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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 28, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

High Court rejects Likud petition to prevent AG announcing Netanyahu indictment

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Mandelblit reportedly plans to charge PM with bribery in one probe, breach of trust in two others; charges against Sara Netanyahu said dropped

US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference following the second US-North Korea summit in Hanoi on February 28, 2019. (Saul LOEB/AFP)

Trump says Netanyahu, facing possible corruption charges, is ‘smart,’ ‘strong’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, in a composite photo. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general reportedly set to notify Netanyahu of bribery charges Thursday

The Times of Israel pollIn head-to-head, Netanyahu still slightly ahead of Gantz

Indictment announcement an election game changer, ToI poll shows

By Raoul Wootliff

On eve of attorney general’s decision, survey shows Netanyahu at risk of losing both sizable support and, crucially, the ability to form a coalition

Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Gili Yaari, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis: ToI pollThe undecideds have it: 6 key takeaways from the Times of Israel poll

By Simon Davies

Illustrative: A vote is cast in Knesset elections on February 25, 2015. (Flash90)

Elections 2019Full results of The Times of Israel poll

By Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with Israel, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 22, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

UN probe accuses Israel of possible crimes against humanity in Gaza border riots

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jerusalem rejects ‘absurd’ Human Rights Council report alleging IDF soldiers knowingly shot at journalists, health workers, children, persons with disabilities

Illustrative: Explosions in the northern Gaza Strip from Israeli airstrikes light up the night sky on January 22, 2019. (Screen capture: Channel 13)

Israel strikes Hamas posts in Gaza after explosive balloon attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

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

Airborne explosive device from Gaza damages home in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel Resilience party chief Benny Gantz speaks at a party gathering in Tel Aviv on February 19, 2019, in a speech in which he castigated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz calls on Netanyahu to resign, saying Israel can’t have a ‘part-time PM’

By Michael Bachner

Blue and White party leader says announcement of graft charges pending a hearing a ‘sad day,’ vows not to join government headed by Netanyahu

7:39 pm

Lapid reiterates Blue and White won't sit with Netanyahu in gov't, even before hearing
7:29 pm

Likud recalls sexual misconduct claims against Gantz after call on PM to resign
7:06 pm

Gantz calls on Netanyahu to resign, saying Israel can’t have a 'half-time prime minister’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit and Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (left to right) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 2014. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Israel media review

The indictment cometh (pending a hearing): 7 things to know for February 28

By Joshua Davidovich

As the country stands on the cusp of an announcement that Netanyahu will be charged pending a hearing, a poll shows what that could mean for the prime minister’s political future

Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for US President Donald Trump, is sworn in before testifying before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill February 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

In explosive testimony, ex-lawyer brands Trump a ‘conman’ and ‘racist’

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Eric Tucker and Michael R. Sisak

Michael Cohen tells Congressional committee that president knew of WikiLeaks dump, lied about his business interests in Russia

Michael Cohen testifies before Congress as the ‘son of a Holocaust survivor’

White House: Trump, Kim summit ends early without deal

AnalysisCohen hearing stokes touchy topic of Trump impeachment

By LISA MASCARO and Steve Peoples

Benny Gantz, head of the Israel Resilience party, speaks at an event to open his election campaign in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Gantz says claim he exposed himself in front of woman in ’70s is utter lie

Blue and White leader taking legal action against US-based Israeli Navarone Jacobs, says allegation politically motivated; Likud: Nothing to do with us; Jacobs: I had to speak out

Culture Minister Miri Regev at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 8, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Yedioth Ahronoth/Pool)

Minister Regev’s staff spoke with Gantz accuser weeks before she went public

Michael Rainsbury

As a religious Zionist, there’s no party I can support

I believe the entire Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and also support democracy and equality for all citizens

Rebecca Bardach

My complicated Jewish-Arab ’hood of Abu Tor

Is it coexistence when even my 8-year-old can see that ’the city doesn’t care about the people’ who live over there?

What a Bergen-Belsen prenup teaches us about Jewish resilience

The blood-stopping document conveys the heartbreaking dilemma faced by Jewish survivors who spouses were unaccounted for

James Bruce and the Ark

Hiding the Ark away, whether in the warehouse of ’Raiders of the Lost Ark’ or in the inner chamber of Solomon’s Temple, seems exactly the right place for it

Central Elections Committee chair, Supreme Court Judge Hanan Melcer (L) meets with Facebook's director of the elections, Katie Harbeth, February 3, 2019. (Courtesy)

Election judge bars anonymous internet ads despite Likud objection

Justice Hanan Melcer warns of foreign attempts to influence April 9 vote that could undermine Israeli democracy

Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, and Orly Ades, the committee's director general, seen on February 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Experts implore elections chief to appoint anti-cyber meddling czar

A woman holds a smart phone with the icons for the social networking apps Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others seen on the screen, in Moscow March 23, 2018. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)

Social media gives anti-Jewish hatred a grandstand

By Frédéric POUCHOT

Marine rangers patrol the waters near Hadera in central Israel, February 19, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Tackling illegal fishing, new marine ranger force finds its sea legs

By Melanie Lidman and Photos and video: Luke Tress

Fishing license applications double as Nature and Parks Authority completes first six months of new program patrolling coast to make sure there are plenty more fish in the sea

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)

Argentina’s chief rabbi says he’s not sure home assault was anti-Semitic

By JTA and ToI Staff

As police continue to probe attack on Gabriel Davidovich and his wife, the rabbi says: ‘It could have been a robbery or a political issue’

UK’s Labour suspends MP who said party ‘too apologetic’ on anti-Semitism

12-year-old arrested for drawing dozens of swastikas on Queens school playground

Crown Heights communities seek cohesion after spate of anti-Semitic attacks

By Thomas URBAIN

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner attends a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

US peace plan said to include $25 billion in West Bank and Gaza investments

Kushner, Greenblatt currently touring Arab nations to discuss proposal to funnel huge sums to Palestinians and to other Arab neighbors of Israel, NY Times reports

Palestinian Authority refuses tax revenues from Israel

'3 paths to separation'Labor presents plan to kick-start ‘separation’ from Palestinians

By Raoul Wootliff

Iranian general: ‘We plan to break US, Israel, cleanse world of their filth’

Joseph Pulitzer is one of the best-known journalists in American history. (Library of Congress/via JTA)

Documentary on Joseph Pulitzer recalls another era of president vs. the press

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Screen capture from video of bride Shira Hirschkovitz drumming at her own wedding. (YouTube)

Sex cymbalBride drums up controversy at her wedding

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Man suspected of whipping nephew, 12, forced into slave labor – report

Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro gestures at the National Congress in Brasilia before he is sworn in as Brazil's new president on January 1, 2019. (Nelson Almeida/AFP)

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro schedules April visit to Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The Eurovision bus, created by the Dan bus company, will offer free bus tours of Tel Aviv during Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Tel Aviv on May 18, 2019 (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

Booze pointsTLV pulls out all stops to make Eurovision guests comfortable

By Jessica Steinberg

(Collage by Arielle Kaplan/JTA)

Mom jokesThese 7 Jewish comedians prove moms are really, really funny

By Arielle Kaplan

Suspected antiquities burglars spotted by the Civil Administration's Archaeology Unit and Nature Authority this week near the Jordan Valley archaeological site of Tana a-Tahta. (COGAT Spokesperson's Office)

Antiquities thieves arrested at Herodian fortress and Iron Age site

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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

Chile rafting accident victim Dalia Ronen is seen in an undated photo, alongside an unidentified man (Courtesy)

Mother of Israeli ambassador dies of injuries from Chile boating accident

Gay US rabbinical student Sammy Kanter says he was kicked out of this pizza restaurant due to his sexual orientation. (Sammy Kanter/Facebook via JTA)

Gay rabbinical student wins $5K damages from pizzeria that refused to serve him

By JTA

A section of the security barrier around the West Bank village of Anata near Jerusalem that collapsed after a rainstorm on February 27, 2019. (Screen capture)

Section of West Bank barrier near Jerusalem collapses in rainstorm

By Judah Ari Gross

The Beersheba District Court on May 13, 2015 (Flash90)

Woman to be charged with murder for drowning son, 4, in Eilat bathtub

Man is rescued from floodwaters in the Arazim Valley, west of Jerusalem, February 28, 2019. (Channel 12 screen capture)

Driver stranded on car roof rescued from flash flood near Jerusalem

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