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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 6, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Benny Gantz, right. (Hadas Parush/Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Countdown to April 9

Good news for Netanyahu: Last pre-election poll puts Likud, Blue and White even

By Alexander Fulbright

Right-wing, ultra-Orthodox bloc forecast to win majority in all final surveys, leaving Netanyahu well-placed to retain power, though several show Gantz’s party ahead of Likud

Gabi Ashkenazi, one of the leaders of the Blue and White political alliance, speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ashkenazi: We still hope to join with Levy-Abekasis; Gesher calls it ‘fake news’

Finance Minister and head of the Kulanu party Moshe Kahlon attends a press conference of the Kulanu party in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Flash90)

Kahlon, Feiglin both say won’t enter next coalition without control of treasury

US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Indicates US plan won't work if it contradicts that stance

Netanyahu: I’ve told Trump I won’t evacuate ‘a single person’ from settlements

PM says all communities over the Green Line must be under Israeli sovereignty, vows this will eventually happen; hints at progress, with US support, in his next term

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to supporters from his Likud party at his official residence in Jerusalem on April 5, warning them that Likud could lose the elections, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Netanyahu claims right-wing rule in danger, urges voters to ‘come home to Likud’

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the funeral of Zachary Baumel at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on April 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM: ‘Shame on’ Gantz for suggesting Baumel’s return timed for political gain

A worker prepares ballot boxes March 25, 2019 at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations for the April 9 Israeli election. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Countdown to April 9

The winding road to power in Israel: How elections actually work

Dozens of parties are competing for 120 Knesset seats, and a would-be PM has to band together a multi-party coalition. But first, the president has to make a decision…

‘Start-up nation’ expects no change of course after elections

By Stephen WEIZMAN

Elections committee rejects request to ban Likud from social media campaigning

Emmanuel Macron meets with Yair Lapid four days before Israeli elections

By JTA and ToI Staff

President Cyril Ramaphosa, right, of South Africa and the Minister of International Affairs, Lindiwe Sisulu, in Kigali, Rwanda Tuesday March 21, 2018 (AP Photo)

South Africa downgrades Israel ties: FM says it won’t bring ambassador back

Lindiwe Sisulu says Pretoria will henceforth maintain liaison office in Tel Aviv with ‘no political mandate, no trade mandate and no development cooperation mandate’

US President Donald Trump smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, after signing a proclamation formally recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Analysis

For American Jews, Trump is key figure in Israeli election

Netanyahu’s close alignment with the US leader has troubled liberal Jews, while conservatives have celebrated the fruits of the relationship

In this Wednesday, February 6, 2019 photo, an election campaign billboard shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and US President Donald Trump in Tel Aviv (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu plays his ‘Trump card’ as elections near

By Ilan Ben Zion

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay leads a meeting at the Knesset in front of a poster of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, November 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/via JTA)

Once ubiquitous Labor struggles ahead of elections

By Jonah Mandel

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (AFP/Stringer)

US said set to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group

By AFP and ToI Staff

Decision could come as soon as Monday, but Pentagon and CIA may have reservations about it; Tehran warns it will respond by branding US military a terror group

AnalysisDid Trump administration’s move to shut domestic terror unit hurt US security?

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, right, speaks during a meeting in Beijing, China, February 22, 2019. (How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP, File)

IAEA demands safeguards from Saudi Arabia on first nuclear reactor

By Shaun Tandon

Sarah Knecht, a Holocaust survivor from Poland, came to the seder with her husband Ted. (Josefin Dolsten)

A seder for Holocaust survivors brings joy, food and some good ol’ kvetching

By Josefin Dolsten

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, speaks to foreign correspondents in his office in Gaza City, May 10, 2018. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Hamas leader: ‘If there is a war, Israel will need to evacuate Tel Aviv’

Amid ceasefire talks, Yahya Sinwar says he is grateful for efforts by Egypt to ease the blockade on Gaza, but warns Hamas will be the ‘sword and shield’ for its people

Over 10,000 Palestinians protest at Gaza border, 70 injured

Top negotiator: No true rehabilitation for Gaza until missing Israelis returned

Haniyeh: Israeli vote an internal ‘Zionist affair,’ won’t impact Palestinians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of 'Sonora.' (Ulysse Payet)

Interview

Traditions and cultures collide in half-Jewish, half-Palestinian writer’s novel

By JP O’ Malley

After 37 years, a hug from the land

Thursday night, I and many thousands of others finally attended the funeral of a soldier, a student, a son and brother. A child of Israel. Zachary Baumel.

The year I was the stranger at the seder

Being Jewish means I trusted the people who took me in as if I was their own, stuffed me with good food, singing, laughing, and making memories together

'Jesslyn Fax Stories,' a pastiche of Time magazine covers, at the entrance of an exhibit at the Haifa Museum of Art (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Art examines creation of bogus realities in Haifa’s ‘Fake News’ exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Rabbi Avi Weiss, center, the founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, said the decision to deny ordination to a gay student pained him but he agreed with it. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images via JTA)

Liberal NY Orthodox yeshiva stands by decision to deny ordination to gay student

Decision to reject candidate, six months after his public engagement to another man, sparks backlash from community as it tries to welcome LGBTQ Jews

More Headlines

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota listens as lawmakers speak about the Voting Rights Enhancement Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images/AFP)

FBI says New York man threatened to kill Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

By AP

Hamid Dabashi (Screen capture: YouTube)

Columbia University professor says Israel almost identical to Islamic State

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A false HispanTV report claims Israel performs medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners. (HispanTV screenshot via JTA)

Iranian news site in Latin America: Israel performs medical tests on prisoners

By JTA

Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke speaks during a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa, April 4, 2019. (Justin Wan/Sioux City Journal via AP)

Republican Jewish Coalition calls O’Rourke comments ‘demeaning’ to Holocaust

By AP

The Israeli flag seen on top of the Ofer Prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 1, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel denies Palestinian prisoners’ claims it agreed to concessions in jails

Illustrative: Michael Jacobs protesting BDS demonstrators in Amsterdam, November 17, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Israel activist assaulted near anti-Israel rally in Holland by men yelling ‘Jew’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Anti-vaccination activist Del Bigtree holds a Star of David at a rally in New York. (YouTube screenshot)

US anti-vaxxers use Holocaust-era yellow stars to promote their agenda

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative - the Uber app on a phone in New York. (AP/Richard Drew, File)

Uber removes London driver who would not take Jews

By JTA

In this file photo taken on January 25, 2019, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks with reporters at the US Capitol in Washington, DC (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Democrats reject Republican anti-BDS maneuver in bill opposing war in Yemen

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An Italian teen (L) confronts a far-right protester in the Rome suburb of Torre Maura in a video that went viral, on April 2, 2019 (screenshot)

Clash of culturesItalian boy goes viral after admonishing anti-Roma protesters

Illustrative: An activist with IfNotNow protests outside the offices of Birthright Israel in New York City on Friday, April 5, 2019. (Ben Sales)

15 Jewish college students arrested protesting outside Birthright offices

By JTA

Kim Kardashian being honored by the Gift of Life marrow registry in Los Angeles, Oct. 29, 2018. (Kara Frans Photography via JTA)

Keeping up with the KKim Kardashian says next trip to Israel in the works

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