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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 6, 2019

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Undated photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. (AP Photo, File)

Freud’s a fraud? 110 unpublished Einstein documents unveiled by Hebrew U

By Michael Bachner

Released ahead of what would be physicist’s 140th birthday, trove includes 1935 letter expressing fear of war in Europe and appearing to dismiss Sigmund Freud as a ‘simple swindle’

A map of Jerusalem from the years 1670-1700 by Romeyn de Hooghe, part of the "Maps of the Holy Land and Jerusalem" exhibit, part of Google's Once Upon a Try international online exhibition project. (Courtesy National Library of Israel)

From ax heads to machine learning: Israel joins Google’s ‘Once Upon a Try’

Left, Bezalel Smotrich, after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)

Aims to end fear of fabricated cases, political persecution

Right-wing ally of Netanyahu proposes bill to save him from prosecution

By Raoul Wootliff

Claiming ‘deep state conspiracy,’ MK Bezalel Smotrich wants to make it easier for lawmakers to protect each other from criminal charges

Deri rapped as racist for tirade, threats against Russian-speaking immigrants

By Michael Bachner

Police said poised to recommend bribery charges for Likud lawmaker

Facebook partners with Hebrew fact-checkers as campaign rhetoric heats up

Members of the extremist Otzma Yehudit party, chairman Michael Ben Ari, left, and number two Itamar Ben Gvir, right, attend a meeting of the Central Elections Committee in the Knesset on March 6, 2019 to discuss appeals calling for Ben Ari's disqualification from running in the April Knesset elections. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Elections body holds raucous debate on disqualifying right-wing extremist

Day after attorney general recommends barring Otzma Yehudit leader Michael Ben Ari from running, shouting matches and a libel lawsuit reach the Knesset

AG recommends banning Otzma Yehudit leader from elections, but okays his deputy

Elections Committee clears Jewish Home MK’s run on Likud ticket

Jewish Home leader rules out joining Gantz-led coalition

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Finance Minister and head of the Kulanu party Moshe Kahlon attends a press conference of the Kulanu party in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Kulanu lambasted for sitting out vote on Otzma Yehudit candidates

Lapid says Begin would be ‘ashamed’ of Kahlon for allowing extremists into Knesset, while Jewish Home’s Smotrich says the finance minister has proven ‘he’s left-wing’

7:22 pm

Several hundred Gazans said protesting on border, 4 injured by Israeli fire
6:50 pm

Israel, Jordan said holding talks to end conflict at Jerusalem's Golden Gate
6:47 pm

Report: Police, prosecutors weighing probe against Otzma Yehudit's Ben Ari

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)

Analysis

‘We are vilified’: Echoing Netanyahu, Gantz goes on attack against media critic

The Blue and White leader’s developing (non-)relationship with the press is starting to resemble that of the prime minister he seeks to replace

Reporter's notebookAt a West Bank high school, Knesset candidates discuss future of students’ homes

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

High school once seen as election bellwether gives Blue and White huge win

Blue and White platform includes backing for Western Wall pluralistic plaza

By Raoul Wootliff

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press after attending the U.N. Security Council at United Nations Headquarters, Jan. 26, 2019 (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

Ahead of April election, Pompeo to travel to Israel next week

By Eric Cortellessa

State Department official says visit is not intended to interfere with Israeli domestic politics; secretary to also visit Lebanon and Kuwait

Jimmy Carter: Israeli-Palestinian peace impossible with Netanyahu at helm

By Michael Bachner

Arab Israeli party sues journalist for calling it a ‘terror organization’

Israel election primer: 5Disintegration of the Joint List poses new challenge to future of Arab politics

By Israel Democracy Institute

Farley Weiss, president of the National Council of Young Israel, poses next to the text of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. Weiss says political activism is part of Young Israel’s mission. (Courtesy of Weiss/via JTA)

How partisan politics are dividing a US Orthodox synagogue movement

Ilhan Omar, then a candidate for US Congress, speaks at a Hillary for Minnesota event at the University of Minnesota in October 2016. (Lorie Shaull/Flickr/via JTA)

Analysis

Omar the flashpoint as Democrats confront divide over Israel

Her tweets are slammed as anti-Semitic tropes, forcing Democrats to choose between desire to reprimand her and wanting to defend one of first Muslim women elected to the House

Ocasio-Cortez defends Ilhan Omar after alleged anti-Semitic remarks

Bernie Sanders staffer fired for anti-Netanyahu rant hired to run B’Tselem USA

Analysis5 Jewish things to know about Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: Opposition Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, stands right, as he makes a speech to lawmakers inside the House of Commons in London as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron sits at center left, during a debate on launching airstrikes against Islamic State extremists inside Syria, December 2, 2015. (Photo by Parliamentary Recording Unit via AP Video)

Analysis

70 years of transcripts from UK’s parliament show clear ‘obsession’ with Israel

Using a new analytics tool, researcher David Collier picks up 17,667 parliamentary references to the Jewish state — more than Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine combined

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is presented with flowers at the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, during his visit on the annual Mosque open day, Sunday March 3, 2019. British police detained a man after Corbyn was hit by an egg during his visit to the Mosque Sunday, and the man charged with assault is due to appear in court Tuesday. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Jeremy Corbyn comforted by rabbi after hit by an egg at a mosque

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A crane lowers a caravan to the ground in a new settlement meant to resettle the evacuees of Netiv Ha'avot, in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, May 9, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

UN again delays ‘blacklist’ of companies doing business with settlements

By AP and ToI Staff

In putting off long-delayed report on 206 mostly Israeli and American firms, rights chief Michelle Bachelet cites ‘complexity’ of her office’s task

UN rights chief criticizes Israel’s ‘immediate dismissal’ of report on Gaza

Israel blacklists Hamas station said to use on-air cues to recruit terrorists

Israel said to warn Hamas that attacks from Gaza risk wide-scale military action

Joshua Levinson

This, yes this little moment, is my Jerusalem

An Egyptian Jew, two Arab women, a Yemenite Jew, and a guy from the American Midwest went for a bus ride…

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

The drums of extremism

When you tolerate the restrictions of the most insular ultra-Orthodox (who would censure a bride on her wedding day), you invite bullies to your table

How many Arabs will vote in the next election?

The Arab parties need to overcome their conflicts or risk their constituencies not going to the polls

Susie Gelman and David A. Halperin

What if a desperate Netanyahu embraces West Bank annexation?

Such a move would undermine any credible pursuit of peace and threaten Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state

Tel Aviv testing new devices embedded in sidewalk to alert pedestrians when the stoplight has changed. (Screenshot, Channel 12 News)

Heads up

Tel Aviv trials ‘zombie’ traffic lights to save smartphone users from themselves

Pioneering LED warning strips on the sidewalk will hopefully be noticed by pedestrians with their heads down looking at their phones, and prevent them from walking into traffic

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Illustrative image of a sleeping woman. (AndreyPopov; iStock by Getty Images)

To sleep, perchance to let DNA be repaired: Study finds new reason for slumber

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: This Feb. 6, 2013, file photo shows French armored vehicles heading towards the Niger border before making a left turn north in Gao, northern Mali. They provide training and support to the militaries of Mali, Niger and other vulnerable countries in this corner of Africa where Islamic extremism has become entrenched over the past decade.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

3 French-Israelis allegedly swindled $11m, claiming funds would free captives

By Stuart Winer

Michael Bloomberg speaks during the plenary session of the Global Action Climate Summit in San Francisco, September 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Michael Bloomberg drops 2020 White House bid

By Steve Peoples and Julie Pace

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman is seen leaving a meeting in Jerusalem on February 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Litzman arranged VIP treatment for top rabbi’s wife at expense of public: report

By Michael Bachner

A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)

Belgian mayor defends carnival float featuring Jews with money and a rat

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former chief rabbi Yona Metzger leaves Ma'asiyahu Prison after serving his bribery sentence, March 6, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Ex-chief rabbi Yona Metzger leaves prison after serving 22 months for corruption

Eliezer Rauchberger, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem and chairman of the Degel Hatorah party branch in the capital, at the opening of Degel HaTorah's municipal election campaign offices in Jerusalem on October 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox deputy mayor won’t speak at Conservative movement venue

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)

IDF presents home demolition plans to family of suspected killer of Israeli teen

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Palestinian demonstrators break open the locked entrance to the Gate of Mercy compound outside the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, February 18, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Waqf rejects Israeli court order to shutter Temple Mount’s Gate of Mercy

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A screen capture from a video of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifting off from the Sohae launching station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea in December 2012. (AP/KRT via AP Video)

Pyongyang ‘rebuilding’ main satellite launch site, photos show

By AFP

A boat that overturned in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, on February 23, 2019 (Chilean Navy via Channel 13 screen capture)

Wrong body delivered to funeral of Israeli woman killed in Chile accident

Screen capture from the official Fatah Facebook page citing an unsourced memoir claiming Jews were ready to bury Russian civilians alive to save themselves.

Fatah posts story claiming Jews were willing to bury Russians alive in WWII

By Stuart Winer

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