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What Matters Most On Monday, February 17, 2020

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Illustration by Avi Katz.

Exclusive'They think I'm a dumb Arab, but I still love Israel'

Save me! Lebanese man caught spying on Hezbollah begs Israel not to abandon him

By Judah Ari Gross

‘Benjamin Philip’ says he worked for the Mossad for 9 years, helping to fight the Iran-backed Hezbollah; now he faces deportation to Lebanon and says Israel’s nowhere to be found

An Israeli flag can be seen in one of the portholes (left) of Diamond Princess cruise ship, where three Israelis have been diagnosed with coronavirus, at the Daikaku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port on February 16, 2020 (Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)

Israel prepares to evacuate nationals from quarantined cruise ship

3 Israelis diagnosed with coronavirus to remain in hospital in Japan; returning Israelis will be quarantined at Sheba Medical Center

Israel media reviewOne flu over the cuckoo’s nest: 6 things to know for February 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Travelers from Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau ordered to self-quarantine

Third Israeli contracts coronavirus on cruise ship off Japan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders makes a point during a campaign stop on February 16, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Topless protesters disrupt Sanders rally in Nevada

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Self-described ‘biggest supporter’ grabs mic, demands that Vermont senator ‘stop pumping up the dairy industry,’ as women covered in slogans pour liquid over their heads

Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is joined on stage by supporters during his campaign launch of "Mike for Black America," at the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Rival Democrats accuse Bloomberg of trying to ‘buy’ election

By Alexandra Jaffe and Nicholas Riccardi

US President Donald Trump's White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller, left, and Katie Waldman, before their marriage, at the White House, Sept. 20, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky, File)

Controversial Jewish White House couple wed in DC ceremony

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Joseph Gluck speaks to reporters the day after witnessing the attack at a rabbi's home in Monsey, New York, on December 29, 2019, (Ben Sales/JTA)

Man who helped stop Monsey stabber refuses reward from ‘Zionist organizations’

After consulting with rabbi, Joseph Gluck turns down $20,000 from Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Federation of Rockland County; says his soul is not for sale

US President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Friday, April 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

US Jewish umbrella group adopts stances on guns and unions at odds with Trump

Likud MK Haim Katz during a Knesset plenary session debate on his request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution, February 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset grants immunity from prosecution to former minister Haim Katz

By Raoul Wootliff

MKs vote, broadly along party lines, to allow Likud lawmaker to avoid trial for fraud and breach of trust; Katz: I never put my personal benefit above that of the public

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a farewell ceremony for outgoing state prosecutor Shai Nitzan in Jerusalem, December 18, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

New recordings resurface questions over Mandelblit’s role in Harpaz affair

Ron Cobi, mayor of Tiberias seen outside Tiberias municipality building in northern Israel, April 1, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

High Court approves Tiberias mayor’s ouster over failure to pass budget

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, right, speaks to Interior Affairs Minister Aryeh Deri during a meeting with right-wing bloc parties at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Right-wing religious parties renew pledge to back Netanyahu as PM

Yamina, Shas, United Torah Judaism stress commitment to endorse Likud leader after March elections; Blue and White warns pact will lead to 4th elections

Labor-Gesher-Meretz not opposed to government propped up by Arab parties

Hardline transportation minister scrambles after embrace from women’s group

Gantz fined by elections czar for posting photo of IDF soldiers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

In sign of thaw, Netanyahu says Israeli flight crosses Sudan skies

By Ilan Ben Zion

Official says aircraft was ‘a private Israeli executive jet’; PM says Jerusalem and Khartoum discussing ‘rapid normalization’

President Reuven Rivlin addressing American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem, February 17. (2020 Mark Neyman/GPO)

Only ‘building trust’ – not a piece of paper – will bring peace, Rivlin says

By Raphael Ahren

Ivanka Trump (left), senior White House adviser and daughter of the US president, speaks to an unidentified Emirati official during the Global Women Forum in the Gulf emirate of Dubai on February 16, 2020. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

In Dubai, Ivanka Trump lauds Saudi Arabia, UAE over women’s rights reforms

Israeli troops search for a Palestinian gunman who opened fire at IDF soldiers, injuring one of them, in the central West Bank, in February 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Troops find body of gunman suspected of recent attack on soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says corpse found in a valley in the central West Bank with an M16 and a pistol nearby; circumstances of the death are not immediately known

A Palestinian man wielding a knife tries to stab an Israeli Border Police officer in a security post in Hebron on February 16, 2020. (Screen capture/Israel Police)

Palestinian attempts to stab cop in Hebron, is arrested – police

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

A 9-year-old who was shot in the head by a a sponge-tipped bullet during a police operation in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya in hospital in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020 (Screencapture/Channel 13)

Police to be probed over serious injury to 9-year-old boy in East Jerusalem raid

Medical staff strike over coronavirus concerns outside government headquarters in Hong Kong, February 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Live updates (closed)

Foreign Ministry said fearing diplomatic ‘revenge’ by East Asian countries

By Michael Bachner

After taking far-reaching steps to contain virus relating to travelers from Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau, officials say Cathay Pacific set to suspend flights to Israel

12:33 pm

Former MK Glick released by police after interrogation following arrest on Temple Mount
7:27 pm

Israel bars entry of foreigners coming from Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau
7:14 pm

Foreign Ministry said fearing 'revenge' moves by East Asian countries

Miriam S. D. Berger

Subduing the beast I didn’t know dwelled within

I had never been claustrophobic, never. Then suddenly, I couldn’t sleep with the windows closed, let alone enter an elevator or a subway car or a plane

The perpetual elections virus

As campaigns dodge substance and resort to rumors and mudslinging, voters are alarmingly disinterested in these elections

Amal Elsana-Alh’jooj leads an identity workshop with ICAN fellows at McGill University in Montreal, 2018. (Courtesy)

Interview

Far from her village, rare Bedouin feminist fights for Israeli women and peace

By Robert Sarner

A screenshot of Amazon launching free shipping on November 11, 2019, used by one of several Facebook groups. (Courtesy, Amazon)

Amazon delivering for free to settlements, but not to Palestinians – report

Rights groups claim discrimination, but online retailer tells Financial Times discrepancy is only due to ‘logistical issue’

180 Jewish guests from around the world visit the newly renovated Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in the northwestern Egyptian city of Alexandria on February 14, 2020. (David Lisbona)

Worshipers fete ‘very emotional’ Shabbat in refurbished Alexandria synagogue

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Philip Manshaus is seated in court before being handed his sentence for terrorism and homicide in the Asker and Baerum district court west of Oslo on June 11, 2020. (Photo by Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB Scanpix / AFP)

Suspect in Norway mosque attack charged with terrorism, murder

By AP

This undated photograph released by the United Arab Emirates' state-run WAM news agency, shows the under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi's Western desert (Arun Girija/WAM via AP, File)

UAE issues reactor license for first Arab nuclear power plant

By AFP

Then-Iranian president Hassan Rouhani gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, February 16, 2020. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Rouhani vows US pressure will not force Iran into talks

By ToI Staff and AP

A calf dies for lack of water or mothers milk on an Australian cattle farm. (Kan TV screenshot)

No charges to be brought in Australian animal cruelty case exposed on Israeli TV

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

Screen capture from video of President Reuven Rivlin speaking as part of a campaign against online bullying among schoolchildren. (President's Office)

Don't stand byRivlin launches anti-bullying campaign

By Stuart Winer

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

Palestinian Authority PM: Trump’s peace plan ‘will be buried very soon’

By AP and ToI Staff

Jews pray at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, February 16, 2020. Jewish faithful held a prayer session in search of divine intervention to help stave off the coronavirus in China. Poster in Hebrew and Chinese says, 'The People of Israel pray for China.' (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Mass prayer held at Western Wall amid coronavirus crisis

A cockroach, file photo (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Sputnikit Wikimedia Commons)

A real pestMan caught slipping cockroach into burger in bid for free meal

Fiverr launches AI-powered automated logo maker

Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on February 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief orders inquiry into judge who mocked Berland

By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman

Gilad Shalit and his fiancee Nitzan Shabbat (Instagram)

Love and warGilad Shalit, ex-IDF soldier held by Hamas for 5 years, is engaged

In this photo from January 16, 2018, Adam Neumann, co-founder and then-CEO of WeWork, attends the opening bell ceremony at Nasdaq, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann selling his Manhattan penthouse for $37.5 million

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