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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 22, 2020

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Medical workers wearing protective gear carry a patient infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus at a hospital in Chuncheon, South Korea, February 22, 2020. (Yonhap/AFP)

Not clear whether they had the virus when they got to Israel

9 South Koreans test positive for coronavirus after returning from Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli Health Ministry publishes list of places the group visited, including Jerusalem, on February 8-15 trip, warns anyone who was in close contact with them to self-quarantine

Doctors union head suggests health minister’s virus response driven by elections

WHO says window to curb virus outbreak narrowing as infections soar

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran reports fifth coronavirus death, the highest tally outside Far East

By AFP

A Jewish Iranian woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the capital Tehran on February 21, 2020. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranian Jews cast votes in parliamentary elections

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran’s Jewish community is one of four religious minorities with a designated seat in parliament; final results of election, which is likely to boost conservatives, expected Sunday

A voter registers to cast her vote during the parliament elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, February 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranian hard-liners jump out to early lead in parliamentary elections

By Nasser Karimi

A voter registers to cast her vote during the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Polls close in Iranian parliament elections favoring conservatives

By Nasser Karimi

Police at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on February 22, 2019. (Israel Police)

Palestinian tries to stab cops in Jerusalem Old City terror attack, is shot dead

Police say man running at them with knife was ‘neutralized’ by officers at the Lion’s Gate; woman lightly hurt, reportedly by ricochet from officers’ gunfire

An IDF bulldozer is seen during clashes in the northern West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum on February 21, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

IDF bulldozer filmed clearing stones at ‘high speed’ during West Bank clashes

Young man in an internment camp (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gift of David Spegal)

9 standouts as US Holocaust Museum shares New Yorkers’ artifacts from WWII

By Josefin Dolsten

The covers to anti-Semitic Nazi-era children's books on sale on Amazon. (Screenshot)

Auschwitz museum demands Amazon drop ‘Nazi propaganda’ books

By AFP

Founder of TruNews Pastor Rick Wiles, who is widely known for his anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, in a rant claiming Jews are trying to overthrow US President Donald Trump, November 22, 2019. (Screen grab via Right Wing Watch)

Far-right ‘Jew coup’ media outlet TruNews banned from YouTube

Platform headed by pastor who has said Jews want to kill ‘millions of Christians’ apparently barred for violating site’s hate speech rules; has been accredited by White House

Sanders blasts Russia amid reports Moscow helping his campaign

By Steve Peoples

Twitter suspends 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for ‘platform manipulation’

By AFP

Bloomberg says 3 women who filed suits against him can be released from NDAs

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the group’s annual national conference in Washington on April 15, 2018. (Courtesy, J Street)

Interview

Eric Cortellessa

Has J Street become US Jewry’s Democratic kingmaker on Israel?

Left-leaning group’s founder and president Jeremy Ben-Ami talks with The Times of Israel about its prominent role in the crowded 2020 Democratic primary

AnalysisA strange place for AIPAC: To the left of a peace plan

This photo from February 15, 2017, shows the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

France, Germany slam plan to build, expand East Jerusalem neighborhoods

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz in an interview with Channel 12 news aired on February 21, 2019. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Gantz: Criminal investigation into my former firm has ‘political aroma’

Blue and White chief questions timing of decision to probe company he once led, shortly before the elections; though he’s not named as a suspect, police said weighing phone search

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz speaks to supporters in Tel Aviv on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz says if he were PM, he’d step down if indicted

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends an event at the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG asks High Court to halt work of panel probing internal police investigations

Oleksander Lemenov outside the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, on February 3. 2020 (Facebook)

His family fled to Israel, but this activist fights for rule of law in Ukraine

By Simona Weinglass

Aryeh Ben David

Love. It’s a Jewish thing

Loving people should become a primary community goal, reflected and taught in our schools and synagogues

Steven Windmueller

The conversations we Jews will need to have

We are in a new time! The Jewish world will require a reset button that allows us to enter a new phase of dialogue and engagement

Analysis

The real stories behind ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino’s new Nazi-hunting Amazon series

The show boasts an aesthetic that’s more comic book than history book, but its stories and plotlines are based on many true events

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

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

Murder or mitzvah? ‘Hunters’ grapples with the morality of Jews killing Nazis

By Gabe Friedman

St. Paul's Church, built by British emissaries in 1873, on what would become Jerusalem's Shivtei Yisrael Street. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

The Jerusalem street beloved by old Europe’s nobles, pilgrims, tycoons, envoys

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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French-Moroccan Prof. Youssef Chiheb in an interview with France 24 Arabic TV on February 12, 2020, in footage transcribed by the Middle East Media Research Institute. (YouTube screenshot)

French-Moroccan prof. tells Arabic TV: Region’s hostile view of Israel ‘archaic’

Brad Parker (Twitter)

Pro-Palestinian activist: Belgium rescinded my UN invite after Israeli pressure

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The stars of "Friends," from left, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox Arquette, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc in Los Angeles, Sept. 22, 2002. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)

There for youUnscripted ‘Friends’ reunion special to launch with HBO Max

By AP

Harvey Weinstein arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court, February 20, 2020 for the third day of jury deliberations in his sex assault trial in New York. (Timothy A. Clark/AFP)

Weinstein jury appears deadlocked on 2 most serious counts, unanimous on others

By Tom Hays and Michael R. Sisak

Sy Sperling, Hair Club for Men president, in a commercial (Screen grab/YouTube)

ObituarySy Sperling, Hair Club for Men president ‘and also a client,’ dies at 78

A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)

Belgian carnival organizers reject Israel’s call to cancel anti-Semitic parade

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Indian Bnei Menashe Jews baking matzah in Churachandpur, India, March 30, 2017. (Courtesy of Shavei Israel)

On the riseJewish group in NY markets soft matzah for Passover

This combination of photos shows sons of then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, left, and Alaa Mubarak, attending a Christmas Eve Mass at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, January 6, 2011. (AP Photo/File)

Mubarak’s sons acquitted of graft charges by Egyptian court

A GetTaxi vehicle in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Lawsuit alleges Gett’s ‘Kosher’ taxi option discriminates against Arab drivers

A 1.4-meter (55-inch) wide sarcophagus and what appears to be an altar, dating back to the 6th Century BCE, are seen in an underground chamber, at the ancient Roman Forum, during an unveiling to media, in Rome, February 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Lost shrine to Rome’s founder believed discovered in Roman Forum

By Frances D'Emilio

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