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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 26, 2019

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President Reuven Rivlin, right tasks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new government, during a press conference at the President's Residence, in Jerusalem on September 25, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Rivlin tasks Netanyahu with forming next government after unity talks fail

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Likud leader calls for ‘joint leadership’ with Gantz, citing Iran and Trump plan; Blue and White chief rules out coalition with PM facing indictment

Likud ministers say party open to power-share deal with Blue and White

Gantz insists he can’t join government with PM who is facing indictment

Netanyahu said to have agreed to Rivlin-proposed power share deal, Gantz refused

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the President's Residence in Jerusalem after being tasked by President Reuven Rivlin (not in frame) with forming a new government, on September 25, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Explainer

Mission impossible? Why Netanyahu, asked to form a coalition, isn’t smiling

As the president again asks the PM to build a government, 5 months after the last such effort failed, ToI answers 5 key questions on Israel’s increasingly complex political reality

AnalysisBack to square one: New elections loom after Rivlin’s unity bid falls short

By Raoul Wootliff

President Reuven Rivlin, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a press conference to give Netanyahu the mandate to form a new government, held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewJust another manic mandate: 6 things to know for September 26

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech in Tel Aviv to members of his Likud party on September 18, 2019, after elections for the 22nd Knesset. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu calls for unity with Gantz — but won’t ditch right-wing allies

PM rejects Blue and White demand that coalition talks be only between their parties, says whether government will be formed is on his rival: ‘Benny, the ball is now in your hands’

6:29 pm

Blue and White: Netanyahu's call for unity a 'bluff,' he's angling for 3rd elections
6:07 pm

Netanyahu calls for unity with Gantz -- but won't ditch right-wing allies
5:43 pm

Rouhani says Iran will 'of course' talk to US if sanctions are lifted

Blue and White MK Ofer Shelah attends an event by the Women Wage Peace movement in Tel Aviv on September 6, 2019. (Flash90)

Blue and White MK denies pressing Joint List to limit Gantz endorsement

Ofer Shelah says he doesn’t determine who Arab MKs nominate for PM, after Ayman Odeh reveals talks to restrict support and give Netanyahu first crack at building coalition

Left to right: Members of the Joint List party MKs Osama Saadi, Ayman Odeh, Ahmad Tibi and Mansour Abbas arrive for a consultation with President Reuven Rivlin on who he should task with trying to form a new government, in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Joint List leader says Gantz asked party to reduce support in tactical move

Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein (C) speaking to the newly-elected rookie MKs of the 22nd Knesset, September 25, 2019. (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset)

Smallest-ever group of rookie MKs enjoy intimate Knesset induction day

By Raoul Wootliff

President Reuven Rivlin, left, and then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman at a ceremony for outstanding soldiers held as part of Israel's 69th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. May 2, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Op-ed

Did the president contemplate asking Liberman to try to force a unity coalition?

Offering creative ideas to break political deadlock, Rivlin Wednesday urged ‘paritetic’ government and a boosted interim PM role. Did he also consider turning to the kingmaker?

Illustrative: A man watches Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making a speech on television screens at a shop in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2009. (AP/Bernat Armangue/File)

Netanyahu says he wants his pre-indictment hearing broadcast live

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ballots lies on a table during Israel's parliamentary election, at a polling station in Rosh Haayin, on September 17, 2019. (Jack GUEZ/AFP)

Review of polling patterns shows political hookups and breakups in 2nd election

By Tani Goldstein

Reporter's Notebook

Eric Cortellessa

A defiant Malaysian PM defends his anti-Semitism in the name of free speech

At Columbia University, Mahathir Mohamad tries to justify Holocaust denial and Jew hatred, without drawing condemnation from much of the audience

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad pauses during a press conference at Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Screen capture from video of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad during an event at Columbia University, September 25, 2019. (YouTube)

At Columbia, Malaysian leader says Holocaust victim numbers debatable

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: Screen capture from video of a radio station. (YouTube)

Dutch radio show airs caller’s eight-minute rant about Jews

By JTA

Vanessa Abittan during her first appearance on 'Master Chef' (Channel 12 screenshot)

Lawyer: Possibly imprudent for client to sit in TV audience

Winner of Israeli cooking show outed as wife of French fugitive

By Simona Weinglass

Vanessa Abittan, who won ‘Master Chef’ on Saturday, is married to a man convicted in France for ‘swindle of century’

Gilbert Chikli giving an interview in Israel at his Ashdod home, December 29, 2015. (Courtesy of i24 News/ via JTA)

French-Israeli men to stand trial over fake foreign minister scam

By AFP

Israeli security forces guard the scene of a stabbing attack at the Temple Mount's Chain Gate, in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 26, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Female officer lightly wounded in stabbing at Temple Mount

Palestinian man draws knife, attacks cops at holy site’s Chain Gate; police label incident a terror attack

The scene of a stabbing at the Maccabim Junction along Route 443 on September 25, 2019. (United Hatzalah)

Israeli woman stabbed near Modiin; 14-year-old Palestinian arrested

This year, Rosh Hashanah came early for me

My mother never downsized; when she died, that job fell to me, and sorting the remnants of her life and our family history became a physical and spiritual labor of love

Exchanging glances in Jaffa

He’s secretly making a list of all the ways she would never fit into his life; the daunting distance between them, between Arab and Jew

A creepy abusive Jewish day school teacher? I’m not surprised

The sickening news that a New York principal was arrested for child porn brought me back to my own junior high experiences — and not in a good way

Tibi’s revisionist strategy: Palestinians as ‘masters of the land’

If Arab List MKs want to advance Palestinian national aspirations, despite their voters’ wishes, they should do so outside the Knesset

House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Co-Chairman Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y. speaks during a hearing on "meeting the challenge of white nationalist terrorism at home and abroad" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Analysis

Why these Jewish lawmakers’ calls for impeachment are a big deal

Dramatic switch by swing district Democrats who are veterans of national security community signals how much the political climate has changed in the last week

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is right. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump dismisses grounds for his impeachment as ‘a joke’

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks at a multilateral meeting on Venezuela at the InterContinental New York Barclay hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, September 25, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Transcript shows Trump prodded Ukraine leader to probe Biden

By Zeke Miller and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Director Joseph Cedar, left, discusses his new HBO series 'Our Boys' with host Seffi Kogen on AJC/Times of Israel's 'People of the Pod.' (AJC/ Michael Priest Photography)

Reporter's notebook

Director Cedar says PM calling ‘Our Boys’ anti-Semitic is ‘cynical and harmful’

By Jordan Hoffman

A post on a Facebook page connected to Fatah of Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist who participated in a terrorist attack near Tel Aviv in 1978, which resulted in the death of 38 Israelis including children. (Credit: Palestinian Media Watch)

Fatah Facebook page goes offline as group launches campaign to take it down

Editor says he and his staff temporarily deactivated the page amid concern the social media giant will close it over complaints

This image aired by Channel 12 news on September 25, 2019, shows what the network said was a makeshift rocket made by Islamic Jihad operatives before their capture by Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank city of Tulkarem. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Islamic Jihad seeking to build rockets in West Bank – report

Illustrative photo of a prisoner making a phone call at the Israeli Prison Service, Gilboa Prison, February 28, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Hamas security prisoners call off hunger strike, prison service says

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a conference in Netanya on March 18, 2019. (Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief: We’ve jeopardized national security by admitting to Syria strikes

In apparent dig at Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot says abandoning longstanding policy of ambiguity regarding Israeli operations in neighboring countries is a ‘serious error’

Then-Iranian president Hassan Rouhani addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 25, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

At UN, Rouhani accuses US of ‘merciless economic terrorism,’ condemns peace plan

By AP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazzaa al Mansouri, centre, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, bottom, and US astronaut Jessica Meir, top, members of the main crew to the International Space Station (ISS), board the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft for the launch at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, September 25, 2019. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP)

Jewish, Arab astronauts blast off for International Space Station

Screen capture from video of a man demonstrating the 'OK' hand gesture. (YouTube)

‘OK’ hand gesture declared a white supremacy hate symbol by watchdog

By Michael Kunzelman

Bound civilians are placed on flights only in extreme cases, when they become violent and pose a threat to themselves or others, an official with the Population and Immigration Authority says (Illustrative. Roy Alima/Flash90)

Passenger says Israel deporting migrants to Egypt on commercial flights

By Tani Goldstein

Holocaust survivors Morris Sana and Simon Mairowitz reunite in Tel Aviv 75 years after being separated (Screencapture/People via JTA)

Holocaust survivors reunite in Israel after 75 years

By JTA

Jeffrey Tambor, right, with Judith Light in the second season of 'Transparent.' (Courtesy of Amazon Studios)

So long, farewellPioneering show ‘Transparent’ takes final musical bow

By Thomas URBAIN

Illustrative: Local Jewish communities in the Bay Area show their support for the LGBTQ community at the San Francisco pride parade. (Daniel Dreifuss/Flash 90/File)

Yeshiva University Democrats Club loses official status after LGBTQ advocacy

By JTA

Ariel Gomez, a systems engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries, works on the Popstar system at Israel Aerospace Industries, in the town of Yehud, September 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

As attack drones multiply, Israeli firms develop defenses

By Ilan Ben Zion

Tourists look at the view of the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount from the lookout of the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, on October 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Record number of tourists came to Israel over past year — ministry

By Stuart Winer

In this handout photo provided by the House of Commons, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks in Parliament in London, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (House of Commons via AP)

Unrepentant Boris Johnson faces the raucous Parliament he thought he’d suspended

By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless

Illustrative: Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan, left, US envoy for combating anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, center, and director of the European Jewish Association Mencahem Magolin presenting a report on BDS in Brusels, Belgium on September 25, 2019 (Yonni Rykner)

Israel, US urge EU to take action against ‘anti-Semitic’ boycott movement

Part of a hand-drawn map by former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, dating from 1993 during Oslo Accords peace negotiations, that was put up for auction, September 26, 2019. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

Rabin’s hand-drawn map from 1993 peace talks up for auction

By Stuart Winer

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

Egypt NGOs say up to 1,900 detained after anti-Sissi protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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