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What Matters Most On Monday, March 11, 2019

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President Reuven Rivlin addressing a conference at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, March 11, 2019 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

President steps into row between PM and actress Rotem Sela

There are no second-class citizens, Rivlin says, in implicit rebuke of Netanyahu

By Raphael Ahren

Without mentioning PM, president slams ‘unacceptable remarks’ about Arabs, stresses that ‘the State of Israel has complete equality of rights for all its citizens’

Actress Gal Gadot poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' in central London on November 25, 2018. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Gal Gadot backs TV host feuding with Netanyahu over Arab rights

TV host, model and actress Rotem Sela. (CC-BY-SA-4.0 דבש סדן/Wikipedia)

PM to star who rapped anti-Arab rhetoric: Israel ‘not state of all its citizens’

Retired Israeli army general Benny Gantz, one of the leaders of the Blue and White political alliance, addresses members of the Druze community of Israel in the city of Daliyat al-Karmel in northern Israel on March 7, 2019. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Gantz says Menachem Begin would have kicked Netanyahu out of Likud

By Tamar Pileggi

Blue and White leader says iconic Israeli politician and party founder would not have tolerated PM’s ‘regime of divisiveness’ and ‘false’ campaign rhetoric

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Likud candidate Gideon Sa'ar as he arrives for a Likud faction meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows Likud will keep Education Ministry in next cabinet

By Stuart Winer

Head of the National Union faction MK Bezalel Smotrich during a conference of the Movement for the Quality of Government, in Modiin, February 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Eyeing Education Ministry, MK vows to combat liberal democracy ‘indoctrination’

Both black boxes found from crashed Ethiopian jet

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Investigators find flight data, voice recorders from Boeing 737 wreckage, as airlines around the world ground fleets of model

Debris from the crashed Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 737 plane some 60 kilometers southeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, March 11, 2019. (Michael Tewelde/AFP)

ZAKA dispatches team to search for Israelis killed in Ethiopia plane crash

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli says he was on Ethiopian jet days before it crashed, it had engine woes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

At least a dozen UN-affiliated personnel killed in Ethiopian crash

By AFP and ToI Staff

Avraham Matsliah, 49, from Ma'ale Adumim, was killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight near Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019. (Facebook)

Live updates (closed)

One of two Israelis killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash identified

Avraham Matzliah, 49, of Ma’ale Adumim, leaves behind a wife and two daughters, is remembered as ‘a wonderful father and a funny man’

7:31 pm

New poll sees boost for right-wing parties as Zehut clears 3.25% threshold
7:06 pm

One Israeli killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash identified as Avraham Matzliah
6:58 pm

Far-right MK Smotrich: Despite Netanyahu, we can get the education ministry

For Netanyahu, all Israelis are equal, but some are more equal than others

Defending contentious nation-state law, PM doubles down on legislation’s provocative distinction between ‘individual rights’ and the ‘right to exercise national self-determination’

Daniel S. Mariaschin

The dual-loyalty canard

After 350 years, Jews know the truth: the US is the better for its many ethnic Americans with cultural and bilateral ties to their ancestral homes

How I learned to relax on the Gaza border

I developed an eating disorder in reaction to Hamas rockets, and I felt like I’d let the terrorists win. Until I got help

Ilhan Omar’s fundamental Jewish-Muslim conflict

The lawmaker’s casting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a religious issue endangers chances for a negotiated peace

William Echikson

Romania lights the way in fighting Holocaust revisionism

Croatia, Poland, and Hungary should take note of Bucharest’s critical lessons on how to accept their guilt

Zehut chairman Moshe Feiglin speaks during a demonstration held following the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, February 9, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli elections 2019

Pot legalization meets Jewish nationalism: Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut is no joke

By Raoul Wootliff

Hadash leader Ayman Odeh in the Knesset, January 28, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Ayman Odeh sets out terms for helping Gantz’s Blue and White defeat Netanyahu

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, February 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump said to tell GOP donors: ‘Democrats hate Jewish people’

By Eric Cortellessa

Boasting of his own popularity in Israel, US president reportedly says if he could run for PM he would be polling at 98%

Meghan McCain on ABC's The View (YouTube screenshot)

Meghan McCain raps anti-Semitism, gets ‘anti-Semitic’ treatment by Jewish artist

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mellanox founder Eyal Waldman (Courtesy)

US gaming firm Nvidia to buy Israeli chip maker Mellanox for $6.9 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

Deal is second largest for Israeli tech, after Mobileye; founded in 1999 by Eyal Waldman, Mellanox makes high-speed servers and storage switching solutions

Illustrative image of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) (Phonlamai iStock by Getty Images)

AI-based startups thrive in Israel as investments and interest surge

By Shoshanna Solomon

Paratrooper Evyatar Yosefi, 20, drowned during a training exercise in northern Israel on January 7, 2018. (Facebook)

IDF chief sacks 5 officers, censures colonel over soldier’s drowning in exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says investigation into accidental death of Sgt. Evyatar Yosefi, 20, in a flooded stream in January, found series of glaring errors and overall disregard for details

Security forces loyal to Hamas organize a line outside the central post office in Gaza City, on January 26, 2019, as Palestinians gather to receive financial aid from Qatar. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Qatari envoy brings $5.5 million in cash to Gaza, for the needy

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Mohammed al-Emadi arrives with aid money for 55,000 families — but none for ruling Hamas officials

Two devices attached to balloons land in Gaza-border community

Gazan injured in February border clashes said to succumb to injuries

Netanyahu warns Hamas: Don’t count on elections preventing major Gaza operation

Meretz chairwoman Tamar Zandberg and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meeting in Ramallah, on March 10, 2019. (Elad Malka)

Hosting Meretz leader, Abbas lashes out at Israel for withholding tax revenues

Tamar Zandberg tells PA president peace is ‘the supreme interest of the State of Israel,’ should be the focus of upcoming elections

Palestinian Authority Finance Minister Shukri Bishara speaking at a press conference in Ramallah on March 11, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)

PA minister announces austerity measures to mitigate budgetary crisis

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of the song 'Home,' performed by Kobi Marimi, Israel's entry for the Eurovision song contest 2019. (YouTube)

Home run?Israel’s Eurovision song leaked ahead of big reveal

By Stuart Winer

Tear gas canisters are fired by Israeli troops at Palestinians during clashes with Palestinians after the funeral of Hamdi Na'asan in the village of Mughayyir near the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 27, 2018 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Settler security officers probed as suspects in deadly West Bank clash

Illustrative: The Jewish National Fund together with volunteers from the Czech Republic worked to reforest and revive Masrik Forest in northern Israel, marking the 100th anniversary of Czechoslovakia, on October 25, 2018. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

As KKL-JNF puts workers on chopping block, three Palestinians first to be cut

By Avner Hofstein

Illustrative image of a new neighborhood in the settlement of Efrat in the West Bank, on January 26, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israeli forces nab Palestinian suspected of 2016 settlement stabbing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, March 10, 2019. (GALI TIBBON/AFP)

Netanyahu petitions High Court to allow tycoons to cover his legal defense

Lea Michele attends the The Paley Center for Media's 33rd Annual PaleyFest in Hollywood, California, March 12, 2016. (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images)

New directionsGlee star Lea Michele marries fiancé Zandy Reich

By JTA

(Collage by Alma; photo of T Kira Madden Madden courtesy of Madden/via JTA)

InterviewMemoir takes on complex heritage of queer, Jewish, Chinese and Hawaiian author

By Emily Burack

Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Women of the Wall accuse police of abandoning them to ‘angry mob’

An IDF helicopter assists in recovering the body of US tourist who apparently slipped and fell to his death in a ravine in the Eilat mountains area, March 10, 2019. (Israel Police)

American hiker falls to death in Eilat Mountains

Illustrative: The scene of a construction site in Petah Tikvah, where three workers were seriously injured in a falling accident, on June 14, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Construction worker dies after falling from roof in Tzur Yigal

From the Aspen Sante Fe Ballet's performance of 'Huma Rojo' (Courtesy Aspen Santa Fe Ballet)

On pointeSouthwestern ballet with Colorado roots comes to town

By Jessica Steinberg

Culture Minister Miri Regev at the annual international Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February 28, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Culture minister said to douse Independence Day Diaspora torch

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