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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 9, 2019

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Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian man in Ramallah suspected in the murder of Israeli teen Ori Ansbacher on February 8, 2019. (Israel Police)

Police: Forensics at scene led to Palestinian suspect in murder of Israeli teen

Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian man in Ramallah suspected in the murder of Israeli teen Ori Ansbacher on February 8, 2019. (Israel Police)

Palestinian suspect arrested for murder of Israeli teen Ori Ansbacher

File: Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon addresses the United Nations Security Council, at UN headquarters, on January 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Israeli envoy calls on UN to condemn murder of Israeli teen

Israeli security forces at the scene in Jerusalem where Ori Ansbacher's body was found on February 7, 2019; the inset photo is of Ansbacher. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 and Courtesy)

Police urge public to stop spreading ‘horrific’ rumors about Jerusalem murder

Rare public statement from cops comes as false claims circulate on social media, including by PM’s son Yair Netanyahu, regarding brutal killing of Ori Ansbacher

Mourners carry the coffin of Siwar Keblawi during her funeral in the northern city of Umm al-Fahm on February 9, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Funeral held for Israeli woman suspected of being killed in Turkey by family

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Lise Meitner, the Swedish noted woman scientist, who assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, pictured in West Berlin, West Germany, May 11, 1957. (AP Photo/Werner Kreusch)

The forgotten Jewish woman of nuclear physics who was denied a Nobel Prize

By Timothy J. Jorgensen

Illustrative: A picture of Kuwait's ruling emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, is displayed with surrounding Kuwaiti flags in Kuwait City, on February 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell/File)

Group of Kuwaiti businessmen said to visit Israel, with approval by PM’s office

TV report says Kuwaitis toured religious and cultural sites last week, in new sign of warming ties between Israel and Muslim world

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, speaks to his father, King Salman, at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, December 9, 2018. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Foreign Ministry said to see little chance of breakthrough in Israeli-Saudi ties

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump shows a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump ignores congressional deadline as pressure builds over Khashoggi murder

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI

Yesh Atid MK Meir Cohen speaks at a cultural event in Kfar Saba on February 2, 2019. (Flash90)

Centrist parties swipe at each other amid talk of merger

Yesh Atid MK Meir Cohen says Moshe Ya’alon asked to join party during ‘shopping trip’ for new political home; Israel Resilience and Telem hit back: ‘There is no future in lies’

Former cabinet secretary Zvi Hauser. (Yanai Yechiel)

Member of Gantz-led alliance says settlement building won’t slow down if he’s PM

People walk by posters of ex-IDF chief Benny Gantz before the official launch of his election campaign for the April 2019 elections, in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Anyone but Bibi: In Israel, ex-general stirs hope of change

By Josef Federman

Russian Ambassador in Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin in Beirut, Lebanon, May 16, 2016. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Praising Hezbollah, Russian envoy claims US could spark new Israel-Lebanon war

Moscow’s ambassador in Beirut says US stance toward Iran is destabilizing region, hails terror group for fighting alongside Russia in Syria

Russia says Israel must limit attacks on targets in Syria

Iran opposition group calls for regime change in Paris march

By AP and ToI Staff

Long lines to buy meat illustrate Iran’s economic woes

By Nasser Karimi

A Palestinian man carries the national flag during a demonstration near the fence along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on February 8, 2019. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Palestinians say two teenagers shot and killed in Gaza border riots

By ToI Staff and Agencies

8,000 gather for weekly border protests, throwing rocks, fire bombs and explosives at soldiers, who respond with tear gas and live fire

Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinians say they won’t attend US-led conference on Middle East

Palestinian students receive new studying books inside their classroom, during the first day of a new school year, at one of the UNRWA schools, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 3, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)

State Department report finds anti-Israel bias in 3% of UNRWA textbooks

Edwin Montagu/ Lord Balfour's writing desk, at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv (Ziko/Wikipedia)

How a curious love triangle spurred UK’s cabinet to pass the Balfour Declaration

By Robert Philpot

A picture taken on February 8, 2019, at the Weidler auction house in the southern German city of Nuremberg shows a wicker armchair, bearing a swastika, a vase and watercolors which are presumed to have belonged to late Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. (Daniel Karmann/AFP)

5 paintings attributed to Hitler to be auctioned off in Germany

By Thierry TRANCHANT

Auction of artwork allegedly painted by Nazi dictator to go ahead after planned sale of 26 pieces was scrapped due to their dubious authenticity

This image provided by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, shows Henri-Edmond Cross’ “Regatta in Venice” from 1903/04, which is currently on show in Potsdam. (Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston via AP)

Texas museum stands by ownership of painting; Jewish family claims it’s looted

By AP

Illustrative: Billy Crystal as the rabbi in 'Untogether.' (Courtesy Freestyle Digital Releasing)

Film review

Indie flick featuring Billy Crystal as lovable rabbi just can’t get it together

By Jordan Hoffman

What if the actual Exodus were a movie?

It’s not. But the ancient texts and rituals offer us so much more

A portable home (Terumah 5779)

We tend to forget how profound the concept of a synagogue was; it became the ultimate expression of monotheism

A Christian worshiper visits the "Prison of Christ" in the church of Holy Monastery of the Praetorium, traditionally believed to be the site where Jesus was detained, in Jerusalem's Old City on February 8, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

‘Prison of Christ’ reopens for prayer in Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre

By AFP

Chapel, built on site where Jesus believed to be held before crucifixion, has been repaired over several years since a fire

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Illustrative: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Republican-California) speaks to reporters as he returns to the Capitol from a meeting with US President Donald Trump about border security and ending the partial government shutdown, in Washington, on January 2, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP leader promises ‘action’ against Democrats accused of anti-Semitism

Aymen Derbali, a victim in the Quebec mosque attack, talks to the press in the Quebec City Courthouse following the sentencing of perpetrator Alexandre Bissonnette, on February 8, 2019. (Alice Chiche / AFP)

Canadian who killed 6 at Quebec mosque gets life, no parole for 40 years

By Alice Chiche

US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan arrives for a discussion on pro bono service, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, at Georgetown Law University in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kagan in Supreme Court says condemned Jews and Muslims need choice of clergy

By JTA

Potential Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg speaks to workers during a tour of the WH Bagshaw Company in Nashua, on January 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Bloomberg to announce by end of month if he’ll run for president in 2020

By Steve Peoples

Memphis Grizzlies forward Omri Casspi dunks during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings on on January 25, 2019, in Memphis, Tennessee. (AP Photo/ Brandon Dill)

NBA’s Omri Casspi let go by Memphis Grizzlies

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative: Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists gesture from the defendants cage as they receive sentences in a mass trial in Alexandria, Egypt, on May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Heba Khamis)

Egypt hangs 3 ‘political detainees’ convicted of murdering the son of a judge

By AFP

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