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What Matters Most On Monday, March 24, 2014

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Uri Bar-Lev (right), flight attendant Janet Darmijan and senior flight attendant Abraham Eizenov speak to the media on their safe return to Israel, September 1970 (photo credit: Courtesy El Al archive)

How to thwart a gunman at 29,000 feet, by the only pilot who ever did

By Mitch Ginsburg

With world attention focused on MH370, Uri Bar-Lev recalls how he saved his El Al passengers from an attempted skyjacking, and says other pilots should have been trained to do the same — on 9/11 and in countless other cases

New debris spotted in Indian Ocean raises hopes

By Rob Griffith and Todd Pitman

Illustrative: Israeli diplomats at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, March 19, 2014. (courtesy Foreign Ministry Workers Union)

Diplomats call full-blown strike, shuttering Foreign Ministry

By Raphael Ahren

For the first time in Israeli history, Workers Union shuts down ministry building in Jerusalem and 103 embassies worldwide

Minister of Finance and Chairman of Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid, seen during the Yesh Atid Faction meeting at the Knesset on Monday, March 10, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Treasury: Foreign Ministry holding Israelis ‘hostage’

By Marissa Newman and Raphael Ahren

Palestinians, don’t steal my history

Decrying comparisons between Palestinians and the plight of indigenous North American peoples

The right road to disaster

One-state advocates are causing untold harm to the prospects for peace and undermining Israel’s legitimacy

FRANCE, Perpignan : French far-right party National Front (FN) party candidate Louis Aliot is greeted by supporters after the first results were announced at the end of the first round of the French municipal elections in Perpignan on March 23, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ RAYMOND ROIG)

French far-right hails ‘exceptional’ results in local polls

By Marianne Barriaux

National Front wins 7% of the vote, leaping from 0.9% in the last municipal elections, gains first mayor

Illustrative: Newly ordained rabbis from Hebrew Union College's class of 2013 in Cincinnati celebrate with their ordination certificates outside the historic Plum Street Temple. (Janine Spang/JTA)

Decided to become a rabbi? Prepare for unemployment

By Uriel Heilman

Pictures and details said to be those of missing Iranian Jews, published on the website ketab.com (photo credit: ketab.com)

US families of murdered Iran Jews left with questions, fears

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Community leader says relatives weren’t contacted by Israel prior to last week’s announcement that 8 loved ones were killed when fleeing Iran in 1994

Egyptian security forces clash with supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi in the Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, January 10, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Abd El Latif, El Shouk newspaper)

Egypt sentences 529 Morsi supporters to death

By AFP

Muslim Brotherhood men convicted of murdering 2 policemen and attacking others; majority of those condemned are on the run

Illustrative: A Palestinian man changes the tires of his car after a 'price tag' attack in March 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Vandals deface Arab-owned cars in East Jerusalem

Attackers slash tires of 34 vehicles, scrawl racist invective on side of bus in Beit Hanina

Former Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police probe veracity of charges against top minister

One evaluation of complainant’s polygraph determined she was truthful, another that she had a tendency to lie

Naftali Bennett (Flash90)

Naftali Bennett accused of cronyism

Moshe Gafni calls on state comptroller to investigate economy minister for awarding tenders to associates

A swastika. (Wikimedia Commons)

Chilean art school set to teach Nazi ideology

Institution draws ire of politicians and Jewish leaders after promoting its opening with swastika posters

Syrian President Bashar Assad giving an interview in Damascus in 2013 (screenshot: Fox News)

Cousin of Syria’s Assad killed in clashes with rebels

By ToI Staff and AP

Hillal Assad, head of a pro-regime paramilitary group, dies in firefight near Turkish border

A Keepod USB flash drive (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Computer access for the poorest, at $7 a head

By David Shamah

Israeli start-up Keepod believes it has a low-cost way to bring the billions living in poverty into the digital age

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters after the exit polls in the general elections were announced, January 22, 2013. Standing to his left, applauding, is Likud MK Danny Danon. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Internal Likud fight could shift Israel’s balance of power

By Haviv Rettig Gur

A fierce battle is raging for control of the ruling party — and the country’s political future hangs in the balance

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A 1,300-year-old mummy of a woman who was found to have a tattoo on her inner thigh (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Tattoo-nkhamunAncient Egyptians liked their ink

Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)

Loyola students work to overturn divestment vote

By JTA

Illustrative: A housing construction site in Jerusalem, October 27, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UK architects call for boycott of Israeli counterparts

By JTA

Route 6, the trans-Israel highway (photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Speed limit hiked to 120 kph on major highways

Workers at Ein Yahav weigh a gigantic pumpkin (photo credit: Rami Sadeh via Agriculture Ministry)

SasquashSouthern farm grows ginormous gourd

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the current events comedy show "State of the Nation" (screen capture: Channel 2)

Smile offensivePM plays straight on comedy show

A group of 229 new immigrants arriving in Israel through Nefesh B’Nefesh in July. (photo credit: Sason Tiram)

Bill introduced in Knesset to mark ‘Aliyah Day’

Illustrative photo of a Jerusalem construction site. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMy hero, the housing crisis solution

By Joshua Davidovich

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