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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 2, 2019

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Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, left, and State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

AG on decision to charge Netanyahu: Not a happy day but an important one

After PM’s accusations they were politically motivated, Avichai Mandelblit thanks legal team that oversaw cases, says their work was a victory for the rule of law in Israel

Head of the Jewish home party Rabbi Rafi Peretz holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 13, 2019. (Flash90)

Jewish Home chief defends Gantz: ‘I wouldn’t dream of ruling him out’

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)

Poll shows two-thirds of Israelis think Netanyahu should resign if indicted

First surveys since attorney general announced he plans to charge PM with corruption indicate Netanyahu will have trouble forming a coalition

Housing Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton

Kulanu minister says party does not rule out joining Gantz-led coalition

Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor Party, speaks during a party meeting in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gabbay: Election a choice between Netanyahu’s life vs. nation’s lawful life

Labor chief slams PM for ‘telling Israeli citizens that the law-keeping system is illegitimate,’ thereby ‘dismantling state institutions’

New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. (Jason Smith via JTA)

Bret Stephens calls Netanyahu the ‘Nixon of Israel,’ says he should resign

French city’s rabbi says half of his congregants have left over anti-Semitism

By JTA

Nissim Sultan of Grenoble says abuse getting worse over last 15 years, with many deciding to emigrate; 20,000 French Jews have moved to Israel since 2014

Scene of suspected terror attack in Grenoble, France, June 26, 2015 (Sky News Screenshot)

A cameraman films the memorial stone marking the site of Strasbourg's Old Synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis in World War II, after it was vandalized overnight on March 2, 2019 in Strasbourg, France. (Frederick Florin/AFP)

Vandals attack memorial for Strasbourg synagogue destroyed by Nazis in WWII

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A poster reading 'Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Racism, Not in Our Name" during a gathering decrying anti-Semitism at Place de la Republique in Paris, February 18, 2019 amid an upsurge in anti-Semitism in France. (AP/Francois Mori)

French translation site lashed for ‘shocking’ anti-Semitic, racist explanations

By AFP

Otzma Yehudit candidates Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Michael Ben-Ari, right, carry a mock coffin with a man wearing a Benjamin Netanyahu face mask during a protest in Jerusalem on July 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

22 Young Israel synagogues oppose national leader’s defense of Netanyahu

US congregations call on their organization ‘to immediately cease making all political pronouncements’ in wake of its endorsement of unity deal between Kahanists and Jewish Home

A group visiting the Villa Torlonia Jewish Catacombs guided by Amir Genach, center. (courtesy Amir Genach)

History revealed

In Rome, spectacular ancient Jewish catacomb’s opening haunted by delays

By Rossella Tercatin

Robert Kraft, center, along with members of his family, celebrates the grand opening of the Kraft Family Building at the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, April 27, 2018. (Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston)

Analysis

Boston’s Jewish community stunned by allegations against Robert Kraft

The word you most hear is ‘saddened’ when it comes to charges denied by philanthropist, with an alleged indiscretion at a massage parlor weighed against a lifetime’s charity work

Shiry Avny explains on a tour how street artists apply their work on many different surfaces. (Robert Sarner/ Times of Israel)

Israelis in Paris give gritty, alternative art tours of the City of Love

By Robert Sarner

A painting, believed to be the second version of 'Judith Beheading Holofernes' by Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is picutred during a photocall in London on February 28, 2019, following its restoration. (Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

‘Lost Caravaggio’ unveiled ahead of $170 million auction

Oil painting, believed to be Renaissance master’s long-lost masterpiece, depicts Old Testament Jewish heroine Judith beheading Assyrian general

Israeli restaurateur Yorai Feinberg poses during an interview on February 26, 2019, at his restaurant in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)

For Israeli restaurateur in Berlin, anti-Semitic attacks are routine

By Isabelle Le Page

Detail from Haifa, 1959, photograph by Dorothy Bohm, mother of Monica Bohm-Duchen, who conceived of the 'Insiders/Outsiders' festival celebrating contributions to British society by refugees from Nazi Europe. (Courtesy)

On show

Year-long UK arts fest celebrates contributions of refugees from Nazi Europe

Walking the tightrope: A Bedouin story

It’s a marvel how these West Bank communities maintain their ancient lifestyle amid Israelis and Palestinians embracing modernity

I interviewed Meir Kahane for my school paper

He was charming, but his words were as hateful as any we had heard, and I am glad we sounded the alarm about his toxic ideology

From "The Cruel Cut," one of the films being shown at The 49% Festival, about women's rights, film and media, at the Jerusalem Cinematheque March 6-7, 2019 (Courtesy YouTube screengrab)

Making Herstory

Jerusalem hosts new female film festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Filmmakers and activists from Egypt, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Canada and the US will join for two days of screenings, meetings and conversations

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Yuval Kahan. (Courtesy: Bnei Zion pre-military academy)

Academy head charged over flood deaths likens his legal woes to Netanyahu’s

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayataolla Ali Khamenei meets chess player Aryan Gholami, February 24, 2019 (Iranian media)

Playing the pawnIran hails chess player who refused to face Israeli

In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 file photo, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters watch as an airstrike hits territory still held by Islamic State in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

US-backed fighters advance against Islamic State in its last Syrian territory

By AP

Mossad chief Yossi Cohen attends US Independence Day celebrations at the residence of US ambassador David Friedman in Herzliya, July 3, 2017. (Heidi Levine, Pool via AP/File)

Sudan intel chief denies meeting Mossad head to talk supplanting nation’s leader

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This wanted poster released by the U.S. Department of State Rewards for Justice program shows Hamza bin Laden. Saudi Arabia announced Friday, March 1, 2019 it had revoked the citizenship of bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who has become an increasingly prominent figure in the terror network. (Rewards for Justice via AP)

Saudi Arabia revokes citizenship of Hamza bin Laden

By Jon Gambrell

In this June 26, 2009 file photo BBC Persian service presenter Fardad Farahzad, right, gets ready to present the news, at the corporation's London headquarters Inside the studios of BBC Persian television, dozens of journalists have been working around the clock at their computers and telephones, trying to report the news to Iran or, according to the government in Tehran, stirring up trouble. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson,file)

BBC details new ‘harassment’ of Persian service staff by Iran

By AFP

Fred Warmbier, right, and Cindy Warmbier, parents of Otto Warmbier, a Jewish American who died days after his release from captivity in North Korea, wait for a meeting on May 3, 2018, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Rebuking Trump, Warmbier family says North Korea’s Kim to blame for son’s death

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Palestinian uses a slingshot to hurl objects towards Israeli forces next to an armored vehicle on the other side of the barbed-wire fence, at the border with Israel east of Gaza City on March 1, 2019. (Photo by Said KHATIB / AFP)

21 Gazans said wounded by Israeli fire as thousands riot on border

Illustrative: Hezbollah supporters shout slogans and wave Lebanese, Hezbollah and Iranian flags, during a rally to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, on February 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iran says British ban on Hezbollah is ‘irresponsible’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Liberian President George Weah speaks during a soccer event in Jerusalem on February 27, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu hosts Liberian leader amid push to boost Africa ties

By AFP

Tiberias mayor Ron Kobi at the annual Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February 27, 2019. (Flash90)

Police investigating death threats against Tiberias mayor over Saturday buses

AnalysisAnne Frank comparison sums up problems with Oscar winner ‘Green Book’

By Lior Zaltzman

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