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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 21, 2018

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Former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber arrives for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on February 18, 2018. (Flash90)

State witness, editor testify in Bezeq case said to involve Netanyahu

By Michael Bachner

Former ministry head Shlomo Filber cooperating in probe of news site that gave PM positive coverage, allegedly in exchange for policies that benefited its owner

Netanyahu confidant inks deal to become state’s witness in Case 4000

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu loyalist rips into freshly minted state witness

By Michael Bachner

Opposition leader Gabbay: ‘The Netanyahu era is over’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 21, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

It’s ‘business as usual,’ Netanyahu tells ministers amid mounting crises

By Michael Bachner

Despite new corruption cases emerging, and his close aide’s enlistment as a state witness, PM says he’s ‘continuing to work for the country’

Chief justice gives police testimony over alleged bribe offer by Netanyahu aide

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Attorney general slams ‘disgraceful suggestion’ he was offered bribe

By Raoul Wootliff

Police chief: Tighter money laundering measures help expose corrupt politicians

By Simona Weinglass and Raoul Wootliff

Op-ed

Why the choice between Netanyahu and the rule of law is no choice at all

Is Israel going to drum out a skilled PM for a few piffling infractions? Well, it might, but they may not be piffling, and the framers of our laws ensured it won’t be done lightly

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the Muni World conference in Tel Aviv on February 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Hollander)

Hebrew media reviewThe last days of Netanyahu

By Joshua Davidovich

PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a United Nations Security Council concerning meeting concerning issues in the Middle East, at UN headquarters, February 20, 2018 in New York City.(Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

At UN, Abbas urges multilateral peace effort, lays out plan for talks

In address to Security Council, Palestinian Authority president claims there are 13 million Palestinians awaiting statehood, six million of them refugees

Haley to Abbas: US wants a peace deal but will not ‘chase after you’

By Eric Cortellessa

Netanyahu: Abbas running away from peace, UN speech is ‘nothing new’

Cut the comedySarah Silverman wades into Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tiptoes out

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend the inauguration of a new emergency ward at the Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon on February 20, 2018. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Poll: Netanyahu graft allegations don’t hurt Likud at the ballot box

Ruling party maintains lead by similar margins with or without Netanyahu, Channel 10 survey finds; Hadashot poll: 50% say PM should leave office over latest suspicions

7:24 pm

Amid graft probe, PM tells US Jewish leaders they'll 'meet again next year'
7:10 pm

Netanyahu said to warn coalition partners against seeking his removal
7:01 pm

Polish Holocaust law won't lead to criminal charges, minister says

Detained African migrants inside the Holot detention center, located in Israel's southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border, on February 4, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

First seven asylum seekers refusing deportation are imprisoned

By Melanie Lidman

750 Eritrean asylum seekers in Holot Detention Center begin hunger strike to protest the detention

In this Sunday, February 11, 2018, photo, Eritrean migrant Yohannes Tesfagabr, one of the tens of thousands of African migrants Israel has targeted for deportation, recounts his journey to The Associated Press in Kampala, Uganda. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

Eritrean migrant deported by Israel to Uganda recounts ordeal

By Rodney Muhumuza

In this file photo taken on June 24, 2005 Evangelist Billy Graham delivers his message at the Billy Graham Crusade at Flushing Meadows Park in Flushing Meadows, New York. (AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY)

Obituary

US evangelist Billy Graham, who preached to millions, dies at 99

A man participating in a Ruderman Family Foundation campaign released on February 21, 2018, urging the United States to cut its ties with Poland over a law criminalizing blaming the Polish state or nation for crimes of the Holocaust. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Campaign urges US to suspend ties with Poland over Holocaust law

By JTA

Ruderman Family Foundation opens online petition, releases video showing people saying ‘Polish Holocaust’ in defiance of controversial legislation

Poland's deputy culture minister, Jaroslaw Sellin, gives an interview on October 2, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Polish deputy minister urges opening of ‘Polocaust’ museum

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland at a joint news conference with Germany's chancellor in Berlin, February 16, 2018. (Michele Tantussi/Getty Images/via JTA)

By any other nameScholars: Polish PM distorts history by saying Jews participated in Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A bridge on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast train route, July 2017 (Gidi Avinary/Flash90)

Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast train service to be delayed until October

Israel Railways says still waiting for safety permits, undercutting transportation minister’s pledge that new 30-minute route would open in March

Mentors help shield kids from sex abuse

A carefully trained, vetted mentor offers a supportive, safety-conscious approach to the youth at risk who need it

Andrew Silow-Carroll

But were there any Jewish victims?

It feels icky to focus on the Jews’ experience of larger tragedies, but there are good reasons why we do it

US teens are getting woke about Israel

All that talk about American Jews’ apathy for the Jewish state, and it’s what’s hooking the youth

Marc R. Stanley

If Obama had said what Trump said about Israel

When the US president failed to endorse Israel’s right to self-defense, the Republican outcry was…nonexistent

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich delivers a keynote speech at CES International, January 8, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Intel earmarks massive $5 billion for new investment in southern Israel plant

By Shoshanna Solomon

Investment plan comes on heels of $6 billion upgrade of the same facility announced by Intel in 2014 for production of Intel’s next generation computer chips

Infographic showing how the Advisor Pro cloud-based diabetes solution developed by DreamMed Diabetes works (Courtesy)

Israeli smart software harnesses flood of data to manage diabetes care

By Urvashi Verma

El Al venture arm, Boeing join forces to scope out new air travel tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Jordan's King Abdullah II (right) speaks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas upon his arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Book excerpt

Ben-Dror Yemini

Why can’t we make peace? Because Palestinian elites have no interest in doing so

Enjoying the good life themselves, Palestinian leaders have created a misrepresentation of their people as ‘the wretched on earth.’ It’s a recipe for endless conflict

The first caravan is placed on the grounds of the new Amichai settlement for evacuees of the illegal Amona outpost on February 21, 2018. (Courtesy: Amona evacuees)

First trailers placed at new settlement for Amona evacuees

36 mobile homes brought to Amichai, allowing former residents of razed illegal outpost to move in ahead of Passover

Families of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails demonstrate in front of the European Union offices in East Jerusalem, April 27, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Bill slashing PA funding over terror payouts passes review

Border Police officers guard near tractors during preparations for the evacuation and demolition of the illegal Netiv Ha'avot outpost on February 7, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

State asks court for 3-month delay in razing illegal outpost

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin during a Knesset vote on the budget, which coincided with police publishing recommendations that Netanyahu be indicted for bribery and breach of trust, February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vote on ‘Jewish state bill’ put off amid coalition wrangling

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt, on December 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Egypt’s president says country ‘scored a goal’ with Israel gas deal

By AP and ToI Staff

A fragment of the former Warsaw Ghetto wall in Sienna 53 street that regional official for preservation of historical sites wants put on a list of protected historical monuments, in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Parts of Warsaw Ghetto wall to become historic monuments

By AP

Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)

Moscow court denies appeal by Raoul Wallenberg’s family to see his files

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Danish petition appears likely to force vote on banning circumcision

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ana Mendes Godinho, Portugal's secretary of state for tourism, speaking in 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Portugal says it wants Jews and Jewish investment in country

Shlomo Menahem, one of the gas technicians suspected of causing death by negligence at an apartment building in Jerusalem on February 20, 2018, is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for extension of his detention on February 21, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court remands two suspects in Jerusalem gas explosion

Albert Einstein (CC-BY-Ferdinand Schmutzer, Wikimedia Commons)

Einstein letter surfaces thanking New Yorker for helping Jews flee Nazi Germany

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