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What Matters Most On Friday, January 25, 2019

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Then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz has a snowball fight with a family of Palestinians along the West Bank's Route 60 on December 15, 2013. (Judah Ari Gross/Israel Defense Forces)

First Person

When the IDF’s chief of staff had a snowball fight with a Palestinian family

By Judah Ari Gross

5 years ago, I photographed an almost absurdly improbable interaction; at the time, the IDF wouldn’t allow publication, but now Benny Gantz is running for PM, it’s been unfrozen

Mohammed al-Emadi, chairman of Qatar's National Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, speaks at a press conference in Gaza City on January 25, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Qatar envoy says UN to take over Gaza cash distribution, as 1 killed in clashes

Hamas threatens massive and immediate response to any attack on Gaza — report

Israel media reviewNo money, mo problems: 8 things to know for January 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Family of Palestinian killed by Gaza rocket in Israel sues state for negligence

Screen capture from video of Irish Ambassador to Israel, Alison Kelly. (YouTube)

Irish envoy given ‘angry rebuke’ over bill outlawing settlement goods

Foreign Ministry warns ‘hypocritical and anti-Semitic’ legislation would have serious repercussions for Israel-Ireland ties if passed

In this Tuesday, February 11, 2014 photo, Israeli workers inspect barrels in a winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Israel summons Irish envoy as bill criminalizing settlement trade advances

By ToI Staff and JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Moroccan Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, and Moroccan King Mohammed VI, in Paris, November 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)

Netanyahu said seeking state visit to Morocco ahead of elections

Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi at a news conference at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, November 26, 2018. (Francisco Seco/AP)

Iran’s nuclear chief: We bought spares for nuke equipment we agreed to destroy

By Stuart Winer

Ali Akbar Salehi says supreme leader was convinced West would renege on 2015 pact, so replacement tubes for nuclear reactor were secretly purchased

In this photo provided Friday, January 25, 2019, by the Iranian Army, soldiers take position in an infantry drill in the central Isfahan province, Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran holds drill with 12,000 troops, says attackers would face ‘crushing blow’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This frame grab from an August 8, 2018, video provided by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, shows an aerial view of a massive hole caused by drought and excessive water pumping in Kabudarahang, in Hamadan province, in western Iran. (ISNA via AP)

Drought-stricken, parched Iran is sinking – literally

By MEHDI FATTAHI

A suspect in the killing of Aisha Rabi is embraced by a supporter outside the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court after being released to house arrest on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)

Shin Bet: Jewish teen in Rabi killing committed ‘terror attack in every sense’

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Facing accusations by far-right activists of abusing Jewish suspects, agency says treatment was ‘identical’ to how it handles Arab terror suspects

Car vandalized in the West Bank town of Turmusaya, January 25, 2019 (Courtesy)

Cars vandalized in West Bank town in suspected hate crime

Illustrative: A Palestinian man walks past Israeli police officers at the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on December 2, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian youths throw firebombs in East Jerusalem; 1 shot by police

In this September 26, 2017, file photo, longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump associate Stone arrested, faces obstruction charges in Mueller probe

By Eric Tucker and CHAD DAY

President’s ally also charged with witness tampering and false statements about his interactions related to the release by WikiLeaks of hacked emails during 2016 campaign

Former Trump fixer Cohen to comply with Senate subpeona

By AP

Rejection of Kushner’s security clearance application was overruled — report

Trump aides blasted as out of touch for dismissing shutdown suffering

By Jonathan Lemire

Researcher Oren Gutfeld inside Cave 52 at the Qumran archaeological site, January 22, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

In the Qumran cliffs, an expedition digs up new Dead Sea Scroll caves

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Photos and video: Luke Tress

Author Mark Kurlansky (photo by Sylvia Plachy) and his book, 'Milk.' (Courtesy)

Got Milk? Here’s a 10,000-year history of the white stuff, from farm to fridge

By Cathryn J. Prince

Men gather to pray during a demonstration in support of Eliezer Berland outside the court in Lod, Central Israel on July 26, 2016. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Sex convict rabbi claims he can revive the dead – for $5,000 fee

By Marissa Newman

Journalists fake brain dead patient to uncover how Eliezer Berland’s miracles-for-cash scheme works

Hannah Ellenson with wife Becca Israel and their son Shai. (Courtesy)

To have equal rights as parents, some same-sex couples adopt their own kids

By Cathryn J. Prince

Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi (R) receiving a Beitar Jerusalem fan club membership card from club owner Moshe Hogeg at an event in Barcelona, Spain, in December 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Beitar Jerusalem owner sued by Chinese investor for alleged cryptocurrency fraud

Zhewen Hu files NIS 17 million lawsuit against Moshe Hogeg and his company, Stox, claiming Hogeg dipped into investors’ funds for his own use; Hogeg denies allegation

Israeli model Bar Refaeli gestures during a press conference, in Paris, March 23, 2010. (Thibault Camus/AP)

Bar Refaeli confirmed as Eurovision host despite her legal woes

Matityahu Hirschman from “Kehillat Hamatmidim” arrives at Jerusalem District Court to hear the verdict in a case against him, on January 24, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

5 ultra-Orthodox men jailed for defrauding state in fake yeshiva student scam

By Stuart Winer

Ilana Goldstein Saks

How an intimidating spectacle becomes a comfort

It’s remarkable how one singular event at Mount Sinai gave rise to so many different opinions (Yitro)

Zionism’s race from the bottom

The depravity of using a convicted killer in an election campaign must spur articulation of a morally better Zionism

Mount Sinai and the birth of freedom

The Torah is the Jews’ ’constitution of liberty,’ and it includes everyone in the first universal citizenship

Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig

There’s good reason to fear Iran’s global reach

Teheran’s capabilities and actions suggest it will continue to pose regional and global security challenges for the forseeable future

A Yesh Atid election campaign poster at the Glilot junction outside Tel Aviv criticizing 'incitement,' designed to look like it is plastered over a Likud poster attacking journalists, January 25, 2019. (Yesh Atid)

Yesh Atid plasters billboard to slam Likud campaign’s ‘incitement’ against press

By Raoul Wootliff

‘You came to incite — we came to change,’ reads new sign, designed to look as if it is glued over Likud hoarding accusing journalists of seeking to sway elections

Prosecutors reportedly rebuff compromise for PM’s wife in catered meals case

New Right’s Ayelet Shaked tries to woo ultra-Orthodox voters

Gantz said looking to enlist labor union chief for Knesset slate

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Mohammed Sarsour (Courtesy)

Children, 3 and 5, killed in central Israel house fire

Abbi Jacobson, left, and Ilana Glazer star in "Broad City." (Jason Nocito; "Seinfeld" photo: George Lange/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images; Woody Allen photo: Screenshot from "Annie Hall"; collage by Emily Burack/70 Faces Media)

Broadly redefinedHow ‘Broad City’ redefined American Jewish identity

By Elana Spivack

Yehuda Biadga (Screen capture: Twitter)

Policeman placed on leave after shooting man armed with knife

A Barak-8 missile, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is launched during a test. (IAI)

India successfully tests ship-borne air defense system created with Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

The Adler family. (Screen capture: WPLG Local 10)

Stinking treatmentJewish family claims kicked off plane due to religion, not body odor

A painting of a German landscape signed by A. Hitler but said by German police on January 24, 2019 to be a fake. (Kloss Auction House)

Brush with history‘Fake’ Hitler paintings seized before going under hammer

By AFP

People cheer as they listen to Venezuela's National Assembly head Juan Guaido during a mass opposition rally against leader Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on January 23, 2019. (Federico Parra/AFP)

Palestinian official slams US over its support for Venezuelan opposition leader

Archive photo: Stabbing victim in the city of Lod is evacuated by a Magen David Adom ambulance, January 24, 2019. (MDA)

Man stabbed to death in Lod; second knifed in Petah Tikva

Illustrative: Algerians walk past a portrait of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the capital Algiers on May 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou)

Algeria court ditches sentence for blogger who interviewed Israeli

By AFP

Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community Munich, gives a speech during a ceremony to inaugurate a memorial site at the former Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp, on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/dpa/Matthias Balk)

German Jewish leader ‘threatened’ after criticizing far-right AfD

By AFP

In this October 29, 2018 photo, Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Magda Brown, 91, stands beside an image of Anne Frank at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Jewish Federations to distribute $4.6 million in federal funds to survivors

By JTA

A Holocaust survivor shows her number tattoo. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel home to some 200,000 survivors

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