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What Matters Most On Friday, February 7, 2020

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US presidential adviser Jared Kushner meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on June 21, 2017 (PA press office)

Kushner says Abbas responsible for spike in violence since release of peace plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 28, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Abbas blames rash of attacks on Trump peace plan; Hamas praises ‘revolution’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (center) and Intelligence and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (left) during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in 2016.(Amit Shabi/POOL/Flash90)

Israeli leaders accuse Abbas of inciting violence; PM says: ‘It won’t help you’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, speaks while then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert looks on during a media conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, July 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Kushner slams planned Olmert-Abbas meet as ‘almost pathetic’

By Eric Cortellessa

President’s son-in-law and architect of Trump peace plan says Palestinian leader and former Israeli PM are ‘jealous’ they failed to make peace themselves

Then-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Jerusalem, on November 17, 2008. (Moshe Milner GPO/Flash90)

Olmert to join Abbas in US press conference next week, Palestinian envoy says

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump with, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, from left, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump and their children Arabella Kushner and Joseph Kushner, applaud during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House on December 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jared Kushner: Redrawing maps street by street while wearing a red string

By LAURA E. ADKINS

Sanad Al-Turman, suspect in the car ramming attack near the First Station center in Jerusalem on February 6, 2020, is accompanied by prison guards outside the Jerusalem Magistrates Court on February 7, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court remands suspected Jerusalem car-rammer; family claims crash was accidental

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Officials refute claim, say attack which hurt 12 soldiers was deliberate; he had posted on Facebook: ‘Seeking peace with the enemy an illusion’; brother says he was scared and fled

IDF soldiers from the Golani brigade, hours after they were wounded in a car-ramming attack, take part in their swearing-in ceremony on February 6, 2020 at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Insert: Suspected attacker Sanad al-Tourman. (IDF, social media)

Troops nab suspected car rammer, as soldiers he hit are sworn into unit

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli troops clash with Palestinians during a manhunt in the West Bank town of Beit Jala on February 6, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Three attacks in 12 hours: A day of violence, casualties in Jerusalem, West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Scholars urge transparency to restore Yad Vashem credibility after Putin fiasco

Explosions are seen in the skies over Damascus as the Syrian military fires anti-aircraft weapons at incoming missiles during an attack attributed to Israel on February 6, 2020. (SANA)

Russian Defense Ministry: IDF jets used aircraft as shield

Syria almost downed civilian plane while repelling Israeli attack, Russia says

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Moscow says plane with 172 passengers forced to land to avoid anti-aircraft fire early Thursday; in 2018, Syria downed Russian spy plane while responding to Israeli strike

Illustrative: Explosions are seen in the skies over Damascus as the Syrian military fires anti-aircraft weapons at incoming missiles during an attack attributed to Israel on February 6, 2020. (SANA)

Death toll in alleged Israeli strikes near Damascus up to 23 fighters — monitor

By AFP

A Syrian rebel fighter fires a cannon amid clashes with government forces in the last major rebel bastion of Idlib in northwestern Syria on February 6, 2020. (Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Syria regime seizes swathes of key town in Idlib offensive

By Omar Haj Kadour and Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Interview

UK Jewish leader: Anti-Semitism worse than ever since WWII yet we’re ignoring it

Jonathan Goldstein, who led the battle against Corbyn, warns Jewish groups are ‘at war with each other,’ pushing different narratives: ‘Global Jewry has to get its act together’

Jewish Leadership Council head Jonathan Goldstein (right) with other British Jewish leaders outside Parliament following a meeting with Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Tuesday April 24, 2018. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Victor Perahia, who was interned as a child in the Drancy camp and deported to Bergen-Belsen, speaks to students during a workshop dedicated to the Holocaust remembrance at the Drancy Shoah memorial, outside Paris, January 30, 2020 (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Holocaust survivor’s gruesome memories leave mark with French teens

By Lori Hinnant

Newly elected Prime Minister of Thuringia Thomas Kemmerich of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) addresses a press conference at the State Chancellery in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on February 6, 2020. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)

German state premier quits after winning ‘unforgivable’ far-right support

By Michelle Fitzpatrick

An explosives-laden soccer ball that was apparently flown from the Gaza Strip using balloons is seen in an open area of the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council on January 23, 2019. (Courtesy)

As Gaza balloons bring bombs to Israel, IDF pens poem teaching kids to keep away

By Judah Ari Gross

‘Sometimes, the wind brings with it dangerous things’: Home Front Command warns children to call an adult even if they see ‘a ball, a book or a balloon’

Likud minister slams ‘inexperienced’ Bennett for failing to stop Gaza balloons

At least five suspected balloon-borne bombs found in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Left-wing, ex-general MK spars with Likud after accusing it of sparking violence

Senator Mitt Romney, as an Orthodox Jew I thank you

Should we be lending unqualified support to a president whose manner of speech violates an essential pillar of Judaism?

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Who’s a better female role model: Jlo or Benny Friedman?

One video shows a lot of woman, the other shows nearly none. Together, they reflect the damaging extremes of both secular and religious society

Ilana Goldstein Saks

A Hebrew ’dad joke’ playing off trees (etz) and good counsel (etza) seems to be superficial rhetoric, but its roots run deep (Beshalach/ Tu Bishevat)

The Jewish Woman’s Bible

A millennia-old book of the Bible demonstrates just how warped society can get without women’s active participation

Bridge Over The Valley school, Kafr Qara, Israel, on February 4, 2019. (Nathan Jeffay/Times of Israel)

Deal of the century

At Israeli Jewish-Arab school, parents say Trump plan would ruin their peace

By Nathan Jeffay

Israeli troops clash with Palestinians during a manhunt in the West Bank town of Beit Jala on February 6, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel media review

Deal or die: 7 things to know for February 7

By Joshua Davidovich

Violence rears its ugly head and brings fears of a fresh intifada, as rejection of Trump’s Mideast peace deal catalyzes into terror

An Arab Israeli man opens fire on police officers in Jerusalem in footage published by police, February 6, 2020. (Screenshot/Israel police)

Jerusalem gunman said to be Haifa man who recently converted to Islam

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

Erekat denies US charges of Palestinian incitement, blames Trump plan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) meets with settler leaders in his office on February 25, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/File)

Settler leaders say Netanyahu still pushing for annexation before election

But council heads acknowledge no commitment on issue from prime minister, who recently indicated he will reluctantly delay sovereignty move

IDF sending extra combat troops to West Bank as violence surges

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli forces on high alert ahead of Friday prayers at Temple Mount

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

PA starts banning some Israeli products over ongoing cattle battle

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Assassin Yigal Amir, as portrayed by Yehuda Nahari Halev, torches a poster of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the film 'Incitement.' (Courtesy of PMKBNC/via JTA)

People of the Pod

LISTEN: The director of ‘Incitement’ on his new film about Rabin assassination

Episode #22: Yaron Zilberman defends his portrayal of the Israeli PM’s killer * Orthodox Jewish comedian Ashley Blaker discusses his new show ‘Goy Friendly,’ now playing in NYC

People wearing face masks at the arrival hall of the Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, January 28, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel expands testing for sick travelers from multiple East Asian countries

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israelis who have fever, respiratory problems and visited China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Singapore, South Korea or Macau in previous 14 days must seek medical help

Japan finds 41 more coronavirus cases on cruise ship with Israeli passengers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Coronavirus spread sparks anti-Semitic views and conspiracy theories, ADL says

Global fears rise as more coronavirus cases found on cruise ship

By Helen ROXBURGH and Laurent THOMET

The East End of London captured by artist Beverley-Jane Stewart, currently being exhibited in the Cimbalista Synagogue at Tel Aviv University (Courtesy Duncan Phillips)

Artist serves up slice of Jewish life with collection of synagogue paintings

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

US President Donald Trump holds up a newspaper with a headline that reads "ACQUITTED" during the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast, at the Washington Hilton, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

At prayer event, Trump unleashes fury at his impeachment enemies

By Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller and Jonathan Lemire

Eden Alene and her mother Zehava Varkanesh, after she was announced the winner of 'HaKochav Haba,' which makes her Israel's representative to the 2020 Eurovision (Courtesy HaKochav Haba)

Singing since age 3How Eden Alene became the 1st Israeli of Ethiopian descent bound for Eurovision

By Jessica Steinberg

Emmanuel Nahshon outside the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, January 28, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Belgium raps Israel envoy for tweet protesting UN invite to anti-Israel speaker

By Raphael Ahren

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., gestures while speaking during a news conference at his New Hampshire headquarters, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Bernie Sanders: Being Jewish is one of two factors that shaped his outlook

In this April 23, 2013 file photo, a suspected Yemeni al-Qaida militant, center, holds a banner as he stands behind bars during a court hearing in state security court in Sanaa, Yemen.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Trump says US operation killed al-Qaida leader in Yemen

By Deb Riechmann

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse for his rape trial in New York, Feb. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Prosecutors rest case in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a discussion at the House Committee in the Knesset, January 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top justice officials said furious at AG okaying Ohana’s interim state attorney

ForeScout CEO Michael DeCesare during an interview with CNBC. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel-founded cybersecurity firm ForeScout to be acquired for $1.9 billion

The building known as "The Ungovernable," which is to become the Jewish museum of Madrid, is pictured when it was still illegally occupied by far-left activists, July 4, 2019. (Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images/JTA)

Madrid to open Jewish museum in building reclaimed from far-left activists

By Cnaan Liphshiz

American sculptor Beverly Pepper with her creation during a private viewing of the 'Beverly Pepper At Ara Pacis' show at Ara Pacis Museum in Rome on Dec. 3, 2014. (Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty Images/JTA)

ObituarySculptor Beverly Pepper, famed for monumental iron and steel works, dies at 97

By JTA

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