Freud’s a fraud?: Einstein docs revealed * PM ally files bill to give him immunity * Raucous debate on whether to ban Kahanists * Gantz vs media * ’Zombie’ traffic lights

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Wednesday, March 6, 2019 [Freud’s a fraud? 110 unpublished Einstein documents unveiled by Hebrew University]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Released ahead of what would be physicist’s 140th birthday, trove includes 1935 letter expressing fear of war in Europe and appearing to dismiss Sigmund Freud as a ‘simple swindle’]( [From ax heads to machine learning: Israel joins Google’s ‘Once Upon a Try’]( By [TOI staff]( [Right-wing ally of Netanyahu proposes bill to save him from prosecution]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [Claiming ‘deep state conspiracy,’ MK Bezalel Smotrich wants to make it easier for lawmakers to protect each other from criminal charges]( [Deri rapped as racist for tirade, threats against Russian-speaking immigrants]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Police said poised to recommend bribery charges for Likud lawmaker]( By [TOI staff]( [Facebook partners with Hebrew fact-checkers as campaign rhetoric heats up]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Elections body holds raucous debate on disqualifying right-wing extremist]( By [TOI staff]( [Day after attorney general recommends barring Otzma Yehudit leader Michael Ben Ari from running, shouting matches and a libel lawsuit reach the Knesset]( [AG recommends banning Otzma Yehudit leader from elections, but okays his deputy]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Elections Committee clears Jewish Home MK’s run on Likud ticket]( By [TOI staff]( [Jewish Home leader rules out joining Gantz-led coalition]( By [TOI staff and Jacob Magid]( Live updates [Blue and White releases its political platform: ‘No second Disengagement’]( By [TOI staff]( [Gantz-Lapid party vows no major move vis-a-vis Palestinians without referendum or special Knesset majority, promises to limit PM’s time in office]( Analysis [Raoul Wootliff]( [‘We are vilified’: Echoing Netanyahu, Gantz attacks media critic]( [The Blue and White leader’s developing (non-)relationship with the press is starting to resemble that of the prime minister he seeks to replace]( [Reporter's notebook / At a West Bank high school, Knesset candidates discuss future of students’ homes]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [High school once seen as election bellwether gives Blue and White huge win]( By [TOI staff]( [Blue and White platform includes backing for Western Wall pluralistic plaza]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [Ahead of April election, Pompeo to travel to Israel next week]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [State Department official says visit is not intended to interfere with Israeli domestic politics; secretary to also visit Lebanon and Kuwait]( [Jimmy Carter: Israeli-Palestinian peace impossible with Netanyahu at helm]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Arab Israeli party sues journalist for calling it a ‘terror organization’]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel election primer: 5 / Disintegration of the Joint List poses new challenge to future of Arab politics]( By [Israel Democracy Institute]( [How partisan politics are dividing a US Orthodox synagogue movement]( By [Ben Sales]( Analysis [Laurie Kellman]( [Omar the flashpoint as Democrats confront divide over Israel]( [Her tweets are slammed as anti-Semitic tropes, forcing Democrats to choose between desire to reprimand her and wanting to defend one of first Muslim women elected to the House]( [Ocasio-Cortez defends Ilhan Omar after alleged anti-Semitic remarks]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Bernie Sanders staffer fired for anti-Netanyahu rant hired to run B’Tselem USA]( By [TOI staff]( [5 Jewish things to know about Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper]( By [Josefin Dolsten]( inside story [Robert Philpot]( [70 years of transcripts from UK’s parliament show clear ‘obsession’ with Israel]( [Using a new analytics tool, researcher David Collier picks up 17,667 parliamentary references to the Jewish state — more than Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine combined]( [Jeremy Corbyn comforted by rabbi after hit by an egg at a mosque]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [UN again delays ‘blacklist’ of companies doing business with settlements]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [In putting off long-delayed report on 206 mostly Israeli and American firms, rights chief Michelle Bachelet cites ‘complexity’ of her office’s task]( [UN rights chief criticizes Israel’s ‘immediate dismissal’ of report on Gaza]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel blacklists Hamas station said to use on-air cues to recruit terrorists]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel said to warn Hamas that attacks from Gaza risk wide-scale military action]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Joshua Levinson]( [This, yes this little moment, is my Jerusalem]( [An Egyptian Jew, two Arab women, a Yemenite Jew, and a guy from the American Midwest went for a bus ride…]( [Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll]( [The drums of extremism]( [When you tolerate the restrictions of the most insular ultra-Orthodox (who would censure a bride on her wedding day), you invite bullies to your table]( [Arik Rudnitsky]( [How many Arabs will vote in the next election?]( [The Arab parties need to overcome their conflicts or risk their constituencies not going to the polls]( [Susie Gelman and David A. Halperin]( [What if a desperate Netanyahu embraces West Bank annexation?]( [Such a move would undermine any credible pursuit of peace and threaten Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state]( Heads up [Tel Aviv trials ‘zombie’ traffic lights to save smartphone users from themselves]( By [TOI staff]( [Pioneering LED warning strips on the sidewalk will hopefully be noticed by pedestrians with their heads down looking at their phones, and prevent them from walking into traffic]( More Headlines [To sleep, perchance to let DNA be repaired: Study finds new reason for slumber]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [3 French-Israelis allegedly swindled $11m, claiming funds would free captives]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Michael Bloomberg drops 2020 White House bid]( By [Steve Peoples and Julie Pace]( [Litzman arranged VIP treatment for top rabbi’s wife at expense of public: report]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Belgian mayor defends carnival float featuring Jews with money and a rat]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Ex-chief rabbi Yona Metzger leaves prison after serving 22 months for corruption]( By [TOI staff]( [Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox deputy mayor won’t speak at Conservative movement venue]( By [Marcy Oster]( [IDF presents home demolition plans to family of suspected killer of Israeli teen]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [Waqf rejects Israeli court order to shutter Temple Mount’s Gate of Mercy]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Pyongyang ‘rebuilding’ main satellite launch site, photos show]( By [AFP]( [Wrong body delivered to funeral of Israeli woman killed in Chile accident]( By [TOI staff]( [Fatah posts story claiming Jews were willing to bury Russians alive in WWII]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved