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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 20, 2020

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Tobias Rathjen in a video posted online days before carrying out a deadly shooting in Hanau, Germany. (social media)

German shooter reportedly wanted to ‘eliminate’ Israel, other Mideast countries

By JTA and ToI Staff

A police officer stands guard near the scene in front of a restaurant after a shooting in central Hanau, Germany, February 20, 2020. Eight people were killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau the previous evening, authorities said. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

Far-right motive suspected in German shooting attack that left at least 9 dead

Police stand guard near the scene of a shooting in central Hanau, Germany Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. German police say several people were shot to death in the city of Hanau on Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

At least 9 killed in Germany shootings; suspect found dead at home with 1 other

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an overview of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa on February 20, 2020. (Debbie Hill/Pool/AFP)

1,000 homes for Palestinians green-lit in Beit Safafa

PM says he’s lifted freeze to build Givat Hamatos neighborhood in East Jerusalem

11 days before election, Netanyahu announces approval for 3,000 homes for Jews in project that would cut off Palestinian areas in capital from West Bank

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

Netanyahu disavows Trump plan idea to redraw border around Arab Israeli towns

Cattle at Kibbutz Sarid in the Jezreel Valley on January 24, 2017. (Anat Hermoni/Flash90)

Israel, Palestinian Authority appear to reach arrangement to end trade war

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz during a conference in Tel Aviv on February February 20, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz says ‘no problem’ with criminal probe of failed firm he once headed

Blue and White chief expresses confidence in law enforcement, accuses Likud of pushing for investigation into Fifth Dimension; Netanyahu: ‘The public must know the truth’

7:28 pm

Vigils held in Germany after 9 killed in suspected far-right shooting
7:17 pm

Netanyahu on Fifth Dimension probe: 'The public must know the truth... before the elections'
6:59 pm

Gantz says 'no problem' with criminal probe of failed firm he once headed

Israeli passengers leave the Diamond Princess cruise ship where they spent two weeks in quarantine due to an outbreak of the coronavirus on board, February 20, 2020. (Israeli Embassy Tokyo)

Israelis on their way home after over 2 weeks quarantined on virus-hit ship

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Passengers greeted on dock by delegation from embassy in Tokyo, will be whisked straight to plane; 11 Israelis to be isolated for 2 weeks under auspices of Sheba Medical Center

Israel said planning for coronavirus with isolation units, tourist site closures

By ToI Staff and AP

Thailand asks Israel to reconsider entry ban over virus concerns

By AP and ToI Staff

2 elderly cruise ship passengers die of virus as 4th Israeli confirmed infected

By AP and ToI Staff

Democrat presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, left, came under attack from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders and the other Democratic presidential candidates at the Nevada debate in Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 19, 2020. (Mario Tama/Getty Images via JTA)

Bloomberg takes a beating in his debate debut, raising questions about his run

By PHILISSA CRAMER

At Las Vegas event, five other Democrat presidential candidates take aim at Jewish former New York City mayor’s record on policing, treatment of women and support for workers

Candidates rip into Bloomberg, challenge Sanders at Democrats’ Nevada debate

By Michelle L. Price

AnalysisMike Bloomberg: An ‘empire of influence,’ a checkered track record

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Questions about Sanders’ health linger after heart attack

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and LAURAN NEERGAARD

The Leopldstadt Company (Marc Brenner)

Theater review

Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a master playwright’s heartrending act of revelation

At 82, the writer hailed as Britain’s greatest living playwright has finally tackled his most personal subject matter — his own family, and its decimation in the Holocaust

A sign for Rothschild square, named after Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, is pictured in Vienna, Austria, February 18, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Rothschild lawsuit draws attention to family’s Vienna past

By Sophie MAKRIS

Anti-Semitic Polish ex-priest Jacek Międlar. (YouTube screen capture)

Polish former priest indicted for hate speech and Holocaust denial

TV series review

Get ready for Jewsploitation, as kill squad chases Nazis in Amazon’s ‘Hunters’

Embellishing atrocities of the Holocaust is borderline offensive, but new series starring Al Pacino has no shortage of tender and insightful Jewish moments. Drops on February 21

A still from 'Hunters,' a new series by Amazon. (Courtesy Amazon Studios)

Sophia Loren arrives at the Governors Awards on Oct. 27, 2019, at the Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Netflix to stream film starring Sophia Loren as a Holocaust survivor

Illustrative: In this March 2, 2007 file photo, head of the Jewish community Gennady Klebanov, left, is about to enter the swastika-smeared door of the synagogue, as chief rabbi of Vladivostok Isroel Silberstain, right, points in the Russian Far Eastern Port of Vladivostok. (AP)

Russian lawmakers call for relaxing rules on Nazi symbols

By AFP

Philippines president Manuel L. Quezon (center at mic) welcoming Jewish refugees April 23, 1940 at the dedication of Marikina Hall, which he constructed on his own property to house the newly arrived immigrants. To his left is Alex Frieder (white suit/seated), chairman of the Philippines Jewish Refugee Committee, and to the right (white suit/standing) is Herbert Frieder. (Courtesy 'Rescue in the Philippines')

Little known Philippines’ WWII rescue of Jews was capped by US interference

By Rich Tenorio

Times of Israel podcast

LISTEN: A guide for those still perplexed by Israel’s threepeat election

On this week’s podcast, we grill political correspondent Raoul Wootliff on what’s different — if anything — about this upcoming third trip to the ballot box on March 2

Rabbi Chaim Meir Druckman (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Netanyahu apologizes to prominent right-wing rabbi after aide’s mocking

In this November 20, 2019, file photo, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz arrives to address media in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Israel media review

Playing fifth-dimensional chess: 7 things to know for February 20

By Joshua Davidovich

If elections are near that means it’s time for conveniently unsourced reports on a probe into Gantz’s old firm; the Blue and White head is not suspect, but everything else is

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

Prosecutors said to recommend probe into failed firm headed by Gantz

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Ramat Gan on February 19, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz turns down Netanyahu debate challenge: ‘I don’t work for him’

Can I come to your house for Shabbat?

When a non-Jewish tween heard me describe our weekly Sabbath dinner, his next question suggested a hunger for meaning and connection that he couldn’t quite name

If climate change destroys the rest of the world, it destroys Israel too

It is because I care about Israel’s future that I’m voting for the US candidate who convinces me he or she will do everything possible to keep our planet livable

Rabbi Avram Mlotek, center, performs his first same-sex wedding, February 2020. (Courtesy of Mlotek via JTA)

After endorsing same-sex marriages, a US Orthodox rabbi performs his first

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Avram Mlotek says ceremony joining two men ‘in sacred, covenantal relationship’ was ‘joyous, Jewish, spiritual, full of love,’ similar to other events he has officiated at

Illustrative photo of a representative of Israel's Chief Rabbinate inspecting a kosher certificate at a food stand in Jerusalem. (Rubin Salvadori/Flash90/File)

Rabbinate gains power to indict businesses with private kashrut certification

Coach Ben Falk provides instruction to his Barrack Hebrew Academy basketball team. (Jay Gorodetzer Photography/via JTA)

Orthodox NBA analytics guru helps Jewish school win first title in 20 years

By Gabe Friedman

Israelis take cover as an alarm siren sounds, warning of incoming rockets in Tel Aviv, on the fifth day of Operation Protective Edge, Saturday, July 12, 2014 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hamas said to warn of rockets on Tel Aviv if Israel kills terror group’s leaders

Gaza rulers threaten Israel via mediators, saying they don’t fear conflict, IDF ‘physical action’ in Strip will bring missile volley on Israel’s financial capital — Lebanese media

A picture taken in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip at the border with Egypt shows a crane at the construction site of a wall on the Egyptian side of the border on February 19, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Egypt begins building concrete wall along Gaza border

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Shoppers walk past the Victoria's Secret store on Broadway in the Soho neighborhood of New York, on April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

A diminished Victoria’s Secret is sold

By AP

Top left, clockwise, Yosef Rapaport, Laura Shaw Frank, Marques Hollie and Dana Sussman appear in a New York City campaign in the wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks. (NYC Commission on Human Rights via JTA)

New York shows off diversity in campaign to combat anti-Semitism

By JTA

Candidates for leadership of Britain's Labour Party, with from right, Emily Thornberry, Lisa Nandy, Jim McMahon who is attending in place for candidate Kier Starmer, and Rebecca Long-Bailey, during the Labour leadership hustings in Nottingham, England, Saturday February 8, 2020. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

‘Zionist’ UK Labour leadership candidate endorses Palestinian right of return

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President Reuven Rivlin is welcomed to Fiji on February 19 2020, his first stop on the way to a state visit in Australia. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

From our partnerRivlin hails ‘true friendship’ ahead of first official visit to Australia

By GARETH NARUNSKY

Illustrative. Soldiers of the Bardales Battalion listen to their commander during a training exercise in southern Israel, on July 13, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF ombudsman finds fewer complaints by troops but more reported abuse

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: A swastika is seen on a side wall of a former synagogue in Mommenheim, eastern France, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Large swastika painted on Jewish-owned business in New Jersey

By JTA and ToI Staff

Partying at Tel Aviv's annual Purim street party (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv)

Chosen frozenBen & Jerry’s runs Purim costume contest for free ice cream

By JTA and ToI Staff

Will Irwin, right, at an OurCrowd conference in Jerusalem writing his name, February 13, 2020. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

This Israeli tech helped ‘grandpa’ stop spilling his drink

By Shoshanna Solomon

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani walks past a portrait of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as he arrives for a news conference in the capital Tehran, on February 16, 2020.(Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s Khamenei says ‘Zionist-controlled’ US government will sink like Titanic

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this Dec. 21, 2016 file photo, Robert Durst sits in a courtroom in Los Angeles. Durst faces trial in the slaying of his best friend 20 years ago. Jury selection begins Wednesday, Jan.19, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool, File)

Judge promises jurors trial of their lives in Durst murder case

By brian melley

From left, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie and Adam Sandler on the set of 'Uncut Gems.' (Courtesy)

Haunting housesSafdie bros. to launch show within a show with comic Nathan Fielder

By Emily Burack

Harvey Weinstein leaves a Manhattan courthouse during his rape trial, February 19, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Weinstein jurors to see emails sent to Israeli spy firm about rape accuser

By AP

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