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What Matters Most On Friday, April 5, 2019

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This combination of pictures created on April 2, 2019 shows (L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz. (Ronen Zvulun and Jack Guez/AFP)

Final polls: Blue and White leads, but right-wing bloc unanimously stronger

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel Hayom survey shows Gantz’s centrist alliance picking up 4 more seats than the ruling party, but Netanyahu remains best positioned to form government

A laborer walks past electoral campaign posters in Tel Aviv, on April 3, 2019. ( JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel media reviewLeading from behind: 10 things to know for April 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis2019 elections countdown: 5 days to go, 5 key points

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview

Lapid: If we beat Likud by 4, ‘no power on earth’ can stop us forming coalition

By Raoul Wootliff and David Horovitz

Blue and White No. 2 says if his centrist party tops Likud by decisive margin, Netanyahu’s allies will dump him: ‘They’re gonna say their farewells faster than anyone thinks’

French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee palace on February 8, 2019 in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP)

Four days before elections, Lapid to powwow with France’s Macron

By Raphael Ahren

Aryeh Deri speaks in front of a picture of the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef during a conference of the Shas party in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on March 5, 2019. (Flash90)

Panel bans Shas campaign offering letter in Torah scroll to supporters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks during a candle lighting ceremony marking the Hanukkah festival at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 6, 2018. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool/AFP)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

With Israeli election looming, liberal US Jews set their ire on Netanyahu

After Blue and White backs Western Wall agreement, American Jewish leaders hope the issue can get some election-fueled momentum to help close the Israel-Diaspora gap

An Israeli Arab woman walks past a campaign poster showing Israeli-Arab candidates in Kafr Manda. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

As vote nears, Arab Israelis push for stronger Knesset voice amid boycott calls

By Majeda El Batsh

Arab-Israeli rapper Tamer Nafar argues with himself over voting in the music video "Tamer must vote," released on April 3, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Give a DAMArab-Israeli rapper urges community to vote, oust the Right

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, center, during a vote at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, November 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu allies, including top Likud minister, say they won’t back immunity law

By Raoul Wootliff

After prime minister refuses to rule out so-called French Law, Gilad Erdan and several rightist party heads say no chance they will legislate to protect him from prosecution

Ombudsman said to call on AG to probe Netanyahu for false financial statements

Up to 1 in 5 Israelis said exposed to fake news smearing Gantz

‘Truth has long ceased to be a supreme value,’ TV anchor tells fake news confab

The Beresheet spacecraft snapped this picture of the moon's surface at a height of just 440 kilometers during the lunar capture maneuver on April 4, 2019. (Courtesy Beresheet)

With Beresheet, Israel becomes 7th country to achieve lunar orbit

By Melanie Lidman

Engineers celebrate in the Beresheet control room in Yehud on April 4, 2019 after announcing the moon's gravitation pull has most likely successfully captured the Beresheet spacecraft, the most complicated maneuver that the spacecraft has executed since its launch. (Eliran Avital/courtesy Beresheet)

Beresheet spacecraft successfully enters lunar orbit

By Melanie Lidman

Soldiers stand at attention during the annual ceremony for soldiers whose burial places are unknown on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on March 17, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Zachary Baumel won’t be the last missing IDF soldier to be found

For good or for ill, the dedication of Israel to its captive and missing troops is a fundamental aspect of its ethos, and a goal to which it devotes considerable resources

Leah, right, and Simcha Goldin, parents of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body was kidnapped by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attend a press conference in Ramat Gan, April 25, 2018. (Flash90)

Family of soldier missing in Gaza ‘moved’ by return of Zachary Baumel’s remains

Syrian army soldier stands at a check-point as Russian military police vehicle, right, passes by near the village of Almajdiyeh, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. (AP/Sergei Grits)

Syria rejects Putin claim it aided Russian recovery of IDF soldier’s remains

By Adam Rasgon, Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

After 37 years, Baumel buried in funeral touching ‘deepest part of our identity’

Thousands accompany US-born serviceman, killed in 1982 war, to final resting place; Rivlin, Netanyahu, IDF chief eulogize him; PM hails Russian role in return of remains

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov at an official ceremony, April 4, 2019, at which Israel received the remains of IDF soldier Zachary Baumel’s personal effects. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

IDF rebuffs Gantz’s claim Baumel operation announcement was timed to serve PM

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a placard showing a suspected Iranian atomic site while delivering a speech at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

UN agency said to visit warehouse where PM says Iran stored nuclear material

Reuters quotes diplomats revealing IAEA inspected facility in Tehran multiple times in March; results of samples taken from site will be ready in June

Illustrative: Construction site of new nuclear power plant. (Vladimir Zapletin; iStock by Getty Images)

US expert says images show first Saudi nuclear reactor

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Ethiopian worshiper at the synagogue in Addis Ababa. (Bernard Dichek/ Times of Israel)

Grounded in Gondar

Rabbi of 8,000 stranded Ethiopian Jews fights to complete their exodus

By Bernard Dichek

To Joe Biden (and everyone): Ask before you touch

Physical contact is too valuable to remove it from the toolbox of spiritual caregivers, but we must use it wisely

Tammy Jacobowitz

It is the Midrash that recasts the Divine as the personal, providential caretaker of every human, even while one is still in formation (Tazria)

Sarah Ruth Hoffman

26 power and control tactics of abuse

Manipulative behaviors can be hard to see when they pile on, fast — and you’re the mark

The sacrifices of childbirth

The sin-offering of the post-partum woman is troubling, as she has done no sin! But in the context of human mortality, it makes sense

A vistor stands in front of a sound installation in one of the exhibition halls during the press preview prior to the opening of the new Bauhaus Museum of the 'Klassik Stiftung Weimar' (Classic Foundation Weimar) in Weimar, Germany, April 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Daring new Bauhaus museum challenges rising far-right in Germany

By Deborah Cole

Illustrative: Congregants praying in Chevra Anshei Lubawitz in Borough Park, New York. (Courtesy David Shor)

Kosher deal?

A battle grows in Brooklyn over Borough Park’s oldest surviving synagogue

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

A view of the Beth Israel Synagogue in Izmir, Turkey, in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)

Anti-Israel protester attempts to firebomb synagogue in Turkey

By JTA

View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Bungle in the bayCNN host flubs Haifa location

By JTA

Illustrative photo of men holding up an Islamic State flag. (AFP/Tauseef Mustafa)

Israeli Islamic State fighter stripped of citizenship in absentia

Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks during a gathering of the National Action Network on April 3, 2019 in New York. (Don Emmert / AFP)

Beto O’Rourke compares Trump’s immigrant rhetoric to Third Reich

By Alexandra Jaffe

Lara Kollab (Facebook, via Canary Mission)

Doctor who lost job over anti-Semitic tweets removed from second program

Anat Amichai, the wife of the head of security at Israel's embassy in Wellington, New Zealand, casting the first vote in the elections for the 21th Knesset, in early polling allowed for diplomats and their families, March 28, 2019. (Israel Foreign Ministry)

Israeli diplomats threaten to withhold absentee ballots over tax row

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)

Friday’s Gaza protests to be nonviolent amid emerging truce, organizers say

An illustration of a CT scan that was tampered with by the researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Courtesy)

Israeli researchers show medical scans vulnerable to fake tumors

By Shoshanna Solomon

Jazz great Lionel Hampton's 'King David Suite' will be performed at the conclusion of a jazz conference at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on April 15, 2019, closing a circle that began in 1953, when he visited the fledgling state (Courtesy BGU)

Taking notesIsraelis and the world of jazz get the academic treatment

By Jessica Steinberg

This file photo taken on March 25, 2012, in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows France's Jewish scout placing flowers under a banner paying tribute to the victims of jihadist Mohammed Merah who killed three children and a teacher at the 'Ozar Hatorah' Jewish school. (AFP/Eric Cabanis)

French police say terror suspect inspired by Toulouse Jewish school killer

Stone Temple Pilots will play in Israel on July 3, 2019 (Courtesy Stone Temple Pilots)

On our radarGrunge rockers Stone Temple Pilots plan July 3 concert in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Digital plan for the Hawara bypass route (upper road) in the northern West Bank. (Yesha Council)

Day after attack, road announced to bypass flashpoint Palestinian town

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