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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 2, 2019

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'When we're done, there'll be no choice but to close case'

Netanyahu lawyers project confidence as pre-indictment hearing begins

Arriving at Justice Ministry, PM’s attorneys say they have new evidence, and there are ‘solid grounds’ for reconsidering the allegations in trio of criminal probes

Israel media reviewHear O Avichai: 6 things to know for October 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Over half of Israelis oppose plea bargain for Netanyahu, poll finds

As Netanyahu’s hearing set to begin, defense team bids to nullify charge sheet

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at Neve Ilan, west of Jerusalem, on September 22, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Liberman will ‘make own offer’ to PM and Gantz if no breakthrough by Yom Kippur

Kingmaker vows to try to bridge the gap between the sides; his Yisrael Beytenu party says a third election is ‘last thing’ Israel needs

Netanyahu meets right-wing partners, blames political logjam on Blue and White

Gantz cancels Wednesday meet with Netanyahu: ‘Likud not acting in good faith’

For PM, Wednesday sees both political and criminal woes come to a head

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

Alleged serial pedophile Malka Leifer ordered released to house arrest

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Jerusalem court agrees to delay until Friday release of woman whom lawyers argue is mentally unfit for extradition to Australia

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, September 17, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei: We’ll further breach nuke deal until we get ‘desired results’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian supreme leader doesn’t specify what additional steps Tehran may take to violate accord, says US ‘maximum pressure’ campaign has failed

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference, in New York, September 26, 2019. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

Rouhani blames Trump for failure of French nuclear compromise efforts in NY

By ToI Staff and Agencies

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speak after a meeting at the United Nations headquarters on September 23, 2019, in New York. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

Report: Trump, Rouhani agreed to a French detente plan before Iran leader bolted

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney Ram Caspi arrives at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem for a pre-indictment hearing on the prime minister's corruption investigations, on October 2, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

First day of Netanyahu pre-indictment hearings wrap up after 11 hours

PM not present at deliberations, which included top law enforcement officials; Wednesday’s hearing concerned Case 4000 probe into ties with Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch

6:59 pm

UK PM set to suspend parliament October 8-14
6:41 pm

First day of Netanyahu pre-indictment hearing wraps up after 11 hours
6:28 pm

Israeli cycling group acquires defunct Russian team's World Tour spot

From the blogs

Epstein tainted my Wexner-funded rabbinical studies. Here’s how I’m repenting

I’m ’paying it forward’ to help empower young women. All Jewish orgs that received Epstein’s dirty money should do the same

The Yom Kippur list of martyrs has 11 new names

A new memorial volume out of Pittsburgh includes the ’rapid-response’ prayer I could barely bring myself to write, after the horrific Tree of Life attack

Go with the Arabs, Gantz

Nobody thinks bringing the Joint List into government is without challenge, but it’s courageous and practical, as blackballing Arab Israelis is not sustainable

Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US, Princess Reema Bandar Al Saud (screenshot: YouTube)

In first, Saudi envoy in Washington sends Rosh Hashanah greeting to US Jews

Ambassador Reema Bandar Al Saud wishes ‘a happy and sweet new year’ in card decorated with honey, apples and pomegranates

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)

Joint List to boycott Knesset swearing-in over violence in Arab communities

Move is part of general strike planned in Arab towns Thursday over wave of murders, with leaders blaming police and government neglect for the rise in crime

A view of the Galilee Arab town of Majd al-Krum (YouTube screenshot)

Two brothers killed, two other men injured in brawl in northern Arab town

US President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he tours a section of the southern border wall, September 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, California. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump suggested shooting migrants in legs, alligator-filled border moat – report

NY Times says US president ordered the entire frontier with Mexico be sealed off by the next day, berated aides who pushed back

President Donald Trump stops to take a question from NBC Chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson, right, as he departs a ceremonial swearing in ceremony for new Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Trump alleges Democratic ‘coup’ as impeachment standoff intensifies

By AP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks after meeting Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in Rome, October 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pompeo confirms he was on Trump’s call with Ukrainian leader

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force commander, Qassam Soleimani, in an Iranian TV interview, October 1, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)

Iran’s Soleimani claims he and Nasrallah barely escaped Israeli air raid in 2006

By ToI Staff and AFP

IRGC’s Quds Force chief gives rare interview, seen as aiming to position himself at head of Iranian hierarchy alongside Khamenei

Top Iranian general claims Tehran ‘defeated’ US before the world

Iran convicts 4 of spying for US and Britain, sentences one to death

By AFP

Iran court jails Rouhani’s brother for 5 years for corruption

By AFP

A woman offering innovative food products to attendees of the FoodTechIL event in Tel Aviv, September 23, 2019. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Fruit fly fillet? Startups strut their alternative proteins at food tech fair

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Members of the the restored Synagogue of Barcelona assist at the welcoming of a new torah in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, January 22, 2006. (AP/Manu Fernandez)

Over 132,000 Sephardic Jews apply for Spanish citizenship as offer expires

By AFP

Deadline passes after four years as Madrid seeks to address ‘historic mistake’ of exile of community in 1492; 3,000 Israelis among applicants

More Headlines

A British teenager (L), accused of falsely claiming she was gang raped by Israeli tourists, covering her face as she arrives for her trial at the Famagusta District Court in Paralimni in eastern Cyprus, October 2, 2019. (Iakovos HATZISTAVROU/AFP)

Cyprus trial opens for UK tourist who recanted rape accusation against Israelis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ronnie Peterson plays at concert in the Jordan Valley on April 6, 2009. (Matanya Tausig/ Flash90)

Burial of acclaimed Israeli guitarist proves difficult due to his non-Jewishness

Eritrean asylum seekers outside the Holot detention facility in southern Israel, January 29, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu says he discussed deportation of Eritreans with Ethiopian PM

By Raphael Ahren

Protesters clash with an Iraqi riot police vehicle during a demonstration against state corruption and poor services, between the capital Baghdad's Tahrir Square and the high-security Green Zone district, on October 1, 2019. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Two killed, hundreds injured in clashes at anti-government protests in Iraq

By KHALID MOHAMMED and Hadi Mizban

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Zuckerberg says he will ‘go to the mat’ to fight breakup of Facebook

By AFP

Jerry Seinfeld attends the 'Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee,' photo call at The Paley Center for Media, in Beverly Hills, California, July 17, 2019. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Green lightSeinfeld wins ‘Comedians in Cars’ lawsuit

By Stuart Winer

Samer Arbid, the suspected ringleader of a terror cell believed to be behind a deadly bombing attack that killed Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb in August 2019, in an undated photograph. (Twitter)

PA seeks to examine terror suspect in critical condition after interrogation

Israeli soccer player Manor Solomon, center right, scores the winning goal for his Ukrainian team Shakhtar Donetsk during the Champions League group C soccer match between Italy's Atalanta and Shakhtar Donetsk at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, October 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Israeli scores winning goal in European Champions League soccer game

By DANIELLA MATAR

A man carves pastrami at Katz's Delicatessen in New York, Thursday, May 11, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)

How risky is eating red meat? New studies cook up controversy

By Candice Choi

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Construction worker killed at Ashkelon building site, in 35th case this year

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