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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 10, 2019

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Likud says it won full mandate, will go 4 years with right-wing government

By Jacob Magid and Joshua Davidovich

Lapid, Gantz concede defeat, vow to turn Knesset into battlefield from opposition; Liberman warns he could go to opposition; final votes waiting to be counted

7:09 pm

What election? Beresheet gears up for historic moon landing
7:00 pm

Haredi parties eye court bypass for IDF draft law
6:22 pm

Poll numbers unchanged as final votes await counting

2019 Knesset elections

With almost all votes in, Netanyahu-led right wins decisively

Right-wing bloc’s success gives PM clear path to form new government, despite Likud tying in seats with Gantz’s Blue and White; New Right and Zehut fail to cross threshold

2019 Knesset electionsNetanyahu lauds ‘incredible victory’ as results show clear win

Netanyahu takes Jerusalem, and rocket-battered Sderot; Tel Aviv goes for Gantz

Reporter's notebookFrom jitters to jubilation, Likud backers go through roller-coaster night

By Raphael Ahren

2019 Knesset elections

Netanyahu won, everyone else lost: 5 takeaways from the 2019 elections

Tuesday’s vote did not provide the ‘upheaval’ the center-left had hoped for. Now Labor is set to dump Gabbay, while Bennett is reduced to hoping the soldiers will save him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrates with his wife Sara before addressing Likud supporters as the the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

President Reuven Rivlin speaks with the press after casting his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during elections for the Knesset, on April 9, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Rivlin to meet next week with party chiefs on naming next PM — on air

By Alexander Fulbright

Union of Right-Wing Parties leader Rafi Peretz (R) and MK Bezalel Smotrich are greeted by supporters at the party headquarters, April 9, 2019. (Flash90)

Union of Right-Wing Parties demands Education, Justice portfolios

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

With their alliance of religious hawks set to win 5 seats, Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich expect two ministerial posts

2019 Knesset electionsLiberman rules out joining Gantz, but won’t commit to Netanyahu

By Michael Bachner

2 ultra-Orthodox parties say they’re with Netanyahu, easing his reelection path

2019 Knesset electionsLiberman awaits final tally, but Kahlon indicates he’s backing Netanyahu for PM

By Judah Ari Gross

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett hold a press conference of the New Right Political party, in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)

2019 Knesset elections

New Right, just shy of electoral threshold, pins hopes on soldiers’ votes

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

With some 200,000 ballots yet to be tallied, Naftali Bennett’s party is just some 4,300 votes short; Arab party Ra’am-Balad appears to squeak in

Frustrated Zehut struggles to stay upbeat as exit polls harsh party’s high

By Melanie Lidman

New Right supporters fear the worst, despite party leaders’ assurances

Results all but final, jostling for coalition spots begins

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz arrives at a polling station to vote in his hometown of Rosh Ha'ayin on April 9, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Blue and White)

Defeated Gantz promises to bring hope despite ‘gloomy skies’

Acknowledging center-left’s loss, Blue and White leader vows to ‘represent a million citizens who turned to us for something different’

Head of the Blue White party Benny Gantz (2L) and his top allies Moshe Ya'alon, Gabi Ashkenazi and Yair Lapid greet supporters following the release of exit polls at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

2019 Knesset electionsAmid fog of polls, Gantz vows to be next leader, PM says he’s in coalition talks

By Raoul Wootliff

Supporters of the Blue and White party react to the first voting results in the general elections, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Donning rose-tinted glasses, Blue and White celebrates like they’ve already won

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces his wife Sara amid confetti during his victory speech before supporters at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv after April 9, 2019's elections. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Analysis

Netanyahu, the divisive force of nature who refused to be beaten

Even the combined might of three former IDF chiefs proves no match for a prime minister now heading for his fifth term

Making wavesNetanyahu to beachgoers: ‘Get out of the water and go vote Likud’

Likud lawmaker launches exoneration campaign for Netanyahu

Election over, attorney general pushes ahead on Netanyahu indictment hearings

Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay addresses supporters and media, as the results in the elections are announced at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019. (Flash90)

After worst result in Labor’s history, party members look to oust leader Gabbay

By Michael Bachner

Official says a decision to fire chairman ‘a matter of time,’ as MK Yachimovich bemoans ‘nightmare’ result of 6 seats for party that ruled Israel for decades

Labor party chairman Avi Gabbay (podium) flanked by Tal Russo (right) and former Labor leader Amir Peretz (left) addresses supporters and media as the results in the general elections are announced in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019 (FLASH90)

Labor bemoans ‘worst result ever’ after polls show historic failure

A hidden camera allegedly snuck into a polling station in an Arab town by a Likud observer during parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019. (Courtesy Hadash-Ta'al)

Arabs blast ‘racist’ Likud scheme to install cameras at polling stations

Many residents of Tamra and Shfaram say cameras did not frighten them; party attorney claims they were intended ‘to preserve the integrity of the vote’

Amid sabotage complaints, some irregular ballots to be counted

By Sue Surkes and Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu accuses Blue and White of vandalizing ballots, provides no proof

By Raoul Wootliff

Turnout very low among Arab Israeli voters, pollsters say

By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon

Avrohom Gordimer

Can gay men be Orthodox rabbis?

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah got caught in the conflict between Torah law and personal rights inherent in homosexual ordination

Miriam Mendelson

Rethinking Gaza

We need to disrupt the narrative that entwines the locals with the Hamas leadership, and entrenches the base of support for extremism

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The Passover kitniyot argument isn’t worth a hill of beans

This holiday is supposed to taste like the things we can’t eat

’Eviction notices’ at Emory University

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) targeted Jewish students, and the administration put its official imprimatur on their anti-Semitic flyers

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

As Netanyahu wins election, eyes on Trump to respond to his annexation gambit

In campaign’s last days, PM vowed to extend Israeli sovereignty to all West Bank settlements. Now that he’s clinched victory, will the White House peace team push back?

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

Top Palestinian official: Israelis voted to maintain status quo, want apartheid

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee's State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Pompeo, in testimony to Senate, refuses to back two-state solution

By AFP and ToI Staff

A stone memorializing Joyce Fienberg (spelling on stone differs) at a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue to the 11 people killed October 27, 2018 while worshiping in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh November 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh victim’s family asks Diaspora to invite two non-Jews to Passover meal

Moria Shapira, an Airbnb apartment owner, cleans her apartment in the Adei Ad outpost north of the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 20, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Airbnb to cancel its ban on West Bank settlement listings

By JTA

Policy change comes as part of court settlement with a dozen American Jewish plaintiffs; company says it will donate any West Bank profits to humanitarian groups

Attributing hatredZOA head tells congressional committee NZ mosque shooter was left-wing terrorist

Ilhan Omar defends calling Trump aide Stephen Miller a ‘white nationalist’

YouTube comments flooded with hate speech during US hearing on hate speech

By Barbara Ortutay, Marcy Gordon and Rachel Lerman

More Headlines

Children working on a prototypte with their team at the ALYN Hospital make-a-thon held on April 2, 2019 (Federico Maccioni)

Tech teams at Alyn Hospital hack big health ideas for small patients

By Federico Maccioni

From the cover of 'Women on the Front Lines' by Debbie Zimelman (Courtesy Debbie Zimelman)

Guns n' posesPhotographer launches book featuring women on the front lines

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: German police stand in front of a Dresden courthouse where a trial against a Syrian jihadist is set to begin, in Dresden, Germany, Monday, March 18, 2019. (Jens Meyer/AP)

Germany raids groups suspected of supporting Hamas

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This picture from April 5, 2019, shows a nurse preparing the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

Mandatory measles shots ordered in Brooklyn area with high Orthodox population

By AP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (Flash90, Said Khatib/AFP)

New poll finds Palestinians deeply distrust their leaders

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A car in the West Bank Palestinian village of Ein Yabrud is daubed with the Hebrew word for 'revenge' and a Star of David, April 10, 2019 (Courtesy Ein Yabrud Municipality)

Police investigating apparent hate crime in Palestinian village

In this March 30, 2019 photo, Umm Yasser, the first Bedouin female guide from the Hamada tribe, looks at Umm Soliman as she plays the flute, near Wadi Sahw, Abu Zenima, in South Sinai, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In a first, Bedouin women lead tours in Egypt’s Sinai

By Nariman El-Mofty

Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, Mussolini's great-grandson is running as a candidate in European elections for the far-right Brothers of Italy Party (Screencapture/Youtube)

Third Mussolini descendant enters Italian political arena

By Colleen Barry

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