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What Matters Most On Friday, January 11, 2019

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A convoy of US troops drive along a road leading to the front line with Turkish-backed fighters in north Syria, March 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Troop pullout from Syria has started, US official confirms

By AP

Statement on first withdrawals does not dispel uncertainty over the timeline for the surprise drawdown

Pompeo repudiates Obama Mideast policies, ‘willful blindness to danger of Iran’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Al-Qaeda-linked group tightens grip over Syria’s last major rebel-held region

By AP

Pompeo promises ‘Every last Iranian boot’ will be expelled from Syria

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI and MENNA ZAKI

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the defense ministry's headquarters in Tel Aviv, on December 4, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

IDF chief: Hezbollah had grandiose attack plan to ‘shake Israel’

Outgoing Eisenkot says terror group believed tunnel assault would be ‘something Israel hasn’t experienced since founding’; dismisses idea that ‘a little more force will end terror’

Mohammad Reza Naqdi, right, at a conference in Tehran in July 2012, sitting next to former Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. (Wikipedia/sayyed shahab-o-din vajedi/CC BY)

Top Iranian general vows to ‘annihilate’ Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (C-R) is greeted by Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa (C-L) after arriving in Manama International Airport in Manama on January 11, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool/AFP)

US to convene global summit on Iran next month, Pompeo says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Biblical site tied to Ark of the Covenant unearthed at convent in central Israel

Excavation uncovers a unique, monumental structure previously unknown in the region. Was it a shrine — or the site of David’s triumphant parade of the legendary ark?

In the upper terrace at Kiriath-jearim, a massive wall was unearthed some 15 cm below topsoil. The site is said to have hosted to Ark of the Covenant (Shmunis Family Excavations at Kiriath-jearim)

Cleaning crews clear locusts out of the Great Mosque in Mecca, January 7, 2019 (screen capture: Twitter)

Wings and prayers

Mecca’s Grand Mosque plagued by swarm of locusts

Authorities dispatch cleaning crews to eradicate insects for the ‘safety and comfort of guests of God’s house’

Palestinians climb on the Gaza border fence during riots on Friday January, 11, 2019 (Screencapture/Hadashot news)

Palestinian woman said killed as 13,000 riot at Gaza fence; IAF hits Hamas posts

By Judah Ari Gross

Egypt tries to soothe tensions as Strip’s terrorist rulers step up threats of attacks, calling for Israel to let in Qatari cash and for Cairo to reopen Rafah crossing

Hamas says Egypt will reopen Gaza border crossing, as pressure builds

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF nabs Palestinian cell suspected of shooting at West Bank settlement

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli minor who is suspected of killing Palestinian woman kept in custody

Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor Party, delivers a speech over boos and whistles at a Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on January 10, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli elections 2019

Over boos and whistles, Gabbay tells angry, divided Labor he can beat Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Pandemonium at conference highlights bitter discontent among Labor activists at party infighting, collapse in polls; MK Cabel: We made a mistake choosing you

Activists at the Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on January 10, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel media reviewJeers and jeers: 8 things to know for January 11

By Joshua Davidovich

New Right candidate Matan Kahana before his discharge from the air force (Avichai Socher)

Elections 2019New Right announces former fighter pilot as Knesset candidate

Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, stands in front of a building in the Queens borough of New York, November 20, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times via AP)

The last Nazi in America: Camp guard deported by US last year dies in Germany

By David Rising

Jakiw Palij ,95, was last known Nazi war criminal living in US when removed from New York home after 25-year effort; dies in nursing home after Berlin declines to prosecute him

Adas synagogue, the oldest in the capital, being moved to a new location in Washington, DC January 9, 2019. (Ron Sachs/CNP via JTA)

Washington’s oldest synagogue moved for third time in 50 years

By JTA

Rabbis on hand to lead traveling prayer as Adas Israel building, inaugurated in 1876, slowly travels to new location as part of Jewish museum

Illustrative. Hackers/cybersecurity (iStock by Getty Images)

Foreign entities said buying domain names of Israeli parties ahead of elections

Amid meddling concerns, cybersecurity expert says seized URLs could be malicious phishing-like scam, or simply opportunists trying to make money

Times of Israel ExplainerOn indictments, pretrial hearings and what Netanyahu can expect before elections

By Raphael Ahren

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a Channel 12 News conference in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG said to order further testimony in key Netanyahu graft probe

When the terrorist is one of our own

My mother prayed: ’Please don’t let it be a Jew who did this terrible thing’ — what do I do when it’s too late to pray?

Daniel G. Zemel

My Zionism: In my own words

Small wonder my nuanced position on Israel was misconstrued: Daniel Gordis responded to what amounted to a game of broken telephone

Shayna Abramson

How can the Torah say infertile couples must do IVF?!

When Rabbi Eliezer Melamed prescribes 4 children per family, he seems to ignore the challenges of infertility

Against their gods

The best test of a civilization is how it treats children — and it’s a lesson we still need to learn (Bo)

Sweet Saba founder Maayan Zilberman creates confections for fashion house Versace and the 2018 Met Gala. (Jason Lewis)

Interview

Modern-day female Willy Wonka makes elite edible candy art in New York

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The Pittsburgh shooting has sparked a debate on bringing guns into synagogue. (Loren ElliottAFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

After Pittsburgh, some synagogues are more comfortable with guns in the pews

Dominique Sopo, Sacha Ghozlan, Mohamed Sifaoui and Sen. David Assouline attend the annual commemoration for the victims of the 2015 jihadist attack at the Hyper Cacher store in Paris, January 9, 2019. (Alain Azria)

Anti-Semitism among ‘yellow vest’ protesters demoralizes France’s Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Pope Francis twirls a soccer ball he was presented by a member of the Circus of Cuba, during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP/Andrew Medichini)

Nuns on the runVatican Olympics team gets official blessing to compete

By AFP

Writer Michael Chabon speaking at The New Yorker Festival 2014 on October 10, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Toth/Getty Images for The New Yorker Festival via JTA)

Northern exposureAlaska is Jewish state in new TV series based on Michael Chabon book

By JTA

Angela Davis at the Pan African Film Festival at Rave Cinemas Baldwin Hills on in Los Angeles, California, on February 17, 2013. (Arnold Turner/Invision/AP)

Members quit Birmingham board that rescinded award to Angela Davis

Yitzik Crombie, the CEO of Israeli start-up Bizmax, poses at the company's offices in Jerusalem, on November 21 2018. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

Kosher high-tech office lures Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox

By Clothilde Mraffko

The scene of a fatal car crash in Haifa on January 11, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)

Two killed in fiery wreck in Haifa

Britain's House of Commons Speaker John Bercow (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

Jewish House of Commons speaker caught in Brexit battle crossfire

By AP

In this file photo taken on December 12, 2018 US President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen arrives at US Federal Court in New York. (COREY SIPKIN / AFP)

Former Trump lawyer Cohen to testify before Congress

By AP

Israeli Air Force F-16I on the tarmac 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)

Israel confirms F-16 sale to Croatia nixed over Washington’s objections

Sarah Silverman speaks after being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, November 9, 2018. (David Livingston/Getty Images/via JTA)

Where's the love?Sarah Silverman series ‘I Love You, America’ is canceled

By JTA

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

For votes, ultra-Orthodox MKs don’t rule out followers of sex offender rabbi

By Marissa Newman

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