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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 5, 2019

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Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, in Jerusalem on November 6, 2017. (Flash90)

Israel’s top legal officials warn PM’s allies seek to undermine the rule of law

State prosecutor slams ‘super-problematic’ tweet by coalition chief, who claimed Netanyahu is being framed for corruption and ‘millions of people’ won’t accept it

Shelly Yachimovich leads a State Control Committee meeting in the Knesset on December 31, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Opposition leader: ‘Fascist elements’ in PM’s attack on potential indictment

Yoav Galant at the Knesset on December 24, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s new general attacks Gantz: ‘He’s silent because he has nothing to say’

Labor’s Yachimvoich says she’d like to ally with the former army chief; Yesh Atid official says he’s open to joining forces with Tzipi Livni

Labor leader Avi Gabbay (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor’s embattled Gabbay urges Gantz, Lapid to join forces under his leadership

Israel Police Dep. Commissioner Motti Cohen at a police ceremony marking the Jewish New Year at Israel Police headquarters in Jerusalem on September 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Erdan delays appointment of new police chief until after elections

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 27, 2018. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool Photo via AP)

Abbas: ‘I do not have weapons, but I will not end my life as a traitor’

In Egypt, PA president threatens to cancel Oslo Accords, halt security coordination with Israel, reiterates refusal to deal with Trump over recognition of Jerusalem

Israeli troops arrest brother of suspected West Bank terrorists — report

Palestinians try to breach border fence during Gaza protests, 15 wounded

With help from diaspora, Palestinians hope for Asian Cup soccer surprise

By Hossam Ezzedine and Anne Levasseur

US National Security Adviser John Bolton (L) gives a press briefing in New York on September 24, 2018, on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

US has hit back twice; next strike would be 'more telling'

Arriving in Israel, Bolton warns Syria not to use chemical weapons after pullout

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ahead of talks with Netanyahu, Trump’s national security adviser says Assad regime should know that US response to chemical attacks will not diminish with troop withdrawal

No timeline for US withdrawal from Syria, State Department official says

By ToI Staff and AFP

Pompeo and Bolton head to Mideast amid tension over Syria pullout

By Matthew Lee and Zeke Miller

Pompeo to make 8-nation Mideast trip on heels of Trump decision to leave Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran's communications minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi speaks in a TV interview on August 13, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Tests concluded, Iran prepares for launching of satellites

Telecommunications minister says preparations have been successful ahead of planned launch criticized by Washington as violating Security Council resolution

Iran approves bill targeting money laundering, terror financing

By AFP

Iranian oil minister says potential buyers up ‘significantly’ despite sanctions

Iran deploying warships to western Atlantic amid rising tensions with US

House Israel

Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin discovers he’s a quarter Jewish

‘You’ve uprooted my worldview,’ says author on PBS’ celebrity genealogy show ‘Finding Your Roots’ as he discovers he is 22.4 percent Ashkenazi Jew

George R.R. Martin, left, shown with “Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was shocked by his DNA test. (Courtesy of McGee Media/Ark Media via JTA)

US President Donald Trump takes a question during a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House following a meeting with Congressional leaders on the government shutdown, January 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump says new lawmaker Tlaib who called him a ‘motherf**ker’ is a ‘disgrace’

First-ever Palestinian-American woman in Congress Rashida Tlaib unapologetic after she used expletive when declaring intention to impeach the president

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Capitol Hill, Jan. 3, 2019. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images/JTA)

5 Jewish facts to know about would-be US president Elizabeth Warren

Representative-elect Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) holds a baby while talking to fellow members of Congress during the first session of the 116th Congress at the US Capitol on January 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Contrary to her tweet, other refugees were elected to Congress before Ilhan Omar

Alexander Korda, left, with his brother Vincent Korda. (Courtesy BFI National Archive)

The Jewish director who kick-started British film — and coordinated WWII spies

By Jenni Frazer

Nelly Ben-Or sitting by one of her two pianos in her London home, December 13, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Nelly Ben-Or risked all to play the piano. It helped her survive the Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Shulamit S. Magnus

Rank misogyny in the Israeli electoral campaign

Tzipi Livni is the rare politician with coherent, and consistent positions — and yet she’s still ’just’ a female

The only way to beat Bibi — unite behind Gantz or Lapid

The political center has the best chance of getting enough seats to form a bloc against the Likud

My growing collection of slashed tires

Every act of violence defaces the Image of God; every act harming the earth that sustains us is a humanly caused plague

Jonathan Weisman

American Jews and Israeli Jews Are Headed for a Messy Breakup

From the Web: A New York Times op-ed outlines the widening rift and asks: Is the world ready for another Great Schism?

Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish rabbis clean slaughtered chickens at the Jerusalem Chicken Factory March 20, 2006 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Belgian ban on kosher slaughter has Jews worried about what comes next

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters on his way to the senate chamber, as the Senate takes up a House-passed bill that would pay for President Donald Trump's border wall and avert a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US lawmakers reintroduce pro-Israel bill that didn’t make cut in last Congress

Illustrative: The Gable House Bowl in Torrance, California (YouTube screenshot)

Three dead, four injured in California bowling alley shooting

By AFP

Leah Forster did not mention the controversy over her Brooklyn performance at her New Year's Eve show. (Courtesy of Forster)

Lesbian Jewish comedian banned in Brooklyn does New Year’s Eve show after all

By JTA

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in the 1993 movie 'Schindler's List' (Screen capture)

From the webGerman far-right bristles at free invite to Schindler’s List screening

Illustrative: Swastika graffiti. (Flash 90)

Swastika painted on Irish synagogue

By JTA

Illustrative: A market in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green, London, on June 19, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Following protests by Muslims, London mosque cancels Holocaust exhibition

By JTA

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (L), poses during a ceremonial swearing-in with Rep. Adam Schiff, (Democrat-California) right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, during the opening session of the 116th Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Adam Schiff, prominent Trump critic, assumes chair of intelligence committee

People from all over the world participating in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Auschwitz sees 21 percent drop in visits by Israelis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Temple Beth Sholom in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. (screen capture)

Arizona synagogue vandalized, but police say no evidence of hate crime

By JTA and ToI Staff

This Dec. 3, 2007 file photo shows radio talk show host Michael Savage in Tiburon, California. (AP Photo/John Storey, File)

Restaurant threatened for serving conservative DJ Michael Savage

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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