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What Matters Most On Friday, February 15, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters on the plane home from Poland in the early hours of February 15, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

War & peace, Polish offense, a broken plane: Crazy days with Netanyahu in Warsaw

By Raphael Ahren

‘Amazing’ things unfolded in Israeli-Arab ties during his three-day visit to Poland this week, the PM has said. Well, the trip has certainly been unforgettable

PM forced to spend extra night in Warsaw after plane damaged

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Israel media reviewDancing around Poles: 7 things to know for February 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Arabic media reviewOman papers ignore Netanyahu-Omani FM meeting: 5 things to know from past week

Poland's President Andrzej Duda (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen during the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle east in Warsaw, on February 13, 2019 (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

Poland moves to end spat with Israel over PM comments, blames media manipulation

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Warsaw, incensed by incorrect reports Netanyahu said ‘Polish nation’ cooperated with Nazis, says it got clarifications; still, Israeli envoy called for dressing down

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

What Netanyahu actually said on Poles’ collaboration with Nazis

By Itamar Sharon and Raphael Ahren

Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, talk after a group photo at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, February 13, 2019. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

After Netanyahu comment to ToI, Poland says Israel should not host Europe summit

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Former US Middle East peace negotiator Dennis Ross and Arab officials on stage during a panel at the Warsaw summit on February 14, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

In clip leaked by PMO, Arab ministers seen defending Israel, attacking Iran

By Raphael Ahren

At Warsaw Mideast summit, Bahraini FM says confronting Tehran more urgent than solving Palestinian issue; UAE top diplomat says Israel has right to attack Iranian targets in Syria

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives for a session at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Netanyahu in Warsaw: For Arab leaders, Iran threat more urgent than Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

From left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yemen's Foreign Minister Khaled Alyemany and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attend a session at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle east in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Yemeni FM: Seat next to Netanyahu in Warsaw was ‘protocol error’ by organizers

Analysis

Denying incitement, Fatah Facebook page chief claims incendiary posts ‘symbolic’

Israeli critics dismiss Munir al-Jaghoub’s arguments as ‘ludicrous’; Fatah officials suggest page does not reflect party’s official positions

A post on "The Palestinian National Liberation Movement 'Fatah'/ The Official Page" from October 2015 of a knife stabbing a religious Jew. (Palestinian Media Watch)

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, on February 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Kushner tells diplomats he believes in peace plan, despite long odds — report

Participant at Warsaw conference quotes Trump’s son-in-law as saying that ‘privately, people are much more flexible’ than in public; proposal to be released after Israeli elections

United States Vice President Mike Pence, right, talks to the media during a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019. (Michael Sohn/AP)

PM tells Pence he’s ‘looking forward to peace plan,’ as pair honor WWII victims

By Raphael Ahren

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pose prior to a trilateral meeting on Syria in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on February 14, 2019. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool/AFP)

Putin says Russia, Turkey, Iran see US pullout from Syria as ‘positive step’

By AFP

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman speaks during a press conference at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on January 3, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

UTJ’s Litzman suspected of trying to prevent extradition of alleged sex abuser

Police question deputy health minister on suspicion he sought to obtain false legal opinion claiming Malka Leifer not mentally fit to be sent to Australia to face charges

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) receives the news that Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman was questioned by police investigators over suspicions he sought to help a former school principal avoid extradition over allegations she molested students in Australia, February 14, 2019 (Screen grab via Kan)

PM caught on camera learning of Litzman probe: ‘You’re killing me’

Marjory Stoneman High School student Cameron Kasky addresses area students at a rally at the school after participating in a countywide school walkout in Parkland, Florida, February 21, 2018. (Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Analysis

Parkland survivors spent the year advocating change — and coping with trauma

As grief propels students and their parents to keep fighting for a safer world, a community comes together to help the activists find peace within the chaos

People at Trails End Park pause for a moment of silence in honor of the 17 that were killed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last year, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Parkland, Fla. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Year after Parkland massacre, victims honored with silent memorials

By AP

A guard seen outside a Jewish school and synagogue in Los Angeles before shooting the person filming the scene in the leg, on February 14, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)

Guard at LA Jewish school shoots YouTube personality filming video

By ToI Staff and JTA

In a photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on February 14, 2019, soldiers are seen during a military exercise in the Jordan valley. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF conducts massive drill to ‘simulate conditions of war with Hezbollah’

As Lebanese terror group’s fighters return from Syria, IDF tank brigade commander says army must prepare to deal with their improved military techniques

Illustrative: IDF and American troops unload a US Air Force cargo plane at an Israeli military base during the Juniper Falcon joint military exercise, February 2019. (US Army photo)

Israeli, US troops wrap up annual joint missile defense war games

Druze residents of the Golan Heights carry a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on February 14, 2019 (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Druze rally in Israeli Golan to protest annexation, show support for Assad

Israeli tourists visit the tower at Entebbe Airport where hostages were held captive in 1976, on February 14, 2019 (Screen grab via NTV)

Israel brings tourists to Entebbe for first time since legendary hostage rescue

Captain says he remembers hearing the news of 1976 raid when he was a 10-year-old, never believed he would fly to same Ugandan airport

US Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, at a news conference on prescription drugs, January 10, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/JTA)

Omar pushes back against Trump, says he’s ‘trafficked in hate’ his whole life

Democrat implies president’s call for her resignation is hypocritical, says she has learned from people after tweeting accusation that AIPAC pays US lawmakers to support Israel

In this Jan. 16, 2019 file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., center, walks through the halls of the Capitol Building in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

For Omar and AIPAC, a tweet about money turns into a way to raise some

Rep. Ilhan Omar at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in the Rayburn Building in Washington, DC, February 13, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/JTA)

AnalysisThe Ilhan Omar anti-Semitism controversy, explained

By Emily Burack

US Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams testifies as demonstrators protest behind him during the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Venezuela at Capitol Hill in Washington, February 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Ilhan Omar clashes with Elliott Abrams in US Congress over rights record

Controversial freshman lawmaker criticizes veteran diplomat over his alleged 1980s contribution to rights abuses in Latin America; Abrams complains about her to committee chairman

AnalysisWho is Elliott Abrams and why is Ilhan Omar attacking him?

A recently deleted Tweet by Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy accusing George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, and Tom Steyer of seeking to 'buy' the mideterm elections. (Screenshot)

McCarthy says he deleted tweet on billionaire Jewish donors due to bomb threats

Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg and other party members are seen in Tel Aviv on February 14, 2019, following the announcement of primary results. (Flash90)

Israel elections 2019

With huge turnout in first primary, Meretz voters pick veteran MKs for top spots

By Raoul Wootliff

Ilan Gilon, Michal Rozin and Issawi Frej finish as leading vote-getters, followed by newcomer Ali Shalalha; quartet of former Peace Now heads expected to miss out on Knesset bids

Gay former mayor, female ultra-Orthodox activist join Israel Resilience slate

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israel elections 2019Jewish Home and National Union agree to reunite for Knesset run

AG said leaning toward charging Netanyahu with bribe in Case 2000

Oh to be gatekeepers of our own holiness

We mask the edges of our identity with the seams of the guises we present, and must take care not to forget what is us and what is adornment

Opportunity lost

The little spacecraft that could may have died, but the lessons it inspired for how we persevere lives on

Brothers: A drama in five acts (Tetzaveh 5779)

Without truth, there can be no vision to inspire a nation; without internal peace, there is no nation to inspire

Joseph C. Kaplan

We can agree to disagree about women rabbis

Teaneck has many synagogues; it’s easy to find at least one you don’t go to, without dividing the community

More Headlines

Women seek out 'Sperminator' Ari Nagel for his tall stature, blue eyes, and high sperm count. (Facebook)

Hasta la vista, babiesIsraeli court bars woman from receiving sperm of US serial donor

Edward Kaprov, an Israeli photographer, holds one of his images on a glass plate in his field darkroom, near Kibbutz Kissufim, overlooking the northern Gaza border, on February 5, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Photographer revives archaic art form in Gaza border series

By Jonah Mandel

American Nazi supporters seen at a 1939 Nazi rally in New York City's Madison Square Garden, from the short documentary 'Night at the Garden'. (screenshot)

Fox News rejects ad for documentary on 1939 Nazi rally in New York

By JTA and ToI Staff

File: A Jordanian deminer uses a detector to clear a minefield in the northern Jordanian- Syrian border area, near Ramtha city, June 28, 2011 (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)

Mine blasts kill farmer, 3 security personnel in Jordan near Israeli border

By AFP

Jussie Smollett speaks at the Children's Defense Fund California's 28th Annual Beat The Odds Awards at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, December. 6, 2018. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images via JTA)

Gay, black, Jewish actor calls claims he lied about attack ‘ridiculous’

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara, center, sits in a courtroom in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2018. (Amit Shabi, Yedioth Ahronoth, Pool via AP)

Prosecutors said to renew plea deal talks with PM’s wife in catering case

US Rep. David Kustoff speaking in Congress on anti-Semitism, Feb. 13, 2019. (Screenshot from C-Span via JTA)

GOP votes against own anti-Semitism measure after adding it to Yemen bill

By JTA

Rashida Jones attends the 10th Annual AAFCA Awards at the Taglyan Complex, Feb. 6, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Phil McCarten/Invision/AP)

Rashida Jones, Tracee Ellis Ross, other Jews of color nominated for NAACP awards

By Emily Burack

A Palestinian protester runs near burning tires during a demonstration near the fence along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on February 15, 2019. An Israeli military vehicle is pictured on the other side of the fence. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Border policeman lightly hurt by explosive as thousands riot on Gaza border

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gestures while giving a speech in Caracas, Venezuela, on February 12, 2019. (Orangel Hernandez/AFP)

Venezuela’s Maduro says rival Guaido ‘serves the interests of US and Zionists’

By JTA

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