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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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View of the Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

'Most significant Israel-Egypt cooperation since peace deal'

In milestone, Israel starts exporting natural gas to Egypt

Jerusalem’s and Cairo’s energy ministries issue rare joint statement announcing implementation of estimated $19.5 billion deal to pump gas from 2 massive offshore gas fields

Then-Blue and White MK Gadi Yevarkan in May 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Hours before deadline, Blue and White MK jumps ship for Likud

By Raoul Wootliff

Gantz’s party had booted Gadi Yevarkan off its slate after he warned he might switch to Netanyahu’s if he was not given a higher place on electoral roster

2020 Knesset electionsElections committee registers parties for March vote as slates finalized

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewDo the far-right thing: 7 things to know for January 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Likud again pushing to get extremists into Knesset on far-right slate

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

An Israeli missile is launched from the Iron Dome defense missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on November 12, 2019, to intercept rocket launched from the nearby Palestinian Gaza Strip. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

4 mortar shells fired from Gaza at Israeli towns; no injuries

By Judah Ari Gross

Two incoming projectiles shot down by Iron Dome, others apparently strike open fields; attack sends hundreds of Israelis rushing to bomb shelters

Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa attends the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit, in Beirut, Lebanon, January 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Analysis

Why is Bahrain’s Israel-friendly foreign minister being given the boot?

Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, who publicly recognized Israel’s right to exist – and to defend itself – is being replaced after 15 years. His sudden demotion is shrouded in mystery

Illustrative photo of Wadi Og, a stream which runs from near Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, November 26, 2014. (Maxim Dinshtein/Flash90)

For 1st time since Oslo Accords, Israel announces new West Bank nature reserves

By Michael Bachner

Israeli forces raze a pair of illegal homes at the Kumi Ori outpost on January 15. (Elazar Riger)

Forces raze pair of illegal settler homes in flashpoint outpost in Area B

Illustrative: An explosion is seen following an Israel airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip early on November 27, 2019. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

IDF launches air strikes in Gaza in response to rocket fire

Four rockets were fired earlier today at Israeli communities; Israeli Air Force now striking terror group installations in territory

7:26 pm

Left-wing Labor-Gesher-Meretz union files its slate for March election
7:17 pm

Sderot police examining suspected incendiary balloons in the city
7:00 pm

IDF launches air strikes in Gaza in response to rocket fire

A photo released by Iranian media reportedly shows the T-4 air base in central Syria after a missile barrage April 16, 2018. (Iranian media)

3 pro-Iranian fighters said killed in overnight Syria strikes blamed on Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Damascus state news agency accuses Israeli jets of attacking T-4 base, where Iran is believed to maintain a permanent military presence

Iranians walk past a poster of slain military commander Qassem Soleimani off a main square in the Islamic Republic's capital Tehran on January 11, 2020. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

IDF sees chance to halt Iranian entrenchment in region with Soleimani gone

By Judah Ari Gross

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, greets Iran's President Hassan Rouhani before a meeting at the Cankaya Palace, in Ankara, Turkey, September 16, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

In first, Turkey leader’s hostility noted as ‘challenge’ in annual intel report

By Judah Ari Gross

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran, January 14, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran threatens European troops, as FM Zarif admits officials lied about plane

By Emily Schmall and Jon Gambrell

Rouhani says soldiers could be in danger after triggering of nuclear accord’s dispute mechanism; Zarif says Iranians were lied to about Ukrainian airliner shootdown

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 22, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu urges immediate return of international sanctions on Iran

By ToI Staff and AP

An Iranian video shows country's forces killing US President Donald Trump in revenge for the killign of top general Qassem Soleimani. (Fars screenshot)

Iranian video depicts killing of Trump, Netanyahu in assault on White House

Yossi Klein Halevi

Realism means preparing for war. And peace

The left must recognize the Iranian threat, the right must forgo delusions of peace without concessions — for Israel, both are matters of survival

Yossi Kuperwasser

Who cares about the Iranian people?

Where’s the outcry over the ongoing slaughter of innocent people fighting for free and democratic elections in their countries?

Joshua Davidovich

A rescue plan for Israel’s wasted votes

Parties fear they won’t pass the electoral threshold, voters worry their votes won’t count — the solution lies in vote sharing arrangements

Stuart Hershkowitz

Why Israel needs to keep investing in haredi education

Gloomy overall employment statistics obscure models such as ours, where 89% of our our ultra-Orthodox students get jobs

A picture taken on January 13, 2020 during a press tour shows a view of the damage at Ain al-Asad military airbase housing US and other foreign troops in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, following an Iranian missile attack (Ayman HENNA / AFP)

‘We thought we were basically done’: US troops recall Iranian missile attack

By Maya Gebeily

Though US forces had advance warning and most sheltered in bunkers during barrage, drone pilots remained to control army’s eyes in the sky — and then their connection was lost

Qatar seeks to mediate amid tensions after US strike in Iraq

By SAMYA KULLAB

Rockets fired at Iraqi base housing US troops

By AFP and ToI Staff

Video indicates Ukraine jet was hit by two Iranian missiles

By AFP

From left, Democratic presidential candidates businessman Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., stand on stage, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, before a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

In debate, Democrats attack Trump for escalating tensions with Iran

By Eric Cortellessa and AFP

Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar say president inflamed conflict by pulling out of nuclear deal, Sanders accuses leader of lying about planned Soleimani attack

A photo of Mike Bloomberg as a meatball tweeted January 14, 2020, by Bloomberg's social media team. (Twitter)

Nice to meat youDemocrats gave you a debate. Bloomberg gave you a meatball

Elizabeth Warren speaks at a campaign stop in Marshalltown, Iowa, Jan. 12, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)

Obama’s Middle East policy team has a new home – in Elizabeth Warren’s campaign

Amitai Hazan Tiroche with the long-missing Marc Chagall painting, 'Jacob's Ladder,' which will be auctioned on January 25, 2020 at the Tiroche Auction House (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

‘Jacob’s Ladder,’ a Chagall stolen from Tel Aviv gallery in 1996, is up for sale

By Jessica Steinberg

Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel speaks while then-President Barack Obama and International Buchenwald Committee President Bertrand Herz listen during their visit of the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, June 5, 2009 (Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Linking Israel’s founding to Holocaust, once cause for outrage, is now accepted

When Obama urged Muslims to understand Israel’s importance in the context of genocide, he met hail of criticism; new GOP-led resolution on Holocaust education barely evinced a peep

Following Poland’s lead, Lithuania proposes controversial Holocaust law

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Slovenian court voids executed Nazi collaborator’s 1946 treason conviction

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rivlin to host 40 world leaders to mark 75 years since Auschwitz liberation

Elior Koroghli wears a traditional Cambodian costume at her bat mitzvah party in Phnom Penh. (Kang Predi and Teh Ranie via JTA)

Granddaughter of a Cambodian princess celebrates her bat mitzvah

By Josefin Dolsten

Israel's national baseball team at a team practice in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel’s unlikely Olympic baseball team dreams big for Japan

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) meets with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on January 15, 2020. (Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP)

Russian PM, government resign after Putin announces changes to keep him in power

Rep. Lee Zeldin introduced a measure that would would add language to 1970s-era anti-boycott laws that targeted the Arab League boycott of Israel. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, JTA)

US House bill would penalize compliance with EU and UN boycotts of Israel

By JTA

Roseman's Delicatessen in Liverpool was the main kosher eatery for Jews in the UK city. (Google Street View via JTA)

UK court hears meat scandal deli owner killed himself after losing kosher badge

Keir Starmer, left, and Rebecca Long-Bailey of the UK Labour Party arrive at the cabinet office for Brexit talks in London, April 9, 2019. (Niklas Halle'n/AFP)

UK Labour leadership hopefuls back ’10 pledges’ to address anti-Semitism

Illustrative image of a pregnant woman (Wavebreakmedia; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli researchers create algorithm to predict gestational diabetes

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A Nazi flag flown in the United States. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Australian woman flies Nazi flag from her home, angering neighbors

By henry Benjamin

High school students, protesting against Education Minister Rafi Peretz who appeared to call same-sex marriage unnatural, seen during a demonstration at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on January 15, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands of teens protest education minister’s remarks about LGBT couples

Aharon Ramati arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on January 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem cult suspect named as details emerge of alleged enslavement of women

Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Malka Leifer’s attorneys accused of dragging out extradition hearings

Illustrative: Herbal extracts (LucaDAddezio; iStock by Getty Images)

BDS backer upsets tranquility of Israel’s first English-speaking herb confab

Cash hidden in an Oreo box that was discovered by customs at Ben Gurion Airport in the first half of 2018. (Israel Tax Authority)

Fortune cookiesUS man tried to enter Israel with $260,000 hidden in Oreo boxes

By Michael Bachner

Roy Nissany at a press conference announcing his joining the Williams group Formula 1 racing team as its third driver, in Tel Avvi, January 15, 2020. (Courtesy Shauli Lendner)

In first, Israeli racer breaks into Formula 1 with top track team Willliams

By Stuart Winer

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