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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 1, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with his then-aide Natan Eshel, on August 28, 2011. (Amit Shabi/pool/Flash90/File)

'They hate everything... and we whip up that hatred'

Netanyahu aide in leaked recording: ‘Hate is what unites our camp’

Natan Eshel heard saying negative campaigning works well with ‘non-Ashkenazi’ voters and that the ‘animal’ Miri Regev is particularly effective at it

Natan Eshel at a meeting between the Likud party and the United Torah judaism party as part of the coalition negotiations, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After knocking ‘non-Ashkenazim,’ Netanyahu aide says he has Mizrahi grandkids

Natan Eshel at a meeting between the Likud party and the United Torah judaism party as part of the coalition negotiations, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Shas leader chide Likud aide Eshel for saying base ‘united by hate’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech at a Likud election rally in Ramat Gan, Feb 29, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Recording indicates Netanyahu knew about tape of Gantz aide before its release

TV publishes conversation of rabbi who recorded Israel Bachar discussing the tape with premier, despite PM’s denial of speaking with him about it

7:36 pm

Sanders on criticism from Israeli envoy: I'm proud to be Jewish, am not anti-Israel
7:23 pm

Rocket reportedly fired from Gaza at Israel, falls short of the border
7:11 pm

Petition alleges Likud shared polling data in violation of election law

Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders addresses a campaign rally February 29, 2020, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Israel’s UN ambassador tells AIPAC Bernie Sanders is an ‘ignorant fool’

‘We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel,’ declares Danny Danon of US Democratic frontrunner, who had called Netanyahu a ‘reactionary racist’

Then-US vice president Joe Biden addresses the AIPAC 2016 Policy Conference in Washington, DC, March 20, 2016. (AP/Cliff Owen)

A beleaguered AIPAC looks to prove it’s a home for progressives

By Eric Cortellessa

Democratic presidential candidate former US Vice President Joe Biden takes photos with supporters at a campaign event at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, North Carolina, February 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Biden wins South Carolina, aims for Super Tuesday momentum

By Steve Peoples, MEG KINNARD and Bill Barrow

Analysis

Netanyahu saw Trump plan as asset, but now polls show surge of angry Arab voters

A euphoric PM thought the US deal would help ensure election victory. But a clause suggesting Arab towns could be placed in a future Palestine has galvanized some key opponents

Benjamin Netanyahu in an Election Day message, March 17, 2015, warning that Arab voters were coming out in droves. (screen capture: YouTube)

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh arrives for a meeting with party members at the Knesset on September 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Joint List leader Odeh: We’ll win 16 seats, prevent Netanyahu forming coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (2nd-L) at the northern West Bank settlement of Ariel on February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Netanyahu pledges ‘immediate’ annexation steps if reelected

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

For both major parties, it isn’t about winning – it’s about staying in the ring

Likud and Blue and White have proven unexpectedly resilient in a race that will likely be won not by a knockout but by grueling attrition, and both are preparing for round 4

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

Gantz: Likud spreading false reports about coronavirus to hurt Blue and White

Campaign notebookHardened by year-long campaign, Gantz makes final push with mix of hope, outrage

By Raoul Wootliff

In TV interviews, Netanyahu and Gantz each insist the other is unfit to be PM

Left photo: Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the Likud party's election rally in Ramat Gan on February 29, 2020; Right photo: Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, holds a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right party says it would have dropped out, but Netanyahu reneged on deal

Otzma Yehudit says it’s staying in the race after PM walked back agreement to raze Bedouin hamlet, amend law barring racists from Knesset

20 Israelis sue Likud over app breach that led to massive data leak

Netanyahu appears to invent reports that the judges in his case are ‘leftists’

Yair Netanyahu ordered to pay $81,000 to journalist in libel suit

Benny Gantz, center, at an election campaign event in Tel Aviv on February 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media review

A fight at the end of the tunnel: 7 things to know for March 1

By Joshua Davidovich

The parties are revving their campaigns into overdrive, hoping to gain an inch or two over their rivals, even if it means throwing a tantrum on TV or getting muddy for a leak

An Israeli man holds his dog while casting his ballot at a polling station in Rosh Haayin, on September 17, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Election Day 2020Bolstered elections committee staff to prowl polling stations with cameras

By Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian women at the Qalandiya checkpoint outside of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Israel to close West Bank, Gaza crossings to Palestinians on election day

By Judah Ari Gross

If at first you don’t succeed, vote, vote again

I took my voting responsibility very seriously by planning a beach day in minute detail. I was halfway to Tel Aviv when I realized that I’d forgotten to factor in time to vote

A new story to tell about that ‘rift’ between US Jewry and Israel

The same voices keep saying there’s growing alienation from the Jewish state. They’re wrong. It’s time to bring in new voices

Aaron David Miller

The most dangerous Middle East peace plan I’ve ever seen

We may have been too pro-Israel at Camp David, but at least we tried to engage both sides. Trump’s team didn’t bother to try

Not Jewish enough, not gay enough

The crude, deterministic equation of identity with political views precludes our ability to judge candidates on their own terms

El Al employees wearing protective masks arrive in Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

El Al labor reps scramble after airline says it may lay off 1,000

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Talks between company and workers gridlocked, expected to continue throughout the week; separately, leading low cost airline cuts back on flights between Israel and Europe

Israeli coronavirus patient back from Italy apologizes ‘for any harm’

Iran raises death toll from virus to 54

By Nasser Karimi

Trump moves to calm virus fears after first death on US soil

By AFP

Security forces and municipality workers outside a building targeted by an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus' Mazzeh neighborhood overnight on November 12, 2019. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Defense minister admits for first time Israel behind November Syria strike

Bennett reveals during TV interview that IDF ‘struck in Damascus’ on November 12, an hour after attack in Gaza that touched off a round of violence

Syria says 2 warplanes downed by Turkey as tensions soar

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and andrew wilks

Turkey launches military operation against Syrian regime

By AFP

UN says 13,000 migrants mass at Turkey’s border with Greece

By COSTAS KANTOURIS

Elisabeth Bergner via United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division; Libby Holman via Confetta/Flickr; Ruby Myers via Bollywoodirect/Medium; Sylvia Sidney via Vintage Everyday; Luise Rainer by Paramount/ Wikimedia Commons; Lillian Roth via Wikimedia Commons; Hedy Llamarr by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images. (All images via JTA)

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Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on February 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sex offender rabbi Berland indicted in miracles-for-cash case

Pope Francis coughs during the Angelus noon prayer he recited from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Coughing pope cancels spiritual retreat for first time, amid Italy’s virus alarm

By AP

Lona Chemtai Salpeter of Israel crosses the finish line to win the women's category of the Tokyo Marathon in Tokyo on March 1, 2020. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Israeli Chemtai Salpeter wins Tokyo Marathon amid coronavirus fears

By ToI Staff and AP

Writer and director Quentin Tarantino and his wife Daniella Pick pose for photographers upon arrival at the UK premiere for Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, at a central London cinema, July 30, 2019. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Made their pickTarantino and Israeli wife Daniella Pick name their first son Leo

Iranian producer Farzad Pak holds a phone displaying Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof who was awarded the "Golden Bear for Best Film" attends a press conference after the awarding ceremony of the 70th Berlinale film festival in Berlin on February 29, 2020. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Dissident Iranian director wins Berlin fest top prize for film on death penalty

By AFP

Illustrative: An Israeli police car (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Woman, 36, shot dead in Taibe

In this February 27, 2020 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, left, puts his arm around the shoulder of Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte and gives him a kiss on both cheeks during a joint press conference on the occasion of a French-Italian summit in Naples, southern Italy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Turn the other cheek?Friendly kissing poses European dilemma as virus spreads

By Colleen Barry

A worker disinfects subway trains against coronavirus in Tehran, Iran, in the early morning of February 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Trump says US willing to help Iran with coronavirus

By AFP

Umm Kulthum in Life Magazine, 1962. (Wikimedia, public domain)

3D divaIconic Arab singer Umm Kulthum to ‘star’ in Cairo hologram concert

By AFP

Iranian actress Baran Rasoulof, second left, and actor Kaveh Ahangar, second right, sit next to the empty chair of Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who is unable to leave his home country, during a press conference for the film 'Sheytan Vojud Nadarad' (There is no Evil) screened in competition at the 70th Berlinale film festival in Berlin on February 28, 2020. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Memory politics haunt Berlinale after scandal over Nazi past

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