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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 17, 2019

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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019. (AP/Michael Sohn)

Israel hints that Polish PM is playing domestic politics

Polish PM cancels trip to Israel amid spat over Netanyahu Holocaust comments

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Morawiecki to send lower level official to Visegrad Group summit in Jerusalem this week as Warsaw fumes over reports of Israeli premier’s comments about Polish culpability

Members of nationalist organizations parade with torches during a march to commemorate Bulgarian general and politician Hristo Lukov, in the center of Sofia, on February 16, 2019. (Dimitar DILKOFF/AFP)

2,000 torch-wielding nationalists march through Sofia to honor pro-Nazi general

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Iran’s Zarif says there is ‘great risk’ of war with Israel

Iranian FM tells Munich Security Conference that Jerusalem is using bombing raids in Syria to instigate conflict, flouting international law along with US

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gestures during a press conference in Tehran on February 13, 2019 (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran rejects Pence’s anti-Semitism charge, says it’s ‘just against Zionists’

Iran's newly launched Ghadir submarines move in the southern port of Bandar Abbas in Persian Gulf, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Ghadir class submarines can fire missiles and torpedoes at the same time, and can operate in the Persian Gulf's shallow waters. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Ebrahim Norouzi)

Iran to unveil submarine equipped with guided cruise missile system

Channel 13 anchor Oshrat Kotler (screenshot)

TV host in hot water for saying control of West Bank turns troops into ‘animals’

PM, right-wing politicians denounce Oshrat Kotler for her comments, made in reference to soldiers’ alleged beating of two bound Palestinian detainees

Settlers in Kfar Etzion blame neighboring Palestinians after crop destroyed

Settlement fires school’s Israeli Arab cleaning staff after threats from parents

Officer indicted in case of soldiers who beat Palestinian suspects

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel Resilience party chairman Benny Gantz speaks at the 55th Munich Security Conference in southern Germany, February 17, 2019. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP)

Gantz in Munich speech: ‘No daylight’ with Netanyahu on Iran

By Raoul Wootliff

In first major policy address, former IDF chief says he has disagreements with PM but stands ‘should to shoulder’ with him on security

Ahead of Gantz security speech, Netanyahu slams Iran policy ‘opportunists’

By Raoul Wootliff

Powerful labor union head officially joins Gantz’s Knesset slate

Israel media reviewUnited we stand, united we fall: 7 things to know for February 17

By Joshua Davidovich

US Vice President Mike Pence (C) crosses a street to give a statement in front of the Bayerischer Hof hotel at the 55th Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 16, 2019. (THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)

Comparing Iran to Nazis, Pence doubles down on call for EU to quit nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and AP

US vice president brands Islamic Republic ‘leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world,’ repeats accusation that it is openly advocating another Holocaust

In this October 24, 2015 photo, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses a crowd in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Nasrallah: Warsaw meet unmasked Israel-Gulf ties, Arab leaders Israel’s ‘tools’

US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, MD, on February 15, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Trump demands Europe put IS fighters on trial

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this April 4, 2017 file photo, victims of a suspected chemical weapons attack lie on the ground, in Khan Sheikhoun, in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. (Alaa Alyousef via AP, File)

Syrian regime linked to over 300 chemical attacks – report

Global Public Policy Institute calls on international community to target regime’s helicopter fleet to prevent delivery of chemical munitions

Fighters of the US-backed Kurdish-Arab coalition of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walk past destroyed buildings during an operation to expel Islamic State group (IS) jihadists from their last bastion, in Baghouz in eastern Syria on February 16, 2019. (Delil souleiman / AFP)

In east Syria, IS makes last stand to defend dying ‘caliphate’

By Rouba El Husseini and Maya Gebeily

In this file photo taken on February 22, 2015, Renu Begum, eldest sister of British Islamic State member Shamima Begum, holds a picture of her sister while being interviewed by the media in central London. (Laura Lean/Pool/AFP)

IS teen’s wish to return stirs UK debate over jihadi brides

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah attends a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, conference, in Rome, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian PM calls Israel decision to freeze tax funds ‘collective punishment’

PA officials warn withholding 138 million in tax revenues over terrorist stipends will damage Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation

7:29 pm

IDF says solider moderately injured by explosive device on Gaza border
7:15 pm

IDF soldier reportedly injured in Gaza border riots
7:00 pm

Palestinian officials denounce Israel decision to freeze $138m in tax revenues

Israeli director Nadav Lapid celebrates with his Golden bear for best film for 'Synonyms' during the awards ceremony of the 69th Berlinale film festival on February 16, 2019 in Berlin. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Israeli-French drama ‘Synonyms’ wins top prize at Berlin film festival

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nadav Lapid’s absurdist film about an Israeli trying to put down roots in France first-ever movie by an Israeli filmmaker to take Golden Bear award at prestigious Berlinale

A student at the female-only campus of Effat University, sits for the first time in the driver's seat, during training sponsored by Ford Motor, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Saudi Arabia defends app that allows men to monitor wives, daughters

By AFP

Riyadh says outcry is an attempt to politicize Absher service, after US senator joins calls for Apple and Google to remove it from stores

Sharon Galper Grossman

I have no family history of breast cancer; I got tested for the BRCA gene anyway

Those who test positive can take measures that may save their lives; if you’re Askhenazi, like I am, how can you not find out?

Doubling down on the PA’s curriculum deception

UNWRA officials lied when they pledged to address the hate being taught in Palestinian elementary schools

Blanca Carrasco on a visit to a Sephardi synagogue in Fez, Morocco. (Courtesy)

US crypto-Jews race to reclaim heritage before Spanish citizenship offer ends

Demonstrators in Paris on February 16, 2019, marking three months of "yellow vest" protests against government policies. (ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP)

Macron slams anti-Semitic attack on French academic

By AFP

Protesters take part in a demonstration amid tear gas smoke on February 16, 2019 in Paris. (ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP)

French Jewish intellectual attacked by anti-Semites during yellow vest protest

By AFP and ToI Staff

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)

Marx tombstone vandalized for second time in weeks

By AFP

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Pictures said to show shoes with tracking devices seized by Hamas en route to the Gaza Strip on February 16, 2019 (screen capture: Twitter)

Hamas said to seize military boots with tracking devices at Gaza crossing

Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 11, 2018. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu taps Israel Katz as acting foreign minister

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi at the 55th Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 16, 2019 (Sven Hoppe / DPA / AFP)

Sissi: Israeli-Palestinian conflict is main source of instability in Middle East

The construction site in Jerusalem where a metal bar fell into a schoolyard, seriously injuring a 15-year-old girl. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Teen girl seriously injured by falling metal bar; father says it was terrorism

Police officers respond to a stabbing in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood on February 17, 2019. (Israel Police)

Man seriously injured in Jerusalem stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman attends a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, on August 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police suspect Litzman met with top psychiatrist to sway him on Leifer case

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Jussie Smollett, a cast member in the TV series 'Empire,' seen at the Fox Networks Group 2018 programming presentation afterparty in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Police believe actor Smollett may have paid men to stage attack – report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Thousands attend a ceremony to mark nine years since the 2009 shooting at the Bar Noar LGBT center, in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2018. (Flash90)

Police said to obtain new evidence in 2009 gay youth club murders

Travelers seen at the arrival hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Dozens of Ukrainians detained for hours at Ben Gurion Airport

The scene after a man stabbed his neighbor and a police officer before he was shot by police, Ashdod, February 17, 2019 (Police Spokesperson's Unit)

Ashdod man stabs neighbor, then assaults police, is shot

The unfinished museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, in Latrun, Israel, April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Netanyahu pledges funds to finally finish museum honoring Jewish WWII soldiers

Police arrest 9 more suspects in health ministry food inspection bribery scandal. (iStock by Getty Images)

Nine arrested as food license fraud scandal widens

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