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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 16, 2019

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Analysis

Yaakov Schwartz

DC court says Holocaust survivors can sue Hungary in the US for huge reparations

Potential multi-billion dollar suit dates back to 2010. Appeals court rules that in pursuit of justice, case can be tried in States. Lawyers say decision could go to Supreme Court

In 1944, Hungarian Jews line up outside the 'Glass House' building from which Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz helped save the lives of tens of thousands of people. (FOTO:FORTEPAN / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte ETH Zürich / Agnes Hirschi)

A view of the main building of the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 26, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Latest poll shows shakeup on the right, Likud pulls ahead, Jewish Home erased

Ruling party wins 32 seats, followed by centrists Yesh Atid at 14 and Benny Gantz at 13; Arab lists split; storied Jewish Home party falls below threshold

7:29 pm

UK's May wins vote to keep job, Brexit chaos
7:24 pm

Prominent settlement leader slams purported Trump peace plan
7:18 pm

Latest poll shows Likud in comfortable lead, Hatnua and Jewish Home erased

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at a Conference at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, January 16, 2019. (Flash90)

Minister bemoans judicial sex scandal as top lawyer said set to take leave

By Michael Bachner

Opposition calls for justice minister to resign after top lawyer arrested on suspicion of having sex with judge he helped appoint, and with wife of 2nd judge he tried to promote

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Senior lawyer held, reportedly for promoting judge in exchange for sex

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: A gavel and handcuffs. (AndreyPopov/ Getty Images)

Israel media reviewLaw and disorder: 8 things to know for January 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Lonah Chemtai Salpeter with her son, Roy, outside their home in Shoham, central Israel, December 9, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

The mom who beat the odds, and the bureaucrats, to become Israel’s top runner

A view of the border with Israel, from the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila, with Israeli vehicles driving on the right side and UN and Lebanese vehicles driving on the left, on December 4, 2018. (Ali Dia/AFP)

Man crosses border from Israel into Lebanon – reports

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

IDF confirms tear found in border fence, with tracks apparently crossing border; one Lebanese outlet says man had Hebrew documents, while another says an American passport found

Iran says it will keep its forces, weapons in Syria despite Netanyahu threat

Pompeo says failed satellite launch shows Iran threat, defies UN weapons deal

Netanyahu said to have asked Trump for support ahead of Mossad operation in Iran

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Election 2019 shaping up as a festival of purported indignation over leftism

Substantive policy debate is out as campaigns look to manipulation and defamation to define their opponents

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in the Knesset in Jerusalem to welcome Immigration Minister Yoav Galant to the Likud party, on January 9, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Media and guests mingle at a tour of Facebook's new 130,000-square-foot offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Facebook tightens ad rules in countries going to polls, but undecided on Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces elections will be held in April, 2019, at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, December 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Victory for Netanyahu in Likud Central Committee vote ahead of elections

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

Gantz said to fill 12 spots on Israel Resilience slate, eschewing sitting MKs

New party headed by former IDF chief said to reject 10 current Knesset members who wanted to join list; Gabi Ashkenazi reportedly could take number two spot

Education Minister Nafatli Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (not pictured) announce the establishment of HaYamin HeHadash party at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 29, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

ExclusiveIn apparent dig at ex-party, Bennett says New Right against ‘religious coercion’

By Raoul Wootliff

German customs authorities found this 40-cm long boa in a passenger's pants when he tried to board a plane for Israel in December 2018. (Courtesy/Potsdam customs office)

Snake on a plane (almost)

Israel-bound flier caught at Berlin airport with boa constrictor in his pants

43-year-old man nabbed when security notices bulge in his pants; German customs call it ‘the most curious find’ of last year

People participating in the 2018 Women’s March in New York City, Jan. 20, 2018. (John Lamparski/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

A guide to who’s marching as anti-Semitism controversy roils Women’s March

Many local chapters no longer willing to be affiliated with national group over claims it has not done enough to disavow anti-Semitism

From left to right, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez at the Women's March "Power to the Polls" voter registration tour launch at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Jan. 21, 2018. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish Democrats say party has dropped Women’s March sponsorship

By JTA

Abby Stein on February 27, 2018. (Ovrim/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Women’s March names 3 Jewish women to steering committee

By Josefin Dolsten

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference at the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County in Boca Raton, Florida, January 15, 2019. (Bruce R. Bennett/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Florida governor goes after Airbnb for delisting West Bank settlement homes

By TERRY SPENCER and Gary Fineout

Ron DeSantis calls for sanctions against company to ‘make them feel the heat’ for policy that ‘specifically targets Jews’

US Senator Bob Menendez is interviewed outside Newark Liberty International Airport after attending a news conference to address the partial government shutdown, which is keeping airport employees working without pay, on January 8, 2019, in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Top Dem accuses Republicans of using Israel as a wedge issue

In this June 8, 2018, file photo, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, the House voted 416-1 for a resolution repudiating King’s words expressing puzzlement about why terms like “white nationalist” are offensive. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House rebukes Republican Steve King over white supremacist remarks; he agrees

By Laurie Kellman and Matthew Daly

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki addresses the General Assembly prior to a vote on December 21, 2017, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Palestinians to launch bid for full UN membership despite block by US

By Carole LANDRY

‘We know that we are going to face a US veto but that won’t prevent us from presenting our application,’ says Palestinian Authority FM

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Group of 77 on January 15, 2019 at the United Nations in New York (Don Emmert/AFP)

Palestinians assume chairmanship of largest bloc of nations at the UN

Amanda Borschel-Dan (left), with professor and educator Alice Shalvi at the Times of Israel Presents event Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at Beit Avi Chai (Dana Bar Siman Tov)

Renowned educator Alice Shalvi captivates at Times of Israel Presents event

By Jessica Steinberg

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Why I (refuse to) pray

I am absolutely not prepared to just go through the motions when I feel that I cannot manage the real thing

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

I reject identity politics

Don’t accept the efforts to pit Jew against Jew, to divide us by color, and force allegiances based on made-up values and newfangled language

Morris E. Hartstein

Starving in Gondar

For the most vulnerable of the 8,000 Ethiopians desperately waiting to reach Israel, one meal a day is not enough

Why we’re taking on the Jewish National Fund

A tree I planted as a kid could today be standing on the ruins of a depopulated Palestinian village, and this pains me

A SeeTree drone flying over fields (Courtesy)

Barking up the right tree: Israeli startup SeeTree aims at better fruit yield

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tel Aviv firm combines intelligence obtained from drones, ground sensors and samples to provide farmers with data on individual trees and tree clusters

More Headlines

Malaysia Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Jan. 16, 2019 (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

Malaysia says it won’t let in any Israeli delegates for sporting or other events

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this Oct. 18, 2005 file photo, Carol Channing performs during her one woman show,"The First 80 Years are the Hardest," at the cabaret Feinstein's at the Regency in New York. Channing, whose career spanned decades on Broadway and on television has died at age 97. Publicist B. Harlan Boll says Channing died of natural causes early Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Effervescent ‘Hello, Dolly!’ icon Carol Channing dies at 97

By Mark Kennedy

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May listens to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking after losing a vote on her Brexit deal, in the House of Commons, London, Jan. 15, 2019 (House of Commons/PA via AP)

UK’s May faces no-confidence vote Wednesday after Brexit plan crushed

An illustration of the Fortnite game developed by Epic Games, a US video game developer (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli researchers find Fortnite flaw that left user accounts open to takeover

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli actress Gal Gadot, star of 'Wonder Woman' (Clay Enos/DC Comics, via JTA)

Small WonderGal Gadot to voice Wonder Woman in ‘The Lego Movie 2’

By JTA

Ivanka Trump participates in a conversation on workforce development and news of the day at the Newseum in Washington on August 2, 2018. (AFP/ Jim WATSON)

Ivanka Trump asked to help select new World Bank head — report

Ashraf Hassan Fadili (R) and Uday Abdelhai, murdered in a drive-by shooting in Tira on January 15, 2019. (Courtesy)

2 men shot dead in Arab Israeli city; investigation underway

One (L) of the five Israeli soldiers from the Kfir Brigade who were arrested for allegedly beating two Palestinian suspects in their custody arrives for a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)

5 IDF soldiers likely to face serious charges for beating Palestinian detainees

By Michael Bachner

Masked gunmen from the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas terror group, march with their weapons during a large-scale drill across the Gaza Strip, March 25, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Hamas absolves 3 Italians falsely suspected of being Israeli undercover unit

By Stuart Winer

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, foreground, and US Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, during a meeting in Jerusalem, January 16, 2019. (Energy Ministry)

Chinese investment in Israel could harm intelligence ties, US official warns

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Marzieh Hashemi, American-born news anchor for Iran's state television broadcaster. (YouTube screenshot)

Iran state TV’s English channel says anchorwoman held in US

By AP

An artwork called "McJesus," which was sculpted by Finnish artist Jani Leinonen and depicts a crucified Ronald McDonald, is seen on display as part of the Haifa museum's "Sacred Goods" exhibit, in Haifa, Israel, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Hundreds of Christians calling for the sculpture's removal protested at the museum last week. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Deputy AG says minister can’t cut museum’s budget over ‘McJesus’ art

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