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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 17, 2019

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An American man, Colin Emery Doyle, whom Lebanon says it captured after he illegally crossed into the country through the security fence from Israel on January 15, 2019. (Hezbollah's Central Media)

Man travels 20 km into Lebanon before he is picked up

Lebanon says it captured American man suspected of infiltrating from Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Suspect identified as Colin Emery Doyle was spotted Tuesday in a Lebanese village, having apparently crossed the border through a hole in the fence

Attack tunnel dug into Israel from southern Lebanon that the Israeli military believes Hezbollah planned to use in future wars, which was discovered in January 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hezbollah tunnel construction began before 2006 Second Lebanon War — report

Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)

Terrorists kidnap Christian man in Sinai

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) listens as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before a meeting at New York's Palace Hotel during the 72nd UN General Assembly on September 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Report: US plan has Palestinian state in most of West Bank, E. Jerusalem capital

White House dismisses Israeli TV report on ostensible US peace proposal — which also details fate of settlements, but not of Gaza or refugees — as unfounded speculation

Netanyahu to head to Chad Sunday to renew diplomatic ties

By Raphael Ahren

White House: Israel TV story on peace plan not accurate, speculation not helpful

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinians say any peace plan without a state along 1967 lines will fail

Israel Bar Association former chairman Efi Nave (center) at a Tel Aviv court on January 16, 2019 (Koko/Pool/Flash90)

Israel Bar Association chief resigns amid sex corruption scandal

Efi Nave, suspected of advancing judicial appointments for sexual favors, says he doesn’t want his troubles to hurt the association

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira presents the State Comptroller's Report in the Knesset on November 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Comptroller ‘disgusted’ by Gallant’s attacks on former AG, ombudsman

Hamas members watch as a bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip as part of the deal for the release of hostage Gilad Shalit on October 18, 2011. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Hamas unveils Iran-funded homes for ex-prisoners released by Israel

By AFP

Terror group-run Prisoners Ministry says it allocated 26 apartments for former inmates after a lottery

File: Masked operatives from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas terror group, ride vehicles as they commemorate the 30th anniversary of their group, in Gaza City, December 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas military wing says member dies in ‘weapon-related error’

Illustrative: A fisherman navigates rough seas along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City, April 11, 2018. (Adel Hana/AP)

Gaza authorities: 6 Egyptian fishermen rescued, 1 missing

By AP

Dudu Faruk performs in Tel Aviv, January 16, 2019. (Flash90)

Israel’s most famous trap rapper and German condom spokesman ain’t done yet

Suspects detained over their suspected involvement in the killing of a Palestinian woman are seen outside the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court after a judge releases them to house arrest, January 10, 2019. (Flash90)

Analysis

Vocal on Duma arson, Israeli right holds its tongue in latest Jewish terror case

While settler leaders quickly denounced fatal 2015 firebombing of Palestinian home, declining faith in the Shin Bet may have kept many moderates silent on Aisha Rabi’s 2018 death

Hadas Tapuhi, 30, who was killed in a traffic accident near the West Bank settlement of Ateret on January 13, 2019. (courtesy)

Police probing death of Israeli woman in West Bank crash; family calls it terror

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

IDF soldiers measure the home of a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed an Israeli man to death in order to prepare the building for demolition in the West Bank village of Yatta, near Hebron, on September 17, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Top court okays razing of terrorist’s apartment after killing of US-Israeli man

A still from Claus Räfle's 'The Invisibles.' (Courtesy)

Film review

Two new Holocaust films depict tiny, true details to portray life under Nazis

By Jordan Hoffman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 5, 2015. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Attorney general rejects PM’s request not to decide on charges before election

By Michael Bachner

Mandelblit says his office examining evidence in graft cases as normal, but invites Netanyahu’s attorney for a meeting next week to discuss the matter

11:45 am

10 treated for smoke inhalation in East Jerusalem apartment building blaze
7:22 pm

Gaza zoo owner blames winter storm for lion cub deaths
7:07 pm

Questioning of judicial sex scandal suspect Efi Nave ends after 10 hours

Gantz launches ‘Israel before all’ campaign with social media blitz

By Raoul Wootliff

Ex-IDF chief reveals khaki green Israel Resilience party logo, invites public to join him ‘because it should be different, it can be different and we will make it different’

Israel media reviewThe whole damn system is out of order: 6 things to know for January 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Poll shows Likud rising, Jewish Home and Livni’s Hatnua failing to enter Knesset

Senior Likud minister dismisses Gantz as politically irrelevant

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Abby Stein, left (Debra Nussbaum Cohen); April Baskin, right (URJ) via JTA

Jewish women defend decision to join Women’s March steering committee

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

April Baskin says telling black people how to communicate is ‘unconscious white supremacy’; Abby Stein argues she should be in the room to speak up against anti-Semitism

5 Jewish things to know about Kirsten Gillibrand, who’s running for president

South Florida Jewish politician says Rep. Tlaib might ‘blow up Capitol Hill’

By JTA

Inside Kirsten Gillibrand’s Saturday meeting with Jewish feminists

Jason Spindler (I Dev International)

Jewish American who survived 9/11 among 21 killed in Nairobi attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jason Spindler had been working in Kenya on a mini-power grid project; authorities raise death toll

In this grab taken from security camera footage released to the local media, heavily armed attackers walk in the compound of a hotel, in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 15, 2019. (Security Camera Footage via AP)

Terror group says deadly Kenya attack over Trump recognition of Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative photo of pharmaceutical pills. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Doctors and big pharma protest crackdown on freebies from drug reps

Union representing medical workers up in arms over new rules meant to limit companies’ ability to woo the physicians who prescribe their drugs

Family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses protest outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, August 17, 2018. (Jessica Hill/AP)

Opioid painkiller producer misled doctors to boost sales, prosecutor alleges

By JTA

Benny Gantz may be just what Israel needs

It’s important to know what he thinks about the issues, but it’s much more important to know what kind of a leader he is

Rokhl Kafrissen

Why did ‘Three Identical Strangers’ leave out the Jewish part?

The hit documentary on triplets separated at birth omitted an uncomfortable but core aspect of this traumatic story

If confirmed, the sex for judgeships scandal will be a devastating blow to the legitimacy of an already weakened system

Those who discriminate against minorities tend to hate Jews, so standing up for minorities is not only morally right, but also the best way to fight anti-Semitism

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Australian police on January 17, 2019, released these images of Aiia Maasarwe, taken on the night she was killed (Courtesy)

Israeli student killed in Australia was on video call with sister when attacked

By AFP

A snow covered White House White House on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FBI: Sting nabs jihadist who sought to attack White House with anti-tank rocket

By Kate Brumback

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu labels Gideon Sa’ar a ‘lefty’ in Facebook comment

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)

Haifa mayor: Controversial ‘McJesus’ sculpture to come down in days

US President Donald Trump speaks during an opioid and drug abuse listening session on March 29, 2017, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, former New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In new book, Chris Christie accuses Jared Kushner of political ‘hit job’

Israeli fighter jets performing an aerial show at a graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/ Flash90/ File)

In first, IAF to fly in British air exercise Cobra Warrior

By Judah Ari Gross

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on January 10, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Three Labor MKs jump ship amid growing anger at Gabbay

Rick Gates leaves federal court in Washington, DC, on February 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Mueller asks Trump associate about campaign ties to Israeli intel firm — report

A ZAKA diver describes the search for remains of Holocaust survivors in the Danube River in Hungary to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri in January 2019. (Courtesy of ZAKA)

No remains of Holocaust victims unearthed in sweep of the Danube

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A passenger has his luggage checked by security personnel at Ben Gurion Airport. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israel denies report about form ostensibly requiring personal data from visitors

By Stuart Winer

Fran Drescher is flanked by Jane Eisner, left, and Rachel Fishman Feddersen, the Forward’s editor in chief and publisher, respectively, at the newspaper’s 120th anniversary gala at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, Nov. 13, 2017. (Jerry Lacay)

The Forward is ending its print edition, laying off staff

By JTA

An image of sisters Lily Pereg (left) and Pyrhia Sarusi posted on the "Missing in Mendoza" Facebook page. (Facebook)

Two Israeli sisters go missing in Argentina

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