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What Matters Most On Friday, April 12, 2019

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Reporter's Notebook

Beresheet may have crashed, but for a moment we raised our eyes to the heavens

While the Israeli spacecraft didn’t land on the moon, it did remind us to look beyond the borders of our own small worlds and let our imaginations soar

The last shot Beresheet sent of landing before crashing onto the moon's surface, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft crashes into the moon during landing attempt

By Melanie Lidman

Vehicle built on shoestring budget fails during descent, after weeks of careful maneuvering in space; Netanyahu: ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try again’

One of the last photos taken by Beresheet before it crash landed into the moon, on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy SpaceIL)

Buzz Aldrin to ‘inspiring’ Beresheet team after moon crash: ‘Never lose hope’

By Melanie Lidman and ToI Staff

FILE - In this March 4, 2016 file photo, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and his identical twin, Mark, stand together before a news conference in Houston (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

NASA astronaut twins study reveals effects of long-term space travel

By Chris Lefkow

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at a victory celebration after polls for general elections closed in Tel Aviv, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Judge in charge: Tally not official until given to president

With all votes counted, Netanyahu’s election win confirmed; New Right misses out

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

After full day of rechecking, Likud gains a seat to outscore Gantz’s Blue and White 36-35, United Torah Judaism loses a seat; Netanyahu’s path to majority coalition clear

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

Gantz calls Netanyahu to congratulate him; PM: We’ll restore calm to Israel

Central Elections Committee chief Justice Hanan Melcer speaks at the Knesset, April 11, 2019 (screenshot)

Reporter's notebookAs media hung out to dry and final election results delayed, conspiracies fly

Reps. Nita Lowey and Eliot Engel of New York speak to AIPAC's annual policy conference on March 25, 2019. (AIPAC via JTA)

Four Jewish Democrats warn Israel not to annex West Bank territory

Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey, Ted Deutch and Brad Schneider, known for strong AIPAC ties, allude to pre-election pledge by Netanyahu to extend Israeli law to settlements

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) welcomes US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to his residence in Jerusalem on March 21, 2019. (Jim Young/Pool/AFP)

Pompeo wishes Netanyahu ‘mazal tov’ on his election victory

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on the phone, March 21, 2019 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Some world leaders congratulate Netanyahu ahead of final vote count; others wait

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara addresses their supporters as the results in the elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

For Netanyahu, an unprecedented election haul bodes well for political survival

The PM made history when his Likud party became the first since Israel’s inception to win more than a million votes — a trove he hopes will fend off his legal woes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Kahlon negotiating return to Likud fold, would stay on as finance minister

Supporters of Likud wave party and national flags along with a sign showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they gather at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv on election night early on April 10, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Top TV pollster, whose survey was way off, claims Likud voters lied

Rafi Peretz addresses supporters at the URWP election results party in Kfar Maccabiah on April 9, 2019. (Nachshon Pillipson)

URWP head proposes technical bloc with UTJ, Shas for coalition talks and beyond

Rafi Peretz reaches out to ultra-Orthodox, proposing they join forces to advance issues of religion and state, then stick together as 20-strong bloc in Knesset too

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as he is formally given the task to form the next government, at the president's residence in Jerusalem on March 25, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Rivlin to start talks Monday on who to pick as PM. Spoiler: It will be Netanyahu

Labor party chairman Avi Gabbay (right) with party member Tal Russo as the results of the Knesset elections are announced at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019. (Flash90)

Urged to go, Labor’s Gabbay may agree to leadership race; No.2 Russo could quit

A red carpet was laid out for the opening of the 19th Knesset today, February 5, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Who are the 120 MKs?

9 major generals, 29 women, 49 rookies: Meet the 21st Knesset

Final election results show record number of newcomers will be sworn into parliament on April 30. From Likud to Ra’am Balad, here are Israel’s lawmakers in-waiting

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

Full election results4,335,320 ballots cast. Over 54% went to two parties. Here’s who got what

By Raoul Wootliff

Naftali Bennett visits a school in Tel Aviv on May 10, 2016. (Yaacov Cohen/Flash90)

Israel media reviewClose, but no cigar: 7 things to know for April 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Campaign posters for the Likud party (right), featuring Dimona mayor Benny Biton with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and for the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, seen in the Negev city of Dimona, April 8, 2019. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Analysis

How religion and anti-Arab sentiment helped the right-wing win the election

The ultra-Orthodox scored big by invoking rabbinic leaders; the right-wing parties that played with racial prejudices did relatively well, while those that didn’t fared poorly

Arab Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish attends the Israeli 67th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Israel elections 2019Arab journalist slams Likud poll station cameras; Arab party: ‘Political terror’

Ayala Noy (l) and other Blue and White activists at a polling station in Rehovot, April 9, 2019 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Rehovot, usually Israel’s Ohio, narrowly favors Blue and White this time

By Simona Weinglass

Analysis

How did 2 of Israel’s most prominent ministers end up outside the 21st Knesset?

Bolting Jewish Home for New Right, Bennett and Shaked offered a trailblazing religious-secular partnership. Bizarrely they then reversed, and tried to return to an unforgiving base

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)

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked from the New Right party at an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem on January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Fired: Shaked, Bennett & the 30 other MKs forced to add ‘former’ to their titles

After abysmal Arab voter turnout, it’s time for public action

Arabs in Israel are desperate for a new discourse and leaders who connect with them — what they don’t want is more ideology

The power of speech

What makes Judaism unusual is that it is supremely a religion of holy words; that is why using language to harm is a kind of desecration

Jewish author Jonathan Freedland. (Philippa Gedge)

Interview

Novel envisions Yad Vashem burning as plotters eradicate historical truth

Leading UK Jewish journalist Jonathan Freedland once again turns his hand to fiction as his alter-ego, the best-selling thriller writer Sam Bourne

People look at work of Emil Nolde at an exhibition about the artist at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin, Germany, April 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin show explores painter Emil Nolde’s anti-Semitism, support for Nazi party

By Geir Moulson

Polish Senator Grzegorz Bierecki talks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland, April 11, 2019 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Amid outrage, Polish senator defends talk of ‘purging people who are not worthy’

By Vanessa Gera

Omar Barghouti gives an interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser/File)

Palestinian BDS founder Omar Barghouti denied entry to US

By Tamar Pileggi and Raphael Ahren

Advocacy group says Trump administration ‘arbitrarily’ silencing Palestinians over political activities; Strategic Affairs Ministry denies Israel involved in travel ban

UC Santa Barbara student government rejects divestment from Israel, again

After legal challenges, Texas moves to amend its anti-BDS law

American charged with threats against Jews, Muslims and blacks

By AP

Bram Presser, former leader of the band Yidcore, won an award from the Jewish Book Council for his debut novel. (Courtesy of Presser/via JTA)

Why only a Jewish punk rocker could write this lyrical novel on the Holocaust

By Curt Schleier

More Headlines

Arafat Irfaiya, alleged killer of Israeli teen Ori Ansbacher, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's court on February 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court okays home demolitions for suspected killer of Israeli teen

Protesters burn a representation of the American flag during a rally against the US's decision to designate Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization, after their Friday prayers at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in Tehran, Iran, on April 12, 2019. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Chanting ‘death to Israel,’ Iranians rally against US blacklisting of Guard

By AP

Illustrative. Prison guards during anti-riot training at Ketziot Prison, April 2019. (Israel Prisons Authority)

Hamas prisoner charged with trying to kill guards at Ketziot jail

The scene after an empty bus rolled and hit a group of young Israelis while they were attending tryouts for a military unit, April 11, 2019, near Kibbutz Shomria (Screen capture via Channel 12)

Ron Oved, 18, named as teen killed when parked bus rolled into army tryout group

Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama reads from 'Mein Kampf' in Congress, March 25, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

20 religious groups call on Congress to ‘stop weaponizing anti-Semitism’

By Josefin Dolsten

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bob Iger and Rabbi Marvin Hier attend Simon Wiesenthal Center's 2019 National Tribute Dinner at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 10, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California (Presley Ann/Getty Images/AFP)

Mein hashtag‘Hitler would have loved social media,’ says Disney CEO

By AFP

Minister of Education Naftali Bennett (C) with his wife Gilat greet Sheldon Adelson (R) and his wife Miriam at the cornerstone setting ceremony for the new school of medicine at Ariel University, June 28, 2017. (Courtesy)

Israel okays medical school at West Bank university

By JTA

Illustrative: the campus at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, April 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Anti-Semitic fliers found in library at University of North Carolina

Col. Ala Abu Rukon (far left) at a reception in Tel Aviv hosted by the Chinese embassy to mark the 91st anniversary of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, July 26, 2018 (Chinese Embassy)

Druze officer appointed military secretary to President Rivlin

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)

18 Jewish groups urge Congress to pass bill to end Trump’s travel ban

By Josefin Dolsten

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