Vatican to open archives on ’silent’ Holocaust pope * Why PM and Gantz argue over their joint Gaza policy * Lapid rapped for sexist joke * US sh uts Palestinian consulate

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Monday, March 4, 2019 [Vatican to open archives on WWII-era pope accused of silence on Holocaust]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Secret documents on Pius XII, who served during WWII and its aftermath, could shed light on leader widely criticized by Jews]( [Polish anti-Semitism festers on the internet]( By [Michel VIATTEAU]( [Estonia’s liberal opposition wins election as far-right surges]( By [Polina KALANTAR and Mary SIBIERSKI]( [Two soldiers wounded in West Bank car-ramming; 2 attackers killed]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [IDF officer seriously injured, border guard lightly hurt; third assailant in the vehicle lightly injured, army says]( [After car-ramming, Netanyahu vows to quickly demolish attackers’ homes]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF helicopters pound Hamas positions in response to explosive balloon]( By [TOI staff]( [Analysis / Hamas is being careful to avoid escalation, but that could change very soon]( By [Avi Issacharoff]( [US closes Jerusalem consulate, demoting Palestinian mission]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [State Department says decision to put Embassy to Israel in charge ‘does not signal a change of US policy on Jerusalem, the West Bank, or the Gaza Strip’]( [Op-ed in official PA daily calls US peace envoy a ‘mongoloid’]( By [TOI staff]( [Democrats concerned Trump ordered high-level security clearance for Kushner]( By [JTA]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Why Netanyahu and Gantz publicly bicker most over the policy they most agree on]( [PM and ex-IDF chief together helped shape Israel’s careful, arguably wise Gaza strategy, but it’s hard to explain to a rocket-battered public, so they’re blaming each other for it]( [Israel media review / The same, but different: 9 things to know for March 4]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Attorney general says Labor ex-general should be allowed to run]( By [TOI staff]( [Top prosecutor rejects Netanyahu’s claim graft charges are politically motivated]( By [TOI staff]( [Shai Nitzan says decision to indict PM made ‘solely out of professional considerations,’ rebuffs criticism for announcing move before elections]( [Police order additional protection for Netanyahu state prosecutors – report]( By [TOI staff]( [Lapid criticized for joke that Blue and White female candidates ‘undisciplined’]( By [TOI staff]( [Only nine of alliance’s top 30 candidates are women; Lapid apologizes for poor joke, says relatively few women in list due to hasty party merger close to deadline]( [Blue and White said to oppose dividing Jerusalem, evacuating settlement blocs]( By [Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff]( [Likud says Arabs crucial to Gantz, who mocks ruling party’s ‘nosedive in polls’]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel’s diplomatic thrust into Africa spearheaded by military training]( By [TOI staff]( [TV report says IDF commandos are teaching local forces krav maga, urban combat and hostage rescue in a dozen African nations]( Live updates [In first, US deploys THAAD missile defense system in Israel as part of drill]( By [Michael Bachner]( [IDF says move, meant to practice rapid deployment of system, ’emphasizes the US’s commitment to the defense and security of Israel’]( Top Ops [Daniel Sterman]( [The Knesset electoral threshold — explained]( [What does 3.25% mean? What was all that merging of parties to make the threshold? And what happens if a party doesn’t make it after all?]( [Alan M. Dershowitz]( [Dershowitz to AG: Beware ‘a parade of horribles’]( [In a democracy, criticism of the relationship between media and government should be left to voters, not prosecutors]( [Naomi Chazan]( [It’s not just about Bibi]( [The PM’s rivals need to eschew the ugly, personal campaigning and articulate policies for seeking peace and healing society]( [Bill Slott]( [For at least 12,000 years, we’ve been fond of puppies]( [The bones of a woman and her dog highlight how two packs from two different species slowly became one community.]( [In Albania, a unique Jewish history museum on the brink]( By [Sally Mairs and Briseida MEMA]( [In rare visit to Iraq, Abbas offers Palestinian ‘expertise’ to help rebuilding]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Senior officials deny reports PA president will make first Syria visit since outbreak of civil war to meet with Assad]( [PM thanks May for blacklisting Hezbollah under anti-terror laws]( By [TOI staff]( [Iran’s top leader warns against trusting Europe on nuclear deal]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Syria reports Israeli shell fired at town across Golan Heights border]( By [TOI staff]( More Headlines [Graffiti spray-painted on 1,800-year-old synagogue on Galilee’s Mount Meron]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [ER doctor at Florida veterans hospital shot stopping double amputee gunman]( By [JTA]( [Hackers scrawl ‘Jerusalem is capital of Palestine’ across many Israeli web pages]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Second skin: Israeli medical device creates temporary nano-layer to treat wounds]( By [Federico Maccioni]( [Dirty dancing / At Shakespeare’s Globe theater, Israeli woman directs the fights]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Buenos Aires police identify suspects in violent assault on chief rabbi]( By [TOI staff]( [Italy’s Democratic Party leans left under son of Holocaust survivor]( By [Charles ONIANS]( [Baby doll protest slams Litzman’s help to sex abusers]( By [TOI staff]( [Jewish Democrats condemn W. Virginia poster linking Muslim congresswoman to 9/11]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Jewish Democrat calls Omar’s dual loyalty remark a ‘vile anti-Semitic slur’]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Israeli rhythmic gymnast bags three golds in Spanish competition]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Home births are three times more dangerous than hospital ones, study shows]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved