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Palestinian hold a poster showing U.S. President Donald Trump as they protest the American peace plan in Bethlehem, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington Sunday night vowing to &quot;make history&quot; at a planned meeting with President Donald Trump for the unveiling of the U.S. administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

The Latest: Chief: UN committed to Israel-Palestinian peace

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President Donald Trump departs after an event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Palestinians angrily reject Trump Mideast peace plan

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center, and his wife Elke Buedenbender enter the Auschwitz I Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Heads of State and survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the Soviet army's liberation of the camp, using the testimony of survivors to warn about the signs of rising anti-Semitism and hatred in the world today. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Poland’s president invited to Israel amid row over WWII

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In this March 25, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump welcomes visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington. A blueprint the White House is rolling out to resolve the decades-long conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is as much about politics as it is about peace. President Donald Trump said he would likely release his long-awaited Mideast peace plan a little before he meets Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival Benny Gantz. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump peace plan could boost embattled Israeli leader

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Vandals set fire to mosque in east Jerusalem

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Britain's Prince Charles, center, arrives at the Church of St Mary Magdalene where Charles' grandmother Princess Alice is buried, in Jerusalem, Israel, Friday, Jan. 2020. Prince Charles is on a tour of Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories. (Neil Hall/Pool Photo via AP)

Prince Charles visits Jerusalem tomb of unique ancestor

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, arrives to Tel Aviv airport Thursday, Jan. 23, 2019. ahead of the World Holocaust Forum, which coincides with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp(AP Photo/Oded Balilty, Pool)

The Latest: Charles appears to snub VP Pence in Jerusalem

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Britain's Prince Charles, left, joins a reception for British Holocaust survivors at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Thursday Jan. 23, 2020. Prince Charles is among dozens of presidents, heads of state and dignitaries who have descended upon the city to attend the largest-ever gathering focused on commemorating the Holocaust and combating modern-day anti-Semitism. (Neil Hall/Pool via AP)

World leaders rally in Jerusalem against anti-Semitism

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2019, file photo, the sun lights the buildings behind the entrance of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Germany. World leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp _ once on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in Jerusalem and again on Jan. 27 at the Auschwitz site in southern Poland. The fact that there will be two competing ceremonies reflects how politically charged World War II remains for nationalist governments in Russia and Poland. (Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary

By VANESSA GERA and ARON HELLER - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, meets with Yair Lapid, left, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Dozens of world leaders have descended upon Jerusalem for the largest-ever gathering focused on commemorating the Holocaust and combating modern-day anti-Semitism. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Macron grows angry with Israeli security during church visit

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File - In this Monday, July 22, 2019 file photo, Israeli forces blow up a building in a Palestinian village of Sur Baher, east Jerusalem. Israeli advocacy group has found that Israeli authorities demolished homes in Palestinian areas of east Jerusalem at a significantly higher rate in 2019 than the previous year. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Report: Israeli home demolitions in east Jerusalem spiked

By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 photo, Jewish Orthodox women attend an event celebrating the completion of the 7 1/2-year cycle of daily study of the Talmud, in Jerusalem. This week, Jews around the world celebrated the end of the cycle of study of the Talmud, with assemblies from Jerusalem to London to New York. Most of the celebrations were overwhelmingly male affairs. But in Jerusalem, over 3,000 people joined an event that was overwhelmingly female to recognize the dozens of women who completed the lengthy study process. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Orthodox women seek bigger role as Jews end Talmud cycle

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets family of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in the U.S. airstrike in Iraq, at his home in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. Iran has vowed &quot;harsh retaliation&quot; for the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed Tehran's top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

The Latest: Iraq seeks Security Council condemnation of US

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In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem. Netanyahu said Monday that he would seek immunity from corruption charges, likely delaying any trial until after March elections, when he hopes to have a majority coalition that will shield him from prosecution. (Abir Sultan /Pool photo via AP, File) **FILE**

Israeli court declines to rule on Netanyahu’s eligibility

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu shores up base but obstacles remain

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Holocaust survivor and WWII veteran Mikhail Spectr, 86, pauses as he speaks during the annual Hanukkah Menorah Lighting Ceremony in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. Spectr was taken to Jewry in 1941 at the age of 8 when Nazi soldiers arrived at his village in Ukraine Soviet republic. Mikhail Spectr had been kept at ghetto in Transnistria, territory between Dniester and Southern Bug, occupied by the Nazi and its allies from 1941 and 1944. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

From New York to Moscow, Holocaust survivors share memories

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

UN: Israel has advanced 22,000 housing units in West Bank

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A Palestinian demonstrator hurls stones at Israeli troops during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Palestinian residents held a general strike to protest an Israeli plan to build a new Jewish neighborhood in the heart of the West Bank's largest city. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Vandals damage cars in Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a paramedic treats an injured woman wounded by Israeli missile strikes at a hospital in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. The Israeli military on Wednesday said it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria, carrying out a &quot;wide-scale&quot; strike in response to rocket fire on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights the day before. (SANA via AP)

Israel strikes Iranian targets in Syria; 11 reported killed

By Tia Goldenberg and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, meets with heads of Israeli settlement authorities at the Alon Shvut settlement, in the Gush Etzion block, in the occupied the West Bank, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via AP)

Netanyahu celebrates US settlement decision in West Bank

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