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What Matters Most On Monday, February 26, 2018

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Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen attends a press conference in Tel Aviv, on January 4, 2018. (Flash90)

Minister claims Israel warned 30 countries about specific terror plots in 2017

But senior cabinet colleague says Economy Minister Eli Cohen doesn’t know what he’s talking about; Cohen also claims 11 died in recent Israeli strikes in Syria when F-16 downed

The remains of an F-16 that crashed after coming under fire by Syrian air defenses, in the northern Israeli Kibbutz Harduf, on February 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Army: Crew of F-16 downed by Syria made ‘professional error’

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked gives a statement to the media in Jerusalem, February 26, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister: If judge colluded with investigator, she’ll be dismissed

By Marissa Newman

Ayelet Shaked says she’s waiting for results of formal inquiry before taking action over leaked text messages in Bezeq corruption case

Court releases 4 suspects in Bezeq probe to house arrest

Netanyahu to be questioned in Bezeq corruption case, possibly as a suspect

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu’s ex-bureau chief expected to add testimony to Case 4000

Judge Ronit Poznansky-Katz (L) and the Israel Securities Authority's legal adviser, Eran Shacham-Shavit (R)

Full text exchange between lawyer, judge in Bezeq corruption case

Conversation between Judge Ronit Poznansky-Katz and Israel Securities Authority attorney Eran Shacham-Shavit indicates the two were discussing logistics

At disciplinary hearing, lawyer in collusion scandal defends messages to judge

Police think Bezeq suspect facilitated deal on behalf of PM’s aide – report

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Bezeq controlling shareholder to step down from board amid probe

By Shoshanna Solomon

Analysis

A wayward judge may be the biggest blow to public trust in Netanyahu probe

Bombshell report of outrageous correspondence between judge and investigator could do more damage to the rule of law than years of attacks by politicians

Outgoing Supreme Court President, Miriam Naor (C-R), and incoming President Esther Hayut (C-L) at the Supreme Court during Naor's last ruling and retirement ceremony, in Jerusalem, on October 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Texts show judge, investigator in Bezeq case apparently coordinated rulings

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Minister urges criminal probe into texting scandal, review of Case 4000 rulings

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Hebrew media reviewIn texting scandal, some see doom, others just gloom

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on February 26, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu sources reject ‘baseless’ claims in Bezeq case

Message decries ‘mudslinging campaign,’ ridicules notion there was an arrangement worth NIS 1 billion: ‘tomorrow it’ll be a trillion’

7:23 pm

Canada's Tories would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
7:18 pm

Netanyahu sources reject 'baseless' claims in Bezeq case.
6:37 pm

Circumstances forced judge to text investigator, sources close to her say

The ring found by gardener Dekel Ben-Shitrit thought to depict St. Nicholas with a bishop's crook. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Galilee gardener digs up medieval ring bearing smiling St. Nicholas

Border Police officers stand guard next to the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, July 27, 2017. (AP /Mahmoud Illean)

Two Arab Israelis charged with plotting IS-inspired attack on Temple Mount

By Judah Ari Gross

Terror suspects also indicted for not reporting another cell’s plans to carry out a shooting attack on the Jerusalem holy site in September, which was nevertheless thwarted

Palestinians becoming more extreme in their positions – poll

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Wheel of misfortunePalestinians accidentally burn down own factory in protest against IDF soldiers

IDF arrests nine in Nebi Saleh raid, including cousin of soldier-slapper Tamimi

By Judah Ari Gross

A pilgrim prays outside the closed gate of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on February 25, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

Hamas calls for uptick in ‘al-Quds intifada’ over Jerusalem church tax quarrel

As Holy Sepulchre remains closed for second day, Gaza-based terror group says Trump’s Jerusalem recognition bolstered Israel’s ‘religious war on Palestinians’

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III delivers a statement to the press as he stands next to the Custodian of the Holy Land Fr. Francesco Patton and Armenian Bishop Siwan (L) on February 25, 2018, outside of the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

After Holy Sepulchre locked, bill allowing seizure of former church land shelved

By Sue Surkes and Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Donald Trump shake hands prior to their meeting at the Palace Hotel in New York City ahead of the United Nations General Assembly on September 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Cheering Trump, PM says other countries will soon move embassies to Jerusalem

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu says he’ll ‘personally thank’ US president during their Washington meeting next week for planned May relocation of US mission

Public security minister nixes PA education minister’s East Jerusalem visit

Netanyahu warns ‘disproportionate’ settlement growth would anger Trump

Haley slams Human Rights Council for inviting Iran rights abuser to speak at UN

By Eric Cortellessa

Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the platform at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in 1944 (AP/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

Polish Holocaust rescuers issue call for Polish-Israeli dialogue

By ToI Staff and AP

Amid crisis over Holocaust law, last surviving Righteous Among the Nations urge Warsaw, Jerusalem to pursue a ‘future based on friendship, solidarity and truth’

Then-prime minister Menachem Begin (R) and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat share a laugh at the King David Hotel on November 19, 1977. (Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO archive)

War or peace? IDF brass debated the meaning of Sadat’s 1977 visit to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

The Palestinian leadership is the problem, not the solution

The PA chairman’s latest hardline pronouncements are nothing new — he was never a partner for peace

Archaeology of Jewish – Polish emotions

Israel and Poland must gently excavate their painful shared history, and accept that the truth is messy

The harem of violated women

A call to action from Ahasuerus’s palace to help those who now need to heal from sexual abuse, harassment, or rape

The illuminated gore of the Book of Esther

A 400-year-old scroll plays up the scroll’s violence, illustrating Vashti’s decapitation and Haman’s hanging

Being religious is a strike against me

It is not easy, but I am an empowered Orthodox Jew living in the 21st century, and I make my voice heard

Should Adelson pay for the US embassy in Jerusalem?

Four advocates of mission’s relocation say having a private person fund the move is a terrible idea

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Then Broward County sheriff Scott Israel speaks during a news conference on February 15, 2018, near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting the day before. (Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images/via JTA)

Florida sheriff says he won’t resign over criticism following mass shooting

By JTA

Customers sit at the Carousela restaurant, which was supervised by Hashgaha Pratit - Hebrew for private supervision - to check it abides by kosher practices, on June 8, 2016, in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood.(AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

In ‘challenge’ to rabbinate, Orthodox group launches own kosher supervision

By Marissa Newman

Ultra-Orthodox followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach mourn during his funeral in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2018. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tens of thousands throng Jerusalem streets for radical rabbi’s funeral

By Michael Bachner

Alexander Prokhanov. (YouTube screenshot)

Putin praises achievements of ultra-nationalist anti-Semitic writer

By AFP

Illustrative: New York City's Times Square. (Kobi Gideon /Flash90/File)

Party onMiri Regev wants to take Israel’s 70th celebrations to the Big Apple

Activists with the Central Bus Station Citizen's Watch Group argue with police at a demonstration in south Tel Aviv on December 17, 2017. (courtesy, Central Bus Station Citizen's Watch Group/Facebook)

South Tel Aviv residents supporting migrants’ deportation reject ‘racist’ label

By Melanie Lidman

Lebanon's Bardawni River, with its water turned red (YouTube screenshot)

Blood in the waterAlarm as river in Lebanon turns red

Muhammad Harouf is brought to the Tel Aviv District Court on February 25, 2018 for sentencing. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Palestinian sentenced to life for murdering pregnant Israeli lover

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative photo of Palestinian fishermen on a boat off the coast of the Gaza Strip, February 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza fisherman shot dead by Israeli navy

By Judah Ari Gross

Imam Salmann Tamimi addresses the congregation at the Reykjavík Mosque in Iceland during Friday midday prayers, February 23, 2018. (AP Photos/Egill Bjarnason)

Rabbi, imam defend circumcision in face of Iceland bill to ban it

By AP and ToI Staff

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