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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 1, 2019

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Zionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay (L) announces the shock break up of the Zionist Union as his erstwhile partner, head of opposition Tzipi Livni, looks on, during a party faction meeting in the Knesset on January 1, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'I only got shit from her,' Gabbay reportedly says

Gabbay ends Zionist Union partnership with Livni, without warning her in advance

By Raoul Wootliff

In humiliating announcement, as Livni looks on and cameras roll, Labor chairman questions Hatnua head’s loyalty, says the two have failed to maintain ‘mutual support’

Opposition leader and chairwoman of Hatnua party, Tzipi Livni, speaks during a press conference at the Knesset, on January 1, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After shock ouster, Livni derides Gabbay’s ‘me, me, me’ political approach

Zionist Union leader Avi Gabbay speaks at a conference held by the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on March 11, 2018.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After dropping Livni, Gabbay said to seek union with Gantz

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

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

Netanyahu: I won’t resign if attorney general announces intention to indict

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

‘Imagine if ultimately the case was closed, and a prime minister had been ousted,’ Netanyahu says. That would be ‘a terrible blow to democracy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset on December 24, 2018, confirming early elections. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Facing ‘leftist’ alliance, Netanyahu probes idea of uniting the right

By Raoul Wootliff

Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid speaks to the media in the Knesset, on December 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition lashes PM for saying he won’t quit if AG announces indictment

Dispatch from '67

In forgotten article after Six Day War, Amos Oz warned of ‘eternal annexation’

Recently returned from the battlefield, the writer, then 28, penned a bitter denunciation of Moshe Dayan’s settlement policies: ‘The shorter the occupation, the better for us’

Amos Oz reading from one of his books in 2011. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks to the press after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)

Palestinians pay homage to Amos Oz, ‘supporter of peace’

Friends and family mourn by the grave of author Amos Oz during a his funeral in Kibbutz Hulda, on December 31, 2018. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Accompanied by melancholy songs, writer Amos Oz buried on kibbutz of his youth

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Anti-Christian graffiti found on the walls of Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey reads 'Death to the heretical Christians, the enemies of Israel,' January 17, 2016. (The Dormition Abbey)

In blow to Shin Bet, court quashes minor’s confessions in Jerusalem church arson

Judge labels interrogators’ conduct ‘offensive and threatening;’ attorney says far-right activist was harassed for four straight days in elaborate jailhouse informant exercise

Right wing activists clash with police outside a court hearing in Rishon Lezion, on the matter of the Jewish youth suspects in a major security probe whose details are under gag order on December 31, 2018. (Flash90)

Minors arrested in Jewish terror probe denied permission to see their lawyers

File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

69 years after joining, Israel formally leaves UNESCO; so, too, does the US

By Raphael Ahren

UN cultural agency’s efforts to convince Washington and Jerusalem fail; ‘we aren’t going to be a member of an organization that deliberately acts against us,’ Israeli envoy says

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

Live updates (closed)

TV: Attorney general likely to make decision on PM indictment before elections

In meeting with top judicial officials, Avichai Mandelblit reportedly says public has right to know fate of Netanyahu probes before heading to the polls

7:12 pm

PM's lawyers: Indictment hearing before elections would be a blow to democracy
7:03 pm

Trump congratulates Bolsonaro on inauguration
6:40 pm

300 far-right activists demonstrate outside justice minister's home

When our adult kids move back home

Be firm, employ ’reflective listening,’ and be sure you know the difference between communicating and nagging

Daniel Chamovitz

Losing our humanities: It’s a national security issue

It would be a mistake to sacrifice literature, history and art on the altar of engineering and science.

Dr. Michael Avishai, co-founder and scientific director of the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, who died Saturday, aged 83. (Judith Marcus)

Appreciation

Michael Avishai, founder of Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, inspired generations

The scene of a stabbing in which a soccer player was injured in Ashdod, January 1, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Soccer player stabbed, hundreds require treatment during New Year’s Eve

Lior Inbrum of Beitar Jerusalem hospitalized, with doctors saying his wounds are superficial; 17 others injured in violent incidents, 68 treated for alcohol consumption

Israelis usher in 2019 with New Year’s, Sylvester and Novy God celebrations

By ToI Staff and AFP

UK counter-terror police probe Manchester knife attack

Man drives deliberately into crowd in west Germany, injures 4

By AP

US President Donald Trump speaks at a hanger rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on December 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US will gradually pull troops from Syria over 4-month period

By ToI Staff and AFP

New York Times report on new timetable comes after Israeli official says Netanyahu asked Trump to slowly taper the withdrawal

IDF intel chief: Iran could use Iraq as springboard for attacks on Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

India said to hand Iran $637m tax break for oil import deal

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu says Arab countries see Israel as ‘ally’ against Iran

By AFP

Alice Shalvi, Israeli professor and educator, at her home in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Times of Israel Presents

Through the glass ceiling: Meet Alice Shalvi, mother of Israeli feminism

By Matthew Kalman

Members and leadership of Park Avenue Synagogue celebrate their congregation's donation of a Torah to the Israeli Masorti Movement for use at the Ezrat Yisrael section of the Kotel, Jerusalem, December 26, 2018. (BGAP2008)

Doubling down on Israel, Park Avenue Synagogue brings huge group to Holy Land

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Amy Heckerling at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, April 18, 2016. (Mike Coppola/Gett/via JTA)

‘Clueless’ creator on being Jewish and how men have it easier in Hollywood

By Curt Schleier

More Headlines

Illustrative. Cigarettes in an ashtray. (Yossi Zamir/ Flash90)

Knesset stubs out ads for cigarettes with ‘historic, life-saving’ law

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative photo of a prostitute in Tel Aviv (Flash90)

Knesset approves penalties for prostitution clients

Louis C.K., attending FX and Vanity Fair Emmy Celebration at Craft in Century City, California, on September 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Rich Fury /File)

Louis CK scorned for stand-up set with jokes on Auschwitz, shooting survivors

The new beach barrier between Israel and Gaza, December 31, 2018. (Channel 10 screen capture)

Israel’s Gaza sea barrier nears completion

Then-housing minister Yoav Gallant in the Knesset, June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As he leaves Kulanu, Gallant appointed immigration minister

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts Moldovan President Igor Dodon on his first visit to Israel, December 18, 2018 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Moldova president said to ‘very seriously consider’ moving embassy to Jerusalem

By JTA

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at the Elysee Palace in Paris on June 5, 2018. (AFP/Ludovic Marin/File)

French institute removes photo of ‘Netanyahu’ with bloody hands

By JTA

Palestinian police officers gesture to journalists as they display three Palestinian men, standing against the wall at right, for the media after they were convicted by a tribunal of collaborating with Israel in the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. (AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Family surprised by life sentence for Palestinian-American over land sale

Students at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Dani Machlis)

In Israel, university graduates earn more than college graduates, study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Lara Kollab (Facebook, via Canary Mission)

Ohio hospital condemns ex-resident who said she would give Jews ‘the wrong meds’

By Michael Bachner

The scene of a car crash in the Eshkol Regional Council on December 9, 2018. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Cautious optimism as annual road deaths drop for the first time in 5 years

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative view of central Tel Aviv, home to many of Israel's tech and finance companies, August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli tech firms raised $6.47 billion in 623 deals in 2018 – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

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