Gantz to ToI: Israel’s democracy at stake * Netanyahu: President seeks ’excuse’ to choose Gantz * Feiglin: I want to build Third Temple now * NY yeshiva: no to gay rabbi

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Interview [Benny Gantz to ToI: Future of Israel as a democracy is at stake in this election]( By [David Horovitz and Raoul Wootliff]( [If Netanyahu wins, warns Blue and White leader, ‘you’ll get Israeli version of Turkish system,’ with courts, cops and media controlled, and PM ensuring he can’t be investigated]( [Israel media review / Blue and right: 6 things to know for April 3]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [At ToI event, Gantz accuses Netanyahu of leading assault on Israeli democracy]( By [TOI staff]( [Gantz said planning to woo ultra-Orthodox, Kulanu in post-election push]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu: Rivlin looking for ‘excuse’ to task Gantz with forming gov't]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( [President’s office slams ‘despicable’ effort to undermine voters’ trust in him]( [Election panel head calls for criminal probe of Likud get-out-the-vote campaign]( By [TOI staff]( [AG says insufficient evidence showing Likud behind fake social media army]( By [TOI staff]( [Twitter said to take down most fake pro-Netanyahu accounts flagged in report]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Zehut’s Feiglin says he wants to build Third Temple right away]( By [TOI staff]( [Chairman of far-right party, which is enjoying growing popularity, is a longtime advocate of Jews’ rights on Temple Mount and has called for increased Israeli control over site]( [Right-wing leaders lash out at Feiglin’s ‘leftist’ party members]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Smotrich vows extremist Otzma Yehudit will be in Knesset, with PM’s support]( By [TOI staff]( [Former top cop rebuffs criticism of police dealings with Gantz firm]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Live updates [Poll: Left-center closing in on right-wing bloc with election 6 days away]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Likud and its so-called natural coalition partners maintain lead of 62-58 seats, but Gantz’s Blue and White projected to be largest party]( [Young Israelis want Netanyahu, older ones Gantz]( By [TOI staff]( [Pre-election poll by Israel Democracy Institute finds a quarter of Israelis fear election cheating, Arabs much less likely to follow election news than Jews]( [Analysis / In upcoming elections, Palestinian issue nowhere to be found]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Poll shows Likud overtake Blue and White; Labor surge]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( [Countdown to April 9 / Don’t miss final ToI election debate, in Tel Aviv on Thursday]( By [TOI staff]( First person [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [For Israelis abroad, elections start with a scramble for plane tickets]( [Unlike many countries, the Jewish state does not let expats vote, reflecting its hang-ups about citizens who leave its borders, even though they still consider it home]( [7 Anglo immigrants to receive achievement award]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Woman who threw tomato at Netanyahu released amid mental illness claim]( By [TOI staff]( [Rivlin visits hospitalized wife as doctors report ‘marked improvement’]( By [TOI staff]( [‘We feel everyone’s support. I know that my Nechama, our Nechama, is a very strong woman,’ president says after return from Canada]( [First lady Nechama Rivlin rushed to hospital with ‘severe’ breathing problems]( By [TOI staff]( [Liberal NY Orthodox yeshiva says it will not ordain its first gay rabbi]( By [SHIRA HANAU]( [Daniel Atwood says Yeshivat Chovevei Torah has known he was gay since he began studies four years ago and is now backtracking; school acknowledges situation handled badly]( [Palestinian said to attack Israelis on West Bank road, is shot dead]( By [TOI staff]( [Settler says he opened fire on assailant who attempted to open his car door in Hawara and stab his teenage daughter]( [Palestinian dies from wounds sustained at border protest]( By [Adam Rasgon and TOI staff]( [Hamas chief says rocket fire at Tel Aviv due to ‘malfunction’]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Michael Brenner]( [What would Herzl do?]( [We can’t know who the Zionist leader would vote for, but we can guess who it would not be]( [Shira Pasternak Be'eri]( [How the Frisco Kid got his Hasidic clothing]( [My father told the Hollywood studio that it wasn’t realistic for an Orthodox rabbi to dance with his future bride in public (they ignored him)]( [Ellen Ginsberg Simon]( [A letter to the Brown U. students who voted in favor of BDS]( [If today’s student body had its way, freedom of academic expression would by stymied, and the spigot of knowledge would be closed]( [David Sedley]( [The greenest of greens]( [When Kermit the Frog sang, ’It’s not easy being green,’ did he know what a deadly color green actually is?]( [In Mallorca, descendants of persecuted crypto-Jews now run the community]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( More Headlines [Another trick in the wall / Roger Waters gets April-fooled: He’s playing Tel Aviv]( By [TOI staff]( [Trump: Kushner had ‘a very easy life’ until he pursued Mideast peace]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [With objection period ending, opposition to Jerusalem cable car plan peaks]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Video shows UK troops apparently shooting at picture of Corbyn]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Report: Official forgot secret arms deal file at airport]( By [TOI staff]( [Clothes encounters / ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ stars jet to Israel for Castro commercial]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Jewish education / Ohio day school students farm microgreens through project with Israeli roots]( By [Marshall Weiss]( [Rona Ramon posthumously awarded Israel Prize for lifetime acheivement]( By [TOI staff]( [After synagogue massacre, Pittsburgh approves gun restrictions]( By [Ramesh Santanam]( [Intel Capital president: Israel generates better ideas than Silicon Valley]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Heirs welcome return of Nazi-looted 17th-century masterpiece]( By [Catherine TRIOMPHE]( [Stepping out / Brit musician Joe Jackson announces July 28 Tel Aviv show]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved