No 2nd class citizens: Rivlin vs. PM * Gantz: Begin would have booted PM from Likud * Rise of Feiglin is no joke * Trump said to say Dems hate J ews * Nvidia’s $6.9b exit

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Monday, March 11, 2019 [There are no second-class citizens, Rivlin says, in implicit rebuke of Netanyahu]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Without mentioning PM, president slams ‘unacceptable remarks’ about Arabs, stresses that ‘the State of Israel has complete equality of rights for all its citizens’]( [Gal Gadot backs TV host feuding with Netanyahu over Arabs]( By [TOI staff]( [PM to star who rapped anti-Arab rhetoric: Israel ‘not state of all its citizens’]( By [TOI staff]( [Gantz says Menachem Begin would have kicked Netanyahu out of Likud]( By [Tamar Pileggi]( [Blue and White leader says iconic ex-PM would not have tolerated ‘regime of divisiveness’ and ‘false’ campaign rhetoric]( [Netanyahu vows Likud will keep Education Ministry in next cabinet]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Eyeing Education Ministry, MK vows to combat liberal democracy ‘indoctrination’]( By [TOI staff]( [Both black boxes found from crashed Ethiopian jet]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Investigators find flight data, voice recorders from Boeing 737 wreckage, as airlines around the world ground fleets of model]( [ZAKA dispatches team to search for Israelis killed in Ethiopia plane crash]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Israeli says he was on Ethiopian jet days before it crashed, it had engine woes]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [At least a dozen UN-affiliated personnel killed in Ethiopian crash]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( Live updates [Nechama Rivlin, president’s wife, receives a new lung]( By [TOI staff]( [‘First lady,’ long suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, in stable condition after surgery; politicians from across the spectrum wish her ‘good health and long life’]( [Raphael Ahren]( [For Netanyahu, all Israelis are equal, but some are more equal than others]( [Last July, a few days after the controversial Jewish Nation-State bill was voted into law, the Jerusalem Report magazine fired its longtime cartoonist Avi Katz for drawing the legislation’s champions as pigs from George Orwell’s 1945 classic “Animal Farm.” Above the illustration, Katz wrote the book’s most famous line, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” One can argue over whether it’s ever appropriate to draw Jews as pigs. But in Orwell’s novel, they represent a corrupt ruling class claiming that all animals have the same rights...]( Top Ops [Daniel S. Mariaschin]( [The dual-loyalty canard]( [After 350 years, Jews know the truth: the US is the better for its many ethnic Americans with cultural and bilateral ties to their ancestral homes]( [Merav Blum]( [How I learned to relax on the Gaza border]( [I developed an eating disorder in reaction to Hamas rockets, and I felt like I’d let the terrorists win. Until I got help]( [Todd Stein]( [Ilhan Omar’s fundamental Jewish-Muslim conflict]( [The lawmaker’s casting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a religious problem harms chances for a negotiated peace]( [William Echikson]( [Romania lights the way in fighting Holocaust revisionism]( [Croatia, Poland, and Hungary should take note of Bucharest’s critical lessons on how to accept their guilt]( Israeli elections 2019 [Pot legalization meets Jewish nationalism: Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut is no joke]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( Interview [Ayman Odeh sets out terms for helping Gantz’s Blue and White defeat Netanyahu]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Trump said to tell GOP donors: ‘Democrats hate Jewish people’]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Boasting of his own popularity in Israel, US president reportedly says if he could run for PM he would be polling at 98%]( [Meghan McCain raps anti-Semitism, gets ‘anti-Semitic’ treatment by Jewish artist]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [US gaming firm Nvidia to buy Israeli chip maker Mellanox for $6.9 billion]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Deal is second largest for Israeli tech, after Mobileye; founded in 1999 by Eyal Waldman, Mellanox makes high-speed servers and storage switching solutions]( [AI-based startups thrive in Israel as investments and interest surge]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [IDF chief sacks 5 officers, censures colonel over soldier’s drowning in exercise]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Military says investigation into accidental death of Sgt. Evyatar Yosefi, 20, in a flooded stream in January, found series of glaring errors and overall disregard for details]( [Qatari envoy brings $5.5 million in cash to Gaza, for the needy]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Mohammed al-Emadi arrives with aid money for 55,000 families — but none for ruling Hamas officials]( [Two devices attached to balloons land in Gaza-border community]( By [TOI staff]( [Gazan injured in February border clashes said to succumb to injuries]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu warns Hamas: Don’t count on elections preventing major Gaza operation]( By [TOI staff]( [Hosting Meretz leader, Abbas lashes out at Israel for withholding tax revenues]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Tamar Zandberg tells PA president peace is ‘the supreme interest of the State of Israel,’ should be the focus of upcoming elections]( [PA minister announces austerity measures to mitigate budgetary crisis]( By [Adam Rasgon]( More Headlines [Home run? / Israel’s Eurovision song leaked ahead of big reveal]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Settler security officers probed as suspects in deadly West Bank clash]( By [Jacob Magid]( [As KKL-JNF puts workers on chopping block, three Palestinians first to be cut]( By [Avner Hofstein]( [Shin Bet nabs Palestinian suspected of 2016 settlement stabbing]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Netanyahu petitions High Court to allow tycoons to cover his legal defense]( By [TOI staff]( [New directions / Glee star Lea Michele marries fiancé Zandy Reich]( By [JTA]( [Interview / Memoir takes on complex heritage of queer, Jewish, Chinese and Hawaiian author]( By [Emily Burack]( [Women of the Wall accuse police of abandoning them to ‘angry mob’]( By [TOI staff]( [American hiker falls to death in Eilat Mountains]( By [TOI staff]( [Construction worker dies after falling from roof in Tzur Yigal]( By [TOI staff]( [On pointe / Southwestern ballet with Colorado roots comes to town]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Culture minister said to douse Independence Day Diaspora torch]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved