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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 16, 2019

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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 ask Netanyahu Wednesday to form a new government

Netanyahu secures majority backing after right-wing parties recommend him as PM

By Raoul Wootliff

After the parties’ two days of consultations with Rivlin, premier has the formal support of 65 MKs for a fifth term

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks at a party event at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, on April 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman backs Netanyahu for PM, but insists on passage of Haredi draft law

Members of the Hadash-Ta'al party meet with Israeli president Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hadash-Ta’al abstains from recommending a prime minister

Was the count kosher?

Simona Weinglass

Can Israel’s election count be tampered with? An official explains the process

Amid technical glitches, inconsistencies in the Central Election Committee’s published tallies, and even allegations of fraud, here’s how the ballots were processed

Illustrative: Israelis count the remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees at the parliament in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90/File)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party, left, at the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Final vote count bumps UTJ up to 8 seats, Likud down to 35; New Right still out

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

Arab MK asks AG to collect cameras placed in Arab polling stations

Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral, as it burns in Paris, on April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris firefighters say Notre Dame blaze fully extinguished

Inspectors are seen on the roof of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 16, 2019, the day after a fire ripped through its main roof. (Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Donors pledge over $680 million to rebuild scorched Notre Dame

By AFP

Smoke rises in front of the altar cross at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019, after a fire engulfed the building. (PHILIPPE WOJAZER / POOL / AFP)

Photo essayA blackened shell: Aftermath of fire shows scale of work ahead for Notre Dame

By AP

The Gallery of Kings on the facade of Notre Dame Cathedral (CC BY Serge Melki/Wikimedia Commons)

Revered as kings, reviled as beggars: Notre Dame’s Jewish connection

Paris cathedral depicts Christianity’s conflicting, often antagonistic attitudes toward Jews throughout history

The two towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris are pictured from the spire, June 13, 1998 (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Photo essay‘Our Lady of Paris’: Notre Dame throughout history

The spire of the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral collapses as the church is engulfed in flames in central Paris on April 15, 2019. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP)

Israel media reviewHow could Notre Dame be falling? 8 things to know for April 16

World expresses horror, sorrow as Paris gem Notre Dame ravaged by blaze

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli leaders join international community in showing solidarity with French people in wake of devastating fire at iconic cathedral

President Rivlin offers solidarity with France as Notre Dame burns

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Worst is over, we will rebuild, Macron vows after Notre Dame gutted by blaze

By AFP

As art world mourns, firefighters manage to save some of Notre Dame’s treasures

Palestinian Muslim worshipers walk past the Dome of the Rock mosque, situated in the al-Aqsa compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, March 1, 2019, before Friday noon prayers. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Firefighters quickly extinguish blaze at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – Waqf official

Bassem Abu Labda says children set alight a guard booth on the rooftop of a prayer room; Israel Police investigating cause

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara at an event of the Likud party in Jerusalem, April 16, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

At Likud victory event, Netanyahu slams media, says will work for all citizens

By Michael Bachner

PM says ‘many’ Arab leaders have congratulated him, adds some TV analysts ‘haven’t yet understood’ last week’s election results

6:36 pm

Yisrael Beytenu, United Torah Judaism said in talks over Haredi draft law
6:21 pm

Macron vows to rebuild Notre Dame 'within five years'
6:10 pm

Abbas gears up for diplomatic blitz against Trump's peace plan -- report

The Jordanians asked me to take off my tzitzit. I declined.

Each of us needs to draw a red line and say to ourselves ’Beyond this I will not cross’

Resign once indicted? That’s so 20th century!

Both leaders have proven they can handle public humiliation, as party hacks toe the line and the public doesn’t mind

Masimba Musodza

Beresheet and my African space dreams

Israel can inspire a nation that wanted to ’Bring Down the Moon’ and indulged a crackpot plan to send cats to Mars

If there are still miracles in this universe

Netanel Felber’s hospital room is a place where heartbreak and hope align with unwavering devotion and unflagging optimism

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)

Analysis

As US appears to back West Bank annexations, is its peace plan dead on arrival?

Analysts say Pompeo’s support for PM’s vow to apply sovereignty to all settlements contradicts declared US goal of brokering a deal; some expect Trump to shelve plan indefinitely

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

PA foreign minister: Abbas ready to meet Netanyahu if Russia plays host

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands during a joint press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on October 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

German leader calls Netanyahu, stresses need for two-state solution

By ToI Staff and AP

1,600-year-old gold coin of emperor who abolished Sanhedrin discovered by pupils

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Byzantine ruler created the 438 Theodosian law code, which collected the thousands of imperial laws of the sprawling empire and officially made Jews second-class citizens

From 'Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel' by Jordan B. Gorfinkel and Erez Zadok (Courtesy Erez Zadok)

New Haggadah told in graphic novel format is a comic book lover’s seder sidekick

By Jessica Steinberg

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) listens during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images/AFP)

Freshman Democrat Ocasio-Cortez says cutting aid to Israel ‘on the table’

By Eric Cortellessa

New York congresswoman criticized by Jewish Democratic group after saying caucus having conversations about Israel support in wake of Netanyahu re-election

White House Jewish community briefing blackballs most major Jewish groups

After calling him a ‘racist,’ O’Rourke congratulates Netanyahu on reelection

Sanders releases long-awaited tax returns, showing millionaire status

By AP

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

Palestinian security prisoners end hunger strike over cellphones

Illustrative. A French policeman standing with his equipment, April 12, 2019. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)

Man in France stabs neighbor 15 times, says he ‘wanted to kill a Jew’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an Israeli hospital (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

13 hospitals to defy Passover bread ban, more than double last year’s number

The Sa'ar River on the Golan Heights, April 3, 2019. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Waterfalls and abundant flowers attract election-weary Israelis to Golan Heights

An incendiary device attached to balloons that landed in the Sha'ar Hanegev region in Israel on March 28, 2019. (Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council)

Fires sparked in south by balloon-borne incendiaries from Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

The chief rabbi of Argentina, Gabriel Davidovich, speaks at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. on November 8, 2018. (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center via AP)

Three more arrested in violent assault on Argentina’s chief rabbi

An undated portrait of Laura Mandel, a US member of the International Board of The Abraham Initiatives. (David Zanes via AP)

Activist in Jewish-Arab coexistence group suffers ‘humiliation’ at airport

Shia terror group video giving 'the final warning,' showing a simulated bomb attack on the Israeli delegation, which apparently canceled its trip to a business conference in Bahrain as a result of the threat. (screen capture)

Threatening video prompted Israel to cancel Bahrain trip – report

An illustrative image of a patient with Parkinson's disease (Obencem; iStock by Getty Images)

Turn, stop, then sit: A research-based guide for Parkinson’s patients

By Shoshanna Solomon

Likud MK Nava Boker, left, singer Eyal Golan, and celebrity businesswoman Pnina Rosenblume during a ceremony to award Golan with a prize for his contribution to music, held at the Knesset, Jerusalem on December 11, 2018, and which was interrupted by activists arguing that Golan shouldn't receive any award due to the allegations made against him (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

TaxmanIsraeli pop star hires John Lennon’s lawyer to win US visa

By Jessica Steinberg

This picture taken in Kafr Ain on September 7, 2018, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the 'White Helmets,' carrying a victim after airstrikes, four kilometers east of Khan Shaykhun in the southern countryside of Idlib province (AFP PHOTO / Anas AL-DYAB)

US Holocaust museum gives its highest honor to Syria rescue volunteers

By Josefin Dolsten

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a meeting in Tehran, Iran, August 13, 2018. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Normalizing ties with ‘Zionists’ is against Quran, Iranian supreme leader says

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