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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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Screen capture from video if Iran's Deputy Health Minister, Iraj Harirchi, during a press conference about the spread of the coronavirus, February 24, 2020. (Twitter)

Day after sweaty press conf, Iran deputy health minister says he has coronavirus

Iraj Harirchi isolates himself at home; revelation comes a day after he was seen sweating and coughing during press conference in which he denied mass deaths from disease

A Korean airplane that arrived from South Korea, after landing at Ben Gurion International Airport on February 22, 2020. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Korean flight attendant who was in Israel, LA tests positive for coronavirus

Illustrative: An Emirates jetliner comes in for landing at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. December 11, 2019. (Jon Gambrell/AP)

United Arab Emirates bans Iran flights over virus; at least 15 dead in Iran

By Jon Gambrell

A masked Palestinian checks the damage following overnight Israeli airstrikes on an Islamic Jihad military base in the town of Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas said to demand Israel cancel all restrictions imposed this week on Gaza

By Michael Bachner

Terror group reportedly says government should announce tonight it is reopening crossings into Israel and reinstating 15-mile fishing zone

7:32 pm

Embassies told to disinvite expert who opposes Israel's Iran policy -- report
7:03 pm

Israel protests carnival float in Spain that features Nazi uniforms, crematoria
6:55 pm

Syrian regime retakes Kafranbel in Idlib province -- monitor

Israeli woman who caught coronavirus on Japan cruise recovers, leaves hospital

Rachel Biton will fly back to Israel from Japan tomorrow and will be tested again before she is released, reports say

Rachel Biton is released from a Japanese medical facility after testing negative for coronavirus, February 25, 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 12 news)

Israel issues travel warning for Italy, weighs quarantine for returnees

Central Elections Committee readying special booths for virus-quarantined voters

Virus could cost Israeli economy NIS 14 billion, officials warn

In this April 2, 2008 file photo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looks on during a meeting at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak dies at 91

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Leader who maintained a cool peace with Israel was imprisoned in his country in 2011 for inciting deaths of protesters in demonstrations that toppled his 30-year rule

The 3rd annual Women Moving Mountains hike in solidarity with 'chained' women (Irit Amit/Courtesy)

Times of Israel Podcast

LISTEN: Wandering in the desert, activists demand ‘chained’ women be let go

By Marissa Newman

View of the settlement of Ma'ale Adumin, in the West Bank overlooking the E1 area, January 4, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Netanyahu says he’s ordered 3,500-home project in contentious E1 West Bank area

Apparent gesture to settlers 6 days before elections would connect Ma’ale Adumim to East Jerusalem, bisecting a future Palestinian state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands at an overview overlooking the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, where he announced a new neighborhood is to be built, February 20, 2020. (Debbie Hill/Pool via AP)

US gave PM green light for Givat Hamatos construction 1.5 years ago – report

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) speaks to the UN Security Council at the United Nations headquarters on February 11, 2020 in New York. (Johannes EISELE / AFP)

UN Security Council calls for two-state solution to be respected in Middle East

By AFP and ToI Staff

Interview

Lapid: It’s either ‘Bibi and his liars’ or Gantz, who ‘everyone knows is honest’

Dismissing any equation between Netanyahu’s imminent graft trial and a new probe into a firm Gantz chaired, Blue and White No. 2 says he truly believes his party can win next week

Yair Lapid (left) and Benny Gantz speak to supporters in Tel Aviv, on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/ GPO/ Flash90)

Senior Hungarian official: Netanyahu and Orban belong to same political family

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 17th annual Jerusalem Conference of the B'sheva group, on February 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Panel to reconsider its ban on Netanyahu receiving funding for his legal defense

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Campaign notebook

Politics from the pulpit: Synagogue election campaign preaches the Yamina gospel

The right-wing party’s candidates target tens of thousands of worshipers in 21 cities across the country in ‘very significant’ part of national campaign

Naftali Bennett speaks at a yeshiva in Ashdod, December 27, 2012. (Ariel Schalit/AP/File)

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

Gantz says Netanyahu planning to falsely announce next term would be his last

By Raoul Wootliff

A mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip causes damage to a road in southern Israel on February 23, 2020. (Israel Police)

Roads reopen, trains restart as shaky truce takes hold on Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Schools remain shuttered in south Tuesday despite ceasefire going into effect before midnight, following 2 days of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad

Israel media reviewTruce and consequences: 6 things to know for February 25

By Joshua Davidovich

AnalysisDespite attempt to change rules with Syria strikes, Israel’s Gaza policy failing

By Avi Issacharoff

IDF chief warns Gaza clash may not be over, could spiral into greater conflict

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The lights within

’The chances are fifty-fifty,’ the doctors said, as they prepared us for surgery. We got the wrong fifty.

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Bernie’s AIPAC Snub Throws Liberal Zionists Under the Bus

From the NY Jewish Week: The Jewish left that admires Sanders’ political purity on Israel might be wishing themselves into another four years under of Donald Trump

The most authentically Jewish song you’ll hear this year

This African-American Hasid — ’Hitler’s worst nightmare’ — does what Jews have always done: he blends cultures to create something new

Loving the stranger in a time of COVID-19

As the pandemic sparks anti-East-Asian prejudice around the world, Jews must remember the obligation not to mistreat or curse a stranger

Israelis wait for a train in Jerusalem, February 17, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Fuming in a traffic jam? Angry about waiting? Israeli researchers have an idea

Think concrete thoughts, says BGU team, as study shows people geared to abstract, big picture thinking react more aggressively to wait times than those who focus on the details

In this January 6, 2020, file photo, Actor Rose McGowan, right, speaks at a news conference as actor Rosanna Arquette, center left, listens outside a Manhattan courthouse after the arrival of Harvey Weinstein in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

‘The sky is blue again’: Weinstein’s accusers express relief

By Jocelyn Noveck

‘He will rot in jail as he deserves,’ says Mira Sorvino; one accuser says she’d feared he would be totally acquitted and ‘make a comeback and he’d go to the Oscars and win again’

Weinstein case could influence other sex crime prosecutions

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and Jennifer Peltz

Harvey Weinstein: From Hollywood ‘God’ to convicted rapist

By Peter HUTCHISON

Weinstein convicted of rape, sexual assault in landmark moment for #MeToo

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

Patricia Kalember as Gloria Steinem, with Eunice Wong from the ensemble in 'Gloria: A Life.' (APrioriPhotography/ courtesy American Repertory Theater)

Ripple effect from Gloria Steinem’s second-wave feminism inspires stage show

By Penny Schwartz

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) and US Vice President Mike Pence (L) at a luncheon at the State Department in Washington, September 20, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Pence, Pompeo to speak at AIPAC policy conference

By Eric Cortellessa

Powerful pro-Israel lobby announces administration officials to appear at confab for third time, day after leading Democrat Bernie Sanders snubs it

AIPAC shows off bipartisan support after being slighted by Sanders

By PHILISSA CRAMER

US TV host Matthews apologizes for ‘bad’ Sanders Nazi analogy

By AP

Democrats unload on Sanders in likely debate preview

By Steve Peoples, MEG KINNARD and Bill Barrow

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Fatah Central Committee member Muhammad Al-Madani (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Abbas rejects resignation of senior official tasked with outreach to Israelis

A carnival float depicts a racist with a gun in his mouth , reading 'from words to action' during the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, on February 24, 2020. (Martin Meissner/AP)

German Carnival floats take aim at racism in wake of deadly gun attack

By AP

Elan Carr, the US State Department's special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, addresses the European Jewish Association's annual conference in Paris on February 24, 2020. (Courtesy)

US anti-Semitism envoy criticizes France’s failure to try killer of Jewish woman

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Revellers dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jews are pictured prior the start of the Aalst Carnival's on February 23, 2020, Aalst, Belgium. (JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE / AFP)

European Commission condemns anti-Semitic Belgian parade

By Matthieu Demeestere

Police and rescue workers stand next to where a car crashed into a carnival parade in Volkmarsen, central Germany, February 24, 2020 (Uwe Zucchi/dpa via AP)

Car plows into crowd at Carnival in German town, injuring dozens

By David Rising and Frank Jordans

Members of the Falash Mura community reunite with their families at the Ben Gurion airport, outside Tel Aviv on February 4, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Escorted by Likud lawmakers, 43 new immigrants arrive from Ethiopia

Footage of the arrest of a man of Ethiopian origin who was later mocked and disparaged in a police WhatsApp group, broadcast 24 February 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)

Police transfer officers after report on racism toward Ethiopian-Israelis

Green Party chairwoman Stav Shaffir speaks in the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 28, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Man arrested for making online death threats to MK Stav Shaffir

US President Donald Trump talks to the media about the table full of fast food in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, January 14, 2019, for the reception for the Clemson Tigers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Later, tater!Trump’s doctor hid cauliflower in his mashed potatoes – report

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: The High Court of Justice convenes for a hearing on the Regulation Law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court order freezes panel probing internal police investigations

Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, right, seen in the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem, January 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Left-wing activist probed over op-ed backing Palestinian violence

The tools set for performing the ceremony of Brit Milha. May 15 2007 (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

4 NY babies get herpes from Jewish circumcision rite in past 6 months

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