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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 13, 2019

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A US Navy F-35 fighter jet during a test flight. (US Navy/Wikimedia Commons)

White House ordered plans prepared for Iran strike – report

‘Shocked’ Pentagon acceded to request after Baghdad mortar attack in September that US blamed on Tehran-backed militias, Wall Street Journal says

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a joint press conference with his Turkish and Azeri counterparts (unseen) on October 30, 2018, in Istanbul. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

Iran warns Poland against hosting upcoming summit on Tehran’s regional influence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump actively hid info on meetings with Putin from top officials – report

By ToI Staff and AFP

Finding ‘6th, biggest and last’ Hezbollah tunnel, IDF ends Northern Shield op

By Judah Ari Gross

Military announces discovery of final underground passage from Lebanon, the largest one found, believed to have been part of plan to send fighters to conquer northern Israel

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

IDF chief warns Iran’s Soleimani: He who acts against us puts his life in danger

Illustrative: IDF reservists patrolling along the Lebanese border near the Israeli village of Zar'it. (Roy Sharon/Flash90)

Hamas starts broadcasting into Israel, with a little help from Hezbollah

A blast caused by an Israeli airstrike on Iranian targets in the Damascus International Airport on January 11, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

In rare acknowledgement, Israel confirms strike on Iran weapons caches in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu: IAF hit ‘Iranian depots full of Iranian weapons’ at Damascus Airport; Assad regime accuses US of helping Israel ‘get away’ with attacks

Illustrative: This frame grab from a video provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows missiles flying into the sky near Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, December 25, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Syria files UN complaint after alleged Israeli airstrikes near Damascus airport

By AFP and ToI Staff

This image posted online by the Shaam News Network, a loosely organized group opposed to Bashar Assad, on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows the bodies of people killed in Syrian government airstrikes in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. The United Nations humanitarian chief said he is "horrified" by the attacks on civilians taking place in Syria, singling out in particular government airstrikes the previous day that killed nearly 100 people in a Damascus suburb. (Shaam News Network via AP video)

Arab nations inch toward rehabilitating Syria’s Assad

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, right, visits the spot where IDF Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper along the Gaza border, on July 22, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel media review

Loose lips sum up stints: 9 things to know for January 13

By Joshua Davidovich

Outgoing army chief Gadi Eisenkot opens up to foreign journalists about things Israelis were told to keep censored, and Likud throws a party for itself

ToI investigates

Simona Weinglass

Now a member of anti-money-laundering body, has Israel truly cleaned up its act?

Blacklisted 16 years ago, Israel has gained entry to the Financial Action Task Force, yet new immigrants can bring in unreported income for 10 years and vast scams go unprosecuted

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at a press conference about Israel joining the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018. (Flash90)

Israel Police Dep. Commissioner Motti Cohen at a police ceremony marking the Jewish New Year at Israel Police headquarters in Jerusalem on September 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet extends term of interim police chief until after elections

In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, greets supporters in Honolulu (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

US presidency

Democrat Gabbard, who slammed Israel for live fire use in Gaza, to run in 2020

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hawaii congresswoman and Iraq veteran also controversially met with Syria’s Assad and questioned whether he was responsible for chemical attack on civilians that killed dozens

Former San Antonio Mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro speaks during an event where he announced his decision to seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Jan. 12, 2019, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Former Obama housing chief Julian Castro joins 2020 presidential race

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Fighters from the Hamas terror group at a funeral in Gaza City on September 25, 2018, for a Palestinian who died the day before in clashes with Israeli troops along the border. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

To get its cash, Hamas may drag Gaza into yet another fight

With little else to offer long-suffering residents of the Strip, the terror group is gunning for piecemeal concessions via the threat of escalating violence

In this file photo taken on January 8, 2019, Palestinians sit waiting at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Abbas planning to widen anti-Hamas push as Palestinian rift grows

By AFP and ToI Staff

Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan attends a committee meeting in the Knesset, on July 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Top minister suggests barring Abbas from West Bank over PA’s anti-Hamas steps

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours northern Israel on January 13, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Ministers irked by PM’s decision to go public with Syria strikes — report

Several security cabinet members say Netanyahu’s decision to break with policy of not commenting on such attacks is ‘dangerous’ and could unnecessarily provoke Russia and Syria

7:42 pm

In parting message to ministers, Eisenkot says it is in Israel's interest to strengthen PA security forces
7:09 pm

In farewell speech to Eisenkot, Rivlin says outgoing IDF chief was 'our number one soldier'
6:44 pm

Ministers irked by PM's decision to go public with Syria strikes -- report

93-year-old former Polish soldier Wojciech Narebski stands in front of a monument of brown bear Wojtek who was his fellow Polish servicemen during World War II in Krakow on November 14, 2018. (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

True life ‘fairy tale’ of Nazi-fighting bear to get animated treatment

By Anna Maria Jakubek

Fiddling while Golders Green burns

UK Jewry needs a strategic plan to sustain its charitable finances and engage its youth, especially in the face of threats to its continued existence

Peta Jones Pellach

No voice, no vote

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

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

On the Elon saga, silent no longer

If you feel something inappropriate is going on, approach an adult or authority figure who can help, as required by law, Torah, and ethics

Likud supporters taking part in a straw poll at an event for party faithful in Eilat on January 10, 2018. (Flash90)

Likud backers say Netanyahu should not resign if indicted

Only one in five of respondents to straw poll at convention of party supporters think prime minister should step down if criminal charges brought against him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then finance minister Yair Lapid attend a signing ceremony for a new private port to be built in Ashdod, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 23, 2014. Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Lapid says he won’t sit in Netanyahu-led government if AG announces indictment

Former Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks in Haifa on December 29, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Ya’alon calls for unity bloc to run against Netanyahu, defends Gantz

Illustrative: Right-wing activists clash with police outside a court hearing in Rishon Lezion, on the matter of the Jewish youth suspects in a major security probe whose details are under gag order on December 31, 2018. (Flash90)

Court rejects appeal to release Israeli suspect in Palestinian woman’s murder

Teen alleged to have hurled stone that struck Aisha Rabi in the head will remain behind bars until next hearing on Tuesday

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkott attends a memorial ceremony marking 50 years since the six-day war in 1967, at Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem, on May 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Retiring army head warns rise in Jewish terror could ‘ignite’ region

Palestinians stand next to the remains of a car allegedly used by Israeli special forces during an operation in Gaza, which was was later destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2018. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

At least 16 Hamas members killed in November firefight, IDF chief says

Gadi Eisenkot also says 40-60 Hamas people were injured, as the IDF had to use considerable force to extricate troops in undercover operation that went awry

After Israeli strikes, Hamas warns ‘escalation won’t bring security’

Israeli jets strike Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire

Hamas offers $1 million for identities of Israeli special ops in November raid

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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Talleen Abu Hanna arrives at the Neve Ilan studio outside Jerusalem on December 18, 2016. for the opening of Season 8 of the Israeli version of the Big Brother reality show. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Israeli Arab transgender star reconciles with estranged father on reality TV set

A view of the Oskemen skyline (CC-BY Maonya/Wikipedia)

Israeli-Russian man accused in quadruple murder faces extradition to Moscow

An illustration of how the Coral Manta drowning detection system works in a pool. The product has been developed by Israeli startup Coral Detection Systems (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli device seeks to protect swimmers from drowning in pools

By Federico Maccioni

Lazio supporters celebrate at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Genoa at Rome's Olympic stadium, September 23, 2018. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Lazio fans in Rome accused of anti-Semitic, racist chants

By AFP and ToI Staff

Shikun & Binui headquarters near Ben Gurion Airport. (Google Street View screen capture)

Israeli executive arrested in Bulgaria on Guatemala bribery suspicions

Noam Baumatz and his daughter, Noga. (Courtesy)

Toddler with rare genetic disease, whose family raced to find a cure, dies

By Marissa Newman

Funnyman John Cleese will appear in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2019, as part of his current comedy tour (Courtesy John Cleese Facebook page)

M. Python & the Holy LandJohn Cleese plans Tel Aviv stop during world tour

By Jessica Steinberg

UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld (left) at a meeting with Israel's foreign minister Golda Meir, December 31, 1958. (UN Photo)

Documentary claims UN secretary general was assassinated in 1961 plane crash

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