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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 12, 2016

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Palestinian children inspect a bedroom of the damaged Khussa family home after an Israeli strike on Hamas bases in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza strip on March 12, 2016. (AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)

Palestinians say 2 Gaza children killed in overnight Israeli strikes

Medical sources in Hamas-run Strip say brother and sister, 10 and 6, die after bombing; family lives near Hamas base targeted by IDF after rockets were fired into Israel

Hamas hacks into Israeli TV and threatens: ‘Terror will never end’

Hamas TV switches broadcaster as French satellite pulls the plug

Rockets fired from Gaza strike near Sderot, none injured

A Defense Ministry employee discovers bulletproof plating in a shipment of car parts on its way to the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom Crossing on December 29, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

Analysis

In destitute Gaza, Hamas rides world’s goodwill all the way to the bank

By Avi Issacharoff

Terror group uses tax money, donations from well-meaning countries eager to ease hardship for Gazans, to fund its military build-up

Hamas leaders head to hostile Cairo for high-level talks

A demonstrator is removed by Chicago police during a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion in Chicago on Friday, March 11, 2016. Trump canceled one of his signature rallies on Friday, calling off the event in Chicago due to safety concerns after protesters packed into the arena where it was to take place. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune via AP)

Violent clashes erupt as Trump drops Chicago rally for security concerns

By Jill Colvin and Michael Tarm

Supporters, opponents of GOP candidate scuffle after Illinois U. event canceled when protesters crowded out venue

Trump joining Clinton as speaker at AIPAC conference

Rubio: When I’m president, US will be on Israel’s side

Dozens of protesters arrested at Trump rally in St. Louis

By Jill Colvin and JIM SALTER

Israel's representative to the UN Human Right Council Eviatar Manor speaks to reporters following the report of the Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza war, in Geneva, Switzerland, June 29, 2015. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

UN Human Rights Council ‘obsessive-compulsive’ on Israel — envoy

Eviatar Manor, Jewish state’s representative in Geneva, says international body ignoring abuses against millions worldwide

Israel’s UN envoy: Iran missile tests ‘gross violation’ of nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and AFP

US asks Security Council to meet on Iran missile tests

By AFP

White House under pressure to respond to Iran’s missile tests

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Lonah Chemtai and her husband, Dan Salpeter (screen capture: Channel 10)

Tel Aviv’s Kenyan-born marathon winner in race against time to run for Israel in Rio

Lonah Chemtai has an Israeli husband and child. Seeking to compete for her adopted country, she has been rebuffed for years. Now a TV report may cut the red tape

Minnesota students to BDS: No thank you

Student leaders at U of Minnesota took a boycott vote off the agenda for being too divisive and distracting

A Balinese ‘Yom Kippur’

On the Indonesian island for Nyepi, a solemn day of praying, no driving and preparing to burn the ogoh-ogohs

Creating Shmita

On the need to make time for an inner life says instead of letting external pressures define who you are

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after the court unanimously upheld the Tel Aviv District Court's rape conviction. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Justice minister, Rivlin reportedly ready to pardon Katsav

Former president, a convicted rapist serving a seven-year term, is up for parole this month

Supporters of Hezbollah chant slogans during a televised speech by leader Hassan Nasrallah in the southern town of Insar, Lebanon, on March 6, 2016. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)

Arab League declares Hezbollah a terrorist organization

By ToI Staff and AFP

Decision near unanimous, save for ‘reservations’ from Lebanon and Iraq; comes days after similar move by Gulf states

Iraqi men prepare carry the wrapped body of three-year-old Fatima Wais, who was killed following a chemical attack by the Islamic State group against the town of Taza, south of Kirkuk, during her funeral on March 11, 2016. (AFP/Marwan IBRAHIM)

Iraqi girl, 3, dies from Islamic State chemical attack

By AFP

Fatima Samir one of dozens hospitalized for inhaling suspected mustard agent in Wednesday strike south of Kirkuk

Israeli and American officials participate in a goodbye ceremony for Taylor Force, the US citizen killed in a stabbing terror attack in Jaffa, as his body is sent back to be buried in the United States, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on Friday, March 11, 2016. (Flash90)

Body of US terror victim returns home after Israel farewell service

US diplomat: Taylor Force’s ‘death forms additional bond between people of United States and people of Israel’

Minister Ofir Akunis on August 30, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister: Abbas is worst inciter against Israel

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank on January 17, 2016 (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

2 IDF soldiers lightly hurt in West Bank shooting attack

Security forces searching for perpetrator of attack on Route 443, near Beit Horon

Volunteers loading cases of free water into waiting vehicles at a water distribution center in Flint, Michigan, March 5, 2016. (Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

A silver lining for Flint’s Jews: renewed passion for social justice

By David Stanley

Former SS guard Jakob Wendel gives interviews after a day of hearings at a trial against a former Auschwitz guard at the court in Detmold, western Germany, on March 11, 2016. (AFP / dpa POOL / Bernd Thissen)

Auschwitz guard testifies against another: He ‘knew what was going on’

By AP

Former SS member, Jakob Wendel, 92, gives evidence against Reinhold Hanning, 94

Camels resting in Wadi Rum desert in Jordan, February 8, 2013 (Photo credit: Lucie March/Flash 90)

Jordanian army rescues injured Israeli stranded near Aqaba

Military sends helicopter to airlift tour guide trapped in Wadi Rum, who was unable to move after receiving head wound

Jewish-Argentinian director Daniel Burman. (Marcos Lopez)

Interview

Argentine director returns to Jewish roots with ‘The Tenth Man’

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A verdant field of olive trees, where bulbs of wild garlic mix with mallow leaves and other edible greens (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Foraged winter greens make a fine feast in the Galilee

By Jessica Steinberg

Jewish American comedian Sarah Silverman appears on Conan O'Brien's talk show dressed as Adolf Hitler, on March 10 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Fascist follyAs ‘Hitler,’ Sarah Silverman denounces Trump comparison

By JTA

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu in 2013. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)

Thou shalt not stealIsraeli rabbi: Breaking Facebook ad rules is theft

By JTA

A member of the Women of the Wall wears a tallit (prayer shawl) as she prays holding a Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on March 11, 2016 (AFP/GALI TIBBON)

Western Wall rabbi: Women desecrating site by bringing in Torah

Omar Zayed (Twitter)

Dead Palestinian terrorist honored at Amsterdam university cafe

By JTA

Lawyer claims Jewishness reason Dutch judge should recuse self

By JTA

Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff saying Kaddish, the mourner's prayer, for Holocaust victims near Kaunas, Lithuania, February 15, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Canadian Jews demand 92-year-old Ukrainian Nazi’s deportation

By JTA

SS officials including Heinrich Himmler visit the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941. (CC-BY-SA-3.0-de , German Federal Archives)

Austrian prosecutors to get WWII lessons after shock ruling

Refugees from Syria wait to register at the German army's air base in Erding, southern Germany, on January 31, 2016. (AFP/dpa/Andreas GEBERT)

Activists who lit Syria revolt washed away in migrant wave

By Serene Assir

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