Offering unity, hope, Gantz launches bid to replace Netanyahu * Horovitz: Gantz sells self as antidote to toxic PM * ’Cancer cure’ doubted * Dr. Ruth warms snowy Sundance

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Wednesday, January 30, 2019 [Launching bid to replace Netanyahu, Gantz vows to unify Israel, end incitement]( By [TOI staff]( [Former army head gives maiden campaign address before raucous crowd, says he will seek peace, keep Jerusalem united, get rid of corruption; confirms union with Ya’alon]( [Reporter's notebook / Neither right nor left, Gantz offers ‘hope’ to a crowd calling for ‘change’]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [Joining forces with Gantz, Ya’alon rules out support for two-state solution]( By [Raoul Wootliff and Alexander Fulbright]( Analysis [David Horovitz]( [Would-be PM Gantz sells himself as the vital antidote to toxic, aloof Netanyahu]( [In first political speech, ex-army chief depicts PM as a haughty, corrupt monarch, tearing Israeli society apart, and himself as a unifier and healer. Will the electorate be wooed?]( [Israel media review / Thus spoke Gantz: 9 things to know for January 30]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Likud, right pounce on Gantz stump speech as proof he is a leftist]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( Live updates [Hundreds attend Ethiopian-led protest against police brutality in Tel Aviv]( By [TOI staff]( [Demonstrators, outraged by officer who shot dead Ethiopian man last week, blocking major downtown intersections]( Top Ops [Benny Gantz]( [I believe in hope]( [In an election campaign launch speech, ex-army chief and head of Israel Resilience Party lays out his vision if he becomes prime minister]( [Christina Wirth]( [My flatmate Hannah Bladon was more than a terror victim]( [When I heard that she’d offered her seat to a pregnant woman on the light rail not long before she was stabbed, I wasn’t surprised at all]( [Sergey Kanovich]( [Dancing La Cumparsita with Frida]( [She sighed, looking somewhere far off in the distance: ’How long I have been waiting for you. How very long. All my life.’]( [Yedidia Z. Stern]( [Vote for a bloc!]( [If Israelis consolidate into major parties, the extremists won’t be able to hold the government captive with their veto power]( [Palestinian teen girl tries to stab checkpoint guard, is shot dead – police]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [No Israelis injured in incident at A’Zaim crossing, outside Jerusalem]( [Palestinian cars daubed with Jewish stars, Hebrew slogan in apparent hate crime]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Abbas accepts Hamdallah’s resignation, asks government to stay on for transition]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Crypto-terror funding / Send us Bitcoin, cash-strapped Hamas pleads]( By [AFP]( [Amnesty calls on web giants Airbnb, TripAdvisor to boycott West Bank settlements]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( [NGO also singles out Expedia and Booking.com, saying they are benefiting from ‘war crimes’; Israel slams ‘anti-Semitic’ BDS campaign]( [Norway says Israel’s axing of Hebron observer force may violate Oslo accords]( By [TOI staff]( [Fresh anti-Israel protest roils LGBTQ conference]( By [Ben Sales]( Interview [Marissa Newman]( [Ultra-Orthodox woman eyeing Labor seat wants to be the left’s Ayelet Shaked]( [Michal Zernowitski, 38, supports public transportation on Shabbat and backs civil unions, but says calls to shutter the rabbinate are ‘populist’]( [Female party leader’s image ripped off election campaign placard in Jerusalem]( By [TOI staff]( [Likud boots out two primary candidates for party-clashing views]( By [Stuart Winer]( [‘Cancer cure’ doubted as Israeli team claims it can’t afford to publish findings]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Ness Ziona’s Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies says pre-clinical trial results ‘very good’; foreign experts lambaste claims, Israeli experts say they haven’t seen the research]( [US intel chief: Iran will likely strike back if Israel keeps attacking in Syria]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [In report to Congress, US director of national intelligence warns Islamic Republic undeterred from establishing ‘network’ of Shiite militias in Syria]( [Netanyahu hails army readiness, says forces ready for ‘crushing attack’]( By [TOI staff]( [Rouhani: Iran facing ‘greatest pressure and economic sanctions’ in 40 years]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Iranian man publicly hanged over charges of gay sex, abduction of boys]( By [TOI staff]( Film review [Documentary on sex therapist Dr. Ruth one of snowy Sundance’s hottest films]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Shefita charms and annoys, and seems poised to be Israel’s next ‘Rising Star’]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Jewish Israeli Eurovision hopeful performs covers of beloved alt-rock ballads in an Arabic accent, drawing accusations of blackface]( [Despite death threats, France’s Eurovision entrant looking forward to Tel Aviv]( By [TOI staff]( [British cultural figures call on BBC to urge relocating Eurovision from Israel]( By [Stuart Winer]( [PM meets Intel’s Israeli leaders, fetes decision to invest $11b in new plant]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu says ‘Israel has become a technological world power,’ while local factory manager declares that ‘together were are making history in the country’]( [Intel reportedly offers $5-6 billion for Israel’s Mellanox]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Finance minister confirms Intel to get $1 billion grant for massive expansion]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Sam Sokol]( [As Israel warms ties in Eastern Europe, is Holocaust memory now disposable?]( [A chorus of Jewish politicians and scholars warn against Israeli realpolitik clouding historically accurate depictions of World War II war crimes]( [PM tells Lithuanian leader they are ‘forging bridge from past to future’]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel advances controversial cable car to Jerusalem’s Old City]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Official notices expected to appear in newspapers on Friday, launching start of 60-day period for public objections]( More Headlines [Hit-and-run driver gets 5 years for killing cop]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF team aiding search at Brazil dam disaster met with praise and criticism]( By [Marcus M. 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