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Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, left, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on August 10, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Top Blue and White candidate suggests ‘treason’ by Netanyahu in submarine case

By Michael Bachner

Likud says remark by Ya’alon ‘crosses a red line,’ amid calls by rival candidates to reexamine PM’s involvement in ‘worst corruption case in Israel’s history’

State witness in submarine graft case remanded after asking to retract testimony

In shock move, key witness in submarine graft case asks to retract testimony

Israel media reviewGone Ganor: 9 things to know for March 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli naval base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Live updates (closed)

State prosecutors said mulling Netanyahu criminal probe in submarine case

News report says scope of corruption case involving billion shekel naval purchases may be expanded to include prime minister

7:33 pm

IDF strikes Gaza cell launching arson balloons at Israel -- reports
7:21 pm

IDF investigating reports of gunfire near Efrat settlement
7:15 pm

US says injured Palestinian man lied about terror links to get visa

Benny Gantz, the leaders of the Blue and White political alliance attends a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz: I won’t quit prime minister race over Iranian phone hack

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Blue and White leader challenges Netanyahu to debate, says there was nothing sensitive on device and his wife supports him; rules out coalition with Arab Israeli parties

Blue and White chief Benny Gantz during a campaign event on March 18, 2019. (Courtesy: Blue and White)

Iran denies it hacked Israeli would-be PM Benny Gantz’s phone

People celebrate Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations in Saker Park in Jerusalem, April 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Premium contentment

Israelis still very happy, but slip two spots to 13th in world ranking

By AP and ToI Staff

Finland tops World Happiness Report again as cheerier Austria and Costa Rica push Jewish state down from 11th place last year; UK is 15th; US is 19th

Justice minister defends ‘fascism’ spot, dismisses ‘bitter’ critics

After mock perfume spot slammed in Israel and overseas, New Right co-chair says it was an ‘excellently written Purim video,’ but admits she initially refused to do it

New Right co-chair Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in a satirical campaign ad, released on March 18, 2019, that mocks left-wing fears of her judicial reform proposals. (Twitter screen capture)

New Right co-chair Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in a satirical campaign ad, released on March 18, 2019, that mocks left-wing fears of her judicial reform proposals. (Twitter screen capture)

From ‘fascism’ perfume to flatulent hippo, parties get weird with online ads

By Mike Smith and Jonah Mandel

MK Oren Hazan (Likud) in a self-produced election parody video of the Spaghetti Western 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' in which he shoots dead MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad). (Facebook screenshot)

Good, bad and uglyArab MK wants Oren Hazan charged for parody video killing

US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, left, and her husband senior White House adviser Jared Kushner are seen during the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Kushner peace plan once urged huge Palestinian-Jordanian-Saudi land swap — book

By Eric Cortellessa

Vicky Ward writes that Trump was reluctant to meet Netanyahu at first, but the two forged a close bond in 2016 as the PM delivered a 2-hour ‘masterclass’ to the candidate

Poll indicates 41% of Palestinians would vote for Hamas leader for president

Pompeo in region to counter Iran, boost Netanyahu

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI

Israeli and Palestinian firefighters participate in joint exercise in Jenin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference at the Washington Convention Center March 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

4 things to watch at this year’s ultra-fraught AIPAC conference

In partisan US political climate, pro-Israel lobby’s confab will try to weave the complex path between Democrats and Trump-led Republicans, host Israel’s bitter election rivals too

Adam Milstein, whose family foundation has donated to AIPAC’s affiliate, as well as pro-Israel and Jewish groups. (Courtesy of the Israeli-American Council via JTA)

Pro-Israel donor won’t moderate AIPAC panel after critiquing Muslim lawmakers

An Israeli soldier stands guard in the northern West Bank village of Salem, east of Nablus, on March 18, 2019, during a search operation for a Palestinian suspect. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Ariel terrorist who killed rabbi and soldier dies in firefight with IDF troops

After two-day manhunt, Israeli troops circle building to arrest Palestinian attacker, shoot him after he opens fire on security forces

President Reuven Rivlin (right, back to camera) visits on March 20, 2019, the family of Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, one of two Israelis killed in a Palestinian terror attack on March 17. (President's spokesperson)

Rivlin visits families of terror victims, praises their memory

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) pays a condolence call to the family of Rabbi Achiad Ettinger in the West Bank settlement of Eli, March 19, 2019 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu to slain rabbi’s family: We’ll seek to enact death penalty for terror

This fragment of a Persian-period (4th – 5th century BCE) Bes-Vessel was discovered in a large refuse pit in the City of David's Givati Parking Lot dig, in Jerusalem. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)

2,600 years ago in Jerusalem, this fat jokester dwarf laughed evil spirits away

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Unprecedented fragment of a Persian-period Bes-Vessel is discovered in a large refuse pit in ongoing excavations in the City of David’s Givati Parking Lot dig

Analysis

One small step for Israel highlights one giant heap of space trash for mankind

As Beresheet nears the moon, where it will spend eternity as a 160 kg tin can, experts warn of a growing pile of man-made debris on the lunar surface and more junk in orbit

Illustration of space junk. (Petrovich9/iStock by Getty Images)

A computer simulation shows the route that the Beresheet spacecraft will take the moon, with a series of larger ellipses around the Earth until it reaches an orbit around the moon. (courtesy SpaceIL)

Israeli spacecraft performs final maneuver around Earth before moon landing bid

The godless, hilarious…and holy Book of Esther

’Write my story down for the generations to come,’ demanded Esther. But would the sages do it? (Historical fiction)

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Am I quarantined with suspected measles because of you?

I’ve been ordered to stay home and wait to learn whether this cough is more than just that

Take great care when you limit freedom of expression

Of course, Israeli democracy should defend itself, but it also would survive Michael Ben-Ari’s presence in the Knesset

For women in Israel, marriage is captivity

The rabbinate claims only a small number of women are ’chained’, but the number is way larger — and the problem deeply ingrained

Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó and PM Benjamin Netanyahu open the Hungary's trade mission in central Jerusalem, March 19, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In first for EU state, Hungary opens diplomatic trade office in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Three diplomats to be stationed in new mission, which is billed as a ‘branch’ of country’s embassy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 23, 2018. (AFP/Petras Malukas)

Hitting campaign trail, Lithuanian PM says he may move embassy to Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

A screenshot of video shown by the Kan public broadcaster of a protest in the Gaza Strip over the cost of living on March 15, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Hamas quashes Gaza demonstrations, but protest persists

By AFP and ToI Staff

Terror organization facing pressure over economic crisis, is condemned for beating and arresting hundreds

Israeli planes shoot at Gazans launching incendiary balloons into Israel

Animal welfare group to save Gaza zoo animals

By AFP and ToI Staff

Remarkable birdSick Gaza parrot saved by Israeli animal rights group

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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Beth Shalom Cemetery officials said they were trying to service the entire Jewish community in opening its new section. (Courtesy of Beth Shalom Cemetery via JTA)

Orthodox-run cemetery okays area for cremated remains, burial of non-Jewish kin

Illustrative: A Palestinian man changes the tires of his car after a 'price tag' attack in March 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Palestinian town targeted in apparent hate crime days after terror attack

In this photo from January 17, 2016, Moshe Gordon sits outside his guest house advertised on the Airbnb international home-sharing site in Nofei Prat settlement in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Palestinians challenge US lawsuit against Airbnb settlement policy

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers escort hundreds of Jewish worshippers to the Joseph's Tomb holy site in Nablus in the northern West Bank on December 10, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two Palestinians killed in clash near Nablus biblical tomb

Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)

Israel urges Poland to deny entry to British Holocaust denier David Irving

Esther Voet is the editor in chief of the Dutch Jewish magazine Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad. (Courtesy of NIW/via JTA)

Jewish journalist’s Purim prank about fleeing anti-Semitism shocks Holland

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Interception tests of the David's Sling Aerial Defense System on March 19, 2019. (Defense Ministry)

David’s Sling missile defense system passes key trial, ministry says

Karlie Kloss, top left, and Joshua Kushner attend the semifinals of the US Open tennis tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Sept. 6, 2018 (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, )

Kushners said snubbed brother Josh’s wife for 6 years because she wasn’t Jewish

Yeda CEO Gil Granot-Mayer (left to right) BioLeaders CEO, Dr. Young-Chul Park and Weizmann Institute Vice President for Technology Transfer Prof. Mordechai Sheves (Weizmann Institute of Technology)

South Korea firm to invest $10m in Weizmann scientists’ anti-cancer drug

By Shoshanna Solomon

British comedian Rachel Creeger will appear on Israeli stages for five performances from March 27-April 1, 2019 (Courtesy Rachel Creeger)

Laugh trackLondon comic Rachel Creeger brings her Jewish mom act to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)

Suspect in 2017 Paris killing of Sarah Halimi deemed unfit for trial

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Aleph Farms Ltd. uses the ability of animals to grow tissue muscles, and harvests the cells to grow meat outslide the animal (Courtesy)

Scarce resources, much chutzpah set stage for Israel’s lead role in food tech

By Johanna Chisholm

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