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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 31, 2013

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The Tamar gas rig, located 23 kilometers (14 miles) west of the city of Haifa in northern Israel. (AP/Albatross Aerial Perspective)

Netanyahu hails ‘historic day’ as Israel starts pumping gas from major offshore find

By ToI Staff and AP

Four years after discovery, flow from Tamar field marks start of Israel’s transformation to ‘energy independence’ and eventual natural gas exporter

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom visits a special processing plant off the coast of Ashdod in March, set to receive gas from the Tamar deposit for the first time in four years. (photo credit: Moshe Binyamin/Energy and Water Ministry)

Despite natural gas boost, electricity to rise 6.5% next month

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

An image of Tadeusz Pankiewicz adorns a display in Krakow's newly refurbished Pharmacy Under the Eagle. (Courtesy of Monika Bednarek/Historical Museum of Krakow)

Pharmacy that aided Jews in Krakow Ghetto reopens

The only gentile-owned business to operate in the area, the Pharmacy Under the Eagle is now a museum

I didn’t make the ‘Top Rabbis’ list… again

Not that it matters, but maybe I should lose weight, get a perm, or undergo a ‘sects-change’

Meir Javedanfar

Egypt’s wobbly economy: Israel should be worried

A financial meltdown could have dire implications for Israel’s security

Richard L. Cravatts

At Boston U: propaganda dressed as scholarship

An upcoming ‘Right of Return Conference’ will feature a cast of speakers with a shared aim of demonizing Israel

York University's Vari Hall (photo credit: CC, Andrei Sedoff, Wikimedia Commons)

Canada’s biggest student group backs boycott of Israel

Jewish student leader brands York University resolution ‘fundamentally racist’

A Druze man holds aloft a machete and a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a rally in the village of Majdal Shams marking Syrian Independence Day, April 17, 2012 (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Hundreds of Israeli Druze said anxious to join the fight against rebels in Syria

IDF veterans in the community determined to defend their coreligionists against al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels, Maariv reports

Turkish soap operas, known for their often racy scenes, have become hugely popular in the Muslim world over the past five years. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube clip of the drama 'Ask-i Memnu' -- 'Forbidden Love')

Steamy satellite trouble

Iran blames Turkish soaps for divorce rise

Islamic Republic says the steamy soap operas have eroded taboos and ‘destabilized the institution of family’

Pope Francis, holding the pastoral staff, celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31. (photo credit: AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Latin patriarch invites new pope to Jerusalem

By AP and ToI Staff

Fouad Twal sends Francis letter asking him to ease Middle East Christians’ suffering as Easter is celebrated in Israel, West Bank

Faithful pass by the Shroud of Turin that went on display for a special TV appearance Saturday, March 30. (photo credit: AP/Alessandro Di Marcol)

Shroud of Turin on display amid new claim of authenticity

By Nicole Winfield

In book, researchers date cloth to the 1st century; Pope Francis hails the ‘icon,’ but tellingly doesn’t describe it as a relic

Pope Francis conducts a foot-washing ceremony in a juvenile offenders facility on Thursday (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Washing feet of Serbian Muslim girl, pope angers traditionalists

By Nicole Winfield

Almost everything Francis has done since being elected has rankled, but latest ceremony at a juvenile prison is last straw for some

The Tomcar, a modified version of which is being used to patrol Israel's borders (photo credit: Davidbrim, Wikimedia Commons)

In tech breakthrough, Israel using robots to patrol its borders

Modified Tomcar has lasers, cameras to monitor its surroundings

ZAKA personnel search for the body of 26-year-old Nahed Sariye in Ashkelon, Sunday. (photo credit: Boaz Ben-Ari/ZAKA)

Thousands attend funeral of 3 drowned brothers

Atef, Suliman and Nahed Sariye buried after Nahed’s body identified; ‘those who die at sea die as martyrs,’ says bereaved father

ICL's Dead Sea Works. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

National resources

Emotions run high over Canadian bid to buy Dead Sea potash plant

By Arno Rosenfeld

The proposed sale of Israel Chemicals to PotashCorp has rankled workers, and even the finance minister has called it ‘un-Zionist’

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with Al-Aqsa Mosque in the background. (photo credit: Ahmad Jaber/Flash90)

Hebron cleric accuses Israel of plotting to rebuild temple

By Yifa Yaakov and Ron Friedman

Leading Palestinian Muslim figure says daily ‘intrusions’ by Israeli leaders into Muslim shrine confirm plan to destroy it

Caplan's stage work has included playing a Holocaust hero, as well as "Seven Jewish Children," accused by some of anti-Semitism. (Courtesy photo)

Jewish actor’s splash is nun of your business

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher slaughtering a chicken. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

LA meat merchant loses kashrut license on eve of Passover

Man with Tourette’s syndrome wins local theatre prize

MK Uri Orbach of the Jewish Home party (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister urges cops, courts to get tough on attackers of seniors

By Asher Zeiger

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewJordan: New government, old faces, dashed hopes

By Elhanan Miller

The Tamar gas rig, located 23 kilometers (14 miles) west of the city of Haifa in northern Israel. (AP/Albatross Aerial Perspective)

Hebrew media reviewGas! Gas! Quick, boys!

By Ilan Ben Zion

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