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What Matters Most On Friday, January 18, 2019

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., center, walks through the halls of the Capitol Building in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

BDS-backer Ilhan Omar given seat on powerful House Foreign Affairs panel

By Eric Cortellessa

Day after appearing to defend comment that Israel ‘hypnotized the world,’ Minnesota Democrat says she will use position to probe influence of foreign lobbies on Washington

Ilhan Omar, then a candidate for US Congress, speaks at a Hillary for Minnesota event at the University of Minnesota in October 2016. (Lorie Shaull/Flickr/via JTA)

Rep. Ilhan Omar defends 2012 tweet accusing Israel of ‘hypnotizing the world’

By JTA

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada condemns the BDS movement during a town hall meeting at Brock University in St. Catherines,Ontario. January 15, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

Trudeau blasts BDS movement as anti-Semitic

Analysis

Phyllis Chesler

The Women’s March is a con job

Its leaders ignore sexual harassment, domestic violence, and reproductive rights — not to mention anti-Semitism

From top left, clockwise: Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan, a young participant at the 2018 Los Angeles Women’s March, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Women’s March participants in Las Vegas in 2018. (JTA Collage/Farrakhan Photo: Monica Morgan/WireImage/Getty Images; Girl Photo: Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images; Mallory, Sarsour and protestors Photos: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Upcoming Women’s March clouded by anti-Semitism allegations

By Josefin Dolsten

Aya Maasarwe pictured in a Melbourne cafe, October 1, 2018. (Instagram)

Israel media reviewDial meh for murder: 7 things to know for January 18

By Joshua Davidovich

‘It’s just so sad’: Vigils held in Australia for murdered Israeli student

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Arriving in Melbourne to retrieve body, Aiia Maasarwe’s father says he cried upon seeing impromptu memorial put up where she was found

A 20-year-old man sits in a police car, January 18, 2019, after he is arrested for questioning over the death of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe in Melbourne, Australia (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)

Man arrested in connection with murder of Israeli student in Melbourne

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Aya Maasarwe pictured in a Melbourne cafe, October 1, 2018. (Instagram)

Australia pleads for public’s help finding killer in Israeli woman’s slaying

Profile

Mandelblit in the middle: He’ll seal Netanyahu’s fate and maybe shape Israel’s

The AG, who must decide whether and when to indict the PM, was attacked for fierce loyalty to the letter of the law long before Netanyahu chose him — twice — for senior positions

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Jerusalem on February 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG indicates Netanyahu pressure won’t delay decision on indictment

Police reject claim evidence tainted in case against former Bar Association head

Shaked ‘disappointed’ as female colleagues assail her over ally’s sex scandal

Issam Akel (Screenshot/Wattan News Agency)

PA said to deport Palestinian-American it jailed for selling land to Jews

By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon

According to TV report, US and Israeli pressure leads to Issam Akel being handed over to Americans less than 3 weeks after he was sentenced to life in prison

Azzam al-Ahmad gives a press conference at a hotel in Cairo, August 13, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Top Fatah official and Hezbollah leader meet in Lebanon

A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to throw stones towards Israeli forces during a protest on November 16, 2018, on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, near the border with Israel. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

B’tselem: Israel killed 290 Palestinians in 2018, most of them innocents

An Iron Dome Missile Defense battery set up near the southern Israeli town of Ashdod fires an intercepting missile on July 16, 2014 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US to buy two Iron Dome batteries as first part of $1.7b missile defense project

By Jason Sherman

Systems to be deployed next year; $373m. purchase could lead to far bigger deal if Israeli system proves able to defeat more complex threats than it was originally designed for

US President Donald Trump speaks during the Missile Defense Review announcement at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on January 17, 2019 (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump vows to boost defense against hypersonic, cruise missiles

By Thomas WATKINS

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump denies Pelosi plane to visit troops amid shutdown squabble

By AP

Israeli and Russian military delegations meet in Moscow, Russia, December 12, 2018 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Russian military delegation visits IDF to improve ties

By Judah Ari Gross

Relations between Jerusalem and Moscow have been strained since a Russian spy plane was downed during an Israeli operation in September

US-led coalition bombs Syrian mosque being used by IS

By AFP

EU could snub US-called summit on Iran, officials say

By Agencies and ToI Staff

From New Orleans to Tehran: Life of Iran news anchor detained in US

By Jon Gambrell

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Embassy tactic? No more mere ‘honorary consuls’ in Jerusalem, Israel tells world

Foreign Ministry sent a letter in November to all nations with which Israel has diplomatic relations, telling them any mission in Jerusalem must be more than honorary

Swimmers at the 2018 Israel Paralympic winter swim championships held at the Alyn pool in Haifa (Karen Isaacson, Israel Paralympic Committee Facebook page)

Israel blasts Malaysia for refusing to admit its Paralympic swimmers

In this Oct. 5, 2017 file photo, activists from the Egyutt (Together) opposition party in Hungary stand in front of billboards of the government's campaign against George Soros and his support for migration in Budapest. (AP/Pablo Gorondi)

Analysis

Jewish spin doctors accused of hatching anti-Soros drive, but evidence is weak

Swiss magazine claim that consultants close to Netanyahu helped Hungary’s Viktor Orban depict Jewish philanthropist as the anti-migrant bogeyman is full of holes

Mike Jacobs (YouTube screenshot)

Posthumous success

Terminally ill Brit fulfills dream, records iTunes hit

Encouraged by his family, Mike Jacobs overcame his fears to make a song written over 30 years ago a reality. Now, following his death, it has become widely popular

Yardaena Osband

Torat Miriam: Hope springs eternal

Long before the Israelites crossed the sea, Miriam knew that water had the power to save, for she’d seen her brother pulled from the Nile (Beshalach)

Where are the women?

Or: why a yeshiva for young men dedicates a day to study the role of women in Judaism and Jewish society

Illustrative photo of a Jewish man reading from a prayer book. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Will modernized texts replace ArtScroll prayer books in Orthodox synagogues?

More Headlines

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

10-year-old boy dies of poisoning in southern Israel

Annie Adam (L), mother of victim Alexandre Strens, is pictured during a session in the trial regarding the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum, at the courthouse in Brussels on January 18, 2019 (Dirk WAEM / various sources / AFP)

Jewish museum attack victim’s mother tells Belgian court of horror

By AFP

Police stand guard outside the kosher supermarket in Paris in July 2015, where four Jews were murdered six months earlier in a hostage siege by an Islamist gunman. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

France to try 14 people over Jan 2015 Paris attacks

By AFP

In this Aug. 17, 2018 photo, family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles in protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Conn. (AP/Jessica Hill)

Opioid crisis has Sackler family and beneficiaries feeling the pain

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Queen Rania arrives for a meeting with US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the White House, on June 25, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Borrowed clothesJordan’s queen pushes back on questions over wardrobe spending

Palestinians checks the house of man accused of the fatal September stabbing of an Israeli-American, after it was partially demolished by Israeli forces on January 18, 2019, in the village of Yatta in the West Bank (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

IDF demolishes apartment of terrorist who killed US-Israeli Ari Fuld

Alain Soral (Torpegiggio, Wikimedia commons)

French far-right author sent to prison for anti-Semitic incitement

By AFP and ToI Staff

Candles burn in front of the cast iron shoes at the Holocaust Memorial on the quay of the River Danube, during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

Hungary’s largest Jewish group urges halt to Danube search for Holocaust victims

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked meets with Druze activists outside her home in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2019. (Screen capture: Ynet)

Justice minister squares off with Druze protesters over nation-state law

In this file photo taken on December 12, 2018, US President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen leaves US Federal Court in New York (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Michael Cohen confirms paying to rig polls in Trump’s favor pre-2016 campaign

By ToI Staff and AFP

Batya Sperling Milner reads from Braille bible text (Washington Post video screenshot)

In touch with faithBlind girl’s bat mitzvah leads to Braille tech innovation

Pastor of the Sint-Ludgeruskerk, Jan Van Raemdonck holds a photo copy of the work Madonna del Silenzio in his office in Zele, Belgium, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. (AP/Virginia Mayo)

The agony and the mysteryA ‘lost Michelangelo’ goes missing, sparking a double whodunit

By AP

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