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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 16, 2016

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Donald Trump speaking at a caucus night watch party at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 23, 2016. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump warns of ‘riots’ if GOP witholds White House nod

By AFP

Republican front-runner says he ‘wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen’ if party spurns him

With big wins, Trump, Clinton inch closer to nomination

By AP and ToI Staff

Math and momentum point to Trump, Clinton nominations

By Steve Peoples and Julie Pace

The metoric rise and crushing fall of GOP golden boy Marco Rubio

By Ivan Couronne

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 12, 2016. (AP/Tony Dejak)

Student activists: AIPAC won’t let us protest Trump

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Pro-Israel lobby says email warning protesters they’ll be barred from all future conferences was sent in error, clarifies its longstanding policy of removing disruptive delegates

Trump skipping GOP debate to attend AIPAC conference

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and ToI Staff

Joe Biden joins Clinton, Trump among AIPAC speakers

By JTA

5 things to look out for at the AIPAC confab

President Reuven Rivlin, left, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 16, 2016. (AFP/ POOL / MAXIM SHIPENKOV)

Live updates (now closed)

Republicans gear up to fight Supreme Court pick Garland

By Joshua Davidovich

Choice of Jewish jurist splits lawmakers along party lines; four arrested in Paris anti-terror raids as Belgium hunting two escaped jihadi suspects; Putin meets Rivlin at Kremlin, says he’ll talk defense with Netanyahu

One of the 'Carl Gustav' automatic rifles used in the attack at the Damascus Gate outside of Jerusalem's Old City on February 3, 2016. (Israel Police)

Inside story

Say hello to ‘Carlo,’ the cheap, lethal go-to gun for terrorists

By Judah Ari Gross

Why has the technically inferior Carl Gustav become one of the symbols of the latest Palestinian terror wave?

Palestinian teen held after trying to enter Jerusalem with knife

In settlement yeshiva, 2 arrested for attack on Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Amid border tension, Islamic Jihad video threatens IDF

By Stuart Winer

An Israeli army tank is seen stationed near the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams, March 19, 2014. (AFP/Jalaa Marey/File)

On Golan Heights, IDF fights to keep Israel safe and out of Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Syrian rebels, Hezbollah, IS and other extremist terror groups threaten the tense quiet on the northern border, senior officer says

Rivlin in Moscow, set to warn Putin of Iranian gains in Syria

By Raphael Ahren and Sue Surkes

AnalysisMoscow’s drawdown in Syria sends a strong message to Assad

Russian airstrikes near Palmyra as Syrian troops advance

By AFP

Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on August 5, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash 90)

Only 8% of Foreign Ministry budget is used for diplomacy

By Raphael Ahren

In 2015, cost of foreign missions’ security nearly double that of diplomatic activity; ‘That defies logic,’ says former ambassador to US Michael Oren

Deborah Housen-Couriel

When Hamas comes into your living room

A hack of an Israeli TV show highlights the need for states to beef up their cyber defense toolkit

When my purity means your impurity

The proposed law cementing ultra-Orthodox control of the mikveh serves only — and damnably — to humiliate other Jews

Elegy for Sinai

Yearning for a time when she could spread a mattress on the sand by the water and go to sleep without fear

Mob mentality at Vassar

The toxic climate of a recent vote to endorse a boycott of Israel was typical of BDS bullying on the campus

Illustrative: Benjamin Netanyahu gets into his car after a meeting at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Netanyahu publishes his salary slip, pays $3,200 toward his armored car

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister’s Office posts picture of February wages on Twitter: He makes over $12,000, but takes home only $4,500

Melanie Lidman joined Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat on one of his regular morning jogs from his house to the municipality office on February 10, 2016. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

How Nir Barkat runs Jerusalem

By Melanie Lidman

Murad Halessi trains for the Jerusalem marathon on March 8, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Jewish-Arab marathon team runs for coexistence

Ahead of race, members of Runners Without Borders say that these days, their message of unity is more important than ever

The Jordan Valley. (CC BY Trocaire, Flickr)

UN chief urges Israel to reverse West Bank land appropriation

By AFP and Raoul Wootliff

Settlement watchdog Peace Now says the move is the largest of its kind since 2014, could increase tensions with Palestinians

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 15, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF chief: Our offer to scale back West Bank activity is not in lieu of peace talks

By Tamar Pileggi

Gadi Eisenkot says Palestinians’ dire economic straits driving many of the attackers, urges permits for laborers

Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal at a rally in Hamas's honor in Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2015. (AFP/Rodger Bosch)

Hamas not seeking war with Israel, political chief says

Mashaal claims terror group only interested in defensive measures, even as military wing ratchets up threats; talks with Egypt reportedly fail

President Reuven Rivlin arrives in Moscow on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (Mark Nyman/GPO)

Rivlin in Moscow, set to warn Putin of Iranian gains in Syria

By Raphael Ahren and Sue Surkes

Two leaders to discuss regional implications of Russia’s sudden military disengagement from the war-torn country

Rabbi Marc Schneier attending the Combating Islamophobia event at the JCC in Manhattan, New York, March 14, 2012. (JTA)

Interview

US rabbi urges Netanyahu peacemaking trip to Saudi Arabia

After holding meetings with Gulf state leaders, interfaith advocate Rabbi Marc Schneier thinks the prime minister should too

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, Ofek Buchris, center, and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon seen at Mount Hermon, overlooking the Israeli border with Syria. February 04, 2015. (Effi Sharir/POOL)

Accusers say polygraph proves IDF general lied about rape

Ofek Buchris’s attorney lashes ‘tendentious,’ ‘partisan’ leaks of lie detector results in sexual assault case

Fans of Catholic Memorial School cheer at a game with Newton North High School in suburban Boston on March 11, 2016. During the basketball game, CMS fans chanted, 'You killed Jesus,' at the predominantly Jewish high school. (Screen Capture: Nate Weitzer/Twitter)

Catholic school bans fans over ‘You killed Jesus’ chant

By ToI Staff and JTA

Students barred from basketball playoffs for shouting anti-Semitic slurs during dust-up game with predominantly Jewish high school

Illustrative. Police guard a synagogue during a visit by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, in Marseille, southern France, January 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Anti-Semitic slogans, swastikas painted on synagogue in France

By JTA

Vandals in the northeastern French city of Verdun kick open an outer door but are unable to enter the building

Anti-Israel students at Columbia University erected a mock 'apartheid wall' in front of the iconic Low Library steps during Israel Apartheid Week, March 3, 2016. (Uriel Heilman)

On Israel Apartheid Week, many pro-Israel students choose silence over conflict

By Uriel Heilman

More Headlines

The all-female flight-deck crew of a Royal Brunei Airlines plane. From left to right, Captain Sharifah Czarena Surainy, Senior First Officer Dk Nadiah Pg Khashiem and Senior First Officer Sariana Nordin became the first all-female crew for the airline when they flew to Saudi Arabia, February 23, 2016. (Royal Brunei Airlines)

Airborne but groundedAll-female Arab crew flies into Saudi no-drive zone

By Stuart Winer

Talk show host Jerry Springer during an interview with MSNBC, March 15, 2016. (YouTube/MSNBC)

Cool off!Jerry Springer: Elections are like my show

By JTA

Steven Spielberg is photographed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, on Jan. 18, 2014 in Park City, Utah (AP/Danny Moloshok/Invision)

The last, last crusade?Spielberg, Ford to reunite for fifth ‘Indiana Jones’

'American Pie' singer Don McLean (YouTube screenshot)

We lay down and weptDon McLean denies he called wife anti-Semitic slur

By JTA

School children hurry to shelters as sirens sound throughout Israel as part of a of an IDF Home Front Command drill on June 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF aims for more accuracy in its warnings of incoming missiles

By David Shamah

New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff in his office holding a letter from Rabbi Jill Jacobs’ daughter. (Screenshot from The New Yorker via JTA)

Drawing the line6-year-old girl takes on ‘unfair’ New Yorker policy

By Gabe Friedman

Visitors explore Zedekiah's Cave, also known as Solomon's Quarries, an underground limestone quarry that runs the length of five city blocks under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem on August 21, 2008. (Michal Fattal /FLASH90)

Digging in the darkUS ‘treasure hunter’ arrested after night in Jerusalem cave

By AFP

Amar Abu Dakah, found guilty for taking part in the murder of Yitzhak Algabi in October 2012, seen at the Lod District Court,, March 3, 2016. (Flash90)

Burglar gets life sentence for stabbing farmer to death

By Raoul Wootliff

A remotely regulated living bionic heart. (Tal Dvir and Ron Feiner)

Tel Aviv U. unveils ‘revolutionary’ cyborg heart patch

File: Brig.-Gen. Ofek Buchris, second right, motions to then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz during a tour in northern Israel, when Buchris was head of the IDF's Bashan Division in 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Hebrew media reviewLies ex machina

By Joshua Davidovich

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