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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 23, 2019

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Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari addresses the United Nations Security Council, at UN headquarters, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Syria’s UN envoy threatens retaliatory attack on Ben Gurion Airport

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Threats come after Israeli air force strikes on storehouses and radar systems at Damascus airport, which reportedly killed 21, including 12 Iranians

A United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) armored personnel carrier (APC) patrols along the border with Israel near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on December 4, 2018. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

UN envoy protests Lebanon not giving peacekeepers access to Hezbollah tunnels

By AP and ToI Staff

This picture, released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on July 27, 2017, claims to show the Simorgh satellite-carrying rocket at Imam Khomeini National Space Center, Iran. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran’s defense minister says another satellite launch coming ‘soon’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This December 11, 2017 photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad watching troops march at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia says Israel must halt its ‘arbitrary’ airstrikes in Syria

After Israeli-Iranian flare-up, Moscow says Syrian territory should not be ‘an arena for settling geopolitical accounts,’ warns of potential for regional chaos

Netanyahu threatens Gaza, Iran after flareups on two fronts

Israel media reviewStomp speech: 8 things to know for January 23

By Joshua Davidovich

Satellite images show damage at Damascus airport after Israeli raids

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

An explosion in the northern Gaza Strip from Israeli airstrikes lights up the night sky on January 22, 2019. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Israeli jets strike northern Gaza targets following border flare-ups

By Judah Ari Gross

Raids hit Hamas sites after two shooting attacks on Israeli troops earlier in the day, including one in which bullet struck officer’s helmet

Hamas warns Qatari cash freeze by Israel could cause ‘explosion’ in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

IDF officer hurt by gunfire, Hamas fighter killed as Gaza border heats up

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas said to open investigation into shooting of IDF officer by Gaza sniper

President Reuven Rivlin (R) is accompanied by French President Emmanuel Macron after their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on January 23, 2019. (ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin: Hezbollah making rockets in Beirut, says Israel ‘likely’ to respond

During visit to Paris, president tells French counterpart military response to ‘threats’ by Iranian proxy group will ‘drag the entire region into an escalation’

7:32 pm

Brazil backs Guaido as Venezuela's interim leader
7:30 pm

Canada recognizes Venezuela's Guaido as interim president
7:24 pm

US says 'all options' on table if Maduro uses force in Venezuela

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, flanked by his two sons Yasser, left, and Tarek, right, gives a short statement before leaving a Ramallah hospital on May 28, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Israel said to have sent a doctor to help save Abbas’s life last year

PA president, 83, was hospitalized in May at Ramallah hospital with a severe ear infection that developed into a life-threatening condition, report says

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

US: Upcoming Middle East conference not aimed at demonizing Iran

By Edith M. Lederer

Russia snubs Middle East security confab over ‘anti-Iran’ focus

By AFP

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street for the House of Commons for her weekly Prime Minister's Questions in London, January 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

May: Corbyn sat with Hamas, Hezbollah without preconditions, but not with me

By ToI Staff and Agencies

British prime minister complains opposition leader will meet with terrorists, including the IRA, but refuses to discuss Brexit with her

Protesters shout slogans during a rally in Paris, France, June 3, 2010, as they demonstrate against Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship; a man in the foreground wears a T-shirt calling for a boycott on Israel. (Jacques Brinon/ AP /File)

Jerusalem accuses EU of giving €5 million to NGOs that back Israel boycotts

By Raphael Ahren

The Guardian offices in London (CC-BY WordRidden, Flickr)

Israel lambasts The Guardian for accusing it of ‘killing with impunity’

By Raphael Ahren

Driving rain uncovers 2 rare horse statues, 2,000-years-old, in north of Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Look down: As small equine figurines surface in separate locations, accidental archaeologists are encouraged to quickly report the finds they stumble over

Byzantine-era cistern found under a playground in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood, photographed in 2005. (Ofer Cohen, courtesy IAA)

Case of the siphoned sandSubterranean 1,500-year-old cistern complex found under Jerusalem playground

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

What is a shekel worth?

My father left coins at every bus stop he frequented; he was buying happiness

On Roe v. Wade anniversary, reproductive rights hang by a thread

US conservatives are making dangerous inroads in their efforts to force women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaking at a ceremony announcing the winners of the Wolf Foundation award at the president's residence in Jerusalem, on January 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett brushes off Netanyahu slander reports, blasts Gantz

New Right chief endorses incumbent for PM, guns for defense minister position

Gantz to break silence at Israel Resilience campaign launch next week

By Raoul Wootliff

Former Netanyahu confidant’s diary details spending fights, alleged misuse

Attorney general won’t delay Netanyahu indictment, ex-top cop reportedly says

The scene of a car crash in the West Bank involving a classic 1960 Mercedes Benz in January 2019 (Courtesy of Judea and Samaria firefighting and rescue forces)

On the road to Jerusalem

Colombian blogger’s world trip in classic Mercedes ends with West Bank crash

Ana Lucia Perez, 59, is hospitalized in Jerusalem after a collision outside the settlement of Kfar Adumim leaves her seriously injured

Rendered chicken fat is distinctly yellow. The gribenes, or cracklings, are delicious little morsels of crisped skin. (The Fat Kitchen © by Andrea Chesman. Photography/ © by Keller + Keller Photography/ Storey Publishing)

The skinny on animal fats

Will 2019 be the year of the schmaltz? Two new cookbooks by Jews praise the lard

By Rich Tenorio

Illustrative. People enjoy a water slide. (Bortnikau, Getty Images)

Downhill ride

Israeli man jailed in Egypt for bumping into woman on water slide

Yussuf al-Assam’s father says his family has reconciled with the woman, accuses Foreign Ministry of abandoning his son

Niv Asraf (C) and his friend Eran Negauker (L), 22-year-olds from Beersheba, are seen at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for remand extension on April 3, 2015, a morning after Asraf was found in Kiryat Arba after being falsely reported as missing (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Court hands man prison time for faking his own West Bank kidnapping

Guy Nattiv (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s short film ‘Skin’ gets Oscar nod

By ToI Staff and AP

Movie exploring gang war that breaks out after black man smiles at a white child has since been developed into full-length feature about white supremacists

Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates to receive 2019 Jerusalem Prize

By Jessica Steinberg

Flash fiction master Etgar Keret snags Israel’s top literary award

By Jessica Steinberg

Ruth Bader Ginsberg documentary nominated for Oscar

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The Times of Israel Election Debate 2019

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Mourners carry the coffin of Israeli student Aya Maasarwe during her funeral in the northern town of Baqa al-Gharbiya, on January 23, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP)

Thousands attend funeral for Israeli woman murdered in Australia

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

US lawmaker says she ‘unknowingly’ used anti-Semitic trope in Israel criticism

Barnard College graduates beam at the Columbia University commencement ceremony in New York, May 18, 2016. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

Most Israelis don’t want non-Jewish migrants, even if they are highly skilled

By Melanie Lidman

A surgeon in an operating room at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera. (Courtesy)

In first, Israeli hospital uses fuel-cell energy for cleaner, smooth power flow

By Shoshanna Solomon

Human cancer cells with nuclei (specifically the DNA) stained blue. The central and right-most cell are in interphase, so the entire nuclei are labeled. The cell on the left is going through mitosis and its DNA has condensed. (TenOfAllTrades/Wikipedia)

Allergy-triggering cells could be used to fight colon cancer, Israel study says

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Dean of Copenhagen Cathedral Anders Gadegaard (second from the right) and his congregation offer prayers for the shooting victims outside the synagogue Krystalgade in Copenhagen, on February 15, 2015 after two fatal attacks in the Danish capital, at a cultural center during a debate on Islam and free speech and a second outside the city's main synagogue. (AFP/Odd Andersen)

Danes downplay seriousness of physical assaults on Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Elliot Draznin is the president of a Jewish sorority but does not identify as a woman. (Courtesy of Draznin/via JTA)

In a first, a transgender person is campus president of a Jewish sorority

By Josefin Dolsten

A grapevine belonging to an Israeli farmer in Hebron that was chopped down on January 23, 2019. (Honenu)

Israeli vineyard in Hebron targeted in alleged hate crime

An artist's impression of the Yehudit Bridge in Tel Aviv. (NCArchitects)

Work to resume on Tel Aviv bridge halted over Shabbat controversy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and China's President Xi Jinping (R) shake hands ahead of their talks at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, on March 21, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Etienne Oliveau)

China said to seek clarifications from Israel over investment concerns

Illustrative. Gold nuggets. (bodnarchuk, iStock by Getty Images)

2 Israelis arrested in Japan for largest gold smuggling op in country’s history

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