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What Matters Most On Monday, December 9, 2019

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File: Officials count the ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general election, April 10, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Elections to be held on March 2 if no coalition formed

Two days before deadline, Likud and Blue and White agree on prospective date, a Monday, which must still be approved by Knesset

Gantz: Elections can still be averted, but no forgiveness for corruption

Sa’ar met with cheers and boos at Likud summit; party scraps primaries for slate

Lapid gives up rotation deal with Gantz in bid to boost Blue and White

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a map of the Jordan Valley as he gives a statement, promising to extend Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea area, in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Legal advisers said to warn PM annexation would lead to ICC investigation

By Michael Bachner

Officials in attorney general’s office reportedly say that if Netanyahu extends sovereignty over Jordan Valley, settler leaders and IDF officers could be probed

7:34 pm

2 killed, 2 seriously injured as car overturns in Negev
7:30 pm

US asks UN to discuss risk of North Korean 'provocation'
7:22 pm

Likud said to offer Liberman leadership rotation in 'final' offer

Labour MP John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor, speaks ahead of the Grenfell fire one-year anniversary solidarity march organized by Justice4Grenfell and the Fire Brigade's Union, in Westminster in London, June 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK Labour’s No. 2 admits anti-Semitism row could hurt party at the ballot

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Days before election, amid leaks showing unresolved complaints about anti-Jewish sentiment, John McDonnell says Corbyn’s party learned its lesson from ‘horrible, horrible period’

Lapid accuses UK Labour leader Corbyn of ‘old-school, plain anti-Semitism’

By Raphael Ahren

Scottish Labour candidate in row over message about journalist’s Jewish heritage

Anti-Semitism stokes fear and election angst in UK’s ‘bagel belt’

A view of Ramat Gan's diamond district, where many binary options firms were located, on April 3. 2016. The sign on the building reads "Israel's diamond district: national pride" (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Foreigners file dozens of lawsuits against Israeli binary options companies

By Simona Weinglass

Lawyer for alleged victims says all his cases to date have ended in settlement rather than trial; civil suits provide an avenue for relief amid Israeli police, prosecution inaction

Illustrative close-up of a pregnant woman (Rostislav Sedlacek/ iStock by Getty Images)

Smoking may trigger diabetes in pregnant women, study finds

By Shoshanna Solomon

Gestational diabetes leads to complications for mother and child; ‘ideally, women should quit smoking before they try to become pregnant,’ Hebrew University researcher says

Commander of the IDF Manpower Directorate Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz, center, and the head of the Manpower Directorate's Planning and Manpower Management Division, Brig. Gen. Amir Vadamni, left, attend a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Knesset on December 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In Knesset, IDF admits incorrectly adding hundreds to tally of Haredi recruits

By Judah Ari Gross

Senior officers from Manpower Directorate acknowledge that mistakes were made in counting ultra-Orthodox enlistment rates, but maintain there was no effort to deceive the public

Illustrative photo of pharmaceutical pills. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Doctors accused of giving drugs to yeshiva students to curb their sexual desires

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road during a protest against the jailing of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, Jerusalem December 8, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

11 arrested as ultra-Orthodox protest arrest of army draft dodger

Sarah Vorsanger

Does walking around town prevent adolescent obesity?

It turns out that isn’t just about exercise, for boys are at greater risk, though they are often more active than girls

Lithuanians dancing at a Jewish killing site spawned a brave theatrical work

Our book on Lithuania’s policy of downplaying its Holocaust atrocities and complicity inspired a dramatic work of social criticism

Western Ashkenazi scholars erase Mizrahi history

The claim that Mizrahi Heritage Month is a propaganda vehicle for the Israeli government is a politically-motivated insult

Shulamit S. Magnus

No money to pay lone soldiers? Lies

It’s a crying shame that those who dedicate themselves to serving their country are not Israel’s priority

The Knesset plenum ahead of the opening of parliament, on September 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

The march of time (and time and time again): 7 things to know for December 9

By Joshua Davidovich

Behold! The day of our redemption is set, and it is March 2, 2020, though the faithful pray a miracle may still cancel the evil decree and breathe life again into the dead Knesset

State Attorney Shai Nitzan speaks at the Makor Rishon Conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Outgoing state attorney decries attempt to ‘destroy’ judiciary over PM’s probes

Screen capture from video of Dr. Michael Morris-Reich after he was allegedly assaulted by supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 7, 2019. (Channel 12)

Two anti-Netanyahu protesters, one 75, say PM’s supporters beat them

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Lebanese-Swiss businessman Abdallah Chatila, who purchased items belonging to Adolf Hitler at a public auction in Europe to ensure that they do not get into neo-Nazi hands, visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on December 8, 2019. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Israel welcomes Lebanon-born businessman who bought and is donating Hitler items

Visiting Jerusalem, diamond and real estate magnate Abdalla Chatila says he considered the prospect of the collection landing in ‘the wrong hands’ a ‘potential lethal injustice’

Holocaust survivors Sami Modiano, right and Piero Terracina hug each other during an event to commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the Rome's Capitol Hill, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

ObituaryPiero Terracina, last Rome Jew who survived Nazi death camp, dies at 91

By Frances D'Emilio

Native New Yorker Jenny Goldfarb, who now lives in Los Angeles, California, hugs Mark Cuban on 'Shark Tank,' Sunday, November 17, 2019. (ABC/Jessica Brooks)

‘Shark Tank’ judges in a frenzy over Jewish mom’s meatless Unreal Deli

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Guatemalan President-elect Alejandro Giammattei in Jerusalem, December 9, 2019. (Avi Hayun)

Visiting Israel, Guatemala’s incoming president vows to outlaw Hezbollah

By Raphael Ahren

Alejandro Giammattei says he’ll ban all branches of Iranian-backed terror group, pledges to convince other countries to move their embassies to Jerusalem

Yemen’s Houthi rebels threaten to attack Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Cheney warns US disengagement in Mideast benefits Iran, Russia

By Jon Gambrell

Iran says it’s ready for more prisoner swaps with US

By AFP

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, center, waits on the steps of the International Criminal Court after answering questions of reporters in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Analysis

Palestinians find the ICC is not the home turf they thought it would be

As international court’s preliminary investigation into ‘situation in Palestine’ drags into fifth year, Ramallah realizes it could find itself probed right alongside Israel

Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the Europa building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. European Union foreign ministers meet in Brussels on Monday Feb. 26 to debate ways to revive Middle East peace efforts and discuss the crisis in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Luxembourg said pushing for EU states to recognize Palestine

In this December 5, 2019, photo, a Palestinian wearing a Santa Claus costumes welcomes Christian visitors outside the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians in Bethlehem look beyond religious tourism

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Jordanian security forces stand on guard in front of protesters during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017, calling for the shutting down of the embassy, expelling the ambassador, and canceling the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Jordan jails man for plotting gun attack on Israeli embassy

By AFP

Graffiti sprayed on wall in hate crime discovered in Shuafat, East Jerusalem on December 9, 2019 (Israel Police)

160 vehicles vandalized, wall graffitied in suspected East Jerusalem hate crime

People walk by a homeless man sleeping on the street, near cafes in the center of Jerusalem. November 10, 2013. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90/File)

Nearly one-fifth of Israelis suffer from food insecurity, report says

Entrance to the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola, Florida, January 29, 2016. (Melissa Nelson/AP)

FBI says it presumes base shooting was terrorism; gunman was angry at US, Israel

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and Mike Balsamo

Great white pelicans eat fish provided by Israeli farmers in a water reservoir in the Emek Hefer valley north of Tel Aviv on November 15, 2019 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Desperate Israeli fish farmers give peckish pelicans a free lunch

By Jonah Mandel

Nick Fuentes answers question during an interview with Agence France-Presse in Boston, May 9, 2016. (William Edwards/AFP via Getty Images/via JTA)

In the US, the ‘groyper army’ seeks to make anti-Semitism mainstream

A paramedic examines David Ben Avraham (c) after his release from Palestinian prison, as behind him friend Haim Parag looks on (United Hatzalah)

Palestinian convert to Judaism freed after detainment, beatings in PA jail

Beatie Deutsch in Jerusalem, May 7, 2019. (Michael Bachner/Times of Israel)

Olympic marathon’s Shabbat slot may prevent Haredi woman from running

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent-Vermont, speaks during a campaign stop, in Franklin, New Hampshire, November 23, 2019. (Mary Schwalm/AP)

Sanders staffer who posted anti-Semitic, homophobic tweets leaves campaign

By JTA

Eyal Lifschitz, managing partner of Peregrine Ventures (Ofer Vaknin Haaretz)

Israel’s Peregrine Ventures raises $115 million for new med-tech fund

By Shoshanna Solomon

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