Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy Your Privacy Rights

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Sunday, January 12, 2020

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Screen capture from video apparently showing Iranian anti-regime protesters refusing to walk across US and Israeli flags at a demonstration at a Tehran university, January 12, 2020. (Twitter)

As protests restart in Iran, demonstrators refuse to trample US, Israeli flags

By ToI Staff and AFP

Social media posts show hundreds at fresh gatherings against leadership; pro-regime rally outside UK embassy demands its closure over arrest of ambassador

Netanyahu backs Iranian protesters after Tehran admits downing plane

Iran deploys riot police as it braces for further protests over plane shootdown

By Joseph Krauss

Trump warns Iran against ‘another massacre’ as protests flare over downed jet

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting at the Knesset with parties in his right-wing bloc on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

In blow to Netanyahu, Knesset adviser rules immunity debate can go ahead

By Raoul Wootliff

Move paves way for committee that will likely reject PM’s bid to evade prosecution; decision overrules Speaker Edelstein, who criticizes, but won’t challenge it

Liberman: Netanyahu would form coalition with Hamas if it meant immunity

With deadline looming, Labor, Meretz leaders to meet for last-ditch merger talks

By Raoul Wootliff

Blue and White, Likud gird for immunity fight Netanyahu sought to avoid

A burning vehicle at Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, in which Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed January 3, 2020. (Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office via AP)

Israeli intel helped US carry out strike that killed Iran’s Soleimani — report

Information provided by Jewish state confirmed that Quds Force leader was at Baghdad airport before missile strike, NBC News reports

From the webHow the US and Iran approached the brink of war

Iran crisis shines spotlight on low-key Trump security adviser

By Jonathan Lemire, Deb Riechmann and AAMER MADHANI

Report: Swiss back channel helped defuse US-Iran tensions after Soleimani strike

People gather for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Ukraine plane crash, at the gate of Amri Kabir University where some of the victims of the crash were former students, in Tehran, Iran, January 11, 2020. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Israel media review

Nobody is immune: 7 things to know for January 12

By Joshua Davidovich

A downed jet in Iran sparks a possibly new type of anger against the regime, an Israeli minister won’t get a pass for his latest controversy, and a fight over immunity takes shape

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks with reporters following an escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran, January 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

J Street, JDCA the only Jewish groups to back House vote on Iran war powers

By Eric Cortellessa

Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami speaks at Tehran's Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense museum, during the unveiling of an exhibition of what Iran says are US and other drones captured in its territory, on September 21, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Iranian Guards chief says missile strike did not aim to kill US troops

Remarks to Iranian parliament come after CNN reports US troops at Iraqi base knew of impending attack 2.5 hours ahead of time

7:33 pm

Ticket change in Tehran saves Ukrainian's life
7:31 pm

European powers urge Iran to fully return to nuclear deal
7:17 pm

4 Iraqi soldiers wounded by rocket attack on air base

Rob Macaire on 12 March 2018. (UK Government)

Britain’s Iran envoy denies demonstrating against regime before he was arrested

By Agencies and ToI Staff

London expresses outrage after Rob Macaire was detained at vigil for 176 plane passengers killed by Iranian missile, says he left when anti-government chants began

A bulldozer seen working as rescue workers search the scene where an Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

EU aviation agency warns against flying over Iran ‘until further notice’

By AFP

Iranians students demonstrate following a tribute for the victims of Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 in front of the Amirkabir University in the capital Tehran, on January 11, 2020 (Atta KENARE / AFP)

UK ambassador arrested at Iran rally as thousands said to protest against regime

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman in the Gulf state on October 26, 2018. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu hails Oman’s ‘incredible leader’ Qaboos, welcomes successor

By ToI Staff and AFP

PM recalls his ‘important and stirring visit’ to the country in 2018; sultan was first Gulf leader to host a serving Israeli PM — Yitzhak Rabin, in 1994

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (Flash90, Said Khatib/AFP)

PA, Hamas heads visit Oman to pay respects following monarch’s death

Foreign Minister Israel Katz arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Katz said to postpone diplomatic trip to Dubai due to regional tensions

Palestinians are arrested during clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem's neighborhood of Issawiya, June 28, 2019, a day after a Palestinian was shot and killed by police during a protest in the same neighborhood. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Analysis

East Jerusalem’s Issawiya boils as residents decry months of police intervention

Security officials say they’ve stepped up operations because of escalating violence emanating from the Palestinian neighborhood, home to 18,000

Sarit Steinfeld

I was 6 when an Israeli bus driver drove me all the way home

The day I fabricated my best excuse for being late to school forever influenced my sense of adventure — and family

We need to talk about Rafi Peretz

The education minister’s comments endanger LGBT+ children and reflect a rise in homophobic discourse in the public square

Labor on Nazi-era hereditary farms was performed by members of the Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth), the Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls), and the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service), which conscripted young men and women during the war years. German youth were required to farm due to the need for settlers in new eastern territories. (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-E1068, Wikimedia Commons)

Interview

How vegetation helped win — and lose — World War II

By Rich Tenorio

Justice Minister Amir Ohana speaks at the Knesset on September 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister blasts education minister’s ‘backwards’ remarks on LGBT couples

Responding to Rafi Peretz suggesting that gay marriages aren’t natural, mayors of three cities instruct schools to open Sunday’s classes with lesson on acceptance of the other

A question on US game show Jeopardy, in a program broadcast on January 10, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

What is controversy?

‘Jeopardy’ causes online furor over location of Church of Nativity

Clip showing contestant’s ‘Palestine’ answer being ruled wrong on US game show angers activists

Paul Signac's La Corne d’Or, 1907 (Courtesy)

After return to Jewish owners, Nazi-looted art to be auctioned for $22 million

Three pieces by Pissarro and Signac go up for sale nearly a century after they were taken from Gaston Levy’s home in German-occupied France

EU gives $1.1 million toward preserving Jewish burial sites

By JTA

Ukraine tells Israel to stay out of debate about honoring Nazi collaborators

By JTA

Suspected WWII bombs to prompt Dortmund mass evacuation

By AFP

Join The Times of Israel Community!

Help support our journalism and enjoy the site ADS FREE - for as little as $6 a month

JOIN US

More Headlines

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto in his office in Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2019. (Attila Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Backing Israel, Hungary says it opposes potential ICC probe of Jewish state

A member of the Ramapo police stands guard in front of the house of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg on December 29, 2019, in Monsey, New York. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Pistol permit requests rise in NY community after Hanukkah stabbing

By AP

Illustrative. Soldiers belonging to the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda unit. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Haredi protesters shut down event for ultra-Orthodox lone soldiers

A firefighter in Australia hoses down trees to protect nearby homes from bush fires near the town of Nowra in the state of New South Wales on December 31, 2019 as the fires led to the evacuation of popular tourist areas in the state. (Saeed Kahn/AFP)

Jewish community kitchen provides meals to firefighters battling Australia fires

By JTA

Stones glowing in the "Light of Life" Holocaust memorial display of Daan Roosegaarde in the Netherlands. (Overijssel Viert Vrijheid)

Ephemeral glowing stones to commemorate Holocaust across Netherlands

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Patricia Kitts discussing the 2010 death of her son, Sgt. Michael Ingram Jr., in Kandahar, Afghanistan, during an interview in Monroe, Michigan, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Claire Galofaro)

Trump’s Iran entanglement a source of fear, pride for these 2020 swing voters

By CLAIRE GALOFARO

File: Kimia Alizadeh of Iran celebrates after winning the bronze medal in a women's Taekwondo 57-kg competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Iranian Olympic medalist confirms she has defected from ‘oppressive’ regime

By AFP

Benedito Araujo de Souza, right, arriving at Yeshiva Camp in Aquiraz, Brazil on January 2, 2020. (Synagoga Sem Froteiras)

Age-old bond79-year-old Brazilian man attends Jewish summer camp

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An image from the music video for 'Further Up,' a single by Israeli duo Static & Ben El featuring US rapper Pitbull, released January 10, 2020. (Screenshot: YouTube)

EcstaticIsraeli pop stars Static & Ben El drop new song with US rapper Pitbull

Israeli children play near a colorfully painted concrete protective shelter in the kibbutz of Nahal Oz. July 6, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Gaza border siren sends residents running; IDF: Alarm not caused by rocket fire

Illustrative. Digital health technology. (chombosan; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli health tech startups to head to UK to showcase wares

By Shoshanna Solomon

Britain's opposition Labour party Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union Keir Starmer delivers a speech at their election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow, England, November 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Top UK Labour leadership candidate vows to lead fight against anti-Semitism

By Michael Bachner

View Edition by Date

December	January 2020					February
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
Your Privacy Rights
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.