Arab League rejects Trump deal * Abbas to cut ties to Israel, US * Author plumbs Trump-Kushner dynasty * Arabs MKs v Gantz * Israeli tech and Khashoggi death * UK Brexits

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Saturday, February 1, 2020 [Backing Abbas, Arab League rejects Trump’s Middle East peace plan]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Pan-Arab bloc says American offer ‘does not meet the minimum rights and aspirations of Palestinian people,’ vows not to cooperate with administration on proposal]( [UN official: Palestinians in ‘shock’ over peace plan; violence may escalate]( By [AFP]( [Arab Israelis protest against US proposal to include their towns in Palestine]( By [TOI staff]( [Savaging Trump plan, Abbas warns Palestinians will cut all ties with Israel, US]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [‘I will not have it recorded in my history that I have sold Jerusalem,’ PA leader tells emergency meeting of Arab League as alliance of nations rejects proposal]( [Palestinians, troops clash in West Bank; thousands protest Trump plan in Jordan]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [IDF strikes Hamas in Gaza in response to rocket, mortar fire]( By [TOI staff]( Author interview [Rich Tenorio]( [Book on Trump-Kushner dynasty plumbs heroic and sordid histories of US ‘royalty’]( [Andrea Bernstein’s ‘American Oligarchs’ is selling like hotcakes]( [TV: Netanyahu looking for symbolic ‘mini annexation’ move before elections]( By [TOI staff]( [After US opposition foils plans to approve move at Sunday cabinet meeting, PM now said looking for ‘green light for a small annexation to satisfy the voters’]( [Britain cautions Israel against advancing West Bank annexation]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [An indictment, a plan and a pardon: Netanyahu’s wild week]( By [Aron Heller]( [Joint List MK says party won’t back Blue and White over support of Trump plan]( By [TOI staff]( [Left-wing Labour-Gesher-Meretz also takes Benny Gantz to task for backing proposal that calls for Israel to annex Jordan Valley and settlements]( [Gantz vows to advance US peace plan immediately if elected prime minister]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel and PA head into a trade war as Jerusalem bans West Bank imports]( By [TOI staff]( Film review [At Sundance, ‘The Dissident’ shows Saudis murdered Khashoggi with Israeli tech]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( inside story [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [In a pro-Brexit bastion near London, an Orthodox community thrives]( [Ultra-Orthodox families relocate to Canvey Island, where they politically align with locals despite cultural differences]( [Britain leaves the European Union, leaps into the unknown]( By [Raf Casert and Jill Lawless]( [British school to change logo referencing anti-Semitic blood libel]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( Top Ops [Kenneth Jacobson]( [Lithuania’s misguided Holocaust law]( [Denying having collaborated in the slaughter of Jews makes it impossible to face up to the anti-Semitism that still pervades]( [Laurel Leff]( [US Supreme Court upholds law that kept Jewish refugees out during Nazi era]( [Trump administration has resurrected the ’public charge’ clause to limit legal immigration without changing laws]( [Senate rejects witnesses in Trump impeachment trial, all but ensuring acquittal]( By [LISA MASCARO, Eric Tucker and Zeke Miller]( [Republicans outvote Democrats 51-49 against allowing new testimony following Bolton revelations tying president directly to charges; final vote to take place Wednesday]( [Trump limits immigration from 6 countries in election-year push]( By [Colleen Long and NOMAAN MERCHANT]( [Officers fire at vehicle that breaches security at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago]( By [AP]( [CRM]( Director interview [‘Incitement’ director Yaron Zilberman tries to get inside head of Rabin’s killer]( By [Tom Tugend]( [Israel bars land, sea entry to foreigners recently in China as virus deaths rise]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Interior Ministry order follows Israeli ban on flights from China, where death toll has passed 200; Foreign Ministry urges Israelis to leave China]( [WHO calls on countries to ready for ‘domestic outbreak control’ as virus spreads]( By [Joe McDonald and Sam McNeil]( More Headlines [Woman says Weinstein yelled, ‘You owe me!’ before raping her]( By [Tom Hays, Michael R. 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