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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 30, 2019

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Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz delivers his first electoral speech in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Idea of PM continuing to serve if indicted is 'ridiculous'

Launching bid to replace Netanyahu, Gantz vows to unify Israel, end incitement

Former army head gives maiden campaign address before raucous crowd, says he will seek peace, keep Jerusalem united, get rid of corruption; confirms union with Ya’alon

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz (C) is greeted by supporters as he arrives to give his first electoral speech in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Reporter's notebookNeither right nor left, Gantz offers ‘hope’ to a crowd calling for ‘change’

By Raoul Wootliff

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a campaign rally in Tel Aviv for his new political ally Benny Gantz on January 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Joining forces with Gantz, Ya’alon rules out support for two-state solution

By Raoul Wootliff and Alexander Fulbright

Analysis

Would-be PM Gantz sells himself as the vital antidote to toxic, aloof Netanyahu

In first political speech, ex-army chief depicts PM as a haughty, corrupt monarch, tearing Israeli society apart, and himself as a unifier and healer. Will the electorate be wooed?

Former Israeli chief of staff Benny Gantz delivers his first electoral speech, in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz delivers his first electoral speech, in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

Israel media reviewThus spoke Gantz: 9 things to know for January 30

By Joshua Davidovich

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz delivers his first electoral speech in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Likud, right pounce on Gantz stump speech as proof he is a leftist

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

File: Palestinian security forces in Hebron, November 14, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

US aid to Palestinian security services to end Friday

PA asks for $35 million in American assistance be cut off by end of January to avoid prosecution under Trump administration’s anti-terrorism laws

7:35 pm

US-born Iranian newscaster arrives back in Tehran
7:09 pm

Scuffles break out at Ethiopian-led protest against police brutality
7:00 pm

British artists urge BBC to oppose Israel hosting Eurovision

I believe in hope

In an election campaign launch speech, ex-army chief and head of Israel Resilience Party lays out his vision if he becomes prime minister

Christina Wirth

My flatmate Hannah Bladon was more than a stabbing victim

When I heard that she’d offered her seat to a pregnant woman on the light rail not long before the attack, I wasn’t surprised at all

Sergey Kanovich

Dancing La Cumparsita with Frida

She sighed, looking somewhere far off in the distance: ’How long I have been waiting for you. How very long. All my life.’

Vote for a bloc!

If Israelis consolidate into major parties, the extremists won’t be able to hold the government captive with their veto power

Israel Police temporarily close off the A'Zaim crossing east of Jerusalem in the central West Bank following a stabbing attack on January 30, 2018. (Israel Police)

Palestinian teen girl tries to stab checkpoint guard, is shot dead – police

By Judah Ari Gross

No Israelis injured in incident at A’Zaim crossing, outside Jerusalem

Palestinian cars daubed with Jewish stars, Hebrew slogan in apparent hate crime

Abbas accepts Hamdallah’s resignation, asks government to stay on for transition

Crypto-terror fundingSend us Bitcoin, cash-strapped Hamas pleads

By AFP and ToI Staff

The home of Lewis Weinger in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, which has been rented out using Airbnb. (Meni Lavi)

Amnesty calls on web giants Airbnb, TripAdvisor to boycott West Bank settlements

By ToI Staff and AFP

NGO also singles out Expedia and Booking.com, saying they are benefiting from ‘war crimes’; Israel slams ‘anti-Semitic’ BDS campaign

File: Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide in Jerusalem on January 07, 2018 (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Norway says Israel’s axing of Hebron observer force may violate Oslo accords

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Creating Change, an LGBTQ conference in Detroit, on January 24, 2019. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Fresh anti-Israel protest roils LGBTQ conference

Michal Zernowitski, a Labor party activist who is running in the 2019 national elections. (Courtesy)

Interview

Ultra-Orthodox woman eyeing Labor seat wants to be the left’s Ayelet Shaked

Michal Zernowitski, 38, supports public transportation on Shabbat and backs civil unions, but says calls to shutter the rabbinate are ‘populist’

A vandalized placard for Orly Levy-Abekasis and her Gesher party in Jerusalem, January 30, 2019 (Channel 13 news)

Female party leader’s image ripped off election campaign placard in Jerusalem

Screen capture from video of New Likud members Nir Hirschman, left, and Hadar Weisman. (Channel 12)

Likud boots out two primary candidates for party-clashing views

By Stuart Winer

CEO and founder of the startup Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBI) Ilan Morad, right, with Hanan Itzhaki, the chief science officer, at their lab (Courtesy)

‘Cancer cure’ doubted as Israeli team claims it can’t afford to publish findings

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ness Ziona’s Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies says pre-clinical trial results ‘very good’; foreign experts lambaste claims, Israeli experts say they haven’t seen the research

Trails left by the Iron Dome air defense system intercepting a Syrian projectile over Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights, on January 20, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

US intel chief: Iran will likely strike back if Israel keeps attacking in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

In report to Congress, US director of national intelligence warns Islamic Republic undeterred from establishing ‘network’ of Shiite militias in Syria

Netanyahu hails army readiness, says forces ready for ‘crushing attack’

Rouhani: Iran facing ‘greatest pressure and economic sanctions’ in 40 years

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian man publicly hanged over charges of gay sex, abduction of boys

A still of Dr. Ruth Westheimer speaking with WNYC from the film 'Ask Dr. Ruth.' (Courtesy of Sundance Institute/David Paul Jacobson)

Film review

Documentary on sex therapist Dr. Ruth one of snowy Sundance’s hottest films

By Jordan Hoffman

Shefita, the rising star at 'HaKochav Nolad,' the Rising Star franchise that creates the Eurovision contestant (Courtesy Shefita)

Shefita charms and annoys, and seems poised to be Israel’s next ‘Rising Star’

By Jessica Steinberg

Jewish Israeli Eurovision hopeful performs covers of beloved alt-rock ballads in an Arabic accent, drawing accusations of blackface

French singer Bilal Hassani in Paris on January 28, 2019. (Thomas Samson / AFP)

Despite death threats, France’s Eurovision entrant looking forward to Tel Aviv

A street advertisement for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2019, seen on a central street in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

British cultural figures call on BBC to urge relocating Eurovision from Israel

By Stuart Winer

Left to right: Manager of Intel's Kiryat Gat production plant Daniel Benatar, Intel Israel CEO Yaniv Garty and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem (GPO video screenshot)

PM meets Intel’s Israeli leaders, fetes decision to invest $11b in new plant

Netanyahu says ‘Israel has become a technological world power,’ while local factory manager declares that ‘together were are making history in the country’

Mellanox headquarters in Yokne'am (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Intel reportedly offers $5-6 billion for Israel’s Mellanox

By Shoshanna Solomon

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon speaks in the Knesset on January 9, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Finance minister confirms Intel to get $1 billion grant for massive expansion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara, second left, host Polish President Andrzej Duda, second right, and his wife Agata, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on January 18, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Analysis

As Israel warms ties in Eastern Europe, is Holocaust memory now disposable?

A chorus of Jewish politicians and scholars warn against Israeli realpolitik clouding historically accurate depictions of World War II war crimes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis in Jerusalem, January 29, 2019 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

PM tells Lithuanian leader they are ‘forging bridge from past to future’

Artist's impression of cable cars crossing Jerusalem's Hinnom Valley, from a promotional video posted to YouTube.

Israel advances controversial cable car to Jerusalem’s Old City

Official notices expected to appear in newspapers on Friday, launching start of 60-day period for public objections

More Headlines

George Garib being led into Nazareth District Court January 29, 2019 for sentencing. Garib, 23, was handed a 5-year prison term for running over and killing police sergeant Natan Yossipov in 2016. (Screen Capture/ YouTube)

Hit-and-run driver gets 5 years for killing cop

An Israeli rescue specialist, right, arrives at a site where a body was found inside a vehicle stuck in the mud, days after a dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. Firefighters on Monday carefully moved over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies four days after a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

IDF team aiding search at Brazil dam disaster met with praise and criticism

By Marcus M. Gilban

A Jerusalem synagogue where vandals reportedly broke in, January 29, 2019 (Police Spokesperson's Unit)

7 released after questioning over Jerusalem synagogue desecration

A view of the Jerusalem to Ben Gurion Airport electric train seen near Jerusalem, September 25, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Trains on Jerusalem’s high-speed line halted due to locomotive malfunction

An Israeli Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules, June 3, 2015. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Air force transport plane rolls 100 meters into ditch, injuring 2

Rabbi Yehiel Kalish attending the swearing-in of Dafna Michaelson Jenet, his sister, at the Colorado House of Representatives in Denver, January 11, 2017. (Courtesy of Michaelson Jenet/via JTA)

Double trouble?How a Jewish brother and sister are making political history

By Josefin Dolsten

Jussie Smollett speaks at the Children's Defense Fund California's 28th Annual Beat The Odds Awards at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, December. 6, 2018. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images via JTA)

Gay black Jewish actor violently assaulted in Chicago in possible hate crime

By Emily Burack

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a former lawmaker, greets supporters during a vigil in honor of those who have been killed during clashes between security forces and demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Top Venezuelan opposition figure asks Jewish expats to return

Hamdi Na'asan with his children (social media)

Israel has not spoken to Palestinians in probe of deadly weekend clash

By Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

Palestinians protest against a government tax hike in Ramallah, West Bank, December 12, 2018. The blue gloves are a unifying symbol for the protesters, compared to the yellow vests worn by protesters in recent demonstrations in France. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Abbas freezes social security law after months of protests

Nurit Goren (left) with UK chef Jamie Oliver, in Tel Aviv's Carmel Market on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 (Courtesy Nurit Goren)

Naked chef exposedChef Jamie Oliver spotted chowing down in Tel Aviv market

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Polyamory (Getty Images)

Bar-Ilan University’s polyamory conference draws fire from students, professors

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