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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 22, 2019

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President Reuven Rivlin (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a memorial service marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

In veiled criticism of Netanyahu, president says rule of law in Israel ‘eroding’

By Tamar Pileggi

Days after PM accused AG of a ‘setup,’ Rivlin warns that undermining commitment to an independent judiciary is a ‘serious mistake’

Likud to lose 4 seats if Netanyahu indictment announced before elections – poll

By Raoul Wootliff

Texts reveal PM’s alleged efforts to smear rival Bennett with skewed coverage

By Raoul Wootliff

Shas leader vows party will back Netanyahu for PM, even if he’s indicted

By Stuart Winer

Israel and the United States carry out a successful test of their advanced Arrow 3 missile defense system on January 22, 2019. (Missile Defense Organization/Defense Ministry)

Israel, US test-fire Arrow 3 missile, declare trial a success

By Judah Ari Gross

Calling test a ‘milestone’ in development of Israel’s self-defense, ministry says interceptor locked onto incoming dummy missile, fully destroyed it

Illustrative: An explosion, reportedly during Israeli airstrikes near Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)

Monitor: 21 died in Israeli strikes in Syria Monday, 12 of them Iranian fighters

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli army Merkava tank is loaded into a truck in the Golan Heights, on January 20, 2019. ( JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Israel media reviewAmbiguity may have ended but nothing is clear: 9 things to know for January 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis

Chad has an appalling democracy and rights record. Why is Netanyahu courting it?

PM’s delight in ties with a problematic regime is part of a strategy to warm relations with Muslim world, brings prospect of improved airplane routes, can boost him domestically

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is received by an honor guard at the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, January 20, 2019 (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Prime Minister of Mali Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga gives an address to Congress on December 29, 2018, in the capital, Bamako. (screen capture: YouTube)

After Chad ties restored, Israel set to host Mali’s PM in coming weeks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko in Jerusalem, January 21, 2019 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel and Ukraine sign agreement for free trade

By ToI Staff and AFP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is seen on screens during his address via satellite at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 22, 2019 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Pompeo: Peace efforts to begin ‘immediately following Israeli elections’

‘There are ways that we can resolve the primary differences’ between Israelis and Palestinians, top US diplomat says in Davos comments

7:23 pm

Pompeo: Peace efforts to begin 'immediately following Israeli elections'
7:23 pm

IDF officer hurt by sniper fire on Gaza border released home
7:21 pm

US: Upcoming Mideast conference not aimed at demonizing Iran

Israel's Ambassador to UN agencies in Geneva Aviva Raz-Schechter (Elma Okic/UN Photo)

Israel blocks Palestinian bid to get observer status at UN disarmament panel

By Raphael Ahren

‘In close coordination with US,’ Jerusalem thwarts Ramallah’s effort to ‘politicize professional UN forums’; Israeli diplomat elected vice-chair of UN Committee on NGOs

Palestinian inmates refusing Israeli prison food after riot

Infrastructure, peace projects abandoned as last US aid to Palestinians dries up

By Joseph Krauss

IDF: Palestinian tries to stab soldier in northern West Bank, is shot dead

Hilde Schramm, daughter of Hitler's architect Albert Speer, receives the Jewish history award for a foundation she founded to support Jewish women's cultural projects. January 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Analysis

Nazi architect Speer’s daughter sold his paintings to fund Jewish women’s causes

Her father was Hitler’s builder and armaments minister; Hilde Schramm used the proceeds of his collection of paintings to start a foundation

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)

In Hungary, internal Jewish fighting taints effort to bury Holocaust victims

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on "Meet the Press" in Washington, DC, July 1, 2018. (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)

Ocasio-Cortez at Women’s March: Under Trump, Jewish community needs protecting

By JTA and ToI Staff

Freshman Democratic congresswoman says concerns about anti-Semitism ‘are absolutely valid’

US House Representative Rashida Tlaib participates in a ceremonial swearing-in at the start of the 116th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 3, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP)

Republican Rep. trying to stop West Bank trip led by Democrat Tlaib

By JTA

In the April 26, 2017 photo, supporters of single-payer health care march to the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Democrats lurch left on top policies as 2020 primary begins

By Steve Peoples

Not your typical ski day

What do you do when Syrian missiles mess with your winter wonderland?

McJesus — What was really going on?

Was a political ploy to manipulate the new mayor at the core of what looked like an attack on artistic expression?

Orni Petruschka and Liat Schlesinger

Israeli left’s ideas are winning; why aren’t its politicians?

Leftist politicians have been duped by false propaganda claiming the public opposes a two-state solution

Why I cry over The Giving Tree

The books I read to my kids remind me all too well that I cannot freeze my children in the moment

An illustration of how neurons in the human visual cortex respond to the face of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. (YouTube screenshot)

I see you: In first, Israeli-French team finds neurons that respond to all faces

By Shoshanna Solomon

Cells in vicinity of brain’s Fusiform face area were discovered while studying an epilepsy patient, Bar-Ilan University researcher Vadim Axelrod says

Architect Daniel Libeskind. (Stefan Ruiz)

Interview

Architect Libeskind charts how he built a path to success — and how you can too

By Rich Tenorio

File: An Israeli tank takes a position at the Gaza Strip border, October 27, 2018. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Shots fired at Israeli troops on Gaza border; IDF tank destroys Hamas post

By Judah Ari Gross

No injuries reported in skirmish along the northern Strip’s security fence; incident comes as Israel due to allow transfer of $15 million from Qatar to Hamas

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

Egypt says recent Sinai clashes killed 7 troops, 59 jihadist militants

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: Egyptian drug smugglers on ladders are seen throwing their goods to Israeli Bedouin smugglers across the border in footage from 2018. (Channel 13 screenshot)

Rare footage shows drug bust as dozens of smugglers meet at Israel-Egypt border

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Check Point Software Technologies co-founder Marius Nacht (Courtesy)

Billionaire Nacht submits plan to set up digital bank in Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Fox News apologized for erroneously airing an obituary graphic of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on January 21, 2019. (Twitter)

'Big mistake' on RBGFox News sorry for briefly airing obituary graphic for Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People attend a vigil in memory of murdered Israeli student Aya Maasarwe in Melbourne on January 18, 2019.(Allan LEE / AFP)

Father of Israeli slain in Australia urges peace, forgiveness as body heads home

By AFP

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad delivers his keynote address during the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit on the sidelines of the 33rd ASEAN summit in Singapore, on November 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim)

Malaysian leader likens Israeli athlete ban to Trump’s Mexico wall

By AFP

Hasidic Jews vandalizing a statue of Jesus in Uman, Ukraine, in January 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

US Hasidic Jews reportedly detained in Ukraine for vandalizing Jesus statue

By Michael Bachner

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks during a conference in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2018. (Flash90)

Movin' on upEx-PM Olmert purchases NIS 12m ($3.3 million) Tel Aviv penthouse

An ultra-Orthodox woman is brought to a Jerusalem court on July 29, 2018, under charges of abusing her children by injecting them with insulin (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Woman convicted of child abuse after injecting healthy son with insulin

A cartoon by Brazilian artist Aroeira published in January 2019 in the O Dia newspaper, featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, in a hug with their arms held in the shape of a swastika. (Facebook via JTA)

Brazilian Jews sue cartoonist over ‘Nazi hug’ Netanyahu drawing

By Marcus M. Gilban

Children open presents during the 2019 Refugee Birthday Party at the Della Lamb Community Center, n Kansas City, Missouri, January 20, 2019. (DAVE KAUP/AFP)

Kansas synagogues welcome refugees by celebrating their American birthdays

By AFP

Ramon Airport during the official opening ceremony, January 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jordan protests Israel’s new Ramon airport, claims it could violate airspace

By AFP and Ori Lewis

Screen capture from video of Jewish mysticism scholar Mor Altshuler. (YouTube)

When doves cryPeace activist protests Knesset bid by scholar who slapped him

By Stuart Winer

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, center, the US general secretary of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, talks to followers inside her camp at the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India, January 16, 2019. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP)

Jewish woman from California among worshipers at India’s religious mega festival

By AFP and ToI Staff

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