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What Matters Most On Monday, January 13, 2020

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Jewish Home central committee members vote to approve a merger with the far-right Otzma Yehudit party on January 13, 2020 (courtesy)

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Jewish Home members approve merger with far-right Otzma Yehudit

Vote by right-wing party’s central committee also paves way for alliance with Betzalel Smotrich’s National Union

7:54 pm

Jersey City shooters targeted Hasidic man in drive-by a week before attack
7:39 pm

Gigi Hadid among potential jurors for Weinstein's rape trial
7:38 pm

US sending home 21 Saudi cadets after base shooting deemed terrorism

Defense Ministry and Rafael defense contractor test an upgraded version of the Iron Dome missile defense system in January 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Decade after 1st interception, new Iron Dome boasts 100% success rate in trials

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry, Rafael complete round of tests for upgraded version of air defense system, which they say has shot down over 2,400 projectiles to date

An F-16 fighter jet sits in a flooded hangar on the Hatzor air force base in southern Israel in January 2020. (Social media)

Air force officer admits mistake in not moving jets to safety during flood

By Judah Ari Gross

Incoming IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman speaks at a ceremony in which he took over for outgoing spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis on September 15, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

After lengthy battle, IDF admits ToI reporter to military correspondents’ group

Public Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda enters the courtroom for the trial of Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, at the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

Interview

ICC prosecutor: Netanyahu’s anti-Semitism charge is ‘particularly regrettable’

In far-ranging exchange, Fatou Bensouda responds to what she calls ‘character assassination’; says she ‘fondly’ remembers her 1998 trip to Israel, hopes to be able to visit again

Jordan's King Abdullah II at the US Capitol in Washington, on March 13, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

King says Israel-Jordan ties have been ‘on pause’ for 2 years

By Michael Bachner

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on March 6, 2019, with Vice President Mike Pence, and Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Robert O'Brien. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Top White House official says peace plan could be rolled out before March vote

Labor leader Amir Peretz and Meretz chief Nitzan Horowitz speak on January 13, 2020 (Courtesy)

Labor-Gesher and Meretz announce joint run in March election

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Amir Peretz will lead new left-wing alliance, followed by Gesher’s Orly Levy-Abekasis and Meretz’s Nitzan Horowitz; Green Party’s Stav Shaffir left out

Members of the new Labor-Gesher, Meretz alliance, according to their placement on the slate (left to right, top to bottom): Labor head Amir Peretz, Gesher leader Orly Levy-Abekasis, Meretz chief Nitzan Horowitz, Meretz's Tamar Zandberg, Labor's Itzik Shmuli, Labor's Merav Michaeli, former IDF deputy chief of staff Yair Golan, Meretz's Ilan Gilon, Labor's Omer Barlev (Flash90)

Meretz-Labor alliance cheered as new hope for left, but some decry merger

New Right leader Naftali Bennett (L) and Jewish Home chairman Rafi Peretz. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After left-wing merger, right seeks similar union with growing urgency

Iranian security forces stand guard in front of the British embassy in the capital Tehran on January 12, 2020 during demonstrations following the British ambassador's arrest for allegedly attending an illegal demonstration. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Videos appear to show Iranian police using live fire against protesters

By Jon Gambrell

Clips show demonstrators flee tear gas, woman apparently shot and bleeding out as public continues to respond angrily to shoot-down of Ukrainian passenger plane

Iran police ordered to show ‘restraint’ at air disaster protests

By AFP and ToI Staff

Angry Iranians clash with police, burn Soleimani posters to protest downed plane

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump warns Iran not to kill protesters, says door still open to talks

Screen capture from video of a CNN report at the US military facility in Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq, in footage broadcast January 12, 2020, days after an Iranian missile strike destroyed part of the compound. (CNN screen capture)

US troops in Iraq knew of Iranian attack 2.5 hours ahead of time – report

CNN visits al-Asad airbase, says Iraqis gave advance warning of attack; some forces evacuated, while others took shelter in bunkers well before first missiles slammed into site

Rockets hit Iraq base hosting US troops, local military says

By AFP

Iraq warns of ‘collapse’ as Trump threatens to block oil cash kept in Fed bank

By Maya Gebeily

2 US troops killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan

Supporters of Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah chant slogans ahead of his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, January 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah threatens US troops, vows retaliation against Israel

Terror chief says American soldiers will leave the Middle East in ‘coffins,’ claims no country could have acted as transparently as Iran after shooting down Ukrainian plane

Israeli flyers timorous as Middle Eastern carriers keep their routes over Iran

Iran denies it tried to ‘cover up’ downing of Ukrainian airliner

By AFP

Esper has seen no hard evidence for Trump claim of Iran threat to embassies

By Robert Burns

Leehee Goldenberg

The faster we get rid of gas the better

If natural gas were reserved as a decent back-up to 333 days/year of massive solar production, I just might have hope for the future

Susannah Schild

Sunshine therapy, here we come

You don’t have to travel far to find invigorating woodland walks among Israel’s well-marked hiking trails

It boils down to Netanyahu’s conspiracy theories

Given the dark insinuations in the PM’s request for Knesset immunity, a vote in his favor would be a vote of no-confidence in the rule of law

My normal family

Rafi Peretz’s latest comments remind me how painfully I struggled for so many years — and how much better things are now

During Superstorm Sandy Cpt. Dana Hall served as the Commander for Mission Execution. She and her team worked out of a SUNY college building. (Courtesy/ Cpt. Dana Hall)

Interview

From Ebola to hurricanes, mom in uniform keeps people safe while keeping kosher

By Cathryn J. Prince

Education Minister Rafi Peretz at a faction meeting of his Jewish Home party in the Knesset on November 11, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Is Rafi Peretz sinking his Jewish Home below the electoral threshold?

Even before interview in which national religious party head seemed to call gay couples unnatural, he’d cooked up a deal with Kahanists that may have buried his faction for good

Blue and White MK Avi Nissenkorn (C) opens the Knesset Arrangements Committee, January 13, 2020. (Knesset)

Knesset panel bid to expedite PM immunity debate gets off to blustery start

By Raoul Wootliff

AnalysisAn eye on higher office, Edelstein walks a risky tightrope on Netanyahu immunity

By Raoul Wootliff

Martin Buber in his Jerusalem study, 1963. (Courtesy of the Martin Buber Literary Estate)

Author interview

Childhood trauma may have led to Martin Buber’s cerebral trust in higher power

By JP O’ Malley

A car belonging to a Palestinian couple is seen after it was involved in a deadly crash reportedly due to stone-throwing by Israeli settlers at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank on October 12, 2018. (Zachariah Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights); Aisha Muhammad Talal Rabi (Courtesy)

Stone throwing that killed Palestinian mother of 8 recognized as terror attack

But Defense Ministry refuses to designate Aisha Rabi as a terror victim as she wasn’t a citizen, denying her family compensation; husband’s lawyers vow to appeal

Palestinian women at the Qalandiya checkpoint outside of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Israel admits it doesn’t enforce Palestinians’ return to West Bank, Gaza

Illustrative: Israeli military vehicles are seen during clashes along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, near Gaza City, on June 28, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Three Palestinians detained after crossing border from Gaza Strip

Nathalia Coriat moved to Aventura from Caracas two years ago with her family. (Josefin Dolsten/ JTA)

As their former community crumbles, booming Miami is a haven for Venezuelan Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

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The alleged leader of a cult of dozens of women and young children is brought to a court in Jerusalem, January 13, 2020 (Channel 12 news)

Jerusalem police arrest suspected cult leader who kept dozens of women, children

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israel seeks to speed up extradition of Malka Leifer in sex abuse case

By Josef Federman

Illustrative: Tools for a circumcision procedure. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Historic first Jewish circumcision ceremony held in Abu Dhabi

Judge Ali Mubedeen reading Jordan's State Security Court's ruling against Israeli citizen Konstantin Kotov on January 13, 2020. (Screenshot: Al Mamlaka TV)

Israeli who illegally crossed into Jordan sentenced to 4 months in prison

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, right, with her mother Tzipi Levin in their home. 2001. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Model Bar Refaeli said near plea bargain over tax offenses; mother could do time

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

(Illustrative image of a hacker; supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)

Cybersecurity startup exits total $11.3 billion in 2013-2019 — report

By Shoshanna Solomon

An emergency alert issued by the Canadian province of Ontario reporting an unspecified “incident” at a nuclear plant is shown on a smartphone Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. Ontario Power Generation later sent a message saying the alert “was sent in error." (Graeme Roy/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian officials accidentally push nuclear alert to millions

A firefighter works to extinguish a blaze on a helicopter that made an emergency landing in a field outside of Rahat in the Negev desert on November 26, 2019. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Over a month after crash-landing, grounded Yasur choppers cleared for flight

By Judah Ari Gross

The ultra-Orthodox settlement of Modi'in Illit, February 18, 2019. (Flash90)

Boy, 12, dies after hit by bus

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Facebook reportedly derailed Europe terror probe by alerting users of phone hack

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this December 15, 2019 file photo, New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman stands on the sidelines in the second half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Gary Landers, File)

Unnecessary roughnessPatriots star Edelman arrested for vandalism in California

By AP

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at "The People's Caucus: Vote Truth to Power" at the Holzworth Performing Arts Center at Davenport North High School, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rising in the polls, Sanders takes jabs from Trump, Warren

By Alexandra Jaffe

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