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What Matters Most On Monday, September 23, 2019

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President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 23, 2019, after holding consultation meetings with political leaders to decide whom to task with trying to form a new government. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Kicking off unity bid, Rivlin invites Netanyahu and Gantz to meet

By Raoul Wootliff

After receiving 55 recommendations to Blue and White chair’s 54, PM says ‘broad unity government’ the only option

As Rivlin concludes talks with parties, Netanyahu wins 55 backers to Gantz’s 54

By Michael Bachner and Raoul Wootliff

Yamina, United Torah Judaism back Netanyahu for PM, confirming 55-MK bloc

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox allies stick loyally by his side

File: Joint List leaders Ayman Odeh (2nd-L), Ahmad Tibi (2nd-R), Mtanes Shehadeh (L) and Mansour Abbas meet at the Knesset on September 22, 2019, ahead of their alliance's meeting with President Reuven Rivlin on who they'll recommend should form the next government. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Only 10 Joint List MKs back Gantz; Netanyahu on course to attempt coalition 1st

President Rivlin accepts Arab-majority alliance’s clarification that its three-member Balad faction won’t support anyone for PM

Arab Israeli lawmaker: Election results a ‘slap in the face’ for Trump

As Joint List backs Gantz, Netanyahu says: I told you so

In dramatic shift, Joint List recommends Gantz for PM, seeks Netanyahu’s ouster

By Raoul Wootliff and Adam Rasgon

Photo composition (L to R): Blue and White chief Benny Gantz, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel, Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Liberman says Netanyahu, Gantz should ‘flip a coin’ for who serves first as PM

Yisrael Beytenu leader, whose party is not recommending either candidate, to meet Gantz on Monday; says ‘childish argument’ over who’ll start out as premier is preventing coalition

(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)

Israel media reviewSilent minority no more: 7 things to know for September 23

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli ex-defense minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to members of his party Yisrael Beytenu, during a meeting in the cooperative Israeli village of Yad Hashmona near Jerusalem on September 22, 2019. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Liberman won’t recommend either Netanyahu or Gantz for PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz (R) as President Reuven Rivlin looks on, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on September 23, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz, Netanyahu meet at President Rivlin’s residence to launch unity talks

President seeks agreement before choosing either man, has called for unity government after election deadlock

6:30 pm

After more than an hour, Rivlin leaves Gantz, Netanyahu alone together
6:28 pm

Trump says meeting with Kim Jong Un 'could happen soon'
6:13 pm

Palestinian protesters clash with IDF over security prisoners' hunger strikes

Analysis

Israel’s opposition still wants to oust Netanyahu… just not yet

Blue and White won more seats than Likud in last week’s elections. Its leader Gantz has the support of more MKs than Netanyahu. But in a risky gambit, it wants to bide its time

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)

Blue and White said to prefer Likud get first crack at building coalition

President's consultationsBlue and White backs Gantz, Likud taps PM; both promise to ‘return mandate’

By Raoul Wootliff

Op-edCan Rivlin magic up a solution to the coalition conundrum?

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Let Arab parties into the ruling coalition

One day we’ll look back on the old days when Arab parties were automatically excluded from government and wonder why

Needed: A Jewish response to mass incarceration

I know what it’s like to get out of jail homeless and penniless — my Jewish values inspired me to help others like me

My crazy week in Uzbekistan

Planning SNAFUs aside, the visit offered close encounters with history, culture, and what’s left of an ancient Jewish community

The singles are not in crisis

Take pride in the engineers, therapists, architects, and all-around thriving community members who rock not being married in a world focused on spouse-finding

Yehuda Nahari, right, portrays Yigal Amir in the movie 'Incitement.' (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Minister slams academy as film on Rabin’s killer set to be Israeli Oscars entry

‘Incitement’ wins best picture at Ophir Awards; Culture Minister Miri Regev, who hasn’t seen it, rips movie for implying Netanyahu helped stir up hatred before 1995 assassination

Tony Shaloub and Alex Borstein accept the award for outstanding supporting actor and actress in a comedy series for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)

Alex Borstein hails Holocaust survivor grandmother in Emmy win for ‘Mrs. Maisel’

By AP and ToI Staff

Steven Skybell (Tevye), center, and ensemble in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's Production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' (Victor Nechay/ProperPix via JTA)

Sunrise, sunset‘Fiddler on the Roof’ in Yiddish makes a match

Muslim pilgrims gather at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on August 7, 2019, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Israel congratulates Saudi Arabia on its 89th national day

By Raphael Ahren

‘We ask God, the exalted, that your efforts to develop, prosper and advance will be successful,’ Foreign Ministry tweets in Arabic

The Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, UAE. (courtesy of The Higher Committee for Human Fraternity)

UAE to open synagogue, part of interfaith compound, in 2022

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a session of parliament to debate his proposed tourism and education ministers, in Tehran, Iran, September 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Rouhani may be willing to meet Trump at UN General Assembly, CNN says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A team photo of the Israeli national baseball team. (Israel Association of Baseball)

In first, Israel qualifies for Olympic games in baseball

By Stuart Winer

National team routs South Africa 11-1, earning a place in Japan, where it will face five other squads at the Tokyo 2020 summer games

Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court stalls Leifer extradition, orders new panel to rule on her mental fitness

Judge forgoes decision on alleged pedophile wanted in Australia, further extending legal process that’s lasted over five years; defense says it’ll petition for her release

Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, right, blows the shofar horn on the bank of the Danube River at a ceremony dedicating two new synagogues and two new Torah scrolls in Budapest, September 22, 2019. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Confident that Jews will fill pews, Hungary’s Chabad opens 2 synagogues in a day

By Yaakov Schwartz

Illustrative: A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto, California, June 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma/File)

Amazon launches Israel site, but won’t spell doom for malls… yet, analysts say

By Shoshanna Solomon

The e-commerce giant’s dedicated site for Israel activates ‘ships locally button’ and includes Israeli stores like Crazy Line, Newpan

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi presents a citation of merit to the family of an IDF officer killed in a failed intelligence operation in the Gaza Strip last year, on September 22, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops honored for rescue mission after failed Gaza raid

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF releases redacted radio chatter from helicopter sent into Khan Younis to evacuate special forces troops caught in firefight with Hamas last year

Woman dies a year after she was injured in Gaza rocket attack

Soldier dies of electrocution in ornamental pool

Soldier seriously injured in accident on base in northern Israel

More Headlines

Borris Johnson (L) and Jennifer Arcuri at the InnoTech Summit in 2013 (Screencapture/YouTube)

British PM under fire for bringing model on work trip to Tel Aviv while mayor

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Efi Nave in Magistrate's Court in Lod, on April 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Police recommend former bar association head stand trial over sex scandal

Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)

Raoul Wallenberg’s family demands Sweden press Russia for news of his fate

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A memorial sign in honor of Joachim Gans, the first known Jew to set foot in North America. (brindleybeach.com)

Memorial erected to Joachim Gans, the first Jew in North America

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Police inspect the scene of a murder in the northern city of Nazareth on September 23, 2019. (Israel Police Spokesperson)

Wave of killings continues as man shot dead in Nazareth

A sedated lioness is pictured in a cage at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity 'Four Paws' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Gaza reopens zoo despite horrifying conditions for animals

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sefy Bililin and her 3-year old daughter Pri'el. (Facebook)

Kiryat Gat kindergarten shuttered after allegedly segregating Ethiopian children

Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018, in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Bad call?US vet: Proposed suicide prevention hotline number glorifies Hitler

Screen capture from video of Katcha, the Israel Tax Authority's champion sniffer dog. (Channel 12)

Smell the moneyIsrael’s world champion dog has nose for illegal cash

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian electrical workers inspect power installations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on June 25, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel begins cutting Palestinian electricity in West Bank, citing debts

By AP and ToI Staff

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