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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 6, 2019

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Former minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Jerusalem, November 21, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Declaring triumph, Sa’ar thanks Likud voters for ignoring PM’s accusations

Ahead of primary, Netanyahu warned party members the popular former interior minister is plotting to unseat him after April 9 election

Then-interior minister Gideon Sa'ar (L) seen after handing his official letter of resignation from politics to Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, November 3, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Edelstein, Katz, Sa’ar, Erdan take top slots in Likud primary

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Likud supporters campaign for party members and candidates at the Tel Aviv Likud polling station on February 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel media reviewLikud’s win is Netanyahu’s loss: 9 things to know for February 6

By Joshua Davidovich

Likud supporters campaign for party members and candidates at the Tel Aviv Likud polling station on February 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Upbeat at primaries, Likud voters see no need to choose between Netanyahu, Sa’ar

Members of ruling party believe PM’s accusations of a leftist conspiracy against him, but don’t think former minister targeted by the premier is part of it

Likud members cast their votes for the party list in primaries at the Tel Aviv Likud polling station on February 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Polls close in fateful Likud primaries after jump in turnout

Israel Resilience party leader Benny Gantz, center, meets with residents of the Kochav Hatsafon neighborhood in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Israel Resilience)

Gantz positive on Gaza disengagement in first interview, drawing right’s ire

Lashed as a ‘leftist,’ former chief of staff mocks Netanyahu for backing 2005 pullout, vows no uprooting of settlements, says Israel should end ‘control’ over Palestinians

Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, left, and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

Merger between Gantz and Lapid said to face considerable headwinds

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)

After Trump shares Netanyahu billboard pic, US insists it’s not backing anyone

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'We say what’s on our mind; we speak the truth'

US: The fact that we’re pro-Israel doesn’t mean we can’t mediate peace

By Raphael Ahren

As White House readies its peace proposal, senior official dismisses the need for equivalency as a ‘vestige of talking points from decades ago’

US Senate passes anti-BDS bills, sending them to House

By Eric Cortellessa

Abbas asks Europeans to recognize Palestinian state

West Bank settlers report surge in population growth

By Josef Federman

State of the Union 2019Israel only mentioned once, in praise of embassy move

Vowing to confront Iran, Trump scolds ‘the vile poison of anti-Semitism’

By Eric Cortellessa

In key address to joint session of Congress, president brings Pittsburgh survivor as guest, says Jerusalem embassy move fueled by ‘pragmatic realism’

US President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, February 5, 2019, at the Capitol in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence, left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi look on. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

US President Donald Trump arrives to deliver the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2019. (Doug Mills/POOL/AFP)

Iran pushes back after Trump accuses it of anti-Semitism

By AP and ToI Staff

The USS Mitscher, part of a strike group led by the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier, sails as an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel shadows it on December 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Iran airs animation showing its submarine sinking a US aircraft carrier

US President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence watched, February 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

In State of the Union, Trump warns ‘ridiculous partisan’ probes derail progress

By Julie Pace and Catherine Lucey

‘If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation,’ US president says, facing divided Congress for first time

State of the Union 2019Jewish organizations react to Trump speech, ask for rewrite of asylum policy

ProfileWith diverse experience, new US anti-Semitism monitor ‘great fit’ for the job

AnalysisIs there a need for another big Washington pro-Israel group?

Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)

Up to a third of Israeli nuptials held outside state religious bodies — report

New Family advocacy group finds as many as 29,000 couples may have registered civil marriages abroad or held ceremonies not recognized by authorities in the Jewish state

Congregation Natan Ya's sanctuary in Netanya, which was flooded by vandals on January 26, 2019. (Courtesy)

Police yet to identify suspects in vandalism of Reform synagogue in Netanya

A page from the Talmud, the Oral law of Judaism, August 19, 2007. (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)

Traditional, egalitarian Yeshivat Hadar plans to ordain rabbis

By JTA

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks on June 29, 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Hezbollah leader calls for Iran to arm Lebanon for confrontation with Israel

Nasrallah proposes importing military hardware from Islamic republic, pledges to support Tehran if US declares war

8:19 pm

Hezbollah leader calls for Iran to arm Lebanon to confront Israel
8:07 pm

Palestinians say US-backed Mideast summit is 'futile'
8:02 pm

IDF hits Hamas outpost in southern Gaza after rocket launch -- reports

Images show S-300 air defense batteries in Syria likely turning operational

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel’s ImageSat International says 3 of 4 launchers from powerful Russian anti-aircraft system appear to be raised, possibly signifying heightened alert level

Netanyahu to meet Putin for first formal talks since Syria downed Russian plane

By Alexander Fulbright

Iran: Israeli strikes in Syria to be discussed at summit with Russia, Turkey

Top US general says Trump didn’t consult him on Syria pullout

By AFP

The Shalva Band had a shot at becoming Israel’s representative at the Eurovision contest. (Screen capture: YouTube)

The Shalva band chooses Shabbat over representing Israel at Eurovision

Musicians with disabilities drop out of the running for song contest, after being told they’d have to rehearse on the Sabbath

View of the Expo Tel Aviv venue, September 13, 2018. (Flash90)

European Broadcast Union fumes at Netanyahu over Eurovision security costs

By Stuart Winer

Napoleon and the Muezzin

That morning the call to prayer turned a church and a mosque into a shooting gallery

A religious party worthy of the name

Rafi Peretz is a man of integrity and the true role model for the community that I do not see in Naftali Bennett or Baruch Marzel

In the new Holocaust dramatic film 'The Bird Catcher,' Norwegian Jewish teenage girl Esther (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) is shown posing as a non-Jewish boy named Ola to survive persecution by the Nazis and collaborators. (Courtesy)

All the world's a cage

Running from Nazis, Norwegian Jewish girl masquerades as teenage boy in new film

By Rich Tenorio

An illustrative image of a call center (DragonImages; iStock by Getty Images)

Dial 119 for… hacker alert

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Times of Israel tries out a newly launched hotline for those who think they’re undergoing cyberattacks, and is handled quickly and courteously by a responder

French-Israeli hacker Gregory Chelli speaks to the then Channel 2 in 2017. (screen capture: Channel 2)

French-Israeli hacker faces trial for phone hoax that ended in death

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rohingya Muslim refugees crowd a canal as they flee over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, November 1, 2017. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/via JTA)

Israel maintains warm ties with Myanmar, downplaying a human rights controversy

By Charles Dunst

More Headlines

Illustrative: Feyenoord's fans light up flares during a Champions League Group F soccer match between Feyenoord and Napoli at the Kuip stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on December 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch soccer fans chant ‘Jews burn best’ on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Dutch MP Joram van Klaveren, February 24, 2017. The former far-right politician fought against Islam in the Netherlands before revealing he converted to the religion in February 2019. (BAS CZERWINSKI / ANP / AFP)

Dutch former anti-Islam MP says he’s become a Muslim

A view of Dodger Stadium on Opening Day, April 6, 2015. (Harry How/Getty Images via JTA)

Coroner determines foul ball killed Jewish woman at Dodgers game

A Supersol supermarket in Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90, File)

Meat marketSupermarket delivery van caught transporting dead body

Yochanan Danino, incoming chairman of the board of directors for Together Pharma. (Together Pharma/PR)

High profile jobEx-police chief takes post pushing medical cannabis worldwide

By Stuart Winer

Katrina Lenk, left, and Tony Shalhoub performing a scene from 'The Band's Visit' at the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, June 10, 2018. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions via JTA)

Final curtain‘The Band’s Visit’ to end Broadway run

By JTA

The marble plaque showing damage from recent vandalism on the front of the tomb of German revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx, a Grade I-listed monument, is seen in Highgate Cemetery in north London on February 5, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Tomb of Karl Marx vandalized in London

By AFP

Pope Francis reacts during the weekly general audience on February 6, 2019 at Paul-VI hall in the Vatican. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)

Nuns ‘sex slaves’ scandal deals fresh blow to Catholic church

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

IDF servicewoman dies after being run over in Jordan Valley accident

Historian Simon Schama poses after being awarded a knighthood in an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London, February 5, 2019. (Jonathan Brady/WPA Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

British historian Simon Schama awarded a knighthood by Prince William

By JTA

Naomi Folkman (R), the mother of MK Royi Folkman, with Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, hours before she was run and over and killed by a cement mixing truck, February 15, 2019. (Courtesy)

Mother of Kulanu MK killed by cement mixer after leaving party HQ

Senator Joe Lieberman speaking at 'The First Israeli Congress on Judaism and Democracy' on February 11, 2018. (Erez Uzir)

Joe Lieberman: Don’t ‘rush to judgment’ on Virginia governor accused of racism

By JTA

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