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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 8, 2020

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Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)

'Inappropriate intervention in a foreign election'

Jewish Democrats spearhead letter to Trump blasting peace plan

107 Democratic members of the House express ‘strong disapproval’ for plan’s failure to provide for viable Palestinian state and timing of release ahead of Israeli elections

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts speaks during a campaign event at Tupelo Music Hall on February 6, 2020, in Derry, New Hampshire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Democratic hopeful Elizabeth Warren says she will skip AIPAC conference

Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg takes a question from the audience at a campaign stop at the Merrimack American Legion, Feb. 6, 2020, in Merrimack, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Buttigieg says he’s raised $4 million since strong showing in Iowa

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump ousts Jewish officer, ambassador who testified in impeachment inquiry

By Deb Riechmann

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served on National Security Council, and Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the EU, both fired two days after president’s acquittal by Senate

AnalysisWhat kind of revenge could Trump take against his impeachment foes?

Ofer Dekel's wife, Nana, celebrates finding a protective mask at their apartment in Wuhan, China, in a video posted to Facebook on February 5, 2020. (Facebook screenshot)

INSIDE STORY

Israeli dad in China documents life under quarantine in coronavirus epicenter

Ofer Dekel shares experience of living in Wuhan on social media, as he nurses his sick son, scrounges for food, celebrates minor miracles and citizen solidarity

Hospital staff prepare for the arrival of a Chinese woman at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem amid fears she is infected with the coronavirus, January 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2-year-old hospitalized in Israel over fears she caught coronavirus in Thailand

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In 4 meetings, Abbas 'was never willing to get into details'

Kushner: It will take ‘couple of months’ to prepare maps ahead of any annexation

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump envoy says joint Israeli-US commission to finalize ‘conceptual’ proposal, ensure ‘contiguous territory’ for Palestinian state; urges Palestinians to join talks

In this photo taken on November 19, 2019 Jared Kushner listens as US President Donald Trump takes part in a cabinet meeting in the White House, Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

US President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, on June 22, 2018. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem/Flash90)

Did Kushner say Israel agreed before Trump plan not to annex ahead of election?

Moncef Baati, the Tunisian ambassador to the United Nations, at UN headquarters in New York on January 30, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Tunisia fires envoy to UN; he was apparently too critical of Trump peace plan

By AFP

Police and bystanders stand near the scene of a shooting at the Terminal 21 mall, in Korat, Thailand, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. (AP Photo)

Thai soldier kills at least 20 people in mass shooting

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Gunman steals army vehicle, weapons, posts photos and video to Facebook in full tactical gear as rampage begins in city of Korat

An Oscar statue at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, February 4, 2020; Ben Zauzmer works during the day as a baseball analyst for the Los Angeles Dodgers. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images/via JTA/ Courtesy of Zauzmer/ via JTA)

Data whiz picks Oscar wins using ‘same spirit with which we approach religion’

By Gabe Friedman

Blue and White MK Yoaz Hendel at the Knesset, May 29, 2019 (screenshot)

Blue and White MK panned for saying Mizrahi Jews have ‘culture of Arab drums’

Yoaz Hendel insists statement on Israeli melting pot was not derisive, while right-wing, Arab politicians accuse him of racism and ignorance; colleague calls comments ‘wretched’

A composite photo showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White party chief, Benny Gantz, right, speaking separately at a media conference in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Center, left and Arab parties near majority in TV poll, as Netanyahu’s bloc dips

In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, photo, Israeli Arabs enjoy the day at a playground in the Israeli Arab town Kafr Qasim (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Anger at Trump plan seen as potential mobilizer of Arab voters

By Joseph Krauss and Mohammed Daraghmeh

An exhibit at the National Archives marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in a photo taken Feb. 5, 2020. (National Archives photo by Susana Raab via JTA)

At Ford-sponsored Auschwitz exhibit, no sign of founder’s role in Nazi machine

Tiles designed by Armenian artisan David Ohanessian decorate a fountain in East Jerusalem's Rockefeller Museum. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Jerusalem museum showcases Armenian artists who reimagined ceramics for the city

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Donating kidneys and Daf Yomi

Scientific advances and the changing role of women are features of modernity that have enhanced religious Jewish life

Jonathan Muskat

Kobe Bryant and the elephant in the room

The basketball legend who died a tragic death was also accused of rape. We have Biblical precedent to not sugarcoat the lives of our heroes

Christine Leunens arrives at the FX and Disney Golden Globes afterparty at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, January 5, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP)

Interview

Up for six Oscars, ‘Jojo Rabbit’ is based on a novel by this supermodel author

By Rich Tenorio

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with army's air force and air defense staff, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei says Iran ‘does not pose threat to any country,’ but must get stronger

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Nation’s leader says it must become strong enough to ward off enemy threats and prevent war; asserts US sanctions may be opportunity to end oil dependence

(L-R) Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate in the Sullivan Arena at St. Anselm College on February 07, 2020 in Manchester, New Hampshire (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Democratic presidential contenders criticize Soleimani killing at debate

By ToI Staff and AFP

A burning vehicle at Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, in which Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed January 3, 2020. (Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office via AP)

From the webDoubts raised about source of attack that nearly sparked US-Iran war

By Alissa J. Rubin

File: Palestinian farmers harvest potatoes in a field in Al Aghwar, near Jericho in the West Bank, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Amid battle over cattle trade, PA says Israel preventing exports through Jordan

Ramallah officials say trucks carrying produce to border have been turned back in recent days amid escalating trade war; Israeli official confirms new policy to newspaper

Palestinian, 19, shot dead in West Bank; IDF says he threw petrol bomb

Palestinians in Gaza launch balloons carrying RPG warhead into Israel

TikTok removes animated video glorifying Palestinian terror attacks

Illustrative: 90-year old Anna Stupnicka-Bando gets ready to enter one of the taxis for saviors of Jews, in Warsaw, Poland, January 29, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

Elderly Poles who rescued Jews during Holocaust have a free Warsaw taxi service

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Christian Hirte, the German government's former commissioner for the country's east, in a 2019 interview (video screenshot)

Germany’s Merkel fires party official following far-right election fiasco

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

Debris burns at the scene of a brawl in Rahat in footage published by police, February 7, 2020. (Israel police)

Police rescue 11 people from burning building following mass brawl in Rahat

The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on September 9, 2019. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Jerusalem nixes move to name streets in mainly Arab Silwan after rabbis

Roger Kahn, author of the bestseller 'The Boys of Summer,' poses at his home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, April 25, 1997. (AP Photo/Todd Plitt, File)

ObituaryRoger Kahn, elegant ‘Boys of Summer’ author, dies at 92

By AP

Tampa Bay councilman Orlando Gudes apologizes for using an anti-Semitic slur, January 30, 2020. (YouTube screenshot)

Florida councilman who said ‘we’re getting Jewed’ meets with Jewish leader

Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts briefly hacked

Nicki Minaj attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala, May 6, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Uncurbed enthusiasmRap star Nicki Minaj calls Larry David an inspiration

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: Syrian refugees wait after arriving by train in Milan, Italy, June 18, 2014. (Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images via JTA)

Italian Jews, Christians jointly host Syrian refugee family in Milan

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrating the Siyyum Hashas, or end of the 7.5 year Talmud learning cycle, in New Jersey's MetLife Field Wednesday night. (photo credit: AP/ Mel Evans)

NJ event celebrates completion of the Talmud learning cycle

By JTA

Musician Roger Waters performs during his Us + Them Tour at Staples Center on June 20, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

MLB will not schedule any more promotions of Roger Waters

By AP

Daniel Radcliffe in the film adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." (Peter Mountain/WireImage via JTA)

The Yiddish for QuidditchThe first ‘Harry Potter’ book is now available in Yiddish

By Gabe Friedman

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