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What Matters Most On Monday, January 6, 2020

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Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a US drone strike, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in Tehran, Iran, January 6, 2020. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Killing Trump wouldn’t be revenge enough for Soleimani, says top Iran general

Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander says rockets at American bases also not enough; only the total removal of US forces from Middle East will suffice

Iranians threaten US, Israel as ‘millions’ at funeral bring Tehran to standstill

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ex-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards says Haifa, Tel Aviv are targets

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran general replacing Soleimani vows ‘to get rid of America from the region’

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

The women's siyum HaShas in the Jerusalem Convention Center on January 5, 2020 (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebookAll the women who'd completed the Talmud stood up, to cheers

In Jerusalem, the world of Talmud study fetes its newest superstars — women

By Marissa Newman

An event marks the culmination of a 7.5-year daily gemara cycle — and a crescendo in decades of efforts by teachers to wrest Jewish texts from men’s-only clubs

Protesters demonstrate over the US airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Tehran, Iran, January 4, 2020. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Live updates (closed)

Security chiefs said to reassure ministers Iran unlikely to strike Israel

US embassy sends out security warning, telling citizens in Israel and West Bank to stay vigilant, after US drone strike kills top Iranian general last week

7:10 pm

In apparent warning to Iran, UN chief warns of risks of miscalculation
6:59 pm

Harvey Weinstein indicted on new sex crimes charges in Los Angeles
6:54 pm

Woman in serious condition from fire in Kiryat Malachi building

Iranian lawmakers chant anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans to protest against the US killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, at the start of an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 5, 2020. (Mohammad Hassanzadeh/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Iran: We’re not bound by nuke deal, won’t limit enrichment, after Soleimani hit

By Nasser Karimi, Jon Gambrell and Zeina Karam

Tehran says it will not observe curbs on uranium enrichment, stockpiles, research and development, but cooperation with UN watchdog will continue

Key US allies push to deescalate crisis with Iran after top general killed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Johnson says Britain will not lament death of Soleimani

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iraq’s parliament calls for expulsion of US troops

Rescue teams and security forces at the scene where a man and a woman drowned after they were trapped in an elevator that became engulfed by floodwaters in Tel Aviv on January 4, 2020. (Flash90)

Israel media review

Lives on the line: 6 things to know for January 6

The stunning failure of rescue services to respond to a Tel Aviv couple who drowned in an elevator grips Hebrew media; country remains on high alert amid fears of Iranian reprisal

People participate in a Jewish solidarity march across the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020 in New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images/AFP)

New Yorkers flock to massive rally against anti-Semitism in wake of attacks

Jew-hatred is on the rise in NY area, which has seen a spate of violent incidents since December 10 massacre at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey

Hundreds gather in Jerusalem in solidarity with New York’s ‘No Hate’ march

By JTA

Thousands in France protest decision to not prosecute Jewish woman’s killer

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More threats against Jews reported in Brooklyn

By JTA and ToI Staff

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks at the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee on March 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF general distances Israel from Soleimani killing in first public comment

‘We are observing from the side,’ Herzi Halevi says, adding that operation should be viewed as US-Iran battle over control of Iraq

Amid tensions, Philippines readies to evacuate citizens from Israel, Iraq, Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hezbollah chief urges attacks, including suicide bombings, on US bases in region

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iraqi PM: US told us Israel bombed pro-Iran militias in Iraq last summer

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks at the funeral of Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, January 6, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Hamas leader praises Soleimani at Tehran funeral in show of support for Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Haniyeh tells mourners that Palestinian terror groups owe Quds Force general thanks for his backing; vows assassination will only strengthen drive ‘toward liberation of Palestine’

Soleimani mourners pack Tehran streets, chant ‘death to America and Israel’

‘Million mourner’ Soleimani funeral procession said to be largest since Khomeini

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas, Islamic Jihad heads give condolences to Iran’s FM on Soleimani’s death

Lynette Nusbacher

Soleimani: A death well spent

It is not wrong to kill a professional soldier in a war zone, but it is counterproductive to kill competent senior technocrats

The Middle East is a better place after Soleimani

The Quds Force commander was a war criminal whose zeal to obliterate Israel exceeded that of the Iranian leadership

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

I thought of my daughter as the women said hadran

Women learning Talmud were once dismissed as eccentrics, but who would dare dismiss that crowded stage, and that packed hall?

Yuli Edelstein: Between the devil and the deep blue sea

If the speaker of the Knesset does not stand firmly behind the institution he heads, he will be responsible for its effective disintegration

Supporters of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or the MEK, an Iranian exile group, hold signs and flags during a show of support for a US airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Lafayette Park across from the White House, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump threatens ‘disproportionate’ response to any Iranian attacks on US targets

By ToI Staff and AP

Pompeo warns that US could hit additional Iranian leaders if Tehran retaliates for killing of Soleimani; US military said to detect Iranian missile force on high alert

Trump doubles down on threat to strike cultural sites in Iran

By Robert Burns and Jonathan Lemire

US Democrats look to limit Trump’s Iran war powers as saber rattling grows

By ToI Staff and AFP

Warren implies Trump had Soleimani killed to distract from impeachment

Josef Herman sketching underground. (Llew E. Morgan/ Flowers Gallery)

Art exhibition

Holocaust survivor who took his political art underground sees daylight in UK

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and David Bitan sharing a toast at a Likud faction meeting on February 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu gives cabinet seat to another lawmaker facing bribery charges

Forced to yield his portfolios due to corruption indictment, PM appoints David Bitan agriculture minister; Likud’s Hotovely and Shas’s Cohen also given ministries

Rivlin expresses surprise over Netanyahu request for immunity

Knesset lawyer mulling rules for PM’s immunity denies recusing self

Mandelblit: Netanyahu’s claims of impropriety came only after charges announced

By Raoul Wootliff

Quentin Tarantino, winner of the award for best director, motion picture, for "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," poses in the press room at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 5, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Hebrew from Tarantino, Nazis and ‘1917’ make waves at Golden Globes

By ToI Staff and AFP

Sam Mendes wins best picture, director for WWI epic ‘1917,’ Gervais makes Weinstein jokes, Sacha Baron Cohen slams Facebook again, and ‘Jojo Rabbit’ fails, in annual film awards

Harvey Weinstein arrives in court, August 26, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Weinstein’s reckoning: Sex crimes trial set to begin, 2 years after #MeToo wave

By Michael R. Sisak

From Richard Trank's documentary about Shimon Peres, 'Never Stop Dreaming' currently being screened at the 2019 Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival (Courtesy Jerusalem Cinematheque)

Peace offeringJerusalem Jewish film fest screens documentary about Peres

By Jessica Steinberg

The 2,000-year-old volumes measuring table, pictured here on the City of David's Pilgrims' Path. (Kobi Harati, City of David archive)

Archaeology

City of David archaeologists say 2,000-year-old central Jerusalem market found

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Khalil Jabarin, who fatally stabbed Israeli Ari Fuld in a West Bank terror attack on September 16, 2018 (Screenshot/Twitter)

Military court convicts Palestinian terrorist for 2018 murder of Ari Fuld

A handcuffed suspect waits at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on January Sunday 20. 2008. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

4th Israeli arrested in security-related probe, barred from counsel

Illustrative: Israelis shop at a supermarket in Jerusalem, November 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s largest supermarket chain weighing using robots to track inventory

A car that was swept away in floods at the Dalia Stream in northern Israel on January 5, 2020, and found January 6 next to the driver's body. (Israel Police)

Missing man found dead in flooded stream, bringing toll in downpours to 4

In this photo taken February 24, 2018 and released by the US Air Force, US servicemen look at trees that are being cleared during a battlefield circulation site visit at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. (Staff Sgt. Timothy Moore/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Extremists kill 3 Americans in attack on Kenya military base

By Abdi Guled, TOM ODULA and Cara Anna

Illustrative image of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) (Phonlamai iStock by Getty Images)

Some 15% of Israeli jobs said to be at high risk because of automation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Street musicians performing at last year's 6th Night Festival in Tel Aviv's Neve Shaanan neighborhood (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

Street partyTel Aviv street festival embraces cultural diversity

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: A police van in Munich, Germany on July 11, 2019. (Lino Mirgeler/dpa via AP)

German police shoot dead knife-wielding attacker

By AFP

Delaware GOP leader faces calls for resignation over Facebook posts about Jews

In this June 20, 2019 photo, a teenager films Sudanese dancers on her mobile phone during an event marking the UN's International Refugee Day, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Fleeing war and poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt

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