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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 26, 2020

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Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders speaks with members of the media after a Democratic presidential primary debate, February 25, 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Foreign minister condemns Sanders’ ‘shocking’ comment on US embassy

After Democratic front-runner says he’ll weigh moving mission from Jerusalem, Israel Katz says ‘people who very much support Israel will not tend to support him’

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives on stage for the Democratic presidential primary debate at the Charleston Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, February 25, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Sanders says he would weigh moving US embassy back to Tel Aviv if elected

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential hopeful and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during a campaign event, Feb. 20, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Bloomberg first Democratic party candidate to confirm speech at AIPAC

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

In last days of campaign, Netanyahu stops shaking hands over coronavirus fears

PM’s decision is ‘responsible’ as he meets thousands each day, aides say; defense minister’s adviser excluded from meeting with PM after daughter returns from Thailand with cold

Workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at a bus garage in Seoul, South Korea,, February 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Virus hits more countries as health official warns world ‘not ready’

A Pakistan doctor enters an isolation ward set up as a preventative measure following the deadly Coronavirus outbreak, at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center in Karachi, Pakistan, February 3, 2020. (Fareed Khan/AP)

Study begins in US to test possible coronavirus treatment

Medical staff at Tel Hashomer Hospital await Israelis under coronavirus quarantine, February 20, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel media review

The gloves are on: 6 things to know for February 26

By Joshua Davidovich

Election campaigns have stepped up attacks with days to go, as Israel prepares to vote under a cloud of coronavirus fears and maybe a fourth round too

Former Mossad director Tamir Pardo participates in the Meir Dagan Conference for Strategy and Defense at the Netanya Academic College, March 21, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Ex-Mossad chief says Likud app leaks as dangerous to Israel as coronavirus

Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir at the entrance to the Central Elections Committee in the Knesset, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud said to give up on convincing far-right party to quit elections

Gabi Ashkenazi (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2011. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Ashkenazi accuse each other of lying as campaigns get personal

Days before election, PM alleges Blue and White MK will ‘quit politics’ if Harpaz affair transcripts aired; Ashkenazi retorts that premier recently offered him defense minister job

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

Gantz says courts should be above political system, drawing right-wing ire

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni chairs a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on March 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox MK says he’ll demand law banning public transportation on Shabbat

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz gestures at a press conference at Kfar Hamaccabia on February 26, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz: Netanyahu ‘poisoning’ Israel, carrying out ‘hate crime’ against democracy

Blue and White leader steps up attacks on PM, accuses him of ‘lying’ and ‘inciting,’ and rules out future cooperation

7:20 pm

El Al official warns airline could go under 'in weeks' due to coronavirus
7:04 pm

TV: 1 billion shekels printed by Israel held up in plane in Europe
6:59 pm

Likud to Gantz: Take a chill pill

Interview

Carnival that showed Jews as vermin ‘not anti-Semitic,’ Jewish Belgian MP says

Michael Freilich, Belgium’s only Orthodox lawmaker, says fewer than 50 of 6,000 participants presented anti-Jewish displays, compares Aalst procession to Israeli Purim parades

People dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jews/ants are seen before the start of the Aalst Carnival's on February 23, 2020, in Aalst, Belgium. (James Arthur Gekiere/AFP)

First personI enjoyed Belgium’s Aalst Carnival, then looked for homes in Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Carnival float in Spain features Nazi uniforms and trains with crematoria

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jewish leader okays Brazilian carnival costumes with swastikas

By Marcus M. Gilban

Consistoire President Joel Mergui addresses the European Jewish Association annual conference in Paris on February 25, 2020. (Yoni Rykner)

European Jewish group unveils plan to ‘beat anti-Semitism’ amid rise in attacks

Community leaders from European Jewish Association call on politicians to take more action against Jew-hatred; in shift, many say they’d welcome security support from Israel

Marseille's mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin chairs a town council, on January 27, 2020 at Marseille city hall. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP)

Marseille mayor signs letter calling Tel Aviv ‘ex-Palestine’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A rabbi arrives at a synagogue in Berlin to attend an event commemorating Kristallnacht, Nov. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

1 in 5 Europeans say secret Jewish cabal runs the world, survey finds

By Cnaan Liphshiz

People shopping at the Osher Ad supermarket branch in Talpiot, Jerusalem, November 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Monopoly nation: How a handful of firms control prices, hold Israelis ransom

From Belgium, with shame

As a citizen, as a human being, as a son, as a brother, as a father, and as a grandfather, I feel sorrow for the pain my countrymen have caused the Jewish community

Finding happiness in the mess of life (Sarah’s rules)

I bridled against my bossy older sister’s advice, but I took a certain pleasure in following her instructions. Too bad she can’t relish the win

Eugene Korn and David Fox Sandmel

To call Israeli society a ‘caste system’ is to bear false witness

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is ignoring the freedom, security and prosperity enjoyed by Israel’s minorities — on display in Israel’s diverse cities

A blow to the IDF as the ‘people’s army’

A proposal by the panel appointed to investigate ultra-Orthodox enlistment to lower the exemption age defies multiple High Court rulings

In this March 13, 1996 file photo, Russian President Boris Yeltsin waves as he and (from left to right) Jordan's King Hussein, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, US President Bill Clinton, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and, far right, PLO Leader Yasser Arafat make their way up to pose for the group photo at the end of their one-day Summit for Peacemakers in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Analysis

Mubarak kept peace treaty but shunned deeper ties with Israel

Israeli ex-envoy says Egyptian leader didn’t make major efforts to advance agricultural, cultural cooperation; expert says he was keen on advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak speaks during an address to the World Economic Forum on the Middle East at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Congress Center.May 18, 2008. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Rivlin eulogizes ‘brave leader’ Mubarak, who ‘forged new relationship of peace’

Egyptian honor guards carry the coffin of former president Hosni Mubarak during his funeral ceremony at Cairo's Mosheer Tantawi mosque in the eastern outskirts of the Egyptian capital on February 26, 2020 (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt holds full-honors military funeral for Mubarak

Illustrative image: Ultra-Orthodox Jews stand outside the New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts (NJPAC) while waiting for the start of a Yiddish performance, April 24, 2019, in Newark, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Interview

Cathryn J. Prince

Jewish academic: Under attack, US ultra-Orthodox are misunderstood, ‘terrified’

Yeshiva University Prof. Moshe Krakowski believes that as regular physical and verbal violence against Jews continues, the media is as much to blame as the perpetrators

Haredi Orthodox men praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, January 12, 2017. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images/via JTA)

Many ultra-Orthodox who lose their faith must live a ‘double life’

By Alexandra Vardi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (SL), acompanied by his wife Sara, is greeted by Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman on October 26, 2018 (Courtesy)

Breaking protocol, Sara Netanyahu insisted on traveling to Oman with PM – report

‘Embarrassed’ Mossad officials were sent to tell Omani officials that Netanyahu was in ‘sensitive situation’ due to wife’s ‘special temperament,’ report says

Palestinian Authority lashes Netanyahu’s vow to build in West Bank corridor

By AFP and Jacob Magid

As PA seethes at Trump plan, top officials say all of Israel is Palestine

As ceasefire takes hold, Islamic Jihad vows new rounds of violence

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Henneguya salminicola seen under a microscope (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli researchers say they’ve found first animal to survive without oxygen

Aerobic respiration was thought to exist in all multi-cellular lifeforms, but Tel Aviv University scientists find one parasite lacks the systems to process the element entirely

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President Reuvin Rivlin, left, and Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison meet at Parliament House in Canberra, February 26, 2020. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Rivlin reassures Australian PM accused pedophile Leifer will face justice

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Runners take part in a marathon in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv on February 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tel Aviv to let foreign runners already in Israel compete in Friday’s marathon

Dr. Raz Zimmt (YouTube screenshot)

TV: Israeli embassies told to disinvite top Iran expert who opposes gov’t policy

Alabama wide receiver Jerry Jeudy speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Calling an audibleUS college football star Jeudy apologizes for wearing Star of David

By ARNIE STAPLETON

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse for jury deliberations in his rape trial, Feb. 24, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Hospitalized Weinstein is ‘energized,’ ‘upbeat’ about appeal, lawyer says

By AP

Holocaust survivors Edith Jacobs, Shirley Fernbach, Jean Kurtz, Adele Rubinstein, and Eva Friedman attend an exercise class led by Mindy Landau at Nachas Health and Family Network in Brooklyn, New York, January 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)

In New York, women Holocaust survivors find joy in fight against poverty

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, chairs a meeting to discuss the economic impact of the coronavirus, Jerusalem, Feb. 25, 2020. (Haim Zach/GPO)

PM says economy prepared for coronavirus amid rising fears of business impact

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

Amazon halts sale of books assailed as ‘Nazi propaganda’

By AFP

View of downtown Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. (Guillaume Prévost/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Deed on Montreal-area home contains century-old clause preventing sale to Jews

By JTA and ToI Staff

Veteran guitarist Mark Rashkow (Courtesy Sharon Shapira)

One final noteVeteran blues musician Mark Rashkow to take stage one last time

By Jessica Steinberg

An Airbnb office in Toronto. (Wikimedia/Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler/CC0 public domain)

Want to host on Airbnb? Better smile in your photos, Israeli researchers say

Then-Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, February 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Anti-Semitic Malaysian PM won’t rule out comeback if he has majority support

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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