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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 27, 2019

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Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a Channel 12 News conference in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG may issue decision on PM graft cases Thursday; could keep materials sealed

Mandelblit reportedly set to announce bribery charge against Netanyahu, pending hearing; may accept defense’s position that detailed files could be used by political opponents

Netanyahu in Russia for shortened trip as indictment announcement looms

Netanyahu in Moscow tells Putin Israel will continue hitting Iran in Syria

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Justice minister says she can’t help PM’s lawyers with documents on Case 4000

Home in the Eshkol Regional Council damaged by an explosive device from Gaza on February 27, 2019. (Eshkol Regional Council)

Live updates (closed)

Explosive device from Gaza damages Israeli home near border

Bomb that struck building in Eshkol Regional Council appears to have been carried by balloon; no injuries reported

7:24 pm

Elections committee prohibits parties from anonymously posting campaign ads
7:15 pm

Cohen: Other illegal acts involving Trump being probed
6:54 pm

Explosive device from Gaza damages Israeli home near border

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)

Netanyahu lambasted for Likud video bashing Gantz and showing soldiers’ graves

By Michael Bachner

After chorus of condemnation, including from troop memorial organization, party apologizes for webcast campaign clip that claimed ‘dangerous’ Gantz would cause hundreds of deaths

Israel media reviewReaching new depths: 9 things to know for February 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Ex-justice: Netanyahu’s anti-Arab election rhetoric ‘deeply hurtful’

By Tamar Pileggi

Adina Bar-Shalom rules out election run, out of ‘responsibility toward voters’

Otzma Yehudit leaders (from L-R) Michael Ben Ari, Itamar Ben Gvir, Baruch Marzel and Benzi Gopstein in a crowdfunding campaign video on November 5, 2018. (Screen capture/Otzma Yehudit)

Under deal, Kahanist party could receive spot on key panel that appoints judges

Terms of merger provide for Jewish Home pushing to get Otzma Yehudit representative on body that shapes makeup of Supreme Court, long lambasted by the right as too liberal

Michael Ben Ari, center, Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Lehava chair Benzi Gopstein, all of the Otzma Yehudit party, at an event in Jerusalem marking the 27th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane, November 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesh Atid joins appeal to bar extremist faction from running in elections

Deborah Lipstadt, author of 'Antisemitism: Here and Now' (Osnat Perelshtein via JTA)

Deborah Lipstadt resigns from synagogue over defense of Israeli extreme right

By JTA and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on June 21, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Analysis

How Kushner, without calling to ‘re-draw’ Israeli borders, caused election furor

Trump’s adviser was victim of Arabic TV mistranslation which prompted shockwaves on Israeli right; in fact, Netanyahu has already made clear he’s now opposing Palestinian statehood

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaking at a New Right party press conference in Tel Aviv on February 7, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bennett accuses Trump of ‘planning a Palestinian state right over our heads’

By Raoul Wootliff

Pakistanis watch news bulletins on television in Karachi, Pakistan, February 27, 2019. (Fareed Khan/AP)

Pakistan says it shot down two Indian air force jets, captured pilots

By Agencies and ToI Staff

One plane said to come down in Pakistani-held Kashmir, while the other crashes in Indian territory, in latest round of sharply escalating tensions between two nuclear powers

China urges Pakistan and India to show restraint, seek dialogue

By AFP

India used Israeli arms for strike inside Pakistan — report

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Trump, Kim open second nuclear summit with handshake, smiles

By Jonathan Lemire, Foster Klug and Deb Riechmann

Preservation work on the 1,600-year-old inscription and wine press unearthed at the home of a wealthy Samaritan in Tzur Natan. (Galeb Abu Diab/Israel Antiquities Authority)

5th century Greek inscription found at site of ancient Samaritan rebellion

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

That Kahanist merger is very bad, but not as bad as you think

Religious-Zionists are not unified in their opinions and did not vote as a bloc even before this realpolitik alliance betrayed the values of the movement

My mother escaped a Nazi boxcar

The first sounds my granddaughter heard were not from Sesame Street, but the very sounds the Nazis worked so hard to extinguish

Chavi Eisenberg

My online fight helped free an agunah

I thought I was wasting my time on Facebook, until I discovered I most certainly was not

Steven M. Goldberg

Don’t announce an indictment until after elections

Netanyahu would be unable to respond before vote, and a Supreme Court posting for Mandelblit could look fishy

The chief rabbi of Argentina, Gabriel Davidovich, speaks at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. on November 8, 2018. (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center via AP)

Investigators probe if Argentine rabbi attacked for annulling marriage – report

By AFP and ToI Staff

La Nacion says line of inquiry examining whether home invasion, assault were ordered in revenge for ruling by Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich several years ago

In this photo from December 5, 2018, distributed by AMIA, Argentina's Chief Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich holds a menorah at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. (AMIA Jewish community center via AP)

Argentine Jewish leader: Robbery was pretext for anti-Semitic attack on rabbi

By AFP and ToI Staff

A grave that was vandalized in a Jewish cemetery in San Luis city, in northwest Argentina(Courtesy/DAIA )

9 gravestones vandalized in Jewish cemetery in Argentina

By JTA

British Labour MP Chris Williamson. (YouTube screenshot)

UK Labour MP says party is ‘too apologetic’ about anti-Semitism

Chris Williamson says sorry for how he ‘chose to express’ himself, adds ‘there have been very few instances of anti-Semitism’ in the party

Elderly Jewish Londoner punched in face in suspected hate crime

By JTA and ToI Staff

UK’s Labour questions motive behind Hezbollah ban

Abramovich’s Chelsea leads campaign against anti-Semitism, starting from within

File: Zakaria Zubeidi, then the local commander of Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and other gunmen march along the streets of the West Bank town of Jenin on April 2, 2005. (Mohammed Ballas/AP Photo)

Israel arrests former terror leader, citing ‘serious’ current activities

By Judah Ari Gross

In addition to Zakaria Zubeidi, Shin Bet detains attorney Tarek Barghout, whom the security service says was also involved in terrorist plots

Illustrative: One of five Netzah Yehuda soldiers convicted of beating two Palestinian detainees arrives for a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court, on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)

Third soldier accused of beating Palestinian suspects said to agree to plea deal

An Israeli policeman watches over the Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem governor, Adnan Ghaith, during a court appearance following his arrest in Jerusalem, November 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel said to arrest PA Jerusalem governor, lawyer

Noam Shuster-Eliassi, 32, speaking to the Arabic-language channel of i24 News on February 13, 2019. (Screenshot: i24 News)

Tall order

Israeli comic goes viral with ‘marriage proposal’ to Saudi prince

Arab social media users and news outlets widely report on Noam Shuster-Eliassi’s jest, which some appear to portray as a serious gesture

Clockwise, from upper left: Rebecca Gratz, Bella Abzug, (Public domain); Gloria Steinem (CC/SA/Gage Skidmore); Emma Goldman's police mug shot (Public domain).

Interview

First-ever US Jewish herstory to hit stores ahead of International Women’s Day

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

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Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz, left, and Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto hold a joint press conference at the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest, Hungary, February 27, 2019. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)

Poland open to meeting with Israel after Holocaust spat

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, listens to his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif prior to a meeting in Tehran, Iran, November 24, 2015. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iranian president rejects Foreign Minister Zarif’s resignation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and his daughter Yael at Mount Arbel in Israel’s Lower Galilee region. (Courtesy of IFCJ via JTA)

After death of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, daughter inherits billion-dollar charity

Arafat Irfaiya, charged with the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's court on February 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian suspect in murder, rape of teen ordered held for 5 more days

Illustrative image of a falafel stand in East Jerusalem in 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Israel to dramatically shorten East Jerusalemites’ path to citizenship – report

By Michael Bachner

In this November 6, 2018, file photo, Sen. Amy Klobuchar waves to supporters after winning re-election during the Democratic election night party in St. Paul, Minnsota (AP Photo/Hannah Foslien

Klobuchar first presidential candidate to criticize extreme-right Israeli party

By JTA

A composite photo of the 10 victims of a flash flood in southern Israel on April 27, 2018. Top row, left to right: Romi Cohen, Ilan Bar Shalom, Shani Shamir, Adi Raanan, Agam Levy. Bottom row, left to right: Yael Sadan, Maayan Barhum, Tzur Alfi, Gali Balali, Ella Or. (Courtesy/Facebook)

Academy head, counselor to be charged with manslaughter in flood deaths

In a photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on February 26, 2019, soldiers take part in a snap drill at the Tzeelim base in southern Israel simulating a future military conflict in the Gaza Strip. (Israel Defense Forces)

Army wraps up snap drill simulating future Gaza war

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)

Charges filed against Robert Kraft for soliciting prostitutes

Palestinians gather next to a house sprayed with graffiti reading in Hebrew: 'revenge' and 'hello from the prisoners of Zion,' in the West Bank village of Beitillu on December 22, 2015.(AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI)

Settler teen convicted of terror offenses for attacks on Palestinians

Fire fighters and onlookers gather at the scene of a fiery train crash at the Egyptian capital Cairo's main railway station on February 27, 2019 (Hussein Talal / AFP)

Egypt railcar crash, fire at central Cairo station kills 25

By Agencies and ToI Staff

American reality television star Kim Kardashian modeling Israeli sunglasses. (Twitter)

Wests go EastKim Kardashian and family coming to Israel to launch eye-wear brand

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