Israel to vote on March 2 if no deal by Wed. * UK Labour: Anti-Semitism row could hurt us at ballot * Smoking-diabetes link in pregnancy? * Dozens of binary options suits

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Monday, December 9, 2019 [Elections to be held on March 2 if no coalition formed]( By [TOI staff]( [Two days before deadline, Likud and Blue and White agree on prospective date, a Monday, which must still be approved by Knesset]( [Gantz: Elections can still be averted, but no forgiveness for corruption]( By [TOI staff]( [Sa’ar met with cheers and boos at Likud summit; party scraps primaries for slate]( By [TOI staff]( [Lapid gives up rotation deal with Gantz in bid to boost Blue and White]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( Live updates [Erdogan accuses Israel of ‘openly executing innocent girls and elderly people’]( By [Michael Bachner]( [At Organization of Islamic Cooperation conference, Turkey’s authoritarian president vows to ‘stand by the oppressed at all costs’]( [UK Labour’s No. 2 admits anti-Semitism row could hurt party at the ballot]( By [Michael Bachner and TOI staff]( [Days before election, amid leaks showing unresolved complaints about anti-Jewish sentiment, John McDonnell says Corbyn’s party learned its lesson from ‘horrible, horrible period’]( [Lapid accuses UK Labour leader Corbyn of ‘old-school, plain anti-Semitism’]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Scottish Labour candidate in row over message about journalist’s Jewish heritage]( By [TOI staff]( [Anti-Semitism stokes fear and election angst in UK’s ‘bagel belt’]( By [James Pheby]( [Foreigners file dozens of lawsuits against Israeli binary options companies]( By [Simona Weinglass]( [Lawyer for alleged victims says all his cases to date have ended in settlement rather than trial; civil suits provide an avenue for relief amid Israeli police, prosecution inaction]( [Smoking may trigger diabetes in pregnant women, study finds]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Gestational diabetes leads to complications for mother and child; ‘ideally, women should quit smoking before they try to become pregnant,’ Hebrew University researcher says]( [In Knesset, IDF admits incorrectly adding hundreds to tally of Haredi recruits]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Senior officers from Manpower Directorate acknowledge that mistakes were made in counting ultra-Orthodox enlistment rates, but maintain there was no effort to deceive the public]( [Doctors accused of giving drugs to yeshiva students to curb their sexual desires]( By [TOI staff]( [11 arrested as ultra-Orthodox protest arrest of army draft dodger]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Sarah Vorsanger]( [Does walking around town prevent adolescent obesity?]( [It turns out that isn’t just about exercise, for boys are at greater risk, though they are often more active than girls]( [Efraim Zuroff]( [Lithuanians dancing at a Jewish killing site spawned a brave theatrical work]( [Our book on Lithuania’s policy of downplaying its Holocaust atrocities and complicity inspired a dramatic work of social criticism]( [Hen Mazzig]( [Western Ashkenazi scholars erase Mizrahi history]( [The claim that Mizrahi Heritage Month is a propaganda vehicle for the Israeli government is a politically-motivated insult]( [Shulamit S. Magnus]( [No money to pay lone soldiers? Lies]( [It’s a crying shame that those who dedicate themselves to serving their country are not Israel’s priority]( Israel media review [The march of time (and time and time again): 7 things to know for December 9]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Behold! The day of our redemption is set, and it is March 2, 2020, though the faithful pray a miracle may still cancel the evil decree and breathe life again into the dead Knesset]( [Outgoing state attorney decries attempt to ‘destroy’ judiciary over PM’s probes]( By [TOI staff]( [Two anti-Netanyahu protesters, one 75, say PM’s supporters beat them]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Israel welcomes Lebanon-born businessman who bought and is donating Hitler items]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Visiting Jerusalem, diamond and real estate magnate Abdalla Chatila says he considered the prospect of the collection landing in ‘the wrong hands’ a ‘potential lethal injustice’]( [Obituary / Piero Terracina, last Rome Jew who survived Nazi death camp, dies at 91]( By [Frances D'Emilio]( [‘Shark Tank’ judges in a frenzy over Jewish mom’s meatless Unreal Deli]( By [Lisa Klug]( [CRM]( Analysis [Jacob Magid]( [Palestinians find ICC is not home turf]( [As international court’s preliminary investigation into ‘situation in Palestine’ drags into fifth year, Ramallah realizes it could find itself probed right alongside Israel]( [Luxembourg said pushing for EU states to recognize Palestine]( By [TOI staff]( [Palestinians in Bethlehem look beyond religious tourism]( By [Agencies]( More Headlines [Jordan jails man for plotting gun attack on Israeli embassy]( By [AFP]( [160 vehicles vandalized, wall graffitied in suspected East Jerusalem hate crime]( By [TOI staff]( [Nearly one-fifth of Israelis suffer from food insecurity, report says]( By [TOI staff]( [FBI says it presumes base shooting was terrorism; gunman was angry at US, Israel]( By [BRENDAN FARRINGTON and Mike Balsamo]( [Desperate Israeli fish farmers give peckish pelicans a free lunch]( By [Jonah Mandel]( [In the US, the ‘groyper army’ seeks to make anti-Semitism mainstream]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Palestinian convert to Judaism freed after detainment, beatings in PA jail]( By [TOI staff]( [Olympic marathon’s Shabbat slot may prevent Haredi woman from running]( By [TOI staff]( [Sanders staffer who posted anti-Semitic, homophobic tweets leaves campaign]( By [JTA]( [Israel’s Peregrine Ventures raises $115 million for new med-tech fund]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved