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What Matters Most On Monday, April 8, 2019

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Moshe Feiglin, head of the Zehut party, during an election campaign tour in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on April 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The kingmaker'I will be prime minister eventually'

Up in smoke: How pro-pot Feiglin has won over voters, unfazed by his extremism

By Raoul Wootliff

He’d build the Third Temple, annex the West Bank, encourage Palestinians to leave. But he also vows to legalize marijuana. And that’s why Moshe Feiglin is the hit of the elections

Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin is seen in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, during a campaign stop on April 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Countdown to April 9Enjoying his election kingmaker potential, Feiglin may recommend himself for PM

By Raoul Wootliff

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a conference organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Tel Aviv on March 14, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger)

Rivlin speaks out against fear-mongering on campaign trail

Countdown to April 9

Marissa Newman, Raoul Wootliff, Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

Who’s running and what for? ToI’s guide to the 39 parties that want your vote

Capitalists, socialists, anarchists, one-staters, two-staters and potheads are vying for support with a mixture of serious and silly policy proposals; here’s what you need to know

People walk by election campaign billboards showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, alongside Blue and White party leaders, from left to right, Moshe Ya'alon, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi, in Tel Aviv, April 3, 2019. Hebrew on billboards reads, left, "A strong Likud, a strong Israel," and on the right, "Every vote counts, Blue and White victory." (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz rides a motorcycle during a campaign event in Tel Aviv, on April 7, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Israel media reviewPoll positions: 7 things to know for April 8

By Joshua Davidovich

Likud party supporters at a rally in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he and his wife face legal investigations, held in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

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

By Raoul Wootliff

US President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk while walking to the West Wing of the White House for a meeting, on March 25, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu says Trump labeled Revolutionary Guard a terror group at his request

By Michael Bachner

‘Thank you for accepting another important request of mine,’ PM tells US president, who has also recently recognized Israeli sovereignty in Golan Heights

6:27 pm

Trump peace plan roll-out date dependent on makeup of next government -- report
6:08 pm

US Secret Service director to leave Trump administration -- sources
5:56 pm

Kulanu, ultra-Orthodox parties introduce united stance against Feiglin

Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz speaks during an election campaign event for the Blue and White party in Tel Aviv on April 7, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Day before election, Gantz says ‘the right is not in danger — Netanyahu is’

By Raoul Wootliff

Blue and White leader dismisses PM’s pledge to extend Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements as ‘an electioneering stunt,’ vows to form ‘a cabinet of reconciliation’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during press conference at his office in Jerusalem on April 3, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu calls ‘crisis meeting’ to warn faction members Likud could lose power

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz rides a motorcycle during a campaign event in Tel Aviv, on April 7, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Benny takes the wheelGantz revs up support from bikers in final campaign push

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants an olive tree at the Netiv Ha'avot neighborhood in the Elazar settlement in the West Bank, on January 28, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Analysis

As vote nears, PM likely seeking to annex right-wing votes, not West Bank land

Netanyahu always veers right on election eve, skeptics say, noting last year he fought plan he’s now proposing to apply sovereignty to settlements. But things have changed since

PA top diplomat: Netanyahu will face ‘real problem’ if he annexes settlements

By AP and ToI Staff

Blasting PM’s sovereignty pledge, Erdogan says West Bank ‘Palestinian territory’

Gantz blasts PM’s settlement sovereignty pledge as ‘irresponsible’ bid for votes

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Efrat settlement in the Etzion Bloc, November 27, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israel advances largest batch of settlement homes since Trump took office

As PM makes pre-election promise to apply sovereignty to settlements, Defense Ministry body green-lights plans for over 3,600 units beyond Green Line; 1,226 of them get final OK

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)

Palestinians shelve prison hunger strike amid ‘ongoing dialogue’ with Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

A sedated lioness is pictured in a cage at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity 'Four Paws' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Animal welfare group evacuates 40 animals from Gaza zoo

By AP

Jordanian Senate Speaker Faisal al-Fayez on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at the Dead Sea on March 6, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Top Jordanian politician: We hope Israel’s elections mark the end of Netanyahu

Faisal al-Fayez, speaker of the Senate and a former prime minister, says his nation wants to see Gantz make peace efforts if he becomes Israel’s next leader

A soldier casting a ballot for the 21st Knesset on April 7, 2019. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

Combat engineering troops kick off IDF’s vote for 21st Knesset

Illustrative: IDF soldiers carry spike strips as they block a road at a southern entrance of Hebron on July 2, 2016, after Israeli troops locked down the West Bank city following a spate of deadly Palestinian terror attacks. (AFP/Hazem Bader/File)

IDF to close West Bank, Gaza crossings to Palestinians on election day

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: The Moovit app running on a phone. (Itamar Sharon)

Moovit offers help navigating to ballot box, plus a gentle nudge

By Shoshanna Solomon

In special election service, Israeli app provides routes and schedules of free intercity public transportation Tuesday to get to the polling station and reminds users to go vote

An illustration of how the OrCam machine will be used at 12 polling stations around Israel in a pilot project to create greater accessibility for disabled people in the April 9, 2019 general elections (Courtesy)

Israel’s OrCam to help blind people cast vote independently

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/via JTA)

Analysis

It’s a Las Vegas honeymoon, of sorts, for Trump and Republican Jews

Celebrating wave of major pro-Israel moves from the US president, the Republican Jewish Coalition welcomes him in an about-face, despite his continued use of Jewish tropes

South Bend, Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

Democratic presidential candidate pans PM’s ‘harmful’ comments on settlements

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks during a campaign rally at the University of Iowa on April 7, 2019 in Iowa City, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Democratic White House hopeful O’Rourke calls Netanyahu ‘racist’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Odd how no party’s platform is to save the earth

The entire political spectrum would do well if Israel were to take the lead in halting the rising temperatures that bode ill for the future of humanity

The case for Gantz – and a return to decency

Benjamin Netanyahu’s brand of pessimism politics has undermined Israeli society’s capacity to dream

The one holiday a divided Israel can celebrate together

Voter’s Day, between vicious campaigning and brutal coalition cobbling, lets us appreciate the great equalizer of ’one person, one vote’

Agenda item for the next Knesset: Electoral reform

The average Israeli has no say about who represents them, and that’s not only a shame, it’s a failure in democracy

Girls receiving awards at the 5th annual Chidon Sefer Hamitzvos Girls' Tournament in Newark, New Jersey, March 31, 2019. (Courtesy Chabad/Sholem Photography)

Name that mitzvah: Students flock to Newark for cutthroat Jewish ‘Jeopardy!’

By Jordan Hoffman

Norwegian civilians watch the entry of German troops, led by a band, into the Norwegian capital of Oslo, April 12, 1940. (AP Photo)

Secret Nazi guide to occupying a country found at Israel’s National Library

Captured by the British in 1941, booklet gives instructions for SS soldiers in Norway on arresting locals, responding to local political parties, and silencing the press

Jacob Dinezon's dramatic Yiddish romance novel 'The Dark Young Man' was a surprise success in 1877. (Courtesy of the Jewish Storyteller Press/via JTA)

A forgotten hit 1877 Yiddish romance novel has just been translated to English

By Penny Schwartz

More Headlines

Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves from the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, in central London on March 27, 2019, after hearing the outcome of the indicative votes on the alternative options for Brexit. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

UK’s Jewish Labour Movement passes motion of no confidence in Corbyn

Participants in the 'White Card Day' event -- the global United Nations "International Day of Sport for Development and Peace" -- held in Israel for the first time on April 7, 2019, hold up their white cards. (Jordan Polevoy)

Israel holds first ‘White Card Day,’ joining UN’s global sports-for-peace push

The Dead Sea Mall is offering tourists and Israelis VAT-free purchases (Sahar Advertising)

New Dead Sea mall lures tourists, Israelis with VAT-free shopping

By Shoshanna Solomon

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)

Beresheet spacecraft succeeds in latest maneuver, bringing it closer to moon

By ToI Staff and Melanie Lidman

Screenshot of Israeli election banner ad on the porn website Pornhub. (Twitter screenshot)

Stiff competitionIsraeli election ads said to appear on porn website

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli naval base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Ombudsman reportedly says PM never got permission to buy shares in cousin’s firm

French national Romain Franck (R), then 24, a worker at the French consulate, and Palestinians Moufak al-Ajluni (L) and Mohamed Katout (C) appear in court in the Israeli city of Haifa on March 19, 2018, to face charges of smuggling guns from Gaza. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel jails French consulate worker for Gaza gun smuggling

By AFP

Ronen Lubarsky, an IDF soldier from the Duvdevan unit who died on May 26, 2018, after being critically injured by a slab thrown down on his head two days earlier (Courtesy)

Palestinian convicted of killing IDF soldier with stone slab last year

By AFP

Screen capture from video of rights activist and international lawyer Simone O’Broin, during an altercation on an Air India flight. (YouTube)

British BDS promoter jailed for 6 months for racist rant on Air India flight

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)

Former Likud minister Gideon Sa’ar’s phone hacked — report

Ozcan Deniz (R) and Alsi Enver, stars of TV series Istanbullu Gelin, performing in Tel Aviv on April 6, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Stars of Turkish TV show brave death threats to perform in Israel

Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi speaks at a press conference on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on July 29, 2018, after finishing her eight month prison sentence for slapping an Israeli soldier. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Israel arrests brother, cousin of Palestinian teen protest icon Ahed Tamimi

By Jacob Magid and AP

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