Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thomas Pickering urged the US to foment female-only rallies as 'a game-changer'   Clinton received plan to secretly galvanize Palestinian protests   Former envoy to Israel emailed proposal to then-US secretary of state that Palestinian, Israeli women should spark Tahrir-style protests to push sides into talks   By ERIC CORTELLESSA

Shaked tells US not to worry about NGO bill   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF     Clinton confronts rival Sanders as Iowa polls tighten   By LISA LERER and KEN THOMAS     Michael Bloomberg tests waters for possible presidential run   By JTA

Germans’ huge interest in ‘Mein Kampf’ shows a will to ‘cope with the past’   Top Israeli scholar surprised but unfazed by high sales of new annotated version; publisher tells Times of Israel it is deliberately making no money from what it calls an educational project   By RAPHAEL AHREN

Obama vows to veto bill to restrict Iran sanctions relief   White House warns legislation could derail Iran deal as pressure mounting in DC to take a tough stance toward Tehran   By REBECCA SHIMONI STOIL

Iran’s deputy nuclear chief denies that Arak reactor was sealed   By AGENCIES and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF     Iran removes core of Arak reactor, looks to sanctions relief   By STUART WINER     Iran disputes UN finding that it worked on nuclear arms   By GEORGE JAHN

LIVE UPDATES Latest: Iranian fighter jet crashes, killing 2   Sweden calls for probe into ‘extrajudicial’ Israeli killings     Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom says investigation into Palestinian deaths during wave of violence needed to ‘bring about possible accountability’   By JOSHUA DAVIDOVICH

When a Jewish fatherless child cannot father a child   After 30 years of abandonment, author Elliot Jager reconnects with his aging Holocaust survivor father, and navigates his faith amidst infertility   By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN

Donald Trump and Jewish values   ROBERT ISLER How well does the candidate scores when graded for honesty, modesty, charity and who his supporters are?       Am I indigenous?   VARDA SPIEGEL Leonardo DiCaprio’s Golden Globe shout-out to native peoples implied support for the Palestinian narrative       Israeli NGO bill nothing like US law   LARA FRIEDMAN Justice Minister Shaked is mischaracterizing her proposed law, a law that clearly discriminates against the left       A preposterous Haredi demand   JAY ENGELMAYER On a move to provide full-time yeshiva learners’ with state-financed life insurance       660,000 Israelis unable to get married here   Prohibitions on civil and non-Orthodox weddings block 364,000 immigrants, 284,000 gays and lesbians, 13,000 non-Orthodox converts to Judaism, Knesset caucus told       David Bowie was into Kabbalah, and sang about it   The Jewish side of the late musical icon       US bombs pile of Islamic State cash in Iraq   Millions of dollars destroyed, says official, after two 2,000-pound bombs dropped on storage facility in Mosul       Exits for Israeli tech firms hit near record levels, report shows   Despite the economic doom and gloom forecast in 2015, investors in blue-and-white high-tech did very well last year       Medical cannabis set to hit pharmacy shelves   More growers and more prescribing doctors, says reform, but stronger enforcement to stop drug ‘trickle’ into recreational market       Two arrested for harassing ultra-Orthodox IDF draftees   Men suspected of encouraging violence against Haredi soldiers, publicizing their identities       Israel brings tech expertise to protecting connected cars   FROM THE WEB Israel is emerging as a leader in the race to keep cars secure and prevent hackers commandeering your vehicle, Reuters reports       High Court slams Zionist Union’s late petition against gas deal   Party should have presented appeal after deal was signed in December, justices reprimand       Netanyahu to battle self in NIS 4m leadership poll   Party to hold formal vote next month even after nobody registers to challenge PM as head of Likud       Dolce and Gabbana unveils Muslim couture   Italian fashion house launches discreet designs for women with a collection of abayas and hijabs       The kippah on the red carpet   As he did at Cannes, Hungarian-born actor Geza Rohrig accessorizes his Armani tuxedo with a black velvet yarmulke at the Golden Globes       Apple’s Siri voice assistant learns Hebrew   Intelligent speech recognition for iPhone and iPad to launch in Hebrew next month, though local searches are still in the future       Canadian court to hear case over disputed Holocaust memoir   Filmmakers say bestselling novel ‘My Mother’s Secret’ is ‘almost identical’ to their documentary, sue for $3 million       Olmert may want final deal on corruption cases   Attorney for ex-PM, set to start jail term next month, seeks meeting with state prosecutor ahead of appeal next week       Author whose book inspired Spielberg’s ‘Munich’ dies at 80   Hungarian-Canadian George Jonas’s ‘Vengeance’ detailed Mossad team’s strike back at Palestinian terrorists after 1972 massacre of Israeli Olympians       Brazilian columnist: Coexistence ‘granted to Jews’ is under threat   Jewish community upbraids popular paper editor for ‘going too far’ with his hatred against Israel, says Jews have right to express their opinions       America’s TV execs want to make Israeli tech a star   WHERE HOLLYWOOD MEETS HERZLIYA The National Association of Broadcasters hopes to host firms with promising video technology at its annual bash in April       ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ star wins Golden Globe   ’Son of Saul’ isn’t only Jewish success at awards ceremony       Australian Jews pitch in for victims of massive bush fires   Shmoo Burnie and Daniel Gerson make 435-mile drive to deliver aid to western Australian town of Yarloop destroyed by blaze       In second time this week, Israeli charged in Canada after flight grounded   54-year-old man’s ‘threatening message’ prompts United Airlines flight to make unscheduled landing in Vancouver     HEBREW MEDIA REVIEW   TUE, JAN 12, 2:20 PM     Heavy headlines on straw stories   Papers proclaim new threats popping up from Israel’s old enemies Hamas and Iran, but the reporting mostly fails to deliver on the promises of doom and destruction       Sign up for our Start-Up Daily newsletter!   Get the Start-Up Daily newsletter, free by email, for selected top stories from our 24/7 Israeli high-tech coverage

PM, president turn out to welcome Israel’s newest submarine   INS Rahav, which arrives in Haifa from Germany, said to expand Israel’s purported nuclear ‘second-launch’ capabilities   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF         Hamas may have nearly as many terror tunnels as before 2014 war — report   Israel often talks of finding technological solution to tunnel threat, but has not allocated the budget to do so, Haaretz says   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF     10 dead in likely suicide terror attack in Istanbul   Cause of explosion in historic Sultanahmet district, popular with tourists, still being investigated; police block off area   By AGENCIES and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF       Germany said interested in buying Israeli drones   Berlin eyes IAI’s Eitan unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, which has a range of 4,600 miles and can stay airborne for 70 hours   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF       Stabbing thwarted as attacker shot dead   Assailant tries to stab IDF soldier near Hebron; in separate incident, Palestinian reportedly shot dead in clash near Bethlehem   By STUART WINER         Maverick educator seeks to change Israeli Arab world from within   Almost impossibly, Dr. Dalia Fadila became the first female dean of an Islamic college in Israel. On a revolutionary mission to advance Arab society, she has now opened her own set of schools   By DOV LIEBER     Housing minister, Arab lawmaker get close look at Galilee housing problems   Yoav Galant visits northern villages with Joint List head Ayman Odeh to study obstacles to development   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF