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What Matters Most On Friday, September 13, 2019

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Itamar Ben-Gvir of the Otzma Yehudit party attends a conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Kahanist disciple says he’ll demand cabinet post; Likud official: Not realistic

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

With polls indicating extremist Otzma Yehudit may win 4 Knesset seats, its leader Itamar Ben Gvir says he will demand a cabinet appointment in return for backing Netanyahu

Israel media reviewRun the numbers again: 7 things to know for September 13

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu, Likud fined for electioneering during Jordan Valley declaration

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Blue and White’s lead grows slightly in poll

This combination of pictures created on April 2, 2019 shows (L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz. (Ronen Zvulun and Jack Guez/AFP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Why the man who comes second in Israel’s election could end up as prime minister

Neither Netanyahu nor Gantz is set to get the support of 61 MKs, so they’re battling to head the biggest party and thus win Rivlin’s okay to build a coalition. This may not be wise

Citizens cast their ballots at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset elections, on April 9, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

People of the PodLISTEN: ‘People of the Pod’ takes on Israeli elections 2019, part deux

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, in a composite photo. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG allows Netanyahu to fund legal defense with loan from wealthy friend Partrich

In this Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, )

Trump says he doesn’t believe report of Israel spying on White House

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Politico claimed FBI blames Israel for placing surveillance equipment at sensitive DC locations; ex-Israeli intel official says special ties and Pollard fallout undermine report

A snow covered White House White House on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Former intel official casts doubt on report of Israeli spying in Washington

By Judah Ari Gross

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 12, 2019 (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump says Iranian leadership ‘wants to meet’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Netanyahu: War in Gaza could break out ‘before the elections’

PM, who was ridiculed for being rushed off-stage during rocket attack from enclave, takes tough stance on Hamas ahead of national vote

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Sochi, Russia, September 12, 2019. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP)

Reporter's notebook

Shalom Yerushalmi

Netanyahu in Sochi: Talking to Putin, digging at Liberman

The prime minister makes a quick pre-election sortie to meet with the Russian president, and ends up with plenty of time for self-reflection

Meeting Putin after 3-hour wait, Netanyahu vows to stop Iran’s attacks on Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Right-wing Jews said behind billboards calling on Arabs not to vote

European powers condemn Netanyahu vow to annex Jordan Valley

Graffiti in Jisr az-Zarka, a coastal Arab-Israeli town north of Caesarea. (Amir Ben David)

Reporter's notebook

Fear and loathing, and alienation, on the second 2019 Israeli campaign trail

By Amir Ben-David

Israeli security forces demolish a building near Beit Jala in the West Bank, August 26, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israeli outpost goes up on JNF land where Palestinian buildings were razed

Civil Administration says it’s aware of structures illegally erected at site near Bethlehem just days after demolitions, will remove them ‘in accordance with its priorities”

Unable to vote, Palestinians shrug off Israel’s elections

In call with Abbas, Saudi king condemns Netanyahu annexation pledge

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinians see bump in East Jerusalem building permits, still lag behind Jews

By AP and Jacob Magid

Times of Israel reporter Matt Lebovic at Auschwitz-Birkenau holding a version of 'The Auschwitz Album' image in which his grandmother, Bella (Baila) Solomon, appears, October 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

First person

How I found my Bubby in ‘The Auschwitz Album’

By Matt Lebovic

Natural gas is no longer green enough

We cannot wait to worry about climate change; it is time to talk about a full transition to solar energy

The strange bedfellows of the religious Zionist camp

Until recently, the large majority of religious Zionists would have rejected a party of Kahane followers as racist and extreme; now, they may vote for it

This undated photo provided by Immigration Equality shows Roee, left, and Adiel Kiviti, right, with their children newborn, Kessem and older brother Lev. (Courtesy of Adiel and Roee Kiviti/Immigration Equality via AP)

US-Israeli gay married couple sues after daughter denied US citizenship

By Michael Kunzelman

Lawsuit says State Department discriminates against married same-sex couples and treats their children as if they were born out of wedlock

Illustrative: A woman embraces a Guatemalan migrant who was deported from the United States, after arriving at the Air Force Base in Guatemala City, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A Guatemalan asylum seeker is being sheltered in a Washington state synagogue

Illustrative photo of a 2009 missile strike in Ashkelon. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Red tape hobbles traumatized Gaza border residents hit with fibromyalgia

By Michal Koren-Kariv

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Performers in costume attend a Day of the Dead parade in Juchitan, Mexico, October 31, 2018 (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Skin-crawling discoveryScientists find that corpses move long after death

By AFP

Stedelijk Museum Conservator Meta Chavannes shines a flashlight on a Marc Chagall self portrait, in Amsterdam, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, during a presentation of results of a five-year research project into the painter. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Amsterdam museum unveils 5-year research to uncover secrets of Chagall’s art

Jarosław Dudzicz, president of the court in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland. (Twitter)

Polish judge called Jews a ‘despicable, filthy nation’ in online forum

By JTA

Burlingame High School, Burlingame California in 2011. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

Swastikas among hateful graffiti painted on San Francisco-area high school

By JTA

Former detainees of the pro-Israel South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia hold posters depicting former SLA member Amer al-Fakhoury during a demonstration denouncing his return and entry outside the Justice Palace in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 12, 2019. (NWAR AMRO/AFP)

Lebanese-American to be prosecuted for dealing with Israel

By AP

Democratic presidential hopefuls Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (L) and former vice president Joe Biden (R) speak during the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

Biden accidentally calls Sanders ‘the president’ during Democratic debate

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli infielders and a coach gather around picher Josh Zeid (#28) in the bottom of the third inning during the World Baseball Classic Pool E second round match between Israel and Japan at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / TORU YAMANAKA)

Israel’s baseball team advances in early Olympic qualifying tournament

By JTA

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2ndR) holds a press conference at his office in Ankara on September 13, 2019, to announce that he will launch a new political movement in the latest challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from his former allies. (Adem Altan/AFP)

In challenge to Erdogan, ex-Turkey premier promises new political party

By AFP

PewDiePie attends the European Premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at Leicester Square on December 16, 2015 in London, England. ( Chris Jackson/Getty Images via JTA)

PewDiePie rescinds $50,000 donation to ADL after fans object

By JTA

Chloe Fineman is one of the newest members of "SNL." (Chloe Fineman/Instagram via JTA)

Motzei ShabbatSNL adds Jewish comedian Chloe Fineman for upcoming season

By Emily Burack

The entrance to Paris 13 University in France, where a student says she was harassed by anti-Semitism from her peers. (Courtesy of Paris 13 via JTA)

French authorities close case in intense anti-Semitic bullying of Jewish student

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Old Synagogue in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. (Foundation of Jewish Heritage)

Unique Victorian synagogue to become Jewish museum of Wales

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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