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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 18, 2020

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An Italian Policeman, left, and a Carabiniere, paramilitary police officer, stand beside a painting which was found last December near an art gallery and believed to be the missing Gustav Klimt's painting ‘Portrait of a Lady’ during a press conference in Piacenza, Italy, Jan. 17, 2020 (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Worth up to $111 million; was wrapped in a black garbage bag

Painting found stashed in wall of Italian museum confirmed to be stolen Klimt

Experts authenticate century-old artwork which went missing in February 1997 while the gallery was closed for work

Scene of a stabbing attack in the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba, January 18, 2020 (Magen David Adom)

Israeli moderately injured in stabbing attack near Hebron; suspect arrested

Incident comes hours after woman in her 50s brandished weapon at security forces near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

Border Police officers restrain a woman said to have attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at Jerusalem Old City's Damascus Gate, January 18, 2020 (Screen grab via Twitter)

Woman pulls knife on cops in Jerusalem’s Old City, is arrested

Illustrative: Palestinian Muslims shout at Israeli security forces (unseen) in the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Muslims chant about killing Jews outside Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

By JTA and ToI Staff

Original manuscript of 'Last Stop Auschwitz,' written by Eddy de Wind at Auschwitz (courtesy: Melcher de Wind)

The only memoir written at Auschwitz is finally to be published in English

By Matt Lebovic

US President Donald Trump at a ceremony in the White House, January 17, 2020, in Washington. (AP/Steve Helber)

Trump warns Khamenei to be ‘careful with his words’ following Tehran sermon

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president mocks Iranian supreme leader, writes in support of the ‘noble people of Iran,’ after Khamenei attacks America and Europe in speech

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

For some Iranians, Khamenei speech stokes rage over downed jetliner

By AFP

Illustrative: Supporters of the Iranian national soccer team cheer during the 2018 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Uzbekistan at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran on June 12, 2017. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Iran says it’s been banned from hosting international soccer

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hezbollah fighters parade during the inauguration of a new cemetery for their fighters who died fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on November 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

UK adds entire Hezbollah movement to terror blacklist and freezes its assets

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel and US welcome move and call on other nations to blacklist the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group; step follows British government decision last March

A woman carrying a national flag walks toward Lebanese demonstrators blocking the main bridge linking the western and eastern sides of the capital Beirut, to protest against a political elite accused of corruption and incompetence, on Janury 17, 2020. (Photo by PATRICK BAZ / AFP)

Hezbollah warns of ‘chaos’ if Lebanon government further delayed

By Bassam Mroue

Lebanese demonstrators block the main bridge linking the western and eastern sides of the capital Beirut, to protest against a political elite accused of corruption and incompetence, on Janury 17, 2020 (PATRICK BAZ / AFP)

Lebanese demonstrators block roads as protests enter fourth month

By AFP

Attorney Alan Dershowitz leaves federal court in New York on December 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Dershowitz to defend Trump at impeachment to protect ‘integrity of constitution’

Harvard law professor says he will present oral arguments during Senate trial; Whitewater investigator Ken Starr and ex-Florida AG Pam Bondi also part of the team

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks alongside Iowa attorney general Tom Miller during a stop at a campaign field office in Des Moines, Iowa, January 13, 2020. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Biden mocks Trump’s claim to speak against anti-Semitism

A prostitute arranges payment with an undercover police officer in footage captured by a hidden camera and broadcast by Channel 13. (Channel 13/screenshot)

Police bust sex crime ring that trafficked dozens of Ukrainian women to Israel

Criminal organization arranged for women’s travel, living quarters, managed them as prostitutes; head of organization earned over NIS 11 million in recent months

Benny Shlomo (Screen grab from archive footage broadcast by Channel 13)

Israeli crime boss arrested on suspicion of laundering half a billion shekels

Brave Iranian journalists

Awed by the senior journalists who admitted broadcasting state-promoted lies and apologized for their part in spreading them

Why keep kosher?

When you know that the Torah is biologically inaccurate – an approximation only – then why keep the dietary laws?

Max Rose speaks to reporters after a town hall meeting at the Joan and Alan Bernikow Jewish Community Center in the Staten Island borough of New York, October 2, 2019. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Jewish Dems push to reverse Trump ban on migration from some Muslim countries

Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Max Rose of New York spearhead move to nullify White House restriction, calling it a ‘persecution of religious minorities’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press at the State Department in Washington, December 11, 2019. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Pompeo breaks silence on alleged threats to envoy in Ukraine

AnalysisWhere the top 7 Democratic US presidential hopefuls stand on Iran

Stav Shaffir holds a press conference on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv announcing she will not run in upcoming elections, January 15, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Analysis

Stav Shaffir, once Israel’s liberal rising star, falls by the wayside

Outspoken politician, the youngest woman ever elected to the Knesset, left in the cold following clashes with Labor, realignment of left-wing parties

Heba Yazbak at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for a hearing on whether to disqualify the Ra'am-Balad party from running in the general elections, March 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Blue and White said expected to back request to disqualify Arab MK

Deputy Finance Minister Yitzhak Cohen attends a Shas party campaign event in Jerusalem on July 22, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Shas lawmaker forgoes ministerial appointment after approval delayed

This image released by A24 shows Adam Sandler in a scene from "Uncut Gems." (A24 via AP)

Behind the scenes

‘Uncut Gems’ uses age-old Jewish stereotypes nonstop. Why is there no backlash?

By Stephen Silver

Drew 'Binsky' Goldberg, seen here in Kerala, India, makes a living traveling the world and posting about it on social media. (Courtesy of Goldberg/ via JTA)

Meet the Jewish travel blogger who soon will have visited every country

By Josefin Dolsten

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Jerusalem on October 29, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Honduras: Jerusalem embassy move to come after Israel opens Tegucigalpa office

By AFP and ToI Staff

As Central American nation takes possession of $50m warship it purchased from Israel, its president says mission will only move after foreign ministry opens office in country

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Italy's populist Five Star Movement (M5S) party leader Luigi Di Maio, addresses journalists a day after Italy's general elections, on March 5, 2018 in Rome. (AFP PHOTO / Filippo MONTEFORTE)

Italy’s foreign minister expresses doubts over feasibility of EastMed pipeline

By ToI Staff and AFP

Jordanians protest in the capital Amman against the natural gas deal with Israel, January 17, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Hundreds protest in Jordan against gas deal with Israel

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

Netanyahu says Russia showing ‘real willingness’ to free jailed backpacker

Screenshot of a video from The Spinner. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Facebook bars Israeli firm that claims to ‘subconsciously influence’ people

Harvey Weinstein gestures as he walks by reporters as he leaves a Manhattan courtroom after attending jury selection for his trial on rape and sexual assault charges, January 17, 2020 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Jury of 7 men, 5 women selected for Weinstein rape trial

By Tom Hays and Michael R. Sisak

Roberto Alvim, then-director of theater, dance and opera at the Brazil's National Arts Foundation, poses for pictures in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil minister fired after speech parroting Nazi propagandist Goebbels

By DIANE JEANTET and Mauricio SAVARESE

These undated photos provided by Georgia Police show from left accused neo-Nazis Luke Austin Lane of Floyd County, Jacob Kaderli of Dacula, and Michael Helterbrand of Dalton, Georgia. (Floyd County Police via AP

3 more men linked to US neo-Nazi group arrested for alleged murder plot

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JEFF MARTIN

Chelsea soccer players Cesar Azpilicueta, right, and Ruben Loftus-Cheek stand against the club's mural commemorating Holocaust victims in London, Jan. 15, 2020.(Courtesy of Chelsea FC via JTA)

Chelsea soccer club unveils mural with Jewish soccer players killed at Auschwitz

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Slavic Mvasav, 62, and his partner Yelina Yitzchakvav, 57 found dead in suspected murder suicide in Petah Tikva, January 17, 2020 (Facebook)

Petah Tikva couple found shot dead in suspected murder-suicide

Joshua Cohen, 27, sought by London police in connection with double murder in Golders Green. (Met police)

Man admits killing mother and sister in North London bagel dynasty murders

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