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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 2, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces he'll ask the Knesset from immunity from graft charges during a press conference at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on January 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Premier again claims conspiracy to oust him from office

Netanyahu asks Knesset for immunity from prosecution, delaying indictment

Defending decision, PM claims immunity is only temporary, is necessary to protect him from ‘trumped-up charges’; his actual request seeks permanent immunity for parts of indictment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein arrive for a joint event of the Knesset and the US Congress, celebrating 50 years since Jerusalem's reunification, at the Chagall state hall in the Knesset, on June 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Edelstein will block Knesset from quickly weighing PM immunity request — source

By Shalom Yerushalmi and Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces his intention to seek Knesset immunity from prosecution, in Jerusalem on January 1, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Israel media reviewGive me immunity or give me time: 7 things to know for January 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces his intention to file a request to the Knesset for immunity from prosecution, in Jerusalem on January 1, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s immunity bid, swiftly pricked by Liberman, is an act of desperation

The prime minister has either put off his court appearance by a few months at best, or pushed Israel toward a constitutional crisis, or both

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman attends the Calcalist business daily conference in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yisrael Beytenu to oppose immunity, likely blocking Netanyahu’s path

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to deliver a statement regarding his intention to file a request to the Knesset for immunity from prosecution, in Jerusalem on January 1, 2020. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Pressure mounts for Knesset to muster panel to quickly reject Netanyahu immunity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces his intention to seek Knesset immunity from prosecution, in Jerusalem on January 1, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Analysis

Seeking immunity and 61 MKs to back it, Netanyahu sets up a trial by election

By laying the groundwork for parliament to save him from prosecution, the PM turns March’s national vote into more than a referendum on his rule and his legal troubles

Montage: Head of Blue and White, Benny Gantz, left; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Photos: Flash90)

Gantz hints he may sue Netanyahu over claim that he illegally pocketed millions

BlogIsrael needs unity, not immunity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) is seen during a Knesset vote to revoke a law limiting the number of government ministers, on May 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

New polls indicate PM’s immunity request does not hurt him electorally

Parties maintain their numbers from previous surveys, more or less, with Blue and White at 35 and Likud at 33; Liberman remains kingmaker

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Austria's new government vows to combat anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism
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PM once again asks to receive outside funding for legal defense -- report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with media before flying to Greece to sign a major natural gas supply deal, January 2, 2019. (Shalom Yerushalmi/Times of Israel)

Heading to Greece to ink gas deal, PM says it will bring in hundreds of billions

By ToI Staff and AFP

EastMed pipeline project with Nicosia and Athens will boost regional stability and make Israel an ‘energy power,’ Netanyahu predicts

Then Sports and Culture Minister Limor Livnat (left) talks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a vote on a bill to dissolve the parliament in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on December 8, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Likud minister says Netanyahu immunity bid may stop her voting for party

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem, on January 01, 2020.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Due to criminal charges, Netanyahu resigns from 3 ministerial portfolios

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Authorities gather on a street in Monsey, New York, Sunday, December 29, 2019, following a stabbing rampage late Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP/Allyse Pulliam)

Man stabbed in Hanukkah attack in Monsey may never recover, family says

Relatives of Josef Neumann say his chances of waking up are slim due to severe head injuries, and he will likely be partially paralyzed even if he does

Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish women walking in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, April 10, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

22-year-old ultra-Orthodox man punched and taunted by two women in Brooklyn

By JTA

White supremacist Augustus Sol Invictus (wikimedia/CC)

White nationalist who ran for Senate arrested in Florida

By AP

From left: an unidentified girl, Anna Herskovicova, another unidentified girl, Lea Friedmann, and Debora Gross (Adela’s sister), c. 1936. (Courtesy of Heather Dune Macadam)

First transport of Jews to Auschwitz was 997 young Slovak women and teens

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip, right, seen with his Israeli Jewish mother after he crossed into Israel to live with her, December 2019. (Courtesy: Yad L'Achim)

Palestinian from Gaza reunited with Jewish Israeli mother after 30 years

By Stuart Winer

After she finally tracked her son down, 3 decades after he was abducted by his father, the man has been allowed to move to Israel and given full citizenship

IDF: Palestinian tries to stab soldiers in West Bank, is shot

Abbas said to warn Netanyahu that West Bank on verge of ‘explosion’

2 teens arrested in West Bank said to have been en route to ‘price tag’ attack

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami speaks during a pro-government rally in the capital Tehran's central Enghelab Square on November 25, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran’s Republican Guards chief: We can ‘break’ US but are not heading for war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hossein Salami says Iranians are unconcerned by threats from Washington after Trump vowed action over embassy violence

Pompeo thanks Netanyahu for support after Iraq embassy attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel: Iran made ‘grave mistake’ with attack on US embassy in Baghdad

By ToI Staff and Agencies

With pro-Iran groups at helm, Iraq ‘risks becoming pariah’

By Maya Gebeily

In this May 30, 2019 photo, a crew films a scene on the set of Israel's hit TV show "Fauda," in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Malaysia’s PM is proud to speak out against ’the Jews,’ and yet is feted by Trump, Obama, and others who officially denounce anti-Semitism

Don’t risk ultra-Orthodox women’s lives for political gain

A campaign video from a newbie MK aims to rile up voters with claims that the government is funding rabbis instead of healthcare. The thing is, he’s wrong

Right to left: Qumra Capital growth fund managing partner Erez Shachar, Fiverr's Micha Kaufman; Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global and Yuval Kaminka, co-founder and CEO of JoyTunes, Tel Aviv December 30, 2019 (Yarin Teranos)

Tech entrepreneurs have grown savvier, VC funds more patient, Fiverr CEO says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Reflecting on the past decade or two, startup leaders say the information revolution has taught founders to grow their companies rather than seek a quick exit

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By Shoshanna Solomon

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Under tight security, 88,000 US Jews celebrate 7.5-year Talmud cycle

By AP

Days after Monsey stabbing and amid spate of other anti-Semitic attacks, Siyum HaShas event in New Jersey marks end of another round of daily study of primary Jewish text

Orthodox Jews listen to ex-NY state assemblyman Dov Hikind speak in Monsey, New York, December 29, 2019, following a stabbing rampage late Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP/Allyse Pulliam)

FBI data underscores rising threat to places of worship

By GARY FIELDS and David Crary

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Head of the IDF Armored Corps Brig. Gen. Guy Hasson, center, poses on a tank with the army's first female tank commanders, who graduated their course on June 28, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

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Michael Nikolkin appears at Tel Aviv District Court, accused of stabbing to death his half-brother Evgeny Kleinman, January 2, 2020 (Screen grab via Channel 12)

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A British teenager (C) accused of falsely claiming she was raped by Israeli tourists covers her face as she leaves after the verdict at the Famagusta District Court in Paralimni in eastern Cyprus, on December 30, 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)

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A police officer is seen pulling an ultra-Orthodox man's sidelocks, during a protest in Beit Shemesh, on July 6, 2019. (Facebook screenshot)

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Australian Jewish leaders appeal to Netanyahu to reconsider Litzman appointment

By henry Benjamin

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