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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 28, 2019

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With over 6 million online followers, PM’s internet empire prepares for election

Amid a campaign high on spite and fake news, Netanyahu is uniquely placed to impact the biggest audience. Does he have another ‘Arabs turning out in droves’ surprise in store?

A victorious Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at Likud party election headquarters In Tel Aviv. early on March 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Gili Yaari, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud rapped by rivals, disability official over ads assailing Gantz’s sanity

Benny Gantz speaks at a news conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Blue and White probing leaked recordings of confidential Gantz conversations

Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash speaks to journalists in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Top UAE minister urges strategic shift in Arab-Israel ties; boycott was mistake

By Raphael Ahren

The Arab world’s boycott of Israel decades ago was a ‘very, very wrong decision,’ Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash says

Armored vehicles of UN peacekeepers of UNDOF, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, wait to cross from the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights to Syria, on Thursday, August 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

As UN Security Council debates Golan, US says it wants peacekeepers to stay

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF tanks stationed near the Israeli-Gaza border on March 27, 2019. (Dudi Modan/Flash90)

Israel media reviewAprès moi, la mêlée: 9 things to know for March 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis

Did Netanyahu just endorse the acquisition of territory by force?

As PM asserts Israel can keep land captured in defensive wars, one Israeli legal scholar insists Golan still belongs to Syria, but argues that the West Bank’s status is debatable

An Israeli flag flutters above the wreckage of a tank on a hill in the Golan Heights overlooking the border with Syria on October 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

US slammed at UN Security Council for recognizing Golan as Israeli

By Edith M. Lederer

European envoys said sent to White House, State Department to protest Golan move

All EU countries say no to recognition of Israeli Golan Heights

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel Katz attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/AFP)

Top minister: ‘As far as Iran knows, it’s Israel’ that carried out Syria strike

By Tamar Pileggi

Israel Katz adds operation ‘far more challenging militarily’ than Gaza strikes; at least 7 Tehran-linked fighters said killed; Netanyahu says military efforts ‘continuous’

Explosions at the Aleppo airport allegedly caused by Israeli strikes on March 27, 2019 (Screencapture/Twitter)

Syria says Israeli jets carry out airstrike near Aleppo

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh flashes a 'v for victory' sign on March 27, 2019, next to the rubble of what was once his office in Gaza City, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike two days earlier. (Hamas)

Israel said to offer Hamas numerous concessions in return for curbing violence

By Michael Bachner

Egyptian delegation reportedly conveys Jerusalem’s proposal to Palestinian terror groups, but they rule out halting border rallies entirely

Israel and Hamas prepare to square off on anniversary of ‘March of Return’

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel says over 2,000 violent incidents originated in Gaza in past year

By AP and ToI Staff

Balloon-borne incendiary devices land in Israel amid Gaza truce efforts

A scene from a television campaign ad for the Responsibility for the Founders party. (Screen shot: Kan)

Countdown to April 9

Inane and outdated, state-funded TV campaign ads gun for scraps of attention

The first batch of election commercials provide mostly bombast and sloganeering, but also some genuine entertainment and WTF moments

Education and Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett, left, speaks with The Times of Israel's Jewish World editor Amanda Borschel-Dan at an English-language event, March 27, 2019. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Countdown to April 9New Right head Bennett vows not to serve under Gantz, give up ‘one inch’ of land

By Yaakov Schwartz

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is presented with the state comptroller's annual report at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem on March 24, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked willing to join Gantz in future Netanyahu government

Rafi Peretz, leader of the Jewish Home party, speaks at the campaign opening event of Union of Right Wing Parties in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Before merger with Jewish Home, Otzma Yehudit had to disavow harming innocents

Defending alliance with Kahane disciples, leader Rafi Peretz says he didn’t agree to join forces until they pledged to oppose price tag attacks and assaults on soldiers

Leader of the Yachad political party Eli Yishai speaks at the campaign opening event in Bnei Brak, March 12, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Eli Yishai’s Yachad party drops out of election race, boosting right

By Marissa Newman

Then Israel Police commissioner Roni Alsheich (L) poses for a picture with former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz (R) at a ceremony marking Alsheich's retirement, in Beit Shemesh on November 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ombudsman castigates police over talks for NIS 50m deal with firm run by Gantz

Rebecca Schull plays a Jewish matriarch with a shocking secret past in 'The Last.' (Plainview Pictures)

NY Jewish family learns its beloved bubbe is really a Nazi nurse, in new film

By Renee Ghert-Zand

One of the vertical openings that allows cavers to rappel down into the Malcham cave system from the top of Mount Sodom near the southern Dead Sea, pictured on March 22, 2019. (courtesy Anton Chikishev/Hebrew Unviersity)

A hollow victory: Israel claims title of world’s largest salt cave from Iran

By Melanie Lidman

Bibi can avert a constitutional crisis

A suggestion that protects the country from an indicted premier (if he’s indicted), and preserves the office for an aquitted Netanyahu (if he’s acquitted)

Back to normality on the Gaza border

Hamas hasn’t fired a rocket in 15 hours, so I’m supposed to settle down and get on with my routine — that should be easy enough, right?

Daniel M. Cohen

What AIPAC conference did YOU attend?

Bibi may have been bombastic, but only the Washington Post saw him stick `a knife in the heart’ of US-Israel ties

Caroline Goldberg Igra

Cholesterol be damned! We had to score some butter

A little research shows that Israel’s outrageously frequent butter shortages are the result of monopolistic dairy practices

Alcohol-free, sugar-free, O.Vine wine water created by using leftover grape skins and seeds by Wine Water Ltd. and Practical Innovation (Courtesy)

Waste-busting Israeli firm turns companies’ discards into new food and drink

By Johanna Chisholm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from Israel via video link at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, on March 26, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP/File)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

Stuck in the middle… with Trump and Netanyahu

AIPAC is desperately trying to maintain its bipartisan identity. Events inside and outside its annual policy conference this week underlined the near-impossibility of the mission

Democratic Senator Kamala Harris of California meets with AIPAC activists in her office on March 25, 2019. (Kamala Harris/Twitter via JTA)

AIPAC refutes idea that Democratic candidates boycotted its conference

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the House Appropriations Committee's State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee about his department's 2020 budget request, March 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Pompeo says Trump peace plan will discard old ‘parameters’

By AFP

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh flashes a 'v for victory' sign on March 27, 2019, next to the rubble of what was once his office in Gaza City, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike two days earlier. (Hamas)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

What was this latest Gaza kerfuffle about, anyway?

Hamas risked outright war by firing on the Sharon region on Monday – and for what? To embarrass Netanyahu? To prepare for Saturday’s ‘million man march?’

State comptroller: IDF unprepared for massive civilian casualties in wartime

Hamas chief emerges from hiding in Gaza, declares victory

By ToI Staff and AP

Rights groups condemn IDF killing of Palestinian teen identified as medic

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tourists visit the archaeological site of Tel Shiloh in the West Bank, March 12, 2019. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Ancient West Bank site draws Christians, and controversy

By Ilan Ben Zion

Tel Shiloh archaeological digs popular with Evangelical tourists, but ignore Muslim history of site

More Headlines

Israeli security forces guard at the Qalandiya Checkpoint near Ramallah on July 26, 2016. (Flash90)

Border cop hit by car, lightly injured at checkpoint near Jerusalem

Members of German hard rock band Rammstein dressed as concentration camp inmates standing on a gallows, in a video for a new single released March 26, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

German band Rammstein blasted for concentration camp video

By AFP

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)

Shot rabbi saved woman while dying; her family is keeping his name alive

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with outgoing Mossad chief Tamir Pardo during a farewell ceremony in Tel Aviv on January 5, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Ex-Mossad chief: Netanyahu’s version on Egypt submarine deal ‘makes no sense’

By Michael Bachner

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Report: US approves sale of nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama reads from 'Mein Kampf' in Congress, March 25, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

GOP silence draws calls of ‘hypocrisy’ after lawmaker compares Dems to Nazis

By Eric Cortellessa

Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 24, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yad Vashem urges US politicians to end ‘divisive anti-Semitic language’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Damien Zeller, one of the people who rushed out to by a bottle of Israeli wine in the Netherlands, March 2019. (Courtesy Damien Zeller, via JTA)

Grape successIsraeli winery sells out thanks to Dutch boycott supporter

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A swastika and the words 'Shoa blabla' was on the monument in the Garden of Remembrance in the Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or cemetery, on February 20, 2019. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP)

US State Department offers to fund programs abroad against rise of anti-Semitism

By JTA

Jackie Walker, vice-chair of Momentum, the Labour group that supports party leader Jeremy Corbyn. (Youtube screenshot)

From our partnerUK Labour Party expels former Momentum vice-chair Jackie Walker

In this August 12, 2017, file photo, people fly into the air as a vehicle is driven into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, United States. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP, File)

Neo-Nazi in Charlottesville attack pleads guilty to hate crimes

By AFP

Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women. (courtesy NCJW)

Hillel head and Steinhardt accuser to lead National Council of Jewish Women

By JTA

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