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What Matters Most On Monday, February 10, 2020

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A Likud party supporter holds a campaign poster featuring then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on April 7, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'I've never seen a leak as incompetent and damaging as this'

In vast breach, Likud campaign leaks ID, phones, addresses of all Israeli adults

Elections Committee hears urgent petition to bar use of database of all 6.5 million voters, including info on political leanings, after the data was exposed online

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman addressing a briefing hosted by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 9, 2020 (Reouven Ben Haim/JCPA)

US envoy explains deal’s asymmetry: We trust Israel, but PA can’t keep a bargain

By Raphael Ahren

Why does Trump’s plan allow the Israelis to annex soon but have a Palestinian state only arise in four years? To ‘bridge the asymmetry’ between the two sides, David Friedman says

Settler leaders call on PM to ‘put US in its place,’ swiftly annex W. Bank land

Criticism of US Mideast peace plan softened in United Nations draft resolution

By AFP

Thousands rally in Morocco and Tunisia against Trump Mideast peace plan

By AFP

Faisal al-Qassem (Screen capture: YouTube)

Al Jazeera host calls Israel most successful project in 120 years; drama ensues

Faisal al-Qassem’s Arabic tweet garners critical responses, but huge majority responding to poll on his Twitter feed then seem to agree; IDF spokesmen and Netanyahu hail him

Jewish stars Natalie Portman, Taika Waititi, and Timothée Chalamet pose in the press room during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards (Photo by Steve Granitz/ WireImage/via JTA)

Taika Waititi’s big win & 5 other Jewish moments from the 2020 Oscars

By Emily Burack

Despite the snub for Adam Sandler’s role in ‘Uncut Gems,’ this year’s Academy Awards were chock-full of Chosen People presenting and receiving golden statues

Fashion statementNatalie Portman uses Oscar gown to send a message

‘Parasite’ makes Oscars history with stunning best picture win

By Andrew MARSZAL

Adam Sandler laughs off Oscars snub after Spirit Award best actor win

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: An Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran’s Semnan province, February 9, 2020. (Screenshot, IRIB via AP)

Iran’s space program fails to put satellite into orbit; Netanyahu celebrates

By AP and ToI Staff

Spacecraft falls short of orbital speed; prime minister says Israel also causing Tehran to fail in Syria, Lebanon, sparking some speculation he’s hinting at involvement

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, left, meets with then US Defense Secretary Mark Esper in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020. (US Department of Defense)

Bennett: US agreed to counter Iran in Iraq while Israel fights it in Syria

By Nati Yefet and Judah Ari Gross

File: The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations executive vice chair Malcolm Hoenlein (R) and CEO William Daroff at The Times of Israel offices in Jerusalem. (Times of Israel)

ToI Podcast Interview

LISTEN: ‘People are afraid,’ says Hoenlein, as anti-Semitism changes US Jewry

By Raoul Wootliff

Leaders of umbrella Jewish group warns US Jews are facing a reckoning: ‘It’s the end of the age of innocence for American Jewry’

German comedian Atze Schroeder during the "Markus Lanz" television talk show on Feb. 5, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany, during whcih he apologized to Auschwitz survivor Eva Szepesi for his father's Nazi service. (Tristar Media/Getty Images via JTA)

Neo-Nazis assail German comedian who apologized for father’s wartime crimes

By Toby Axelrod

Illustrative: Participants celebrate Tu B'Shvat at a Wilderness Torah/JeWitch Collective event outside of San Francisco on February 9, 2020. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Analysis

On New Year for trees, Jews and pagans go forest bathing to honor earthly roots

A Tu Bishvat event outside of San Francisco jointly celebrated by Wilderness Torah and JeWitch Collective focuses on power of fire and native knowledge

Several species of trees line Ben Gurion Boulevard. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Trees in Israel poorly protected, says new report issued for Tu Bishvat

Analysis

This Tu BiShvat, don’t plant a tree in Israel

KKL-JNF’s pine forests have done more harm than good: they contribute to climate change and disrupt Israel’s unique biodiversity

BlogAre you afraid of Corona or of China?

By Adi Weitzhandler

BlogTu BiShvat: Protecting tradition in modern observance

By Yuval Cherlow

The anti-Semites have made the ultra-Orthodox visible

Hasidim would do well to join forces with America’s non-Orthodox Jews, instead of holding themselves apart

Israel needs to preserve its trees, not just plant new ones

Millions of trees, so painstakingly and lovingly planted, are in danger of turning into apartment complexes and asphalt roads

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seen at what was said to be a missile test site at an undisclosed location in North Korea, May 15, 2017. (KRT via AP Video)

Live updates (closed)

UN says North Korea enhanced its nuclear, missile programs in 2019 — report

By Michael Bachner

Confidential report said to conclude Pyongyang breached United Nations sanctions, also illicitly imported refined petroleum, exported coal

7:17 pm

No casualties reported in explosion targeting US troops in Iraq
7:09 pm

North Korea enhanced its nuclear, missile programs in 2019 -- report
6:35 pm

Netanyahu's office denies he will tap Barkat as finance minister

In this February 4, 2020, photo taken by a passenger, medical workers in protective suits walk on the cruise ship Diamond Princess anchored off Yokohama, south of Tokyo (@daxa_tw via AP)

Israeli with fever on ship off Japan coast suspected of contracting coronavirus

By ToI Staff and AFP

Number of infected passengers and crew on Diamond Princess now around 130; China says 908 people have died of the virus on the mainland and over 40,170 have been infected

Members of Japan Self Defense Forces walk into the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess in the Yokohama Port, Feb. 9, 2020, in Yokohama, Japan (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan said to find 60 more virus cases on cruise ship with Israeli passengers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, left, and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman visit medical personnel at Ben Gurion International Airport following reports about the deadly coronavirus, February 02, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Health Ministry advises against travel to much of East Asia over virus fears

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Isaac Herzog (2R) and Hagit Cohen-Hamo (R), mother of Ori Hamond, the lone soldier from San Diego injured in a ramming attack in Jerusalem on Feb. 6, plant a tree the following day with students at the San Diego Jewish Academy where Ori attended before making aliyah and where his mother teaches Hebrew. (Mark Garcia via JTA)

Lone soldier from San Diego was among 12 injured in Jerusalem car-ramming attack

Ori Hamond made aliyah last year as part of the Israeli Scouts movement and joined the IDF in November; he remains hospitalized in Jerusalem

Firebrand Arab Israeli cleric sentenced to 28 months for inciting terrorism

After rocket fired into Israel, aircraft strike Hamas targets in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Israel accused of torturing Palestinian suspects in bombing that killed teen

Then-Supreme Court justice Anat Baron on March 8, 2017 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Judge who backed Yazbak’s candidacy lost a son in 2003 terror attack

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

‘The temptation to rule according to one’s feelings is powerful’ but must not win out, writes Justice Baron in vote to let Joint List MK run despite her alleged support for terror

MK Heba Yazbak of the Ra'am-Balad party holds a press conference in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Overturning Knesset decision, court narrowly okays candidacy of Joint List MK

Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during the Central Elections Committee discussion of requests to disqualify Joint List party candidate Heba Yazbak from running in the upcoming Knesset elections on January 29, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewOne man’s terror backer is another party’s MK: 6 things to know for February 10

Berlin identity card dated October 1943 found by Ariana Neumann as a girl. It had a photo of her father Hans Neumann as a young man on it, but the name stated was Jan Šebesta. (Courtesy of Ariana Neumann)

Author interview

With clues from mysterious box, daughter solves puzzle of father’s WWII survival

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Eliezer Berland arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem, on February 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

21 cases, 200 witnesses: Berland to remain jailed over miracles-for-cash con

By Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 9, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

Ministers vote to investigate police internal investigations, overriding AG

Wire-mesh half pipe reflector of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope reflects feeds radio signals to the telescope’s antennas located at the focus line at the center of the half pipe (Wikimedia/Creative Commons)

Don't touch that dialScientists find radio waves from space pulsing in 16-day pattern

By Stuart Winer

The Israeli city of Nazareth is in Palestine, according to this sign in Eindohven, the Netherlands. (Google Maps via JTA)

Dutch city to keep street signs identifying Israeli cities as being in Palestine

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Naftali Bennett (left) and Aryeh Deri (center) with Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (right) ahead of Yosef's daughter's wedding, on June 2, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

Yamina apologizes after Bennett says Haredim will accept any policy for money

By ToI Staff and Nati Yefet

Illustrative: A cancer patient and a perfusion drip. (CIPhotos, iStock by Getty Images)

Startup develops blood test that aims to undermine tumors’ resilience

By Shoshanna Solomon

Members of the Falash Mura community reunite with their families at the Ben Gurion airport, outside Tel Aviv on February 4, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Cabinet approves plan to bring 400 Ethiopian Jews to Israel

Former Jerusalem district commander Nissan Shaham, arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court to hear his sentence on February 10, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Former top cop slapped with 10-month sentence for sex offenses, fraud

Guitarist David Broza in Jerusalem's Zappa Club on February 8, 2020, before a performance (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Pulling stringsDavid Broza performs by night, gives away guitars by day

By Jessica Steinberg

Masa interns working at a company in Israel (Masa)

Masa calls on Israeli startups, firms to foster foreign interns

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative photo of Israeli newspapers. November 15, 2015 (Photo by AFP Photo / Ahmad Gharabli)

New group looks to inject new energy – and funds – into Israeli journalism

Naama Isaachar (left) is greeted by Sara Netanyahu while her mother Yaffa (second left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu look on at the Moscow airport, January 30, 2020 (GPO)

Reportedly rebuked, Yaffa Issachar apologizes to Netanyahu for lack of thanks

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