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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 5, 2020

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Land designated by the Trump plan to become a Palestinian enclave, just inside the Israel-Egypt border, on February 3, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

'Nobody spoke to us about this. Not the PMO. Not the US'

Trump peace plan offers land without people to people who don’t want the land

With no warning, Israeli farmers on Egypt border find themselves set to be surrounded by Palestinian enclaves. Asks one: Does this look like a map put together by serious people?

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for an event in the East Room of the White House at which Trump presented his Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Netanyahu suggests he’ll move annexation forward only after elections

President Reuven Rivlin, right, meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the funeral for late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin calls for resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Palestinian terrorists fire a mortar shell during a graduation ceremony in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 29, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Mortars fired from Gaza Strip toward Israel

Projectiles apparently strike open area near the Palestinian enclave, set off alerts on smartphones

7:28 pm

Mortar shells fired from Gaza Strip toward Israel
7:22 pm

Romney says he will vote to convict Trump, likely the only GOP senator to do so
7:13 pm

Accuser in LA case testifies at Weinstein’s NY rape trial

Mayor Ahmad Abu Hilal standing on a building next to the security barrier in Abu Dis on February 3, 2020. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Analysis

In Abu Dis, the notion of becoming capital of Palestine is deemed ‘preposterous’

Mayor of neighborhood on Jerusalem outskirts says Trump proposal makes no practical sense; activist worried by plan’s ambiguity on fate of residents living beyond security barrier

6 countries block EU resolution that would have condemned Trump plan, annexation

By ToI Staff and AP

EU warns Israel any West Bank annexation can’t go unchallenged

By AP and ToI Staff

Times of Israel PodcastLISTEN in on a ToI editorial meeting’s 360° dissection of the Trump peace plan

Analysis

PM’s meeting with Sudan leader — historic breakthrough or election-season ploy?

To many Israelis, Khartoum is a symbol of Arab hostility, and diplomatic ties still seem far off. But Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s powwow with Netanyahu may bear first fruits soon

A Sudanese protester shouts slogans during a demonstration against the military council, in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Sudan PM condemns meeting with Netanyahu, military backs it

Amid criticism, Sudan leader says he met Netanyahu for his country’s interests

Israel media reviewOdd couples: 6 things to know for February 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Emirati Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba at an event with then-US House speaker Paul Ryan, at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 25, 2018. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

Israeli, UAE officials reportedly met in secret in US to discuss countering Iran

National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, Emirati envoy to DC said to have held talks at White House in December on Tehran, non-aggression pact between Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers his sermon in the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, January 17, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader: Trump’s ‘foolish’ peace plan will die before he does

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference in the Iranian capital Tehran on August 5, 2019. (AFP)

Iran’s Zarif phones Abbas to voice opposition to Trump plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A small boat navigates near the cruise ship Diamond Princess anchoring off the Yokohama Port, in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, February 4, 2020.(Eugene Hoshiko/AP)

Israelis among thousands stuck on cruise ship off Japan’s coast amid virus scare

By ToI Staff and AFP

Travelers quarantined in cabins as Carnival Princess lingers following the discovery of 10 infected passengers; Foreign Ministry says no Israelis thought to be infected

Yossi Klein Halevi

After yet another no, isn’t it time for a Palestinian peace plan?

Trump’s deal may not bring peace, but it is forcing both Israelis and Palestinians to confront long-held beliefs in a much-needed reality check

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Love is in the hair

When I couldn’t donate a kidney, growing a long braid to help create wigs for women losing their hair for medical reasons was the next best thing

Supporters of Donald Trump hold signs in Hebrew and English as the president speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images/via JTA)

US politics

Ben Sales and LAURA E. ADKINS

‘I think it’s Israel’: How US Orthodox Jews became Republicans

America’s most religiously observant Jewish voters have undergone a diametric shift in the last 20 years — but it may be the political parties themselves that have changed

An attendee wears a 'Make America Great Again' kippah before US President Donald Trump speaks at an annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition on April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

US politicsHow deep is Trump support among US Orthodox Jews? New poll says it’s complicated

By LAURA E. ADKINS and Ben Sales

An activist from IfNotNow yells at Donald Trump Jr. during a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, February 3, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)1

Activist booted from Iowa event for yelling Trump supporters are ‘killing Jews’

By JTA

Security forces raze illegal structures at the Ma’ale Shlomo, February 5, 2020 (Honenu)

3 arrested in clashes with security forces as tents removed from illegal outpost

Rioters skirmish with Border Police as civil administration takes down two structures in Ma’ale Shlomo, in the northern West Bank

Palestinian fishermen take to the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City on June 18, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Israel restricts Gaza fishing zone as cross-border attacks persist

By Judah Ari Gross

Suspected explosive device connected to a bunch of inflated latex gloves flown from Gaza, February 5, 2020 (Israel Police)

Kindergarten staffers scramble kids to escape suspected Gaza balloon bomb

US President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 4, 2020. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP)

Trump uses State of Union to campaign, briefly mentions ‘creative’ Mideast plan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president extols ‘great American comeback’ in address to divided country, Congress on eve of impeachment verdict; hails Baghdadi, Soleimani killings

Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, left and Bernie Sanders, right, talk during a break during a primary debate in Houston, Texas, Sept. 12, 2019. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Buttigieg, Sanders lead in 1st party caucus as Iowa releases partial results

By Steve Peoples, Alexandra Jaffe and Thomas Beaumont

US House Speaker Representative Nancy Pelosi rips up pages of the State of the Union speech after US President Donald Trump finishes his State of the Union address in the chamber of the US House of Representatives on February 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Top US Democrat Pelosi rips up Trump’s State of the Union speech

By AFP

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Fruit on sale at Europe's largest outdoor market, Porta Palazzo in Turin, Italy, in October 2006. (AP Photo/J.M. Hirsch)

Global campaign to feed world without harming the planet arrives in Israel

Now launched in Hebrew, the EAT- Lancet Commission report sets out how 10 billion people can be fed healthy food by 2050 while protecting Earth

A newly hatched chick. (Animals Now)

NGO: Billions of animals still suffer, 25 years after Israel passed welfare law

Clarifruit has created an automatic quality control and data analytics software for the fresh produce industry (Courtesy)

Fresh fruit and vegetables meet a suite of quality-assessing software

By Shoshanna Solomon

Steve Grun, CEO of Yofix Probiotics Ltd, left, and co-founder Ronen Lavee (Courtesy)

Vegan yogurt-maker gets money boost from European foodmakers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Yofix Probiotics, a maker of dairy-free, soy-free yogurt alternatives, raises $2.5 million from investors including Germany’s Muller Ventures and France’s Bel Group

Israeli software tester Qualitest sees strong growth as world goes digital

By Shoshanna Solomon

IAI signs accord to share drone tech and produce UAVs with Indian firms

By Shoshanna Solomon

From the webItamar Medical closes Nasdaq public offering at $40.25 million

More Headlines

Israeli pop star Noa Kirel in a 2019 music video. (YouTube screenshot)

In the army nowIsraeli teen pop star Noa Kirel joins IDF

A female soldier operates a tank in the Negev desert, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

High Court dismisses lawsuit by women who want to serve in tanks

An F-16 fighter jet that was damaged by flooding during a rainstorm in January is seen in its hangar after it returned to service in this undated photograph released on February 3, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

3 officers censured, base commander leaves position early over flooding of F-16s

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy treatment. (via Shutterstock)

Major Israeli hospital admits giving cancer patients expired chemotherapy drugs

Eden Alene, Israel's 2020 Eurovision representative and winner of the reality show "The Next Star" during the final in Neve Ilan studio near Jerusalem on February 4, 2020. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Israel picks Eden Alene, 19, as its 2020 Eurovision representative

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews seen walking on a street in New York City on January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90/File)

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City down in January

A sculpture depicting the so-called Judensau, or Jews' pig, adorns the facade of the Stadtkirche (Town Church) in Wittenberg, Germany, January 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File )

German appeals court denies bid to remove anti-Semitic ‘Jew pig’ relic

French-born US writer, scholar, critic and philosopher George Steiner poses during the 'Cite de la Reussite' event at the Sorbonne university, in Paris, October 21, 2006. (Bertrand GUAY/AFP)

Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90

By Hillel Italie

iPad with Twitter website open. (wundervisuals via iStockPhoto)

Twitter: ‘State-sponsored actors’ in Israel, Iran may have accessed user details

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a debate on Likud MK Haim Katz's request for immunity at the Knesset House Committee, January 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mandelblit laments ‘unfortunate’ decision to grant MK Haim Katz immunity

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Port Vale's Tom Pope, right, during a soccer match in Manchester, England, January 4, 2020. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP)

English soccer player faces suspension over anti-Semitic tweet

Oded Guez. (Courtesy)

Infamous divorce refuser who fled Israel returns after 4 years, is arrested

By Michael Bachner

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