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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 23, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference at the Washington Convention Center March 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Analyst sees a 'sonic boom' in ties between US lobby and PM

AIPAC to boycott ‘racist and reprehensible’ Kahanist party wooed by Netanyahu

Pro-Israel lobby joins AJC to decry the union of extremist ‘Otzma Yehudit’ — whose ‘views do not reflect Israel’s core values’ — with Jewish Home party, a move midwifed by PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then finance minister Yair Lapid, at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on October 7, 2014. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90)

Lapid on Netanyahu fixing deal with Kahanists: He puts politics before country

AnalysisAs Joint List splits, Israel’s Arab voters have more choices, less power

Analysis

Maxim Reider and Simona Weinglass

Vote ‘FK’: Meet the ex-con Russophile internet celebrity running for the Knesset

Convicted money launderer Semion Grafman helps ordinary Israelis fight bureaucracy. His critics accuse him of spreading Kremlin propaganda. ‘It’s a misunderstanding,’ he says

Illustrative: Semion Grafman in a Channel 9 campaign promoting Russian pride among Russian speakers in Israel. (Instagram)

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman presents his right-wing party's candidates for the upcoming Knesset elections, during an event in Ashkelon on February 19, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman rules out sitting in government led by Gantz

Palestinian worshipers gather before Friday noon prayers at the premises of the Golden Gate in al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, on February 22, 2019 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Report: Temple Mount section sealed since 2003 reopened to Palestinians

By ToI Staff and AP

MK Ahmad Tibi visits compound, calls for full Muslim control at Al-Aqsa and the barring of ‘settlers and Jewish politicians from the right’

Palestinians worshipers gather before Friday noon prayers at the premises of the Golden Gate on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, on February 22, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Thousands of Palestinians break into closed off Temple Mount section

By AP and ToI Staff

FILE: Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of the capital Tehran, on April 9, 2007. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP)

TV report: MI6 spy chief makes secret Israel trip amid new Iran nuclear activity

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Channel 13: Alex Younger holds talks with Mossad chief as Iran renews centrifuge production; Israeli assessment: Regime has not yet made political decision to break out to bomb

Iran vows ‘surprise’ to counter US sanctions amid reports of new nuke activity

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran fingered as warning issued over attacks on key infrastructure of internet

By Glenn Chapman

Iran shows off new destroyer, cruise missile-capable submarine during navy drill

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A computer simulation shows the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet's position after launch (YouTube screenshot)

As Beresheet heads to moon, Israeli team probes problem with navigation sensors

By ToI Staff and AP

Officials say glare from sun causing more trouble than expected in spacecraft’s ability to orient itself, but claim the issue is a minor one and shouldn’t affect mission

Jackson Oswalt shows his homemade fusion reactor to Fox News. (Fox News screenshot)

A smashing success

12-year-old American boy achieves nuclear fusion at home

Jackson Oswalt, who is believed to be youngest ever to reach the feat, built a small amateur nuclear reactor with parents’ financial assistance

US Ambassador to Canada Kelly Knight Craft stands during her swearing in ceremony on the White House grounds, September 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump names Kelly Craft to succeed Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the UN

By Zeke Miller and Matthew Lee

Current envoy to Canada will have to contend with pressing issues from Afghanistan to Venezuela; her predecessor, beloved by Israel, set to address AIPAC conference next month

Military vehicles with the US-backed coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group during an operation to expel the jihadists, in the countryside of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, February 21, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

As hundreds of US troops stay in Syria, Trump insists no U-turn

By Thomas WATKINS

US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard next to men waiting to be screened after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, near Baghouz, eastern Syria, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. (AP/Felipe Dana)

Told to leave, IS ‘caliphate’ holdouts in Syria stay devoted

By Sarah El Deeb

Actress Rachel Weisz poses for photographers backstage with her Best Supporting Actress award for her role in the film 'The Favourite' at the BAFTA awards in London, February 10, 2019. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Oscar preview

Jews really don’t own Hollywood: Chosen get few Oscar nods, are played by goyim

If you’re rooting for Members of the Tribe this year, you might be disappointed. But there’s plenty of other gold at Sunday’s Awards

A crowd of demonstrators outside New York's Madison Square Garden as they seize a uniformed member of the German American Bund who had emerged from a Bund rally and attempted to enter a taxi, February 20, 1939. (AP Photo, File)

Documentary about 1939 Nazi rally in New York up for Oscar

By Karen Matthews

Israeli vampire series 'Juda' is coming to Hulu. (Banijay Rights/via Alma/JTA)

Analysis

The Israeli vampire series ‘Juda’ is coming to Hulu. Get excited

Combining elements of crime capers, body horror, comedy, music videos, classic noir, and superhero stories, ‘Juda’ might be one of the most original shows on TV

Actor Jussie Smollett arrives on the red carpet ahead of Sir Ridley Scott's Hand and Footprint ceremony in front of the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, May 17, 2017. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

‘Empire’ producers cut Jussie Smollett from season’s last episodes

By AP

'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett, center, leaves Cook County jail following his release, Thursday, February 21, 2019, in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Social media provides fuel for Jussie Smollett story

By Sharon Cohen and Allen G. Breed

Israel is a centrist country

Combine deep socialist roots with grave security concerns and you get citizens who buck the usual left-right divide

Yossi Klein Halevi loves Poland, but does Poland love him?

The statistics don’t lie: Polish anti-Semitism is widespread and enduring

Joshua S. Finkelstein

What I learned when my wife wanted to say Kaddish

We found an afternoon minyan in Orthodox Monsey NY where goodwill overcame our marked differences

Andrew Silow-Carroll

An idiot’s guide to anti-Semitic tropes

Not sure how to keep from inadvertently saying something that offends Jews? You could try asking them

Israeli chef Nir Zook, left, and Orly Gottesman, founder of Breads by Orly, are opening Modern Bread & Bagels, which moonlights as gourmet restaurant Arba. (Courtesy)

Two for one

In NY, new gluten-free bagel joint transforms after dark to chic kosher gourmet

By Cathryn J. Prince

Owner Robert Kraft of the NFL's New England Patriots football team looks on during Super Bowl LIII Opening Night at State Farm Arena on January 28, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images/AFP)

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to be charged with soliciting prostitute

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Spokesperson denies any illegal activity; police say they have video; businessman and philanthropist, 77, was recently named winner of $1m Genesis Prize, so-called Jewish Nobel

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft arrives for the NFL football fall meetings in New York, October 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

AnalysisRobert Kraft prostitute scandal another PR headache for the ‘Jewish Nobel’ prize

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Illustrative: Swastikas found drawn on an elementary school playground in Queens, New York, February 22, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Vandals draw swastikas on school playground in New York City

This image provided by the Dormont, Pennsylvania Police shows Moshe Journo, an Israeli man who allegedly had been on the run for 15 years after being accused of raping a teenage girl in Pennsylvania. Journo was remanded to the Allegheny County Jail after he was extradited back to United States on February 21, 2019. (Dormont Police/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

Sex assault suspect extradited from Israel to Pennsylvania

By AP

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Report: Apps give Facebook sensitive health and other data

By MAE ANDERSON

In this Monday, January 21, 2019 photo, a 6 foot (1.8 meter) sandbar shark is measured by researchers from the predator project at the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station established by the University of Haifa in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the northern Israeli city of Hadera (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Sharks reel in fans in Eastern Mediterranean winter waters

By Jonah Mandel

T-Pain onstage at Forecastle Music Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, July 14, 2018. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Beefing with BBYORapper T-Pain walks off stage due to rowdy Jewish youth

By Gabe Friedman

Israel's new Ambassador to Rwanda, Ron Adam, left, presents his credentials to Rwanda President Paul Kagame, on February 21, 2019. (Office of the President of Rwanda)

Boosting Africa ties, Israel opens first embassy in Rwanda

By AFP and ToI Staff

Musical director and conductor Daniel Barenboim stands in the main concert hall of the newly renovated Staatsoper Opera House in Berlin, Germany, September 29, 2017. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP/File)

Bad tempoStar conductor Barenboim hits back after criticisms

By AFP

Spiro Agnew campaigning at the Republican Convention in Miami in 1972 (Keystone/Getty Images via JTA)

Nixon’s vice president asked Saudis for money to fight US ‘Zionists’ — MSNBC

By JTA

Nazi soldiers on the march over an unnamed road in Denmark, April 9, 1940, seized by Germany in a sudden thrust toward Scandinavian points. (AP Photo)

German payments to WWII injured include Nazi collaborators

By AFP

William Happer (CC BY-SA Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)

Trump climate adviser said emissions are demonized like ‘poor Jews under Hitler’

By KEVIN FREKING and Seth Borenstein

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during the US Conference of Mayors Annual Winter Meeting in Washington on January 24, 2019. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Biden’s 2020 opening? Democratic field missing foreign policy hand

By ELANA SCHOR and Thomas Beaumont

Illustrative photo of a man receiving a vaccine in Safed in northern Israel, November 6, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Court orders 12-year-old to be vaccinated for measles despite father’s refusal

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