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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 13, 2020

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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet speaks in Geneva, March 20, 2019. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

112 firms on list -- 94 of them Israel; 18 foreign

Israel freezes ties with UN rights chief after release of settlement blacklist

By Raphael Ahren

FM Israel Katz says he ordered ‘exceptional and harsh measure’ in retaliation for Commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s office promoting the anti-Israel boycott movement

A view of the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ariel, January 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel condemns UN list of settlement-linked firms; Palestinians welcome it

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, chairs a cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley village of Fasayil, September 16, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Palestinian Authority says it will ‘pursue’ companies on UN settlements list

In this photo from January 17, 2016, Moshe Gordon sits outside his guest house advertised on the Airbnb international home-sharing site in Nofei Prat settlement in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

UN human rights agency releases blacklist of 112 companies that aid settlements

By Raphael Ahren

Database was four years in the making; Israelis vow to fight ‘anti-Semitic’ list, while Palestinians hail ‘victory for international law’

A Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion, August 3, 2010. The company is listed in a UN 'database' of 112 companies operating in the West Bank. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

The blacklist: All 112 companies UN says are operating in settlements

By ToI Staff and AP

Palestinian protesters hold up flags and a sign reading "boycott occupation and its products" during a protest at a Rami Levy supermarket in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit, October 24, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewBlacklist and blue: 6 things to know for February 13

By Joshua Davidovich

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami speaks during a pro-government rally in the capital Tehran's central Enghelab Square on November 25, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Iran commander threatens to hit both Israel and US if ‘slightest error’ made

By Michael Bachner

Comment by Hossein Salami comes in response to Times of Israel report on Defense Minister Bennett saying US has agreed to counter Iran in Iraq while Israel fights it in Syria

7:28 pm

US military says it seized Iran-made weapons in Arabian Sea this week
7:18 pm

US Senate acts to restrain Trump from attacking Iran
6:31 pm

Rocket attack hits north Iraq base hosting US troops -- security sources

Saudi Arabia's Adel al-Jubeir speaks to the media during a press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, January 10, 2020. (AP/Petr David Josek)

Senior Saudi diplomat says there are ‘positive elements’ in Trump’s peace plan

Though he notes that US proposal could form ‘basis for negotiation,’ Adel al-Jubeir also stresses that the Palestinians have rejected it and Riyadh has ‘duty’ to support them

Newly elected Tunisian President Kais Saied speaks during his swearing in ceremony, in Tunis October23, 2019. (Hassene Dridi/AP)

Tunisian president mired in UN row over Trump peace plan

By Caroline Nelly Perrot

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at a conference of Israel Hayom newspaper at Davidson Center in Jerusalem Old City, June 27, 2019 (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Interview

Next White House may reject peace plan, to Palestinians’ detriment — co-author

By Raphael Ahren

Jason Greenblatt warns that if traditional positions on conflict are readopted, ‘Israel will likely continue to thrive and the Palestinians will continue to suffer’

House Appropriations subcommittee Chairman Rep. Peter Visclosky, D-Ind., and Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn. (left) listen to testimony during a hearing on US Air Force budget request for FY 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Congresswoman calls AIPAC a ‘hate group’ after it attacks her in ad

Op-edDespite ostensible failure at UN, Trump plan has restored Abbas’s leadership

By Avi Issacharoff

Blue and White party chairman MK Benny Gantz, right and Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman give a joint statement to the media after a meeting for coalition negotiations at the Kfar Maccabia Hotel in Ramat Gan, on November 14, 2019. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Liberman appears to drop unity coalition demand, is willing to partner with left

By Stuart Winer

Kingmaker Yisrael Beytenu chair says he’s not opposed to serving with Labor-Gesher-Meretz alliance; says it’s clear that Likud-Blue and White government won’t happen

Netanyahu said to gripe to Zuckerberg that Facebook is undermining his campaign

Bennett: Otzma Yehudit despises state institutions, sees IDF and cops as enemy

Proclaiming opposition to Gantz, Bennett vows to go with Netanyahu

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders, arrives to speak to supporters at a primary night election rally in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Analysis

Could 2020 see a Jewish president? The paths for a Sanders or Bloomberg victory

Democratic socialist and billionaire ex-mayor of New York are both serious contenders to be first-ever Jewish presidential nominee, something seen as unrealistic only a decade ago

Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a campaign event on February 5, 2020, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Bloomberg once blamed end of discriminatory lending policy for 2008 collapse

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks to supporters at a primary night election rally in Manchester, New Hampshire on February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Some Democrats fear fallout from Sanders atop the ticket

By Nicholas Riccardi and Alan Fram

A still shot from 'The Art of Waiting,' directed by Erez Tadmor and starring Nelly Tagar and Roy Assaf. (Courtesy Tadmor)

Director interview

Real-life fertility saga bears fruit when Israeli director reproduces it in film

By Rich Tenorio

Debunking misconceptions: KKL-JNF fights climate change

The biodiverse forests of today’s KKL-JNF are Israel’s only tool to actively absorb the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

From Egypt to Exodus: The elite host of 1950s Israel

At a time when most Israelis barely got by, my grandfather was living like a king in a villa on the shores of the Mediterranean

Passengers stand on the deck of the Diamond Princess cruise ship anchored at Yokohama Port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, February 12, 2020. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan refuses to release Israelis on coronavirus ship

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel’s foreign minister appears to defend decision; Japanese authorities say another 44 on board have been infected with deadly virus

An official walks near the cruise ship Diamond Princess anchored off the Yokohama Port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, February 10, 2020. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

Foreign Ministry asks Japan to let Israelis off quarantined cruise ship

By ToI Staff and AFP

Residents wearing masks wait at a traffic light in Beijing, China, on February 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China reports hundreds of new deaths from coronavirus

By Laurent THOMET and Helen ROXBURGH

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)

Jojo Rabbit director says critics wouldn’t be as harsh if they knew he’s Jewish

Taika Waititi also plays Adolf Hitler in the romping anti-Nazi comedy set in the final days of World War II

Tottenham Hotspur fans hold up a Yid sign at a soccer game. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Oxford Dictionary updates ‘Yid’ definition to include Tottenham soccer fans

By AFP

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler (Courtesy of PerlePress Productions)

101-year old UK Jewish woman recalls living as Hitler’s neighbor in 1930s Munich

In this May 28, 2019 photo, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi speaks at a press conference in Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Tehran warns Israel of ‘crushing response’ to aggression

Threat follows reported Israeli airstrikes outside Damascus, and warning from Iran that it could raze Tel Aviv

Illustrative: Hezbollah operatives stand in formation at a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, or Al-Quds Day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah coordinating Iraqi Shiite militias post-Soleimani killing — report

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli F-16 and French Dassault Rafale fighter jets fly together as part of a joint air exercise in February 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IAF pilots practice their dog fighting, and English, in war games with French

By Judah Ari Gross

A child lights a candle in the Frauenkirche cathedral (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden, Germany, February 11, 2020. (Jens Meyer/AP)

German far right reopens wounds of Dresden bombing

By Michelle Fitzpatrick

Commemoration events draw neo-Nazis, who seize upon anniversary to downplay Nazi crimes and inflate number of victims of Allied air raids

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (NYU)

Scholar who helped establish Polish Jewish museum wins Dan David Prize

By AP

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Illustrative: Students walk near Widener Library in Harvard Yard, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 13, 2019. (AP/Charles Krupa, File)

Jewish Harvard students form anti-Zionist organization

By JTA

Rasmea Yousef Odeh, November 10, 2014. (AP/Carlos Osorio, File)

UC Berkeley student gov’t won’t condemn display featuring Palestinian terrorists

Natalie Portman at the Oscars on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Actress Rose McGowan blasts Natalie Portman’s Oscars cape

By AFP

Then British Home Secretary Sajid Javid arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on February 26, 2019. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

Britain’s pro-Israel finance minister forced out in cabinet reshuffle

By AP and ToI Staff

Jars of a Gazan version of a world famous spread, dubbed 'Natalia' are displayed on a shop counter in Gaza city on February 12, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Gazans delight in local chocolate treats, long for golden ticket to exports

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Khat leaves (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli in France sentenced to 2 years for khat smuggling

Members of the Armenian community march with flags and torches on April 23, 2015, in Jerusalem's Old City, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (photo credit: AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Syria’s parliament recognizes Armenian genocide

By AFP and ToI Staff

Det. Joseph Seals was slain by gunmen who went on to attack a Jersey City kosher market on Dec. 10, 2019. (Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association via JTA)

Brooklyn Jewish community gives $48,000 to family of slain Jersey City cop

The scene of an accident in Tel Aviv where a 13-year-old boy was run over and killed while riding an electric scooter on February 12, 2020 (MDA)

13-year-old boy run over and killed in Tel Aviv while riding electric scooter

Yohanan and Shifra Lowen are suing the Quebec province and school system. (Screenshot/YouTube via JTA)

Ex-Hasidic couple sues Quebec for failing to ensure they were properly educated

By JTA

Passengers at Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel Railways sued for discrimination against women

Eliya Ben David. (Yair Oriel)

Shin Bet said to rage against Bennett for releasing Jewish terror suspect

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