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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 3, 2019

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Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

InterviewNetanyahu is 'a corrupt man who is destroying the country'

Benny Gantz to ToI: Future of Israel as a democracy is at stake in this election

By David Horovitz and Raoul Wootliff

If Netanyahu wins, warns Blue and White leader, ‘you’ll get Israeli version of Turkish system,’ with courts, cops and media controlled, and PM ensuring he can’t be investigated

Israel media reviewBlue and right: 6 things to know for April 3

By Joshua Davidovich

At ToI event, Gantz accuses Netanyahu of leading assault on Israeli democracy

Gantz said planning to woo ultra-Orthodox, Kulanu in post-election push

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin attend a state ceremony for Israeli soldiers killed in combat and whose burial place is unknown, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on March 14, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Rivlin looking for ‘excuse’ to task Gantz with forming government

By Alexander Fulbright

In recording, PM claims president wants to tap Blue and White leader to build coalition after elections; Rivlin’s office slams ‘despicable’ effort to undermine voters’ trust in him

Election panel head calls for criminal probe of Likud get-out-the-vote campaign

AG says insufficient evidence showing Likud behind fake social media army

Twitter said to take down most fake pro-Netanyahu accounts flagged in report

By AP and ToI Staff

Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin speaks during a Maariv/Jerusalem Post Conference, in Tel Aviv on April 3, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Zehut’s Feiglin says he wants to build Third Temple right away

Chairman of far-right party, which is enjoying growing popularity, is a longtime advocate of Jews’ rights on Temple Mount and has called for increased Israeli control over site

Right-wing leaders lash out at Feiglin’s ‘leftist’ party members

By Michael Bachner

Smotrich vows extremist Otzma Yehudit will be in Knesset, with PM’s support

Former top cop rebuffs criticism of police dealings with Gantz firm

By Shoshanna Solomon

Staff Sgt. Zachary Baumel, an IDF soldier who has been officially missing since the 1982 First Lebanon. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Israel said to be identifying remains of other bodies retrieved from Syria

Roughly a dozen bodies recovered from Palestinians’ Yarmoulk Refugee Camp along with that of Zachary Baumel, who had been missing since 1982 along with two other IDF soldiers

6:24 pm

Pence says Germany 'must do more' on defense spending
6:22 pm

Shas: If Gantz and Lapid win, they'll hold gay parade at Kotel, serve pig at every shawarma joint
6:11 pm

Democrats ask FBI to investigate Mar-a-Lago vulnerabilities

Young Israelis want Netanyahu, older ones Gantz

Pre-election poll by Israel Democracy Institute finds a quarter of Israelis fear election cheating, Arabs much less likely to follow election news than Jews

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a selfie with a soldier during an event for lone soldiers in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

AnalysisIn upcoming elections, Palestinian issue nowhere to be found

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Poll shows Likud overtake Blue and White; Labor surge

By Alexander Fulbright

Countdown to April 9Don’t miss final ToI election debate, in Tel Aviv on Thursday

JTA’s Cnaan Liphshiz, a Netherlands resident shown in Paris, is one of many native Israeli citizens abroad forced to travel to the Jewish state to vote in elections. (Courtesy of Liphshiz)

First person

For Israelis abroad, elections start with a scramble for plane tickets

Unlike many countries, the Jewish state does not let expats vote, reflecting its hang-ups about citizens who leave its borders, even though they still consider it home

2019 winners of the Bonei Zion award from Nefesh BNefesh: (l-r) Dr. Beverly Gribetz, Danny Hakim, Dr. Ora Paltiel, Harold “Smoky” Simon, Leah Abramowitz, Michael Dickson, Miriam Ballin. (Courtesy)

7 Anglo immigrants to receive achievement award

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Hatikva Market in Tel Aviv on April 2, 2019, ahead of general elections next week. (Flash90)

Woman who threw tomato at Netanyahu released amid mental illness claim

President Reuven Rivlin at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva on April 3, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Rivlin visits hospitalized wife as doctors report ‘marked improvement’

‘We feel everyone’s support. I know that my Nechama, our Nechama, is a very strong woman,’ president says after return from Canada

File: President Reuven Rivlin and his wife Nechama look at the snow-covered garden at the President's Residence in Jerusalem after a snowstorm hit the capital in February 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

First lady Nechama Rivlin rushed to hospital with ‘severe’ breathing problems

Illustrative: A class at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York. (Courtesy of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah via JTA)

Liberal NY Orthodox yeshiva says it will not ordain its first gay rabbi

Daniel Atwood says Yeshivat Chovevei Torah has known he was gay since he began studies four years ago and is now backtracking; school acknowledges situation handled badly

The scene of an alleged attempted stabbing attack near Hawara in the northern West Bank, April 3, 2019. (Courtesy)

Palestinian said to attack Israelis on West Bank road, is shot dead

Settler says he opened fire on assailant who attempted to open his car door in Hawara and stab his teenage daughter

Palestinian protesters run for cover from tear gas canisters fired by Israeli forces during clashes amid a mass demonstration marking the first anniversary of the March of Return protests, near the border with Israel east of Gaza City on March 30, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Palestinian dies from wounds sustained at border protest

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh tours the site of a destroyed building, in Gaza City, March 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas chief says rocket fire at Tel Aviv due to ‘malfunction’

Michael Brenner

What would Herzl do?

We can’t know who the Zionist leader would vote for, but we can guess who it would not be

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

How the Frisco Kid got his Hasidic clothing

My father told the Hollywood studio that it wasn’t realistic for an Orthodox rabbi to dance with his future bride in public (they ignored him)

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

A letter to the Brown U. students who voted in favor of BDS

If today’s student body had its way, freedom of academic expression would by stymied, and the spigot of knowledge would be closed

The greenest of greens

When Kermit the Frog sang, ’It’s not easy being green,’ did he know what a deadly color green actually is?

Toni Pinya enters the synagogue of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, February 11, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Mallorca, descendants of persecuted crypto-Jews now run the community

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

April Fools' tweet, April 1, 2019, with fake announcement of concert by anti-Israel musician Roger Waters. (4IL - Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy)

Another trick in the wallRoger Waters gets April-fooled: He’s playing Tel Aviv

Jared Kushner at a White House meeting with US President Donald Trump, January 11, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump: Kushner had ‘a very easy life’ until he pursued Mideast peace

By Eric Cortellessa

Architect's impression of the planned cable car station on Mount Zion. The Dormition Church can be seen to the left. (From plans submitted to the National Planning Council)

With objection period ending, opposition to Jerusalem cable car plan peaks

Twitter video screenshot showing bullet holes in poster of UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn allegedly used by soldiers for target practice. (Twitter screenshot)

Video shows UK troops apparently shooting at picture of Corbyn

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative - top secret file open on a desk (Getty Images)

Report: Official forgot secret arms deal file at airport

Actresses Tori Spelling (left) and Jennie Garth of 'Beverly Hills 90210' in Israel to film a commercial for Castro Kids (Courtesy Jennie Garth Instagram)

Clothes encounters‘Beverly Hills 90210’ stars jet to Israel for Castro commercial

By Jessica Steinberg

Avi Gilbert, left, and Menachem Simon harvest microgreen crops at Hillel Academy Jewish day school of Dayton, Ohio, March 7, 2019. (Marshall Weiss/Dayton Jewish Observer)

Jewish educationOhio day school students farm microgreens through project with Israeli roots

By Marshall Weiss

Rona Ramon, widow of first Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who died in a fatal accident aboard the space shuttle Columbia attends a conference at the Space School in Jerusalem on October 15, 2007. (Flash90)

Rona Ramon posthumously awarded Israel Prize for lifetime achievement

People in attendance applaud after the Pittsburgh City Council voted 6-3 to pass gun-control legislation, Tuesday, April 2, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The bill, introduced in the wake of the synagogue massacre last October, places restrictions on military-style assault weapons like the AR-15 rifle that authorities say was used in the attack that killed 11 and wounded seven. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

After synagogue massacre, Pittsburgh approves gun restrictions

By Ramesh Santanam

Wendell Brooks (left), president of Intel Capital and senior vice president of Intel Corp., and Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Cadence Design Systems and chairman of Walden International, discuss disruption on stage at the 2019 Intel Capital Global Summit on April 1, 2019. (Intel Corporation)

Intel Capital president: Israel generates better ideas than Silicon Valley

By Ricky Ben-David

The 1639 painting by Salomon Koninck titled "A Scholar Sharpening His Quill" looted by the Nazis from the Schloss family during World War II, is unveiled on April 1, 2019 at the French Consulate in New York City. (Photo by Don Emmert / AFP)

Heirs welcome return of Nazi-looted 17th-century masterpiece

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

British musician Joe Jackson will perform in Israel on July 28 as part of his Four Decade tour Courtesy Joe Jackson Facebook page)

Stepping outBrit musician Joe Jackson announces July 28 Tel Aviv show

By Jessica Steinberg

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