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What Matters Most On Monday, April 1, 2019

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The entrance to the Ofer Prison near Jerusalem, on April 20, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas prisoners said threatening major hunger strike over conditions

Ismail Haniyeh said to warn UN envoy that growing tensions between inmates in Israeli jails and their guards could lead to conflict between the terror group and Jerusalem

6:14 pm

Rivlin meets Trudeau, thanks him for standing up to BDS, anti-Semitism
5:42 pm

Hamas prisoners threaten major hunger strike over conditions
5:20 pm

Netanyahu's son said to have labeled cops 'Gestapo,' called reporters 'shits'

Leaders of the Blue and White party, Benny Gantz, left, and MK Yair Lapid, hold a press conference, in Tel Aviv, on March 31, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz: Netanyahu using ‘info-terror’ from fake accounts to ‘steal’ elections

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Blue and White leader, reportedly the prime target of social media network, goes on the offensive

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud Hanukkah event on December 2, 2018 (screen capture: Facebook)

Gantz claims Netanyahu trying to steal elections as ‘fake news’ network revealed

By Raoul Wootliff

From L to R: Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon, Israel Resilience leader Benny Gantz, Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid and former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi on February 21, 2019. (Courtesy Israel Resilience)

Gantz on his Blue and White leadership partners: I’m not sure about any of them

A Blue and White campaign poster in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Israel media review

Nasty, brutish and (mercifully) short: 8 things to know for April 1

By Joshua Davidovich

From an underhanded social media campaign to leaks about flip-flopping to everything else, an election season marked for being unseemly hits fever pitch before drawing to a close

Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi speaks at the official unveiling of the new Blue and White party in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Ashkenazi: Like athletes, only top Torah scholars should be exempt from draft

Shas leader Aryeh Deri attends a campaign event in the northern city of Tiberias, March 18, 2019.(David Cohen/Flash90)

Deri: We won’t join Blue and White coalition, even if rotation deal scrapped

By Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90; Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Poll: Most Israelis think Netanyahu will beat out Gantz to remain PM

As Netanyahu marks 10 years in office, TV survey puts Blue and White as largest party, but gives right-wing factions upper hand in forming government

Labor party leader Avi Gabbai addresses an event in Tel Aviv sponsored in part by the Times of Israel on March 31, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Countdown to April 9At ToI event, Labor’s Gabbay dismisses US peace plan, raps PM’s embrace of Trump

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Gaza border in southern Israel on March 15, 2019. (Flash90)

Countdown to April 9Don’t miss Benny Gantz, our next ToI election interviewee, in Tel Aviv Tuesday

Sacked official to ToI: I definitely favor ties with Israel

Envoy recalled, official fired as Somalia uniquely abstains on anti-Israel vote

By Raphael Ahren

Almost unnoticed, Arab League state made history in Geneva 10 days ago by choosing not to vote against Israel at major global forum. No explanation was given; now heads are rolling

New Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, right, is joined by incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left, as he speaks to reporters after winning the election in Mogadishu, Somalia, February 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Rwandan Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera, left, and the director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry Yuval Rotem open Israel's new embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, April 1, 2019 (courtesy MFA)

Boosting diplomatic drive to Africa, Israel opens embassy in Rwanda

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative. Bahraini lawmakers participating in a session of parliament in Manama, Bahrain. (Hasan Jamali/AP)

Bahraini MPs seethe as Israelis set to speak at April conference

By AFP

A view of the Bedouin town of Arab al-Naim in the foreground, with the city of Carmiel in the background, 25 February 2006. (Public Domain/Wikipedia)

Despite nation-state law, this Bedouin village is sticking with Netanyahu

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on March 31, 2019. (DEBBIE HILL/POOL/AFP)

Netanyahu welcomes Brazil plan for Jerusalem trade office as Palestinians fume

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PA says it will recall its top envoy to Brasilia due to ‘brazen violation of international legitimacy’; President Bolsonaro to visit Western Wall on Monday

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (L) attend the opening session of the 30th Arab League summit in the Tunisian capital Tunis on March 31, 2019. (Fethi Belaid/Pool/AFP)

Abbas to Arab leaders: US will tell Israel to annex part of West Bank

Greenpeace activists rappel down the walls of the Jerusalem's Old City, during a protest on April 1, 2019, to hang a banner saying 'Bolsonaro Stop Amazon Destruction' during the visit of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Israel (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Greenpeace activists rappel down Old City walls in protest against Bolsanaro

Jamaica Kincaid listens during a panel on migration at the National Library of Israel's Global Forum, March 18, 2019. (Yonatan Kelberman)

Interview

Jamaica Kincaid is black and Jewish — but she’s through talking about identity

By Yaakov Schwartz

Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, veteran of several hijacking attempts, is pictured in 1970. (AP Photo)

Inside story

From Gaza classrooms to the DNC, Palestinian female terrorists are all the rage

By Emily Benedek

I’m from Afghanistan, and I come to Israel in peace

Our countries should have formal, diplomatic ties. Until then, we the citizens should build relationships among people

Redrawing Mom five years after her death

Increasingly, in stolen seconds of my day, my brain offers glimpses of my ’eternal mom,’ the version of Mom that stays with me most

My only Passover tradition: Not having one

From fresh matzah buttercrunch to an avocado on the seder plate, I’ve seen many ways one can be Jewish

We must still be dreamers

Poll after poll shows Israelis believe in pluralism, mutual respect, and the ability of humanity to defy oppression, protest inequity and pursue justice

Members of the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group march during a military parade in Gaza City on October 4, 2018. (Anas Baba/AFP PHOTO)

Reports: Islamic Jihad planning large Gaza attack to derail ceasefire talks

By Judah Ari Gross

Anonymous Israeli security officials said to warn of recent suspicious activity by the Iran-backed group along the security fence surrounding the Strip

Illustrative: A fisherman navigates rough seas along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City, April 11, 2018. (Adel Hana/AP)

Israel extends Gaza fishing zone as conditions eased despite Sunday rocket fire

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speak at a press conference announcing the launch of his New Right party's 'New South' campaign, in Ashdod on March 26, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general rejects Bennett’s demand that PM convene security cabinet

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Ukrainian comic actor, showman and presidential frontrunner Volodymyr Zelensky surrounded by cameramen and photographers plays table tennis with a journalist ahead of the provisional results at the headquarter in Kiev, on March 31, 2019. (Genya SAVILOV/AFP)

Comic rumored to be Jewish heads to runoff for Ukraine presidency

By AFP and ToI Staff

Exit polls give political novice Volodymyr Zelensky 30.4% of vote, a wide margin over incumbent Petro Poroshenko with just 17.8%

Screen capture from video of veterinarians checking Shulman the flamingo, which was blown by strong winds out of the Ramat Gan Safari on March 31, 2019. (Ramat Gan Safari)

In the pink

Shulman the flamingo blown out of safari, struts down highway

By Stuart Winer

Bird apparently carried aloft from enclosure; lands on busy road to the amusement of drivers

The 3D printer at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa will help researchers print tissues from ears to blood vessels (Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson’s Office)

Need a new ear? Technion opens 3D tissue printer for researchers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Biomaterial printing center aims to facilitate development of complex tissues and improve their integration into human organs

Illustrative image of a cherry blossom tree near Mount Fuji in Japan (Phattana; iStock by Getty Images)

Japanese investment in Israel blossoms as firms scout for tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)

Ex-London mayor Livingstone: ‘It’s not anti-Semitic to hate the Jews of Israel’

Beresheet engineers released this photo on April 1 of the Arabian peninsula at a height of 16,000 kilometers, photographed from the spacecraft's external cameras. (courtesy Beresheet)

Stars align as Beresheet spacecraft prepares for lunar capture

By Melanie Lidman

View of the Sea of Galilee as seen from the promenade of Tiberias on March 18, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Sea of Galilee rises 11 centimeters in a day as wintry spell continues

Illustrative: The US military returns a THAAD missile defense system from Israel to its home base, March 2019. (US Army Europe/File)

IDF, US wrap up air defense exercise; THAAD anti-missile system to leave Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Supporters of the Republican People's Party, CHP, wave Turkish flags, and one with a portrait of Kemal Ataturk, right, as they celebrate after preliminary results of the local elections were announced in Ankara, Turkey, April 1, 2019. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

Erdogan sees win in local votes, but loses mayoralty of Turkey’s capital

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

A 1939 letter written by Albert Einstein was sold at auction for $134,343. (Courtesy of Nate D. Sanders Auctions via JTA)

Einstein’s 1939 letter calling for Jewish solidarity sells for over $134,000

By JTA

Otzma Yehudit member Itamar Ben Gvir visits a Chabad yeshiva in the northern city of Safed, on March 28, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

High Court rejects Otzma Yehudit bid to bump candidate up slate

Ron Yitzhak Kokia, an IDF soldier who was stabbed to death in a terror attack on November 30, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Bedouin Israeli jailed for life for 2017 killing of IDF soldier

Law enforcement officers investigate racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in front of a building that houses the Oklahoma Democratic Party headquarters Thursday, March 28, 2019, in Oklahoma City. Former Democratic Gov. David Walters said Thursday that vandals spray-painted derogatory remarks about various racial and ethnic groups outside the building. Swastikas were also spray-painted onto the doors. Walters and his wife, Rhonda, own the building, which also houses other tenants. (AP Photo/Adam Kealoha Causey)

Racist, anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on Oklahoma Democratic Party headquarters

By JTA

Illustrative: Taxis drivers at Ben Gurion Airport on June 12, 2017. (Flash90)

Going the extra mileTel Aviv taxi drivers brush up on English ahead of Eurovision

A car belonging to a Palestinian in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev, with its tires slashed and graffitied with the Hebrew phrases "Jewish blood is not cheap" and "Jews wake up" on April 1, 2019. (Israel Police).

East Jerusalem Arabs targeted in second apparent hate crime in a week

A special rabbinical court meets to determine the marital status of the wives of two Israeli men who died in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane. (Chief Rabbinate of Israel)

Rabbinical council says plane crash victims’ families can begin mourning process

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