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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 20, 2018

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Former prime minister's spokesman Nir Hefetz at the Herzliya Magistrate's Court for a libel suit against him and other associates of the prime minister on December 26, 2017. (Flash90)

Netanyahu disavows any such behavior by his former spokesman

Netanyahu aide suspected of offering AG post to judge to let PM’s wife off hook

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Nir Hefetz, reportedly in talks to turn state witness in Bezeq probe, denies he offered the top legal position to Hila Gerstel in exchange for closing case against Sara Netanyahu

AnalysisTwo words could protect PM from police indictment recommendation in Bezeq probe

By Raoul Wootliff

Police: Suspects in Bezeq probe ‘blatantly’ tried to obstruct it

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Linked to Netanyahu probe, Lapid forced to explain his friendship with Milchan

By Marissa Newman

Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich attends an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 20, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dragged before Knesset panel, top cop accuses suspects of leaks in PM probes

By Raoul Wootliff

Roni Alsheich defends his claim that ‘powerful figures’ collected information about officers investigating Netanyahu, says attack on police damages public trust

Top cop rips into ‘criminals’ who ‘damage public trust in police’

By Raoul Wootliff

Top officials, executives revealed as arrested suspects in Bezeq graft probe

Likud MK compares Netanyahu investigations to Rabin assassination

By Michael Bachner

A man weeps over his child at a makeshift morgue in Douma who was killed in airstrikes on the Syrian village of Mesraba in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 19, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Hamza Al-Ajweh)

Nearly 200 civilians dead in Syria rebel enclave as tragedy unfolds

By Abdulmonam Eassa

Former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran threatens to ‘level Tel Aviv,’ kill Netanyahu if Israel attacks

By Michael Bachner

Senior Iranian official dismisses PM’s ‘unwise’ speech, in which he brandished an Iranian drone and threatened military action

Lebanese army chief vows to confront ‘Israeli aggression,’ no matter the cost

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russia knocks Iran over vow to destroy Israel

By Alexander Fulbright

Misjudgment, not negligence, behind downing of F-16 – report

Adela Dworin with Fidel Castro in Havana, in August 2010. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is at right. (Cubadebate state media)

When our woman in Havana asked Fidel Castro to the synagogue Hanukkah party

By David Horovitz

Live updates

Netanyahu dismisses wave of graft allegations as ‘complete chaos’

By Alexander Fulbright

Amid slew of reports on suspected wrongdoing by PM and his associates, premier decries ‘campaign of persecution’ against him and his family

7:29 pm

Erdogan: Pro-regime forces pushed back in Syrian Kurdish enclave
7:18 pm

Parts of Warsaw Ghetto wall to become historic monuments
7:07 pm

Police release photo of Polish embassy vandalism suspect

I teach my Israeli grandkids English on Skype

The 10 rules of my program, TINGLE: The Israeli Next Generation Learns English, and why it’s worth doing

Heroes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High

We become the best version of ourselves when we push past the instinct for self-preservation and act to save others

Why do American children want each other dead?

The debate over gun control misses the more important question of what motivates deadly violence

Calev Michael Myers

A Nobel Prize for BDS? Why not an Oscar for ISIS?

The boycott movement is anti-Peace, anti-Semitic, and, yes, anti-Palestinian: just ask Rashid

ImageSat International images of what is thought to be an Iranian military base in Syria, close to the Syrian-Israeli border, November 16, 2017. (Hadashot news screenshot)

Iran has 10 military bases in Syria, two near Israel border — analyst

By Michael Bachner

Up to 20,000 fighters trained by Tehran are in country, now focused on Israel, after neutralizing IS threat, NY Times reports

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres gives a speech at the 54th Munich Security Conference on February 16, 2018, in Munich, Germany. (AFP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

UN chief warns Israel-Hezbollah war would be ‘worst nightmare’

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, left, speaks to IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi in a field just outside the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Defense minister warns Gazans not to riot along security fence

By Judah Ari Gross

Liberman says Hamas is exploiting desperate Palestinians for terrorist purposes; also calls for diplomatic solution to dispute with Lebanon

Protesters throw shoes, rip flags during visit to Gaza by Qatar envoy

By Khaled Abu Toameh

High Court delays returning terrorists’ bodies until new hearing

After IED attack, Israel warns Gazans of more severe response to protests

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli cartoon criticizing human rights violations in Iran, displayed next to the European Parliament in Brussels starting Wednesday, February 20, 2018. (Photo by AJC, TICP)

Drawing fire

Snubbed by EU, Israeli cartoons slamming Iran go on display

By Michael Bachner

European Parliament vetoes exhibition focusing on human rights violations in Islamic Republic as ‘too controversial’

Screenshot from time-lapse images showing nuclear motion and cell division in a normal organoid where the brain develops folding. (Youtube screenshot/Weizmann Institute of Science)

Head start

Israeli researchers grow ‘mini-brain’ in a test tube

Weizmann Institute’s study of brain wrinkling opens way for future research into disorders such as microcephaly, epilepsy and schizophrenia

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends the lobby for Israel-US relations at the Knesset on July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Casting doubt over peace prospects, US envoy says settlers staying put — report

By Michael Bachner and Tamar Pileggi

In closed meeting with visiting US Jewish leaders, David Friedman says eviction of settlements would spark civil war; hosts and US embassy say words taken out of context

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on January 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Abbas to urge alternative to US as peace mediator in UN speech

By AFP and ToI Staff

Brazilian director Jose Padilha attends a press conference for the film "7 Days in Entebbe" presented in competition during the 68th Berlinale film festival on February 19, 2018 in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / Stefanie Loos)

In new film, Jewish director challenges Israeli version of 1976 Entebbe rescue

By Michael Bachner

Jose Padilha casts Yoni Netanyahu in less-than-heroic light, tells story from terrorists’ perspective in movie likely to spark controversy

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A cat eating fish guts off of a newspaper. (Oongnoi/iStock by Getty Images)

Hebrew media reviewHooked by scandals, Netanyahu questioned for risking his skin over fishwrap

By Joshua Davidovich

Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 19, 2018. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Chabad footage shows Florida shooter ‘casually walking’ after attack

By JTA

Chef Brett Eisen helped teach healthy eating to Sacramento-area kids who had little access to nutritious food while he was working with the Sacramento Kings basketball team. (Screenshot Youtube)

Meet the Jewish student-teacher culinary team who made it to the Olympics

By Elissa Einhorn

Illustrative: Border Police carry away a member of the "hilltop youth" during an evacuation of an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank. (Credit: Zman Emet, Kan 11)

Security forces raze outpost built in memory of terror victims

Jewish NFL football players and brothers Geoff (l) and Mitchell (r) Schwartz present Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with football jerseys that have his nickname on them, in his Jerusalem office, on February 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu asks visiting NFL players to be ‘gladiators’ for Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz speaks during a joint press conference with his Romanian counterpart (unseen) at the Romanian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Bucharest on February 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel MIHAILESCU)

Polish FM: Jews denounced Poles who hid them during Holocaust

Rapper Azealia Banks will make her way to Israel in May, performing at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy, Azealia Banks)

Miss CamaraderieRapper Azealia Banks bringing tunes and ‘tude to Tel Aviv in May

By Jessica Steinberg

African asylum seekers wait outside the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority office waiting to find out their status, in Bnei Brak, Israel, February 13, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Deadline passes, but Israel takes no action to deport African asylum seekers

By Melanie Lidman

Head of the Israeli Air Force, Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin, left, stands with Maj. 'Aleph,' the navigator of an F-16 fighter jet shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft fire, as the officer returns to fly for the first time since the crash, on February 19, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

F-16 navigator downed in Syria strike returns to the skies

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)

Knesset okays law allowing for exhuming graves of Yemenite children

By Marissa Newman

A new mosque under construction on the main road of the Arab-Israeli village of Majd al-Krum, near the northern Israeli city of Karmiel, on November 8, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bill will empower police to seize mosque loudspeakers – report

Times of Israel presentsBritain and Zionism: Did Margaret Thatcher betray Balfour?

By Matthew Kalman

Venture capitalist Michael Eisenberg discusses an alternative message of Purim with Rabbi Benny Lau at a Times of Israel presents event, at Beit Avi Chai, on February 18, 2018. (Tracy Frydberg/Times of Israel)

Times of Israel Presents

For tech entrepreneur, ancient Purim saga a modern wake-up call

By Tracy Frydberg

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