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What Matters Most On Friday, January 17, 2020

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In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, leads the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Says Quds Force is 'a humanitarian organization'

Khamenei calls Trump a clown who’ll betray Iranians, hails missile hits in Iraq

Supreme leader says outpouring of grief for slain general Soleimani shows Iranians support the regime; claims missile barrage on US forces was ‘blow to America’s image’

In this May 28, 2019 photo, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi speaks at a press conference in Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran urges world not to turn downing of passenger plane into a ‘political’ issue

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Soldiers stand at the site of an Iranian bombing at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar, Iraq, January 13, 2020. (AP/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)

Pentagon now says 11 US troops were hurt in Iran missile strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

Single poll out of 3 shows Otzma Yehudit clearing threshold; deadlock continues

Network surveys see Blue and White edging ahead of Likud, but neither camp able to muster 61 seats without Avigdor Liberman, even if extremist party somehow makes it into Knesset

Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party presents his party list to the Central Elections committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz gives a statement for media in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Gantz says PM ‘unfit’ for office over attempt to bring Kahanists into Knesset

President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at the memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Promise-breaking politicians may actually be good news for ending stalemate

Party leaders’ refusal to renege on vows over past year has helped keep Israel in deadlock, but recent walk-backs and compromises suggest potential breakthroughs on the horizon

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a culture event in Glilot, on December 20, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Kingmaker Liberman says coalition almost a done deal, but unclear what changed

Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on October 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewRunning in circles: 6 things to know for January 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Fabio Penazzo, a hotel manager in Venice's Jewish ghetto, says God helped keep the damage to a minimum in record-setting flooding last November. Photo taken on December 28, 2019. (Giovanni Vigna/ Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Damaged but not drowned, Venice Jewish ghetto counts its blessings after flood

By Giovanni Vigna

Helmut Kleinicke, center, used his position during the war to save what's estimated to be hundreds of Jews. (Juta Scheffzek/ Jewish Welfare Board of Germany)

Analysis

Yaakov Schwartz

Nazi official who risked life to save hundreds of Jews posthumously recognized

40 years after his death, Helmut Kleinicke, who kept mum about sheltering and helping Jewish laborers avoid deportation to death camps, designated as Righteous Among the Nations

Anti-Semitic ‘Jew pig’ sculpture at center of German court battle

By Geir Moulson and Kerstin Sopke

Glowing stones form new Dutch memorial to Holocaust victims

By AP

Exhibition upgraded at Wannsee Conference villa where Holocaust was planned

By AFP

Israeli Naama Issachar gestures during an appeal hearings in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)

Putin could pardon jailed backpacker ahead of Israel visit — Russian media

Israeli officials tell TV station there has been ‘progress’ in talks to secure freedom of Naama Issachar, 27, imprisoned in Russia on drug charges

Putin cements power as Russian lawmakers approve his new PM

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Poland, Lithuania lock arms to resist Russia’s WWII revisionism

By LIUDAS DAPKUS and Vanessa Gera

In latest broadside, Moscow says Polish resistance army killed Jews in WWII

By AFP

Illustrative: An Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 27, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF strikes Hamas in Gaza in response to explosive balloons from Strip

Israeli helicopter hits terror infrastructure in northern part of Palestinian territory, army says, following at least 2 airborne bombs landing in southern Israel

Police sappers called as balloon-borne bomb found in Ashdod

Hamas says it won’t accept Israel dragging feet on lifting Gaza blockade

Israel Air Force inaugurates its second F-35 squadron

Ramapo police officers escort Grafton Thomas from Ramapo Town Hall to a police vehicle, December 29, 2019, in Ramapo, New York. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

Accused Monsey stabber pleads not guilty to attempted murder, hate crimes

By AP

Grafton Thomas denies all charges as lawyer says he suffers from mental illness and is not responsible for Hanukkah attack that wounded 5, including 1 critically

A San Diego county sheriff's deputy stands in front of the Poway Chabad Synagogue in Poway, California, April 28, 2019, after a shooting. (AP /Denis Poroy)

US synagogues should not arm ordinary congregants, Jewish security agency says

Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the 'Unite the Right"'rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

FBI arrests 3 neo-Nazis ahead of Virginia pro-gun rally

By Michael Kunzelman and Mike Balsamo

People hold a sign reading, 'Woking the Labour Party.' (via AJC)

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Why Israelis may be arrested for the ‘war crime’ of settlement building

Episode #19: Anti-Semitism still plagues UK Labour Party * What does the ICC war crimes investigation mean for Israel? * African-American pastor reaches to Jews across racial lines

Director interview

In film ‘Crescendo,’ an Israeli-Palestinian orchestra struggles to get in tune

By Rich Tenorio

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Moshe’s life: The trailer

The biblical leader walks away, apparently refusing to take the Israelites out of Egypt. Until it becomes clear that all he has done foreshadows exactly that

Reading Exodus in Senegal

The Israelites ultimately experienced redemption, but what about the millions of Africans who were sold into slavery and lost everything?

Ze’ev Elkin has found the enemy and it’s not pollution

The environment minister was asked to lay out his plan to protect Israel’s natural resources. He chose to slam activists instead

Tammy Jacobowitz

What’s in a story?

A constant awareness of the Israelites’ experience in Egypt helps block the real possibility that we free people could become oppressors (Shemot)

In this file photo taken on May 20, 2009 Argentina's Public Prosecutor Alberto Nisman gives a press conference in Buenos Aires. January 18 marks the fifth anniversary of the mysterious death of Nisman,who had accused Iran of the attack on the Jewish mutual AMIA in 1994 and had denounced ex-president Cristina Kirchner in the case (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)

Netflix docuseries revives debate over Argentine prosecutor’s death

By Liliana Samuel

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event on prayer in public schools, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump says he doesn’t know Parnas, after being implicated in Ukraine scandal

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

Giuliani associate says president was fully aware of efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, ‘knew exactly what was going on’

Charges read out on floor as Trump impeachment trial opens in Senate

By LISA MASCARO

Federal watchdog: White House violated law in freezing Ukraine aid

By Andrew Taylor and Zeke Miller

Ukraine opens probe into possible surveillance of US ambassador

By YURAS KARMANAU

More Headlines

Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)

Calves survive Australian bushfires just to be shipped to Israel for slaughter

By Sue Surkes and Omer Sharvit

File: Israeli security forces gather at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on June 2, 2019, after clashes broke out between police and Muslim worshipers following the entry of Jews to the site for Jerusalem Day. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Police break up ‘disorderly conduct’ at Temple Mount after hundreds march, chant

A 19 year-old British woman, center, who was found guilty of making up claims she was raped by up to 12 Israelis, arrives at Famagusta District Court in Cyprus for sentencing on January 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Woman who alleged rape by Israelis appeals conviction to Cyprus supreme court

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the Yamina party headquarters on election night in Ramat Gan, on September 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Minister derided for nixing bus trips coinciding with Shabbat’s start, end

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)

In Tel Aviv court, Amnesty demands Israel rein in shadowy spyware company

By Tia Goldenberg

A girl and her bananas, from 'Emerging from the Shadows' exhibit at Beit Avi Chai, through June 2020 (Courtesy Sarah Ayal)

History happening‘Amazing’ photographer of 50s-60s Israel emerges with posthumous exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Peter Loth enters a Hamburg, Germany, courtroom for the trial of Bruno Dey, a guard at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp, Nov. 12, 2019. (Christian Charisius/Pool/AFP)

Man who hugged Nazi camp guard in court withdraws as plaintiff amid controversy

By JTA

Illustrative: An ambulance outside the Soroka hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, December 23, 2013. (Flash90)

Man dies in Beersheba of flu complications as death toll climbs

Illustrative: A right-wing Jewish activist holds a sign reading, "Do not torture me" outside the Duma terror attack trial in Petah Tikva on December 28, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Among millennials in 16 countries, Israelis least opposed to torture — poll

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Khat leaves (YouTube screenshot)

Israel says citizens being arrested across Europe while trying to smuggle khat

Amy Goldberg, left, and Lindsay Bressman talking to students at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn, January 8, 2020. (Josefin Dolsten/ JTA)

Brooklyn high school students have questions on Jews answered in Holocaust class

By Josefin Dolsten

Men, allegedly affiliated with the Islamic State terror group, sit on the floor in a prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh, on October 26, 2019. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

Bureaucracy and brutality: New evidence exposes Islamic State hierarchy

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