New W. Bank road has wall dividing Israeli, Palestinian traffic * Muslim runs for Likud, family denounces her * Anti-BDS bills spell dilemma for Dem presidential hopefuls

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Thursday, January 10, 2019 [In first, Israel opens road with wall dividing Israeli and Palestinian traffic]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel says new route eases traffic, strengthens connection between Jerusalem and settlements; Palestinians say it ’embodies barefaced discrimination’]( [IDF officer, 4 soldiers arrested for allegedly beating Palestinian suspects]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Arab Israeli jailed for 11 years for plot to assassinate Netanyahu, J’lem mayor]( By [Michael Bachner and Agencies]( [Judge: ‘High level’ suspicions against key suspect in Palestinian woman’s death]( By [TOI staff]( [Court backs Shin Bet’s conduct in probe of Jewish minors suspected in rock attack; while releasing 4 to house arrest, judge says central suspect could pose ‘danger’ if freed]( [Court releases four of five suspects in Aisha Rabi killing to house arrest]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Police raid settlement yeshiva, summon 80 teens in deadly Jewish terror probe]( By [TOI staff]( [Family denounces Muslim Arab Likud candidate, will shun her until she recants]( By [TOI staff]( [Dima Tayeh announces plan to run in ruling party’s primaries]( [New Right MK under fire for saying Israel should abide by Jewish religious law]( By [Michael Bachner]( Live updates [Pompeo welcomes warming ties between Israel and Gulf states]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( [In Cairo speech criticizing Obama’s Middle East policy, secretary of state says Trump administration has ‘reversed our willful blindness’ on Iran]( [Month after terror shooting that killed her baby, mother leaves hospital]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [‘I came in lying down, and I am leaving on foot,’ declares Shira Ish-Ran, who was pregnant when seriously injured in West Bank attack along with her husband]( [Hamas chief’s visit to Moscow postponed, senior official in terror group says]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Israel said urging Egypt to reopen Gaza crossing over fears of fresh violence]( By [TOI staff]( [Admitting flaws, election committee ‘devising plan’ to thwart foreign meddling]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [After Shin Bet chief issues alert, body organizing April’s ballot says it’s working to address vulnerabilities to politically motivated cyberattacks, but doesn’t have all the tools]( [Shin Bet chief said to warn Chinese investment in Israel poses security threat]( By [TOI staff]( [62% of Israelis fear election hacking, but 73% are confident country can cope]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu said to receive $300k for legal bills from his cousin without approval]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Report comes after State Comptroller rejects PM’s request for Nathan Milikowsky to cover his defense costs in the graft probes against him]( [Israel media review / Ready for whatever: 8 things to know for January 10]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [TV: Netanyahu never confirmed request to confront witnesses]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Eric Cortellessa]( [Will backing anti-BDS bills be a liability for 2020 Democratic hopefuls?]( [There are at least seven Senate Democrats eyeing a presidential run. Only two support the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, and just one is willing to cosponsor it]( [Christian Zionist lobby makes its case to Washington’s liberal Jews]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [US Muslim group sues to block anti-BDS measure in Maryland]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Dutch pensions group removes Israeli banks from blacklist]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( Top Ops [Benjamin Lau]( [Jewish terror undermines our right to our land]( [There must be one consistent law in Israel, for Jews and Arabs alike]( [Olivia Marks-Woldman]( [A dignified funeral for Holocaust victims]( [These 6 individuals represent both those who were murdered because of their identity and themselves, people who led 6 distinct, unique lives]( [Annie Cohen]( [She performed opera at a concentration camp. 70 years later, I got to meet her]( [The Nazi guards paraded Ela and the other children to perform ‘Brundibar’ before the Red Cross for propaganda purposes]( [Chavi Feldman]( [Self-consciousness and the camera]( [So you’re having a bad hair day or you’re squinting or you used to look better in that bikini… so what? Are you smiling?]( [In Jerusalem, a legendary weatherman brings a warm touch to frigid forecasts]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( birthright [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Left-wing US student groups increase pressure on Birthright for ‘balanced’ trip]( [While more mainstream J Street U hasn’t yet called for a boycott, other anti-occupation campus organizations launch provocative steps to disrupt free 10-day youth trip to Israel]( [Jewish group raps US campus for inviting Tamika Mallory as MLK Week speaker]( By [Marcy Oster]( More Headlines [Two charged with murdering Galilee teen girl over money]( By [TOI staff]( [Florida agriculture commissioner sworn in on nation’s first Hebrew Bible]( By [Yonat Shimron]( [Judge dismisses Judd harassment claim against Weinstein]( By [AFP]( [Two-thirds of Israelis say US exit from Syria will harm national security]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel’s CloudEndure confirms acquisition by Amazon cloud-services unit]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Trouble sleeping? You may want to try out this Israeli app]( By [Federico Maccioni]( [Nice reef-erral / Eilat high on NY Times’ list of top destinations for 2019]( By [TOI staff]( [Stubble trouble / After public bristles, Ted Cruz says a rabbi likes his beard]( By [TOI staff]( [Putting his foot down / Groom wins NIS 30,000 damages after injuring his foot breaking the glass]( By [TOI staff]( [US buys more Israeli defense systems to protect tanks, APCs]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Video emerges of senior Belgian imam praying for Allah to ‘burn Zionists’]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Car crashes overtake suicide as leading cause of death in IDF]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved