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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 24, 2019

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Rabbi Benny Lau. (Courtesy)

Prominent rabbi likens vote for Otzma Yehudit to backing Nuremberg Laws

Benny Lau, whose uncle was Holocaust survivor and ex-chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, says he’ll fight to ensure ‘the doctrine of Kahane doesn’t enter the Knesset’

Michael Ben Ari (right) and Itamar Ben Gvir of the Otzma Yehudit party outside the Central Elections Committee office in the Knesset on February 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Extremist Otzma Yehudit threatens to sue prominent rabbi over Nazi comparison

Prime Minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan, February 21, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Leading US Jewish journalists denounce Netanyahu for deal with extremists

Analysis

Yossi Klein Halevi

The desecration of Israel

In boosting Otzma Yehudit, Netanyahu has validated Kahanism, an apocalyptic racist theology that sanctifies hatred and vengeance

A man holds a sign outside the Washington Convention Center where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2015. (AFP/NICHOLAS KAMM)

Israel media reviewHow to lose friends and influence elections: 7 things to know for February 24

By Joshua Davidovich

AnalysisMeir Kahane: One Likud PM called him dangerous; another is wooing his disciples

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, February 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)

After AIPAC rebuke, Netanyahu defends aiding Kahanists: ‘Hypocrisy by the left’

PM says ‘left acted to bring extreme Islamists into Knesset’ while now damning ‘union with right-wing parties’; Otzma Yehudit: AIPAC want left in power, government that cedes land

Despite censure over Kahanists, AIPAC confirms Netanyahu to speak at confab

Gantz, Lapid said invited to speak at AIPAC conference

Lapid: Imperative to stop Kahanists persuaded me to enter alliance with Gantz

The Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal at the Wadi Araba crossing between Israel and Jordan. (CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia, NYC2TLV)

Live updates (closed)

Israel says plot to smuggle guns across Jordan border thwarted

Group of 4 Palestinians from Nablus arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle 37 handguns into Israel

7:26 pm

Mozes told police Netanyahu never offered quid pro quo deal -- report
7:11 pm

Israel says plot to smuggle guns across Jordan border thwarted
7:00 pm

Tycoon jailed for insider trading requests clemency from Rivlin

Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid of the Blue and White party give a joint a statement in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Arabic media review

Arabic press sees threat to Netanyahu in Gantz: 5 things from the past week

Saudi-owned newspaper reports centrist merger has aroused ‘alarm’ in Israeli right leadership; Morocco dismisses report of Netanyahu-Moroccan FM meeting as ‘rumors’

Bennett claims Netanyahu, Trump will divide Jerusalem, Gantz and Lapid will help

Barak confidant reportedly behind campaign pushing for Gantz-Lapid merger

Kulanu leaders upbraid Blue and White: ‘What are their policies? Their plans?’

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)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Palestinians celebrate victory after Israel capitulates, again, on Temple Mount

As in the 2017 metal detector controversy, Jordan and the Palestinian factions have made a significant achievement, taking over the Gate of Mercy after 15 years

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)

Israel briefly detains top Waqf official over Temple Mount protests

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

Yad Vashem's archive director Haim Gertner shows a document to visiting international experts and others who are participating in a workshop devoted to the physical and digital preservation of documents, in Jerusalem, September 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Head of Yad Vashem’s archives helps survivors unearth their own buried histories

By Brad Pomerance

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee at PA headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah September 15, 2018. (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Israel’s terror fund deduction rekindles Palestinian support for Abbas

Many Palestinians are vowing to donate salaries to prisoners, ‘martyr’ families after PA chief’s decision to refuse partial tax transfer; the fallout could see Gaza heat up as well

IDF troops conduct a training exercise near the Gaza Strip on December 6, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF launches surprise military-wide drill simulating war in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Channel 13 TV anchor Oshar Kotler holds back tears during a February 23, 2019 broadcast (YouTube screenshot)

TV host fights tears as she defends critique of soldiers, reveals death calls

A missile launch during the Velayat 97 drill by the Iranian military on February 23, 2019, in footage released by Iranian media. (Screenshot: YouTube)

In first, Iran says cruise missile launched from submarine during drill

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tehran conducts test with new Fateh submarine during 3-day exercise in Persian Gulf, in addition to destroyers, surveillance planes and helicopters; range of projectile is unknown

Netanyahu: Iran lying when it claims Israeli strikes in Syria have no effect

Iran claims to foil bid by unnamed ‘enemies’ to sabotage missiles

By AFP

As ‘caliphate’ crumbles, Islamic State women remain defiant

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari. (Collage by Alma; Tsabari photo: Jonathan Bloom)

Israeli writer Ayelet Tsabari on being a literal, literary wandering Jew

By Emily Burack

Shayna Abramson

Religious-Zionism is dead

A platform to oppress Palestinians is a violation of Judaism, and putting it on the ballot means our attempt at a Jewish state has failed

To Bibi and the Likud: Please sit this one out

Our best bet to keep Gantz and Lapid out of power is by letting the fresh approach of Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut Party take its turn

In this March 23, 1998 file photo, director Stanley Donen kisses the Oscar he received for Lifetime Achievement backstage at the 70th Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (AP/Reed Saxon)

Filmmaker Stanley Donen, who had Gene Kelly singin’ in the rain, dies at 94

King of Hollywood musicals, who used cinema growing up as escape from tensions of being one of only Jews around, remembered for bringing song and dance to silver screen

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A car nearly running over Jewish schoolchildren near Yeshiva Medrash Chaim in Borough Park, New York, February 21, 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Car drives on NY sidewalk, nearly hits kids from religious Jewish school

By AP

Reema Bint Bandar (screen capture: Arab News/YouTube)

Saudi Arabia taps princess as new envoy to US amid Khashoggi fallout

By AFP

Special counsel Robert Mueller departs Capitol Hill following a closed door meeting, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Hidden in plain sight, Mueller pulls cover off massive Kremlin meddling campaign

By CHAD DAY and Eric Tucker

Israeli startup Utilis uses satellite images to detect and prevent water leakages (Courtesy)

Outer space tech used by Israeli startup to find water leaks on Earth

By Federico Maccioni

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, at a cabinet meeting on January 4, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90/File)

AG said leaning toward not indicting Netanyahu in Case 2000

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on February 3, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

PM forced to return $300k legal defense money from cousin and clothing donation

By Michael Bachner

Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks during an event in San Francisco, on February 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

From the webIsraeli expat said behind multi-million-dollar Airbnb scam in Manhattan

A boat that overturned in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, on February 23, 2019 (Chilean Navy via Channel 13 screen capture)

Two Israeli tourists killed in Chile boating accident

TV presenter Rachel Riley poses for photographers after unveiling a new clockwork Lion statue in Trafalgar Square, London, Jan. 28, 2016. (Photo by Grant Pollard/Invision/AP)

UK entertainers to take legal action after online abuse for criticizing Labour

In this January 24, 2019, file photo, former US vice president Joe Biden speaks at the US Conference of Mayors Annual Winter Meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Joe Biden puts foreign policy at heart of his 2020 presidential bid

By ELANA SCHOR and Thomas Beaumont

Col. Yigal Ben Ami, the commander of the IDFs Tel Aviv headquarters, who stepped down from his position amid a corruption investigation on August 16, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Commander of army HQ indicted for giving cushy jobs to friends’ kids

By Judah Ari Gross

Zebra Medical Technologies gets funds from the Israel Innovation Authority to deploy its AI technologies at Israeli health providers (Courtesy)

Israel’s Zebra Medical to deploy its scan-reader tech with health providers

By Federico Maccioni

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