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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 3, 2019

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This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)

Israeli study: 1/4 of Jews killed in Holocaust murdered in 100 days in 1942

By Michael Bachner

Prof. Stone analyzes train data to conclude that 1.5 million Jews were slain in 3-month ‘hyperintense’ phase that only slowed because there were few Jews left in occupied Poland

Beginning in 1942, Jews in the Lodz ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland were deported to death camps including Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Yad Vashem)

First personHow I measured murder rates during the Holocaust

A pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, New York City, in 1939. (public domain)

How Hitler’s ‘fake news’ assault on America came perilously close to succeeding

By Matt Lebovic

This image made available by NASA on January 2, 2019 shows images with separate color and detail information, and a composited image of both, showing Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. (NASA via AP)

Naming a reddish snowman

NASA names most distant explored object with term used by Nazis

‘Ultima Thule’ comes from medieval literature and means any distant place located beyond the borders of the known world, but it also has long been used in Nazi ideology

Chinese spacecraft makes first landing on ‘dark side of the moon’

By AP

Border Police clear several hundred settler youths who had crammed into a pair of illegally placed mobile homes on the Amona outpost on January 3, 2018. (Binyamin Regional Council)

23 police officers, 4 settlers hurt in violent clashes at Amona outpost

Police clear 2 mobile homes installed illegally on West Bank hilltop; 7 demonstrators arrested; hundreds of protesters converge on site; far-right activists say at least 10 hurt

IDF forces seen at the illegal outpost of Amona in the West Bank on January 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right-wing leaders slam PM for evacuating Amona but not Palestinian hamlet

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: Jewish settlers throw stones near the West Bank village of Hawara, after five people were killed in the nearby Jewish settlement of Itamar Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Settlers suspected of hurling stones at convoy of PA prime minister

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on December 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Attorney general under ‘thuggish and inhumane pressure’ to indict me

By Alexander Fulbright

PM says AG should not announce intention to charge him in corruption cases if he can’t wrap up hearings before elections

7:24 pm

Lapid: PM should demand AG release findings of graft probes if he has nothing to hide
7:17 pm

Netanyahu: Attorney general under 'thuggish and inhumane pressure' to indict me
6:57 pm

PM's military secretary didn't relay order to halt Amona clearance on time -- report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in the Knesset on March 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s Likud said seeking to merge with Kulanu party

By Michael Bachner

Finance Minister Kahlon’s party denies ‘rumors,’ says will run independently in April elections; ex-IDF chief Gabi Ashkenazi reportedly weighing joining Likud

Ultra-Orthodox parties reportedly in talks to form electoral alliance

New ‘centrist’ Arab party registers ahead of elections

Former defense chief Ya’alon launches new political party, Telem

By Raoul Wootliff

Composite image of Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay, left, and Labor Party Knesset Member Eitan Cabel. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After booting Livni, Labor’s Gabbay faces possible mutiny by party members

By Stuart Winer

Eitan Cabel says that in the business world, the chairman would have long ago resigned or been pushed out; MK Nahmias-Verbin also wants change of leadership

Israel media reviewYou want seats with that? 8 things to know for January 3

By Joshua Davidovich

After he humiliatingly ditched Livni, Gabbay’s Labor slumps in polls

Yesh Atid taps IDF’s first female major general to run on party list

By Raoul Wootliff

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, January 2, 2019, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: Iran ‘can do what they want’ in Syria

By Eric Cortellessa

US president says that Tehran, pressured by sanctions, is now ‘pulling people out’ of countries and ‘only wants to survive’

Ex-defense minister asks US for clarifications on Trump’s Syria policies

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli official ‘in shock’ as Trump says Iran ‘can do what they want’ in Syria

Shanahan takes Pentagon helm as Trump blasts Mattis

By Thomas WATKINS

Israeli model Bar Refaeli gestures during a press conference, in Paris, March 23, 2010. (Thibault Camus/AP)

Prosecutors notify supermodel Bar Refaeli of looming indictment for tax evasion

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli celebrity and her parents suspected of hiding earnings worth NIS 23 million ($6 million) from the Tax Authority; father and mother also accused of money laundering

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

AG said aiming for February announcement on Netanyahu indictment

Report says Case 1000 likely to produce breach of trust, rather than bribery, charge; officials split on Case 2000

Then-US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) greets Then-US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro before boarding a plane while leaving Ben Gurion Airport after a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. (Jacquelyn Martin/AFP)

US barred Israel from questioning officials in Netanyahu graft probe – report

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a conference at the National Library in Jerusalem on June 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In highway graffiti, Attorney General Mandelblit called a ‘collaborator’

Illustrative image of a dermatologist checking a mole (Wavebreakmedia; iStock by Getty Images)

After mother gets ill, son develops early skin cancer-detecting device

By Shoshanna Solomon

Technology created by Ofir Aharon, co-founder of Scade Medical, takes a picture of lesions using three kinds of light to detect abnormalities below the surface

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

The Deceiver

By Haim Watzman

A modern Jewish credo

Is it possible for a divided people to come up with a single platform of shared values and principles? Here’s an attempt

When the government provides religious services

Full separation of religion and state isn’t possible, but why is the Chief Rabbinate in the kashrut business?

Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, exit after a visit to the Kehilat Yaacov synagogue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 28, 2018. (Leo Correa/Pool Photo via AP)

Brazil applauds Netanyahu-Bolsonaro bromance, new ties with Jewish state

By Marcus M. Gilban

First-ever visit by an Israeli prime minister marks an abrupt shift in relations between Jerusalem and Brasilia following 16 years of tension under Brazil’s left-wing regimes

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro holds a ceremony to present his cabinet members at the presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on January 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro targets minorities on 1st day in office

By Mauricio SAVARESE

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A picture taken on December 3, 2018 shows a scene from the musical production Les Miserables, performed by Iranian artists at the Espinas Hotel in the capital Tehran. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Children of RevolutionIran’s ‘Les Mis’ has no female solos, touching between sexes

By Kay Armin Serjoie

The two volume Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson that will be used in the swearing in ceremony of incoming Congress woman Rashida Tlaib, seen here in the ceremony of Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to Congress, during his swearing in ceremony, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Rashida Tlaib to be sworn in to US Congress with Jefferson’s Quran

Hebrew University lecturer Dr. Carola Hilfrich (L) speaking with a student wearing an IDF uniform at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on January 1, 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Hebrew U lecturer apologizes after scolding student for wearing army uniform

By Michael Bachner

Daniel Nachmani, the suspect in the murder of teenager Noa Eyal in 1998, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court on January 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

20 years on, man convicted in murder of Jerusalem teenager

By Stuart Winer

Issam Akel (Screenshot/Wattan News Agency)

PA said seeking to deport Palestinian-American jailed for selling land to Jews

By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon

Protesters walk during the Women's March on Washington, Jan. 21, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images via JTA)

New Orleans cancels Women’s March, cites anti-Semitism controversy

By JTA

Screen capture from video of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protesting in Jerusalem against the planned autopsy of a baby, January 2, 2019. (YouTube)

Ultra-Orthodox block Jerusalem roads in protest of autopsy for suffocated baby

By Stuart Winer

Palestinians soak their feet in tank stocked with fish at a cafe in Gaza City, December 26, 2018. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Skin in the gameGaza cafe owner offers fish pedicures to improve business

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, on June 8, 2014. (AP/MENA)

Abbas to meet Sissi for talks on reconciliation with Hamas — PA official

Top PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, left, and Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl in Vienna, January 1, 2019 (Twitter)

Austrian Jews slam foreign minister for hosting top PLO official

By Raphael Ahren

Bob Einstein arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind" at the TCL Chinese Theatre on June 27, 2018. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

ObituaryBob Einstein of Super Dave and ‘Curb’ fame dies at 76

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

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