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What Matters Most On Monday, February 19, 2018

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Netanyahu hails 'historic' deal

Delek, Noble sign accords for $15b in sales of Israeli natural gas to Egypt

By Shoshanna Solomon

Partners in the offshore Tamar and Leviathan fields ink deals with Egypt’s Dolphinus Holdings Ltd. for the sale of some 64 billion cubic meters over coming decade

Illustrative photo of a natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

An image from a video by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah threatening to attack Israeli offshore gas platforms. (Screen capture)

Hezbollah issues fresh threat against Israel’s offshore gas rigs

Israeli scientists taking part in the D-MARS project which simulates life in Mars, outside Mitzpe Ramon, Southern Israel, February 18, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In rugged Negev desert, Israeli scientists plan for mission to Mars

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Six ‘Ramonauts’ spend four days in habitat in Ramon crater, simulating life on Red Planet and conducting experiments in first of several planned studies

Illustrative: The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on December 10, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

After delays, Israel successfully tests Arrow 3 long-range missile interceptor

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Illustrative. IDF artillery seen preparing to return fire into southern Lebanon following a Hezbollah strike on an IDF patrol that killed two soldiers in the northern Mount Dov region along the Israel-Lebanon border, January 28, 2015. (Israel Defense Forces)

Top general says IDF gearing up for war in 2018

By Judah Ari Gross

Iran insists it has ‘no military bases in Syria’

Netanyahu: My Iran speech was meant to sway US to renew sanctions

By Judah Ari Gross

Critically wounded pilot downed in Syria strike walks out of hospital

The head of the Southern Gaza Brigade, Col. Kobi Heller, right, and IDF Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir visit the Kerem Shalom Crossing on January 14, 2018, where an alleged Hamas attack tunnel was discovered and destroyed by the military the day before. (Israel Defense Forces)

Defense minister: Israel destroyed tunnel near Gaza border crossing

By Marissa Newman and Judah Ari Gross

Avigdor Liberman says recent flareups in north and south prove IDF ‘ready for any scenario, with no warning’

Israel strikes Gaza tunnel after renewed rocket fire

By Joshua Davidovich

PM credits Israeli counter-strikes for years of quiet in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas bans Palestinian women’s TV channel in Gaza

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said a suspect in Bezeq probe, will be questioned soon

By Raoul Wootliff

PM’s wife, Sara, also reportedly likely to be called in by police, who have implicating correspondence between her and senior Bezeq officials

Lapid: Netanyahu must ‘step aside’ temporarily until legal woes resolved

By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman

Lawyer for Bezeq owner says he’ll stop advising Netanyahu

As his associates are remanded, Netanyahu dismisses new probe as ‘witch hunt’

It's not just a tax break. It's a 'secrecy measure'

Why ‘Milchan law’ at core of PM graft case is about so much more than tax breaks

By Simona Weinglass

Amendment 168, which Netanyahu allegedly sought to extend, opens a back door for money launderers. Who is blocking the Tax Authority from canceling the law’s key clause — and why?

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

Hebrew media reviewThird time’s corruption

By Tamar Pileggi

The Oliver twistJohn Oliver takes on Netanyahu cases

Senior Population Authority official arrested on suspicion of corruption

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends a meeting of the lobby for Israel–United States relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

US envoy to Israel says settlers ‘aren’t going anywhere’ — report

By Tamar Pileggi

David Friedman said to tell American Jewish leaders that evicting hundreds of thousands of Israelis from West Bank will lead to civil war

7:29 pm

Funeral for 3rd soldier killed in car crash set for tomorrow afternoon
7:22 pm

Russian FM rebukes Iran over calls for Israel's destruction
7:16 pm

Supporter of Sufi leader kills 3 police in Iran -- report

Did the Poles who hid my parents do it for the money?

The great-granddaughter of those who saved my family contacted me via The Times of Israel; she wanted to explain

Thinking about Lincoln, Gettysburg, and Elijah

In ‘Four score and seven years ago…’ the echoes of prophecy are unmistakable to Jewish ears

Sex separation: Not just the Western Wall

They’re not synagogues, yet religious extremism has led many holy sites to sport partitions between men and women

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in Jerusalem, on February 18, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin calls Polish prime minister’s Holocaust comments ‘a new low’

President tells major Jewish Diaspora figures that world leaders ‘must be educated,’ after Mateusz Morawiecki says Jews also perpetrated the Holocaust

Poland demands answers over swastikas at embassy — report

Polish press raps country’s PM over Holocaust remark

By AFP

Amid Holocaust quarrel, Polish embassy in Tel Aviv vandalized

Maajid Nawaz speaking at a Liberal Democrat campaign event in West Hampstead, London, in 2015. (Wikimedia commons/flickr/eregis)

The British activist who went from radical Islam to staunch Israel ally

By Robert Philpot

Nati Rom, chairman of Lev Haolam foundation, guides a group European Christians during a tour of the Israeli outpost of Esh Kodesh in the West Bank on November 10, 2015. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

To combat boycott, settlers court Europeans with pioneer spirit and merchandise

While Israeli public diplomacy generally shies away from the issue of settlements, Lev Haolam brings them to forefront

Netiv Ha'avot residents protest the High Court decision to demolish 17 structures of their outpost, demonstrating outside the Knesset on July 17, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Government scrambles to ease pain of illegal outpost evacuation

More Headlines

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

We didn’t know he was a monster, couple who took in Florida shooter says

By AFP

Judge Khaled Kabub seen at the Tel Aviv District Court during the opening session in the State prosecution against former Chairman of IDB Group Nochi Dankner, July 13, 2014. (Lior Ben Nisan/ POOL/ Flash90/ File)

Arab judge withdraws from race for Supreme Court

Illustrative. Palestinians celebrate after Palestinian prisoners end a hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)

PA slams Israeli bill to withhold money it uses to pay prisoners

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Beejhy Barhany opened Tsion Cafe in 2014 with her husband. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

Melting potIsraeli-Ethiopian woman brings injera — and smoked salmon — to Harlem

By Josefin Dolsten

Canadian Jewish rapper Drake (r) gives away a stack of cash to a needy mother and son in his music video 'God's Plan,' released February 16, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Miami treatDrake gives away $1 million in ‘God’s Plan’ music video

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, talk to each other as they arrive for a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, November 9, 2017, in Beijing. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

US officials tussled with Chinese guards over nuclear football — report

The album cover of Orphaned Land's latest album, 'Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs,' with lead singer Kobi Farhi at the center (Courtesy Orphaned Land)

Dark entertainmentIsraeli heavy metal band idealizes Plato

By Jessica Steinberg

African asylum seekers and rights activists protest against deportation in front of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Deputy FM: South Tel Aviv plagued by ‘migrant terrorism’

By Melanie Lidman

The Scene where a crane collapsed on a car in Kfar Saba on February 18, 2018, The driver, a 52-years-old woman died on the scene. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Accessibility advocate killed in Kfar Saba crane collapse

A miniature bible dedicated to George Washington, acquired by the National Library of Israel and published online on February 18, 2018. (From the National Library of Israel Collections)

Writ smallNow in Jerusalem, rare George Washington thumb Bible goes online

By Michael Bachner

Haifa‘s Al-Midan Arabic-language theater. (YouTube screenshot)

State said to defund Arab theater that held play about terrorist

Forged check used to purchase secondhand goods, according to a police statement on February 19, 2018. (Israel police)

Palestinian-Israeli gang suspected of stealing millions from online sellers

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