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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 12, 2019

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The "McJesus" sculpture by Finnish artist Jani Leinonen on display at the Haifa Museum of Art. (Haifa Museum of Art)

Arab Christians clash violently with police in Haifa over ‘McJesus’ sculpture

By Alexander Fulbright

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkott speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on January 2, 2018. (FLASH90)

NY Times interviews 'The man who humbled Qassem Soleimani'

Outgoing IDF chief: Israel has struck ‘thousands’ of Iranian targets in Syria

Eisenkot: Tehran-backed forces leaving due to IDF ops; Soleimani erred in ‘choosing a playground where he is relatively weak’ and Israel has ‘complete’ military, intel superiority

A missile attack reported at Mazzeh air base in Syria, September 2, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter)

Syria says Israeli airstrikes hit warehouse at Damascus airport

By AFP and ToI Staff

This file photo taken on December 30, 2018 shows a line of US military vehicles in Syria's northern city of Manbij (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

US starts withdrawing supplies from Syria; soldiers will follow in weeks

By Robert Burns

Visitors to the escape room in Thessaloniki smile with a list of 'innocents' they retrieved during the game (Facebook)

Escaping the past

Thessaloniki escape room offers ‘Schindler’s List’-themed fun

Game experience avoids explicitly mentioning Jews or the Holocaust, provides visitors 60 minutes to retrieve a list of WWII ‘innocents’ and save their lives

German far-right leader forms new party with a Nazi symbol

By AP and ToI Staff

The Google Chrome app is displayed on a smartphone on March 3, 2018, in Berlin, Germany. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

170,000 anti-Semitic searches made on Google each year in UK — study

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) talks with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman on October 26, 2018 (Courtesy)

Netanyahu said invited to anti-Iran conference in Warsaw alongside Arab FMs

By ToI Staff and Agencies

TV report: PM hasn’t yet said if he’ll accept Pompeo’s invitation, which could enable him to pose with regional leaders two months before Israel’s elections

Bahram Ghasemi, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, gives an interview with AFP in the capital Tehran on October 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Iran says US hit by ‘hysteria’ since dropping nuclear deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this photo from February 1, 2015, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks at a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

NSO founder denies its phone hacking software was used to track Khashoggi

Culture Minister Miri Regev speaks at the annual Likudiada event in Eilat on January 10, 2018. (Flash90)

At Likud festival, Netanyahu allies rip investigators probing him for corruption

Culture Minister Regev claims associates of attorney general are pushing him to announce his intention to indict PM ahead of elections

Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay speaks at a cultural event in Netanya, January 12, 2019. (Flash90)

Gabbay repeats call for Lapid, Gantz not to join Netanyahu-led coalition

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, at the funeral of Israel Prize winner Zvika Levi in Kibbutz Yifat, northern Israel, December 31, 2018. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

In 2017 interview, Gantz said Israel must ‘strive for peace’

An Israeli settler shows a picture on his cellphone of a Palestinian who attempted a stabbing attack as he is taken away by Israeli soldiers, at the entrance of the Givat Avot neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, on January 11, 2019. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

IDF: Palestinian tries to stab soldiers near Hebron, is shot, critically injured

Army says assailant hospitalized after incident at West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba

This picture taken on January 11, 2019 shows a view of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces across the Gaza-Israel border fence. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

After mass riots on Gaza border, US envoy says Hamas ‘putting lives at risk’

US President Donald Trump attends a roundtable discussion on border security with local leaders, Friday January 11, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

After Comey firing, FBI probed whether president was Russian agent — report

By AP and ToI Staff

Sources tell NY Times that officials were so alarmed by Trump’s actions they began checking whether — wittingly or not — he was singing to Moscow’s tune; unclear if probe closed

Nikki Haley, Ivanka Trump said among possible nominees for World Bank presidency

By AFP

Bloomberg says he’d self-fund White House bid if he runs in 2020

By Will Weissert

5 Jewish things to know about likely US presidential candidate Kamala Harris

In this August 8, 2017 photo, a Spirit Airlines airplane is seen on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Flight attendant allegedly calls NY Orthodox couple ‘retarded Jews’ during fight

By JTA

Husband and wife arrested after altercation on Spirit Airlines; company says they repeatedly ignored safety instructions

Members of Congress arrive before the start of the 116th Congress and swearing-in ceremony on the floor of the US House of Representatives at the US Capitol on January 3, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

House advances bill forcing Trump to fill anti-Semitism envoy role

By Eric Cortellessa

In this June 8, 2018 file photo, Rep. Steve King is seen at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republican lawmaker blasted for asking how ‘white supremacist’ became offensive

By AFP and JTA

Roxane van Iperen’s home was once the center for one of Holland’s most daring Holocaust rescue operations. She wrote about it in 'The High Nest.' (Jan Willem Kaldenbach/via JTA)

A Dutch couple find forgotten Holocaust history in their countryside home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Clowns to the left of me, populists to the right

If you believe in an Israel that is proudly Jewish and proudly democratic, then you’re in the political center

Peta Jones Pellach

No voice, no vote

This needs to be the election where women finally get adequate representation in the Knesset

Tel Aviv gets the country’s first ‘pod hostel,’ for budget-minded travelers

By Jessica Steinberg

The Spot Hostel brings capsule rooms to the local market, offering tents and tight (but stylish) quarters

Inside Joseph's Bookstore in London. (Courtesy)

Success of UK’s bestselling Jewish authors can’t mask huge decline in new titles

By James Martin

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Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Court rules ultra-Orthodox party must end ban on women within 21 days

Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, July 25, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rand Paul becomes first GOP senator to oppose anti-BDS bills

New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman posts a picture of his cleats to be worn during a game on December 16, 2018, to honor the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. (Julian Edelman/Twittter)

Julian Edelman’s cleats fetch $10K to benefit Pittsburgh shooting victims

By Penny Schwartz

Gravestone engraved in Hebrew at the Jewish cemetery in Buchach, western Ukraine. (Public domain)

EU gives nearly $1 million to map, protect Jewish cemeteries

By JTA

A court sketch made on January 10, 2019 shows Mehdi Nemmouche (C), accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. (Benoit PEYRUCQ / AFP)

French jihadist’s DNA, fingerprints were on Brussels museum attack weapons

By AFP

Illustrative: Three Stolpersteine, or 'stumbling stones,' dedicated to the memory of Josef Geer and to the Hauslauers -- a married couple who were Jehovah's Witnesses -- in Salzburg, Austria. (Noah Lederman/Times of Israel)

Rome to replace stolen Holocaust memorial plaques, add new ones

Israeli Paralympic swimmer Inbal Pezaro (Razi Livnat/Wikipedia)

Paralympic Committee ‘disappointed’ by Malaysia ban on Israeli swimmers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Firefighters intervene after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris on January 12, 2019. (Thomas Samson/AFP)

2 firefighters killed, dozens injured in Paris bakery explosion

By Angela Charlton and Sylvie Corbet

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