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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 27, 2018

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Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference, in Jerusalem on November 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ex-IDF chief Gantz unveils new political party ahead of April elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Former chief of staff enters politics, calls his faction ‘Israel Resilience Party,’ amid reports he will team up with ex-defense minister Moshe Ya’alon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon, right, and then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, left, at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 27, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former IDF chiefs Gantz, Ya’alon said in talks to form joint list for election

FILE: Former IDF brigadier general Gal Hirsch gives a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing his entry into politics, December 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Ex-general Gal Hirsch, a probed almost-police chief, enters politics

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a Plenary Hall session for a vote on a bill to dissolve parliament, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 26, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2019 elections

Netanyahu says he won’t step down if indicted, turns up heat on AG – report

By Raoul Wootliff

Senior Likud sources threaten Mandelblit ‘will become the target of a merciless attack’ if he announces charges before April’s elections

Alan Dershowitz: Not enough evidence to indict Netanyahu

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Netanyahu said to warn Likud members of threat from new centrist party

By Stuart Winer

Israel media reviewIn it to win it: 8 things to know for December 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Op-ed

Israel’s 2019 election: A battle of two Benjamins

We could save the economy $480m, spare ourselves 100 days of bickering, and declare Netanyahu the winner again right now — were it not for the tantalizing candidacy of Benny Gantz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz watch a military exercise of the army's Golani Brigade on the Golan Heights, September 11, 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Likud MK calls Ethiopian lawmaker a ‘token immigrant’

MKs cheer news firebrand Arab lawmaker retiring, but she says it’s a nasty rumor

20th Knesset officially dissolves, sets elections for April 9, 2019

By Raoul Wootliff

Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro smiles as he attends the Army cadets graduation ceremony at the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras in Resende, Brazil, December 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Eyeing new diplomatic and economic horizons, Netanyahu heads to Brazil

By Raphael Ahren

PM takes a six-day break from domestic politics in effort to forge new ties with Latin America’s biggest country, once considered a ‘diplomatic dwarf’

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a State Control committee meeting in the Knesset on December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Opposition blames Netanyahu for vandalism of grave of attorney general’s father

By Alexander Fulbright

Zionist Union head Avi Gabbay accuses PM of encouraging violence, says incitement could lead to political assassination similar to Rabin’s

7:23 pm

Abbas spokesman condemns Israel's advancement of new settlement homes
7:22 pm

Livni said interested in joining forces with Gantz and Ya'alon for elections
7:01 pm

Gabbay blames vandalism of grave of AG's father on Netanyahu

Satellite photos released by Israeli firm ImageSat International on December 27, 2018, show damaged facilities in Syria purportedly used by Iran that were targeted in an airstrike attributed to Israel. (ImageSat International)

Photos said to show Iranian warehouse flattened by Israeli strike in Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

But satellite images reveal no evidence of attack at Damascus airport, which reportedly targeted a 747 cargo jet belonging to Iran’s Fars Air Qeshm

Jerusalem official confirms Israel struck Iranian arms depot in Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Army finds, destroys fifth attack tunnel from Lebanon

Lebanon to file UN complaint on Israeli overflights during alleged Syria strikes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, December 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump: We give Israel billions, it can defend itself in Syria

By Eric Cortellessa

President says he’s told Netanyahu military aid makes up for lack of US troops, amid jitters in Israel that withdrawal will make battling Iranian entrenchment more difficult

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a graduation ceremony for pilots who completed the Israel Air Force flight course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows to keep hitting Iran in Syria: ‘We stand firmly on our red lines’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense Ministry Ombudsman Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Brick at a Knesset State Control Committee meeting in the Knesset, on December 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ombudsman claims public will pay heavy price for ‘cover-up’ of army preparedness

Adir Simantov, an IDF soldier paralyzed in a car accident six years ago, fulfilled his dream of marrying his sweetheart Liat. He us using a device developed by UPnRide Robotics Ltd. that helps people paralyzed from their necks down to stand up and be mobile (UPnRIDE)

Israeli groom with paralysis stands tall at wedding with help of robotic device

By Shoshanna Solomon

Developed by Israeli startup UPnRIDE, the indoor-outdoor vehicle wheels people around while they’re in a vertical position; now ready for European sales

Yakir Englander

‘And who by fire’: To the loving memory of Rona Ramon

Perhaps you just wanted your body to burn, like the body of your husband, and like the body of your son that I helped return to you

An eviction order for Rutti the Hyena

When human beings take over wild animals’ territory, the animals make themselves at home in town

The Knesset’s senior club

What makes you think you have something to contribute in your golden days that others, 30 years younger, cannot do better?

The White House is focusing on the wrong election

If Palestinians go to the polls in 6 months, Hamas is likely to take over the Palestinian Authority

Kenneth Jacobson

Fight terror, block Iran, protect Israel — or leave Syria

By the standards of Trump’s own foreign policy goals, he is coming up dangerously short

Palestinians wave their national flag during a rally in Ramallah on November 29, 2012, to support Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's bid for UN recognition of statehood. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

For first time since 2011, Palestine to apply for full UN membership

By Raphael Ahren

Though bid is doomed to fail due to expected US veto, Israeli envoy attacks Ramallah for ‘destructive policies that have encouraged recent terror ‎attacks’

Israel advances plans for construction of 800 more West Bank homes

Erekat: ‘Grinch’ Israel stole Christmas with settlement plans

Bus full of permit-less Palestinians stopped en route to Eilat vacation

By Stuart Winer

Liron Walter helps a child with cancer put together a menorah for Hanukkah at the Daycare of Dreams kindergarten in Ramat Gan. (Courtesy Larger Than Life)

In Israel, a sterile kindergarten built so cancer patients can just be kids

By Larry Luxner

More Headlines

Israeli soldiers perched in defensive positions on an embankment near the Gaza border during a violent Palestinian protest, July 27, 2018 (Courtesy IDF)

Israel warns Gazans to stay away from border Friday or risk getting shot

Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Splitting his sidesHead of Ukraine’s council of churches is a rabbi from New York

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An Iran-made drone is launched during a military drill in Jask port, southern Iran, in this picture released by Jamejam Online, on December 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Jamejam Online, Chavosh Homavandi, File)

Iran building a drone force based on captured US, Israeli tech — report

Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Aziz Dweik at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA bars Hamas speaker of parliament from Ramallah, since dissolution ‘in effect’

A woman holds a sign during thel Women's March in Chicago on January 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jim Young)

January Women’s March in Chicago scotched by local organizers

By JTA

The Anak (Child) Krakatoa volcano erupting, as seen from a ship on the Sunda Straits, on December 26, 2018 (STR / AFP)

Indonesia hikes danger level for deadly tsunami volcano

By Dessy SAGITA and Kiki Siregar

An illustrative photo of a Holocaust memorial in the northern Greek city of Kastoria. (CC BY-SA 3.0, David Shai, Wikipedia)

Memorial to Greek Jews sent to death camps by Nazis vandalized

A December 2018 performance of the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod at Morocco's annual Andalussyat Festival (Courtesy Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod)

Notes of harmonyIn first, Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod performs in Morocco

By Jessica Steinberg

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubara (center-front), who was ousted following a popular uprising in 2011, arrives with his two sons Gamal (C-behind) and Alaa (2nd-R) to testify during a session in the retrial of members of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood over charges of plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising, at a make-shift courthouse in southern Cairo on December 26, 2018. (Mohamed el-Shahed/AFP)

Mubarak: Gaza tunnels were used by fighters to launch 2011 prison break in Egypt

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Egypt's Mohamed Salah vies for the ball against Congo's Tobias Badila during their World Cup 2018 Africa qualifying match between Egypt and Congo at the Borg el-Arab stadium in Alexandria on October 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Tarek Abdel Hamid)

As Liverpool team eyes Israeli, some in Egypt ask if star Salah should quit

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