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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 11, 2019

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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, left, and Education Minister Nafatli Bennett announce the establishment of the New Right (HaYamin HeHadash) party at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 29, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

2019 Knesset elections

New Right demands recount after it falls just short of winning Knesset seats

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

URWP MK joins call as Central Elections Committee official issues final results, committee reviews tally process; New Right sources allege elections being ‘stolen from right wing’

2019 Knesset electionsAfter night of vote-counting, New Right appears just short of entering Knesset

URWP bickers over support for New Right’s call for recount

Union of Right-Wing Parties demands Education, Justice portfolios

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

The Central Elections Committee counts ballots from soldiers and absentee voters at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Op-ed

Israeli election count risks descent into farce

There is no reason to believe that anything untoward is going on. But delays, discrepancies and technical hitches threaten to undermine confidence in the results

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

Likud party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strewn on the floor following election night at the party's Tel Aviv headquarters, April 10, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel media reviewIt’s Bibi’s world, we’re just living in it: 9 things to know for April 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Blue and White concedes race, vows to battle Netanyahu from opposition

By Alexander Fulbright

Benny Gantz says ‘we respect the decision of the people,’ touts support from one million voters; Lapid says centrist alliance will ’embitter the government’s life’

Leaders of the Blue and White party, left to right, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Moshe Ya'alon at a press conference at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 2019. (Flash90)

Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid speaks to a reporter from Channel 12 outside his home in Tel Aviv on April 10, 2019. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

‘The 2020 campaign began today,’ Lapid says in apparent admission of defeat

Leader of Labor Party Avi Gabbay (R) and Labor's secretary-general Eran Hermoni at a party conference in Tel Aviv, April 24, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)

Labor secretary-general calls on Avi Gabbay to resign as party leader

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

Live updates (closed)

Final vote tally, not yet official, keeps New Right out of next Knesset

Results also show Likud gaining one seat to win 36, right-wing bloc maintaining 65-55-seat lead over center-left, Arabs; election committee says count could yet change

10:15 pm

United Torah Judaism party, down one seat, says it will appeal results
9:27 pm

Holding out hope, New Right says results 'not final'
9:16 pm

Election committee chief says results could yet change

Beresheet taking a "selfie" with the Earth at a distance of 265,000 kilometers above the planet's surface in a photo released on March 24, 2019. (courtesy Beresheet)

Israelis reach for the moon tonight. Here’s how to watch

By Melanie Lidman

Ben Gurion Airport timetable includes the Beresheet landing on the moon, circled in yellow, April 11, 2019. (screen capture: IAA)

Once in a blue moonIsrael Airports Authority lists moon landing on its timetable

Beresheet photographs the dark side of the moon on April 10, 2019 from a height of 2500 km. (courtesy Beresheet engineers)

Wish you were hereBeresheet shines light on dark side of the moon, day before landing

By Melanie Lidman

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)

Trump calls Netanyahu to congratulate him on victory

PM thanks US president for his support of Israel, including recognition of Golan and strong stance against Iran

AnalysisNetanyahu’s re-election reveals Israel divide between Republicans and Democrats

Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)

US Jewish leaders offer congratulations, criticism to Netanyahu on election win

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, surrounded by Likud politicians and his wife Sara, addresses his supporters as the results of the general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

2019 Knesset elections

How will Netanyahu try to stave off indictment, and will he annex settlements?

A day after he won a fifth term, speculation abounds over which ministers, from which parties, the PM will appoint to which jobs — because those choices will point to his strategy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in the Knesset on March 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud starts mulling the political costs of coalition-building

Aryeh Deri, head of the Shas party, greets supporters as the results in the Israeli general elections are announced at the party headquarters in Jerusalem, April 09, 2019. (Flash90)

Despite election success, Deri could be barred from cabinet — report

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)

PR agency takes credit for hidden cameras at Arab polling stations

Kaizler Inbar says it worked with Likud to place surveillance, brags it led to lowest level of Arab turnout ‘seen in recent years!’

Illustrative: Druze community officials participate in a rally against Israel's nation-state law, in Tel Aviv, Saturday, August 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

In most Druze towns, support for right dips in first vote since nation-state law

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) greets supporters at his Likud Party headquarters in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on election night early on April 10, 2019. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

AnalysisIsrael’s election exposes its political, economic and even tribal divisions

By Josef Federman

The people have spoken

Israelis chose a strong, right wing leader, because they know only the right will move the economy forward and keep their children safe

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)

Here are the issues Israelis had in mind when voting

By Josefin Dolsten

A year of clashes and threats of war didn’t budge Gaza border communities’ vote

By Judah Ari Gross

The kids are all right-wing: Why Israel’s younger voters are more conservative

By LAURA E. ADKINS and Ben Sales

US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Texas, on April 10, 2019. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

It might be the ‘Trump peace plan’, but officials say he hasn’t actually seen it

In bid to stop leaks, Kushner and Greenblatt reportedly keeping details close to their chests, including in dealing with president, who has been briefed but hasn’t read document

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)

Trump says Netanyahu election win means a ‘better chance for peace’

In this January 2, 2019, file photo White House senior adviser Stephen Miller listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller at odds over US immigration policy

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

Author David Bezmozgis (David Franco)

Interview

Author David Bezmozgis mines meaning of migration in new short story collection

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Kenneth Jacobson

The Protocols revisited: The fantasy of secret Jewish power

The endurance of the fraudulent text sheds light on just why anti-Semitism is surging from both the right and left

Gedalyah Reback

Re-open polling stations in the Arab sector

The disgraceful boast by a Likud PR firm that their hidden camera ploy cut voting in half should prompt an extraordinary response

Fake politics and false hopes in the Israeli elections

In Trumpian form, Netanyahu attacked leftists, the media, the police, the courts — in other words, the foundations of democracy

Uri Pilichowski

Dear American left wing Jews

You need to understand that when Israelis worry about ’dangers, threats and extremism,’ they’re thinking about Palestinian terrorists

Times of Israel Presents

Decades before ‘Fauda,’ Israel’s first spies assumed Arab identities in Beirut

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

At a packed event, author Matti Friedman relates that a well-conjugated Arabic verb was the difference between life and death for the Jews who founded Israel’s intelligence agency

Playwright and actor Niv Petel in 'Knock, Knock.' (courtesy)

Times of Israel PresentsEdinburgh Fringe hit to get Israeli premiere in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

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El Al Boeing 747-400 at Ben-Gurion International Airport (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

El Al passenger opens emergency door, tries to jump out at JFK

Scientists revealed the first image ever made of a black hole after assembling data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the world. The image was released April 10, 2019, by Event Horizon Telescope. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/Maunakea Observatories via AP)

Seeing the ‘unseeable’: Scientists reveal first-ever image of a black hole

By Seth Borenstein

A knife used in a stabbing attempt by a Palestinian woman at the az-Za’ayyem checkpoint between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem, April 10, 2019. (Israel Police)

Palestinian bus passenger attempts to stab guards at checkpoint; no injuries

This Jan. 14, 2015, file photo shows a sign outside Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Nearly 200 million in US, Israel eligible for compensation in Yahoo data breach

By Michael Liedtke

Israeli car damaged by a hammerhead, April 10, 2019, near the West Bank settlement of Tekoa. (Rescuers Without Borders)

Israeli lightly hurt as hammerhead is hurled through his windshield in West Bank

Beitar Jerusalem player Yossi Benayoun seen during the match between Beitar Jerusalem and Bnei Sakhnin F.C. at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on March 31, 2019. (Flash90)

Israeli soccer star Yossi Benayoun announces retirement after 22-year career

By Michael Bachner

Daniel Leger, left, and Andrea Wedner, both survivors of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, embrace after Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto signed three gun-control bills into law, April 9, 2019, at the City-County Building in downtown Pittsburgh. (Steph Chambers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre honored in state’s capitol

By MARK SCOLFORO

Various types of sugar on a wooden table. (iStock by Getty Images, MagoneJ)

Just desserts7 held in huge sugar theft from Israel’s national emergency storehouses

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, April 11, 2019 (Screen grab via Sky News)

British police arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

In this photo from February 22, 2015, provided by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi waves during a visit to the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt. (Egyptian Presidency via AP, File)

Egypt said to withdraw from US-backed anti-Iran ‘Arab NATO’

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