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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 16, 2020

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(L-R) Ayelet Shaked, Naftali Bennett, Bezalel Smotrich and Rafi Peretz announcing a merger between religious right-wing parties, to be called United Right, July 29, 2019. (Courtesy)

Ben Gvir: Peretz 'stabbed me in the back'

At 11th hour, Jewish Home drops Kahanist far-right slate to merge with New Right

National religious parties return to nearly identical formula from September election, as Rafi Peretz caves to pressure and breaks pact with Otzma Yehudit

Otzma Yehudit party leader Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to reporters at the Knesset, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu pressures spurned extremist party to drop out of race

By Alexander Fulbright

Rafi Peretz, left, and MK Moti Yogev attend a meeting of the Jewish Home party in Tel Aviv on Jan 13, 2020. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Jewish Home No. 2 quits in anger as last-second merger roils political landscape

By Joshua Davidovich and Jacob Magid

Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked at a rally to support residents, ahead of the expected evacuation and demolition of the illegal Jewish neighborhood of Netiv Ha'avot in the Etzion, bloc on June 11, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Analysis

Flailing merger leaves divided right playing catch-up with united left

Two alliances and two very different final registration days send opposite messages of unity and political strength

New Right chairman Naftali Bennett arrives to present his party list at the Knesset on January 15, 2020.(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewKosher knives out: 6 things to know for January 16

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett arrives at the Knesset to file the national-religious Yamina alliance's list of candidates for the upcoming elections, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 )

Bennett vows Yamina will stick together after elections this time

By Alexander Fulbright

The 22nd Knesset is sworn in on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Women’s group says parties are pushing female candidates to ‘the back benches’

Israel Women’s Network notes dearth of women in top spots on slates for March elections, laments ‘significant erosion’ of female representation

Campaign notebookFrom powerhouses to Pirates, parties file for March vote just under the buzzer

By Raoul Wootliff

MK Stav Shaffir of the Democratic Camp party holds a press conference, September 15, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Snubbed by Labor and Meretz, Shaffir announces she won’t run in March election

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

Rouhani says Iran enriching more uranium than before nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Islamic Republic president says his government working to prevent confrontation or war; dialogue with world powers difficult but ‘possible’

UK envoy leaves Iran for ‘brief trip,’ amid anger over protest appearance

By ToI Staff and AFP

UK envoy to Israel warns Iran has ‘last opportunity’ to comply with nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran crown prince predicts regime collapse as protesters ‘smell opportunity’

By AFP

A train at an amusement park in the southern Gaza Strip that seeks to simulate a journey from the isolated coastal enclave to Jerusalem's Old City. (Screenshot: al-Mashad)

Gaza theme park’s new train ride simulates the ‘return’ journey to Jerusalem

‘The Train of Return to Jerusalem’ brings visitors across a valley to a partial mock-up of Old City, including a small building representing the Dome of Rock

Illustrative: Explosions seen in the Gaza Strip after a reported IDF Strike in response to rocket fire on Ashdod and Ashkelon on September 11, 2019 (Screencapture/Twitter)

IDF strikes Hamas in Gaza in response to rocket fire, as sustained calm tested

By Judah Ari Gross

Ehud Barak, left, with Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat (photo credit: Sharon Farmer)

Fatah official: Arafat hinted for us to launch Second Intifada after Camp David

Constitutional law expert Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman steps out of a hearing room during recess while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of US President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Interview'It’s the essence of an impeachable offense'

As impeachment moves ahead, prof who helped make case sees ‘archetype of abuse’

By Rich Tenorio

Harvard’s Noah Feldman, who explained ‘impeachability’ to House Judiciary Committee, says Founders backed mechanism out of fear leaders would do exactly what Trump is accused of

Warren accuses Sanders of calling her a liar on national TV after Iowa debate

By Will Weissert

Pelosi names Schiff, Nadler as prosecutors for Trump trial

By LISA MASCARO

House leaders march Trump impeachment articles to Senate for trial

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem, on January 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Polls: Right-wing merger doesn’t win PM majority — even if Otzma Yehudit passes

The far-right party is on knife’s edge of the electoral threshold, passing in one TV survey and failing to do so in 2 others; Liberman remains deciding factor

7:27 pm

Rouhani says Iran wants dialogue, working to 'prevent war'
7:01 pm

French far-right leader lays out plan to run for president
6:36 pm

New polls show right-wing merger doesn't win PM majority -- even if Otzma passes

In this still from the 2018 film 'Back to Maracana,' some long overdue bonding takes place between Brazilian-Israeli father Roberto (Asaf Goldstien) and his son Itai (Rom Barnea). (Courtesy)

Spotlight on Ibero-Jewish films at Miami festival celebrates influx of Sephardim

By Rich Tenorio

Pinchas Goldschmidt

Lithuania wants to erase its Holocaust role. That’s deplorable

Proposed legislation would whitewash the extent to which Lithuanians helped Nazis murder 90% of their country’s 220,000 Jews

Sinaia Netanyahu

Israel knows what to do about flooding. It’s not doing it.

Government must focus on building resilience for climate change, and it can start by implementing a report it adopted in 2018

Dr. Scott Stripling at the site of ancient Shiloh, May 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Times of Israel Podcasts

LISTEN: At Shiloh, archaeologist finds artifacts hinting at biblical Tabernacle

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 2, 2017. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

ADL tells Congress to curb online hate speech if social media giants won’t

By Eric Cortellessa

Appearing before House committee, Jonathan Greenblatt says Silicon Valley firms should have tackled anti-Semitism proliferating on their platforms long ago

New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at a news conference prior to a students' tour of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, January 15, 2020. (Ben Sales)

Brooklyn teens taken to Holocaust museum in bid to combat anti-Semitism

In this September 29, 2019 file photo, members of the Jewish community arrive for services as Pittsburgh Police Detectives provide security on the first night of Rosh Hashana at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh. (Rebecca Droke via AP)

Experts advise US synagogues on use of armed security personnel

Yizhar Sahar (left) and Hila Ronen Sahar, in front of Rutenberg, their Jordan Valley farm-to-table bistro on the border between Israel and Jordan (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A farm-to-table bistro offers local fare on Israel’s border with frenemy Jordan

By Jessica Steinberg

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Israeli-American Naama Issachar, jailed for drug smuggling, attends her appeal hearing at the Moscow Regional Court on December 19, 2019. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)

Netanyahu talks to Putin, is ‘optimistic’ on Israeli-American backpacker release

In call with Russian president, who is due in Israel next week, PM raises issue of Naama Issachar, who was sentenced to 7.5 years over minor drug offense

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russia's Tax Service chief Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow on January 15, 2020. (Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP)

Shock as Putin taps new PM, proposes reforms that could secure his grip on power

By Michael MAINVILLE

More Headlines

"The Snowy Day" is credited with breaking the diversity barrier in children's publishing. (New York Public Library via JTA)

Must-readBook by Jewish author is the most checked-out ever at NY Public Library

By Penny Schwartz

Illustrative close up of medical technician working on a bacterial culture (Credit: 10174593_258, iStock by Getty Images)

Hebrew University researchers develop test to help fight superbugs

By Shoshanna Solomon

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace accord held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 25, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin to Egypt’s Sissi: Natural gas ‘links our countries and our peoples’

The drilling vessel Fatih deployed by Turkey to search for gas and oil in waters considered part of the EU state's exclusive economic zone on June 24, 2019 (AFP)

Turkey to start Mediterranean gas exploration ‘as soon as possible’

By AFP

An army zodiac secures the entrance of the new section of the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt, August 6, 2015. (Amr Nabil/AP)

Experts say Mediterranean Sea altered by Suez Canal’s invasive species

By Aron Heller and Isabel Debre

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

Marc Maron arrives at the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on January 27, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Digging up the pastIn ‘Finding Your Roots,’ Marc Maron hints at tragic family history

By Gabe Friedman

Arbel Kynan (Instagram via JTA)

Model says Lebanese designer dropped her from Paris show because she’s Israeli

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks to reporters before signing papers to posthumously pardon Don Gellers, a Passamaquoddy tribal lawyer convicted of marijuana possession, at the Statehouse in Augusta, Maine, January 7, 2020. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

Maine posthumously pardons Jewish attorney for Native Americans framed for drugs

Harvey Weinstein arrives for jury selection in his trial on rape and sexual assault charges, in New York, January 15, 2020. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Weinstein lawyers decry ‘circus’ atmosphere, say juror tweets unfair

By Michael R. Sisak

An American facility in Chile will honor Vera Rubin. (The Washington Post/Contributor via Getty Images via JTA)

Glass skyJewish scientist first woman to have namesake observatory

By Arielle Kaplan

Anthony Bourdain in New York City, June 2, 2016. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Gladys Bourdain, mother of celebrity chef, dies at 85

By JTA and ToI Staff

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