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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gives a press conference, at the 'IFEMA - Feria de Madrid' exhibition centre, in Madrid, on December 1, 2019, on the eve of the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25. - Spain's Socialist government offered to host this year's UN climate conference, known as COP25, from December 2 to December 13, 2019, after the event's original host Chile withdrew last month due to deadly riots over economic inequality. Spanish authorities expect some 25,000 participants and 1,500 journalists from around the world to attend the two-week gathering in Madrid. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

United Nations says committed to pre-1967 borders, stresses settlements illegal

Responding to Trump proposal, secretary general says peace attainable based on UN resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements

9:55 pm

Protesters chant outside US Consulate in Istanbul
9:48 pm

Pompeo believes Israel will adopt peace plan 'no matter who wins election'
9:24 pm

Deri buoyant: 'We must not miss historic opportunity' to extend sovereignty

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

The State of Israel vs. Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu indicted for corruption in three cases, in first for a sitting PM

By Raoul Wootliff

Move comes hours after premier abandons bid for immunity from prosecution; sources close to PM say he is ‘the target of obsessive persecution’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the Kohelet Forum Conference at the Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu abandons his immunity bid, paving way for an indictment within days

By Raoul Wootliff

MKs vote on the formation of the Knesset House Committee, January 28, 2020. (Yitzhak Harrari/Knesset)

Opposition forms key panel as MKs claim victory over PM’s abandoned immunity bid

By Raoul Wootliff

US President Trump hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, January 27, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM said seeking okay to annex Jordan Valley or Ma'ale Adumim

With PM at his side, Trump says without Palestinians ‘we don’t do the deal’

By Raphael Ahren

US president says Mideast peace proposal to debut Tuesday at noon, assesses that ‘it might have a chance’; PM calls offer ‘historic’ and ‘opportunity of the century’

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)

Gantz hails Trump’s peace plan, says he’ll work to implement it after elections

By Raphael Ahren

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak to the press on the West Wing Colonnade prior to meetings at the White House in Washington, DC, January 27, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

‘In the end, they’re going to want it’: Full text of Trump, Netanyahu on US plan

Israeli soldiers of the Golani Brigade training in the Golan Heights, near the Israel-Syria border, January 19, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

IDF sends more troops to Jordan Valley ahead of Trump plan release

By Judah Ari Gross

No other reinforcements posted to West Bank, but military says it is conducting constant assessments amid fears of violence in response to so-called Deal of the Century

Palestinian demonstrators chant slogans and wave Palestinian flags during a protest against US President Donald Trump's expected peace plan proposal in Gaza City on January 28, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Thousands of Gazans protest Trump peace plan hours before its release

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A classroom in the northern West Bank Palestinian village of Einabus that was targeted in a price-tag attack on January 28, 2020. (Courtesy)

Classroom torched in Palestinian school, in second hate attack in a week

(From L-R) Gush Etzion Regional Council chairman Shlomo Ne'eman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yesha Council chairman David Elhayani in front of a Gush Etzion lookout point in the West Bank on November 19, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Settler leaders call on PM to oppose Trump plan, even at the cost of annexation

Umbrella group of West Bank mayors says it will not agree to plan that allows for establishment of Palestinian state, but one member says statement was issued without his knowledge

US President Donald Trump walks to a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not pictured), Jan. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump plan offers Palestinians only ‘conditional sovereignty’ – report

Settler leaders meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, at the Blair House in Washington on January 27, 2020. (Gush Etzion Regional Council)

Settler leader on trip to DC ‘losing sleep’ over ‘horrible’ Trump deal

US President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk to reporters along the colonnade at the White House on January 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel media review

Deal with it: 8 things to know for January 28

By Joshua Davidovich

With Trump set to release his peace plan proposal, Palestinians and settlers are already rejecting whatever it is, as Netanyahu takes a legal dive and Gantz gets a win

Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley attends an event of the Israeli Center on Addiction, in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2020. (Flash90)

Nikki Haley: Trump plan may be ‘the last chance’ for the Palestinians

US President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk to reporters along the colonnade at the White House on January 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel braces for dramatic day with PM immunity vote, release of Trump plan

Yahya Sinwar (right), the Hamas terror group's leader in the Gaza Strip, sits with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (center), as they meet the Head of the Central Elections Commission, Hanna Nasser, in Gaza City, on October 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas to join Palestinian leadership meeting against Trump plan – officials

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Administration peace proposal, set to be unveiled Tuesday, has been described as anti-Palestinian by senior officials in West Bank and Gaza

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas gives a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 11, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

PA urges Arabs to boycott peace plan launch, but Gulf states may vaguely back it

Analysis7 things to watch for as Trump unveils his long-awaited peace plan

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/POOL/AFP)

PM to make impromptu Moscow trip, raising speculation jailed Israeli to be freed

Netanyahu to fly to Russia on Wednesday to meet with Putin and update him on Trump peace plan and ‘regional developments,’ his office says

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

Moscow governor signs Naama Issachar’s pardon, leaving only Putin

Correction: Trump’s plan was never meant to become a deal

Posturing with Trump will backfire soon enough, when he’s recognized as America’s worst, most corrupt president, and nothing like Israel’s best friend

Moshe Simkovich

The time a Birthright guide interrupted my conversation

It seemed counterproductive to me — didn’t she want to convey a positive impression of Israel and Israelis?

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and President Reuven Rivlin, right, sing as they attend a performance of the school choir during their visit at the Moses Mendelssohn school in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)

Rivlin, Steinmeier visit Berlin Jewish school used for WWII Nazi deportations

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President to give Hebrew-language speech in memory of the victims of Nazism to the Bundestag; members of the Goldin and Shaul families will be in attendance

In this image provided by the US Consulate General in Krakow, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, and speakers of Poland's parliament lay wreaths at the executions Death Wall 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)

On Remembrance Day, US House overwhelmingly passes Holocaust education bill

By Eric Cortellessa

Survivors attend the offical ceremony at the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau during events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

Survivors, world leaders at Auschwitz mark 75 years since its liberation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, terrorists of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP, File)

Islamic State announces ‘new phase’ of attacks: Mainly targeting Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Audio message from spokesman says focus is now on ‘fighting the Jews and reclaiming what they have stolen from the Muslims’; urges sabotage of Trump peace plan

Illustrative: Islamic State fighters wave al-Qaeda flags as they patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq on March 30, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

Islamic State tries to stage comeback amid rising US-Iran tensions

By Bassam Mroue

Chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Hossein Salami speaks in a ceremony to unveil new anti-US murals painted on the walls of former US embassy in Tehran, Iran, November 2, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iranian general warns of retaliation against Israel if US threats continue

By Nasser Karimi

Young màquisards, or Resistance fighters, in the Haute-Loire, France. (Mémorial de la Shoah/ Ronald Rosbottom)

Author interview

Teenagers helped launch the WWII French Resistance; many paid with their lives

In his new book ‘Sudden Courage,’ author Ronald Rosbottom reveals just how young many founding members of the underground fighters were — as well as how diverse

Veteran photojournalist Jim Hollander hanging photographs for The Lonka Project exhibition in the UN, which opened January 27, 2020. (Courtesy Enrique Shore/The Lonka Project)

Hundreds of photographers worldwide capture Holocaust’s last living survivors

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

US pledges $2 million for preservation of Auschwitz

By ToI Staff and JTA

Democratic US presidential candidate former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks 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)

Reporter's notebook

Mike Bloomberg brings a biblical fire to JCC rally, but the crowd wants details

Many of the 800 participants want the Democratic hopeful to focus on his economic plans, but still cheer for his attacks on Trump’s equivocations on white supremacists

US President Donald Trump speaks to a bipartisan group of the Nation's mayors in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, January 24, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)

J Street’s political action committee to raise $1 million to oust Trump

US President Donald Trump, left, meets with then-South Korean President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, as then-US National Security Adviser John Bolton, right, watches, May 22, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP)

GOP defends Trump as Bolton book adds pressure for witnesses

By Eric Tucker, Zeke Miller and LISA MASCARO

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Heba Yazbak of the Ra'am-Balad party speaks in the Knesset, May 13, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

AG says he is against disqualifying Arab MK Yazbak, prompting right-wing outrage

By Raoul Wootliff

Yamina party calls decision a ‘tailwind for terror support,’ as Mandelblit rules in favor of Joint List lawmaker accused of condoning violence against IDF troops

Larissa Trimbobler-Amir, wife of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, arrives at the Central Elections Committee to register a new party for her run in the upcoming Israeli elections, January 14, 2020. (Yonathan Sindel/Flash90)

AG approves Knesset run by Yigal Amir’s wife

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

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Tara Rios was arraigned with first-degree harassment as a hate crime for throwing pork chops at a synagogue (Screencapture/ WRGB Albany via JTA)

Woman charged with hate crime for throwing pork chops at upstate NY synagogue

By JTA

Two suspects are being sought in connection with an attempted armed robbery in a Baltimore synagogue on January 26, 2020. (screenshot)

Rabbi thwarts 2 gunmen in robbery attempt inside Baltimore synagogue

By JTA and ToI Staff

Ezra Koenig of the band Vampire Weekend performs in concert during the group's "Father of the Bride Tour" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 4, 2019 (Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP)

Rocking the houseVampire Weekend wins 2020 Grammy for best alternative album

By Emily Burack

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrive for a working session at the Elysee Palace, on December 9, 2019, in Paris. (Ian Langsdon/Pool via AP)

Moscow furious after Ukraine leader points out Soviet collusion with Nazis

By AFP

An Israeli military vehicle patrols on the Israeli-Lebanese border near the village of Ghajar on August 26, 2019. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

IDF arrests man suspected of sneaking into Israel from Lebanon

In this Jan. 19, 2020 file photo, Britain's Prince Andrew accompanies Queen Elizabeth II to attend a church service at St Mary the Virgin, in Hillington, England. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)

Prince Andrew accused of ‘zero cooperation’ in Epstein case

By Peter HUTCHISON

Ramapo police officers escort Grafton Thomas, the suspect in the Monsey attack, from Ramapo Town Hall to a police vehicle, in Ramapo, New York, December 29, 2019. (Julius Constantine Motal/AP)

Lawyer says man charged in Hanukkah machete attack incompetent for trial

By AP

Researchers at Harvard University and Tel Aviv University develop mini human organs on a chip to help with drug development. Nine organs were constructed as 'Organs-on-a-Chip.' (Wyss Institute at Harvard University)

Israel, US researchers create ‘mini Human-on-a-Chip’ to speed up drug testing

By Shoshanna Solomon

Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Court, for his rape and sexual assault trial in New York City, January 24, 2020. (Johannes EISELE/AFP)

Accuser says Weinstein sexually assaulted her in his children’s bedroom

By AFP

A British teenager convicted of falsely accusing a group of Israelis of gang rape covers her face as she arrives with her mother to the Famagusta District Court, in Paralimni in eastern Cyprus on January 7, 2020. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)

UK woman who alleged Cyprus rape by Israelis says attackers were ‘like wolves’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Facebook's Fosco Riani, of the US social network's election team speaking at Facebook offices in Tel Aviv on Jan. 27, 2020 (Tomer Foltyn)

Facebook touts more transparency, vigilance ahead of Israel’s elections in March

By Shoshanna Solomon

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan attends a meeting in Athens, January 24, 2020. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Despite approval in Israel, Saudi Arabia says Israelis can’t visit country

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