Fellowship’s Rabbi Eckstein dies * NY yeshiva set on fire, painted with swastikas * Fake news targets Israel * Likud Top 40 * Gaza border flower s * Netflix’s Talmudic TV

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Thursday, February 7, 2019 [Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of Fellowship of Christians and Jews, dies at 67]( By [TOI staff]( [Eckstein passes away from sudden heart failure; his IFCJ has raised $1.4 billion in donations for Israel, mostly from evangelical Christians]( [Upstate New York yeshiva set on fire and painted with swastikas]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Incident being treated as a hate crime, state police say]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Liberman’s a spy, Yair Netanyahu’s a Christian, and fake news aims to play havoc]( [Op-ed: How the online disinformation industry is trying to mess with your head, who’s fighting back, and where Israel is still vulnerable as the election campaign heats up]( [Israel election law ‘screams out’ for update to thwart online abuse, judge warns]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Israelis are world’s top users of social media, survey finds]( By [TOI staff]( The Likud Top 40 [Edelstein takes top spot in Likud primaries, with Netanyahu rival Sa’ar in 4th]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [Party members ignore Netanyahu’s cold shoulder to Knesset speaker and former interior minister, new additions Galant and Barkat score high; controversial MK Oren Hazan pushed out]( [Primary casualties / Farewell Oren Hazan: Scandal-prone MK and others set to miss out on next Knesset]( By [Michael Bachner]( [PM’s aides claim victory over Sa’ar in Likud vote, despite his high placement]( By [Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff]( [Hapoel Beersheba owner Alona Barkat joins New Right party]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Raphael Ahren]( [Austrian Jewish leader: No reason for Israel to end boycott of far-right FPOe]( [Oskar Deutsch, accompanying Austria’s president here this week, praises Jerusalem’s no-contact stance on FPOe, says the party is ‘obviously’ anti-Semitic]( [UK anti-Semitism breaks record high for 3rd year in a row, says watchdog]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [Popular singer in Iceland compares Jews to Nazis]( By [JTA]( [US House members introduce bill to fund Holocaust education in schools]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [In south, red is the new black as scorched lands give way to annual flower craze]( By [Melanie Lidman and Photos and video: Luke Tress]( TV review [It takes a Talmudic mind to unravel Netflix’s new series ‘Russian Doll’]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Palestinians ‘encouraged’ by Gantz’s remarks on possible West Bank pullback]( By [TOI staff]( [Spokesperson for PA chief stresses there is no info yet on what policies Netanyahu’s rival will actually implement if he becomes prime minister]( [In reversal, state body says settlement university cannot build medical school]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Schooled in the primaries: 6 things to know for February 7]( By [Tamar Pileggi]( [Poll: Ex-IDF chief Ashkenazi could boost Gantz’s party by 6 seats]( By [Michael Bachner]( Top Ops [Yehudis Fletcher]( [The community’s response can hurt more than the abuse]( [It’s high time we protest the faith-based institutions that use faith as a fig leaf, and protect perpetrators instead of survivors]( [Yomin Postelnik]( [Fairness for the Netanyahus]( [It’s shameful to go after Sara Netanyahu for having a chef make food that she delivered to her ailing father in the hospital]( [Yigal M. Gross]( [New Jersey’s RCBC decertifies communal debate]( [It’s not (just) about women rabbis — no synagogue should cede its policy-making and hiring decisions to an external body]( [His dad was an imam, his wife has Jewish roots: Meet El Salvador’s new leader]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Nayib Bukele’s grandfather was a Christian Palestinian from Jerusalem, which didn’t stop president-elect visiting in 2018 — and this week recalling his stop at the Western Wall]( Interview [New book puts Freud and psychoanalysis back on the couch]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( Live updates [Attorney general tells PM to stop taking campaign photos with soldiers]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli law forbids campaigning on army bases, or using uniformed soldiers in campaign materials]( [US blocks UN move to condemn Israel’s decision to shut Hebron monitor mission]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Kuwait and Indonesia had circulated draft statement to express Security Council’s ‘regret’ about Israel’s ‘unilateral decision’ to boot TIPH and call for ‘calm and restraint’]( [Abbas says US-Palestinian security ties endure despite aid halt]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Netanyahu hails US purchase of Israeli Iron Dome batteries]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Three Palestinians nabbed for stone-throwing that wounded baby]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Images suggest Iran has attempted second satellite launch]( By [Jon Gambrell]( [US and Israel say Tehran’s space program a cover for ballistic missile development; Iran has not acknowledged conducting fresh launch after previous effort failed to reach orbit]( [Iran arrested 860 journalists in post-revolution decades, watchdog says]( By [AFP]( [Hezbollah leader calls on Lebanon to accept arms from Iran to confront Israel]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Iran tells US to get out of Syria, whether it wants to or not]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( More Headlines [Gaza rocket hits Israel, IDF tank fires at Hamas position in response]( By [TOI staff]( [Turkish police suspect Israeli woman murdered by father, brother]( By [TOI staff]( [5 Jewish takeaways from Trump’s State of the Union address]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Shtick up / Jordanian living illegally in Israel held for bubble gun bank heist]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Cheery clan / Booted by Nazis, Jewish group with unfortunate KKK name returns to Cologne]( By [JTA]( [Man arrested in connection with murder, rape committed 26 years ago]( By [TOI staff]( [Analysis / From billboards to webcast, Netanyahu taps his inner Trump for campaign]( By [Aron Heller]( [IDF returns man caught crossing northern border to Lebanon]( By [TOI staff]( [After nixing Eurovision bid over Shabbat, band may play at semifinals]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Tulsi Gabbard rejects David Duke endorsement for president]( By [JTA]( [Abandoned newborn found next to dumpster in central Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel Innovation Authority sets up program to boost woman-led startups]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved