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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 22, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), and Benny Gantz (L), leader of Blue and White party, at a memorial ceremony for late president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Likud said weighing not recommending anyone for PM so Gantz will get first shot

TV report says Netanyahu believes it will be easier for him to form government if Blue and White leader first fails to do so

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)

In talks with party heads, Rivlin to float options ‘not yet heard by the public’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin attend a memorial ceremony for late president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (GIl Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Rivlin to begin consultations on tasking next potential PM to form coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman says he received call from Gantz, will meet him Monday

Yisrael Beytenu chief’s announcement of meeting comes after he refrained from backing either the Blue and White chief or Netanyahu to form the next government

6:34 pm

Liberman says he received call from Gantz, will meet him Monday
6:27 pm

Pompeo emphasizes diplomacy amid US standoff with Iran
6:09 pm

Trump's outgoing peace envoy expected to meet Gantz Monday

Analysis

Yossi Klein Halevi

Netanyahu, the end

On the overdue demise of a leader who turned power for his people into his only real ideal and who confused their well-being with his own

President Reuven Rivlin at a memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewAll eyes on thee: 5 things to know for September 22

By Alexander Fulbright

Head of the Joint List party Ayman Odeh (second from right) seen with party members during a faction meeting in Kfar Qasim, on September 21, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Joint List of Arab parties seen leaning toward recommending Gantz for PM

10 of 13 MKs said in favor after hours of talks; Arab parties have not endorsed a mainstream leader since Rabin in 1992; Odeh: ‘Without our backing, Netanyahu cannot be defeated’

Head of the Joint List party Ayman Odeh reacts as the first results in the Knesset elections are announced, September 17, 2019. (Basel Awidat/FLASH90)

Joint List to present list of demands to Gantz in return for backing him as PM

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Head of the Joint List party Ayman Odeh reacts as the first results in the Knesset elections are announced, September 17, 2019. (Basel Awidat/FLASH90)

Balad said opposed to endorsing Gantz amid bid to woo Joint List in secret talks

People walk by election campaign billboards showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, alongside Blue and White party leaders, from left to right, Moshe Ya'alon, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi, in Tel Aviv, April 3, 2019. Hebrew on billboards reads, left, "A strong Likud, a strong Israel," and on the right, "Every vote counts, Blue and White victory." (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Nationwide results

Polls apart: Central Israel goes for Gantz while the south sticks with Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Results highlight geographical polarization with some parts of the country giving a clear lead to Likud and others opting overwhelmingly for rival Blue and White

Then-defense minister Ehud Barak, left, and then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman, right, arrive at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, November 13, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Barak warns ‘opposite of liberal’ kingmaker Liberman angling to crown himself PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Likud lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi, right, at the weekly Likud party meeting at the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud minister Tzachi Hanegbi vows to vote against new elections

David Breakstone

The day the Arabs saved Zionism

The Joint List’s surge is a leap toward fulfilling Herzl’s vision of a Jewish state as tolerant, inclusive and democratic

Is ‘Seinfeld’ still ‘fresh’ in 2019, like Netflix says it is?

All the characters were plausibly Jewish, but the fact that their Jewishness was also deniable was so 1990s

Analysis

Charged with helping Hamas, Gazan aid worker says he’s being denied a fair trial

In process that has dragged on for 3 years, attorney for World Vision staffer Mohammed Halabi contends Israel has repeatedly compromised his client’s right to prove his innocence

Mohammad el-Halabi, a manager of the World Vision charity's operations in the Gaza Strip, was indicted on August 4, 2016, for diverting the charity's funds to the Hamas terrorist organization. (Screen capture: World Vision)

A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on September 8, 2002. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Did the Carter administration cover up a 1979 Israeli nuclear test?

Noting Israeli accusations against Iran, Foreign Policy magazine slams ‘humiliating role’ US president allegedly played in hiding purported Israeli test from the world

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a drone which the Syrian state news agency says authorities have controlled and dismantled and was rigged with cluster bombs on the edge of the Israeli Golan Heights, southern Syria, September 21, 2019. (SANA via AP)

IDF says armed drone captured by Syria near Golan was Iranian, not Israeli

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A military spokesman blames IRGC General Soleimani and notes incident occurred in same area where Israel foiled Iranian drone attack last month

Airstrikes said to target Iran-backed militia base in Iraq

After US sends troops to Mideast, Rouhani warns foreign forces to ‘stay away’

By AFP

Syria says it captured explosives-laden drone near Golan border

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The closed gate of the only active synagogue of Tiraspol, Transnistria. (Courtesy of Roman Yanushevsky/Channel 9 via JTA)

In breakaway Transnistria, the few Jews left eye an escape

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israel's Linoy Ashram (R) with her all-around bronze medal at the rhythmic gymnastics world championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on September 20, 2019, alongside gold and silver medalists Dina (center) and Arina Averina of Russia. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Linoy Ashram qualifies for Olympics with all-around bronze at world championship

Israeli rhythmic gymnast snags a total of 6 medals throughout competition; Nicol Zelikman likewise to compete in Tokyo after finishing 11th

Illustrative: Jewish immigrants from Russia and Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, January 30, 2018. (Photo: AP/Ariel Schalit)

As Putin cracks down on democracy, Russian Jews increasingly moving to Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Illustrative. Handcuffs in a courthouse. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

2 further suspects arrested after 13-year-old says she was gang-raped at school

Members of an Orthodox Jewish community put a label from the 'International Rescue Committee for Jewish Families of the Lev Tahor Settlement' on the window of a bus in Guatemala city on September 25, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ)

Leaders of fringe ultra-Orthodox cult Lev Tahor requested asylum in Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Yehuda Nahari who portrays Yiigal Amir in the movie "Incitement." (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Actor says he needed therapy after delving into mind of Rabin’s killer

(From L) Edib Dirawi and Iyad Badir, who were murdered on September 20, 2019. (Courtesy)

2 shot dead within hours as gun violence spikes in Arab Israeli towns

Liora Welles in a photo she uploaded to Facebook in December 2015. (Screenshot: Facebook)

US said to jail Israeli binary options sales agent Liora Welles for 14 months

By Simona Weinglass

Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, (left), and deputy party leader Tom Watson (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

UK’s Labour Party in turmoil as move to oust Corbyn’s moderate deputy fails

Adolf Hitler's postcards are displayed during the exhibition "Design of the Third Reich" at the Design Museum Den Bosch in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, on September 17, 2019. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

Selfies banned to prevent misinterpretation at Dutch museum’s Nazi design expo

Egyptian protesters shout calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo's downtown on September 20, 2019. (STR/AFP)

Dozens arrested in Egypt after rare anti-Sissi protests

The scene in Haifa where a man died after a fall from a building, apparently during a botched burglary on September 21, 2019 (Police Spokesperson)

Haifa man dies of fall from balcony in apparent botched burglary

A TWA Boeing 727-200 identical to the aircraft involved in the 1985 Hezbollah hijacking of TWA Flight 847. (Felix Goetting/Wikipedia)

Greek police make arrest in 1985 Hezbollah hijacking of TWA Flight 847

By DEMETRIS NELLAS

Icelandic band Hatari hold up Palestinian flags during the live grand final of the Eurovision in Tel Aviv, May 19, 2019. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Iceland fined for pro-Palestinian protest at Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv

By AFP

Women are dressed as aliens at a 'Storm Area 51' spinoff event called 'Alienstock' on September 20, 2019 in Rachel, Nevada. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

Extraterrestrial flopJust several dozen alien-hunters gather for ‘raid’ on Area 51

By AFP

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