Israel Oscar win * US reform leader on PM’s deal with Kahanists: Like welcoming KKK * Israel, world’s 10th healthiest * In UK Labour tweets, Jew s accused of killing kids

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Monday, February 25, 2019 [Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s ‘Skin’ wins Oscar for best live action short film]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Director cites Holocaust survivor grandparents in acceptance speech, saying bigotry they experienced is all around us today and was motivation for film about race relations]( [Israeli Oscar winner promises to bring award to Israel]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Rami Malek becomes first Arab-American to win best actor Oscar]( By [AP and TOI staff]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Netanyahu and the Kahanists: A moral compromise that may ruin his legacy]( [Few politicians will put moral concerns above political ones unless they fear public shame. The Otzma Yehudit deal may exact a higher cost than the PM realizes]( [Ex-AIPAC official: By backing extremists, Netanyahu ‘overstepped the line’]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Netanyahu accuses left of denying him the right to a legal defense]( By [TOI staff]( [US Reform leader: Netanyahu’s deal with extremists is like ‘welcoming’ the KKK]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Liberal American Jewish leaders say PM’s embrace of Otzma Yehudit party makes it harder to defend Israel]( [US Jewish leader says community worried by Netanyahu’s ties to far-right party]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Australian Jews join chorus condemning deal with extremist Israeli party]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Otzma Yehudit candidate: Critics have to go back 30 years in order to attack us]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Itamar Ben Gvir says that while he admires Meir Kahane, his party is not calling to expel all Arab citizens — only those who are ‘disloyal’ to state]( [Israel media review / No longer under the surface: 8 things to know for February 25]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Pompeo: Netanyahu courting extremist party is not America’s concern]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Benjamin Lau]( [To my community I say this is a terrible stain]( [I stand by what I told my congregants this Sabbath: The Otzma Yehudit party is based on race theory and this should horrify us]( [Jonah Rubin]( [No one thinks cadavers should receive medical care]( [Defining brain death as certain biological death is not simple, and the law takes that into account]( [Dan Perry]( [The Labor Party may have handed Bibi the election]( [Avi Gabbay’s refusal to merge with Meretz means thousands of votes for the left could potentially go down the drain]( [Zev Farber]( [Smotrich for education minister – and 4 other jokes]( [Appointing a self-described ’proud homophobe’ for the post would be hilarious if Netanyahu hadn’t actually proposed it]( [Britain to blacklist Hezbollah in its entirety as a terror group]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [UK home secretary says Shiite militia’s political arm is no longer distinguishable from its already-banned military wing]( [Report: Iran tried to infiltrate Israel’s rocket alert system]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [UK Labour deputy flags tweets by party members accusing Jews of murdering kids]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz]( [New US anti-Semitism envoy employs lessons learned from Iraq to fight ‘scourge’]( [Elan Carr, attorney and ex-head of a US army anti-terrorism team, says he was chosen by philo-Semite Trump because his career has been about ‘fighting evil and keeping people safe’]( [Lapid: Blue and White will seek coalition with post-Netanyahu Likud if it wins]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Co-leader of centrist alliance with Benny Gantz recorded promising not to cooperate politically with Arab parties; Labor slams remarks]( [MK Levy-Abekasis claims Gantz offered her second place on his slate]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Ultra-Orthodox party rules out coalition with Lapid]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel 10th-healthiest country in the world – report]( By [TOI staff]( [Bloomberg index puts Spain at the top of the list; Jewish state slips one place down the rankings since last global assessment in 2017]( [Dogs sniffing for cancer? Not so fast, experts say]( By [Johanna Chisholm]( [Israeli researchers develop AI-based software to track progression of ALS]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Abbas urges Europeans to play greater role in peace process, recognize Palestine]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [PA chief tells summit in Egypt that EU nations’ failure to recognize Palestinian statehood is a betrayal of their values, insists such a move would not jeopardize negotiations]( [Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza call for PA president’s ouster]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Second soldier accused of beating Palestinian prisoners accepts plea deal]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Islamic Jihad touts new missile that can hit Tel Aviv and beyond]( By [Michael Bachner]( [In documentary on Iranian TV, Gaza-based Palestinian terror group says Tehran helped it make the new projectile, as well as precision missiles]( [Border guards nab Palestinian smuggling 37 pistols from Jordan to Israel]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Israeli forces arrest 2 senior Islamic Jihad members in West Bank]( By [Judah Ari Gross and Michael Bachner]( [Israeli checkers foil attempt to smuggle gun, bullets from West Bank]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Live updates [Interior minister bars member of PFLP terror group from leaving Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Aryeh Deri says allowing Halil Abd Latif to travel abroad could ‘damage national security and increase the risk of terrorist activity in Israel’]( [For a group of Jerusalem artists, embroidery points the way forward]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( More Headlines [Israeli startups join firms making lab-grown ‘clean meat’]( By [Ilan Ben Zion]( [How a Jewish undocumented immigrant became student president of his university]( By [Ben Sales]( [Capital gains / Ex-Jerusalem mayor poised to overtake Netanyahu as richest MK]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( [IDF soldier who killed comrade gets early release]( By [TOI staff]( [Yedioth publisher said to have told police he only met PM to try save the paper]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli lunar craft successfully completes first maneuver]( By [TOI staff]( [Acting FM tries to finesse Polish ‘anti-Semitism’ crisis, without apologizing]( By [AFP]( [Southern Poland synagogue, Jewish center set for restoration project]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( [Pittsburgh mayor visits Jerusalem memorial to synagogue shooting victims]( By [TOI staff]( [A night of groovy jazz standards with a rebellious orchestra]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved