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What Matters Most On Friday, February 1, 2019

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An example of content on a Facebook page tied to an Iranian manipulation campaign. (Facebook)

Facebook busts vast Iranian manipulation campaign targeting Israel, others

By AFP and ToI Staff

Coalition of Israeli diplomats, programmers working to beat election cyber bots

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hundreds of Iranian bots working to influence Israeli voters – report

Iran welcomes EU trade mechanism meant to skirt sanctions as ‘first step’

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, at a cabinet meeting on January 4, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90/File)

'No impediment to publishing a decision, however impactful'

AG rejects Netanyahu call to delay indictment announcement until after elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Mandelblit says decision before April ballot is in the ‘public interest’; PM accuses him of caving to ‘pressure from the left and the media,’ ignoring new witnesses

Israel Resilience's Benny Gantz speaking to a Times of Israel journalist while campaigning in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2019 (Sraya Diamant/Israel Resilience)

Israel Resilience, Yesh Atid out in force as battle for the center heats up

By Raoul Wootliff

Benny Gantz arrives to deliver his first electoral speech in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

PM said looking to unite the right in bid to head off Gantz

Iran's Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi listens to a question during a joint news conference with European Union Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Iran scaling up uranium production and mining, atomic chief says

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy Organization, says country is set to produce 300 tons of yellowcake per year

Crowds chant ‘death to Israel’ as Iran marks 40 years since Islamic Revolution

Top Iranian general: We can destroy Israel ‘in three days’

Key dates since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution

By AFP

An Israeli Navy Sa'ar-4.5 corvette fires a Harpoon cruise missile at a decrepit cargo ship as part of an exercise in January 2019. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

Army simulates attack on gas rigs in most complex naval drill in decades

By Judah Ari Gross

Gunships fire missiles at cargo freighter acting as enemy vessel in massive exercise meant to prepare for attacks by Hamas, Hezbollah

Leviathan gas field nears ‘final stage’ of development with floating rig

By AFP

Helipad completed in Liberman’s settlement, after his exit from Defense Ministry

Israel media reviewThe other shidduch crisis: 8 things to know for February 1

By Joshua Davidovich

US soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division fire artillery in support of Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State militants from their base east of Mosul on April 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

IS could retake territory in months if left alone, Pentagon said to warn

Department of Defense reportedly says Islamic State still determined to build caliphate and could reconquer lawless areas of Syria in less than a year

US judge rules Syrian regime must pay $300m to family of slain journalist Colvin

By ASHRAF KHALIL

Bipartisan US Senate vote rebukes Trump on Syria, Afghanistan pullout plans

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

In reversal, Trump says he and intel chiefs actually on ‘same page’

By Matthew Daly

The author and her husband on a break during the ride from Ulan Ude to Vladivostok at the Skovorodinskiy Rayon Station. (Rossella Tercatin/ Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Our 10,000 kilometer, kosher Trans-Siberian honeymoon

By Rossella Tercatin

A screenshot from video of a motorist in Australia yelling anti-Semitic insults at a rabbi. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Aussie motorist to rabbi: ‘Hitler should have killed you all’

By henry Benjamin

Man in Melbourne filmed berating rabbi in road rage attack, saying ‘you should have died in the Auschwitz’

The Mishkan Torah religious seminary in Los Angeles. (Google street view screenshot)

Anti-Semitic graffiti found on LA synagogue

By JTA

The Egyptian marquee. (2015 Sundance Institute | Photo by Jemal Countess)

And that's a wrap

An avalanche of movies by or about Jews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival

By Jordan Hoffman

US Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Fall Gala, October 6, 2018, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker launches 2020 bid

Booker enters crowded and historically diverse presidential primary field, starts reaching out to key constituencies and early-voting states

Illustrative: Michael Bloomberg in Nashua, New Hampshire, January 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Bloomberg funding secret operation aimed at defeating Trump in 2020 — report

Howard Schultz speaks at a Barnes and Noble bookstore about his new book 'From the Ground Up' in New York City, Jan. 28, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

7 Jewish things to know about possible 2020 candidate Howard Schultz

By Josefin Dolsten

Unit 669 simulates a rescue operation, January, 2010 (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Veterans of IDF search and rescue unit take battle of saving lives to the street

By Emily Benedek

Inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp, days after liberation. Famed author Elie Wiesel is second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, next to the bunk post. (US Army/US Defense Visual Information Center/Wikimedia Commons)

Sausage museum plan at site tied to ex-Nazi camp sparks outcry in Germany

By AFP

Around 700 Jewish women were held and forced to work at Buchenwald’s Muehlhausen site, now being redeveloped into a tourist attraction

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon is accompanied by fellow UN ambassadors during a tour of the Majdanek extermination camp in Poland, January 30, 2019. (Courtesy of American Zionist Movement)

Israeli UN envoy: Eastern Europeans need to do more against anti-Semitism

By AP

From left, Israeli Historian Saul Friedlander, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrive for a remembrance event of the parliament Bundestag to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust at the Reichstag building in Berlin, January 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

At Bundestag, Holocaust survivor calls Germany a bulwark against intolerance

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Yariv Bash, right, Yonatan Winetraub, middle, and Kfir Damari, the founders of SpaceIL, inserting a digital time capsule into the Beresheet spacecraft, December 17, 2018. (Yoav Weiss)

Israel’s Beresheet is first private spacecraft to shoot for the moon

By John Horack of Ohio State University

Next month’s historic mission hopes to set milestones in technical as well as business aspects of space exploration

Loving the stranger (Mishpatim 5779)

The Torah implies that the only counterweight to the powerful hatred of xenophobia is personal identification

Sarah C. Rudolph

Those who must not be named

The prohibition against using G-d’s Name in vain suggests we should speak freely about idolatry, but it’s more complicated than that

When construction workers break to make kiddush

Even when they are doing what Jewish law says they should not, they sanctify the sabbath, and honor their Judaism

Dog park politics

Do the pets turn their owners into better listeners?

Israeli singer Netta Barzilai, who won the 2018 Eurovision song contest, in Tel Aviv, January 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel’s Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai releases song on her newfound fame

By ISAAC SCHARF and Isabel Debre

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Roger Waters at a press conference for 'The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains' in Rome, Italy, January 16, 2018. He is a leading celebrity in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. (Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images)

Despite star power, boycotting Israel has little appeal in the UK

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Palestinian policemen participate in a training session at their headquarters in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 30, 2019. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Israeli-Palestinian security ties likely to continue despite US aid freeze

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Maltese President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca in Ramallah on January 31, 2019. (Wafa news agency)

PA chief says he hopes for broad cooperation to hold legislative elections

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee at PA headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah September 15, 2018. (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)

Abbas says he can negotiate with whoever wins Israel’s election

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri addresses the media after announcing the new cabinet during a press conference at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, on January 31, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Ending months of deadlock, Lebanon seals new Hezbollah-backed government

By Sarah El Deeb

In this photo from August 20, 2018, Bryan Cranston attends the 2018 Performer Peer Group Celebration at NeueHouse Hollywood in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, file)

Bryan Cranston to star in new TV legal thriller based on Israeli series

By AP and ToI Staff

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman attends a conference of the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel party in the coastal city of Netanya on January 30, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox said expected to push hard line on Shabbat in coalition talks

Former New York state attorney general Eric Schneiderman speaking at a news conference in New York City, March 15, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

Achieving enlightenmentDisgraced former NY attorney general becomes meditation teacher

Matthieu Danloy, left, and Aurelia Psalti, lawyers of the family of victims Emmanuel and Miriam Riva, talk before the start of the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche at the Justice Palace in Brussels, on January 31, 2019. (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP)

Daughters of Israelis slain in Brussels Jewish museum attack face accused killer

Illustrative image of surgery (vizualni/Getty Images)

New program at Israeli hospital finds donors for complex kidney transplants

This image provided by the Chicago Police Department and taken from surveillance video shows two people of interest in an attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett walking along a street in Chicago, on January 29, 2019. (Courtesy of Chicago Police Department via AP)

Chicago police: Gay black Jewish actor arrived home with rope around neck

Israeli rescue specialists arrive at a site where a body was found inside a vehicle stuck in the mud, days after a dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil, on January 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bolsonaro thanks ‘brave troops’ as IDF rescuers end search mission in Brazil

By ToI Staff and AP

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