Polls show Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc likely to win * Lapid: If we beat Likud by 4, we’ll form gov’t * Beresheet lunar orbit * Baumel buried * UN at Iran nuke warehouse

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Friday, April 5, 2019 [Final polls: Blue and White leads, but right-wing bloc unanimously stronger]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( [Israel Hayom survey shows Gantz’s centrist alliance picking up 4 more seats than the ruling party, but Netanyahu remains best positioned to form government]( [Israel media review / Leading from behind: 10 things to know for April 5]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Analysis / 2019 elections countdown: 5 days to go, 5 key points]( By [Shalom Yerushalmi]( Interview [Lapid: If we beat Likud by 4, ‘no power on earth’ can stop us forming coalition]( By [Raoul Wootliff and David Horovitz]( [Blue and White No. 2 says if his centrist party tops Likud by decisive margin, Netanyahu’s allies will dump him: ‘They’re gonna say their farewells faster than anyone thinks’]( [Four days before elections, Lapid to powwow with France’s Macron]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Panel bans Shas campaign offering letter in Torah scroll to supporters]( By [Sue Surkes]( AS ISRAEL VOTES [Eric Cortellessa]( [With election looming, liberal US Jews set their ire on Netanyahu]( [After Blue and White backs Western Wall agreement, American Jewish leaders hope the issue can get some election-fueled momentum to help close the Israel-Diaspora gap]( [As vote nears, Arab Israelis push for stronger Knesset voice amid boycott calls]( By [Majeda El Batsh]( [Give a DAM / Arab-Israeli rapper urges community to get out and vote, oust the Right]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu allies, including top Likud minister, say they won’t back immunity law]( By [TOI staff]( [After prime minister refuses to rule out so-called French Law, Gilad Erdan and several rightist party heads say no chance they will legislate to protect him from prosecution]( [Ombudsman said to call on AG to probe Netanyahu for false financial statements]( By [TOI staff]( [Up to 1 in 5 Israelis said exposed to fake news smearing Gantz]( By [Sue Surkes]( [‘Truth has long ceased to be a supreme value,’ TV anchor tells fake news confab]( By [Sue Surkes]( [With Beresheet, Israel becomes 7th country to achieve lunar orbit]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Moon’s gravity successfully captures Israeli spacecraft during tricky maneuver on April 4, putting spacecraft on schedule for landing in six days]( [Beresheet spacecraft successfully enters lunar orbit]( By [Melanie Lidman]( Analysis [Judah Ari Gross]( [Zachary Baumel won’t be the last missing IDF soldier to be found]( [For good or for ill, the dedication of Israel to its captive and missing troops is a fundamental aspect of its ethos, and a goal to which it devotes considerable resources]( [Family of soldier missing in Gaza ‘moved’ by return of Zachary Baumel’s remains]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Syria rejects Putin claim it aided Russian recovery of IDF soldier’s remains]( By [Adam Rasgon, Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [After 37 years, Baumel buried in funeral touching ‘deepest part of our identity’]( By [TOI staff]( [Thousands accompany US-born serviceman, killed in 1982 war, to final resting place; Rivlin, Netanyahu, IDF chief eulogize him; PM hails Russian role in return of remains]( [IDF rebuffs Gantz’s claim Baumel operation announcement was timed to serve PM]( By [Michael Bachner and TOI staff]( [UN agency said to visit warehouse where PM says Iran stored nuclear material]( By [TOI staff]( [Reuters quotes diplomats revealing IAEA inspected facility in Tehran multiple times in March; results of samples taken from site will be ready in June]( [US expert says images show first Saudi nuclear reactor]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( Grounded in Gondar [Rabbi of 8,000 stranded Ethiopian Jews fights to complete their exodus]( By [Bernard Dichek]( Top Ops [Alan Abrams]( [To Joe Biden (and everyone): Ask before you touch]( [Physical contact is too valuable to remove it from the toolbox of spiritual caregivers, but we must use it wisely]( [Tammy Jacobowitz]( [God, at birth]( [It is the Midrash that recasts the Divine as the personal, providential caretaker of every human, even while one is still in formation (Tazria)]( [Sarah Ruth Hoffman]( [26 power and control tactics of abuse]( [Manipulative behaviors can be hard to see when they pile on, fast — and you’re the mark]( [Jonathan Sacks]( [The sacrifices of childbirth]( [The sin-offering of the post-partum woman is troubling, as she has done no sin! But in the context of human mortality, it makes sense]( [Daring new Bauhaus museum challenges rising far-right in Germany]( By [Deborah Cole]( Kosher deal? [A battle grows in Brooklyn to save Borough Park’s oldest surviving synagogue]( By [Cathryn J. 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