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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 9, 2019

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (AFP/ Pool/Yuri Kadobnov)

Russia denies it is planning to interfere in Israeli elections

After Shin Bet warns of possible tampering by foreign nation, Kremlin says Moscow has no intention of trying to influence outcome of any country’s vote

TV: Shin Bet chief warns a ‘foreign country’ is trying to influence elections

Shin Bet confident it can thwart foreign meddling in upcoming elections

Netanyahu says no place more ready than Israel to deal with election hacking

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a gathering of the Basij, an all-volunteer force under the Revolutionary Guard, in Tehran, October 4, 2018. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader calls US officials ‘idiots,’ but hints sanctions hurting

By ToI Staff and AP

Khamenei says Iran will withstand the pressure, slap US in the face again

European Union leaders attend a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, December 14, 2018. (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool Photo via AP)

Israel welcomes European sanctions on Iran over plots to attack dissidents

By ToI Staff and AP

Gonen Segev, a former Israeli government minister indicted on suspicion of spying for Iran, is seen in the District Court in Jerusalem, July 5, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Former Israeli minister pleads guilty in Iran spying case, will serve 11 years

Gonen Segev signs plea bargain in which he confesses to reduced charges; is no longer accused of assisting an enemy state during wartime

Illustrative. Hackers/cybersecurity (iStock by Getty Images)

Live updates (closed)

TV report: Police agreed to PM’s request to confront witnesses, he demurred

Source close to investigation tells Hadashot that when investigators agreed to have Netanyahu meet accusers, he said he’d need to ask his lawyers — then never got back to them

7:19 pm

Report: Shin Bet chief warns Chinese investment in Israel must be monitored
7:02 pm

Lapid said to offer former IDF chief Ashkenazi #2 spot in Yesh Atid
6:30 pm

Probe source: Police agreed to PM's request for confrontation, he demurred

Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a September 11, 2013, Navy ceremony (photo credit: AP Photo: Dan Balilty)

Netanyahu remains preferred PM, but Gantz is now close behind, poll finds

Survey shows three percentage points separate the premier and the ex-IDF chief; a second poll shows Likud, with projected 32 seats, far ahead of any other rival party

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yoav Gallant hold a joint press conference at the Knesset, January 9, 2019, as Gallant joins Netanyahu's Likud party (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

After defecting from Kulanu, minister Gallant joins Likud

By Raoul Wootliff

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

Gallant and Shasha-Biton sworn in as ministers, in cabinet reshuffle

Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman outside his home on February 11, 2016. (Flash90)

Israel media review

Rushin’ to judgment: 8 things to know for January 9

By Joshua Davidovich

After Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman accuses [redacted country name] of planning cyber attacks to fiddle with Israel’s election, Moscow feels its ears start to burn for some reason

View from the Tijuana side, Mexico, on October 12, 2017 of prototypes of US President Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall being built near San Diego, in the US.
(AFP/GUILLERMO ARIAS)

Jewish Insider’s Daily Kickoff: January 9, 2018

Kuwaiti TV personality Fajr Al-Saeed in a video interview on Israel's Kan Channel 11 TV news following her new year's tweet calling on Arabs to normalize ties with Israel, January 8, 2019 (Screenshot, Kan)

In Israel TV interview, Kuwaiti TV host calls for ties, shrugs off death threats

Fajr al-Saeed who was castigated for posting New Year’s tweets in Hebrew and Arabic hoping for normalized relations with Israel, tells Israeli TV: ‘I’m only afraid of Allah’

Mossad Director Yossi Cohen attends a handover ceremony for the position of IDF chief of military intelligence, at the Glilot military base, near Tel Aviv, on March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

News site claims Mossad head met Saudi, UAE, Egypt intel officials on Gulf visit

Left to right: Grant Gochin (Courtesy); Accused Nazi collaborator Jonas Noreika (Courtesy); and granddaughter Silvia Foti (Ina Budryte/via JTA)

War hero or Nazi collaborator? Family partners with victim’s kin to expose truth

By Robert Philpot

'Let's talk less about who's who. Let's just shop together'

On edge of Jerusalem alongside security barrier, Jews and Arabs shop at new mall

By Jessica Steinberg

‘I’ve waited for this for many years,’ says supermarket mogul and founder Rami Levy, on site for the first day of business as his shopping center prepares to open fully in 3 weeks

Illustrative: A police officer giving a ticket in the West Bank. (Israel Police)

Israeli woman says Palestinians blocked her car, smashed window with hammer

File: Security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem on May 10, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Girl, 14, lightly injured in suspected stabbing in Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

The American ‘Zionist’ assault on Israel

Less hubris and more interest in why Israelis think what they do would go a long way to helping this relationship survive

Nechama Goldman Barash

Can religious and civil marriage coexist in Israel?

The goal is to re-create the system so that women will not be defined as adulteresses and their children will not be labeled ’bastards’

Parshat Bo: The power of youth

In an era when the Spartans disposed of imperfect children, the Torah commands that the young serve God

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Why I am controversial

Really, my goal is to create great religious and intellectual excitement about a protest movement that challenges the human condition — Judaism!

Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, talks to hundreds of supporters at a special event marking the launch of the party's elections campaign in Rishon Lezion on Jan 8, 2019. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)

Israel elections 2019

Launching Yesh Atid election campaign, Lapid vows to oust ‘dangerous’ Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Party head says the public is fed up with a prime minister ‘only interested in his own indictments’ and won’t stand for a corrupt leadership

Gabbay admits Gantz won’t join forces with Labor to oust Netanyahu

Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism splits into two parties, for now

By Raoul Wootliff

Veteran Arab MK bolts the Joint List, taking his party along

Wary of PA ‘corruption,’ Palestinians launch protest of new social security law

By Adam Rasgon and Photos by Luke Tress

‘Blue gloves’ demonstrators, inspired by yellow vests protests, say they do not trust a PA-created institution to handle their money and cannot afford to pay more taxes

A Palestinian protester displays a kite loaded with an incendiary device before launching it towards Israel, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 29, 2018 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas renews funding for incendiary kite units ahead of expected escalation

By Avi Issacharoff

Illustrative: A prisoner behind bars at a Hamas-run prison in Gaza City on May 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Hamas arrests 45 ‘collaborators’ in Israeli special forces op that went awry

By AFP and ToI Staff

United States Senator Chuck Schumer speaks during an inauguration ceremony for the new Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, in New York, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Democrats block Senate bill on Israel boycotts, citing US government shutdown

By LISA MASCARO

Package that includes military support for Israel and Jordan stalls on a vote of 56-44, not enough to clear the 60-vote hurdle

US President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 26, 2018 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. (AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)

Netanyahu seeking to meet with Trump two weeks before elections – report

By Stuart Winer

AnalysisAre Republicans trying to make US government shutdown an Israel issue?

Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, center, and Ethiopian religious leaders afixed the mezuzah on the door of the new International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry at the Ono Academic College in Kiryat Ono on January 6, 2019. (courtesy Ono Academic College)

First Ethiopian Jewry research hub aims to preserve community’s traditions

By Melanie Lidman

More Headlines

OrCam MyMe (YouTube screenshot)

Facial recognitionMobileye founders unveil wearable camera to identify everyone you meet

The Zalmon Stream in northern Israel swells with rain on January 9, 2018. (Nadav Bartan/Nature and Parks Authority)

Winter rains raise Sea of Galilee level by 19 centimeters in 2 days

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative: A woman takes her children on a walk in the Jewish settlement of Sde Boaz in Gush Etzion, West Bank, on August 28, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Settler growth rate down for 7th year, but still higher than national average

Robert Kraft, philanthropist and owner of the New England Patriots, winner of the 2019 Genesis Prize. (Genesis Prize Foundation)

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wins Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize

By Stuart Winer

Former defense minister Moshe Arens, in his home in Savyon, on July 28, 2016 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Thousands mourn ‘great leader’ as 3-time defense minister Moshe Arens buried

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the funeral of former defense and foreign minister Moshe Arens at Savyon Cemeter, on January 8, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu resubmits request to let his wealthy benefactors cover his legal fees

Rabbi Eliezer Berland (L), a convicted sex offender, meets with UTJ's Meir Porush at a Beit Shemesh wedding on January 6, 2019 (courtesy)

Sex offender rabbi ‘negotiated with deputy ministers’ for public comeback

Former prosecutor Uri Korev (Ynet video screenshot)

Olmert’s ex-prosecutor: Reasonable for Netanyahu to seek to face his accusers

Dr. Carola Hilfrich's argument with a student in army uniform at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (video screenshot)

Hebrew U students, staff defend lecturer caught scolding student in IDF uniform

Kulanu chairman Moshe Kahlon holds a faction meeting in the Knesset on November 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Finance Ministry predicts NIS 10 billion budgetary gap in 2019

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