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What Matters Most On Monday, March 4, 2019

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In this file photo dated September 1945, pope Pius XII, wearing the ring of St. Peter, raises his right hand in a papal blessing at the Vatican. (AP Photo, File)

Vatican to open archives on WWII-era pope accused of silence on Holocaust

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: The German words 'Jude Raus' (Jew, get out) are written on the building of the Citizens of Poland (Obywatele RP) movement on February 26, 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

Polish anti-Semitism festers on the internet

By Michel VIATTEAU

Kaja Kallas, leader of the Reform Party casts her ballot in a polling station during Estonia's general election in Tallin, on March 3, 2019. (Raigo PAJULA / AFP)

Estonia’s liberal opposition wins election as far-right surges

By Polina KALANTAR and Mary SIBIERSKI

Israeli troops arrive at the scene of an alleged car-ramming attack in which two Israeli servicemen were injured in the central West Bank on March 4, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two soldiers wounded in West Bank car-ramming; 2 attackers killed

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF officer seriously injured, border guard lightly hurt; third assailant in the vehicle lightly injured, army says

After car-ramming, Netanyahu vows to quickly demolish attackers’ homes

IDF helicopters pound Hamas positions in response to explosive balloon

AnalysisHamas is being careful to avoid escalation, but that could change very soon

By Avi Issacharoff

In this June 30, 2010, file photo, then US Consul General of Jerusalem Daniel Rubinstein gives a speech during a reception for the US Independence Day celebrations at the American Consulate in Jerusalem. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)

US closes Jerusalem consulate, demoting Palestinian mission

By AP and ToI Staff

State Department says decision to put Embassy to Israel in charge ‘does not signal a change of US policy on Jerusalem, the West Bank, or the Gaza Strip’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (unseen) meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace envoy, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Op-ed in official PA daily calls US peace envoy a ‘mongoloid’

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, left, talks with US President Donald Trump, seated, during a signing ceremony for criminal justice reform legislation in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, December 21, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Democrats concerned Trump ordered high-level security clearance for Kushner

By JTA

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Why Netanyahu and Gantz publicly bicker most over the policy they most agree on

PM and ex-IDF chief together helped shape Israel’s careful, arguably wise Gaza strategy, but it’s hard to explain to a rocket-battered public, so they’re blaming each other for it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, center, and then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon, right, in southern Israel on July 21, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Navy ceremony on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israel media reviewThe same, but different: 9 things to know for March 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Maj. Gen. (res.) Tal Russo. (Government Press Office)

Attorney general says Labor ex-general should be allowed to run

State Attorney Shai Nitzan speaks during a ceremony in Beit Shemesh on November 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top prosecutor rejects Netanyahu’s claim graft charges are politically motivated

Shai Nitzan says decision to indict PM made ‘solely out of professional considerations,’ rebuffs criticism for announcing move before elections

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

Police order additional protection for Netanyahu state prosecutors – report

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid (R) with new party member Orna Barbivai, the first woman to have been appointed an IDF major general, January 1, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Lapid criticized for joke that Blue and White female candidates ‘undisciplined’

Only nine of alliance’s top 30 candidates are women; Lapid apologizes for poor joke, says relatively few women in list due to hasty party merger close to deadline

From left to right: Blue and White party leaders Moshe Ya'alon, Benny Gantz , Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi pose for a picture after announcing their new electoral alliance in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Blue and White said to oppose dividing Jerusalem, evacuating settlement blocs

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Blue and White party leaders Benny Gantz, left, and Yair Lapid, right, at the new alliance's unveiling in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Likud says Arabs crucial to Gantz, who mocks ruling party’s ‘nosedive in polls’

IDF soldiers train Tanzanian soldiers in Tanzania (Screencapture/Channel 13)

Israel’s diplomatic thrust into Africa spearheaded by military training

TV report says IDF commandos are teaching local forces krav maga, urban combat and hostage rescue in a dozen African nations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves, as he delivers a speech during the launch of his election campaign at the headquarters of his party Likud, for the upcoming April elections, in Ramat Gan on March 4, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

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Blue and White responds to Netanyahu speech, saying ‘he knows his time is over’

By Michael Bachner

Benny Gantz’s party says PM is ‘inciting and lying’ in attempt to divert attention from his graft cases, after premier repeatedly lashes him as ‘leftist’ in 45-minute address

7:29 pm

Blue and White comments on Netanyahu's speech: 'He knows his time is over'
7:21 pm

Netanyahu says he meant to say he visited Azerbaijan, not Afghanistan
7:09 pm

PM ends speech, says Gantz would have succumbed to Obama's pressure in '15 minutes'

The Knesset electoral threshold — explained

What does 3.25% mean? What was all that merging of parties to make the threshold? And what happens if a party doesn’t make it after all?

Alan M. Dershowitz

Dershowitz to AG: Beware ‘a parade of horribles’

In a democracy, criticism of the relationship between media and government should be left to voters, not prosecutors

It’s not just about Bibi

The PM’s rivals need to eschew the ugly, personal campaigning and articulate policies for seeking peace and healing society

For at least 12,000 years, we’ve been fond of puppies

The bones of a woman and her dog highlight how two packs from two different species slowly became one community.

A man walks through Hebrew Street in the Albanian city of Berat on February 6, 2019. (Gent Shkullaku/AFP)

In Albania, a unique Jewish history museum on the brink

By Sally Mairs and Briseida MEMA

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad on March 3, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)

In rare visit to Iraq, Abbas offers Palestinian ‘expertise’ to help rebuilding

Senior officials deny reports PA president will make first Syria visit since outbreak of civil war to meet with Assad

PM thanks May for blacklisting Hezbollah under anti-terror laws

Iran’s top leader warns against trusting Europe on nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Syria reports Israeli shell fired at town across Golan Heights border

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Uri Berger, an archaeologist in the Upper Eastern Galilee, filed a complaint with the police for the vandalism at the Mt. Meron Nature Reserve on March 4, 2019. (Nadia Azar/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Graffiti spray-painted on 1,800-year-old synagogue on Galilee’s Mount Meron

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Dr. Bruce Goldfeder, the ER doctor at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center, who stopped a shooting attack (Screencapture/ WPEC)

ER doctor at Florida veterans hospital shot stopping double amputee gunman

By JTA

Illustrative. Hackers/cybersecurity (iStock by Getty Images)

Hackers scrawl ‘Jerusalem is capital of Palestine’ across many Israeli web pages

An illustrative image of a burn wound injury (imicrogen; Stock by Getty Images)

Second skin: Israeli medical device creates temporary nano-layer to treat wounds

By Federico Maccioni

Yarit Dor (on bottom), a trained stage combat choreographer, in rehearsals for 'Richard II,' currently being performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London through April 22, 2019 (Courtesy Yarit Dor)

Dirty dancingAt Shakespeare’s Globe theater, Israeli woman directs the fights

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

Buenos Aires police identify suspects in violent assault on chief rabbi

Nicola Zingaretti, president of the Lazio region, attends a press conference in Rome, November 19, 2015. (Gabriel BOUYS/AFP)

Italy’s Democratic Party leans left under son of Holocaust survivor

By Charles ONIANS

Baby-doll protest outside the Health Ministry's offices in Jerusalem over Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman's alleged aid to suspected child sex abusers, March 4, 2019. The sign reads, "Litzman, protect the children, not the abusers!" (Screen capture/Channel 13)

Baby doll protest slams Litzman’s help to sex abusers

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Rep. Ilhan Omar at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in the Rayburn Building in Washington, DC, February 13, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/JTA)

Jewish Democrats condemn W. Virginia poster linking Muslim congresswoman to 9/11

By Eric Cortellessa

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota listens as lawmakers speak about the Voting Rights Enhancement Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish Democrat calls Omar’s dual loyalty remark a ‘vile anti-Semitic slur’

Israel's Linoy Ashram performs during the individual all-around final at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships at Arena Armeec in Sofia on September 14, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Dimitar DILKOFF)

Israeli rhythmic gymnast bags three golds in Spanish competition

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A newborn baby in an Israeli hospital. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Home births are three times more dangerous than hospital ones, study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

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