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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 18, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 9, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu corruption trial set to open on March 17, two weeks after election

Jerusalem District Court announces date of first hearing for premier, which will come as parties scramble to form coalition

Israeli children accompany their father in a polling booth during Knesset elections at a polling station in Rosh Ha'ayin, on September 17, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Opinion polls predict continued deadlock after upcoming elections

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Blue and White head Benny Gantz (right), with his party No.2 Yair Lapid, at an election event in Tel Aviv, Feb 17, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg / Flash90)

Gantz pledges to mend ties with US Democrats if elected

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Blue and White party leader accuses Netanyahu of neglecting bipartisan relationships in favor of exclusive support from Trump’s Republican Party

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks at a briefing at UN headquarters in New York with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on February 11, 2020. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

Olmert asks Rivlin for criminal record to be wiped

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)

Bernie Sanders releases new ‘proud to be Jewish’ campaign video

Clip blames Trump for rise in anti-Semitism and for empowering neo-Nazis; also says he looks forward to becoming ‘first Jewish president in the history of this country’

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 targets Sanders campaign in new digital ad

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks at a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina, February 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Bloomberg qualifies for Democratic debate, facing rivals for 1st time

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Institute for National Security Studies think tank's annual conference in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Defense minister: Israel sees Iran rethinking its strategy in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Bennett says Tehran’s efforts to establish a permanent military presence to Israel’s north are ‘weakening,’ Jerusalem will step up its fight against it

Satellite images purporting to show damage to Damascus International Airport in February 13 airstrikes attributed to Israel, which were released by ImageSat International, on February 17, 2020. (ImageSat International)

Satellite images show major damage at Damascus airport following airstrikes

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Likud MK Yehudah Glick is arrested on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on February 18, 2020. (Courtesy)

Former Likud MK Yehudah Glick arrested, handcuffed on Temple Mount

Activist claims he was detained for walking ‘too slowly’ but police say he violated visiting rules at the compound

The Western Wall, right, and the gilded Dome of the Rock, among the holiest sites for Jews and Muslims, are covered in snow, Dec. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Minister says he’s advancing plan to extend Tel Aviv fast train to Western Wall

Mom-daughter co-authors Deborah Grayson Riegel and Sophie Riegel (courtesy)

Author interview

Mother and teen daughter pen self-help books for fellow anxiety sufferers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess anchored at the Yokohama Port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, February 18, 2020. (Koji Sasahara/AP)

Israelis on quarantined coronavirus cruise ship to return Thursday

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Foreign Ministry says arrangements have been made to whisk passengers off vessel and straight onto jet for flight to Israel; anyone found to be infected will have to remain

People wear face masks at Ben Gurion International Airport following reports about the deadly coronavirus having spread worldwide, February 17, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Israel media reviewPlagued by lax enforcement: 6 things to know for February 18

Palestinian shopkeeper Bilal Dwaik poses for a photo in his store, which sells clothes he imports from China, in the West Bank city Hebron, February 12, 2020. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

With China closed, Palestinian traders fear losing a good deal

By Joseph Krauss and Mohammed Daraghmeh

Blue and White head Benny Gantz at an election event in Tel Aviv, Feb 17, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz after PM’s trial date announced: How will he be able to focus on Israel?

Blue and White leader says corruption trial will prevent Netanyahu from being able to fulfill his role: ‘He must be free, focused and unburdened by any other interests’

6:49 pm

US lawmaker defends meeting with Iran FM in Munich
6:45 pm

AG to tell High Court Netanyahu can form a government despite corruption charges -- report
6:30 pm

Gantz responds to PM's trial date: He won't be able to care for Israel

‘You’re mine, you’re not leaving, I won’t let you go’

When police removed my husband from the home because he was violent, I dared to seek a divorce. When he refused, I found support

Carol Silver Elliott

What 100 looks like

Feeble, frail and bent over. That’s how some children are being encouraged to portray centenarians — and that’s ageism

People wear face masks at Ben Gurion Airport following reports about the deadly coronavirus, February 17, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Israel bans foreigners coming from East Asian countries over virus fears

Directive applies to travelers from Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore; Foreign Ministry frets over diplomatic fallout from stringent measures to prevent outbreak

People wear face masks at the Ben Gurion International Airport following reports about the deadly coronavirus, originated in China, having spread worldwide. February 17, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Special voting booths to be set up for Israelis under coronavirus quarantine

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Medical workers move a person who died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, February 16, 2020. (Chinatopix via AP)

China reports 1,886 new virus cases, death toll up by 98

Judge Chana Lomp (Supreme Court)

Judge allows Leifer lawyers to submit extra testimony, further stretching trial

Doctors who already testified for defense can again submit psychiatric opinions, despite court-ordered panel having found alleged sex abuser fit for extradition to Australia

Archaeologists at work excavating the biblical city of Lachish, where an early 12th century BCE Canaanite alphabet inscription was found in 2014. (courtesy of Yossi Garfinkel, Hebrew University)

Archaeology

Rare ‘smiting gods’ among artifacts found at 12th century BCE Canaanite temple

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israeli troops search for a gunman who opened fire at an IDF soldier, lightly injuring him, near the central West Bank settlement of Dolev on February 6, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas: Palestinian found dead in West Bank had shot at IDF troops in past month

Terror group says 51-year-old Fakhr Qarat ‘fulfilled God’s call and [his] duty’; stops short of clearly taking responsibility for February 6 attack

The warhead of a rocket-propelled grenade, which appears to have been flown into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, is found outside the community of Alumim on February 18, 2020. (Courtesy)

Balloon carrying RPG warhead flown into Israel from Gaza – reports

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

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

Condition of soldier critically injured in car-ramming attack improves

Al Pacino, left, and Meital Dohan arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Irishman" on Oct. 24, 2019, at the TCL Chinese Theatre. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Israeli actress leaves Al Pacino: The age gap was too big

‘I tried to deny it, but now he is already an elderly man,’ Meital Dohan tells magazine

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Illustrative: Moroccans burn the Israeli flag during a demonstration against the US Middle East peace plan in the capital Rabat on February 9, 2020. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

Bahrain man jailed for 3 years after burning Israeli flag at riot

Illustrative: Wilbert Wilson Rivero, a Jewish bartender who works at Havana’s Hotel Raquel, proudly displays a bottle of Havana Club rum. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)

After rabbis and resources, Jewish food tops list of things Cuban Jews lack

By Stephen Silver

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 29, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court president cracks down on grandstanding judges

Emergency services outside a building in Afula where a mother and daughter were found dead, February 18, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Elderly woman and her daughter found dead in Afula apartment

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 17, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

President to make first official visit to Australia

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

A swastika, painted on the wall of the Stedelijk Museum overnight, is seen in Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 22, 2019 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Record number of anti-Semitic incidents documented in the Netherlands in 2019

By Cnaan Liphshiz

View of the hotels in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Eilat and France’s Nice launch joint smart cities initiative

Seagate's Lyve Labs innovation center in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy Seagate Technology)

Data storage firm Seagate Technology opens flagship innovation lab in Tel Aviv

Members of the Jewish community of Reykjavik bringing its new Torah scroll to the local Chabad center there on February 16, 2020. (Gabriel Rutenberg/Chabad.org via JTA)

Iceland’s Jewish community welcomes its first permanent Torah

An airman inspects the helmet of an Israeli pilot who died in a plane crash in southern Israel in 1984, in the Paran desert in February 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF confirms: Helmet found by hiker belonged to pilot killed in 1984 crash

By Judah Ari Gross

In this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos walks off stage after holding a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change

By AP

Illustrative: An undated image of a farmer in the western Negev inspecting a crop of cherry tomatoes. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

France confirms first case of ruinous tomato virus

By AFP

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