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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 29, 2019

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Torah scrolls thrown on the floor in Jerusalem synagogue attack, January 29, 2019 (Facebook)

Vandals desecrate Jerusalem synagogue, throw Torah scrolls on floor

Analysis

With short, ‘impactful’ speech, can Gantz transform from riddle into answer?

The enigmatic ex-IDF chief’s first public address will last just 15 minutes, but could have profound effects on Israel’s political scene

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz seen with members of the Druze community and activists outside his home in Rosh Ha'ayin, during a protest against the nation-state law, January 14, 2019. (Flash90)

In first speech Tuesday, Gantz won’t rule out coalition with Netanyahu – report

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewWaiting for Benny: 7 things to know for January 29

By Tamar Pileggi

Bennett intensifies attacks on Gantz, Ya’alon ahead of speech

By Michael Bachner

Twitter suspends 61 ‘fake news’ accounts from overseas aimed at Israelis

343 ‘foreign manipulation campaigns’ nixed by Twitter in election season so far, Foreign Ministry says; Facebook denies its transparency rules, taking effect in March, are too late

Facebook Tel Aviv's Facebook cover photo. (Facebook)

Facebook to bar anonymous Israel political ads, but only shortly before election

FILE: Former IDF brigadier general Gal Hirsch gives a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing his entry into politics, December 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Elections 2019

Launching campaign, failed top cop candidate says he wants to be police minister

By Raoul Wootliff

Former police chief-designate Gal Hirsch, under investigation for tax evasion, says he will restore force to former glory

MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) outside the closed entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on October 30, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

InterviewWith first open primaries, Moshe Feiglin’s ‘Zehut’ looks for a public identity

By Raoul Wootliff

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announce the establishment of the New Right party, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, on December 29, 2018. (Jack Guez AFP/File)

Bennett: Change in Israel’s leadership should not be up to Mandelblit

Benny Gantz (R) and Moshe Ya'alon (L) at a campaign event for the Israel Resilience party in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

After Gantz’s maiden speech, Likud lashes him as a ‘leftist’

Under the slogan ‘there’s no right and no left, only Israel,’ Gantz vows to unite country, says he won’t sit with indicted PM

8:42 pm

Black Jewish 'Empire' actor assaulted in possible hate crime, police say
8:02 pm

Netanyahu in talks with Russia to avoid Syria 'frictions'
7:52 pm

Shas slams Gantz's promises of civil marriage, Western Wall compromise

Intel's manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. (Courtesy)

Intel confirms massive Israel investment plan, which ministers say is worth $11b

Finance minister says Kiryat Gat expansion expected to bring thousands of jobs to the south; tech giant said to ask state to shell out amount equal to 10% of its investment

Analysis

Remembering the Holocaust, Poland blots out any mention of its complicity

Tens of thousands of Poles, at least, helped the Nazis kill Jews, but Warsaw is focusing on Polish suffering in WWII and trying to frame its people as rescuers, historian says

Survivors of Auschwitz, at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, walk to place candles on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Poland, January 27, 2019. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

UN chief: World must rise up against worsening anti-Semitism

By AP and ToI Staff

Poland opens probe into Auschwitz protesters railing against ‘Jewish invaders’

By AP

Yesh Atid: As PM, Lapid would demand Orban apology for ‘anti-Semitic campaign’

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: Observers of TIPH, an international monitor group, walk in a street of Hebron on November 19, 2007. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel to boot international observers out of Hebron, Netanyahu says

Decision to not extend TIPH’s mandate — slated to expire at month’s end — comes after a number of clashes between members of the group and settlers; Palestinians slam move

After Israel suspends Hebron observers, Palestinians call for permanent UN force

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian Authority PM Rami Hamdallah tenders resignation

Blaming US veto, Palestinian envoy says UN membership bid on hold

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the CyberTech conference on January 29, 2019, in Tel Aviv (Gilad Kavalerchik)

Iran attacks Israel in cybersphere ‘daily,’ Netanyahu charges

By Shoshanna Solomon

PM hails Jewish state’s prowess, says it monitors and foils all of the Islamic Republic’s attempts to penetrate its defenses

Iran threatens Israel with ‘inferno,’ vows to improve missile accuracy

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu said set to deliver speech at Warsaw conference on Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu to meet top Russian diplomats Tuesday, with Syria reportedly on agenda

Former head of the air force, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Eshel speaks at the Institute for National Security Studies conference in Tel Aviv on January 28, 2019. (INSS)

Ex-air force chief: Only Russia can get the Iranians out of Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Former head of IDF’s fight against Tehran declares victory, but his retired comrade says military might will not be enough

Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis, right, and Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri shake hands after the signing of an agreement in the capital Damascus on January 28, 2019. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Iran and Syria agree to boost cooperation, in ‘message to world’

By AFP

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

Iran denies guardsmen were killed in Israel strike in Syria

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

Unheeled, with The General in the shuk

By Haim Watzman

Alexander Goldberg

A rabbi in Lebanon: Finding common cause during my trip to Tripoli

Meeting Christian and Moslem leaders, I learned the importance of listening, empathising and simply showing respect

A doctor asking patients to put on tefillin is no scandal

A Tel Aviv hand surgeon believes doing a mitzvah can help heal — that’s not coercion, it’s being a classic Chabadnik

Israel must stop pandering to Holocaust distorters

Eastern European countries are systematically rewriting the narrative of WWII and the slaughter of European Jewry

3 years since the Kotel agreement: We won’t give up

Though the deal is frozen, Women of the Wall’s mission was and remains to enrich the landscape of Jewish life for all

Illustrative: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Aryeh Finkel, head yeshiva of the Brachfeld branch of the Mir Yeshiva in Modiin Illit, on August 10, 2016. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Real estate firm markets new Haredi settlement that government hasn’t heard of

Afikim Rosenthaler says interested buyers are made aware that cabinet approval for northern West Bank city still pending, but relevant ministries aren’t even aware project exists

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) meeting families whose homes in the Netiv Ha'avot outpost were demolished last year, at the Elazar West Bank settlement, January 28, 2019. (Gush Etzion Regional Council)

Visiting outpost evacuees, Netanyahu vows ‘no more uprooting of communities’

More Headlines

US Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks towards the Senate chamber with Secretary for the Majority Laura Dove (R) January 28, 2019 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Senate advances anti-BDS bills as Congress resumes work after shutdown

By Eric Cortellessa

Pro- Israel supporters hold up signs at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 27, 2008. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Democrats launch group to keep party in pro-Israel camp

Comedian Roseanne Barr speaks in Tel Aviv on January 28, 2019, at an event organized by the Tel Aviv International Salon in partnership with The Times of Israel. (Times of Israel staff)

Defiant Roseanne Barr says show got canceled because she was ‘defending Israel’

Hapoel Jerusalem basketball player Amar'e Stoudemire seen during the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem at the National Cup final game in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2017. (Flash90)

net gainAmar’e Stoudemire given residency, may get citizenship

A man who identified himself as Michel Lambert but whose real name is Aharon Almog Assoulin and was linked in investigations by Channel 12's Uvda program and AP with an alleged undercover operation targeting critics of the Israeli tech firm NSO Group, seen in a screen capture from AP video footage. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick)

Reports unmask Israeli man filmed in bizarre meeting with Citizen Lab

By ToI Staff and AP

A Brazilian firefighter, left, helps an Israeli rescue specialist to cross a muddy area as they arrive at a site where a person found dead person inside a vehicle stuck in the mud, days after a dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. (AP/Leo Correa)

Israeli rescuers aid slow search through Brazilian mud as death toll rises

By marcello silva de sousa, PETER PRENGAMAN and anna jean kaiser

Bart Kizierowski (Instagram)

Polish swimmer refuses to coach Malaysian team over its Israel athlete ban

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Canadian parliament building in Ottawa, Canada (MarcBruxelle/iStock)

Canada revokes Jewish group’s charity status, citing funds for IDF, settlements

ILLUSTRATIVE -- In this photo taken on June 20, 2011, Nine year old Grace Powers, left, and her brother James, 11, read in the children's section at the Denver Public Library (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Prize geltHannukah tale of immigrant family wins top Jewish kids’ book honor

By Penny Schwartz

(L-R) Deputy mayor of Lisbon, Duare Cordeiro, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, reality TV host Assi Azar and Kan presenter Lucy Ayoub during the Host City Insignia Handover ceremony kicking off Eurovision events in Tel Aviv, January 28, 2019. (Photo Credit: Raphi Daloya)

On a high noteTel Aviv mayor pipes a tune as Eurovision events kick off

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut speaks at the Annual International Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv, January 29, 2019 (Flash90)

Chief justice slams ‘belligerent’ political attacks on courts

David Bar-Kapara (courtesy of family)

In reversal, Defense Ministry says man killed in 2015 was a terror victim

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