Diaspora ’rupture’ feared over PM’s settlements vow; Jewish groups write to Trump * Why Beresheet crashed * Bill Clinton: Bibi knows how to hit * Blog: My son & his purse

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Saturday, April 13, 2019 [With Netanyahu’s win and settlement sovereignty vow, a Diaspora ‘rupture’ alert]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Saying it’s because they ‘love Israel,’ some American Jewish leaders warn annexing the settlements would create a major political emergency and further isolate much of US Jewry]( [Some of Israel’s best American friends worried by Netanyahu’s annexation talk]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Nine Jewish groups ask Trump to restrain Netanyahu on West Bank annexation]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Lapid denies covert talks with Liberman on ‘unity government’ with Likud]( By [TOI staff]( [Blue and White’s no. 2 doubles down on vow to ’embitter’ the lives of Netanyahu’s coalition]( [Unsourced TV report: Likud, Blue and White, Liberman ‘unity government’ possible]( By [TOI staff]( [Woman was removed from ultra-Orthodox polling station so top rabbi could vote]( By [TOI staff]( [Bill Clinton: Netanyahu ‘knows how to hit people where they’re tender’]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Never underestimate’ the ‘highly intelligent’ Israeli PM, says former US president after Likud leader’s latest election victory; ‘he understands his electorate’]( [White House invites Jewish leaders for briefing on ‘pertinent’ issues]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Iranian forces said killed in reported Israel airstrike on Syria missile factory]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( [London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 17 people injured in raid near city of Masyaf as jets target missile development center, training camp]( [3 Gazans caught entering Israel; one of them armed with a knife]( By [TOI staff]( [Palestinians say 15-year-old killed in Gaza border riot]( By [TOI staff]( [Palestinian driver hits policeman in West Bank while fleeing traffic stop]( By [TOI staff]( [Engineers detail glitches that caused Beresheet to slam into moon]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Technical problems began miles above landing spot when spacecraft lost main engine; engineers restarted it, but too late to prevent the craft smashing into lunar surface at 310 mph]( [Trump considered Ivanka for head of World Bank, says she could be US president]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Daughter also would be ‘great’ ambassador to the UN, president enthuses; hails her ‘great calmness’]( [Trump tweets video edited to suggest Omar dismissive of 9/11]( By [AP]( [Trump says Israelis should be immune from International Criminal Court]( By [Ron Kampeas]( Interview [The forgotten female WWII-era spy who stayed silent under gruesome Nazi torture]( By [Rich Tenorio]( Analysis [Ben Sales]( [Pete Buttigieg calls Pence a ‘Pharisee.’ Why it angers Jews]( [Metaphor carries anti-Semitic overtones, Jewish scholars say]( [Steve Grossman, former AIPAC president, backs Pete Buttigieg for 2020]( By [Ron Kampeas]( Top Ops [Amanda B. Dan]( [My baggage: Why I told my teenaged son not to take his purse today]( [He rocks a pair of stilettos like no one’s business. He’s loud and proud – and we’re proud of him too, but, but, but…]( [Tikva Blaukopf]( [Faking it]( [When we surpass our own internal glass ceilings, we discover new, untold potential (Metzora)]( [‘Star’ actress Jude Demorest says Israel visit ‘reaffirmed’ her Christian faith]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Lead actress on Fox network drama baptized in Jordan River during ‘powerful and inspiring’ pilgrimage to Holy Land]( Interview [After a grim prognosis, this rabbi turned to Judaism for how to live with death]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( Interview [Author Sarah Blake writes the backstory of the biblical Naamah, aka Noah’s wife]( By [Emily Burack]( More Headlines [Brazil’s Bolsonaro says Holocaust crimes can be forgiven, but not forgotten]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Jewish Canadian mayor: Ban on wearing religious symbols like ethnic cleansing]( By [David Lazarus]( [Pittsburgh and Parkland survivors help each other turn their grief into action]( By [Mike Elk]( [‘Brexhaustion’: Long, grinding Brexit is stressing people out]( By [DANICA KIRKA]( [Merkel returns two Nolde paintings after exhibition exposes Nazi links]( By [Hui Min NEO]( [Amazon: Woody Allen’s #MeToo comments wrecked movie deal]( By [Larry Neumeister]( [Croatian Jews, Serbs, anti-fascists, Roma gather at WWII death camp]( By [AP]( [Jewish groups praise bill to sanction Burma for persecution of Rohingya Muslims]( By [Josefin Dolsten]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved