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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 15, 2019

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Yamina's Naftali Bennett speaking at the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud: Map is 'fake news'

Settlement ‘islands’: Bennett posts map of Trump’s alleged plan for West Bank

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Ostensible proposal would see Israel controlling Jerusalem, isolated enclaves and the Jordan Valley; deliver majority of territory to Palestinians

(From L-R) Jordan Valley Regional Council chairman David Elhayani, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman applaud after the government authorized the legalization of Mevo'ot Yericho, a West Bank settlement, at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Jordan Valley Regional Council, September 15, 2019 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Meeting in Jordan Valley, cabinet votes to start legalizing wildcat outpost

Former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk speaks at the State Department as Secretary of State John Kerry announces that Indyk will shepherd the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning in Washington, July 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama envoy says Netanyahu ‘encouraged’ plan that included settler withdrawal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) is interviewed by Rina Matsliah on Channel 12, September 14, 2019. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Party heads make TV pleas

PM combative in final TV appeal, evasive on reining in judges to escape charges

Netanyahu won’t commit to avoid 3rd election if he again fails to form a coalition after Tuesday vote; Liberman says no plans to seek premiership; Odeh calls PM a ‘psychopath’

AnalysisWith combative interview, Netanyahu tries to have his media and eat it too

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is interviewed on Channel 12, September 14, 2019. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Israel media reviewFeeding the hand that bites: 6 things to know for September 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at the Democratic Camp electoral alliance's campaign launch in Tel Aviv on August 12, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Citing voter apathy and Gantz’s pull, leftist parties warn of potential wipe-out

Leaders of Democratic Camp and Labor-Gesher say Blue and White’s efforts to take in their voters could cause the centrist alliance to ‘win the battle but lose the war’

Elections chief turns down Netanyahu’s request to meet over ‘election fraud’

Fringe far-right party Noam quits Knesset race 2 days before elections

By Michael Bachner

Defense Ministry: Jews should be allowed to privately purchase West Bank land

Op-ed: Elections 2019

A failure to inspire: How lackluster rivals let Netanyahu dominate the campaign

The PM’s opponents have struggled to set out a compelling alternative vision, opted not to unify, and failed to challenge him effectively in his key areas of weakness

Montage: Head of Blue and White, Benny Gantz, left; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Photos: Flash90)

Benny Gantz: Military man on a mission to beat Netanyahu

By Stephen WEIZMAN

Netanyahu: Israel’s longest-serving premier fights for his future

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon plans to quit politics after elections – report

The Jordan Valley outpost of Mevo'ot Yeriho in 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Organization of Islamic Cooperation ‘totally’ rejects Israeli annexation plan

At emergency meeting of FMs in Saudi Arabia, nations call Netanyahu’s sovereignty plan a ‘dangerous declaration’ that ‘deliberately undermines efforts to achieve peace’

6:30 pm

Organization of Islamic Cooperation 'totally' rejects Israeli annexation plan
6:02 pm

Gantz: Give government mandate only to candidate who returns it should he fail
5:38 pm

Democratic Camp said to tell activists: Prepare for a violent election day

US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Trump says he talked Mutual Defense Pact with Netanyahu, will pick up after vote

In tweet seen as aiming to boost PM’s reelection bid, US president says he looks forward ‘to continuing those discussions after the Israeli Elections when we meet at the UN’

AnalysisDoes Israel spy on the US? Depends who you are listening to

Illustrative: In this June 25, 2019, photo released by Bahrain News Agency, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, fifth from left, and Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, sixth from left, listen to White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, standing, during the opening session of the "Peace to Prosperity" workshop in Manama, Bahrain (Bahrain News Agency via AP)

Prominent Bahraini royal to ToI: Netanyahu is an obstacle to better relations

By Ben Birnbaum

Upset at ‘bully tactics’ against Israeli Arabs, sheikh says ‘Bibi will sell his soul to win’; calls PM’s pledge to annex Jordan Valley a ‘watershed’ for peace hopes in the region

Sigmund Freud in his study at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, 1934. (Freud Museum London)

Freud’s fetish for ancient Egyptology unveiled in new exhibit

Gidon Bromberg and Yana Abu Taleb

Annexing the Jordan Valley threatens regional security

The strip along the Jordan River’s west bank has little military value, but it does offer opportunities to cooperate toward peace (Op-Ed)

Avinoam Bar-Yosef

Are Jews in Israel more Jewish or more Israeli?

Most Jewish Israelis believe that to be a real Israeli you must be Jewish; according to Ruth Gavison, that creates ’many complications’

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh. (screen capture: YouTube/MEMRITVVideos)

Iranian general says country ready for ‘full-fledged war’ with US

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amir Ali Hajizadeh warns that American bases up to 2,000 kilometers away are ‘within the range of our missiles,’ after Washington blamed Tehran for Houthi attack on Saudi oil

Smoke billows from an Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq about 60km (37 miles) southwest of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia's eastern province on September 14, 2019. (AFP)

US blames Iran after attacks on Saudi oil facilities cripple production

By AP

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on February 28, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Zambian politician claims president smuggled money, drugs on 2017 Israel visit

Israeli envoy denies ‘malicious’ claim by President Edgar Lungu’s rival Chishimba Kambwili, says Israeli business ties to the African nation adhere to anti-corruption laws

Illustrative photo of a satellite dish (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police arrest spy-tech firm officials suspected of fraud, money laundering

By Judah Ari Gross

Mayor of Levallois-Perret Patrick Balkany (C,R) and his wife first deputy mayor Isabelle Balkany prosecuted with alleged aggravated tax fraud arrive on September 13, 2019 for the rendering of the verdict at the Paris courthouse. (Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

French right-wing power couple sentenced in massive tax fraud case

By AFP

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In this September 11, 2019, photo, Holocaust survivor Helga Melmed poses for a portrait during an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of a program for people expelled and persecuted by the Nazis and bringing tens of thousands of them back to their home city for one-week trips in Berlin. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

Berlin celebrates post-WWII visitor program for expelled Jews

By Kirsten Grieshaber

In late August 2019, a 64-year-old Hasidic resident of Brooklyn was bloodied with this brick in an attack being investigated by police as a hate crime. (Screenshots from Twitter)

Brooklyn man charged with hate crime for assault on rabbi

By JTA and ToI Staff

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson attempts to sound a shofar in video published on September 13, 2019. (Screenshot/Channel 5 News)

BoJo no blowUK’s Johnson tries, fails to blow shofar

Illustrative: A cancer patient and a perfusion drip. (CIPhotos, iStock by Getty Images)

Startup joins Roche to hold clinical trials for double-whammy cancer drug

By Shoshanna Solomon

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Elysee Palace after his meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, May 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Facebook’s Tel Aviv team working on digital wallet push

By Shoshanna Solomon

A police officer walks past graves which have been vandalized with graffiti in the British World War II Commonwealth Graves cemetery in Mierlo, east of Eindhoven, Netherlands, September 13, 2019. (Rob Engelaar/ANP/AFP)

Vandals paint swastikas on British World War II graves in Netherlands

By AFP

Illustrative: In this photo from August 17, 2018, family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles in protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

NY finds $1 billion in hidden transfers by Sackler family behind OxyContin

Pace University campus is seen Friday, May 17, 2019, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Jewish professor claims Pace University ousted him over his faith

By JTA

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