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What Matters Most On Monday, January 7, 2019

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This December 29, 2016 photo shows an Israeli Air Force F-15 plane in flight during a graduation ceremony for new pilots in the Hatzerim air force base near the city of Beersheba. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

F-15 pilots at 30,000 feet: ‘We’re landing without a canopy, do you copy?’

By Judah Ari Gross

Military investigating how top of fighter jet came off, exposing airmen to bitter cold and whipping winds; plane landed safely at nearby base

An Israeli Air Force F-15 takes off during the Blue Flag air exercise at the Ovda air force base, north of the Israeli city of Eilat, on November 8, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Air Force F-15 said to lose canopy at 30,000 feet, lands safely

Paratrooper Evyatar Yosefi, 20, drowned during a training exercise in northern Israel on January 7, 2018. (Facebook)

IDF soldier drowns in rain-swollen stream during exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Then-defense minister Moshe Arens, center, meets with then-deputy IDF chief of staff Maj. Gen. Ehud Barak and then-head of the southern command Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai in 1991. (Ofer Lafler/Israel Defense Forces/Defense Ministry's IDF Archive)

Moshe Arens, former defense minister and envoy to Washington, dead at 93

By Haviv Rettig Gur

‘I loved you as a son loves a father,’ says Netanyahu of his mentor, a founding member of Likud credited with shepherding advances in Israel’s military capabilities

Tania Joya (Courtesy)

'I've had a different experience in life to most people'

The former ‘First Lady of ISIS’ now loves Reform Jews, plans to visit Jerusalem

By David Horovitz

Tania Joya was married for 12 years to the leading American in Islamic State. Today she lives in Texas, has renounced Islam and is soon to speak in a temple about de-radicalization

The entrance to the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank. (Flash90/File)

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Rabbis approved Shabbat violation to counter threat of Shin Bet interrogations

Settlement spiritual leaders deemed investigation into Palestinian woman’s killing a matter of life and death, in light of past suicide attempt by Jewish terror suspect

A photo released on January 6, 2019 by the Shin Bet, saying it is a screenshot from a video showing an Israeli flag being burned by Jewish teens suspected of murdering a Palestinian woman in the West Bank. (Shin Bet)

Flag daubed ‘Death to Zionists’ found during arrest of Jewish terror suspects

Yakoub Rabi, husband of a Aisha Rabi, a Palestinian woman who was killed in a roadside stoning in October, 2018 (Channel 10 screen capture)

Husband of Palestinian woman killed in stoning seeks justice to stop next attack

Likud MK Nava Boker (R) attends a protest in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near the weekly demonstration by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's home in Petah Tikva on August 5, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Likud lawmaker compares Shin Bet to KGB for treatment of Jewish terror suspects

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

‘It would be better if the Shin Bet spent its time trying to prevent murderous Palestinian terror and not torturing Jewish boys,’ tweets Nava Boker

Illustrative: A right-wing Jewish activist holds a sign reading, "Do not torture me" outside the Duma terror attack trial in Petah Tikva on December 28, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media reviewTortured reasoning: 8 things to know for January 7

By Joshua Davidovich

The cover page of an Israeli Foreign Ministry Facebook page, 'Israel in Iraqi dialect,' launched in May 2018 (screen shot: Facebook)

Three Iraqi delegations said to make unprecedented Israel visits, meet officials

TV report says secret taboo-busting trips arranged with goal of building basis for future ties; delegates tour Yad Vashem, meet academics, discuss Iraqi Jewish heritage

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and US National Security Adviser John Bolton meeting at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on January 6, 2019. (Matty Stern/ US Embassy Jerusalem)

Hosting top Trump aide, PM asks US to recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu plans to go to northern border Monday with National Security Adviser Bolton, who reassures Israel over Syria withdrawal

US National Security Adviser John Bolton unveils the Trump administration's Africa Strategy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, December 13, 2018. (Cliff Owen/AP)

Trump aide: US Syria withdrawal only after Islamic State defeated

By AP and ToI Staff

Defense Ministry Director General Udi Adam. (Flash90)

Defense Ministry chief to visit Croatia, as arms deal flounders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in Tel Aviv, November 18, 2018, saying he will take over temporarily as defense minister, as early elections loom. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)

Justice ministry rejects Netanyahu’s criticism of corruption probes

By Raoul Wootliff

Law enforcement authorities say investigations against PM were carried out ‘professionally and thoroughly… only according to professional considerations’

7:30 pm

Livni: We need to save Israel from Netanyahu
7:23 pm

Gantz's Israel Resilience party says Israel's leader should focus on its citizens
7:12 pm

Police says a face-to face meeting between PM and witnesses would not have made a difference

Illustrative: Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City, on October 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Air force hits Gaza targets after rocket fired into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Iron Dome intercepts projectile aimed at southern city of Ashkelon, no injuries or damage reported; latest round of violence sparked by explosive device flown into Israel

Illustrative. An Iron Dome Missile Defense battery firing an interceptor missile on August 9, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Iron Dome intercepts rocket fired at Ashkelon from Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A police bomb disposal robot carries away a drone-shaped device from the Gaza Strip, borne by dozens of helium balloons, which landed in a carrot field in southern Israel on January 6 ,2019. (Israel Police)

IDF strikes Hamas posts in Gaza after explosive flown into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

The Endozip device developed by Israeli startup Nitinotes is inserted via the mouth and has a suturing device, with a needle enclosed inside its main chamber (Courtesy)

Amid obesity, Israeli startup develops Endozip device to stitch up stomach bulge

By Federico Maccioni

Caesarea-based Nitinotes says it is working on a safe, automated, and minimally invasive suturing solution, tailor-made to help with weight reduction

Gray Cranes at the Agamon Hula Lake in the Hula valley in northern Israel, November 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Israel techies seek to boost startup action in the north

By Shoshanna Solomon

The band members of UK Pink Floyd Experience, which performed in Israel in January 2019, after originally canceling following intense pressure from BDS activist Roger Waters (Courtesy EGOEast Productions)

Wish we weren’t here? Pink Floyd cover band plays Israel…but not Waters’ songs

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

UK Pink Floyd Experience, which was urged by the anti-Israel musician to cancel its Israel trip, went ahead but enlisted local Israeli tribute band to cover most of the big hits

In this Nov. 27, 2018, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks about his new book, 'Where We Go From Here: Two Years in the Resistance' in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bernie Sanders blasts introduction of anti-BDS bill as ‘absurd’

The ultra-Orthodox vote and its impact

When the Haredim break ranks locally, they change the political landscape nationally in unpredictable ways

Ari Z. Zivotofsky

No, not a confession at any cost

Interrogators who push suspects to confess in order to end their investigations risk the real criminals going free

Rabbi Rachel Rubenstein is trying to engage young families in her role as executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Orange County, New York. (Gail Conklin for the Jewish Federation of Greater Orange County/via JTA)

Meet the 27-year-old rabbi leading a NY Jewish federation

By Josefin Dolsten

Bryant Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer, in his office in the US District Court in Washington, DC, December 19, 2018. (Ron Kampeas)

Reporter's notebook

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer shares secrets of a healthy Supreme Court

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Rachel Brosnahan poses in the press room after winning the award for best performance by an actress in a television series, musical or comedy, for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The favorites‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ star, ‘Kominsky’ take home Golden Globes

By ToI Staff and AP

Ephraim Borowski, director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities. (screen capture, YouTube)

Scottish lawmakers pan anti-Semitism, as many Jews said thinking of leaving

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Security seen at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport on July 23, 2013. Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Senior El Al official among 9 suspects charged in major cocaine-smuggling ring

Yehudah Haber in an undated photo from his army days. (courtesy Yehudah Haber)

Cancer patient sues Health Ministry over slashed marijuana prescriptions

By Melanie Lidman

Tapuah Junction in the West Bank on January 7, 2019. (Israel Police)

Border guards shoot Palestinian in leg in apparent ‘suicide by cop’ attempt

By Judah Ari Gross

The Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. (JTA/Uriel Heilman)

Palm Tree becomes first official ultra-Orthodox town in America

By JTA

Cartivator Skydrive (Cartivator Resource Management, via AFP)

Israeli company leads flying car ‘buzz’ ahead of major tech show

By AFP

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in Jerusalem on October 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked brands Gantz, Lapid as ‘fake right’ leftists in ‘disguise’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the University of Utah Thursday Dec. 13, 2018, in Salt Lake City. B(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Biden likely to enter 2020 presidential race — report

By ToI Staff and AP

Yara Ayoub, 16, from the Galilee village of Jish. (Hadashot screen capture)

Prosecutors plan to indict 2 suspects for murder of Galilee teenager

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