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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 30, 2020

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Jared Kushner gives a television interview outside the White House on January 29, 2020, in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/ AFP)

Kushner: US won’t support West Bank annexation decision before March 2 election

Trump adviser says US expects Israel to wait until new government in place, sides need to work out details over several months; Netanyahu had pushed for immediate action

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein arrive for a joint event of the Knesset and the US Congress, celebrating 50 years since Jerusalem's reunification, at the Chagall state hall in the Knesset, on June 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Knesset speaker vows to ‘fast-track’ any vote on West Bank annexation

A view of the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ariel, January 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

US envoy says annexations will only go ahead after okay from US-Israeli panel

By Raphael Ahren and Jacob Magid

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters aboard his plane en route to London, Wednesday Jan. 29, 2020.(Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)

Pompeo: If Palestinians unhappy with plan, they should present ‘counter offer’

By ToI Staff and AFP

US secretary of state warns that Trump proposal could be last opportunity for Palestinian state, says critics are same people ‘who have failed for 70 years’

US envoy tells Jewish leaders a Palestinian state won’t happen in near future

By Eric Cortellessa

Netanyahu says Trump deal the best Palestinians will ever get

AnalysisThe winners and losers of Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 22, 2020. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

TV: Abbas sends Netanyahu handwritten note warning of consequences of Trump plan

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian delegation meets with Finance Minister Kahlon, gives him letter in which PA president warns proposal means end of Oslo accords and security cooperation with Israel

A Palestinian cleric burns a banner that shows a portrait of the U.S. President Donald Trump with Arabic words that read:"Your suspicious deal will not pass," during a protest against the White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at Rashidiyeh Palestinian refugee camp, southern Lebanon on January 29, 2020. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Palestinian refugees insulted by Trump’s ‘shameful’ deal; some threaten violence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

China Eastern Airlines aircrew arrive at Sydney airport after landing on a plane from Shanghai on January 25, 2020. (Peter Parks/AFP)

Live updates (closed)Last flights from China to land in Israel by morning as ban goes into effect

US President Donald Trump (center-left), Saudi Arabia's King Salman (center-right), and other leaders pose for a group photo during the Arabic Islamic American Summit at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh on May 21, 2017. (AFP/MANDEL NGAN)

Analysis

Trump ties and Iran fears: Why US’s Arab allies opting not to rebuke peace plan

Israeli expert says several Arab countries don’t see value in explicitly knocking initiative; Palestinian analyst says it may be too early to fully judge responses

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in the East Room of the White House on January 28, 2020, in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images/AFP)

Kuwait, Morocco ‘appreciate’ Trump peace plan for Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with US President Donald Trump during an event with in the East Room of the White House in Washington on January 28, 2020. (AP/Susan Walsh)

AnalysisArab states in perilous balancing act on US peace plan

By Mohamed Hasni and Haitham el-Tabei

Then-Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz poses for a picture during a ceremony opening the new Harel tunnels on highway 1, the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road, on January 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trump’s peace plan has 99 problems, but Israeli engineers say a tunnel ain’t one

By Josefin Dolsten

Proposal calls for 30 mile tunnel between West Bank and Gaza that would make it one of the longest in world, but experts say that’s not the reason the US plan probably won’t work

AnalysisCan an interim cabinet that can’t fund daycare annex the West Bank? Probably not

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: An Arab Israeli woman casts her vote during elections for the Knesset on April 9, 2019, at a polling station in the northern town of Tayibe. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Arab-Israelis fume as Trump plan says their towns could become part of Palestine

President Donald Trump's senior adviser, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, departs the Capitol after a meeting with Senate Republicans, in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Israel media review

It can only be Jared: 8 things to know for January 30

By Joshua Davidovich

The White House adviser seems to win an internal battle and is pumping the breaks on Netanyahu’s annexation plans. At least he’ll always have Moscow

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks during a press conference with US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House on January 28, 2020, in Washington. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Likud inches closer to Blue and White in first TV polls since Trump peace plan

By Alexander Fulbright

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz speaks at an INSS conference on January 29, 2020. (Elad Malka)

Gantz says he’ll bring Trump peace plan before Knesset for vote next week

Israeli security forces walk past the Dome of the Rock shrine, as they arrive at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019, after clashes broke out during the overlapping Jewish and Muslim holidays of Eid al-Adha and Tisha B'Av. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Fearing riots, police to beef up presence on Temple Mount during Friday prayers

By Judah Ari Gross

Move comes amid tensions following Trump peace plan, and after officers arrest two armed men on suspicion they were planning a stabbing attack at the holy site

IDF sends reinforcements to West Bank, Gaza after release of Trump peace plan

By Judah Ari Gross

Rocket sirens sound in south for second time in 24 hours

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

For the first time since 2018, Israel allows tires into the Gaza Strip

Naama (R) and Yaffa Issachar (2nd R), along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his wife Sara (2nd L) at Moscow Airport, January 30, 2020. (Screen grab/Channel 12 News)

Netanyahu: 'Let's go home, let's go home'

Backpacker Naama Issachar walks free in Russia, boards PM’s plane back to Israel

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Netanyahu and his wife greet Israeli-American at Moscow airport, after diplomatic efforts help secure her release from Russian prison, where she was jailed since drugs conviction

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (MAXIM SHEMETOV / POOL / AFP)

In Moscow, Netanyahu thanks Putin for ‘speedy’ pardon of Israeli backpacker

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

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

Israeli-American backpacker Naama Issachar freed from Russian prison

Analysis

Naama is free, but our joy is mixed with tears

The bogus charges and the court’s refusal to uphold justice were travesties that harmed my client and my country’s reputation. For us, it’s not over

From left to right, rabbis Shabbos Kestenbaum, Avi Weiss, Ezra Seligsohn, and Jonathan Leener protest the location of a church in a former SS headquarters across from the former Nazi death camp Birkenau, January 27, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Yaakov Schwartz

Church in former Auschwitz SS headquarters is ‘desecration,’ say activist rabbis

As world leaders poured in to commemorate the 75th liberation of the Nazi death camp on January 27, a handful of clergy demanded it be moved to less sacred ground for Jews

President Reuven Rivlin, left, with Zehava Shaul, mother of IDF soldier Oron Shaul whose remains are held in the Gaza Strip, seen during a meeting with global Jewish community leaders in Germany, January 29, 2020. (Courtesy: Shahar Azran)

In Berlin, Rivlin urges world Jewish leaders to help return missing IDF soldiers

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, center, walks to meet dignitaries, rear left, during commemorations at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Auschwitz survivor draws praise, but also criticism in Poland with WWII speech

By Vanessa Gera

About the Trump Plan, I feel… ambivalence

With all the many shortcomings of this deal, it’s hard to forget the Palestinians’ rejection of far better past offers

David Silberklang

What didn’t start World War II

European countries must reflect on their histories without idealized lenses; only then will they be able to challenge contemporary anti-Semitism

Members of the Falash Mura community reunite with their families at the Ben Gurion airport, outside Tel Aviv on February 4, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel to allow 400 Ethiopian Jews to immigrate ahead of elections — report

Hebrew media says ‘senior government’ figure likely to visit Ethiopia to oversee airlift of Falash Mura community members so they can join family members already in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech after his arrival at Entebbe airport, Uganda, Monday, July 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

Netanyahu to reportedly visit Uganda next week

Likud MK Haim Katz attends a debate on his request for immunity at the Knesset House Committee, January 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset deliberations

AG opening immunity panel for MK Haim Katz: Don’t become ‘refuge for criminals’

By Raoul Wootliff

In first of 2 committee debates before vote, Mandelblit says former minister exercised authority ‘while in a serious conflict of interest’; Katz: ‘He is turning me into a crook’

Leader of the Joint List Ayman Odeh (L) with fellow faction member Ahmad Tibi during the Central Elections Committee discussion of requests to disqualify Joint List party candidate Heba Yazbak from running in the upcoming Knesset Elections on January 29, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Elections committee votes to let majority-Arab Joint List run in March

By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff

Rabbi Mordechai Elon arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court to hear his sentence, December 18, 2013. (photo credit: Meital Cohen/Flash90)

High Court petition seeks to strip ‘rabbi’ title from Moti Elon over sex crimes

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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2017 photo director Roman Polanski poses during a photo call to the screening of "Based on a true story" in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Fury after Polanski’s new film on Dreyfus affair tops French ‘Oscar’ nominations

By Fiachra GIBBONS

Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

El Al stops China flights due to deadly virus outbreak

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel's Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz speaking at the Cybertech 2020 conference in Tel Aviv; Jan. 29; (Cybertech)

Energy minister says Israel foiled ‘serious’ attack on power station

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative. Hackers/cybersecurity (iStock by Getty Images)

Iranian hackers monitor hotels, travel industry to follow targets, expert warns

Basketball players in Yeshiva University Maccabees team celebrate their winning their first-ever Skyline Conference Championship on February 25, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

MaccabeastsYeshiva U men’s basketball earns first national US ranking

Jewish NFL football players and brothers Geoff (l) and Mitchell (r) Schwartz present Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with football jerseys that have his nickname on them, in his Jerusalem office, on February 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Let the kvelling beginMeet Mitchell Schwartz, Jewish NFL player heading to Super Bowl

By JTA

Israeli Premier League soccer player Yitzhak Asefa arrives to hear the verdict in his hit-and-run trial at the Tel Aviv District Court on January 30, 2020. (Flash90)

Soccer player gets 4.5 years for leaving scene of hit-and-run that killed teen

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Enjoying a walk in a KKL JNF Jewish National fund forest outside Jerusalem, April 21, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90).

Branching outKKL-JNF launches online ‘click and plant’ project ahead of Tu B’Shvat

Jewish nonprofit AJC puts ‘significant investment’ in new Arabic media platforms

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Democratic presidential candidate former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a campaign event, Jan. 27, 2020, in Burlington, Vt. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Bloomberg unveils Super Bowl ad focused on gun violence

Co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far-right party Alexander Gauland, Berlin, November 19, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

German far-right leader faces tax evasion probe

By AFP

Anti-Brexit campaigners hold banners outside Parliament in London on January 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Brexit finally arrives Friday: A momentous yet quiet moment

By Raf Casert and Jill Lawless

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