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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 26, 2019

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Argentina's Chief Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich. (courtesy AMIA)

Argentina chief rabbi severely beaten in ‘anti-Semitic’ home invasion

By Joshua Davidovich

Jewish groups condemn attack after Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich assaulted and wife restrained in Buenos Aires home; attackers shout ‘we know you are AMIA’s rabbi’

Argentina's chief rabbi Gabriel Davidovich at a ceremony at the site of the 1992 attack at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 11, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Argentine leader condemns attack on head rabbi as son doubts anti-Semitic motive

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich, center, pictured with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Sara Netanyahu at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP/Israeli Government Press Office)

Netanyahu calls for action after violent assault on Argentina chief rabbi

By Tamar Pileggi and Joshua Davidovich

They oppose Israel as Jewish-democratic; shouldn't be MKs

Bennett says Otzma Yehudit’s Kahanists ‘not fit to be in Knesset’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Far-right candidate Itamar Ben Gvir dismisses education minister’s broadside, says Bennett backed his party’s merger with Jewish Home party

Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations gathering in Jerusalem, February 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

US Orthodox group backs Netanyahu over bid to put Kahanists in Knesset

By JTA

Labor, Meretz seek to bar Otzma Yehudit from elections

Conservative Movement rips ‘dangerously radical’ Otzma Yehudit party

Right wing activists Michael Ben Ari, left, and Bentzi Gopstein, right at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Report: Otzma Yehudit has financial ties to body considered a terror group by US

Yedioth Ahronoth investigation shows Kahanists receive funding for their activities through web of American nonprofits; party calls report a ‘collection of fabrications’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) takes part in a toast with his wife and Likud lawmakers during an event in Tel Aviv held by the ruling party to mark the Jewish new year's, on September 6, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Numerous Likud MKs support, none oppose, PM’s empowering of extremist party

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at an event in Ganei Tikva, on February 25, 2019. (Flash90)

Liberman says extremist Otzma Yehudit ‘delusional,’ will ignore party in Knesset

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif checks his watch during a press conference in Tehran, February 13, 2019. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)

Iran’s Zarif says he resigned to return foreign ministry to ‘proper’ role

By AFP

Tehran’s top envoy urges diplomats to not follow him in quitting, but to remain and work in defense of the country; calls infighting ‘deadly poison’

Former Israeli minister sentenced to 11 years in Iran spying case

Netanyahu says ‘good riddance’ as Iran’s foreign minister tenders resignation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

On first trip to Iran in years, Assad thanks Khamenei for helping him win war

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, on February 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

US officials discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace with Gulf leaders

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Trump Mideast envoys traveling the region to drum up support for administration’s long-awaited proposal

Israel media reviewGive peace a chance? 8 things to know for February 26

New Right, Likud accuse each other of enabling Kushner’s two-state push

Kushner: Economy and ‘establishing borders’ the focal points of Trump peace plan

In this file photo taken on December 17, 2018, Israel Aerospace Industries space division director Opher Doron stands in front of the Beresheet spacecraft during a presentation by Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and Israeli state-owned IAI, in Yehud, east of Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Setback for Israeli lunar lander as computer glitch prevents scheduled maneuver

By Melanie Lidman and ToI Staff

Engineers examining data from Beresheet spacecraft to learn why it rebooted itself, causing automatic abort of trajectory adjustment needed to get to the moon

Facebook's Sean Evins explains how transparent political ads will work, Facebook Israel, Tel Aviv, February 26, 2019. (Facebook)

Facebook says ad transparency rules will go live barely 3 weeks before elections

Top official says company has no fact checkers specifically flagging problematic content related to April 9 vote, as thousands have done for votes elsewhere

Screen capture of a Likud campaign ad warning that a vote for the Benny Gantz-led Blue and White party is "dangerous," against the graves of fallen IDF soldiers, February 26, 2019. (Twitter screen capture)

Live updates (closed)

Likud draws fire for campaign ad featuring soldiers’ graves

‘Leave our children alone,’ says head of Israel’s main commemoration group; ruling party calls ad ‘unfortunate error’

7:34 pm

PA official says no comment on Kushner peace plan remarks
7:21 pm

US Jewish umbrella group urges Netanyahu to denounce extremist party
7:20 pm

UK Labour Party questions government's banning of Hezbollah

The gender revolution in Israel that wasn’t

My great hope for the kind of real-world leadership this country needs fizzled with the return of the generals and their expertise at war

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Israel is responsible for the Chief Rabbi of Argentina

The brutal attack on Rabbi Davidovich highlights Israel’s obligation to provide security to Jewish communities worldwide

Blacks, Palestinians and the disastrous politics of rage

African American conservatives have a message worth heeding on the corrosive effects of playing the victim card

I’m glad I got Michael Ben Ari banned from the US

As a US consular officer in Tel Aviv, I concluded that the Otzma leader, with his ties to a terrorist group, was a danger

File: Palestinian security forces in Hebron, November 14, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

PA said to nab Hamas-led cell that was readying to carry out attacks in Israel

Terrorists were planning bombings, Israeli TV says; PA security official won”t confirm or deny report

Hamas security forces prepare to burn some 1,383 bars of hashish and 1,242,000 pills of Tramadol, in Gaza City on Oct. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Opioid crisis quietly engulfs Hamas-run Gaza Strip

Reporter Hajar Harb (YouTube screenshot)

Rights group calls on Hamas to cancel reporter’s Gaza trial

By AP

Director of the Ruderman Family Foundation Shira Ruderman. (Noam Galay)

Interview

Woman in a man’s world: Ruderman says bold action will save Israel-Diaspora ties

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ala Dakka (left), Mouna Hawa (center) and Roy Assaf play the three main characters in 'Muna," the new Kan drama about Arabs and Jews by Mira Awad (Courtesy 'Muna')

A search for identity with Mira Awad’s ‘Muna,’ a new Kan series

By Jessica Steinberg

The Independent Group of MPs hold their first meeting, in London on February 25, 2019. (John Stillwell / POOL / AFP)

Labour rebels give British Jews hope of a new political home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Lifelong Labour supporters disturbed by anti-Semitism scandal in party look to Independent Group breakaway faction to recalibrate UK politics

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'Skin' actors Lonnie Chavis (left) and Jackson Robert Scott (right) with director Guy Nattiv (center) (Courtesy 'Skin' official Facebook page)

Under the skinOscar winner Guy Nattiv’s next film probes grandma’s cult past

By Jessica Steinberg

In this February 27, 2018, photo, Malka Leifer, center, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Malka Leifer accused of sexual harassment in Israel before moving to Australia

Cardinal George Pell (C) walks from a car in Melbourne on February 26, 2019. (Asanka Brendon Ratnayake / AFP)

Australian Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sex crimes

Screen capture of a swastika flag displayed on a pole in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, February 2019. (YouTube)

Nazi flag flown in Canadian community, removed following complaints – report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset, December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s defense said to ask minister for documents to help prove his innocence

Food manufacturer Matok V’Kal has developed a new energy spray to trick the brain into thinking the body has just consumed carbohydrates (Courtesy)

Got carbs? Barely, but Israeli firm says it can generate an energy boost anyway

By Shoshanna Solomon

New Labor Party member Tal Russo speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ex-general running for Knesset as Labor No. 2 may be ineligible, judge says

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

One of painter Anna Ticho's works, 'On the Way to Mar Elias,' currently exhibited in 'Lifescapes' at Ticho House until March 8, 2019 (Courtesy Israel Museum)

She's an originalNew book, exhibit aim to show true size of artist Anna Ticho

By Jessica Steinberg

Police at the scene of a suspected gang hit in Ramat Gan, on February 26, 2019. (Flash90)

Ramat Gan man shot dead in suspected gangland hit

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, right, at the dedication ceremony for a new Magen David Adom emergency services dispatch center which is protected against missile, chemical, and biological attacks, February 25, 2019. (MDA spokesperson)

Magen David Adom dedicates dispatch center that can withstand chemical attack

By Stuart Winer

David S. Davidson (courtesy Melissa Ludwig)

David S. Davidson, prominent judge and Reform leader, dies at 91

By JTA and ToI Staff

Walmart buys Israel AI startup Aspectiva for better consumer insight

By Shoshanna Solomon

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