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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 14, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv on February 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

'I get [indictment] recommendations and Lapid gets applause'

Netanyahu blasts ‘biased’ police, attacks Lapid for testifying against him

By Marissa Newman

PM says case against him is like a ‘Swiss cheese,’ notes that his former finance minister, said to be a key witness, was also a good friend of Hollywood mogul at heart of probe

Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends the Muni Expo 2018 conference at the Tel Aviv Convention Center on February 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bennett chides PM, but says he won’t bolt coalition until AG decides on charges

By Marissa Newman

Arnon Milchan (center) with Shimon Peres (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu, March 28, 2005. (Flash90/File)

Netanyahu’s lawyer: Gifts totaled under half a million shekels

Op-ed

The flaw in Netanyahu’s articulate public defense

PM claims unhinged police force has joined with his enemies in a bid to oust him, and Attorney General Mandelblit will now restore order. But it is Mandelblit who oversaw the probe

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a July 2015 cabinet meeting, when Mandelblit was serving as cabinet secretary. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Hebrew media reviewThe beginning of the end – but of what?

By Joshua Davidovich

Top ally indicates he will not abandon PM despite police recommendations

Opposition calls on PM to resign immediately, while Likud MKs cry ‘coup’

Arnon Milchan, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu on March 28, 2005. (Flash90)

It flies in face of global anti-money laundering standards

What is the ‘Milchan Law’ that Netanyahu is accused of advancing for bribes?

By Simona Weinglass

Police say PM sought to accelerate amendment on tax exemptions for new immigrants; critics say law has helped turn Israel into a paradise for tax evaders and money launderers

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, January 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid: PM, backers telling me not to testify are ‘talking like criminals’

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, January 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid on his testimony against PM: I acted ‘like any law-abiding citizen’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a tour of the Jerusalem Police headquarters at the Russian compound in Jerusalem, October 7, 2015. (Mark Sellem/Pool)

Analysis

Tax breaks, visas, et al: The 6 frauds for which police want Netanyahu charged

A guide to the list of alleged bribery offenses for which investigators recommend the prime minister be prosecuted — some previously leaked, others shocking new revelations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police recommend charging Netanyahu for taking bribes from mogul, publisher

By Raoul Wootliff

Arnon Milchan, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 28, 2005. (Flash90/File)

Hollywood mogul Milchan, Yedioth publisher Mozes deny bribery allegations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laughs during a conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2016. (AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)

Analysis

Unshaken by police recommendations, it’s almost business as usual for Netanyahu

As long as his coalition partners don’t change their minds and bolt, cops’ call for indictment unlikely to dent, much less end, PM’s leadership

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts to the Israel's Police recommendation he be indicted for bribery in a pair of criminal investigations on February 13, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Netanyahu dismisses ‘unfounded’ police recommendations as ‘slander’

By Alexander Fulbright

US State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks to reporters during a press conference in Washington, D.C. on July 27, 2017 (screen capture)

US says police recommendations against PM an ‘internal matter’

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gestures at a press conference in Buenos Aires on February 4, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO RAGGIO)

Tillerson rejects Israeli official’s claim that US is ‘not in the game’ in Syria

Secretary of state characterizes as ‘false’ Deputy Minister for Diplomacy Michael Oren’s assessment that Washington has ‘almost no leverage on the ground’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he attends the Muni Expo 2018 conference in Tel Aviv on February 14, 2018. (Jack GUEZ/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Polls find Netanyahu largely unaffected by police indictment recommendation

By Tamar Pileggi

Surveys indicate prime minister’s Likud party would remain in power if elections were held today, even though nearly half of Israelis say he should resign

7:34 pm

Iran president orders probe into prison suicides
7:27 pm

Top Palestinian official seen yelling at border guards in Hebron
7:12 pm

Tillerson demands Iran-backed militias out of Syria

Judith Colp Rubin

I am no longer the woman behind the writer

My husband, prolific and respected, was the family’s star. Then he died

Racist BDS-movements

I am fighting this war of words by calling the push for bigotry what it is

David I. Bernstein

Who will safeguard Polish history? Poles will

Despite the law against blaming Poles for the Holocaust, local historians will keep telling the truth in all its complexity

The objective: Block Iranian entrenchment in Syria

Israel views Russia as its best hope for constraining Iran’s activities next door

In 2017, there were 68,000 Jewish children living in the San Francisco Bay Area (Mattthew Septimus)

Vast, young San Fran Jewish community is growing — but unaffiliated, says study

By Renee Ghert-Zand

NFL players land in Israel for tour a year after trip marred by controversy

By Judah Ari Gross

Athletes scheduled to visit historical and religious sites, meet PM and president, in trip organized by pro-Israel group

Tennesse Titans linebacker Avery Williamson poses for a picture with his sister, Erika, during a visit to Jaffa as part of a trip to Israel with six other NFL players organized by the American Voices in Israel group. (Courtesy)

Details of a 2,000-year-old Cupid cameo discovered in the City of David's Givati Parking Lot excavation in 2010. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

Looking for loveWhen Cupid paid Israel a visit, 2,000 years ago

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

17-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi (R), arrives for the beginning of her trial at the Ofer Military Court in the West Ban on February 13, 2018. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Reporter's notebook'It was streamed on Facebook. The whole world has seen it'

Tamimi trial proves to be a spectacle for mostly foreign eyes

Determination of international reporters, diplomats and activists to hear Palestinian teen’s story collides with their inability to understand languages in which it’s being told

Illustrative: Virgin Atlantic airplane (Courtesy)

Against the grainVirgin Atlantic removes ‘Palestinian’ from couscous description

By Michael Bachner

Photo of Nathan van Dam and his bride Esther Israel, Nazi-occupied Holand, 1942.
Found in Nathan van Dam's recovered wallet.
(Martine van Dam)

New campaign launched to return personal effects to victims of Nazi persecution

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

The Route 6 highway, file (GILI YAARI / FLASH 90)

Two soldiers killed, 10 injured in Route 6 crash

The #ShareHerStory campaign highlights Jewish women of color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews who are community leaders. (Courtesy of #ShareHerStory)

Hues of faithJewish women of color highlighted in new campaign

By Josefin Dolsten

Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi arrives to attend the 136th ordinary meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), on September 15, 2015, in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine/File)

Omani FM: Need for Palestinian state like the need for Israel after WWII

MK Menachem Eliezer Mozes of the United Torah Judaism party, file (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Go hold bar mitzvahs for dogs,’ Orthodox lawmaker tells Reform Jews

AnalysisWhy are Jewish leaders fighting about Qatar? Here’s a scorecard

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (R) are seen ahead of a Knesset vote on the 2019 state budget on February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With all eyes on Netanyahu, Knesset quietly passes first reading of budget

An image from a Polish government video clip which claims that Jews and Poles suffered Nazi terrors together, February 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

Polish government insists Poles and Jews suffered Nazism ‘together’

Ariel University in the West Bank (CC-BY Michael Jacobson/Wikipedia)

Settlers hail passing of law regulating West Bank universities

Illustrative: Inside Nitzan Prison in Ramle, February 27, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

3 social workers suspended for having sex with prisoners

A pipe bomb that a Palestinian man tried to smuggle into the Samaria Military Court on February 13, 2018. (Israel Police)

Palestinian trio tries to smuggle pipe bombs into West Bank military court

Orthodox Christian pilgrims take a dip in the Jordan river as part of a traditional Epiphany baptism ceremony at the site of Qasr el Yahud on January 18, 2018.(Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Israel will soon clear 4,000 landmines at Qasr al-Yahud baptism site

By Melanie Lidman

A reveler of the Portela samba school performs during the second night of Rio's Carnival at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 12, 2018. (AFP/Mauro PIMENTEL)

Saga of Brazil’s Jewish refugees recounted in festive Carnival parade

By Marcus M. Gilban

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