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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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Yossi Klein Halevi

The Jewish nightmare of Bernie vs. Trump

In his first months in office, President Trump emboldened the far-right fringe. President Sanders would do the same with the far left

Sanders holds off Buttigieg to clinch New Hampshire in tight primary race

Bennet, Yang drop long-shot 2020 bids after poor New Hampshire showings

By AP

Sanders’ narrow New Hampshire win ups pressure on moderates to coalesce

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking on the phone at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 28, 2014. (Amos Ben Gershon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said to gripe to Zuckerberg that Facebook working against his voters

Report says CEO of social media giant did not directly address claims during phone call initiated by PM to allege bias on the platform

7:18 pm

WHO says 'way too early' to predict end of novel coronavirus
7:02 pm

Israel freezes ties with UN rights chief after release of settlement list
6:56 pm

Palestinian Authority says it'll 'pursue' companies on UN settlements list

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to the UN Security Council at the United Nations headquarters on February 11, 2020 in New York (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Abbas: Trump deal anchors 'an apartheid system'

Abbas at UN rejects US plan: It legalizes the illegal, leaves us ‘Swiss cheese’

PA chief tells Security Council he’s ready for talks with Israel under Quartet on basis of international resolutions, insinuates Trump was misled; Netanyahu: Recognize our rights

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert hold a press briefing on February 11, 2020 in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

Olmert and Abbas meet in New York, urge direct talks as Trump plan rejected

Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters on February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Israeli UN envoy: No progress toward peace as long as Abbas in office

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Analysis

World players may vow open mind on Trump plan, but won’t abandon old positions

US has feted Palestinians’ failure to get UNSC to condemn proposal, but last word hasn’t been spoken; even close allies still pledge allegiance to the familiar two-state parameters

US celebrates withdrawal of UN Security Council resolution against peace plan

By Eric Cortellessa and Raphael Ahren

Ex-Qatari PM seems to say Gulf states will sign non-aggression pact with Israel

Poll: 94% percent of Palestinians oppose US peace plan

Israeli world champion judoka Sagi Muki, right, and Iranian champion Saeid Mollaei embrace at the Paris Grand Slam, February 10, 2020, in an Instagram photo posted online by Muki. (Instagram screen capture)

Israeli judoka makes ‘friend for life’ with Iran champ who fled country

World champion Sagi Muki posts photo with Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei at Paris Grand Slam, hopes he will visit Israel

Tamar Manasseh of Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings in a still from the new documentary 'They Ain't Ready for Me.' (Courtesy Brad Rothschild)

Interview

Meet the African-American Jewish mom who fights gun violence with prayer

Documentary ‘They Ain’t Ready for Me’ chronicles student rabbi Tamar Manasseh, pioneer of a Chicago campaign providing poor families with a much-needed oasis

Police officers are seen in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as law enforcement officials investigate the mass shooting that took place at the school, on February 17, 2018, in Parkland, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump briefs Parkland victims’ parents on school safety clearinghouse

Blue and White party leader MK Benny Gantz speaks during a party campaign event in Netanya on February 5, 2020. (Flash90)

Gantz: Joint List won’t be part of my coalition, which will implement Trump plan

By Raoul Wootliff

Touring Arab Israeli towns, Blue and White leader says no citizens will be forced into future Palestinian state in population swap

Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir at the entrance to the Central Elections Committee in the Knesset, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Far-right party claims Netanyahu offered to help it enter Knesset

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a Likud party event in Lod, on February 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Panel of 3 judges selected for Netanyahu’s corruption trials

By Stuart Winer

Mike Bloomberg: As president here’s how I’d combat anti-Semitism

A world in which a president traffics in conspiracy theories is a world in which Jews are not safe. I will never stand by idly in the face of hatred

Sivan Rahav Meir

The day he met the driver of the truck that killed his wife

Reut Schwartz was sensitive to the grief of life — encouraging the perpetrator of this tragic loss to move on is exactly what she’d do

Shalom Yerushalmi

Back to Blair House: Inside Benjamin Netanyahu’s burst annexation bubble

The PM was in a world of his own, invoking historic leaders, vowing annexation in days. Now, the opportunity of the century could become the flop of the century

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Why the world needs to remember Ilan Halimi

On release of a new book about the horrific kidnapping and murder: The story is about far more than one French Jewish family’s tragedy

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

PM threatens Hamas with dire ‘surprise’; Gaza answers with fresh rocket attack

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Israel’s response to wave of rocket, balloon attacks ‘will be different from anything that came before,’ Netanyahu warns in TV interview; no injuries in attack

The Drone Dome air defense system mounted on a vehicle. (Rafael – Advanced Defense Systems)

Israeli laser defense system successfully intercepts multiple drone targets

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)

Despite reported halt in attacks, balloon-borne explosives found in south

A woman with a teddy bear waves to another passenger quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, near Tokyo,, February 11, 2020. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Israel media review

Spurning Japanese: 6 things to know for February 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel’s pirates of protest are demanding to be let off a quarantined ship to finally escape their hellish lives of room service, TV bingeing and vacationing. Pray for them

China’s new virus cases fall again, deaths now exceed 1,100

By KEN MORITSUGU

Dozens more coronavirus cases confirmed on cruise ship with Israelis aboard

By AFP

Iran state paper reports death in Tehran from coronavirus; ministry denies claim

Gena Gutman, second from right, together with other Cuban Jews who are involved with the congregation. (Josefin Dolsten/ JTA)

Future in jeopardy for 59-year-old Miami synagogue founded by Jews fleeing Cuba

By Josefin Dolsten

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Overlooking the hills near Nahal Besor, in the Negev (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Head south on the cheap, to smell the flowers and find other pleasures

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Anti-Semitic fliers posted at a synagogue in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in July 2019. (Courtesy Anti-Defamation League)

Massive rise in spread of white supremacist propaganda in US, says ADL

Brad Parker (Twitter)

Israel summons Belgian envoy over UN invite to controversial activist

By Agencies and Raphael Ahren

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)

US accuses Iran of building missiles through satellite bid

By AFP

In this Feb. 1, 2019 photo, former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump, Roger Stone, leaves federal court in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump accused of meddling to reduce sentence for former adviser Stone

People participate in the annual Pride Parade in Tel Aviv on June 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Anti-LGBT incidents in Israel increase by 36% in 2019

Palestinians visit a torched mosque in the Arab neighborhood of Sharafat in East Jerusalem on January 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Court orders release of Jewish suspect in arson attack on Jerusalem mosque

Then National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, leaves after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 19, 2019. (Julio Cortez/AP)

Trump says Pentagon should probe officer who testified in impeachment

By AP

Burial plots at the historic Jewish cemetery in the Bassatine district in Cairo. (Courtesy)

US contributes to project aimed at conserving historic Jewish cemetery in Cairo

People sit in the sun in Victoria Tower Gardens backdropped by the Houses of Parliament in London, August 28, 2019. (Matt Dunham/AP)

Citing impact to surroundings, London council votes against Holocaust memorial

By Stuart Winer

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the inauguration of the Memorial Candle monument in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020 commemorating the people of Leningrad during a WWII Nazi siege on the city. (Emmanuel Dunad, Pool via AP)

Yad Vashem: Blame us, not Russia, for ‘unfortunate’ video at Holocaust event

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this January 6, 2012 file photo, northern shrimp lie in a pile aboard a trawler in the Gulf of Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Shrimp eyes may hold key to developing nontoxic, non-fading paints and pigments

Medics at the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in Jerusalem on February 6, 2020. (MDA)

US-born soldier injured in Jerusalem car-ramming released from hospital

By Judah Ari Gross

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