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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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File: An ultra-Orthodox man looks at workers hanging a Likud campaign poster featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the entrance to Jerusalem on March 11, 2015 in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud's opposition to bill is 'inexplicable,' expert says

Likud refuses to back rules to block online voter manipulation in elections

By Raoul Wootliff

PM’s party rejects declaration on fair Facebook use, tells Central Elections Committee it will continue to thwart transparency bill extending propaganda restrictions to internet

Nir Barkat (R) with an unidentified Likud official after signing his registration form for the Likud party primaries on January 14, 2019. (Courtesy)

Nir Barkat registers for Likud primaries, officially entering national politics

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (left) with Hatnua head Tzipi Livni at the Knesset in 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid said to rule out union with Livni, vowing he ‘won’t unite with the left’

Pro-European demonstrators hold EU flags at Parliament Square in London, Tuesday, January 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Live updates (closed)

UK lawmakers start Brexit agreement vote

Signs point to Parliament rejecting the deal; PM Theresa May tells House of Commons decision ‘will set the future of our country for generations;

7:23 pm

UK lawmakers start Brexit agreement vote
7:15 pm

US, UN condemn 'senseless' attack on Kenya hotel
6:56 pm

May tells MPs they have 'duty to deliver' on Brexit vote

Deputy IDF chief of staff Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi salutes during a ceremony at Hakirya base in Tel Aviv, November 3, 2016. (Flash90)

Aviv Kochavi takes reins from Gadi Eisenkot as IDF chief of staff

By Stuart Winer

Top officer sworn in at military headquarters in Tel Aviv before series of appearances in Jerusalem

Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, the incoming IDF chief of staff, left, President Reuven Rivlin, center, and Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, the outgoing IDF chief of staff at the President's Residence in Jerusalem to mark the changing of the guard in the IDF's top post, January 15, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Israel media reviewHi chief, bye chief: 6 things to know for January 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot (left), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the incoming chief Aviv Kochavi (right) take part in a handover ceremony on January 15, 2019 at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

In parting remarks, outgoing army chief warns against politicizing IDF

Illustrative: This picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday, July 27, 2017, claims to show the Simorgh satellite-carrying rocket, center, before being launched into space from Imam Khomeini National Space Center in an undisclosed location, Iran. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Defying US, Iran launches satellite, but it fails to reach orbit

By AP

Iranian telecommunications minister admits third stage of rocket malfunctioned, preventing Payam spacecraft from achieving necessary speed; second planned launch unclear

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi briefs journalists at a press conference in Tehran on August 22, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Israel inflating Iran’s presence in Syria to cover its own failures, Tehran says

US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, left, speaks during his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon, January 14, 2019. Hale said that the US will step up efforts to counter Iran's "dangerous activities" around the region including the financing and activities of proxy organizations such as Lebanon's Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Visiting Lebanon, top US official says Hezbollah tunnels, rockets ‘unacceptable’

By AP

Analysis

Is Gantz a leftist? We still don’t know. His empathy for the Druze is mainstream

Likud has slammed ex-IDF chief and would-be PM for vowing to ‘fix’ Nation-State Law, but even Bennett acknowledged its problems, and Netanyahu set up a committee to deal with them

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz seen with members of the Druze community and activists outside his home in Rosh Ha'ayin, during a protest against the nation-state law, January 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz seen with members of the Druze community and activists outside his home in Rosh Ha'ayin, during a protest against the nation-state law, January 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Likud ministers lash Gantz over Druze officer’s death in 2000

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, left, and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

Gantz and Lapid said discussing alliance, but neither wants to be number two

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a handover ceremony for the new IDF chief of staff, on January 15, 2019, in Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Threatening more attacks, Netanyahu tells Iran to ‘get out’ of Syria

Prime minister accuses Tehran of lying about advisers and lying about satellite launch, which he says is part of ICBM program

Syrian rebel fighters from the Quneitra province walk with their rifles as they wait at the Morek crossing point to be transfered in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo on July 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Aaref Watad)

IDF chief finally acknowledges that Israel supplied weapons to Syrian rebels

By Judah Ari Gross

A Turkish military convoy at Kirikhan, in Hatay region at the Syria border, on January 12, 2019. (STRINGER / DHA / AFP)

Turkey’s Erdogan okays Syria ‘security zone’ proposed by Trump

By AFP

Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib poses with the pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas 'right of return' activist Abbas Hamideh on Saturday, January 12, 2019. (Twitter)

Rashida Tlaib poses with Hezbollah-backing anti-Israel activist

Abbas Hamideh, who heads a Palestinian ‘right of return’ group, posts photo of the two after reception and private dinner; Tlaib’s office doesn’t respond to request for comment

Trump signs into law genocide prevention act named for Elie Wiesel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

GOP lawmaker Steve King loses committee posts over white supremacist remarks

By Matthew Daly and Laurie Kellman

Republican Palestinian-American is sole vote against anti-Semitism monitor

Palestinians mourn Aisha Rabi at her funeral in the West Bank village of Bidya, near Salfit, on October 13, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Prosecution to indict Israeli teen for Palestinian woman’s killing

Court extends detention of suspect alleged to have hurled stone that struck Aisha Rabi; state to pursue manslaughter charge, official says

Yechiel Charaz (L) receiving a certificate allowing him to host tours in the Yiddish language from Tourism Minister Yariv Levin in Jerusalem, January 13, 2019. (Tourism Ministry)

Let's schmooze

Tour guide gets rare approval to lead groups in Yiddish

By Michael Bachner

After 6 years, Tourism Ministry finally certifies Yechiel Charaz to tell ultra-Orthodox tourists about Israel in his mother tongue

Franklin D. Roosevelt's greatest fear in the lead-up to war was Axis penetration of Latin America. The president made a cruise to Latin capitals to promote his Good Neighbor policy. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)

Revealed: Third Reich’s secret plan to divide S. America into 4 Nazi territories

By Rich Tenorio

Shivi Greenfield

A looming ‘brexit’ for Jewish peoplehood

Will the Jewish Agency, the driving force behind Jewish unity, succumb to the same pressures pushing the EU to disband?

The personal (Jew) is political (Zionist)

My father was blackballed in Egypt for being a Jew, and I’ve lost job opportunities in the US for being a Zionist

The illusion of political stability under Netanyahu

Despite a solid decade with the same prime minister, other cabinet posts have switched hands at alarming rates

Not drowning but singing

The Bible’s poetic cheering of the Israelites’ escape and the Egyptian army’s demise reverberates across time and cultures

Portuguese army captain Arthur Carlos de Barros Basto (Rodrigo Santos) presides at the head of the table with his wife Lea and child in a scene from the new historical drama 'Sefarad.' (Courtesy Miami Jewish Film Festival)

Film premiere

Historical drama depicts untold story of the 1930s ‘Portuguese Dreyfus Affair’

By Rich Tenorio

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 73rd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York September 27, 2018. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP)

Abbas in New York to take up chairmanship of major UN bloc

PA president will address General Assembly and take leadership of the Group of 77, a bloc made up of 134 member states designed to leverage its members’ negotiating capacity

PA hands over Palestinian Jerusalem resident held for alleged role in murder

Abbas likely to visit Syria soon, senior Palestinian official says

In role reversal, Abbas pressures Hamas as Israel allows aid

A chavruta-style adult learning session in South Korea (Courtesy of the Havruta Culture Association)

Talmud-inspired learning craze sweeps South Korea

More Headlines

Supporters of the National Council of Jewish Women and other Jewish organizations come together on the National Mall for the Women's March in Washington, DC, January 21, 2017. (Ron Sachs via JTA)

Southern Poverty Law Center, prominent NY synagogue leave Women’s March

Women’s March National Co-Chair Tamika Mallory speaking in New York, April 22, 2017. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Hulu via JTA)

Women’s March co-chair Mallory fails to condemn Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism

By Gabe Friedman

Israeli soldiers ride in the turret of a Merkava battle tank near the Kibbutz of Nahal Oz, along the border with the Gaza Strip on July 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Tank said to have rolled across highway as crew dozed inside

Shoes on the Danube, a Holocaust memorial to victims of the Arrow Cross who were shot on the bank of the river Danube in Budapest during the Holocaust. (Flickr/Neil)

Israeli divers to search for Holocaust victims’ remains in the Danube

Illustrative image of a handshake (iStock by Getty Images)

Israel tech exits almost halve as startups seek higher valuations – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

A stream overflows with water after heavy rains on the Golan Heights, January 14, 2019. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Towns flood in north as forecasts see cold snap, snow in Jerusalem

A Carmel Sapphire unearthed by Shefa Yamim in northern Israel. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli firm unearths gemstone with mineral mix previously only found in space

Bezalel Smotrich after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hardliner Smotrich wins race to lead influential Jewish Home sub-faction

An illustrative image of fresh strawberries (MariuszBlach; iStock by Getty Images)

Strawberry genome jointly decoded by Israel’s NRGene, Japan’s Toyota

By Shoshanna Solomon

Muslim worshipers square off with police outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Palestinians, Israeli police scuffle on Temple Mount over a yarmulke

By AP and ToI Staff

Retired judge Hila Gerstel attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset, on January 27, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG closes case against judge over Sara Netanyahu bribery case

Religious figurines shipped to Israel from Mexico in January 2019 that contained some 2 kilograms of smuggled crystal meth. (Israel Police)

Gold, frankincense and...Crystal meth found in Nativity figurines imported from Mexico

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