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What Matters Most On Monday, February 25, 2019

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Guy Nattiv, right, and Jaime Ray Newman accept the award for best live action short film for "Skin" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Film is about 'teaching your kids a better way'

Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s ‘Skin’ wins Oscar for best live action short film

By ToI Staff and AP

Director cites Holocaust survivor grandparents in acceptance speech, saying bigotry they experienced is all around us today and was motivation for film about race relations

Best Live Action Short Film winners for 'Skin' director Guy Nattiv, left, and Jaime Ray Newman attend the 91st Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2019. (Robyn BECK/AFP)

Israeli Oscar winner promises to bring award to Israel

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Rami Malek accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "Bohemian Rhapsody" at the Oscars on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Rami Malek becomes first Arab-American to win best actor Oscar

By AP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu and the Kahanists: A moral compromise that may ruin his legacy

Few politicians will put moral concerns above political ones unless they fear public shame. The Otzma Yehudit deal may exact a higher cost than the PM realizes

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)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2014. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Ex-AIPAC official: By backing extremists, Netanyahu ‘overstepped the line’

By Raphael Ahren

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 accuses left of denying him the right to a legal defense

Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)

US Reform leader: Netanyahu’s deal with extremists is like ‘welcoming’ the KKK

By Eric Cortellessa

Liberal American Jewish leaders say PM’s embrace of Otzma Yehudit party makes it harder to defend Israel

Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. (AP Photo/Maya Hasson)

US Jewish leader says community worried by Netanyahu’s ties to far-right party

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a visit at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia, on February 22, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO via Flash90)

Australian Jews join chorus condemning deal with extremist Israeli party

Itamar Ben Gvir holds a press conference with family members of Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri, who were found dead in their home in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, on January 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Otzma Yehudit candidate: Critics have to go back 30 years in order to attack us

Itamar Ben Gvir says that while he admires Meir Kahane, his party is not calling to expel all Arab citizens — only those who are ‘disloyal’ to state

An Israeli border police officer patrols an entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on February 19, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Israel media reviewNo longer under the surface: 8 things to know for February 25

By Joshua Davidovich

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (out of frame) at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on February 21, 2019. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Pompeo: Netanyahu courting extremist party is not America’s concern

To my community I say this is a terrible stain

I stand by what I told my congregants this Sabbath: The Otzma Yehudit party is based on race theory and this should horrify us

No one thinks cadavers should receive medical care

Defining brain death as certain biological death is not simple, and the law takes that into account

The Labor Party may have handed Bibi the election

Avi Gabbay’s refusal to merge with Meretz means thousands of votes for the left could potentially go down the drain

Smotrich for education minister – and 4 other jokes

Appointing a self-described ’proud homophobe’ for the post would be hilarious if Netanyahu hadn’t actually proposed it

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks on June 29, 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

Britain to blacklist Hezbollah in its entirety as a terror group

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UK home secretary says Shiite militia’s political arm is no longer distinguishable from its already-banned military wing; Israeli FM welcomes move, calls on UN to follow suit

Illustrative. Children run toward a bomb shelter in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi during a November 2012 military operation in Gaza, known as Pillar of Defense. (Yuval Haker/Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Iran tried to infiltrate Israel’s rocket alert system

By Judah Ari Gross

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, left, talks with deputy leader Tom Watson, during the start of the party's annual conference in Liverpool, England, September 23, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

UK Labour deputy flags tweets by party members accusing Jews of murdering kids

Interview

Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

New US anti-Semitism envoy employs lessons learned from Iraq to fight ‘scourge’

Elan Carr, attorney and ex-head of a US army anti-terrorism team, says he was chosen by philo-Semite Trump because his career has been about ‘fighting evil and keeping people safe’

Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism Elan Carr. (courtesy)

Yair Lapid of the Blue and White party, in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Lapid: Blue and White will seek coalition with post-Netanyahu Likud if it wins

By Michael Bachner and Raoul Wootliff

Co-leader of centrist alliance with Benny Gantz recorded promising not to cooperate politically with Arab parties; Labor slams remarks

Gesher party leader MK Orly Levy-Abekasis registers her party's slate for the coming elections, February 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK Levy-Abekasis claims Gantz offered her second place on his slate

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, standing, speaks at the United Torah Judaism party's campaign kickoff in Bnei Brak, on February 24, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox party rules out coalition with Lapid

Illustrative. Elderly people enjoying the morning sun in the southern city of Ashkelon, January 10, 2009. (Gili Yaari/Flash 90)

Israel 10th-healthiest country in the world – report

Bloomberg index puts Spain at the top of the list; Jewish state slips one place down the rankings since last global assessment in 2017

Illustrative. A dog's nose. (Keyshort; iStock by Getty Images)

Dogs sniffing for cancer? Not so fast, experts say

By Johanna Chisholm

Prof. Boaz Lerner of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has developed an AI-based software to monitor and predict the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. (Dani Machlis)

Israeli researchers develop AI-based software to track progression of ALS

By Shoshanna Solomon

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of Arab and European leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh on February 24, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)

Abbas urges Europeans to play greater role in peace process, recognize Palestine

PA chief tells summit in Egypt that EU nations’ failure to recognize Palestinian statehood is a betrayal of their values, insists such a move would not jeopardize negotiations

Palestinian demonstrators attend a protest demanding Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to step down, Gaza City, February 24, 2019. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza call for PA president’s ouster

Illustrative: An IDF soldier sits in a military court. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Second soldier accused of beating Palestinian prisoners accepts plea deal

By Judah Ari Gross

Missiles shown in an Iranian documentary about the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group broadcast on February 24, 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Islamic Jihad touts new missile that can hit Tel Aviv and beyond

By Michael Bachner

In documentary on Iranian TV, Gaza-based Palestinian terror group says Tehran helped it make the new projectile, as well as precision missiles

Border guards nab Palestinian smuggling 37 pistols from Jordan to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli forces arrest 2 senior Islamic Jihad members in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and Michael Bachner

Israeli checkers foil attempt to smuggle gun, bullets from West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, speaks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tehran, Iran, February 25, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Syria’s Assad meets Iran supreme leader in Tehran on rare visit abroad

In first visit to Islamic Republic since outbreak of civil war, president thanks Khamenei for backing his government

7:57 pm

Pompeo commends UK for move to label Hezbollah political wing as terror group
7:38 pm

Police suspect Litzman intervened on behalf of second sex offender
7:26 pm

US strike in Somalia kills 35 'terrorists' -- Pentagon

One of Miryam Vilnar's embroidered figures, featured in 'Embroidered Scaffolds,' at Jerusalem's Hansen House (Courtesy Yaakov Israel)

For a group of Jerusalem artists, embroidery points the way forward

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

This January 16, 2019 photo shows a a first lab-grown steak during a presentation by the Israeli company Aleph Farms, in Jaffa, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli startups join firms making lab-grown ‘clean meat’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Josh Boloña, pictured sitting in his campus library, is the president of the Student Government Association at the University of Central Florida. (Ben Sales)

How a Jewish undocumented immigrant became student president of his university

Nir Barkat at a Likud Party event in Tel Aviv on March 25, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Capital gainsEx-Jerusalem mayor poised to overtake Netanyahu as richest MK

By Alexander Fulbright

An elite Duvdevan unit combat soldier convicted of accidentally killing First Sergeant Shachar Strug appears at the Jaffa military court, on April 4, 2018. (FLASH90)

IDF soldier who killed comrade gets early release

Publisher and owner of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Arnon 'Noni' Mozes arrives for questioning at the Lahav 433 investigation unit in Lod, January 15, 2017. (Koko/Flash90)

Yedioth publisher said to have told police he only met PM to try save the paper

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

Israeli lunar craft successfully completes first maneuver

Transportation Minister Israel Katz speaks at the 16th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 12, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Acting FM tries to finesse Polish ‘anti-Semitism’ crisis, without apologizing

By AFP

The synagogue in Chęciny (Screeen capture: Google Maps)

Southern Poland synagogue, Jewish center set for restoration project

By JTA and ToI Staff

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduo visits a memorial plague in Jerusalem for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting on February 24, 2019. (Rafi Ben Hakun/KKL-JNF)

Pittsburgh mayor visits Jerusalem memorial to synagogue shooting victims

Ester Rada (left) and members of electronic band Geshem will perform with the Revolution Orchestra on February 25, 2019, at The New Israeli Opera. (Courtesy Gaya Saadon and Ron Kedmi)

A night of groovy jazz standards with a rebellious orchestra

By Jessica Steinberg

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