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What Matters Most On Friday, February 22, 2019

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The Falcon 9 rocket lifting off with the Beresheet spacecraft on February 22, 2019, as seen on the command center screens in Yehud, Israel. (SpaceIL)

'A dream that’s finally being realized'

Shooting for the moon, engineers cheer successful launch of Beresheet

By Melanie Lidman

$100 million spacecraft could make Israel the fourth country to land on the moon, but for many engineers involved in the project, just the fact that it launched is miraculous

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with Israel's Lunar Lander and an Indonesian communications satellite at space launch complex 40, February 21, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Israel’s $100 million moonshot blasts off with a successful launch

By Melanie Lidman

Yariv Bash, right, Yonatan Winetraub, middle, and Kfir Damari, the founders of SpaceIL, inserting a digital time capsule into the Beresheet spacecraft, December 17, 2018. (Yoav Weiss)

With overnight launch, Israel aims to be 4th country to land on the moon

Benny Gantz, left, and Yair Lapid of the newly-formed Blue and White alliance give a joint a statement to the press in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

'Country has lost its way. We're here to say -- enough'

Gantz, Lapid at joint party launch: ‘Today we are changing the face of Israel’

Vowing to replace ‘divisive’ PM at first event of Blue and White alliance, ex-army chief reveals his mother, Yesh Atid chief’s father lived in same apartment building in Budapest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement after a meeting of his ruling Likud party in Ramat Gan on February 21, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Netanyahu urges Israelis: Don’t elect weak, incompetent leftists Gantz and Lapid

Head of the Gesher Political party MK Orly Levy Abekasis at the Central Elections Committee, where political parties running for a spot in the upcoming Israeli elections, arrive to present their slates, Tel Aviv, February 21, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Blue and White, Gesher, Kulanu file party slates hours before deadline

By Raoul Wootliff

Tzomet party head MK Oren Hazan takes a selfie as he present his party list at the Central Elections Committee, on February 21, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Campaign notebook

Arab, religious parties last of record-high 47 slates to register for elections

Procession of candidates come before Central Elections Committee amid flurry of last-minute mergers and splits; Pirate party will recommend ‘the internet’ as Israel’s next PM

Labor chairman Avi Gabbay (L) welcoming former IDF Southern Command chief Tal Russo to the party, February 21, 2019. (Ra'anan Cohen)

Labor’s new No. 2, ex-general Tal Russo, won’t say whether he supports 2 states

By Raoul Wootliff

MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi react after submitting a joint list of candidates from their Hadash and Ta'al parties to the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on February 21, 2019. (Hadash)

Arab parties officially running on two tickets: Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am-Balad

The Jewish Home party votes on a pre-election alliance with Otzma Yehudit in Petah Tikva, February 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Analysis

How the national religious camp moved from land for peace to union with radicals

The dispersal of Modern Orthodox Israelis into diverse political homes over the decades has left a progressively messianic minority in charge of their once dovish party

Mossi Raz speaking to an audience in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019; at right is Times of Israel's Miriam Herschlag. (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Times of Israel PresentsMeretz MK condemns Israeli right for politics of ‘hatred’

By Simona Weinglass

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan speaks during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on January 19, 2017.(Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud joins with defunct party to sidestep legal challenges to Jewish Home deal

By Raoul Wootliff

Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid embrace after deciding to forge an alliance for the upcoming election, February 21, 2019. (Courtesy/Facebook)

Analysis

Gantz-Lapid alliance is a major shake-up, not yet a political revolution

Three ex-IDF chiefs are now lined up against Netanyahu. Branding his rivals as weak leftists is going to be harder. But we’ve yet to see votes moving away from the right

From left to right: Blue and White party leaders Moshe Ya'alon, Benny Gantz , Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi pose for a picture after announcing their new electoral alliance in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Polls give new Gantz-Lapid faction meaningful lead over Netanyahu’s Likud

Blue and White party leaders Benny Gantz, left, and Yair Lapid, right, at the new alliance's unveiling in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel media reviewParty poopers: 7 things to know for February 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Jewish gravestones piled in a heap at the Brest Fortress in Belarus. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Remains of hundreds of slain victims discovered at former Belarus Jewish ghetto

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Bodies of men, women and children found with gunshot wounds to their skulls; Nazis killed 800,000 Jews in the country during WWII

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki arrives at the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, September 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Polish PM says nation’s Holocaust involvement was ‘individual criminals’

Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Jacek Czaputowicz,right, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shake hands at a news conference at Lazienki Palace, Warsaw, Poland, February 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland says US secretary of state supports its stance in spat with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UK Labour MP Ian Austin accuses party leader Jeremy Corbyn of anti-Semitism during a Commons debate on April 17, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Holocaust survivor’s son quits UK Labour over ‘extremism, anti-Semitism’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ian Austin, the adopted child of a refugee, is ninth MP to quit the British opposition party, but says he won’t be joining the newly formed centrist Independent Group

A building at the University of Essex (Wikimedia Commons, Rwendland)

UK lecturer accused of anti-Semitism, encouraging vote against Jewish group

A swastika, painted on the wall of the Stedelijk Museum overnight, is seen in Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 22, 2019 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Vandals daub swastikas, anti-Semitic texts on Dutch buildings, Holocaust statue

Anti-Semitic graffiti found on the Bagelstein restaurant in Paris, France on February 9. 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)

Analysis

The new ‘new anti-Semitism’ in Western Europe feels eerily familiar

Phenomenon has mutated yet again, reverting to its 20th-century economic elements and gaining a strong foothold in swelling populist movements

Elan Carr, left, the US State Department’s new envoy on anti-Semitism, speaks to delegates of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization in Jerusalem, February 21, 2019 (Sam Sokol/JTA)

US anti-Semitism envoy tells Jewish leaders Trump committed to protecting Jews

People walk down the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris on February 16, 2019 during the 14th consecutive week of 'yellow vest' protests. (Eric Feferberg/AFP)

Kippah-wearing supporter of French yellow vests shared anti-Semitic posts

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl meets delegates at an international conference on the Middle East in Warsaw, February 14, 2019 (Angelika Lauber)

Interview

Unfazed by current boycott, Austrian FM has fond memories of her time in Israel

Karin Kneissl, still shunned by Jerusalem for her ties with far-right Freedom Party, nostalgically recalls meeting Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Yitzhak Shamir in the late 80s

Border Police patrol near an entrance to the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, on February 19, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

60 arrested as police brace for Temple Mount violence after Friday prayers

Security forces say dozens in custody, with further arrests expected ahead of prayers at flashpoint Jerusalem compound

IDF: Gaza children being promised NIS 300 ($83) if injured at border protests

Palestinians say teen killed as thousands riot on Gaza border

Palestinians move to create list of Israeli products to ban from their markets

A Jewish guide to the 2019 Oscars

By Gabe Friedman

From Rachel Weisz in ‘The Favourite’ to a Nazi documentary that angered Fox News, here is what to look out for at Sunday’s Academy Awards

Illustrative: An arrow speeding through a motion blurred forest (iStock)

Man shoots neighbor with crossbow during fight in West Bank settlement

Victim taken to hospital with serious wounds; suspect escapes after incident in Adam, but later arrested

Elad Dvash-Banks, left, and his partner, Andrew, pose for photos with their twin sons, Ethan, center right, and Aiden in their apartment Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Israeli-American gay couple wins lawsuit to have twins recognized as US citizens

By ToI Staff and AP

Request was previously denied because boy is not his US parent’s biological son; judge rules children of Americans who marry abroad are citizens if parents married at time of birth

Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel, laughs before addressing the crowd outside the state Capitol building, Tuesday, January 1, 2019 in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

US politicsHow Judaism inspires the first openly gay politician in Michigan state office

By Josefin Dolsten

Your outrage at the Jewish Home party is misplaced

The real world sometimes entails revolting decisions that compromise our principles for the sake of upholding other principles

To soar among the heavens

I look at my people, where they have been, and yet what they achieve, and I am convinced that the era of miracles continues unabated

Stephen Horenstein

7 faces of Jerusalem

These portraits in sound capture the hours of a day in the city, from the muezzin to birdsong to the explosion of traffic

A stiff-necked people

In their stubbornness, Jews are not always willing to bow down to God, but they’re also not willing to bow down to anything less

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This frame grab from video posted online January 18, 2019, by supporters of the Islamic State group, purports to show a gun-mounted Islamic State group vehicle firing at members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour, Syria. (Militant Photo via AP)

From Syria, IS slips into Iraq to fight another day

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and PHILIP ISSA

Avi Zimmerman and Ashraf Jabari (Eitan Tal via JTA)

Palestinian and Israeli leaders launch West Bank economic initiative

This February 21, 2019 photo released by the Chicago Police Department shows Jussie Smollett. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

Prosecutor: Actor Jussie Smollett gave detailed instructions for fake attack

This Tuesday, March 7, 2017 frame grab from video shows US forces patrol on the outskirts of the Syrian town, Manbij, a flashpoint between Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters and US-backed Kurdish fighters, in al-Asaliyah village, Aleppo province, Syria. (Arab 24 network, via AP, File)

US to leave ‘peacekeeping group’ of 200 troops in Syria after withdrawal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., makes a phone call just off the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Chuck Schumer among Democratic lawmakers on Coast Guard officer’s hit list

ILLUSTRATIVE -- In this photo taken Aug. 27, 2015, John Jay Hooker shows a melanoma spot that has shrunk since starting treatment at Tennessee Oncology in Nashville, Tennessee (AP Photo/David Goldman)

AI may be able to predict spread of melanoma, Israeli scientist says

Runners at the start of the Tel Aviv Marathon, February 22, 2019. (Tel Aviv Municipality/YouTube)

40,000 runners take to the streets of Tel Aviv for annual marathon

Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on September 5, 2005, in Warren, Connecticut (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)

Goodbye, Upper West SidePhilip Roth’s New York apartment up for sale

By JTA

The Rumbach Street Synagogue (CC BY-SA Thaler Tamas/Wikimedia Commons)

Scammers steal $437k from Hungarian Jews’ synagogue renovation project

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Police question a 15-year-old boy who helped his brother, 5, drive their parents' car. (Israel Police)

Minor offensePolice pull over car, find 5-year-old at the wheel

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