PM to seek immunity today * Iraq protesters leave embassy * Comptroller defanged? * Polish kids simulate Auschwitz gassing * Decade’s top archae ology, tech * ToI Podcast

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Wednesday, January 1, 2020 [As Wednesday night deadline looms, Netanyahu expected to request immunity]( By [TOI staff]( [PM reportedly seeking low profile for move to avoid trial on graft charges, out of concern it could impact election campaign, be rejected by Knesset or overturned by High Court]( [Explainer / Everything you always wanted to know about immunity for the prime minister]( By [Yuval Shany and Amir Fuchs]( [Forced to give up portfolios, Netanyahu set to appoint new ministers]( By [TOI staff]( [Liberman says Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc has ‘broken down’]( By [Sam Sokol and TOI staff]( [Pro-Iran protesters fully withdraw from US embassy in Baghdad]( By [AFP]( [‘We burned them!’ shout demonstrators as they stream out of the high-security Green Zone]( [Trump warns Iran of ‘BIG PRICE’ for attacks, sends 750 more troops to Mideast]( By [Ahmad Al-Rubaye and Paul Handley]( [Iran’s Khamenei shrugs off Trump threat to retaliate over Iraq embassy violence]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Iraq: On 2nd day of riots, US troops fire tear gas at protesters outside embassy]( By [Qassim Abdul-Zahra]( Israel media review [Looking for quiet in a riot: 6 things to know for January 1]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [While Baghdad turns into the latest preview of a feared Iranian-US-Israel conflict, Israel looks for a hand from some other enemies and Netanyahu gets ready to whisper ‘immunity’]( [IAF chief: US strike on Iran-backed Iraqi militia is a ‘potential turning point’]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Trump says he does not expect war with Iran, ‘likes peace’]( By [AFP]( [Officials in state comptroller’s office accuse him of defanging their audits]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Whereas government offices once feared the ombudsman, now the ombudsman is feared by his employees, a former official laments in a searing criticism of Matanyahu Englman]( Live updates [Security tight as over 92,000 Jews set to attend religious event at NJ stadium]( By [TOI staff]( [Organizer of celebrations marking completion of reading Talmud says 300 uniformed state police to be in attendance, following recent anti-Semitic attacks in NYC region]( [Polish children simulate being gassed to death at Auschwitz-themed dance recital]( By [Sam Sokol]( [Event marks renaming of a school to honor Polish children deported by Nazis, some of whom were forcibly adopted by German families if found to be sufficiently Aryan]( [Holocaust education planned after West Virginia jail guards give Nazi salute]( By [ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE]( Top Ops [Emma Eytan]( [‘I live on the fourth floor. I haven’t been outside in years’]( [Ending intergenerational poverty will take more than feeding the 300+ elderly, primarily Holocaust survivors, who are limited by economics, disabilities, and loneliness]( [Idit Shafran Gittleman]( [The decade in review: Women’s service in the IDF]( [An unprecedented number of female soldiers in increasingly more important roles should not be stepping aside in ’consideration of of religious soldiers’]( [Donniel Hartman]( [I hate talking about anti-Semitism]( [When we focus on the hate, it can become the defining element of Jewish life, when that should be living lives of moral and spiritual greatness]( [Jonathan D. Sarna]( [Anti-Semitism is a symptom]( [Hate-mongers emerge during times of intense social and cultural stress, revealing more about America’s underlying maladies than about Jews]( [Giant Palestinian flag raised, pulled down in Jerusalem’s Old City]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [One person reported arrested after flag featuring faces of Abbas and Arafat is hung over wall near Damascus Gate]( [Erekat likens step toward ICC probe to that of first astronaut on moon]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Abbas’s Fatah marks its 55th anniversary with marches in West Bank]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( Interview [Eric Cortellessa]( [Anti-Semitic attackers could walk free under new NY bail law, ADL head warns]( [After Monsey stabbing and spate of hate crimes targeting Jews, Jonathan Greenblatt castigates NYC mayor for staying silent on assaults against Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn]( [Video emerges of another, unreported assault on Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn]( By [Sam Sokol and Agencies]( [After string of violent attacks, Jewish groups to hold solidarity march in NY]( By [Agencies]( [US Marines: Monsey attack suspect was kicked out of boot camp]( By [Jim Mustian and Jennifer Peltz]( [Celebrating a decade of life-changing Israeli inventions]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [From Waze to cancer-busting nano-ghost cells and 3-D printed hearts, The Times of Israel takes a dive into tech that helps us get where we’re going and keeps us safe and healthy]( [Year in review / 9 inspiring Jews who died in 2019]( By [JTA]( [Decade in review / 10 ways American Jewish life changed in the 2010s]( By [JTA]( Hindsight ahead of 2020 [LISTEN: TOI reporters on the past decade — and its impact on our future]( By [TOI staff]( Archaeology [Digging the land: The top 10 Holy Land archaeology stories of 2019]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Dismissing protests, government says no rise in air pollution from Leviathan rig]( By [TOI staff]( [Minister derides ‘hysteria’ over start of offshore gas operations, hails ‘historic day’; alleging government cover-up, activists seek funds for private pollution monitoring system]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Jewish ex-Labour MP: Leaders vying to replace Corbyn ‘cowards’ on anti-Semitism]( By [TOI staff]( [UK teen convicted of false rape claim against Israelis has severe PTSD – report]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Gantz puts out Russian-language New Year’s poster, reportedly angering Liberman]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli-American jailed in Russia moved back to Moscow prison]( By [TOI staff]( [Kim: North Korea ending nuclear test moratorium, will show off new weapon soon]( By [AFP]( [High Court hampers settlement group’s ability to receive public funds]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Hours before deadline, Netanyahu extends term of ambassador to UN]( By [TOI staff]( [Police eye possible leak of sensitive data to mob from phone of ex-top lawyer]( By [TOI staff]( [Netflix streams docuseries on murder of Jewish Argentine prosecutor]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Pon-tiff / Pope slaps hand of woman who grabs him during appearance]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [British diplomats, aides to UK ex-PM bickered over 1995 Orient House visit]( By [TOI staff]( [Judge orders Alex Jones to pay $100,000 for Sandy Hook conspiracy theory]( By [AP]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved