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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 3, 2019

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The moment an IDF officer was hit in the helmet by a sniper bullet during a riot along the Gaza border on January 22, 2019. (Screen capture: Al-Mayadeen TV)

Lebanese TV airs footage of Gaza sniper shooting IDF officer in helmet

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

Two weeks after company commander injured in attack, Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad confirms firing the shot

Israel constructs an above-ground barrier around the Gaza Strip, meant to prevent infiltration by terrorists, in February 2019. (Defense Ministry)

Israel starts construction on 20-foot-high fence surrounding Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Covered in barbed wire and sensors, new fence to sit atop tunnel-blocking subterranean wall and connect to sea barrier

A field of anemone flowers blossoming in Shokeda Forest, in the south of Israel on January 30, 2019. (Dudi Modan/Flash90)

60,000 flock to south where fields torched by incendiary balloons now bloom

Illustrative: A Palestinian protester carries a national flag and a slingshot during a demonstration near the fence along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on February 1, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel said to warn Hamas: Election won’t stop military action if it’s necessary

The Iranian Space Research Center headquarters in Tehran, Iran. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Fire in Iranian space center kills 3 scientists – report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Authorities don’t elaborate on incident, which comes amid US and Israeli concern over Tehran’s efforts to launch satellite into orbit

PM Netanyahu speaking to visiting UN ambassadors outside his Jerusalem office, February 3, 2019 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Iran controls new Lebanese government, Netanyahu tells visiting UN envoys

By Raphael Ahren

In this photo provided on November 5, 2018, by the Iranian Army, a Sayyad 2 missile is fired by the Talash air defense system during drills in an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Army/AP)

Iran warns Europe not to force it to make ‘strategic leap’ on missile range

By AFP and ToI Staff

Joint (Arab) List MK Jamal Zahalka in the Knesset plenum on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Balad chair: Party is ‘part of Palestinian national movement,’ PM a war criminal

Choosing Knesset slate, Arab faction hears greetings from ex-MK who fled amid Hezbollah spy allegations, former MK jailed for smuggling contraband to Palestinian security prisoners

Arab MKs in Istanbul ahead of a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 21, 2015. (Joint Arab List)

In meeting with Arab MKs, Erdogan reportedly vows to release 3 arrested Israelis

Education Minister Nafatli Bennett from the New Right political party on an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem, January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

New Right said seeking bloc with Likud, Kulanu and Yisrael Beytenu

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud billboard on the side of the busy Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2019. The title reads 'Netanyahu, in a different league.' (Courtesy)

Friends in high places

Netanyahu uses Trump in election campaign poster

PM posts massive picture alongside US president, with the slogan, ‘Netanyahu, in a different league,’ as polls show newcomer Benny Gantz closing in

Israel media reviewPlaying the slots: 7 things to know for February 3

By Joshua Davidovich

Likud primaries 2019In fierce Likud vote, Netanyahu endorses ex-aide accused in submarine scandal

By Raoul Wootliff

As bid to unite right intensifies, PM asks for extra spots on Likud list

Palestinians shopping at the new Atarot Mall, opened by businessman Rami Levy, owner of the Rami Levy supermarket chain, on January 13, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Abbas said to block ‘settler’ supermarket mogul from peace meeting

Business forum holds talks with Palestinian leader, reportedly after excluding Rami Levy, who has opened multiple stores in the West Bank

Palestinian with knife nabbed among Hebron tourists

5 Palestinians enter Israel from Gaza with knives, are arrested

By Judah Ari Gross

UN head backs international observer mission booted from Hebron

By AP and Jacob Magid

Jeremy Corbyn addresses the crowd in Trafalgar Square in London, England, July 13, 2018. (Niklas Hallen/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

British Labour lawmakers look to split over Brexit, anti-Semitism

Report says MPs hope to spark a ‘breakaway movement on the political center’ that could challenge growing polarization in the major parties

Survivors of Auschwitz, at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, walk to place candles on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Poland, January 27, 2019. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Poland’s political divide widens more after mayor is slain

By Vanessa Gera

Henry Ford (Hartsook, Library of Congress)

US history group defends article on Ford’s anti-Semitism after editor fired

By AP

Then-chief rabbi of the IDF Rafi Peretz is seen on February 23, 2012. (Gershon Elinson/ Flash90/ File)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu calls on hard right parties to team up for elections

By Alexander Fulbright

PM says a union of Otzma Leyisrael, National Union and Jewish Home needed ‘to prevent a loss of votes for the right-wing bloc,’ after latter picks new leader

7:32 pm

Erdogan says Turkey has maintained 'low-level' contacts with Syrian regime
6:56 pm

Pope Francis greeted by powerful Abu Dhabi crown prince, as he lands in UAE
6:33 pm

Netanyahu again repeats claim Likud rival tried to unseat him

Illustrative: Mexican Jewish children at the Monte Sinai school, established in 1943 on Zacatecas Street in Mexico City by Jews from Damascus, Syria. (Zihronot Archive/Monte Sinai Community/via JTA)

Oscar frontrunner ‘Roma’ is set in a former Jewish neighborhood in Mexico City

By Alan Grabinsky

Illustrative: The Rabbinical Council of America's July 2015 annual meeting in upstate New York. (RCA)

Jewish women express anger after Orthodox rabbis compare abortion to murder

The case for the center in Israel today

As the right undermines democracy and the Palestinians toe a maximalist line, a middle road is needed: peace with caveats

Author of faux Holocaust romance: Jews ’feel protective’

The comment by novelist who plans 3 sequels to her implausible ’Tattooist of Auschwitz’ is borderline anti-Semitic

DJ Miri Petel at her most recent women-only dance party (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Focus on the females when DJ Miri Petel is in the house

By Jessica Steinberg

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Illustrative: A cancer patient and a perfusion drip. (CIPhotos, iStock by Getty Images)

Cancer cases drop among men, almost double among Arab women

By Michael Bachner

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam speaks with reporters at a press conference at the Governor's mansion on February 2, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. (Alex Edelman/Getty Images/AFP)

In about-face, Virginia governor denies appearing in racist photo

By AP

Brian Feldman hosts the Wawa Shabbawa in Philadelphia, January 18, 2019. (Stephen Silver/JTA)

Chain of traditionWelcome to Wawa — and Shabbat Shalom!

By Stephen Silver

US President Donald Trump speaks during a healthcare roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, January 23, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump shows ‘willful ignorance’ on intelligence – report

Sheldon Adelson and Miriam Adelson at the ceremony marking the establishment of a new Faculty of Medicine at Ariel University in the West Bank, on August 19, 2018. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Adelsons give major boost to defense fund for Trump aides caught in Russia probe

Eduardo Bolsonaro greets students as he leaves the Santa Casa hospital where his father was hospitalized in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, Sept. 6, 2018 (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Son of Brazil’s President Bolsonaro joins Steve Bannon’s nationalist group

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pop icon Madonna performs at the Ramat Gan stadium near Tel Aviv on May 31, 2012. (photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

Justify my loveMadonna likely to perform at Eurovision in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Mummies lie in a recently discovered burial chamber in the desert province of Minya, south of Cairo, Egypt on February 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Roger Anis)

Egypt discovers 40 mummies in ancient chambers in Minya

By AP

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