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What Matters Most On Friday, March 1, 2019

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A composite image of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and former Bezeq controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch. (Flash90: Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Netanyahu’s illicit dealings benefited tycoon by $500 million, AG alleges

PM booted a minister, ousted a director general, halted a major internet reform, the state claims, all to satisfy Bezeq chief Elovitch, who was ensuring favorable media coverage

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 5, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu to stand trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, pending hearing

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a July 2015 cabinet meeting, when Mandelblit was serving as cabinet secretary. (Emil Salman/Pool)

AG allegations against PM‘You knew you were taking a bribe’: The specifics of Netanyahu’s alleged crimes

By Raoul Wootliff

Senate Armed Services Committee member, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., pauses during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on "Nuclear Policy and Posture" on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Elizabeth Warren castigates Netanyahu following indictment announcement

Democratic presidential hopeful writes on Twitter that corruption allegations are a ‘cut to the heart of a functioning democracy’

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on February 27, 2019. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool/AFP)

Putin hopes Israel ties will continue to grow despite Netanyahu’s ‘situation’

Analysis

Netanyahu’s legal war will wait; it’s his political life he’s fighting for now

The PM’s urgent priority, now that the AG has announced the intention to indict him, is to persuade enough of the public that he still should — and still can — run the country

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on May 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

AnalysisWith Netanyahu indictment cast, what happens now? Not much (pending a hearing)

By Raphael Ahren

Israel media reviewCharged and charged up: 10 things to know for March 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Bots and trolls showed AG as ‘weak’ in run-up to PM indictment announcement

Israel Resilience leader Benny Gantz delivers a statement to the media in Tel Aviv on February 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz appeals to Netanyahu to put Israel’s interests first and ‘resign’

By Tamar Pileggi

Rival rules out joining coalition if PM re-elected, says he should conduct his legal battle as a private citizen, can return to public life with head held high if proven innocent

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a Knesset State Control Committee meeting on December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After AG’s decision, left calls on PM to resign while right backs him up

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

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 campaign calls indictment decision ‘attempted political assassination’

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departs after delivering a statement to the media in Jerusalem, hours after the attorney general announced his intention to indict him on corruption charges, February 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice Ministry rejects ‘baseless’ Netanyahu claims against two top prosecutors

Official statement says PM cited an irrelevant precedent and an overturned opinion in trying to claim Liat Ben Ari and Shai Nitzan acted improperly in decision to indict him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on February 28, 2019, hours after the attorney general announced plans to indict him for corruption, pending a hearing. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows to refute ‘vile charges,’ urges Likud voters to stick with him

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

Barring Kulanu, all right-wing parties affirm backing for PM despite legal woes

Sheldon Adelson at the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Casino magnate and Netanyahu backer Adelson has cancer, in ‘dire’ health

By AP and ToI Staff

GOP donor unable to work full-time because of side effect from medication for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but plans to stay on as Las Vegas Sands CEO, company says

Photo essay

Need a break from the news? The flowers of the Dead Sea beckon

Thanks to above-average rainfall this winter, desert wildflowers are strutting their stuff, making the most of the short pollination period before the weather heats up

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)

Young Israel head says defense of Netanyahu did not speak for all its synagogues

Following backlash over statement on PM-backed merger involving extremist Otzma Yehudit, US Orthodox group’s leader says he was expressing his personal views

Meir Kahane in 1985 (Bettmann/Getty Images)

AnalysisRabbi Meir Kahane and Israel’s far right, explained

By Emily Burack

120 women ages 18-35 attended the first-ever Jewish Women’s Empowerment Summit in Frankfurt, Germany, February 21-24, 2019. (Courtesy)

In Germany, droves of Jewish women gather for first female empowerment summit

By Amie Liebowitz

Ex-Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth. (UK Parliament)

Interview

Jewish MP Smeeth says she’s staying in Labour to fight UK party’s anti-Semitism

The parliamentarian says Corbyn lacks will to uproot hate speech, but ‘Her Majesty’s Official Opposition cannot be anti-Semitic. Full stop’

Then-independent MP Luciana Berger leaves Milbank Studios near Parliament in London on February 21, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Jewish MP’s split from Labour its ‘worst day of shame,’ deputy party head says

Berthe Badehi, 87, French-Israeli Holocaust survivor, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, February 24, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israeli Holocaust survivors fear for French Jews

By Michael Blum

Dario Hunter, a 35-year-old rabbi who serves on the Youngstown (Ohio) Board of Education, is running for the 2020 Green Party presidential nomination. (YouTube screenshot)

Ohio rabbi, Greens president candidate says shul fired him for Israel criticism

Dario Hunter claims he lost part-time job after commenting on ‘horribly atrocious’ treatment of Palestinians; synagogue cites time concerns during presidential campaign

US Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Rep. Omar says critics call her an anti-Semite because she’s Muslim

By Eric Cortellessa

Members of the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group march, during a military parade in Gaza City, on October 4, 2018. (Anas Baba/AFP Photo)

Islamic Jihad shows off tunnels, rocket workshop on Iran TV

Gaza terrorist group says it has a ‘natural right and our duty’ to capture Israeli soldiers, claims rockets can reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

Hamas members arrested in Egypt in 2015 sent home to Gaza

Abbas to appoint PM to lead new government ‘within days,’ Fatah official says

Rejecting Gaza probe, Netanyahu accuses UN of ‘obsessive hatred’ toward Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu’s doubling down endangers Israel

The dismissal of dissent as ’anti-Zionist’ or ’unpatriotic’ is catastrophic in a place where national unity is a critical strategic resource

Rachel Fleishman Manni

Why I run the Tel Aviv marathon

I don’t win races, but I run anyway — in the rain, when I’m tired, hungry, cranky, and just want a nap instead. And it is extraordinary

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

My controversy with mainstream Orthodoxy

My Torah essays have been torn up and thrown in the garbage of my synagogue — apparently, the victims of small-mindedness

Betzalel, imbued with the spirit of God

It’s no accident that the artist who built the Tabernacle was the grandson of the man who died trying to prevent the golden calf (Vayakhel)

Iranian Islamic Republic Army soldiers carry posters of the Ayatollah Khomeini during the revolution of 1979. (Keystone/Getty Images/via JTA)

Decimated Diaspora

40 years after Iranian Revolution, LA’s Persian Jews are still feeling the pain

By Karmel Melamed

More Headlines

Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn, leads the 15th symphony concert during the Lucerne Festival in the concert hall in Switzerland, September 1, 2004. (Urs FlueelerKEYSTONE via AP, File)

ObituaryAndre Previn, Oscar-winning Jewish composer, dies at 89

By Lindsey Bahr

The Beresheet spacecraft pictured before its launch. (Courtesy/Israel Aerospace Industry)

Following setback, Beresheet spacecraft completes critical maneuver

Illustrative: Palestinians and anti-Israel Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel, end the occupation and support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp)

From the webHow a private Israeli intel firm spied on US pro-Palestinian activists

President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump says he trusts North Korea’s Kim on Warmbier death, drawing fire

By AP

James Stern at a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, June 14, 2012. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Inside jobBlack activist takes over US neo-Nazi group to bring it down

By AP

Robert Kraft, philanthropist and owner of the New England Patriots, winner of the 2019 Genesis Prize. (Genesis Prize Foundation)

Patriots owner Kraft pleads not guilty to prostitution charges

By JTA

Benny Gantz, head of the Israel Resilience party, speaks at a conference presenting the party's list of candidates for coming Knesset elections at an event held in Tel Aviv on February 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz sues woman alleging sexual harassment for half a million shekels

By Tamar Pileggi

US President Donald Trump speaks to US troops at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, February 28, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump falsely claims Islamic State holds no land in Syria

By AP

A street advertisement for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2019, seen on a central street in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

First batch of Eurovision tickets sells out in 10 minutes

Former Argentine president and current senator Carlos Menem before hearing his sentence during his trial over accusations of attempting to block the 1994 AMIA bombing investigation, in Buenos Aires, on February 28, 2019. (Juan Mabromata/AFP)

Former Argentine president cleared of meddling in AMIA terror bombing case

By AP

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

1,200 students rescued from Jerusalem school cut off by flooding

Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (R) and National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow (2nd R) take part in a meeting between US President Donald Trump and China's Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 22, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump ordered Kushner be given security clearance despite concerns — report

By AP and ToI Staff

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