by, helped murder Jews in WWII

President tells Andrzej Duda that Nazi Germany had assistance from across Europe, which ‘demands acceptance of responsibility’ by relevant parties; invites him to Jerusalem

A view of the former Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, January 26, 2018. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images via JTA)

1 in 5 Germans think the Holocaust gets too much attention, surveys find

By Toby Axelrod

Nazi camps survivor Marija Frlan, who will turn 100 on the Holocaust Remembrance Day, talks to The Associated Press, during an interview at her home in Rakek, Slovenia, January 24, 2020. (Darko Bandic/AP)

Survivor in Slovenia turns 100 on Holocaust Remembrance Day

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz in the White House in Washington on January 27, 2020. (Elad Malka)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz says supports US peace proposal, will implement it as prime minister

After meeting Trump, Blue and White leader calls the plan set to be unveiled Tuesday a ‘significant and historic milestone’

8:28 pm

Gantz says supports US peace proposal, will implement it as prime minister
8:21 pm

PA urges Arab envoys to turn down invite to Trump's unveiling of peace plan
7:25 pm

Gantz-Trump meeting was 'excellent,' aides say

In this photo taken by Britain's Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, and made available on January 26, 2020, Steven Frank BEM, aged 84, originally from Amsterdam, who survived multiple concentration camps as a child, is pictured alongside his granddaughters Maggie and Trixie Fleet, aged 15 and 13. (The Duchess of Cambridge via AP)

UK’s Duchess of Cambridge photographs Holocaust survivors for remembrance day

By Jewish News reporter

The future Queen, a patron of the Royal Photographic Society, takes part in Jewish News commemoration project by depicting British survivors with their descendants

Holocaust survivors walk below the gate with its inscription 'Work sets you free' after a wreath laying at the death wall at the memorial site of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz during ceremonies to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2020. (Janek Skarzynski/ AFP/ File)

Survivors return to Auschwitz 75 years after liberation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Selma van de Perre signs her book at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, January 9, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

At 97, Dutch resistance hero works to give Jewish fighters overdue recognition

By Cnaan Liphshiz

'The Windermere Children.' Left to right: Chaim ‘Harry’ Olmer, Kacper Swietek, Arek Hersh MBE, Tomasz Studzinski, Pascal Fischer, Sir Ben Helfgott, Marek Wrobelewski, Sam Laskier, Kuba Sprenger, Ike Alterman (BBC/Wall to Wall/ZDF/ Helen Sloan)

Holocaust film

BBC airs ‘Windermere children’: How Holocaust survivors went from hell to heaven

New dramatization portrays how children, brought from camps to tranquil paradise of the Lake District, learned to adjust to being human again

A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers, April 19, 1943. (AP Photo)

AnalysisIs it ethical to show Holocaust images?

Jobbik party President Peter Jakab. (Municipality of Miskolc via JTA)

Great-grandfather of new leader of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik died in Auschwitz

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sarit Steinfeld

Holocaust Remembrance: A teapot tells a story

On his way out of Germany after surviving Buchenwald, why did my husband’s grandfather purchase a set of fancy chinaware?

The darkness that blinds us

At a solidarity visit of Jews to the vandalized mosque in Beit Safafa, what can I offer other than my tears?

Bibi and Benny agree: the Jordan Valley is just a matter of time

The only real deterrent to extending Israeli law to the Jordan Valley is public opinion, and the right and center are on board

I asked the pope to join a group of religious leaders against anti-Semitism

We cannot risk indifference to the evil that threatens our world — just think how many lives would have been saved had the world challenged the Nazis sooner

In this July 26, 2018 file photo former Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna watch during the US national championships swimming meet in Irvine, Calif. Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Gianna also died in the crash. She was 13. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Israelis join world, NBA in mourning death of Kobe Bryant

By ToI Staff and AP

PM Netanyahu calls ex-Laker ‘one of the greatest basketball players in history,’ fans stand and applaud in tribute as news of his death announced during Tel Aviv match

NBA legend Kobe Bryant, daughter perish in copter crash, 7 others dead

By Greg Beacham and Mark J. Terrill

NBA star Bryant’s helicopter flew in fog that grounded other choppers

By STEFANIE DAZIO

Obama, Michael Jordan lead tributes after death of ex-NBA superstar Kobe Bryant

By AP

US Vice President Mike Pence waves as he disembarks from a plane with his wife Karen, upon their arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport ,to attend the World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem memorial center, January 23, 2020. (Ammar Awad/Pool Photo via AP)

Cyberattacks targeted world leaders’ planes as they flew into Israel last week

At least 800 attacks, including from Iran and Poland, were beaten back by Israel’s newly upgraded air traffic cyber defenses, officials say

Israel's 'answer to the Grand Canyon.' The 'secret river' by the Dead Sea 'discovered' by Kan TV, January 2020. (Kan TV screenshot)

The strange tale of a toxic effluent channel hailed as a great, ‘secret’ river

The Leviathan natural gas platform off the shore of Israel. (Albatross)

State is failing to collect natural gas profits for public good, MK charges

Moshe Gafni tells Knesset Finance Committee that all bodies charged with creating sovereign wealth fund in line with 2014 law are ‘tainted’ by lack of responsibility

The women’s cooperative of the village of Mubuga which is set to benefit from productive uses of solar power as part of a social and economic development program. Dr. Hanna Klein (center), VP for Research and Project Development of Gigawatt Global is planning to switch the power to the village's flour mills from diesel to solar-powered electricity. (Courtesy)

Israel-linked solar firm to light up 87,000 homes and businesses in Burundi

Egged's new electric buses at their charging station in Jerusalem during the launching ceremony, on September 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

City of Jerusalem and Environment Ministry launch low emissions zone

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From the trove of coins found in the home of a suspected antiquities thief from Kfar Kana, January 2020. (Yaron Bibas/IAA)

ArchaeologyCoins from 5th century BCE found in trove seized from home of antiquities thief

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

This undated image released by the US House Judiciary Committee from documents provided by Lev Parnas to the committee in the impeachment probe against President Donald Trump, shows a photo of Lev Parnas with Trump in Florida. (House Judiciary Committee via AP)

'It’s like a miracle'In recording, Parnas and Fruman compare Trump to messiah

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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)

Netanyahu mulls pulling immunity request as Knesset pushes ahead

By Raoul Wootliff

MK David Bitan at a Likud party rally in Tel Aviv, on November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

AG announces indictment against Likud MK David Bitan, pending hearing

By Raoul Wootliff

Screen capture from video of a Chinese laborer, suspected of suffering from the cornoavirus, being brought to Barzilai Medical Center, January 2020. (Ynet news)

Ashkelon hospital says Chinese patient does not have deadly coronavirus

By ToI Staff and AP

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

Putin to decide soon on pardon for jailed Israeli, Kremlin says

French President Emmanuel Macron lays a white rose on a grave vandalized with swastikas during a visit at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, on February 19, 2019, on the day of a nationwide marches against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. (Frederick Florin/ Pool/ AFP)

France reports 27% increase in anti-Semitic acts

By AP

Rescuers search for an Israeli hiker missing at the Whanganui River in New Zealand. (screen grab via Kan)

Body of missing Israeli hiker found in New Zealand river

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with Israeli police as they protest against the jailing of a yeshiva student who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, in Jerusalem on January 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters block Jerusalem entrance over draft dodger’s arrest

Democratic presidential candidate former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg during a United for Mike, event held at the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center and Tauber Academy Social Hall on January 26, 2020 in Aventura, Florida (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Touting Jewish bona fides, Bloomberg vows he won’t touch US aid for Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this July 31, 2019 file photo, then National security adviser John Bolton speaks to media at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Bolton says Trump tied Ukraine funds to Biden probe — report

By Zeke Miller and Eric Tucker

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the Genesis Prize ceremony, at the Jerusalem theater on June 20, 2019. (Flash90)

Controversy-hit Genesis Prize distances itself from prime minister

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