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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 24, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Benny Gantz, right. (Hadas Parush/Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Blue and White, Likud start talks, but can’t even agree who they’re representing

Likud says it’s discussing unity coalition on behalf of right-wing-Orthodox bloc, but Gantz’s envoy says he’s made clear Blue and White is not negotiating with Shas, UTJ and Yamina

Blue and White source: Netanyahu wants elections, not unity – and Gantz knows it

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud, Blue and White teams sit down ahead of 2nd Gantz-Netanyahu-Rivlin meeting

Liberman meets Gantz, says unity government a certainty

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)

Israel media review

Rotate and spin: 6 things to know for September 24

By Joshua Davidovich

Throw four pundits and politicians in a room and you’ll get five ideas for a rotation government, but will any of them stick or is everybody just torquing around?

Lawyers at the Knesset in Jerusalem check votes cast during elections on September 17, in a final review prior to presentation of the results to President Reuven Rivlin, September 23, 2019. (Sue Surkes).

Scores of lawyers still scouring ballots to ensure accurate final result

Mtanes Shihadeh, a member of Balad within the Joint List. (Courtesy of Balad)

Inside story

A brief history of Balad, the renegade Joint List faction that passed on Gantz

The secular Arab nationalist party is opposed to exclusively Jewish statehood, has long courted controversy with members such as Azmi Bishara, Hanin Zoabi and Basel Ghattas

Analysis

7 things to know as Rivlin tries to impose unity coalition on Netanyahu, Gantz

The president had no trouble getting Israel’s two would-be PMs into a room together. Convincing them to sign on to sharing power is a task of a whole different order

From R to L: President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut and Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony for late president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

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)

Gantz, Netanyahu agree to launch unity talks after meeting with Rivlin

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

Despite unity talks, Gantz and Netanyahu assure supporters they’re not shifting

Analysis

With no proper coalition since 2018, Israeli governance is lost in transition

Netanyahu has held caretaker role for 9 months, remaining PM purely by dint of being the last person elected to the job, with diplomatic and military wiggle room legally limited

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, in the Jordan Valley on September 15, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Foreign Minister Israel Katz at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, during a UN climate conference in the city, in late June, 2019. (Courtesy Katz's office)

In New York, Israeli FM talks ‘civilian cooperation’ with an Arab counterpart

By Raphael Ahren

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, center, and US peace envoy Jason Greenblatt, right, meeting at the US Embassy's branch office in Tel Aviv on September 23, 2019. (Courtesy/Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Outgoing Trump peace envoy meets Gantz amid political deadlock

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at a labor rally held by the AFL-CIO for government employees outside the U.S. Capitol September 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates

Pelosi expected to back inquiry as Democratic calls for Trump impeachment grow

By Joshua Davidovich

As president faces fire over Ukraine scandal, 2020 candidates also likely to give cautious support to proceedings, amid worries that drawn out process could help him in long run

6:28 pm

2020 hopefuls give cautious backing to impeachment moves
6:10 pm

More rotation offers than you can shake a hand at
5:53 pm

Deri: I think Netanyahu agreed to rotate premiership

Romy Ronen and Michale Schueler

Why is Columbia giving the Jew-hating Mahathir a stage?

The university’s students, 10,000 of whom are Jewish, have the right to learn in a place where hatred will never be invited in

The club you don’t want to join

When terror leaves a gaping hole of grief, there’s a place we can go to catch our breath, calm down, and try to move on

Gentle waves or a tsunami: what will the New Year bring us?

A devastating diagnosis, a ruinous fire — these can sneak up on you. I know, they struck my loved ones, and here’s what I learned

I pray at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Here’s how we’re coping this Rosh Hashanah.

Nearly a year after the mass shooting, the ’wail’ and ’scream’ of the shofar can be a call to healing and even growth

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, walking along the promenade, arrives for the Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England, September 21, 2019. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

66% of Labourites deny party has problem with anti-Semitism

UK Labour overwhelmingly backs anti-Israel agenda should Corbyn take power

By Robert Philpot

As Palestinian flags fly and ‘Free Palestine’ is chanted, Labour abandons longtime opposition to BDS, appears to back ‘right of return’; Labour Friends of Israel: Another dark day

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, September 23, 2019. (Jason DeCrow/AP)

UK Supreme Court rules Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal

By AP

Riyad H. Mansour (C), The Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, and his delegation members celebrate the results of a vote on Jerusalem at the General Assembly hall, on December 21, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP PHOTO / EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ)

Israelis hold most negative view by far of UN in poll of 32 countries worldwide

With 65% of those Israelis questioned in Pew survey expressing an unfavorable view of the world body, Jewish state surpasses the next nation in line — Russia — by 22 points

File: Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon addresses the United Nations Security Council, at UN headquarters, on January 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

New UN report on combating anti-Semitism warns phenomenon ‘toxic’ to societies

'We hope the exhibit will lead to new clues' on ownership

Art and ethics mingle, as controversial Nazi-era Gurlitt Trove comes to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Long-awaited exhibit of some 100 works of art from the larger collection of Hildebrand Gurlitt, some of which was looted by Hitler regime, goes on display at the Israel Museum

Some 100 artworks from the Gurlitt collection make up the exhibit 'Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove' at the Israel Museum, which opened on September 23, 2019 (Courtesy Jessica Steinberg)

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, daughter of Chaskel Tydor who survived the Auschwitz death camp, presents a shofar used inside Auschwitz during a press conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on September 23, 2019 in New York. (Thomas URBAIN / AFP)

Shofar that survived Auschwitz shown for first time in New York exhibit

By AFP

Former Nazi SS soldier Karl Muenter, convicted of killing 86 civilians in France during World War II, is interviewed by the German broadcaster ARD. (YouTube screenshot)

Convicted Nazi who escaped justice dies in Germany at 96

By David Rising

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, during the former's surprise visit to Amman on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Palace/File)

Jordan’s Abdullah: West Bank annexation would have ‘major impact’ on ties

King assesses Netanyahu’s pledge for Jordan Valley as ‘electioneering,’ warns one-state solution with different laws for Jews would be ‘apartheid’

The Saudi military displays what they say are an Iranian cruise missile and drones used in recent attack on its oil industry at Saudi Aramco's facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais, during a press conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 18, 2019. (Amr Nabil/AP)

Iran’s army chief warns invading forces will be defeated, captured

By ToI Staff and Agencies

General Baqeri says enemies fear attacking his country, so are resorting to economic warfare instead; urges Saudi Arabia, UAE to cooperate

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif smiles as he meets French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian (not seen) on September 22, 2019 in New York City. (Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Iran’s FM: Israel is hitting Iraq’s ‘official military’ in strikes

More Headlines

The Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Vilnius, a hub of Torah study destroyed by Nazis, to get new yeshiva

By JTA

Left to right: Amnon Shashua and Marius Nacht get a letter from Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron and Supervisor of Banks Hedva Ber, saying they will get a license to set up a digital bank in Israel (Courtesy)

Bank of Israel gives nod to tech moguls Nacht, Shashua for new digital bank

By Shoshanna Solomon

Yigal Amir, appearing in court in 2004. (Yoram Rubin/Flash90/File)

Court says prison was entitled to deny Rabin killer’s privileges over phone call

A view of King George Street in downtown Jerusalem on November 26, 2015 (Elon Kenig/Flash90)

Jerusalem gears up to ban high-polluting diesel vehicles from downtown

Israeli police investigate the scene of a shooting attack targeting an Israeli car on a road near the Kohav Hashahar settlement in the West Bank, July 31, 2015. (AFP Photo/ Thomas Coex)

Palestinian gets life sentence for deadly 2015 terror attack

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Alex Borstein accepts the Supporting Actress, Comedy award for 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' onstage during the 71st Emmy Awards, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, on September 22, 2019. (Frederic J. BROWN/AFP)

All the Jewish moments from the 2019 Emmys

By Emily Burack

Kamila Shamsie poses for the photographers ahead of the announcement of the 2009 Orange Book prize for fiction, in London's Royal Festival Hall, June 3, 2009. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)

Writers back UK author stripped of tolerance prize for support of Israel boycott

By JTA

Pictures of past inmates are lined up at the entrace of the former Israeli-run prison of Khiam (Khiyam) on the Lebanese-Israeli border, on September 15, 2019. (JOSEPH EID/AFP)

In Lebanon, return of ‘collaborators’ reopens old wounds

By AFP and ToI Staff

Young Israelis cool off in a stream in the Golan Heights, northern Israel. August 10, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Golan streams closed to hikers after unsafe levels of bacteria found

Illustrative. Israeli soldiers take part in operations in the West Bank. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests 19 Palestinian suspects in overnight West Bank raids

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Jerusalem District Commander, Nissan 'Niso' Shaham, at the district court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018. (Flash90)

Court overturns decision to clear former top cop of sexual harassment

A Cellcom service station in Jerusalem on November 5, 2015 (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Cellcom, Israel’s largest cellphone operator, to cut jobs amid stiff competition

By Shoshanna Solomon

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