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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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View of the Sea of Galilee as it seen from the beach promenade in the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, on January 30, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'People are coming from all over to see this water'

As Sea of Galilee fills to bursting, Israelis’ joy overflows

By Nathan Jeffay

At perennially parched freshwater lake where Jesus walked on water, weeks of major rainfall could see nearby dam opened to send water into Jordan River for first time since 2013

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud party campaign event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on January 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu responds to Abbas: Trump plan recognizes reality, you ignore it

‘This is the best plan for the Middle East, the State of Israel, and the Palestinians,’ PM tells supporters after PA president slams proposal in UN Security Council meeting

6:47 pm

German state launches probe into police response to Halle synagogue attack
6:41 pm

Netanyahu responds to Abbas: Trump plan recognizes reality, you ignore it
6:17 pm

Israelis on board quarantined cruise ship call on gov't to do more to help them

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Diplomats say Abbas, lacking votes, pulls request for UN vote against Trump plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian officials deny recalling Security Council resolution, saying move is temporarily delayed for consultations after watered down draft fails to meet their basic demands

A Palestinian vendor sells dates for Ramadan at a market in Jenin, June 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)

Palestinians launch diplomatic push to get Israel to end export ban

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants a tree during an event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yeriho, in the Jordan Valley, February 10, 2020. (Flash90)

Netanyahu says settlements, Jordan Valley will only be annexed with US consent

"Jews wake up and stop assimilating!" graffitied on a building in Jish in an apparent hate crime on February 11, 2020. (Twitter)

170 cars, mosque vandalized in northern Arab town, drawing rare Netanyahu rebuke

Residents in Jish find graffiti reading ‘Jews wake up and stop assimilating’ in third such incident targeting village in recent years

Eliya Ben David. (Yair Oriel)

Bennett signs off on rare administrative detention for Jewish terror suspect

A bunch of balloons attached to an incendiary device is prepared to be flown into Israel, near the Israel-Gaza border east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, January 22, 2020. (Ail Ahmed/ Flash90)

Gaza groups said to call halt to incendiary balloon attacks on Israel

Report comes a day after Egyptian security delegation visited Strip, where it reportedly conveyed an Israeli threat of military action to Hamas

Supporters of Hamas attend a rally marking the terror group's founding in Gaza City on December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

Egyptian officials convey Netanyahu threats to Hamas in Gaza – report

Masked Palestinians prepare to release an incendiary device near Gaza's Bureij refugee camp, along the Israel-Gaza border fence, on February 10, 2020 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Suspected balloon-borne bomb found near southern kindergarten

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump at the 2019 Israeli-American Council National Summit in Florida, December 2019. (Noam Galai)

Campus anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism on US campuses may force schools to choose free speech or bigotry

By Cathryn J. Prince

Former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Top Iranian official: We’re looking for a pretext to raze Tel Aviv to the ground

Former leader of Revolutionary Guards also says Tehran has ‘precise information’ on all US military and civilian activity in the region, from ships to individual soldiers

Iranians hold mass gatherings to mark anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution

In gaff, German president’s office slams Iran on Islamic Revolution anniversary

By Toby Axelrod

Iran: US killing of top general Soleimani weakens fight against Islamic State

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Golda Hutchison

Was making aliyah defying my mother’s wishes?

I couldn’t ask her directly – I was just a kid when she died; then my dad gave me her journal and I felt her beside me

The budget crisis’ toll on Israel’s most vulnerable

As unfunded social programs collapse, local governments have stepped in — but they need greater autonomy to serve their constituents

Illustrative: A Hadrosaurus at Drexel University in Philadelphia. (YouTube screenshot)

Ancient blight

Israeli researchers find modern tumor in dinosaur tail

Scientists say LCH, which affects human children today, discovered in fossil of 66-million-year-old Hadrosaurus

A woman holds a teddy bear on the balcony of the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in the Yokohama Port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, February 11, 2020. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Israel media review

On a slow boat to Japan: 6 things to know for February 11

Israelis trapped on a cruise liner due to an outbreak of coronavirus describe surreal conditions and long for home

Personnel wearing protective suits wait near an entrance at the Cheung Hong Estate, a public housing estate during evacuation of residents in Hong Kong, February 11, 2020. (Kin Cheung/AP)

China’s death toll from virus tops 1,000, after first day of over 100 dead

By Joe McDonald

Dr Sivan Lacker and Ashkar Ginossar at the Yotvata Dairy in southern Israel. (Lior Nordman)

In first pilot of its kind, Israeli dairy won’t separate calves from mothers

Yotvata project will allow female calves to stay with mothers until weaning — but male calves will still be separated, sent off for fattening and slaughter

Leslie Wexner, left, and Ed Razek pose backstage at the 2016 Fragrance Foundation Awards presented by Hearst Magazines in New York, June 7, 2016. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Fragrance Foundation/ via JTA)

Tawdry Wexner headlines raise questions for recipients of his Jewish fellowship

By Josefin Dolsten

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A cook with a pot of hamin, the traditional Jewish long-cooking stew, at the Maadaniyat Shef restaurant in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak on January 16, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Ancient Jewish dish of cholent is now a melting pot of Israeli cuisine

By Jonah Mandel

More Headlines

The remains of Sde Dov airport in Tel Aviv, which was closed and emptied to make way for luxury apartments, on February 10, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Sde Dov airport emptied, paving way for building of luxury high-rises

By Judah Ari Gross

Screen capture from video of natural gas being burned off by flare from the Leviathan platform off the coast of Caesarea, February 11, 2020. (Twitter)

Power glitch sees Leviathan offshore rig burn off natural gas, light up sky

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsing the Zionist Organization of America in a campaign video for the 2020 World Zionist Congress elections. (Screen capture via JTA)

Netanyahu endorses pro-settler slate in World Zionist Congress elections

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz speaking during a Knesset debate on recent escalation in Gaza, February 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz slams PM for missing Knesset debate on Gaza, then skips Bennett’s speech

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

Privacy authority launches probe following vast Likud leak of voter details

US President Donald Trump receives a menorah from Las Vegas Sands Corporation Chief Executive and Republican mega donor Sheldon Adelson, left, and his wife Miriam Adelson at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Florida, December 7, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Adelsons to spend $100 million on Trump, Republican re-election bids

Illustrative image of a 9-10-week-old human fetus. (Flickr/lunar caustic/CC BY-SA)

Maternal obesity can cause neuropsychiatric problems in children – study

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prof. Vered Noam of Tel Aviv University, the 2020 laureate of the Israel Prize in Talmud studies, the first woman to receive the prestigious award (YouTube screenshot)

Prof. Vered Noam to get Israel Prize for Talmud studies, in first for a woman

Illustrative: Demonstrators take part in a protest against prostitution outside the Gogo strip club in Tel Aviv on December 22, 2016. (Flash90)

Police shut down the last three strip clubs in Tel Aviv

By Stuart Winer

The Quneitra Crossing between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights reopening after four years, on October 15, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Israel returns body of Syrian man found off the coast last year

By Judah Ari Gross

Likud MK and former Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s office denies Barkat may be tapped as finance minister ahead of election

British-born Andrew Abir, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel. (YouTube screenshot)

British-born Andrew Abir appointed Bank of Israel’s No. 2

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