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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 7, 2019

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Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein exiting the first aliyah flight organized by the the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, December 2014. (Courtesy of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of Fellowship of Christians and Jews, dies at 67

Eckstein passes away from sudden heart failure; his IFCJ has raised $1.4 billion in donations for Israel, mostly from evangelical Christians

Screenshot from a video posted to Facebook reportedly showing a swastika painted on a yeshiva in upstate New York. (Facebook screenshot)

Upstate New York yeshiva set on fire and painted with swastikas

Incident being treated as a hate crime, state police say

Analysis

Liberman’s a spy, Yair Netanyahu’s a Christian, and fake news aims to play havoc

Op-ed: How the online disinformation industry is trying to mess with your head, who’s fighting back, and where Israel is still vulnerable as the election campaign heats up

(L to R) Tzipi Livni, Yair Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman have all been the subject of fake news articles disseminated via fake news sites and social media in recent weeks (Composite photos: Flash90)

Israelis line up to cast their votes at a polling station in Tel Aviv, for the 20th parliament, in the Israeli general elections, on March 17, 2015. (Danielle Shitrit/FLASH90)

Israel election law ‘screams out’ for update to thwart online abuse, judge warns

Women use their phones in the Old City of Acre, in northern Israel, August 1, 2018.(David Cohen/Flash90)

Israelis are world’s top users of social media, survey finds

Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein seen with supporters outside the Likud polling station in Jerusalem on February 5, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

The Likud Top 40

Edelstein takes top spot in Likud primaries, with Netanyahu rival Sa’ar in 4th

By Raoul Wootliff

Party members ignore Netanyahu’s cold shoulder to Knesset speaker and former interior minister, new additions Galant and Barkat score high; controversial MK Oren Hazan pushed out

Primary casualtiesFarewell Oren Hazan: Scandal-prone MK and others set to miss out on next Knesset

By Michael Bachner

PM’s aides claim victory over Sa’ar in Likud vote, despite his high placement

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Hapoel Beersheba owner Alona Barkat joins New Right party

Oskar Deutsch, left, with Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen, meeting Jews in Jerusalem, February 2019. (HBF/Peter Lechner)

Interview

Austrian Jewish leader: No reason for Israel to end boycott of far-right FPOe

Oskar Deutsch, accompanying Austria’s president here this week, praises Jerusalem’s no-contact stance on FPOe as ‘Jewish foreign policy,’ says the party is ‘obviously’ anti-Semitic

UK anti-Semitism breaks record high for 3rd year in a row, says watchdog

By Yaakov Schwartz

Popular singer in Iceland compares Jews to Nazis

By JTA

US House members introduce bill to fund Holocaust education in schools

Kalniyot at the Be'eri nature reserve, February 4, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

In south, red is the new black as scorched lands give way to annual flower craze

By Melanie Lidman and Photos and video: Luke Tress

Natasha Lyonne stars in the existentialist comedy 'Russian Doll.' (Courtesy Netflix)

TV review

It takes a Talmudic mind to unravel Netflix’s new series ‘Russian Doll’

By Jordan Hoffman

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz (C) is greeted by supporters as he arrives to give his first electoral speech in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Palestinians ‘encouraged’ by Gantz’s remarks on possible West Bank pullback

Spokesperson for PA chief stresses there is no info yet on what policies Netanyahu’s rival will actually implement if he becomes prime minister

In reversal, state body says settlement university cannot build medical school

Schooled in the primaries: 6 things to know for February 7

By Tamar Pileggi

Poll: Ex-IDF chief Ashkenazi could boost Gantz’s party by 6 seats

By Michael Bachner

Yehudis Fletcher

The community’s response can hurt more than the abuse

It’s high time we protest the faith-based institutions that use faith as a fig leaf, and protect perpetrators instead of survivors

Yomin Postelnik

Fairness for the Netanyahus

It’s shameful to go after Sara Netanyahu for having a chef make food that she delivered to her ailing father in the hospital

New Jersey’s RCBC decertifies communal debate

It’s not (just) about women rabbis — no synagogue should cede its policy-making and hiring decisions to an external body

Then-mayor of San Salvador Nayib Bukele at the Western Wall, February 2018 (courtesy American Jewish Congress)

His dad was an imam, his wife has Jewish roots: Meet El Salvador’s new leader

By Raphael Ahren

Nayib Bukele’s grandfather was a Christian Palestinian from Jerusalem, which didn’t stop president-elect visiting in 2018 — and this week recalling his stop at the Western Wall

Author Austin Ratner and his new book, 'The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof.' (Courtesy)

Interview

New book puts Freud and psychoanalysis back on the couch

By Cathryn J. Prince

People walk by Google's offices in New York, December 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Live updates (closed)

Google suspends targeted ads until after election day – report

Advertising giant tells Israeli ad companies no tailored messaging will be offered in Israel as part of company’s effort to avoid being used again to manipulate elections

7:31 pm

Bank of Israel announces 8% cut to $360m operating budget
7:08 pm

Israel's UN envoy calls Hebron observer force 'violent, biased'
6:58 pm

Body of woman, 19, found in Jerusalem forest with stab wounds

Observers from The Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) (R) stand next to Palestinians carrying placards denouncing the prime minister's recent decision not to renew their mandate, in front of their headquarters in the West Bank city, on January 30, 2019. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)

US blocks UN move to condemn Israel’s decision to shut Hebron monitor mission

By AFP and ToI Staff

Kuwait and Indonesia had circulated draft statement to express Security Council’s ‘regret’ about Israel’s ‘unilateral decision’ to boot TIPH and call for ‘calm and restraint’

Abbas says US-Palestinian security ties endure despite aid halt

Netanyahu hails US purchase of Israeli Iron Dome batteries

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Three Palestinians nabbed for stone-throwing that wounded baby

This February 6, 2019, satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows an empty launch pad and a burn mark on it at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province. (DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company via AP)

Images suggest Iran has attempted second satellite launch

By Jon Gambrell

US and Israel say Tehran’s space program a cover for ballistic missile development; Iran has not acknowledged conducting fresh launch after previous effort failed to reach orbit

Iran arrested 860 journalists in post-revolution decades, watchdog says

By AFP

Hezbollah leader calls on Lebanon to accept arms from Iran to confront Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Iran tells US to get out of Syria, whether it wants to or not

By Agencies and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Rockets seen flying over central Israel on the fifth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 12, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Gaza rocket hits Israel, IDF tank fires at Hamas position in response

Siwar Keblawi. (courtesy)

Turkish police suspect Israeli woman murdered by father, brother

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)

5 Jewish takeaways from Trump’s State of the Union address

A soap bubble gun and syringe allegedly used by a Jordanian citizen to hold up an Israeli postal bank in January 2019. (Israel Police)

Shtick upJordanian living illegally in Israel held for bubble gun bank heist

By Stuart Winer

Revellers in a red spotlight celebrate the start of the carnival season in the streets of Cologne, Germany, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Cheery clanBooted by Nazis, Jewish group with unfortunate KKK name returns to Cologne

By JTA

A suspect in a 1993 murder is brought for a hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on February 6, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Man arrested in connection with murder, rape committed 26 years ago

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)

AnalysisFrom billboards to webcast, Netanyahu taps his inner Trump for campaign

View of the Israel-Lebanon border from Israel's Western Galilee. April 25, 2015. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90/ File)

IDF returns man caught crossing northern border to Lebanon

The members of the Shalva Band, which successfully auditioned for 'Rising Stars,' an Israeli reality TV show. (Courtesy The Shalva Band)

After nixing Eurovision bid over Shabbat, band may play at semifinals

By Michael Bachner

US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks during a campaign rally announcing her candidacy for president in Waikiki, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Tulsi Gabbard rejects David Duke endorsement for president

By JTA

An abandoned newborn was found on February 6, 2019 in the central city of Netanya (Screencapture/Channel 12)

Abandoned newborn found next to dumpster in central Israel

A high-tech company which employs ultra-Orthodox women in Modiin Illit. August 17, 2009. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90/File)

Israel Innovation Authority sets up program to boost woman-led startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

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