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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 22, 2019

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Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaking to reporters in his car, next to his home in Rosh Ha'ayin, on October 22, 2019 (Screenshot: Twitter)

Can he do what Netanyahu failed to do and muster a majority?

Gantz ‘optimistic’ as he awaits formal mandate from president to form government

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

After PM gives up, Blue and White leader will be first person in decade other than Netanyahu to try building coalition; Shaked: New Right will only negotiate as part of PM’s bloc

AnalysisHe’s in control now, but Gantz’s coalition chances no better than Netanyahu’s

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz carries a Torah scroll as he dances during Simchat Torah celebrations in the central Israeli village of Kfar Chabad, October 21, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

After Netanyahu can’t form coalition, Blue and White ‘determined’ to get it done

Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz carries a Torah scroll as he dance during Simhat Torah celebrations in Kfar Chabad, on October 21, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel media review

Benny at the bat: 7 things to know for October 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu passes the mandate back; Blue and White chief Gantz is seen as having no better chance than PM at forming a government, though he will give it a try

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 25, 2019, when Rivlin tapped Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90

Netanyahu tells president he can’t form government; now it’s Gantz’s turn to try

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly government conference, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Netanyahu’s legal fate deliberated, TV report asks if his status has changed

Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Gili Yaari, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Poll: Third elections won’t break Israel’s political deadlock

Results of TV survey indicate fresh vote would have little impact on makeup of Knesset, with both Gantz and Netanyahu still having no clear path to coalition

6:24 pm

British MPs give preliminary approval to Johnson's Brexit deal
6:10 pm

UN: Over 176,000 displaced by Turkish offensive in Syria
5:43 pm

Turkey, Russia reach deal on Syrian Kurdish withdrawal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral service for former president of the Supreme Court Meir Shamgar at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 22, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

At Shamgar farewell, PM says amending role of Supreme Court is part of democracy

Netanyahu stresses that top court, whose powers he’s sought to curb, must stay independent; president, current chief justice also eulogize revered justice

The SSCV Thialf crane vessel laying a foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field, January 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

Scientists: Noble Energy ‘grossly underestimates’ gas pollution threat to Israel

Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a gun safety forum Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Buttigieg: US aid should be used as ‘leverage’ to change Israeli policies

By Eric Cortellessa

2020 Democratic hopeful says he wouldn’t let Washington ‘foot the bill’ if Jerusalem annexes West Bank settlements

Maj. Gen. Nadav Padan, Head of the IDF Central Command, at a protest by Yitzhar residents in support of IDF soldiers at the entrance to the Samaria Brigade, October 20, 2019, following the assault on IDF soldiers in the settlement of Yitzhar during the night. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Yitzhar leadership cut ties with IDF before recent clashes – report

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by as masked Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian protesters (unseen) gathering during a demonstration against construction on an Israeli outpost near the Palestinian village of Turmusaya and the settlement of Shilo, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 17, 2019. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/ AFP/ File)

In 2nd attack in less than 48 hours, settlers throw rocks at troops near Yitzhar

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

When it comes to climate change, Israel must be the regional leader

Neighboring countries are unable to combat the ill effects of rising temperatures, and their expected instability endangers Israel

Israel’s violence syndrome

Rising attacks with the explicit or implicit collusion of the authorities are yet another sign of the retreat of Israel’s democratic vigor

From the blogs

Clifford M. J. Felig

Justice Meir Shamgar: A life dedicated to the rule of law

The late former Supreme Court president upheld the primacy of law even when his personal sympathies lay elsewhere

'This is living history and it has to be told'

Knitters worldwide recreate sweater worn by girl who survived Holocaust in sewer

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Washington anesthesiologist and expert knitter Lea Stern ‘reverse engineers’ pattern of fragile artifact in hidden children collection at US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, February 28, 2019. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Spielberg says childhood anti-Semitism made him ‘ashamed of being Jewish’

By Stuart Winer

Anti-government protesters shout slogans against the Lebanese government during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, October 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon’s government approves sweeping reforms amid mass protests

In bid to appease demonstrators, Lebanese PM announces no new tax hikes in 2020 budget, agrees to slash salaries of top officials and take other cost-cutting measures

Lebanese demonstrators take part in a protest against dire economic conditions in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon on October 21, 2019. (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon’s Hezbollah under rare pressure as street protesters dig in

Women wave signs reading "leave" in Arabic and showing the faces of Lebanon's President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, during a protest outside the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, on October 18, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Lebanon’s decades-old political class under fire in protests

By AFP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, listens to US President Donald Trump, left, speak during a Cabinet meeting in the White House, October 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pompeo says US still ‘fully prepared’ to take military action in Middle East

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Asked about Turkey’s invasion of Syrian Kurdistan, US secretary of state says Washington has fulfilled its commitments to Kurds, but ‘interests remain’ in region

Trump says some US troops staying in Syria after requests from Israel, Jordan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘America is running away’: Residents of Syrian city pelt departing US troops

By LEFTERIS PITARAKIS and Lolita C. Baldor

Erdogan warns Syria offensive will resume unless Kurds complete pullout

By AFP

Illustrative photo of cash, October 20, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel has 131,000 millionaires, and its wealth is growing quickly, report finds

Jewish state ranks 23rd worldwide in total number of wealthy people, and Israelis gained more assets in the past year than the citizens of almost any other country

Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman attends a conference of the Israel Keren Hayesod foundation in Moscow, Russia, on September 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

Russian Jewish tycoon grilled by Spain’s top court for alleged ‘corporate raid’

By Laurence BOUTREUX

Palestinians take part in a protest calling for a lift of the sanctions on the Gaza Strip, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 23, 2018. (AFP/ ABBAS MOMANI)

PA court orders dozens of social media pages and news sites blocked

Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Hamas terror group and others unleash fierce criticism against decision; Ramallah government calls for order to be reversed

Illustrative: A man passes a Facebook screen at the Gamescom gathering in Cologne, Germany, August 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Facebook removes Iran, Russia networks trying to disrupt US 2020 and other votes

By AP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

US astronauts Jessica Meir, left, and Christina Koch, right, pose for a photo in the International Space Station, October 18, 2019. (NASA via AP)

All-female spacewalk duo set sights on Moon

By AFP and ToI Staff

The scene of a deadly car crash on Route 6 near Ben Shemen, October 19, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Newborn baby dies days after car crash that killed mother, sister

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, accompanied by his youngest son Hadrien Trudeau, waits in line to cast his vote on election day at a polling station on October 21, 2019 in Montreal, Canada. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP)

Trudeau’s Liberals win Canada elections, will form minority government

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Palestinian rioters clash with police in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, October 5, 2015. (Flash90)

East Jerusalem man seriously injured by Molotov cocktail thrown at police

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: An ambulance outside the Soroka hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, December 23, 2013. (Flash90)

Palestinian suspected of injuring Israeli baby in his care

PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meeting on October 21, 2019 in Tokyo. (Credit: Wafa)

Abbas meets Japan’s Abe in Tokyo ahead of new emperor’s enthronement

Illustrative: Students on the University of Haifa campus, April 11, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Brain gain bid seeks to double number of international students in Israel

PM Netanyahu, left, with Russian President Putin in Sochi, Russia, September 12, 2019 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu, Putin discuss pardon for Israeli jailed on drug charges

Pro-Brexit campaigners stand under umbrellas with their placards outside the Houses of Parliament in London, October 21, 2019. (Alastair Grant/AP)

UK’s Johnson prepares push to heave Brexit bill over line

By DANICA KIRKA and LORNE COOK

A WeWork office in New York City, July 19, 2019. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP)

SoftBank ready to take control of WeWork with $10 billion proposal

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Israeli man being removed from a flight by Sicily police after he demanded to be seated near his son, in undated footage released on October 21, 2019. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Israeli man removed from plane after demanding to be seated near his son

A pleasure boat carrying tourists and locals sails in the Nile River at sunset in Aswan, Egypt, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Egyptian media urges military action against Ethiopia as Nile talks break down

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