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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 31, 2019

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'Anti-Semitism is the glue which binds the extreme right'

UK Jews face ‘perfect storm’ with new wave of far-right extremists, radical left

By Robert Philpot

Anti-terror police chief warns of ‘polarization’ caused by divisive Brexit debate, as militant groups evolve and the threat of terror rises

Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas, accused neo-Nazis living in the UK who named their baby after Hitler. (West Midlands Police via BBC)

Rachel Riley poses with campaigners outside of the Houses of Parliament in London before delivering a petition to Downing Street, October 8, 2018. Riley has spoken out in recent months about her Jewish identity and the anti-Semitic abuse she has received online. (Handout/Tom Nicholson for Bauer Media via Getty Images/via JTA)

Racism in the UKRising anti-Semitism brings secular UK Jews closer to their roots

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: A London bus stop defaced with an unauthorized poster reading, 'Israel is a racist endeavor,' which a pro-Palestinian group put up in protest at the UK Labour Party's adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, on September 6, 2018. (Twitter)

Hostility to Israel and anti-Jewish hatred clearly linked in UK, finds study

By Robert Philpot

An unusual Chalcolithic period bowl example in which the entire surface is covered with triangles. (University of Haifa excavation team)

Haifa archaeologists look to crack mysterious 6,500-year-old ‘Triangle Code’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Former Israeli chief of staff Benny Gantz walks among supporters during an electoral rally after delivering his first campaign speech, in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Polls show Gantz could defeat Netanyahu if he heads joint list with Lapid

Surveys for two news channels show ex-army chief’s Israel Resilience Party rising fast, though not taking many seats from the right of the political spectrum

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz at a ceremony in honor of incoming IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot (not seen) at the PM's office in Jerusalem, February 16, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In a different age, not long ago, Netanyahu thought Benny Gantz was ‘excellent’

By Raphael Ahren

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at the Globes Business Conference in Jerusalem on December 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman mocks Likud for pouncing on Gantz, noting PM’s ‘lavish’ past praise

Op-ed

As Gantz takes on the Rabin mantle, Israel’s Labor party slides toward oblivion

In an election now clearly a battle of two Benjamins, the party that led Israel for its first 30 years is irrelevant, and it’s not the only one that must merge or risk extinction

Then chief of staff Benny Gantz sits with members of the Rabin family at a seminar at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in October 2012 marking the anniversary of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, left, and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

As Gantz rises in polls, Yesh Atid insists Lapid the ‘only answer’ to Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon speaks at the launch of his Kulanu party's election campaign in the coastal city of Ashkelon on January 30, 2019. (Dudi Modan/Flash90)

At campaign launch, Kahlon dismisses poor poll results, political newcomers

Head of the Yesh Atid political party Yair Lapid gestures to recruits outside Tel ha Shomer IDF army base near Tel Aviv, August 13, 2018. (Flash90)

Israel media review

Won’t you be my deputy: 9 things to know for January 31

By Joshua Davidovich

Polls show a Gantz-Lapid merger beating Likud, but even if one trusts the figures, there’s no guarantee the two will join up rather than try to destroy each other

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, confers with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

AG concludes talks on PM graft cases, will declare charges before election: TV

By Michael Bachner

Mandelblit reportedly set to announce bribery indictment in Case 4000, fraud in Case 1000; Netanyahu accuses him of caving in to ‘immense pressure’ from left, media

7:32 pm

US expected to announce pullout of arms treaty as early as tomorrow
7:29 pm

Netanyahu said to be eyeing joint slate with Bennett's New Right party
7:02 pm

US-North Korea summit details to be announced next week

Customers speak with a money changer at his shop in downtown Tehran, Iran, November 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Europe set to announce plan letting Iran bypass US sanctions

By AFP and ToI Staff

UK, France, Germany expected to launch payment mechanism Thursday; US warns it will pursue any company breaching its restrictions

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

Trump says US intelligence chiefs ‘naive’ on Iran

By AFP

Pet peeveIran said to ban dog walking in Tehran

Ethiopian-Israelis protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square against police violence toward their community, January 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Clashes as thousands of Ethiopian-Israelis rally against police brutality

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Demonstration by community and its supporters follows deadly shooting by police of Yehuda Biadga, 24, in Bat Yam; after riot, 6 officers injured, 11 arrested

Ethiopian Israelis protest police violence against in Tel Aviv on January 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hundreds block Tel Aviv roads in Ethiopian-led protest against police brutality

Shulamit S. Magnus

Loving a mentally ill parent

It wasn’t his fault he left us destitute, but what about the rabbis who refused to release my mother from the marriage?

Parshat Mishpatim: Let them eat cake

Appeasing a people’s growing upset before they rise up is a lot harder than spotting the revolution triggers in hindsight

The seed for renewed ties with Chad was sown in Oslo

Netanyahu may denounce the historic accord, but he owes his diplomatic gains to the new paradigms it established

What will the Holocaust mean to my baby?

He won’t remember his great grandparents, but his very existence is a chapter in their stories of surviving the Shoah

Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers blindfolding and detaining Palestinians. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

5 soldiers charged with beating handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian suspects

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF prosecutor files indictment against servicemen suspected of ‘slapping, punching, bludgeoning’ prisoners as revenge for attack that killed their comrades

The Israeli teen (L) suspected of killing Aisha Rabi in the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on January 23, 2019. (YouTube/Screen capture)

Top rabbis raise money for defense of suspect in Palestinian woman’s killing

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

IATI's CEO Karin Mayer Rubinstein (Courtesy Yoram Reshef)

Israel’s tech umbrella: ‘Irresponsible’ cancer-cure claim damages our reputation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Harm foreseen to image of Israel’s world-renowned life science industry; company shrugs off criticism, says ‘patent lawyers have deemed our technology innovative’

The Sealantis team that has developed medical adhesives that mimic the process that allows algae stick to rocks in water (Nitzan Zohar, Technion spokesperson's office)

UK firm buys Israeli maker of algae-mimicking medical adhesives

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mellanox CEO Eyal Waldman in his office in Tel Aviv (Shoshanna Solomon/TimesofIsrael)

Mellanox 2018 revenue tops $1 billion for first time in firm’s history

By Shoshanna Solomon

Orient House in East Jerusalem, October 14, 2007 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel extends closure of Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem

Public security minister says he signed the order to stop any attempt by the Palestinian Authority to gain a foothold in the city

Egyptian security officials said set to arrive in Gaza to meet Hamas leaders

Christian group scraps Hebron observer program due to ‘security concerns’

Minister threatens to ban Amnesty over settlement tourism report

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. March 21, 2012. (Serge Attal/FLASH90/File)

String of attacks on Jews rattles Brooklyn neighborhood

NYPD opens hate crimes investigations, beefs up presence in Crown Heights after series of unprovoked assaults on identifiably Jewish residents

Damon Joseph, center, accompanied by a federal agent, right, during his arrest on December 10, 2018, for plotting to carry out a mass shooting attack at an Ohio synagogue. (Screen capture WTAE-TV)

US man charged for plotting mass shooting at Ohio synagogue

Jussie Smollett, a cast member in the TV series 'Empire,' seen at the Fox Networks Group 2018 programming presentation afterparty in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Chicago police: No footage found yet showing attack on gay, black, Jewish actor

By AP

More Headlines

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, walks with the winner of the Eurovision 2018 song contest, Netta Barzilai, on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv on June 27, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/pool/via Flash90)

BBC rejects call to urge relocating Eurovision from Israel

By Stuart Winer

Incoming UK Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan. (Courtesy: UK Embassy, Tel Aviv)

Britain names Neil Wigan as new ambassador to Israel

By Raphael Ahren

A man carries a briefcase believed to contain hundreds of thousands of shekels in diamonds stolen from the Ramat Gan Diamond Exchange on January 28, 2019. (screen capture: Kan broadcaster)

The Israeli jobColombian tourists arrested in brazen daylight diamond heist

US President Donald Trump speaks as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (C) and senior adviser Jared Kushner (L) look on during a meeting about opioid and drug abuse in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 29, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM )

5 takeaways from Chris Christie’s epic takedown of Jared Kushner

A sandbar shark is caught by researchers near the Orot Rabin power plant in Hadera where the gushing hot water used to cool the turbines draws draws schools of sharks that are increasingly endangered by overfishing. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Sharks drawn to warm waters of Hadera power plant

By Alon Bernstein and Isabel Debre

New England Patriots' Julian Edelman speaks with members of the media during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, ahead of the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game against Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Is Julian Edelman the best Jewish football player ever?

By Gabe Friedman

File: A man lays flowers as he pays his respects in front of a makeshift memorial at the entrance of the Jewish Museum in Brussels, where a deadly shooting took place the day before, killing four, May 25, 2014 (Georges Gobet/AFP)

Israeli orphans to face accused Brussels Jewish museum killer

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Netanyahu arrives in India on January 14, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

PM to make one-day trip to India next month — report

By Raphael Ahren

A cannabis plant at the Knesset in 2009 for a meeting on medical marijuana in the parliament's Labor, Welfare and Health Committee. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

AnalysisHow a change in Trump policy helped Israel export medical marijuana

Celebrity Chef's Birthright trip to Israel, January 29,2019 (Courtesy Celebrity Chef's Birthright)

Celebrity chefs get the Birthright treatment on foodie trip

By Jessica Steinberg

Arab Israeli bodybuilder and Muezzin Ibrahim Masri, calls to prayer at el-Jazzar mosque in the northern Israeli port city of Acre on January 29, 2019 (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Muscled out‘Immodest’ bodybuilder muezzin fired from Israeli mosque

By Majeda El Batsh

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/ GPO/ Flash90)

Netanyahu scorned for wooing Holocaust-distorting allies

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