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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 17, 2016

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Illustrative photo of Israelis on Purim. (Flash90)

Still smiling

Israelis are happier than Americans, survey finds

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jewish state ranks 11th in global happiness index, above Germany, UK, Ireland, despite violence; Denmark, Switzerland top list

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (YouTube screenshot)

Sheldon Adelson on supporting Donald Trump: ‘Why not?’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish donor, whose backing is coveted by Republican candidates, indicates possible pivot toward front-runner at Las Vegas event

With Trump addressing AIPAC, Republican debate called off

By AFP and ToI Staff

HoundedTrump ad features Clinton barking like a dog

Will Jewish conservatives finally embrace Trump?

President Reuven Rivlin (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Moscow on March 16, 2016 (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Israel won’t allow Iran, Hezbollah on Syrian border, Rivlin tells Putin

Israeli president tells Russian counterpart enemies’ presence in Golan Heights is a red line, backs return of UN peacekeepers

Putin: Netanyahu to visit Kremlin for defense talks

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Iran preparing to dispatch snipers, commandos to Syria

Russian troops to leave Syria ‘by weekend’

By AFP

Palestinian school children on their way back from school in the West Bank village of Ouja, near Jericho, November 14, 2013. (Meital Cohen/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

EU concerned West Bank land seizure will threaten peace talks

By Adiv Sterman

Russia can ramp up military presence in Syria within ‘hours,’ if needed, says Putin; Supreme Court Justice Zilbertal to retire

Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland receives applauds from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as he is introduced as Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s Supreme Court nominee emotionally recalls Jewish roots

By JTA

In acceptance speech, Merrick Garland credits grandparents, who fled anti-Semitism in early 20th century, ‘hoping to make a better life for their children in America’

Obama taps Jewish judge as Supreme Court nominee

By AP, ToI Staff and JTA

Reform movement urges GOP to consider Garland nomination

By Eric Cortellessa

Potty talkWhite House candidates talk like school kids

By AFP

Tomas Kalika (right) in the kitchen at Mishiguene in Buenos Aires (courtesy of Mishiguene)

Buenos Aires chef’s crazy kitchen reinvents Jewish food

By Ilan Ben Zion

Tomas Kalika’s ‘Mishiguene’ adapts modern approaches to Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, with a uniquely Argentine approach

Illustrative photo of The New York Jewish Week

New York Jewish Week is new Times of Israel Local partner

Leading US Jewish publication, covering the world’s largest local Diaspora community, hails opportunity for greater online engagement

Naomi Marmon Grumet

My fading dream of the perfect mikveh

A plea to MK Moshe Gafni, who is spearheading the mikveh bill: Don’t shut women out of their sacred space

Peta Jones Pellach

Mercy without boundaries

The ideal, if not the reality, of the 3 great faiths is to behave with lovingkindness, forgiveness and compassion

Adin Steinsaltz

Purim, the festival of laughter

Reason can’t defeat the absurdity of anti-Semitism: what’s left is either despair or finding the humor in it all

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 deal nixed, Deri said to tell associates

Interior minister reportedly says compromise to establish egalitarian prayer plaza won’t happen: ‘The story is over’

The late Mossad chief Meir Dagan (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan dies at 71

By Raoul Wootliff, Raphael Ahren and Joshua Davidovich

Spymaster and former general succumbs after long battle with cancer; led agency for nearly a decade, was vocal critic of prime minister

File: Meir Dagan, the former intelligence chief (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

From friends and enemies, posthumous praise for Meir Dagan

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian protesters burn tires and hurl stones towards Israeli troops during clashes in Aboud village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2015. (FLASH90)

Analysis

PA’s collapse now seems a matter of when, not if

By Avi Issacharoff

Israel now takes seriously the threat of an end to security cooperation. But that doesn’t mean it intends to meet the PA’s demands

Dani Dayan participates in a panel discussion at the Israel Conference on Democracy in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

Israel walks back dropping Dani Dayan for Brazil envoy post

By Raphael Ahren

An hour after Foreign Ministry surprisingly declares ex-settler leader is no longer candidate for ambassador post, it blames false announcement on technical mistake

A Jewish bride sits with family members in the women's section during her wedding to the grandson of the Rabbi of the Tzanz Hasidic dynasty community, in Netanya, Israel, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Matchmaker, matchmaker

Views from the wedding of ultra-Orthodox ‘royalty’

By Oded Balilty

Photos essay: The nuptials of the grandson of the Rabbi of the Tzanz Hasidic dynasty

Mark Forstater and the late Graham Chapman (courtesy)

Jewish ‘seventh Python’ gets revenge with spammy memoir

By Jenni Frazer

Veterans of the Latvian Legion, a force that was commanded by the German Nazi Waffen SS during WWII, and their sympathizers carry flowers as they walk to the Monument of Freedom in Riga, Latvia, March 16, 2016. (AFP/Ilmars Znotins)

Latvian Nazi veterans join controversial annual march

By AFP

Procession through Riga includes elderly ex-fighters of Waffen SS; Jewish groups say parade glorifies Nazism

Anders Behring Breivik has his handcuffs removed inside a court room at Skien prison in Skien, Norway, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (Lise Aserud/NTB scanpix via AP)

Breivik slams prison food, praises Hitler in court speech

Norwegian extremist who killed 77 people in 2011 shooting spree suing government for ‘violating human rights’ in prison

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, July 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Deputy FM reveals Israel has secret diplomatic ties with Indonesia

By Raoul Wootliff

Tzipi Hotovely confirms Jakarta’s top diplomat was prevented from entering Ramallah because she refused to also meet Israeli officials

In this Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015 file photo, Israeli border police check Palestinians' ID cards at a checkpoint as they exit the Arab neighborhood of Issawiyeh in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Shin Bet: Several Palestinian terrorists had applied for Israeli residency

By Judah Ari Gross

Security service says recent West Bank transplants were behind a number of attacks, claims PA taking advantage of troubled Palestinians

The Jordan Valley. (CC BY Trocaire, Flickr)

US, UK, Germany slam Israel’s West Bank land appropriation

By ToI Staff, AP and JTA

Designation of 580 acres near the West Bank city of Jericho as ‘state land’ undermines peace prospects, three countries say

Leonard Nimoy, right, and William Shatner pose Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)

Captain Kirk says the real Mr. Spock ‘lived long and prospered’

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The main terminal building at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, November 2013. (CC BY-SA/Wikimedia commons/Milan Suvajac)

Cold TurkeySyrian refugee ‘trapped’ in Istanbul airport for year

By AFP

US President Obama with Jerry Seinfeld in an episode of 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.' (screenshot: 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee')

Comedy goldJerry Seinfeld sells 17 cars for $22m

By JTA

Illustrative image of FBI agents (AP/Winslow Townson)

FBI, Rockland DA raid yeshiva affiliates for potential fraud

By JTA

Anne and Margot Frank's copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales, pictured at Swann Auction Galleries in New York, March 16, 2016. ( AFP/Jewel Samad)

Anne Frank’s signed fairy-tale book up for auction in New York

By AFP

Nate Robinson, left, playing in a game against the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, March 13, 2015. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images via JTA)

NBA slam dunk champ Nate Robinson reportedly to play in Israel

By JTA

The files of a Nazi German officer, stored for years in the archives rooms of the medieval castle of Vincennes, east of Paris, on display, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French historians unveil WWII secret services’ archives

By AP

This BioBee sterile fly can help minimize the use of poisonous pesticides. (Courtesy BioBee)

Got a pest problem? Buy some more bugs instead of poison

By David Shamah

(L to R) Ido Sagi, the PhD student who led the research, and Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, principal co-author of the study and Director of the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Credit: Hebrew University.)

Half a genome better than a whole in quest to understand mutations

By David Shamah

Egypt's Antiquities Minister Mamduh Damati (3L) speaks during a press conference at the antiquities ministry in Cairo about radar scans of the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun in the ancient necropolis of Luxor which show a "90 percent" chance of two hidden chambers, possibly containing organic material, March 17, 2016. / AFP / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED

Secret rooms almost certainly tucked away in King Tut’s tomb

By AFP

Brig.-Gen. Ofek Buchris seen during a visit to Tel Hashomer army base, November 22, 2010. (Flash90)

General accused of rape ‘unlikely to return to army’

By Raoul Wootliff

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a primary night press conference at the Mar-A-Lago Club's Donald J. Trump Ballroom March 15, 2016 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewDonald Trumps the Hebrew media

By Adiv Sterman

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