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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 7, 2019

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US President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Republican Jewish Coalition 2019 Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 6, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump: Netanyahu and Gantz are both ‘good people,’ race will be close

By Eric Cortellessa

At Republican Jewish Coalition meet in Las Vegas, president touts Golan recognition, asks to give peace bid with Palestinians a chance

US President Donald Trump speaks at an annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

Trump says he made snap decision on Golan after history crash course

US President Donald Trump speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas on April 6, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump tells US Jews that Netanyahu is ‘your prime minister’

By ToI Staff and AP

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

Netanyahu’s final campaign focus: An effort to decimate Bennett and Shaked

Hoping to boost Likud and defeat his family’s long-time nemeses, PM is concentrating on wooing New Right voters, including with the promise of sovereignty over settlements

Education Minister Nafatli Bennett (R) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announce the establishment of the New Right (HaYamin HeHadash) party at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 29, 2018 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Likud cancels Sunday right-wing rally in Jerusalem over fears of poor turnout

By Raoul Wootliff

After allies call foul, PM doubles down on warning Likud could lose power

By Alexander Fulbright

Bennett says Netanyahu seeking to ‘take down’ other right-wing parties

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at the David's Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Op-ed

The simple, agonizing question for voters Tuesday: Is Netanyahu good for Israel?

He’s kept the country safe and bolstered its alliances; he’s dividing us and battering our democracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an event marking 50 years of settlement in the Jordan Valley on October 19, 2017, near the Ma'ale Efraim settlement in the West Bank. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Israel media reviewBloc-buster: 7 things to know for April 7

By Joshua Davidovich

US Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas on April 6, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP)

Senator proposes US enter defense pact with Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises in a Channel 12 TV interview to extend Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements, April 6, 2019 (Channel 12 news screenshot)

Countdown to April 9Separate TV report says PM thinks Trump could back the move

Netanyahu: If I’m re-elected, I’ll extend sovereignty to West Bank settlements

PM says ‘I am going to apply Israeli sovereignty’ and ‘I don’t distinguish between settlement blocs and isolated settlements’; rules out Palestinian state as existential danger

Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Top PLO official condemns PM’s campaign vow to apply sovereignty to settlements

Illustrative: The northern West Bank settlement of Rehelim. (Samaria Regional Council)

Turkey slams Netanyahu’s ‘irresponsible’ settlement annexation remarks

By AFP

Exclusive

Omani FM to Times of Israel: US peace plan will fail without a Palestinian state

In his first-ever interview with an Israeli publication, Yusuf bin Alawi says the Arab states must make Israel ‘not feel that it has enemies in the region’

Oman's Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah attends the 2019 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea in Jordan on April 6, 2019. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Oman foreign minister: Arabs need to assure Israel it is not under threat

By AP and ToI Staff

Abbas: Good luck to Israelis on election day

Likud minister says Israeli left ‘suckled on the legacy of Stalin, Lenin’

Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin, left, appears on the Ynet online interview show Kablan Kolot with host Dudu Bauchner, right, in a video uploaded on April 6, 2019. (YouTube screen capture)

A time to heel

Whisky-sipping Feiglin slaps comedian interviewer’s feet

Days before election, Zehut party leader gives strange interview to comic Dudu Bauchner, who links him to Nazi Germany, calls him ‘guru of the stoned’

Scene from an April 6, 2019, campaign music video by the New Right party showing a soldier on the right and an attorney on the left going through a metaphorical romantic separation, in a video calling for "separation" between the IDF and the High Court of Justice. (YouTube screen capture)

Shaked, Bennett croon over ‘failed romance’ between IDF, High Court

A giant doll in the form of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, placed at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on April 7, 2019. (Flash90)

Bearing a grudgeBig ‘Bibi bear’ doll placed in Tel Aviv plaza in protest of Netanyahu

Senior Likud party member Gideon Sa'ar is seen during a campaign stop at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, on April 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Phone of senior Likud member said to have been hacked

Gideon Sa’ar declines to comment on report saying he learned his cellphone had been broken into days before party primaries in February

6:28 pm

Gantz says Blue and White will be largest party: 'People are yearning for us'
5:50 pm

Army to impose election day closure on West Bank, Gaza
5:49 pm

Phone of senior Likud member hacked -- report

A picture taken by the Beresheet spacecraft of the moon's surface with the Earth in the background on April 5, 2019. (courtesy Beresheet)

After entering moon’s orbit, Beresheet spacecraft starts maneuvering for landing

By ToI Staff and Melanie Lidman

Israeli spacecraft executes burn to dramatically shorten its orbit, 4 days before attempting to end its long journey at Sea of Serenity

Haviva Ner-David

Three women, one scream

An unconventional pre-Passover, pre-Election Day outing that I believe was healing for me, my cohort, and the universe

I’m an Orthodox rabbi and I plan to officiate LGBTQ weddings

We must welcome couples who choose to live Jewish lives, build a Jewish home and raise Jewish children

British opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in north London on April 4, 2019. (Tolga AKMEN / AFP)

Exposé shows UK Labour has failed to punish members for vile anti-Semitic taunts

By Michael Bachner

Report details cases in which little to no action was taken against members who blamed 9/11 on Jews and railed against Jewish MPs; 863 complaints have yielded just 29 expulsions

Isaak Hayik (left) presented with the Guinness World Record for the oldest living active pro soccer player by an unidentified Guinness official, April 5, 2019 (Facebook)

#Lifegoals

Israeli goalie recognized as world’s oldest pro soccer player

Maccabi Or Yehuda’s Isaak Hayik, 73, sets new Guinness World Record

More Headlines

Illustrative: Palestinian security prisoners in Ofer Prison, north of Jerusalem, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

Hamas prisoners launch hunger strike after Israel jams cell signal

Public Security Gilad Erdan speaks at Besheva conference in Jerusalem on February 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Erdan: ‘We hope hunger strike prisoners break before they flood the hospitals’

Former defense minister Avigdor Liberman (center) in September, 2019 with flag-draped coffins that forensic tests subsequently showed were not missing IDF soldiers. (Channel 12, screenshot)

Bodies mistakenly thought to have been IDF soldiers flown to Israel last year

Elbit Systems is to acquire the night vision business of US firm Harris Corp. (YouTube video)

Elbit to buy US night vision firm for $350 million in bid to boost US activities

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One after arriving at McCarran International Airport, April 5, 2019, in Las Vegas (AP Photo/John Locher)

Trump to make case for Jewish voters to back 2020 bid

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Participants of Taglit Birthright, on a free trip to Israel, visit the waterfalls at the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea. (Melanie Fidler/Flash90 via JTA)

Here’s why Jewish organizations are focusing on education rather than continuity

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)

Iran threatens to respond in kind if US labels Revolutionary Guard terrorists

By ToI Staff and AFP

This picture taken on April 5, 2019 shows mummified animals found inside a newly-discovered tomb dating to the Ptolemaic era (323-30 BC) at the Diabat necropolis near the city of Akhmim in Egypt's southern Sohag province. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Mummified mice, cats uncovered in ancient Egyptian tomb

By AFP

Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid (top L) looks on as Mart Helme (C), chairman of the far-right Estonian ERKE party, takes the oath during the Estonian parliament Riigikogu's first opening sitting after elections on April 4, 2019 in Tallinn. (Raigo PAJULA / AFP)

Estonian party seals deal to form government with far-right

By AFP

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

After O’Rourke comments, White House says Democrats don’t condemn anti-Semitism

By AP

This picture taken on April 5, 2019 shows a boy walking on the street in a Jewish neighborhoods of Nyack, Rockland County, New York. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

NY measles outbreak spotlights religious exemptions from vaccine

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

Avocados suspected of being stolen in the Jordan Valley, April 2019. (Israel Police)

Grand theft avocadoMan nabbed with 180 kilos of stolen avocados

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