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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 2, 2019

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Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni gives a statement to the media in the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 1, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Livni says Gabbay’s aim was to humiliate her in a ‘petty and ugly’ dismissal

By Michael Bachner

After ouster from Zionist Union on live TV, Hatnua head says move was seen as attempt at ‘making himself more manly’; Gabbay: I ‘never regarded her as a woman, but as a colleague’

Israel media reviewIt’s not me, it’s you: 8 things to know for January 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Meretz accused of mishandling sexual assault complaints

Elections 2019Bennett taps journalist Caroline Glick for New Right’s Knesset slate

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, at a cabinet meeting on January 4, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90/File)

TV: AG believes it his ‘duty to the public’ to rule on PM probes before election

Avichai Mandelblit has reportedly ruled out closing cases against Netanyahu, has conferred with former top legal officials who all agreed with his position on timing of decision

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on December 10, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Judicial officials warn PM will have ‘problem’ staying on if eventually charged

By Michael Bachner

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Brasilia on January 1, 2019 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Pompeo accepted almost all Netanyahu’s requests, senior Israeli official says

By Michael Bachner

PM said to exit meeting feeling he has influence over US policy; countries cooperating on Syria withdrawal; lone issue yet to be worked out is Israeli jets deal with Croatia

Israeli troops in newly created Gates of Fire Battalion simulate war with Hezbollah terrorist group in northern Israel in December 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

New IDF battalion to act as first line of defense against Hezbollah invasion

By Judah Ari Gross

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Brasilia on January 1, 2019 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Pompeo to Netanyahu: Syria pullout doesn’t alter commitment to Israel’s safety

Head of the Zionist Union political party Avi Gabbay leads a faction meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Polls show Gabbay’s live ousting of Livni lost Labor leader support

TV surveys have new and breakaway parties shifting slightly, but not reaching anywhere near Netanyahu’s Likud, whose support appears to solidify as both blocs continue to splinter

7:32 pm

Brazil's Bolsonaro targets minorities on 1st day in office
7:20 pm

Border cop, jailed over killing of Palestinian teen, to be released from prison
6:55 pm

Settlers suspected of hurling stones at PA prime minister's convoy -- report

Noam Baumatz and his daughter, Noga. (Courtesy)

To treat daughter’s rare genetic disease, Israeli parents race to invent a cure

By Marissa Newman

Inge Ginsberg performs heavy metal with the TritoneKings. (YouTube screen capture)

Interview

97-year-old Holocaust survivor, spy, and heavy metal singer is ready to rock you

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro (L) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) are pictured upon arrival at a synagogue in the Copacabana neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 28, 2018. (Leo CORREA / POOL / AFP)

As Netanyahu returns from Brazil, local Jews feel sidelined

By Raphael Ahren

Leader of country’s Jewish confederation was ignored at event for the community; veteran Zionist activist says PM’s speech was ‘arrogant’ and could inspire anti-Semitism

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Jerusalem on October 29, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Honduras agrees to advance Jerusalem embassy move

Newly sworn-in Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during his inauguration ceremony at the National Congress in Brasilia on January 1, 2019. (Nelson Almeida/AFP)

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro sworn in as new president

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan at an Internal Affairs committee in the Knesset on July 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Stiff new restrictions announced for Palestinian security prisoners

No separate housing according to faction, no more cooking by prisoners, restrictions on water usage — all part of effort to pressure Hamas to return Israeli captives

Fatah-Hamas resentment flares after alleged Gaza torch-lighting slight

Liberman revealed Trump peace plan details to Palestinian officials — report

By Michael Bachner

Rouhani meets Palestinian terror leader, says Israel trying to ‘dominate region’

Eunice G. Pollack

Why Women’s March leaders only hate ‘white Jews’

If you’d internalized the idea that ’Caucasian Jews’ ’defecate on the rest of the world,’ you wouldn’t want them at your march either

Mutually assured denial

Just because there was no Palestinian country in the land of Israel in the 19th century does not mean there’s no Palestinian nation now

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Jewish law applies to women too

If you believe the Torah is relevant today, you’ll agree that its laws of damages should apply to forbidding the publication of women’s images

Parshat Vaera: The power of two

How Paul Revere and William Dawes (remember him?) help us understand the power dynamic between Moses and Aaron

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A bullet that hit a home in Nitzana and was apparently fired from Egypt, December 20, 2018. (Courtesy)

Egyptian general visits Israeli youth village to apologize for stray fire

Bar Refaeli arrives for the opening ceremony and the screening of the film La Tete Haute (Standing Tall) at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 13, 2015. (Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

In unprecedented move, authorities tracked Refaeli’s phone in tax case — report

Likud MK Yehudah Glick speaks at the Knesset plenum on May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

They just glickedLikud MK announces remarriage from Knesset podium

Lebanese chess player Mark Abou Deeb, 8, interviewed on Lebanon's OTV network on December 25, 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Lebanese boy praised for refusing to play Israelis in chess tournament

By Michael Bachner

Portrait of author Isaac Asimov taken in February 1979 at his home in New York City. (AP Photo/Marty Reichenthal)

Future perfectIsaac Asimov predicted home computers and space garbage by 2019

A 'Stronger Than Hate' banner is displayed on the sidelines before an NFL Football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Carolina Panthers, Thursday, November 8, 2018, at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh Steelers kick in $70,000 to synagogue attack recovery fund

Comedian Hasan Minhaj performs on stage during the 11th Annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017, in New York. ( Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)

Netflix takes down comedy show critical of Saudi Arabia after kingdom complains

By AFP

Illustrative: A child using a computer (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Knesset approves first reading of bill to curb children’s access to porn

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

'The Little Spacecraft, a joint project of SpaceIL and science education company StellarNova, offers the basics about space travel (Courtesy StellarNova)

Reach for the moonNew Israeli book teaches kids about space travel

By Jessica Steinberg

A file photo shows construction at the new Ramon International Airport, in Timna, southern Israel, on January 2, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel’s new international airport near Eilat to open January 21

By AFP

A man looks out from a minaret at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem on January 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New Jerusalem mayor said pushing plan to quieten mosque loudspeakers

Members of a multi-age gospel choir in Tel Aviv sing 'One Love' for the annual February 9, 2019 festival (Courtesy 'One Love')

Let's get together‘One Love’ fest for Bob Marley’s 74th birthday

By Jessica Steinberg

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