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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 4, 2020

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Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, head of the transitional government, in June 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Muslim-Arab country is still technically at war with Israel

Netanyahu meets leader of Sudan; former foes to move toward normalization

By Raphael Ahren

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan holds talks with Israeli PM in Uganda, marking dramatic turnaround; Israeli flights may soon be allowed over Sudan, cutting hours off route to South America

Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, head of the military council, waves to his supporters upon arriving to attend a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Sudan government says it wasn’t notified of leader’s meeting with Netanyahu

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat speaks at the J Street National Conference, in Washington, October 28, 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Palestinians say Sudan-Israel normalization meeting is a ‘stab in the back’

By AFP and ToI Staff

MK Haim Katz attends a House Committee discussion on his request for immunity, at the Knesset on February 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset panel votes to grant immunity to former Likud minister Haim Katz

By Joshua Davidovich

Committee of lawmakers votes 17 to 12 to allow MK to avoid prosecution for fraud and breach of trust

7:31 pm

Haim Katz after Knesset panel votes to grant him immunity: 'I learned my lesson'
7:06 pm

Weinstein accuser tells court: 'He is my rapist'
6:59 pm

White House hosted secret anti-Iran meeting between Israel, US and UAE -- report

US President Donald Trump (left) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Op-ed

The art of no deal: Who’s subverting Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan?

By David Horovitz

Unilateral annexation risks so much damage for such potentially short-term reward, and completely undermines the proposal’s negotiated approach. So who’s pushing it, and why?

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

Despite threat, Abbas indicates security ties with Israel, US still intact

By AFP

Ariel Mayor Eli Sheviro (L) stands next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the site of a terror attack at Ariel Junction in the northern West Bank, March 18, 2019. (Jack Guez / POOL / AFP)

Ariel mayor quits settlement umbrella group over its opposition to Trump plan

Sudanese students burn an Israeli flag as they demonstrate against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza outside the UN headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan, December 29, 2008.(AP/Abd Raouf)

Israel media review

No, no… yes: 6 things to know for February 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Sudan is maybe wanting to be friends with Israel, well really the US, but Netanyahu’s campaign will take what it can get; and who is getting in bed with the Joint List now?

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (R) and Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni (2nd-R) pose for photo with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu at the State House in Entebbe, Uganda, February 3, 2020. (Sumy Sadurni/AFP)

Uganda president says he is ‘studying’ opening embassy in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Yad Vashem apologizes for distortions favoring Russia at Holocaust forum

Museum tells newspaper it allowed an unbalanced representation of events during World War II, clarifies that videos shown at ceremony last month do not represent its own position

Anti-Semitic incidents fall to 15-year low in South Africa

By JTA

Ukrainian shop pulls kids’ costumes of ultra-Orthodox Jews with sidelocks

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Portuguese politician sorry for calling Holocaust rescuer of Jews a ‘loan shark’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: A pro-Israel rally in Los Angeles. (Edmon J. Rodman/via JTA)

Rather than drifting away, over two-thirds of US Jews feel tie to Israel — poll

By Stuart Winer

8 out of 10 survey respondents say they are pro-Israel; Netanyahu’s support of Trump tops list of reasons Jewish Americans are critical of Israeli policies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, January 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

Report: Netanyahu suggested to US that Arab Israeli towns be placed in Palestine

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

More Israelis support two-state solution via Trump plan than oppose it — survey

A small boat attempting to smuggle arms to Hamas commandos in the Gaza Strip is observed by Israeli military surveillance (IDF)

IDF says navy thwarted weapons smuggling attempt to Hamas commandos from Sinai

Soldiers intercepted boat, arrested 2 on board who were moving arms to terror group’s naval operatives in Gaza Strip some 3 months ago, military reports

Screen capture from video of a border police engulfed in flames after he was hit by a Molotov cocktail thrown by a Palestinian rioter in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 3, 2020. (Twitter)

Molotov cocktail explodes on border policeman in Hebron

Illustrative: Palestinian men prepare a flammable object to be flown toward Israel, near the Israel-Gaza border east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 18, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Gazan balloons bearing bombs barrage border area, no injuries

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita (R) during his visit to Rabat on December 5, 2019. (AFP)

Netanyahu sought deal with US, Morocco to allow normalization of ties — report

Israeli TV says PM proposed arrangement that would see US recognize Moroccan claims in disputed Western Sahara, in exchange for Rabat improving relations with Jerusalem

Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan waves to his supporters at a military-backed rally in Omdurman district west of Khartoum, Sudan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Sudan says its leader has been invited to US amid hopes for leaving blacklist

By AFP

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces, right, receives Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan at the Presidential Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 26, 2019. (Mohamed Al Hammadi/Ministry of Presidential Affairs via AP, File)

Courting Netanyahu, Sudan sees gateway to improved ties with US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Erel Margalit outside Margalit Startup City/JVP cyber security hub, a joint project with the City of New York, on February 3, 2020. (courtesy/Shahar Azran)

As threats grow, NYC launches $100 million Israeli-run cybersecurity hub

By Melanie Lidman

City picks Jerusalem Venture Partners to manage new tech hub in downtown Manhattan, with hopes to create thousands of jobs to boost online security for companies and individuals

Magistrate Eti Craif. (Israel Courts web site)

TV: Police probed ‘improper relations’ between Kahlon, judge he helped appoint

‘I’m alone and really want to see you’: Investigators found suggestive messages sent to finance minister by Eti Craif, already implicated in sex scandal; both deny any impropriety

MK Haim Katz (C) talking to MKs Ahmed Tibi (L) and Ofer Kassif during a hearing of the Knesset House Committee on Katz's request for parliamentary immunity from corruption charges, February 4, 2020. (Adina Velman/Knesset)

Ahead of immunity vote, Haim Katz tries to persuade MKs of his innocence

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud MK Shlomo Karai at the Knesset plenum, ahead of the opening Knesset session of the new government on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Likud MK seeks annulment of PM’s indictment, saying there are faults in process

For settlers like me, Trump’s plan is a losing proposition

Small Israeli towns would end up deep in a Palestinian zone — that’s a death warrant for individuals and entire communities

Jewish Heart Party: A call for basic morality

The unfettered export of weapons, spyware and military training is a stain on all of us – our party aims to establish oversight of such exports

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Illustrative: A plate of hummus. (Teodora Djordjevic/ Getty Images)

Hummus dystopia

Is it still hummus if cocoa or mango is added to the chickpeas?

By Karen Chernick

Jean-Yves Le Drian attends a working session during the foreign ministers of G7 nations' meeting in Dinard, on April 6, 2019. (AFP/Pool/Stephane Mahe)

Two French-Israelis go on trial over fake France defense minister scam

By AFP

Gilbert Chikli and Anthony Lasarevitsch are suspected of masterminding fraud that allegedly netted tens of millions of euros by posing as top French politician

An Iranian flag flutters at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on November 10, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran to execute alleged spy convicted of giving nuclear secrets to CIA

Amer Fakhoury holds his granddaughter, Kira, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, June 2016. (Guila Fakhoury via AP, File)

Lebanese-American who allegedly worked for Israel charged with murder

By Bassam Mroue

More Headlines

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, with wife Jane Sanders (R), addresses supporters during his caucus night watch party on February 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

With results delayed, Sanders claims lead as Iowa caucus turns into fiasco

By Elodie Cuzin

Worka and Wbjig Tekah hold a picture of their son Solomon Tekah, 19, who was killed by an off duty police officer, at their home in the Israeli city of Haifa, on July 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Policeman who killed Ethiopian-Israeli teen charged with negligent homicide

Aleksey Burkov attends an appeals hearing against his extradition to the United States at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, November 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US prosecutors search for victims of Russian scammer tied to Issachar case

By AP and ToI Staff

Flames rise from a gas pipeline explosion in el-Arish, Egypt in July, 2012. The pipeline that transports fuel to Israel and Jordan has been attacked many times since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak. (AP/File)

Islamic State claims purported attack on Egypt-Israel gas pipeline in Sinai

By AFP

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms' on Capitol Hill, Washington, on September 5, 2018. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg engaged, nearly 5 years after husband’s sudden death

Screen capture from video of Blue and White MK Chili Tropper in hospital to donate a kidney, February 2, 2020. (Channel 12)

Serving the publicBlue and White lawmaker donates kidney to a stranger

By Stuart Winer

Asghar Pashapour, left, a top commander in Iran's Quds Force (Courtesy)

Senior commander in Iran’s Quds Force reported killed in Aleppo battle

J.Lo and her daughter, Emme, singing Koolulam's version of 'Let's Get Loud' at the Super Bowl on February 2, 2020 (YouTube screenshot)

Football fantasyJ.Lo uses Koolulam version of her ‘Let’s Get Loud’ at Super Bowl

By Jessica Steinberg

Actor Paul Reubens participates in AOL's BUILD Speaker Series to discuss his new film, 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday,' at AOL Studios in New York, March 25, 2016. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Big adventurePee-wee Herman is back with a tour, and possibly much more

By JTA and ToI Staff

Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad in an undated appearance (CBC video screenshot)

Canadian insurance company wins appeal against wife of Palestinian terrorist

By JTA

Renana Raz onstage performing one of her works (Courtesy Winnie Yeung)

Dancing with the ScarsRenana Raz celebrates 20 years of choreography

By Jessica Steinberg

A Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet that opened in Nazareth on February 3, 2020 (Courtesy Kentucky Fried Chicken PR)

Bucket listKFC returns to Israel with Nazareth branch

By Jessica Steinberg

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