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What Matters Most On Friday, February 28, 2020

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An extremely powerful eruption in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, some 390 million light-years from Earth. (X-ray: NASA/CXC/Naval Research Lab/Giacintucci, S.; XMM:ESA/XMM; Radio: NCRA/TIFR/GMRTN; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF)

Astronomers discover biggest known explosion in the history of the universe

Cosmic blast in galaxy cluster some 390 million light years from earth opened a gas crater the size of 15 Milky Way galaxies

This combination picture created on September 18, 2019 shows, Benny Gantz (R), leader of the Blue and White political alliance, waving to supporters in Tel Aviv early on September 18, 2019, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing supporters at his Likud party's electoral campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv early on September 18, 2019. (Emmanuel Dunand and Menahem Kahana / AFP)

PM's bloc seen winning 57-58 seats in the 120-member Knesset

Surveys show Netanyahu-led bloc leading, but still 3-4 seats short of majority

By Stuart Winer

Rash of polls before Monday’s election give PM’s Likud party either a slight lead, or neck-and-neck with rival Blue and White; Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu still kingmaker

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at the Maariv conference in Herzliya, on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman says he may not back anyone for PM, or perhaps just nominate himself

Election posters put up by Blue and White show candidates Benny Gantz (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu on February 18, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media reviewCountdown to fourth elections: 7 things to know for February 28

Blue and White party leader MK Benny Gantz seen in the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz fires adviser taped calling him ‘danger’ to Israel, but says it was ambush

Blue and White: Israel Bachar was trapped ‘by improper means’ when heard saying Gantz lacks ‘courage to attack Iran’; Likud: Fired for telling truth; Bacher: Gantz is worthy leader

Former Mossad, Shin Bet heads call Netanyahu ‘a danger’ who puts country at risk

Police transcript tells of $24,000 Netanyahu dinner, covered by billionaire

TV airs recording of top Gantz adviser assailing him as ‘danger’ to Israel

View of an election campaign billboards showing Israeli prime minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, in Tel Aviv on February 24, 2020. (Flash90)

Analysis

Israelis abroad debate whether third vote in a year worth the trip home

With no absentee ballot and seemingly endless voting, some are opting to save the hassle and airfare cost, or take a vacation instead. Coronavirus fears and AIPAC aren’t helping

Illustrative: Israelis count the remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees at the parliament in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90/File)

Israelis happy with democracy, but support for democratic rights is low – poll

By Michael Bachner

Avriel Bar-Yosef attends a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on July 24, 2017. (Flash90)

2 more ex-officials to be indicted in submarines case

A man gets tested for COVID-19 in Algiers, Algeria, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP/Anis Belghoul)

Israeli firm unveils kit to diagnose coronavirus, as 2nd team works on a vaccine

Announcement of BATM kit comes as officials struggle to balance need for rapid testing and worries over false positives; science minister hails institute’s progress toward vaccine

Ruben Golran, an Italian Jewish kid celebrating his bar mitzvah, has limited ceremony due to coronavirus outbreak (Courtesy of the Golran family via JTA)

Bar mitzvah cancelled, Purim in jeopardy: Italy’s Jews face new virus realities

A man wearing a surgical masks looks on as the pack rides by during stage five the UAE Cycling Tour from al-Maroom to Jebel Hafeet, in Dubai on February 27, 2020. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

Israeli cycling team locked down in UAE as race nixed over coronavirus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Workers disinfect a toy shop in Or Yehuda, after a man who works at the shop and returned from Italy tested positive for coronavirus February 28, 2020 (Flash90)

Israel’s coronavirus cases more than double within a day, from 3 to 7 patients

Two returnees from Italy found to carry deadly pathogen; passenger on cruise ship who was hospitalized in Japan with virus but then cleared found to still have it upon return

Yitzhak and Rachel Biton reunite on February 28, 2020 after nearly 2 weeks separation due to coronavirus (Screen grab/Kan)

Love in the time of coronavirus: Quarantined couple reunited after 2 weeks

An ambulance carrying an Israeli man who returned from Italy and tested positive for coronavirus arrives at Tel Hashomer Hospital, February 27, 2020 (Flash 90)

Israeli woman found with COVID-19 after husband returns from Italy with virus

Israeli airline El Al planes parked at Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel, on March 16, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al could fire 1,000 people, nearly sixth of workforce, over virus losses

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Company scrambles as transportation, tourism industries rocked by coronavirus, Health Ministry restrictions; airline and representatives of its 6,300 workers in talks

A child wears a mask while walking with parents in downtown Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27, 2020 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran reports 8 new virus deaths, as first case reported in sub-Saharan Africa

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange tumbles alongside world markets amid growing virus panic

Democratic presidential hopefuls former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg (L) and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (R) speak during a break in the ninth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 19, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP)

'It's amazing... and odd how little is being made of this'

A Jewish US president? Sanders, Bloomberg vie to break a barrier many don’t see

By Michael Mathes

Neither the self-declared democratic socialist nor his multi-billionaire rival has particularly wide support in Jewish community; beyond, there’s plenty of indifference

Americans think Bernie Sanders is least religious of Democratic front-runners

By Josefin Dolsten

Sanders’ rise fuels Democrats’ angst, but Pelosi won’t intervene

By Alan Fram and LISA MASCARO

Sanders pitches black voters on ideas and history, not his Jewish faith

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer

Papa Bibi meet King Solomon

A true leader would not dismember his people to save his own skin — no matter how much he believes he’d be the better leader

To the anyone-but-Bibi voter

Blue and White politicians are so divergent in their ideologies that it’s impossible to think of the party leading a stable coalition

What the richest man in history implies about the Golden Calf, the Tabernacle, and the Israelites’ financial standing in the wilderness (Terumah)

The Tabernacle’s beauty is hidden, and that’s the point

The Mishkan’s beauty comes not only from its sumptuous fabrics and luxuriant appointments, but also from the element of giving by each person that made it (Terumah)

Screen capture from video a killer whale spotted off the coast of Israel, February 28, 2020. (Twitter)

Making waves

Killer whale spotted off the coast of Israel

For first time, officials manage to capture the marine mammal on video after orca seen swimming 1.4 kilometers away from northern shores

John Turturro in a scene from 'The Plot Against America.' (Screen capture: YouTube/HBO)

Analysis

Fictional Nazi thrillers bring real-life drama to cautionary tales

Shows like Hunters, Plot Against America, Man in High Castle, Jojo Rabbit, take license with history, draw some protests, but makers say medium can educate against rise in hate

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (3rd R) launches the 'No Hate in Our State' campaign to combat hate, division and anti-semitism in New York State, February 27, 2020 (Courtesy)

In response to rising anti-Semitism, NY’s Cuomo proposes domestic terror law

By LAURA E. ADKINS

Carnival float in the Spanish town of Campo de Criptana features uniforms of Nazis, concentration camp inmates and crematoria trains, in February 2020. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Spanish town says was told crematoria carnival float was Holocaust commemoration

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Munchin, left, and daughter of US President Donald Trump, Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump, unveil a dedication plaque during the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Moving the US Embassy back to Tel Aviv? Technically possible, but very unlikely

Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders would consider shutting the Jerusalem mission, but experts say there are many political — and legal — obstacles he’d have to clear first

Israel advances plans for nearly 1,800 new settlement homes days before election

In final days of campaign, Netanyahu launches effort to reach out to Arab voters

EU calls on Israel to stop building plans in controversial E1 West Bank corridor

Illustrative: A Turkish demonstrator holding a banner with a Nazi swastika and Star of David in Istanbul, January 2, 2009. (Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images)

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Filmmaker on documenting four mutations of ‘viral’ anti-Semitism

Episode #25: In the US, France, Britain and Hungary, Jew-hatred rears its head * TOI senior analyst tells what Sabras want out of Monday’s unprecedented 3rd elections in a year

Illustrative photo (Paulo Amorim/Getty Images, via JTA)

Holocaust escapee’s 1945 memoir discovered at rummage sale in French attic

By Emily Burack

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Gay couples prepare for a same-sex wedding in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 4, 2019. (AP/Oded Balilty)

High Court extends surrogacy rights to gay couples, single men

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

After weeks in hospital, soldier injured in Jerusalem car-ramming released

A picture taken on July 26, 2018, near Kibbutz Ein Zivan in the Israeli Golan Heights, shows smoke rising above buildings across the border in Syria during airstrikes backing a government-led offensive in the southern province of Quneitra. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israeli helicopters said to attack Syrian army posts along border

Turkish military convoy drives in Idlib province, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (AP/Ghaith Alsayed)

Dozens of Turkish soldiers killed by Syrian forces as fighting intensifies

By AP

Fighters from the Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades militia, inspect the destruction at their headquarters in the aftermath of a US airstrike in Qaim, Iraq, December 30, 2019. (AP)

US blacklists Iraqi Shiite paramilitary chief after base attacks

By AFP

An image from the music video for 'Further Up,' a single by Israeli duo Static & Ben El featuring US rapper Pitbull, released January 10, 2020. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Boker Tov AmericaIsraeli pop stars Static & Ben El hosted on ‘Good Morning America’

Actress and artist Raida Alon sets up house in a refitted suitcase of her own making, part of her one-woman video work, 'Strangeness,' at the Israel Museum through October 2020 (Courtesy Israel Museum)

Museum visitFour new Israel Museum exhibits contemplate disparate elements of life

By Jessica Steinberg

The Austrian parliament session in Vienna, Austria, January 10, 2020. (Ronald Zak/AP)

Austrian parliament unanimously passes condemnation of anti-Israel boycotts

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Leslie Wexner, left, and Jeffrey Epstein. (Laura E. Adkins/Getty Images via JTA)

Review finds Jeffrey Epstein ‘played no meaningful role’ in Wexner Foundation

By Josefin Dolsten

Civil Administration workers demolish two structures in the Shevah Ha'aretz illegal outpost near Yitzhar on October 24, 2019. (Courtesy)

AG’s office chides PMO for routinely blocking orders to raze illegal outposts

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