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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 2, 2019

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File - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touch the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 1, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/Pool/AFP)

Joined by Netanyahu, Brazilian president makes trailblazing trip to Western Wall

By Raphael Ahren

Braving Jerusalem rain, Bolsonaro becomes first foreign head of state to be accompanied by Israeli PM on visit to the holy site

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 27, 2019. (MAXIM SHEMETOV / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu to meet Putin in Moscow five days before elections

By Raphael Ahren

Hezbollah fighters hold flags, as they attend the memorial of slain leader Sheik Abbas al-Mousawi, killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992, in Tefahta village, south Lebanon, February 13, 2016. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)

Report: Through Pompeo, Israel warns Lebanon of new Hezbollah missile plant

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Countdown to April 9

Citizen Rivlin: Campaigns target the one voter who could decide the election

If the race is close enough, it will be the president who picks the winner — and that has Prime Minister Netanyahu worried

President Reuven Rivlin meets with residents from Nataf, outside of Jerusalem, on November 27, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

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)

Far-right MK says High Court override bill is condition for joining coalition

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes far-right Likud supporter Giora Ezra to the podium at a press conference, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel media reviewGo fake yourself: 7 things to know for April 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes far-right Likud supporter Giora Ezra to the podium at a press conference, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Not a bot: Netanyahu trots out homophobic Kahanist who called journalists ‘dogs’

By Tamar Pileggi

Giora Ezra’s Twitter account reveals long history of insulting PM’s rivals, reporters, and public officials; disparaged former police chief as a ‘pillow-biter’

Netanyahu accuses ‘lying’ Blue and White of tarring Likud voters as ‘bots’

By Marissa Newman

Likud party admits to funding $4 million get-out-the-vote campaign

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

Blue and White chair Benny Gantz speaking at a Times of Israel / Tel Aviv International Salon event on April 2, 2019. (Stephanie Bitan/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Democracy is working, but in danger, Blue and White’s Benny Gantz warns

By Michael Bachner

Prime ministerial hopeful tells ToI’s David Horovitz he is open to partnering with ultra-Orthodox, says elections not being fought fair

6:32 pm

Twitter says action taken against pro-Netanyahu network of fake accounts
6:28 pm

Gantz would be 'flattered' to be compared to Yitzhak Rabin
6:26 pm

Britain to seek another 'short' delay of Brexit

Israel's President Reuven Rivlin (left) presents Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a pair of made-in-Israel socks, April 1, 2019. (Mark Neiman,GPO)

What is this aboot?

Rivlin gifts collector Trudeau designer socks from Jerusalem

Canadian PM’s penchant for exotic hosiery gets made-in-Israel boost from visiting Israeli president

President Reuven Rivlin, right, with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, April 1, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin meets Trudeau, thanks him for standing up to BDS, anti-Semitism

A Palestinian Hamas police officer looks at a billboard bearing a portrait of slain Israeli soldier Oron Shaul in Gaza City on December 29, 2017. The writing in Arabic reads: ''As long as our heroes don't see freedom and light: This captive will never see freedom'' (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Hamas denies reports of prisoner swap discussions with Israel

Terror group’s leaders say talks aren’t focused on long-term ceasefire, but rather stabilizing 2014 truce, Hamas prisoners’ conditions, and status of Temple Mount

Illustrative. Children run toward a bomb shelter in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi during a November 2012 military operation in Gaza, known as Pillar of Defense. (Yuval Haker/Israel Defense Forces)

Rocket sirens blare on tense Gaza border in false alarm – army

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian cardiovascular surgeon Saleem Haj-Yahia (left), performs open-heart surgery at al-Najah University Hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus, January 28, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

PA stops referring Palestinian patients to Israeli hospitals

Spokesman accuses Israel of overcharging and taking funds for medical bills without its permission; Israeli Finance Ministry defends deductions

Israeli soldiers search for gunmen who opened fire at a bus stop outside the West Bank settlement of Ofra, injuring seven people, on December 9, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian man said killed in predawn clashes with IDF in Qalandiya

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

Illustrative: Palestinian prisoners stand in a cell, pending their release from Ketziot prison in southern Israel, on October 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit/File)

Palestinian prisoners to launch major hunger strike over cellphone crackdown

By Tamar Pileggi

Jeremy Slevin, center, standing next to Ilhan Omar, left, at a protest in Washington on March 15, 2019. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Building bridges, Jewish Ilhan Omar aide brings nuance to anti-Semitism brawl

Soft-spoken communications director Jeremy Slevin praised for attempts to temper anger directed at freshman lawmaker accused of stoking anti-Jewish sentiment

Kalman Yeger (Twitter)

NYC councilman who tweeted ‘Palestine does not exist’ loses committee seat

On attack tunnels from Lebanon, a UN report hides more than it reveals

The UN Secretary-General’s March report proves Hezbollah controls the information despite UNIFIL’s massive presence on the ground

Andy Blumenthal

Jerusalem’s train station that is also a bomb shelter

Up to 5,000 people can shelter underground — a comforting thought. And also a frightening one

Zalmi Unsdorfer

Why it has to be Bibi

It’s impossible to imagine anyone else standing up to Putin, Obama, and those ’Jews with trembling knees’

Booing ’tikkun olam’ is booing Judaism

The malevolence reportedly displayed by religious Jews at the National Young Israel Council’s gala dinner was shameful

The Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, January 2, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Fruit juice diet lands Israeli woman in hospital with brain damage

Woman in her 40s admitted to Tel Hashomer with possibly irreversible injuries after three weeks of malnutrition

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

The Chair

By Haim Watzman

Matti Friedman’s newest book is 'Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel.' (Mary Anderson/Algonquin Books/via JTA)

Times of Israel Presents

Author Matti Friedman to launch real-life spy thriller in a live ToI interview

By Matthew Kalman

The Intel Capital Israel team, from left to right: Noam Kaiser, Shira Vissoker, Roi Bar-Kat, and Yair Shoham. (Courtesy of Intel Corp.)

Intel Capital expands Israel team, announces new $117m global investments

By Ricky Ben-David

At annual summit, semiconductor giant’s venture arm marks significant year for portfolio companies, including Israeli startups

Walmart India unit Flipkart setting up R&D center in Israel – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Taxis from the company Hadar at Ben Gurion Airport outside of Tel Aviv, May 29, 2017. (Flash90)

New El Al online service helps passengers share rides to and from the airport

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

This Saturday, March 16, 2019 photo, shows a natural gas refinery at the South Pars gas field on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, in Asaluyeh, Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

US planning new Iran sanctions, may target oil waivers — report

By ToI Staff and AFP

This file photo taken on July 12, 2016 shows the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II taking part in a flying display at the Farnborough Airshow, south west of London. (AFP Photo/Adrian Dennis)

US halts sale of F-35 fighter jet parts to Turkey

By AP and ToI Staff

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan prepares to deliver a speech at Huber Mansion in Istanbul on March 31, 2019, following local elections. (BULENT KILIC / AFP)

Erdogan’s AKP party down but not out, after Turkish local elections

By Raziye AKKOC and Luana Sarmini-Buonaccorsi

Cannabis plant. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Medical cannabis reform leaves at least 5,000 patients with no medicine

By Melanie Lidman

View of the Expo Tel Aviv venue, September 13, 2018. (Flash90)

PM’s office to fund Eurovision security after shortfall threatens show

A car belonging to a Palestinian couple is seen after it was involved in a deadly crash reportedly due to stone-throwing by Israeli settlers at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank on October 12, 2018. (Zachariah Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights); Aisha Muhammad Talal Rabi (Courtesy)

Suspect: I may have spat, urinated on stone that killed Palestinian mother

A screen capture from the Netflix superhero series 'The Umbrella Academy' (screen capture: Netflix)

Super offensive?Jewish group pans new Netflix show over Yiddish-speaking villain

Ukrainian comic actor, showman and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky waves in front of voting booths at a polling station during Ukraine's presidential election in Kiev on March 31, 2019.
(Genya Savilov/AFP)

Zelensky: Ukrainian comedian laughing all the way to the ballot box

By Olga SHYLENKO, Theo Merz and ToI Staff

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, his wife, Sara, and their son Yair, during a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (not pictured), at Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem on December 8, 2013. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90/File)

Yair Netanyahu said to call police ‘Gestapo’ during questioning in Bezeq case

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at a panel in China, 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Former British PM Gordon Brown says Labour has ‘let the Jewish community down’

The cover of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' edition of the Maxwell House Haggadah features an illustration of the hit show’s cast. (Maxwell House via JTA)

Comedienne with coffeeMaxwell House is offering a ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Haggadah

By JTA and ToI Staff

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