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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 1, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an event marking the 8th night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, on December 29, (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

As Wednesday night deadline looms, Netanyahu expected to request immunity

PM reportedly seeking low profile for move to avoid trial on graft charges, out of concern it could impact election campaign, be rejected by Knesset or overturned by High Court

ExplainerEverything you always wanted to know about immunity for the prime minister

By Yuval Shany and Amir Fuchs

Forced to give up portfolios, Netanyahu set to appoint new ministers

Liberman says Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc has ‘broken down’

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

US forces (unseen) fire teargas canisters at supporters and members of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force during a demonstration outside the US embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 1, 2020. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Pro-Iran protesters fully withdraw from US embassy in Baghdad

By AFP

‘We burned them!’ shout demonstrators as they stream out of the high-security Green Zone

Trump warns Iran of ‘BIG PRICE’ for attacks, sends 750 more troops to Mideast

By Ahmad Al-Rubaye and Paul Handley

Iran’s Khamenei shrugs off Trump threat to retaliate over Iraq embassy violence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iraq: On 2nd day of riots, US troops fire tear gas at protesters outside embassy

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Pro-Iranian militiamen and their supporters set a fire while US soldiers fire tear gas during a sit-in in front of the US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, January 1, 2020. (Khalid Mohammed/AP)

Israel media review

Looking for quiet in a riot: 6 things to know for January 1

By Joshua Davidovich

While Baghdad turns into the latest preview of a feared Iranian-US-Israel conflict, Israel looks for a hand from some other enemies and Netanyahu gets ready to whisper ‘immunity’

Israeli Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin speaks at the Israel Aviation Conference at Airport City, May 2, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

IAF chief: US strike on Iran-backed Iraqi militia is a ‘potential turning point’

By Judah Ari Gross

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press outside the grand ballroom as he arrives for a New Year's celebration at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 31, 2019. (JIM WATSON/AFP)

Trump says he does not expect war with Iran, ‘likes peace’

By AFP

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, on December 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Officials in state comptroller’s office accuse him of defanging their audits

Whereas government offices once feared the ombudsman, now the ombudsman is feared by his employees, a former official laments in a searing criticism of Matanyahu Englman

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on December 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Parties prod Knesset to convene panel to discuss, reject Netanyahu immunity

Blue and White MK to meet Knesset Speaker Sunday to hash out committee; Yisrael Beytenu chief: PM’s announcement shows ‘the only thing’ he cares about is avoiding graft charges

7:30 pm

Blue and White MK to meet Knesset speaker Sunday to discuss panel that would weigh immunity
7:23 pm

Pompeo postpones Ukraine trip after attack on US embassy in Baghdad
7:00 pm

Likud minister backs PM's immunity requests: It's his basic right

A schoolgirl dances around classmates dressed as concentration camp inmates who were gassed to death during an Auschwitz-themed event in Łabunie, Poland on December 10. (Screenshot)

Polish children simulate being gassed to death at Auschwitz-themed dance recital

Event marks renaming of a school to honor Polish children deported by Nazis, some of whom were forcibly adopted by German families if found to be sufficiently Aryan

These 34 correction officer trainees from West Virginia were photographed giving a Nazi salute. They were subsequently fired. (West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety)

Holocaust education planned after West Virginia jail guards give Nazi salute

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE

‘I live on the fourth floor. I haven’t been outside in years’

Ending intergenerational poverty will take more than feeding the 300+ elderly, primarily Holocaust survivors, who are limited by economics, disabilities, and loneliness

Idit Shafran Gittleman

The decade in review: Women’s service in the IDF

An unprecedented number of female soldiers in increasingly more important roles should not be stepping aside in ’consideration of of religious soldiers’

Donniel Hartman

I hate talking about anti-Semitism

When we focus on the hate, it can become the defining element of Jewish life, when that should be living lives of moral and spiritual greatness

Jonathan D. Sarna

Anti-Semitism is a symptom

Hate-mongers emerge during times of intense social and cultural stress, revealing more about America’s underlying maladies than about Jews

A Palestinian flag hung from the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on January 1, 2020. (screen capture: Twitter)

Giant Palestinian flag raised, pulled down in Jerusalem’s Old City

By ToI Staff and Agencies

One person reported arrested after flag featuring faces of Abbas and Arafat is hung over wall near Damascus Gate

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Erekat likens step toward ICC probe to that of first astronaut on moon

Masked Palestinians carry weapons during a celebration marking the 55th anniversary of the Fatah movement, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Abbas’s Fatah marks its 55th anniversary with marches in West Bank

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Interview

Eric Cortellessa

Anti-Semitic attackers could walk free under new NY bail law, ADL head warns

After Monsey stabbing and spate of hate crimes targeting Jews, Jonathan Greenblatt castigates NYC mayor for staying silent on assaults against Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn

Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, speaking at the Grand Hyatt hotel in New York City, Oct. 2, 2015. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

Video emerges of another, unreported assault on Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn

By Sam Sokol and Agencies

After string of violent attacks, Jewish groups to hold solidarity march in NY

US Marines: Monsey attack suspect was kicked out of boot camp

By Jim Mustian and Jennifer Peltz

The Beresheet selfie during landing, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Celebrating a decade of life-changing Israeli inventions

By Shoshanna Solomon

From Waze to cancer-busting nano-ghost cells and 3-D printed hearts, The Times of Israel takes a dive into tech that helps us get where we’re going and keeps us safe and healthy

From left to right: Moshe Arens, Lori Gilbert Kaye, Robert Frank, Peggy Lipton. (Getty Images/Facebook/via JTA)

Year in review9 inspiring Jews who died in 2019

By JTA

Rabbanit Jenna Englender dances with the Torah during her graduation ceremony from Yeshivat Maharat in New York, June 17, 2019. (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Maharat; photo illustration by Grace Yagel/ JTA)

Decade in review10 ways American Jewish life changed in the 2010s

By JTA

Some of the top stories of the 2010s. (Illustration by Avi Katz/ Times of Israel)

Hindsight ahead of 2020

LISTEN: TOI reporters on the past decade — and its impact on our future

Visitors at the Qumran archaeological site, January 22, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Archaeology

Digging the land: The top 10 Holy Land archaeology stories of 2019

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The platform of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, pictured from Israel's northern beach of Dor on December 31, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Dismissing protests, government says no rise in air pollution from Leviathan rig

Minister derides ‘hysteria’ over start of offshore gas operations, hails ‘historic day’; alleging government cover-up, activists seek funds for private pollution monitoring system

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Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)

Analysis

In France, successful insanity defense by killer of Jewish woman sparks outrage

Kobili Troare viciously beat Sarah Halimi, 67, to death while chanting from Quran, but will not face trial after court finds he suffered marijuana-induced ‘delirious episode’

Anti-Semitic graffiti reading "Jewish snakes out" on the wall outside a synagogue in Trikala, Greece on December 31, 2019. (KIS)

Greek Jews express ‘deep sadness’ over anti-Semitic synagogue vandalism

By AFP

Lawmaker Michael Freilich lights Hanukkah candles in the Belgian Federal Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, December 19, 2019. (Michael Freilich)

Belgian lawmaker takes heat for lighting menorah in Parliament

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, holds a copy of the manifesto next to Rebecca Long-Bailey on stage at the launch of Labour's General Election manifesto, at Birmingham City University, England, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Jewish ex-Labour MP: Leaders vying to replace Corbyn ‘cowards’ on anti-Semitism

A 19-year old British woman, center, covers her face as she leaves the Famagusta court after her trial, in Paralimni, Cyprus, December 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Philippos Christou)

UK teen convicted of false rape claim against Israelis has severe PTSD – report

By ToI Staff and AP

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz (R) and Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman talk to the press after meeting in Ramat Gan on November 14, 2019. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Gantz puts out Russian-language New Year’s poster, reportedly angering Liberman

Israeli-American Naama Issachar, jailed for drug smuggling, attends her appeal hearing at the Moscow Regional Court on December 19, 2019. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)

Israeli-American jailed in Russia moved back to Moscow prison

People watch a TV screen showing a file image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, left, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Kim: North Korea ending nuclear test moratorium, will show off new weapon soon

By AFP

(From L-R) Democratic Camp chairman Nitzan Horwitz, former Meretz MK Mossi Raz, former Peace Now executive director Yariv Oppenheimer and current director Shaqued Morag stand outside an illegal outpost in the central West Bank on July 22, 2019. (Peace Now)

High Court hampers settlement group’s ability to receive public funds

Then Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon listens to speakers at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Hours before deadline, Netanyahu extends term of ambassador to UN

Efi Nave in Magistrate's Court in Lod, on April 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Police eye possible leak of sensitive data to mob from phone of ex-top lawyer

Alberto Nisman, the late prosecutor who investigated the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center, talks to journalists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Netflix streams docuseries on murder of Jewish Argentine prosecutor

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pope Francis slaps the hand of a woman who grabbed at him during a New Year's appearance at the Vatican in Rome on December 31, 2019. (Screengrab)

Pon-tiffPope slaps hand of woman who grabs him during appearance

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin greets his British counterpart John Major at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. (Government Press Office)

British diplomats, aides to UK ex-PM bickered over 1995 Orient House visit

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to reporters in Washington, Sept. 5, 2018. (AP/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Judge orders Alex Jones to pay $100,000 for Sandy Hook conspiracy theory

By AP

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