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What Matters Most On Friday, September 20, 2019

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Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Meet the Denisovans: High-tech gene analysis finally gives ancient humans a face

Breakthrough Hebrew University methodology studies ancient DNA’s expression to determine physical characteristics of our extinct prehistoric relatives

3-D printed reconstruction of a female Denisovan. (Maayan Harel)

US Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, September 20, 2019 (Matty Stern/US Embassy)

Outgoing Trump peace envoy meets PM amid election deadlock, will meet Gantz

By Raphael Ahren

Greenblatt visits Jerusalem to discuss Mideast vision, but with Israel stuck in post-vote paralysis, PM’s transitional government lacks authority to take far-reaching decisions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson in Washington, D.C., February 15, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Tillerson says Netanyahu skillfully ‘played’ Trump using misinformation

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Composite picture of Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (right) at polling station in Rosh Haayin on September 17, 2019 and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman (left) at Kibbutz Nahal Oz on September 12, 2019. (Jack Guez/Menahem Kahana, AFP)

Liberman denies Gantz deal, says will be fine sitting in opposition or coalition

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Yisrael Beytenu head won’t speak to Gantz or PM before Rivlin talks; says Netanyahu refuses to admit he lost; jokes Odeh should send PM flowers as thanks for extra Joint List seats

Blue and White party leaders, from the left, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Moshe Ya'alon greet their supporters at party headquarters after the first results of the elections in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Committee publishes ‘almost final’ results; Blue and White leads Likud 33-31

President Reuven Rivlin, right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, left, at a memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on September 19, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Israel media reviewFool me twice: 6 things to know for September 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis:

Dethroning King Bibi: Why, and how, Likud could get rid of its longtime leader

Netanyahu’s MKs still pledge loyalty, but the inconclusive election result may yet prompt them to commit regicide. Predicts one analyst: ‘They won’t stay on the Likud-Titanic’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein seen at a state ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12, 2018. (Noam Moskowitz/POOL)

Backdropped by Jerusalem's Old City Walls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a press conference with Moshe Kahlon, January 21, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Did Moshe Kahlon’s ‘sane right’ voters revolt against Netanyahu?

By Simona Weinglass

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein presides over a Knesset plenum session, on June 12, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Blue and White looking to oust Knesset speaker Edelstein — report

President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at the memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Results aren’t even official, but already nightmare 3rd election scenario looms

If Netanyahu sees it as his last hope, and Gantz thinks he’ll emerge from it stronger, Israel could gradually slide toward the outcome everybody professes to want to avoid

President Reuven Rivlin, right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, left, at a memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on September 19, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Rivlin to begin consultations Sunday on tasking next prime minister

President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at the memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Parties jostle for position, hold talks in bid to break coalition impasse

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement on applying Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and its Jewish settlements, at a press conference in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Op-Ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

If Netanyahu is going to cut a plea deal, he’ll need to do so while still PM

The weakened Likud leader is growing pessimistic about his legal troubles, with good reason — the electorate dashed his hopes of immunity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Netanyahu denies seeking plea deal in corruption cases

(L to R) Joint List candidates Ofer Cassif, Heba Yazbak, Mtanes Shehadeh, Ayman Odeh, Ahmad Tibi, Aida Touma-Suleiman and Iman Khatib Yassin appear before supporters at the alliance's election campaign headquarters in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth on September 17, 2019, as the first exit polls are announced on television. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Four in five Arab and Druze voters cast ballots for Joint List, numbers show

The year of flames

Readying to flee yet another fire, I packed my son’s bar mitzvah suit in our bag of essentials; it had become a symbol of what matters, in the face of too much loss

A nation of storytellers (Ki Tavo 5779)

The obligation to tell and remember the nation’s story is not just for leaders and experts, it extends to every Jew

Straight shooting for 21st-century Jews

What’s a nice suburban middle-aged Jew like me doing enjoying target practice at the local gun range?

Avinoam Bar-Yosef

WATCH: Are Haredi Israelis ‘Zionist’?

Most Israelis believe the ultra-Orthodox contribute little to Israel’s success. This, says Daniel Goldman, hurts Haredi Israelis (Video)

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speak on election night in Tel Aviv at separate party events, September 18, 2019. (Miram Alster, Hadas Parush/Flash90)

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Israeli elections post-op — there’s no winner, but who is the loser?

Episode #4: We also speak with Obama speech writer Sarah Hurwitz on her journey to Judaism; Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt on why Orthodox Jews are on the frontline of anti-Semitism

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump, center, flanked by acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, right, speaks during a meeting with military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US military presenting range of options to Trump on Iran

By Lolita C. Baldor

Investigators still trying to determine if Tehran behind attacks on Saudi oil; Lawmaker urges president to go to Congress as strikes could lead to ‘a medium to large-scale war’

As fan kills herself over soccer ban, Iran said to tell FIFA things will change

By AFP

Iran says FM Zarif to attend UN despite visa doubts

By AFP

Iran’s judo federation calls ban over Israel boycott policy ‘unfair’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Kids in Australia, Pacific launch millions-strong global climate strike

By Andrew BEATTY

Ahead of UN summit in New York, students inspired by teen activist Greta Thunberg demand adults take action

The windshield of a car whose driver was hit by a rock and moderately injured in the West Bank, Friday, September 20, 2019 (Rescue services)

IDF officer hit by rock while driving in West Bank, moderately hurt

Projectile smashes through windshield of vehicle east of Nablus; the 23-year-old man, on leave, was with his father at the time

Illustrative: Border Police officers deploy at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem after an apparent stabbing attack, September 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel defends fatal shooting of knife-wielding woman as video raises concern

By AP and ToI Staff

An operator walks by an Iron Dome missile defense battery near the city of Sderot in southern Israel on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Iron Dome activated near Gaza border in false alarm

By Judah Ari Gross

President and general manager of the Israeli national baseball team, Peter Kurz. (Courtesy Israel Association of Baseball)

Interview

In Olympics baseball qualifier, Team Israel seeks to catch trip to 2020 Games

By Joseph Wolkin

Israeli, German, Italian and British fighter jets fly together as part of the Royal Air Force's Cobra Warrior exercise in the United Kingdom in September 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

In first, Israeli planes take part in British aerial exercise Cobra Warrior

By Judah Ari Gross

IAF fighter jets, cargo planes join UK, German, Italian and US aircraft in combat simulations over eastern England

Lebanese Minister of Defense Elias Bou Saab shows the box that he alleged carried explosives in a captured drone that fell over a southern Beirut suburb as he speaks during a press conference in the Ministry of Defense in Yarze, on September 19, 2019. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Lebanon says crashed Beirut drones were on Israeli attack mission

By AP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Jamie-Lyn Sigler is the voice of a new Disney princess from a "Latino Jewish kingdom." (Mike Coppola/WireImage via JTA)

Fairy tale come trueJamie-Lynn Sigler to voice Disney’s first Jewish princess

By JTA

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem walk alongside an Israeli soldier. June 6, 2008. (Lara Savage/Flash 90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attack and hurl objects at soldier in Jerusalem

A woman and a child pause at a growing memorial across the street from the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California, following a deadly shooting there. April 29, 2019 (AP Photo/Greg Bull)

Poway killer told 911 he was ‘defending our nation against the Jewish people’

By Elliot Spagat

Zahra Billoo was among 17 new members of the Women's March board. (Women's March via JTA)

Women’s March board member critical of Israel, FBI is removed after 2 days

By JTA

A New York Police Department Chevrolet Impala squad car turns a corner Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006 in New York (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NY to beef up police presence in Jewish neighborhoods for High Holidays

By JTA

Members of the international Mauthausen committee arrive for a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, Sunday, May 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austria votes to grant citizenship to descendants of Holocaust survivors

By AFP

In this January 10, 2019, file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at his State of the City address in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio drops 2020 presidential bid

By AP

A model gesturing a hooked nose on the website if the University of Ghent, Belgium. (University of Ghent via JTA)

Belgian sign language center defends hooked nose gesture for ‘Jew’

By JTA

Painting by Fatmir Limani featuring a large swastika at the Bog-Art gallery in Brussels, Belgium. (LBCA via JTA)

Swastika painting in Brussels art gallery sparks outcry

By JTA and ToI Staff

Temple Ahavat Shalom in California, site of an anti-Semitic attack (Google Maps)

Los Angeles synagogue targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti

Demi Lovato arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 20, 2018, in Las Vegas. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Not a solo tripPop star and actress Demi Lovato visits Western Wall

By JTA

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a conference of the Israeli Keren Hayesod foundation in Moscow on September 17, 2019. (Pavel Golovkin / POOL / AFP)

Putin says he considers Israel a Russian-speaking country

By JTA

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