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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 18, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves part of an Iranian drone downed in Israeli airspace on February 10, 2018, during a speech on the third day of the 54th Munich Security Conference (MSC) held at the Bayerischer Hof hotel, in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2018. (Screen capture)

Waving piece of downed drone, PM threatens direct military action against Iran

By Judah Ari Gross and Michael Bachner

‘Do you recognize this, Mr. Zarif?’ PM asks security confab attended by Iran FM, warns Tehran to ‘not test Israel’s resolve’

Iranian FM derides Netanyahu speech as ‘cartoonish circus’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Netanyahu sends condolences to Iranians over deadly plane crash

Netanyahu calls Polish PM’s claim of Jewish Holocaust perpetrators ‘outrageous’

By Alexander Fulbright and Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a lunch meeting at the 54th Munich Security Conference on February 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/ DPA/Sven Hoppe)

In call with Polish PM, Netanyahu rails at claim Jews also perpetrated Holocaust

By Judah Ari Gross

Mateusz Morawiecki asserted on Saturday ‘there were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators’: Netanyahu: ‘I told him there’s no basis for this comparison’

Polish PM visits grave of Nazi collaborators, drawing fresh ire

By Tamar Pileggi

Poland PM’s remarks not ‘intended to deny the Holocaust,’ office says

By Tamar Pileggi

Bulgarian neo-Nazis march in honor of WWII general

Swastikas drawn on the gate of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, found on February 18, 2018. (Israel Police)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin calls Polish PM’s Holocaust comments ‘a new low’

By Gavin Rabinowitz

President slams Mateusz Morawiecki’s comments that there were Jewish perpetrators; tells US Jewish leaders of the need for more Holocaust education, even for world leaders

7:18 pm

Hungarian leader calls Christianity 'Europe's last hope'
7:02 pm

Rivlin calls Polish PM's Holocaust comments 'a new low'
6:51 pm

Trump to meet high school students following Florida shooting

A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, left, making an appearance before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in Broward County Court, on February 15, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Report: Florida shooter said he hates Jews, claims they want to destroy world

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people — five of them Jewish — in school massacre, also said to have called for killing blacks, gays and Mexicans in a private Instagram chat group

Trump: FBI too busy with Russia probe to prevent Florida shooting

By Catherine Lucey

Florida, angry and grieving, takes gun protest to streets

By JASON DEAREN, Allen G. Breed and Tamara Lush

‘Shame on you,’ student tells Trump at Florida anti-gun rally

By AFP

Illustrative: Flares fired by Israeli forces to check the border are seen over Gaza City on February 6, 2017. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Rocket fired from Gaza hits house in southern Israel

No immediate reports of casualties; IDF investigating incident amid escalating tension on Gaza border after 4 soldiers wounded in bombing

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers sit on a tank close to the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on October 30, 2017, near Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)

2 Palestinians killed by IDF tank fire on border, Gaza health ministry says

Illustrative: Flairs over the Gaza Strip as seen from the Sderot area in Southern Israel, on July 19, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

IDF says false alarms triggered border sirens as airstrikes continue over Gaza

File: Masked operatives from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas terror group, ride vehicles as they commemorate the 30th anniversary of their group, in Gaza City, December 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Hamas may wish to emulate Hezbollah, but Gaza is no Lebanon

Palestinian terror group acknowledges its weak position by avoiding escalation of violence over IDF airstrikes, trying to earn points by saying it ‘banished’ IAF jets

File: Masked operatives from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas terror group, ride vehicles as they commemorate the 30th anniversary of their group, in Gaza City, December 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian groups praise attack on IDF patrol, warn Israel not to retaliate

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Illustrative: A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli flares illuminating the Palestinian coastal enclave, on July 7, 2014. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Hamas says it used anti-aircraft missiles against Israeli jets over Gaza

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Muhammad Ali Ibrahim al-Askara (R) and Awad Mahmoud al-Asakra (R), two suspected members of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad-linked terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman. (courtesy Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it thwarted plot to assassinate defense minister

By Tamar Pileggi

Agency says Palestinian Islamic Jihad-linked cell members sought to kill Avigdor Liberman with roadside IED, were motivated by PA benefits to terrorists

Stephen M. Greenberg, left and Malcolm Hoenlein, of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at a press conference in Jerusalem, February 18, 2016 (COP/Avi Hayun)

US Jewish leaders gush about visit to ‘tolerant’ United Arab Emirates

By Raphael Ahren

‘The clear drive now is to a more open society, more moderation,’ Conference of Presidents head Malcolm Hoenlein says after 4-day trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi

The offices of Bezeq, the country's largest telecom group. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Senior Bezeq officials and Netanyahu associates arrested in graft probe

By Michael Bachner and Shoshanna Solomon

Police act on ‘new evidence’ in Case 4000, which allegedly involves favorable news coverage for PM in exchange for benefits for national phone company

Anti-corruption demonstrators protest outside Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's home in Petah Tikva on January 27, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Dozens rally against corruption after police recommend Netanyahu’s indictment

Note to the A.G.: Gifts are always reciprocated

Prime Minister Netanyahu claims there was no thought of a payback, but that’s just not how presents work

Emily B. Landau

What Trump is getting right on Iran

Israel needs the US president’s help in containing Iran and, like him or not, he’s off to a good start

Sharon G. Forman

I hate when you misspell my name

Maybe a rose would smell as sweet, but I’ll stick with what my great-grandfather chose when he came to America

Alice Shalvi, Israeli professor and educator, at her home in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knowledge is power

Dr. Alice Shalvi: Equal education of Orthodox women is changing Israeli society

By Tracy Frydberg

Left: the scene of the 1996 bus bombing in downtown Jerusalem; right: Palestinians detained in Jenin, 2002, during the Second Intifada. (Courtesy Ian Black)

Journalist examines a century of dueling Israeli-Palestinian narratives

By JP O’ Malley

More Headlines

BDS activist Omar Barghouti at a pro-boycott rally in Ramallah, February 2016. (YouTube screen capture)

Jewish groups slam hosting of BDS founder at European Parliament

By JTA

Illustrative: BDS movement in France. (CC BY-SA, Odemirense, Wikimedia commons)

French Jewish group accuses Israel of causing anti-Semitism, loses state funding

By JTA

File: Illustrative photo of an Iran Air Boeing 747 passenger plane. (CC BY-SA/Wikimedia/Mike P)

Passenger plane crashes in southern Iran, killing all 66 on board

By Nasser Karimi

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 (AP/Dita Alangkara)

Palestinians denounce PA over meetings with Israeli officials

By Khaled Abu Toameh

A military helicopter carrying IDF soldiers wounded in an explosion during a patrol along the Gaza border arrives at Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center on February 17, 2018. (Screen capture; Twitter)

Netanyahu vows Israel will respond to Gaza bombing as IAF hits targets in Strip

UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Henry Bolton arrives for a party Extraordinary General Meeting in Birmingham, England, before a vote on his leadership Saturday February 17, 2018. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

UK party sacks leader in fallout from racist Meghan Markle texts

By AP

Former US vice president Joe Biden speaks during a conference in Athens, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Biden, in public and private, tiptoes toward a 2020 run

By Josh Lederman

Israel's Alexei Bychenko competes in the men's single skating free skating of the figure skating event during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung on February 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS)

Two Israelis impress in Olympic men’s figure skating

By ToI Staff and AP

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