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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 20, 2019

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Jewish Home central committee event in Petah Tikva, February 20, 2019 (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Jewish Home votes overwhelmingly to merge with extremist Otzma Yehudit faction

Party leader says he opposes joint ticket with far-right, but urges nationalist religious party to back Netanyahu deal because there is ‘danger to our home’

7:35 pm

Confirming nixed Gantz deal, Levy-Abekasis announces independent Knesset run
7:22 pm

Macron to adopt wider definition of anti-Semitism amid spate of attacks
6:57 pm

Jewish Home party votes overwhelmingly to merge with extremist Otzma Yehudit

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s despicable push to bring racists into Israel’s political mainstream

The PM has persuaded the religious-Zionist Jewish Home to partner with the Kahanists of Otzma Yehudit. It makes cynical political sense for his interests, but what of Israel’s?

Baruch Marzel, right, listens as Michael Ben Ari (left) speaks during a ceremony honoring the late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in a Jerusalem hall, October 26 2010. (Yossi Zamir / Flash 90)

Israel Resilience party chief Benny Gantz speaks at a party gathering in Tel Aviv on February 19, 2019, in a speech in which he castigated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media reviewLow and lower: 8 things to know for February 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Flash90)

Promoted content ad giants tell Israeli PR agencies: No more political smears

Right-wing activists Michael Ben Ari (center), attorney Itamar Ben Gvir (left), and Bentzi Gopstein at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Left pans Netanyahu for pushing deal with 'terror group'

Extremist Otzma Yehudit announces unity pact with Jewish Home

With limited bargaining chips, far-right faction, composed of disciples of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, agrees to slots 5 and 8 on national religious party’s slate

Netanyahu puts off meeting with Putin as he pushes for right-wing unity deal

New Right unveils Knesset slate featuring equal representation for women

By Michael Bachner and Raoul Wootliff

Liberman unveils Yisrael Beytenu candidates, leaves out veteran lawmakers

By Alexander Fulbright

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with Palestinian leaders at the Muqata, the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on February 20, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Abbas rejects all tax revenues from Israel over terror payment deduction

Dramatic move means PA is giving up $222 million every month, up to a third of its budget, putting it in danger of collapse

Palestinian suspect in murder, rape of Ori Ansbacher remanded for 8 more days

IDF raids West Bank refugee camp in crackdown on rock throwing

By Judah Ari Gross

19 Palestinians arrested in fresh Temple Mount clashes

By AP and ToI Staff

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid (L) and Israel Resilience party chief Benny Gantz. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90, Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Gantz, Lapid meet in last-ditch bid to unite against the right

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Leaders of Israel Resilience and Yesh Atid speak overnight amid effort to reach elusive agreement on leadership of joint centrist ticket

Gantz makes scathing personal attack on Netanyahu, paints him as US-trained fake

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu plays up military past in sharp response to scathing Gantz attack

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Israel Resilience top 30Gantz’s Israel Resilience reveals party slate for April elections

By Raoul Wootliff

In this Jan. 30, 2019, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 that he is running for president in 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Analysis

In 2016 Bernie Sanders pushed the Democrats on Israel. Is he now mainstream?

As the Vermont senator announces another presidential run, he looks less like an outlier on Israel, with many saying he made it kosher for candidates to criticize the Jewish state

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota speaks at a press conference calling on Congress to cut funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to defund border detention facilities, outside the US Capitol in Washington, on February 7, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Ilhan Omar apologizes to Jewish groups for hurt caused by AIPAC tweet

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat-Michigan, stands on the floor before US President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

BDS-supporting Rashida Tlaib uses Israeli tech for her personal website

By Stuart Winer

Former Labour MP and chair of Labour Friends of Israel, Joan Ryan (ToI staff)

Citing anti-Semitism, UK Labour Friends of Israel head is 8th MP to quit party

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Announcing departure from Labour after four decades, Joan Ryan, who is not Jewish, slams Corbyn for presiding over party’s ‘culture of anti-Jewish racism and hatred of Israel’

Screen capture from video of UK Labour party MP Ruth George during a television interview, February 2018. (YouTube)

UK Labour MP suggests Israel funding lawmakers who’ve bolted over anti-Semitism

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Pro-Europe British politician, Conservative party MP Anna Soubry, center, speaks to members of the media at a People's Vote campaign press conference in London on December 11, 2018. (Oli SCARFF/AFP)

Three UK Conservative lawmakers defect to join Labour rebels’ Independent Group

By Agencies and ToI Staff

French President Emmanuel Macron holds children by the hands as he visit the vandalized Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, eastern France, Tuesday, February 19, 2019. (Frederick Florin, Pool via AP)

‘That’s enough’: Thousands rally in France to oppose recent anti-Semitic acts

By Samuel Petrequin and Sylvie Corbet

Netanyahu urges Europe to take a stand against ‘plague’ of anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jewish Agency head blames social media ‘killing fields’ for rising anti-Semitism

Man shot by air rifle outside Paris-area synagogue

By JTA and ToI Staff

In this photo from September 6, 2018, Georgette Mosbacher stands next to an American flag after receiving her credentials as new United States ambassador to Poland in Warsaw. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

US envoy calls on FM Katz apologize to Poland for anti-Semitism remark

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Georgette Mosbacher makes statement a day after condemning ‘offensive’ comment that ‘Poles ‘suckle anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk’

Reports of Jewish cemetery desecration in Poland false, officials say

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Hungary attacks Soros, EU Commission chief in anti-immigration campaign

By AFP and ToI Staff

Siding with Poland, US slams Israeli FM’s ‘offensive’ anti-Semitism remark

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Yossi Klein Halevi

A people deserves to be judged by its best, not its worst, and the best of the Poles are among the Jews’ most trusted friends

The power of one

It’s not every day that you and only you can save the life of a woman dying from cancer

Philip Earl Steele

Time for a Polish-Israeli pivot from Holocaust to Zionism

Focus should shift to a history that spawned luminaries of modern Jewish nationhood that include David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin

An open letter to Yair Lapid

You would do well to make a small sacrifice now, for the sake of the State of Israel and the Jewish people

Fathi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, delivering a speech in the border region between Israel and the Gaza Strip on February 19, 2019. (Screenshot: Al-Aqsa TV)

Hamas official threatens border raid if Israel doesn’t keep to ceasefire deal

Fathi Hammad says ‘our patience has run out,’ slams the apparently warming ties between Israel and Arab states

IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot awards an official commendation to the Sayeret Matkal and Military Intelligence special missions units on March 27, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas claims credit as head of elite IDF unit steps down after Gaza raid

By Judah Ari Gross

A balloon carrying a suspected explosive device from the Gaza Strip touches down in southern Israel on February 19, 2019. (Yediot MeHaShetah)

For first time in months, Gaza balloons spark fire in south

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative picture - which mouthwash to use? (LightFieldStudios / lStock - Getty Images)

Bad breath

Israeli sues mouthwash marketer for double gargling

Importer faces 30 million NIS lawsuit for inconsistent Hebrew instructions on product use

More Headlines

A map of Africa shown to US-Jewish leaders by PM Netanyahu at a conference in Jerusalem, February 18, 2019 (TOI staff)

Map shown by PM shows Israel having ‘potential’ relations with Mali, Niger

By Raphael Ahren

ReWalk's ReStore soft suit to help rehabilitate stroke victims (Courtesy)

Israel’s ReWalk seeks FDA nod for robotic suit to help rehab stroke victims

By Shoshanna Solomon

Corals at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences coral farm in the Red Sea city of Eilat, southern Israel, January 17, 2019. (Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences/Dror Komet via AP)

Northern Red Sea coral reefs may be able to survive a hot, grim future

By Alon Bernstein and Isabel Debre

Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai at the City Exchange Ceremony and raffle January 28, 2019 for the semi-finals of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest to be held May 14-18, 2019 in Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Fans furious as Israel plans steep hike to Eurovision ticket prices

In this image provided by the Department of Transportation, deputy transportation secretary Jeffrey Rosen is shown in his official portrait in Washington. President Donald Trump has nominated Rosen to be the next deputy attorney general. (Department of Transportation via AP)

Trump chooses Jeffrey Rosen for deputy attorney general

By MICHAEL BALSAMO

Maj. Gen. (res.) Tal Russo. (Government Press Office)

Seeking to boost security cred, Gabbay gives Labor No. 2 spot to ex-general

By Raoul Wootliff and Alexander Fulbright

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara at a press conference in the northern city of Safed, July 10, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Ayoub Kara said to call his fellow Likud members ‘Nazis’ in angry shouting match

This photo from January 3, 2013, shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google to buy Israeli cloud data startup Alooma

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen capture from video showing the delivery of Russian S-300 air defense missiles to Syria. (YouTube)

Israeli satellite intel firm: Syrian S-300 air defenses ‘probably operational’

By Judah Ari Gross

Commuters at the newly built Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem, September 25, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

‘Sick’ train drivers derail service amid spat over work hours

By Stuart Winer

Ilan Shor, then-mayor of the town of Orhei, Moldova, arrives to meet with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. (Daniel MIHAILESCU/AFP)

Israeli-born convicted fraudster on track for seat in Moldovan parliament

By Ionut Iordachescu and Mihaela RODINA

David Icke (Tyler Merbler / Flickr/ Wikipedia)

Slammed as ‘Holocaust denier,’ David Icke barred from Australia

By AFP and ToI Staff

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