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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 27, 2019

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

After banning Israelis, Malaysia blocked from hosting Paralympics swimming meet

By Michael Bachner

‘Politics and sport are never a good mix,’ Paralympic Committee says in announcing move; Foreign Ministry hails ‘brave decision’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman, right, and Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, left, attend the weekly cabinet meeting at prime minister's office in Jerusalem on January 27, 2019. (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu downplays right-wing anti-Semitism, contradicting Israeli study

PM insists Jew hatred on the ‘extreme left’ and among Muslims is the more pertinent threat, despite government report stating far-right attacks on the rise

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, on October 29, 2018 in which eleven Jews were killed while at Shabbat services. (AP/Matt Rourke)

2018 was deadliest year for anti-Semitic violence since 1994 – Israeli report

Burned prayer book found in Netanya synagogue after vandalism attack, January 27, 2019 (Police Spokesperson's Unit)

Vandals burn prayer books, graffiti ‘Hail Satan’ on wall of Netanya synagogue

Analysis

Deborah Lipstadt

Jewish myopia in a perfect storm of anti-Semitism

As hatred blows in from all directions, some Jews are in denial, while Israel makes common cause with bigots

Former police chief Roni Alsheich (R) is interviewed by Udi Segal at the Institute for International Security Studies conference in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2019. (Sc

Live updates (closed)

Police chief: Hard to envisage PM not being indicted

Roni Alsheich flatly rejects claims that investigators are framing Netanyahu; says he has not interrogated premier himself, but has read over every word of testimony

7:19 pm

Remembering is about striving to prevent atrocities from recurring -- White House in Holocaust remembrance day message
7:08 pm

Merkel: We are working to ensure Iranian forces don't approach Golan Heights
6:37 pm

US warns against threats to opposition in Venezuela

Analysis

P.I.-turned Nazi hunter blames passive Jewish leaders for the 99.9% who got away

Decades on, private investigator Steven Rambam continues to pursue the 20th century’s most brazen murderers, even as governments turn a blind eye to the evidence he collects

Nazi hunter Steven Rambam. (Courtesy)

The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)

One in 20 British adults doesn’t believe Holocaust happened, poll finds

German chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 23, 2019 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

German leader calls for renewed fight against anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and AP

Artist John Hendrix. (YouTube screenshot)

Analysis

A pastor who helped plot to kill Hitler is now the hero of a graphic novel

Artist John Hendrix, himself a man of faith, immortalizes theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer in ‘The Faithful Spy,’ a serious comic for teens and tweens

Far-right Poles protest government at Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By AP and ToI Staff

Photo essayDreams of Theresienstadt children on display in drawings exhibit

By AP

Thai pop idol tearfully apologizes for Nazi swastika T-shirt

By AFP

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during an interview with al-Mayadeen, January 26, 2019 (screen capture)

Nasrallah: Israeli tunnel op hasn’t curbed ’10 percent’ of Galilee invasion plan

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

In first comments since IDF began destroying attack tunnels, Hezbollah leader says he’s ‘surprised’ Israel took so long to find them, derides operation as intel ‘failure’

PM: Nasrallah ’embarrassed’ by Israel’s success in destroying Hezbollah tunnels

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nasrallah says Iran, Hezbollah may begin responding to Syria strikes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel media reviewTalking heads: 7 things to know for January 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah is interviewed on the al-Mayadeen Lebanese television channel, January 26, 2019 (Screen capture)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

With smug tunnels speech, Hezbollah chief tries to bury terror group’s defects

Nasrallah claims Israel was humiliated by underground infrastructure, threatens Israelis with war, in bid to hide Hezbollah’s failures and distort the actual power balance

The US military outpost al-Tanf in southern Syria, October 22, 2018. (AP/Lolita Baldor)

US said considering plan to keep troops at Syrian base to counter Iran

File: A Palestinian ambulance emerges from a cloud of tear gas during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 15, 2018 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF and police probe Palestinian’s killing in West Bank clash, likely by settler

Palestinians say Adei Ad outpost residents attacked villagers on their land, shot Hamdi Na’asan; settlers say youth was ambushed, stabbed in the hand, and that squad gave chase

Palestinian arrested after breaching Gaza border fence

By ToI Staff and AFP

AnalysisNew Qatari funds bring end to absurd case of protection money without protection

By Avi Issacharoff

Russia to host 10 Palestinian factions next month, diplomat says

Counting ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections for the 20th Israeli parliament. March 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

Israel election primer: 1

Israel Democracy Institute

Why are there so many parties, and is there anything wrong with that?

The first in a series of articles and videos prepared by the Israel Democracy Institute in the run-up to April 9, explaining and critiquing what goes on during an election period

Education Minister Nafatli Bennett from the New Right political party on an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem, January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

As PM launches fresh attack, Bennett defends Mandelblit: ‘I trust his judgement’

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz arrives at a ceremony for incoming chief of staff Aviv Kohavi, at the IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv, on January 15, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)

Gantz’s party lashes Bennett over Qatari cash payments to Gaza

By Raoul Wootliff

I was raised by slaves

I know the lasting humiliation of the lash on one’s parents’ backs

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

The new era of no-shame anti-Semitism

What are you doing to teach the world the dangers of unfettered nationalism this International Holocaust Day?

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, amid a political power struggle between him and an opposition leader who has declared himself interim president. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Israel said to balk at backing US on Venezuela over fears for Jewish community

By ToI Staff and AP

Jerusalem reportedly pressured by Washington to support opposition leader Juan Guaido, but worries Maduro regime may act against Jews in retaliation

An Israeli aid and rescue team heads to Brazil on January 27, 2019, to help with rescue efforts following the collapse of a dam in the southwest of the country, which killed at least 40 people and left at least 200 missing. (ZAKA)

Israel sends rescue team, aid to Brazil following dam collapse

By ToI Staff and AP

United States embassy security agents walk after dropping off US embassy employees and their families at the Simon Bolivar international airport in La Guaira, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 25, 2018. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)

Venezuela backtracks on demand that US diplomats leave

By Manuel Rueda and Edith M. Lederer

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A man feeds stray cats leftovers from his shop, Jerusalem, October 13, 2010 (Keren Freeman/FLASH90)

Back-alley dealJerusalem announces $27k program to feed street cats

An Orthodox Jewish woman (left) prays alongside a young Jewish woman wearing tefillin at the Western Wall (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Women of the Wall get approval for women’s tefillin stand in Jerusalem

By Michael Bachner

Dr. Lily Pereg (left) and her sister Pryhia Sarussy disappeared during a trip to visit Sarusi’s son in Mendoza, Argentina. (GoFundMe photo)

Bodies of Israeli sisters in Argentina found after son charged

Harvey Weinstein, left, leaves court with attorney Ron Sullivan, Jan. 25, 2019, in New York (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Documentary charting rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein premieres at Sundance

By Lindsey Bahr

IDF soldiers at a control board in the National Cyber Bureau (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

IDF teaches combat soldiers cyber skills as springboard to civilian life

By Shoshanna Solomon

Director Alma Har'el, left, and actor Shia LaBeouf pose at the premiere of "Honey Boy" during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Park City, Utah. (Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)

TransformerShia LaBeouf teams with Israeli director for semi-autobiographical film

By AP

Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz as he speaks during Starbucks annual shareholders meeting in Seattle, Washington, March 17, 2015.(AFP/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / STEPHEN BRASHEAR)

Ex-Starbucks CEO Schultz said firming up White House bid

A 2000-year-old coin from the rule of Herod Agrippa, found in Nahal Shilo in the West Bank in January 2019. (COGAT)

Kid on school trip unearths Second Temple-era coin in West Bank stream

By Michael Bachner

ILLUSTRATIVE -- In this July 11, 2018 file photo, a drone equipped with a thermal camera flies over the plants at the Pennsylvania Department of Natural Resources' Jennings Environmental Education Center on July 11, 2018 in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Russian tourist arrested for flying drone at Ben Gurion airport

An Aeronautics Ltd. drone (Courtesy)

Licenses suspended for dronemaker accused of bombing Armenia for Azerbaijan

By Judah Ari Gross

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