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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 3, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Likud candidate Gideon Sa'ar as he arrives for a Likud faction meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM quoted telling Likud: I'm putting myself up for election

Netanyahu mulls snap Likud leadership primary; Sa’ar signals he’ll challenge him

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud: Move aims to quell talk of a coup in the party amid electoral deadlock preventing coalition; party rival Sa’ar, in first internal threat to Netanyahu for years: I’m ready

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein arrive for a joint event of the Knesset and the US Congress, celebrating 50 years since Jerusalem's reunification, at the Chagall state hall in the Knesset, on June 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Edelstein: Netanyahu prepared to take leave of absence if indicted

Rafi Peretz, left, Bezalel Smotrich, center, and Ayelet Shaked, right, at the Yamina party headquarters on election night in Ramat Gan, September 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Report: PM’s allies refuse to declare they’ll back him right up to new election

Blue and White party leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid at a faction meeting at the opening of the 22nd Knesset, on October 03, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lapid announces he’ll give up PM-rotation deal for sake of unity government

By Raoul Wootliff

Accusing Netanyahu of pushing for 3rd elections, Blue and White No. 2 says ‘It’s far more important to me that there be unity in the country’; Liberman hails Lapid’s ‘noble step’

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein speaks to new lawmakers ahead of the swearing-in ceremony for the 21st Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Edelstein to remain interim Knesset speaker until new government sworn in

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorneys arrive at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem for a pre-indictment hearing on October 3, 2019. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Second day of Netanyahu pre-indictment hearings finishes after 11 hours

Deliberations between PM’s lawyers and prosecutors take place as he’s sworn into the new Knesset; next week’s hearings to focus on Cases 1000 and 2000

6:30 pm

IDF nabs 2 Gazans with knife near border fence
6:22 pm

Day 2 of Netanyahu pre-indictment hearings finishes after 11 hours
6:09 pm

Israel's envoy to Australia recognizes discomfort made by court decision to release Leifer

Explainer

Ambition revealed, ambition stalled, but still no path to new Israeli coalition

Netanyahu faces a rival challenge, Lapid puts aside his prime ministerial hopes, but a great deal still hinges on another would-be PM: Avigdor Liberman

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the opening of the 22nd Knesset, on October 3, 2019. Next to him is then-justice minister Amir Ohana with one of his children. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Preparations for the opening of the 22nd Israeli parliament session, October 02, 2019 (FLASH90)

22nd Knesset sworn in under shadow of possible 3rd elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Preparations for the opening of the 22nd Israeli parliament session, October 02, 2019 (FLASH90)

Israel media reviewPomp and circumstance: 7 things to know for October 3

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legal team, including attorney Yossi Ashkenazi, center, arrive at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem for the hearing on the corruption cases in which Netanyahu is a suspect, on October 3, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu legal team’s pre-indictment hearing with AG resumes for second day

Defense lawyers for PM predict they will need many hours to finish presenting their arguments in Case 4000, the most serious of the three cases against him

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)

On 1st day of hearing, PM’s defense presents hundreds of pages of ‘new evidence’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and incoming Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (left) hold a press conference in the Knesset on May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu-Liberman unity talks get nowhere, end after only an hour

One of the suspects (R) in the murder of Dvir Sorek after being arrested by the Border Police and IDF in the West Bank on August 10, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Terror suspects charged with August slaying of teen student

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF prosecutors accuse 5 Palestinian men of forming Hamas cell to kill Dvir Sorek, carry out other attacks against Israelis

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

Senior member of terror group allegedly behind deadly Dolev bombing arrested

By Judah Ari Gross

Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)

Iran says it foiled ‘Israel-Arab’ plot to assassinate top military commander

Three arrested in plan that allegedly involved blowing up Qassem Soleimani during a memorial service for his father

This satellite image made available October 3, 2019, shows two Iranian-flagged tankers, the Adrian Darya 1 and the Jasmine, with mooring lines tethering the two tankers together and a deployed crane on the starboard side of the Adrian Darya 1 off the coast of Syria. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Satellite images show activity around Iranian-flagged tanker off Syria

By Elena Becatoros

Sigal P. Mandelker, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the US Treasury in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

US Treasury official who oversaw Iran sanctions steps down for private sector

One Jewess, many hats

A small headband? A bulky turban-esque scarf? How much hair should I show? Can I wear pants? Should I ditch it entirely?

Words, words, words

Which of all the many words will I pass on and teach well to my grandchildren? Listen. Love. Remember. Celebrate.

Peter Buchsbaum

How I became Jewish … again

I was secular, uninvolved in Judaism and had married a non-Jew. Then I enlisted in the US army and discovered Shabbat

’We are Jewish on both sides of our family’

An Ethiopian mother in Israel worries about those who remain in Ethiopia: ’Please bring us our family. If something bad happens, they are alone with no one left to help them.’

The doors of the Tree of Life synagogue feature memorials surrounding the building nearly a year after the attack there that killed 11 worshipers (Grace Yagel via JTA)

In Pittsburgh a year later, the shofar-blower is dead and the shul is shuttered

A protester wearing an Iraqi national flag as a bandana face mask stands during clashes between protesters and riot police amidst demonstrations against state corruption, failing public services, and unemployment, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad's central Tahrir Square on October 3, 2019. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)

Iraq death toll rises to 18 as protests spread across south

By Ahmed al-Rubaye

Defying curfew, demonstrators gather in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square; major network operators intentionally shut off internet access as protesters rally against unemployment, corruption

Anti-government protesters chant slogans against the regime in Cairo, Egypt, September 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Israeli firm traces cyberattacks on Egyptian activists to Cairo government

Ali Asghar Mounesan (C), Iran's Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, speaks to journalists while viewing Achaemenid-era clay tablets on display at Iran's National Museum in the capital Tehran on October 2, 2019 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran displays ancient clay tablets, returned by US, from empire that freed Jews

By AFP and ToI Staff

Taboola CEO Adam Singolda (Screenshot)

Content discovery startups Outbrain, Taboola to merge into $2b company

By Shoshanna Solomon

New entity will be led by Taboola founder Adam Singolda; Outbrain shareholders to get $250 million in cash and a 30% stake in combined firm

Illustrative image of a handshake (iStock by Getty Images)

Private equity firm CVC said set to buy 25% stake in ad tech firm ironSource

By Shoshanna Solomon

A researcher working in the lab of Kadimastem in Ness Ziona (Hagit Stavinsky)

Early clinical trial for ALS sufferers shows biotech firm ‘on the right track’

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Louise Ellman resigned from the Labour party due to systemic antisemitism within the party. (Courtesy)

Jewish MP who criticized Corbyn faces Labour no confidence motion on Yom Kippur

Vandals break the windows of the Rivnitz synagogue in Brooklyn during Rosh Hashanah services on September 30, 2019. Screen capture: Williamsburg News)

Vandals smash windows of Brooklyn synagogue during Rosh Hashanah prayers

By JTA

In this photo taken on July 25, 2019 Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks on stage during a Town Hall event at the Aratani Theater in Los Angeles, California. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

Bernie Sanders undergoes heart procedure, cancels campaign events

By AP

Demi Lovato arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 20, 2018, in Las Vegas. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Sorry not sorryDemi Lovato apologizes after visiting, praising Israel

Illustrative: Actor Kevin Spacey attends a pretrial hearing at district court in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on June 3, 2019. (Steven Senne/AP)

The usual supsectActor Kevin Spacey spotted out and about in Tel Aviv

By ToI Staff and Agencies

MK Yair Golan of the Democratic Camp party during a tour of the Knesset, September 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Incoming MK Yair Golan again compares right-wing to Nazis, drawing ire

Meir Gorodetsky is released from jail on October 2, 2019 (courtesy of Center for Women's Justice)

Longest-jailed Israeli divorce-refuser freed after 19 years

By Marissa Newman

Hadassa Goldvicht's whale installed at the National Library of Israel's new exhibit, which opened September 2019 (Courtesy National Library of Israel)

Belly of the beastNational Library offers visitors a whale of a time

By Jessica Steinberg

Thousands attend funeral of Ahmed Manaa, 36, and his brother Halil Manaa, 23, in Majd al-Krum, October 2, 2019 (Screen grab via Twitter)

Thousands attend funeral of two brothers killed in brawl in northern Arab town

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff answer questions at a news conference in Washington, Oct. 2, 2019. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump accuses Democrat Schiff of fraud and treason, calls for his arrest

Sheldon Adelson with his wife Miriam at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas, February 24, 2017. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/via JTA)

Sheldon Adelson ordered to pay damages to Jewish Democratic group

By JTA

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the 2019 Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow, on October 2, 2019. (Aleksey Nikolskyi / Sputnik / AFP)

Putin says no evidence Iran behind attack on Saudi oil facilities

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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