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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 8, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement live at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem regarding his graft investigations, on January 7, 2019. (Likud/AFP)

Legal official said to accuse PM of trying to ‘deceive public’ over graft probes

By Michael Bachner

Source in State Prosecutor’s Office reportedly says Netanyahu seeks to intimidate state witnesses into changing their police statements; PM tweets: Prosecution afraid of the truth

In ‘dramatic statement,’ PM demands he be allowed to face his accusers

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Justice officials reject Netanyahu claims that probes were mishandled

By Raoul Wootliff

AnalysisTrusting his persuasive powers, Netanyahu takes a gamble by crying wolf

By Raphael Ahren

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s TV broadcast: Rather desperate, and ultimately irrelevant

His complaints over the timing of an indictment announcement, and being denied a confrontation with his accusers, won’t have moved the only person who matters: Avichai Mandelblit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement live at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem regarding his graft investigations, on January 7, 2019. (Likud/AFP)

Israel media reviewDrama king: 7 things to know for January 8

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu lambasted as promised TV ‘drama’ fizzles into ‘lame election show’

By Michael Bachner

True storyNetanyahu mocked after taking legal battle to Instagram

Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman attends a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Shin Bet chief: Foreign state planning hack of upcoming elections

At public event, Nadav Argaman says intelligence points to a specific attack being planned; military censor issues gag on further details, lawmakers fret about ‘Putin’

7:29 pm

Hamas says it arrested 45 'collaborators' linked to Israeli special forces op in Gaza
7:05 pm

MK calls on Knesset to convene urgently over election hacking claim
7:02 pm

Meretz chief: Make sure Putin doesn't steal our election

The Oenothera drummondii, or evening-primrose flower, on a beach in Hong Kong. (Wikipedia/Geographer/CC BY-SA)

Analysis

Israeli scientists find a flower they say can hear approaching bees

Using petals as ears, the evening primrose sweetens its nectar in minutes when it hears sounds at the frequency of bees’ wing-beats

Asem (L) and Salih (R) Barghouti at a rally in Kobar after the former was released from Israeli prison in April 2018 (screenshot: Twitter)

Israel nabs suspected Givat Assaf terrorist after nearly month-long manhunt

By Judah Ari Gross

Asem Barghouti, believed to have carried out deadly shooting attack at outpost bus stop, is arrested in alleged accomplice’s home

Israeli security forces and forensic experts inspect the scene of a terror shooting outside the Givat Assaf settlement outpost, northeast of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on December 13, 2018. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Netanyahu hails arrest of suspected terrorist

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Analysis

Murder suspects’ yeshiva seen as a radical bastion in a more moderate settlement

With 5 students arrested on suspicion of involvement in murder of Palestinian woman, residents and those familiar with Rehelim indicate patience with Pri Haaretz may be fading

Illustrative: Students pray at the Pri Haaretz yeshiva in the northern West Bank settlement of Rehelim. (Screen capture/YouTube)

‘Death to Arabs’ painted, Palestinian olive trees chopped down in West Bank

Netanyahu defends Shin Bet amid right-wing criticism over Jewish terror probe

By Stuart Winer

Justice minister meets with parents of Jewish murder suspects, drawing flak

New Right heads Naftali Bennett (L) and Ayelet Shaked (R) with Knesset candidate deaf rights activist Shirley Pinto, January 8, 2019. (New Right)

Elections 2019

New Right announces deaf rights activist as first-ever deaf Knesset candidate

By Raoul Wootliff

Bennett says Shirley Pinto joined party so Israel can ‘return to being victorious in the fight for the rights of people with disabilities’

FILE: Former IDF brigadier general Gal Hirsch gives a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing his entry into politics, December 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Despite possible indictments, ex-IDF general Gal Hirsch launches political party

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton leads a children's rights committee meeting at the Knesset, January 10, 2017 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Kahlon appoints MK Yifat Shasha-Biton to replace Gallant as housing minister

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

The night the shul burned down

Two synagogues were destroyed by fire; neither was arson, but that didn’t change how much I felt the need to help

Jacob B. Ukeles

Is it time to revisit the Law of Return?

The great nation-building strategy of the early years of the Jewish state may not be the best plan for 2018

Covering Pink Floyd

Where Roger Waters and his followers took to bullying, Israelis embraced the band and the transcendent connecting power of its music

Sheldon Kirshner

One state, two states, annexation

How will questions of security and the West Bank settlements affect Israel’s 2019 election? A primer

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (Flash90, Said Khatib/AFP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

When Hamas and Fatah fight, the ricochets are likely to end up hitting Israel

Relations between Palestinian factions are again threatening to explode, after the PA abandoned the Rafah crossing, leading to its closure

Fatah official vows more extreme measures to end Hamas’s rule in Gaza

Egypt bars entry from Gaza after PA troops leave crossing, Hamas takes over

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas reclaims Egypt-Gaza border crossing as PA withdraws

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

US pullout from Syria to be done in ‘prudent’ way, Trump says

By AFP and ToI Staff

After previously declaring IS defeated, president now says American troops ‘will be leaving at a proper pace, while at the same time continuing to fight ISIS’

Pompeo lands in Jordan, kicking off Mideast tour ramping up pressure on Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

European Union puts Iranian intel agency on blacklist over foiled plots

By AP

32 said killed in Islamic State counterattack in east Syria

By AFP

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami addresses the group’s conference in Washington, March 21, 2015. (Courtesy JTA/J Street)

Progressive groups rage against Rubio’s anti-BDS bill

By Eric Cortellessa

As US senator tries to push through legislation during shutdown, J Street and ACLU cast bill as ‘outrageous’ and unconstitutional

Senate Republicans’ 1st bill on Israel boycotts divides Democrats

By LISA MASCARO

Senator derides Rubio’s claim Democrats back Israel boycott

Marco Rubio calls Rashida Tlaib’s jibe on anti-BDS bill ‘anti-Semitic’

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay leads a Zionist Union faction meeting at the Knesset on December 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor chief Avi Gabbay visited Abu Dhabi, met senior Emirati leaders — report

By Michael Bachner

Opposition politician said to discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Trump peace plan, Iranian threat during secret three-day visit last month

Iraqi Parliament First Deputy Speaker Hassan Karim al-Kaabi. (Iraq Parliament website)

Iraqi lawmaker demands probe into officials’ visits to Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi arrives to attend the 136th ordinary meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), on September 15, 2015, in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine/File)

Omani FM: If Palestinians and Israelis want peace, they should not discuss past

Writer Gwen Ackerman, author of 'Goddess of Battle,' used her three decades of reporting experience in Israel to shed light on her characters' experiences (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A seasoned journalist brings her Israel reportage to fiction

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

In this Nov. 5, 2018 file photo, Melissa Joan Hart arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Ralph Breaks the Internet." (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Troubling spellMelissa Joan Hart tells son only people who believe in Jesus are good

The painting 'Portrait of a Seated Young Woman' by Thomas Couture stands on a easel during a restitution ceremony to the heirs of Jewish French politician Georges Mandel in Berlin on January 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany returns Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish French resistance leader

By AFP

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

Bar Refaeli could be dropped by Eurovision over legal woes — report

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Canadian philanthropist Avrum Morrow in 2013. (YouTube screenshot)

Canadian Jewish man who anonymously donated 1,700 bikes to kids dies at 93

By Michael Bachner

Manny Yekutiel hosts an event in San Francisco in 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish cafe owner in San Francisco hounded over his ‘Zionist ideals’

By JTA

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses a meeting to promote the elimination of nuclear weapons, during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday September 26, 2018 at UN headquarters (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Zarif jeers at ‘blind’ Bolton visiting Western Wall; Bahraini FM fires back

British MP Anna Soubry targeted by protesters in Westminster, London, January 8, 2019 (Screen grab via Twitter)

British MP taunted as ‘Nazi’ by pro-Brexit demonstrators

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The view from the ancient terraces surrounding Ilana Stein's Ein Kerem home (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Into the wildForaging is a way of life for this Ein Kerem family

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative. An F-15 fighter jet sits outside its hangar, canopy up, on the Ovda air base in southern Israel during the international Blue Flag exercise on November 9, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Military recovers F-15 canopy that fell off during training flight

By Judah Ari Gross

Then US President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, November 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

‘Miriam Adelson far wealthier than Sheldon, drives their politics, philanthropy’

Kåre Schultz, CEO and president of Teva. (Courtesy)

Troubled Teva’s CEO sees prices in generic drug market stabilizing

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto, California, June 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma/File)

Amazon said to buy Israeli cloud computing firm for $250 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

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