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What Matters Most On Friday, January 31, 2020

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The weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Upcoming Sunday cabinet meeting cancelled amid uncertainty over annexation plans

No new date set for ministerial gathering, which Netanyahu had initially said would approve extending sovereignty to West Bank areas, after calls to hold back from Washington

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)

Israel media reviewNever gonna give annexation up: 6 things to know for January 31

By Joshua Davidovich

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) with a bouquet of flowers and then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu tells Putin that Trump peace deal is a ‘new opportunity’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Annexation, stalled: How Trump, Netanyahu fell out of step on core part of deal

Within two days of historic White House event, PM has had to backtrack from vow to immediately apply Israeli law to settlements. What went wrong, why, and how much does it matter?

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US President Donald Trump (L) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on January 27, 2020, in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel claims disagreement with US over West Bank annexation merely ‘technical’

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisTrump team suggests plan not entirely set in stone, but core aspects seem to be

By Eric Cortellessa

The Ukrainian-Jewish hamlet of Anatevka on January 14, 2020. (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Inside Anatevka, the curious Chabad hamlet in Ukraine where Giuliani is ‘mayor’

By Simona Weinglass

What, if anything, does a religious community for refugees named after a ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ village have to do with Russia, Trump’s impeachment? Times of Israel went to find out

An Iron Dome missile battery set up in Sderot, southern Israel, near the border with the neighboring Gaza Strip on November 13, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

3 mortar shells launched at Israel from Gaza; IDF tank strikes Hamas post

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

No reports of casualties or injuries in latest exchange in the Palestinian territory, hours after IDF strikes in Strip in response to rockets

Illustrative: An Israeli missile launched from an Iron Dome missile defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, is seen above Gaza City on November 13, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Three rockets fired from Gaza, newborn hurt in rush to shelter

Israeli border police secure take position while an army bulldozer clears the rubble from a road that was closed by Palestinian protesters during minor clashes in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Jan. 30, 2020. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Army, police gird for possible violence amid fury over Trump plan

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

The Itamar Yeshiva in the Itamar settlement on January 30, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Analysis

At Trump’s Jewish ‘enclaves,’ fear of Palestinian encirclement, plans to expand

Settler leaders vow to enlarge the 15 West Bank settlements that under US president’s proposal would become sovereign Israeli islands in a potential Palestinian state

People on a street in Ramallah, Jan. 30. 2020. (Sam Sokol)

On the streets of Ramallah, Palestinians shrug at Trump’s peace plan

Former President Jimmy Carter pictured before a book signing Wednesday, April 11, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP/John Amis)

Jimmy Carter says Trump plan dooms two-state solution

By AFP

Palestinians protest the Mideast plan announced by US President Donald Trump, in Hebron, West Bank, January 30, 2020. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Top PA official says Arab response to Trump peace plan disappointing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hussein Al-Sheikh admits Ramallah had hoped position would be ‘much better,’ frets Arab nations will be a ‘dagger in the side’ of Palestinians

Erdogan hits out at Arab ‘treason’ over Trump peace proposal

By AFP

Trump will fail in his ‘crusader, Zionist’ peace plan, top Iranian official says

By AFP

Gulf Arabs back Trump’s Mideast efforts, but not plan; urge Abbas to negotiate

Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman who was jailed in Russia on drug charges, and received a pardon from Russian President Vladimir Putin, arrives to her home in Rehovot, January 30, 2020. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Shocked and grateful, backpacker jailed by Russia for drugs lands back in Israel

Naama Issachar returns home on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s official plane following pardon from Russian President Vladimir Putin

A woman wears a face mask in the arrivals hall of Ben Gurion Airport on January 28, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel bars all flights from China as death toll there from virus tops 170

By ToI Staff and Agencies

World acts to halt spread of coronavirus; health minister says Israelis who recently returned from China will be required to self-quarantine

An employee works to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus at Suseo Station in Seoul, South Korea, January 24, 2020. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)

WHO declares global virus emergency after deadliest day for China

By Sébastien RICCI

Deganit and Howard Glick (Courtesy of the family)

Heartbreak over ‘irreplaceable’ mum-of-five who died after contracting the flu

By Mathilde Frot

Deganit Glick, who grew up in Mill Hill, London, before making aliyah, passed away in hospital in Haifa last week, UK Jewish News reports; she blogged at Times of Israel

At 93, a Holocaust survivor’s testimony still serves justice

Halina Strnad’s testimony could help finally convict Bruno Dey, a guard at the horrific Stutthof camp, of accessory to murder

Chana Tannenbaum

The exodus from Egypt began with a lie

Surely, the all-powerful God could have freed the Israelites and exacted punishment upon the Egyptians without resorting to deceit

Naama Issachar is not Anatoly Sharansky

The media let themselves be shamelessly manipulated to collaborate in a propaganda spectacle that was blown out of all proportion

Shmuly Yanklowitz

The death of Tikkun Olam… the horse

The ill-fated horse’s name was an ironic twist that calls us to uphold the Jewish injunction against causing animals to suffer

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Former MK says Trump’s controversial peace plan unites Israelis

Episode #21: Does peace stand a chance? * An historic interfaith tour of Auschwitz may be breakthrough in Jewish-Muslim relations * The only novel written in Auschwitz

This undated photo provided by the National Science Foundation in January 2020 shows on of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope's first images of the sun, revealing its turbulent gas surface in what scientists called unprecedented detail. Prof. Jeffrey Kuhn of the University of Hawaii, Manoa says this image is about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) on a side, and that the "bubbles" on the surface are about the size of Texas. (NSO/NSF/AURA via AP)

Analysis

AP and ToI Staff

Telescope gives earthlings first close-up view of the sun

Astonishing images show turbulent, superheated golden grains, each about the size of Texas, which scientists hope can be studied to predict damaging solar activity

One of the sarcophagi discovered in the village of Tuna al-Gabal, near the Nile Valley city of Minya. (Egypt’s antiquities ministry via AP)

Egyptian archaeologists unveil ancient tombs, 2,500-year-old artifacts

By AHMED HATEM and MOHAMED SALAH

Illustrative: Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi awards the commander of Unit 504 with an official commendation in March 2018. For security reasons, the commander's identity is classified. (Israel Defense Forces)

Top intel officers fired, jailed for sending Palestinian agent on tehina errand

By Judah Ari Gross

In strange case, two commanders of IDF human intelligence unit harshly punished for ordering unnecessary missions to provide sesame paste to general

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An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on August 28, 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

FBI probing Israeli firm NSO over phone hacking suspicions — report

Sources tell Reuters that probe looking at whether NSO products were used to spy on American citizens or US allies

Film producer Harvey Weinstein departs his sexual assault trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on January 30, 2020 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

Harvey Weinstein says he hired Israeli firm Black Cube ‘for days like this’

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

More Headlines

Screen capture from video the impeachment trial against US President Donald Trump in the Senate at the US Capitol in Washington, January 29, 2020. (Senate Television via AP, File)

Trump trial could end soon, as chance of more witnesses slips away

By LISA MASCARO, Eric Tucker and Zeke Miller

A white trail left behind by a rocket test by the Defense Ministry over central Israel on January 31, 2020. (Screen capture)

Defense Ministry holds missile test over central Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

The "pinched fingers" emoji, as shared on social media by Emojipedia, January 29, 2020. (Twitter screen capture)

Pinched nerveIsraelis can finally use an emoji to tell each other to pipe down

Former IDB Group chairman Nochi Dankner (center) seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on April 23, 2018, as he arrives for his appeal of his conviction for stock manipulation. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jailed tycoon Nochi Dankner wins early parole

Speaking to reporters, Jay Sekulow, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, attacks the Democrat's arguments in the impeachment trial of the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump lawyer blurs lines between charity and profit

By Michael Biesecker

The exterior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, Iran, 360 kilometers southwest of Tehran, October 27, 2004. (AP Photo)

US hits Iran with new sanctions, keeps some waivers in place

By Deb Riechmann

British members of the European Parliament from the Brexit Party Jonathan Bullock (R) and Ann Widdecombe wave in front of the train station as they leave in Brussels on January 31, 2020, Brexit day (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

Johnson hails ‘new dawn’ as Britain bids farewell to European Union

By Alice Ritchie

Israel Electric Corp's chairman Yiftah Ron-Tal, at the Cybertech 2020 conference on Jan. 29, (Courtesy)

Israel Electric inks deal to help safeguard Tokyo Olympics from cyberattack

By Shoshanna Solomon

An American Airlines jet taxis at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)

Orthodox couple kicked off plane over alleged body odor sues American Airlines

Former NBC President Fred Silverman poses in his office in Los Angeles, August 10, 2015. (Frazier Moore/AP)

Fred Silverman, TV executive at 3 major networks, dies at 82

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