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What Matters Most On Monday, March 21, 2016

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The final group of Jewish immigrants from Yemen arrives in Israel accompanied by an ancient Torah scroll, March 20, 2016. (Arielle Di-Porto/The Jewish Agency for Israel)

200 Jews 'rescued' from Yemen in recent years

17 Yemenite Jews secretly airlifted to Israel in end to ‘historic mission’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Only 50 community members remain in war-torn Arab state after covert operation involving Jewish Agency, State Department

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

Analysis

AIPAC braces unhappily for Trump, the ‘most pro-Israel’ presidential contender

By David Horovitz

There’s a Jewish candidate who chose not to be seen here. And an ostensible Israel-lover with whom many would much rather not be seen. A surreal day dawns for the pro-Israel lobby

Trump may bring more policy, less hype to AIPAC speech

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Pro-Israel policy conference nervously awaits Trump speech

AIPAC’s first woman president in a decade to stress diversity

By JTA

Donald Trump speaking at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington on March 21, 2016. (Screen capture: AIPAC/JLTV)

Live updates (Closed)

Trump cheered at AIPAC for vow to dismantle Iran deal, oppose UN

By Raoul Wootliff

Controversial frontrunner draws laughs at pro-Israel confab with claim he knows nuclear agreement better than anyone; Kasich declares ‘unwavering’ support for Israel; Paul Ryan says first trip as speaker will be to Israel

US Vice President Joe Biden addresses the AIPAC 2016 Policy Conference on March 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Molly Riley/AFP)

Biden to AIPAC: Israeli, Palestinian apathy ‘incredibly disappointing’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

VP earns scattered boos from appreciative audience when he criticizes ‘systematic’ settlement expansion; Iran deal is good for Israel, he asserts

AIPAC chief urges bipartisanship, two-state solution

By Eric Cortellessa

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters rally outside AIPAC confab

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Ahead of divisive AIPAC speech, Trump claims to be ‘most pro-Israel’

By Marissa Newman and AP

A man reacts in front of a makeshift memorial at the location of the blast of a suicide attack on Istiklal Street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, on March 20, 2016. (AFP / YASIN AKGUL)

Istanbul bomber said to have tailed Israelis from hotel

By Ilan Ben Zion

Earlier assessments said Islamic State-linked bomber Mehmet Ozturk had not deliberately targeted the Israeli group

Erdogan sends condolences to Rivlin over Istanbul blast victims

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Turkish authorities hunt for 3 Islamic State terrorists at large

By ToI Staff and AP

Istanbul on edge after Islamic State blamed for bombing

By Clare BYRNE and Burak Akinci

A UN Council for Terrorist Rights

More than half of Human Rights Council resolutions condemn Israel — it’s time for the US to hold back funding

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

When Jerusalem danced with a red balloon

The Old City is the heart of Israel’s capital: Some days she’s surly, some days she weeps, and some days….

The next tragedy in the western Negev

This serious threat to life and limb is neither missiles nor tunnels — and the Roads Authority can fix it

Purim, pornography and PC culture

Educators are increasingly afraid of teaching kids about big, bad genocidal Haman — and that’s a problem

Marriages: Arranged but not deranged

The way hasidim discover ‘the one’ may not work for outsiders, but they tap into something she can’t reach

Beneath Rishon Lezion’s skyline of dilapidated buildings and shiny new towers, it’s people who add the real color

Illustrative photo of British policemen. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

London on alert for up to 10 terror attacks at once

By Stuart Winer

UK security officials fear fighters returning from Syria could launch assault with weapons of mass destruction

A woman lays flowers on a makeshift memorial at the location of the blast of a suicide attack on Istiklal Street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, on March 20, 2016. (AFP / YASIN AKGUL)

Analysis

Israel and Turkey inch closer together, but bombing won’t restore ties

By Raphael Ahren

With sides still wary, increased cooperation in wake of suicide attack won’t necessarily give way to warmer relationship, experts say

The bodies of the three Israelis killed in an Istanbul suicide bombing land in Israel on March 20, 2016 (Foreign Ministry/Courtesy)

IDF plane carrying bodies of Istanbul victims lands in Israel

A Palestinian police member inspects the damage inside a burned-out house belonging to a key witness to an arson attack last year by Jewish extremists that killed a Palestinian family, in the West Bank village of Duma, after fire broke out in the home in the early hours of March 20, 2016. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

New Duma fire likely not Jewish arson attack, Israeli officials say

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After blaze damages home of key witness in trial against Jewish terrorists for deadly firebombing, Shin Bet says it does not believe incident a nationalistic attack; UN condemns ‘violent arson’

The coffin of former Mossad chief Meir Dagan is lowered into the ground at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina, northern Israel, March 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Ex-Mossad chief Dagan laid to rest with military honors

Spy agency holds private ceremony for former head before funeral; Dagan remembered as ‘symbol of transformation from Shoah to rebirth’

Soldiers stand at attention during the annual ceremony for soldiers whose burial places are unknown on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on March 17, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Families of 179 missing soldiers still looking for a place to mourn

By Judah Ari Gross

A mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, in a Jerusalem neighborhood. (illustrative photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Attorney general opposes bill barring non-Orthodox from ritual baths

Avichai Mandelblit says proposal harms Israel’s religious freedoms and is unconstitutional

A photo of a woman kissing an ultra-Orthodox man posted online has resulted in the army striking his army deferment (screen capture: Channel 10)

Smooch dodger

IDF to draft Haredi man after kissing photo emerges

Social media post by ex-girlfriend sees army strike yeshiva student’s deferment; IDF said planning unit to track ultra-Orthodox

Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York courthouse following his release from prison after 30 years, on November 20, 2015 in New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Ministers defer decision on pension for spy Pollard

By Stuart Winer

Sources say concerns over US-Israel relations prompted committee to shelve bill to assist released prisoner

Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch. (Ian Brown)

Jewish-Canadian playwright awarded top literary prize

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hannah Moscovitch wins $150,000 Windham Campbell Prize for decade of work that delves into life’s hard moral questions

Jewish literary scholar Geoffrey Hartman (YouTube screenshot)

From the webJewish literary critic Geoffrey H. Hartman dies at 86

Ricka Razel (second from right) and her brothers outside their childhood home in the Nahlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem (Courtesy Ricka Razel Van-Leeuwen)

In musical comeback, Razel sister goes solo

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Hackers at a Tikkun Olam Makers makeathon at Alyn Hospital in Jerusalem, March 15, 2016 (Courtesy)

Alyn hospital hackers seek to remake the world for disabled

By David Shamah

Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the ADL Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on November 6, 2014.(courtesy ADL)

Bigotry busters ADL funnel Trump money to anti-bullying program

A V15 activist puts up a poster calling for a change in government. (screen capture: YouTube/Victory2015)

Bill to curb political NGO funding passes first hurdle

Illustrative photo of Israeli police cars (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Man linked to Likud shot dead in apparent gangland slaying

Inside a KLA-Tencor overlay metrology machine (Courtesy)

Apple, Samsung and the rest flock to Israel’s Silicon Valley for chip tech

By David Shamah

IDF soldiers carry the coffin of one of three Israelis killed a day earlier in an Istanbul suicide bombing, as the bodies of the victims arrive at Ben Gurion Airport on March 20, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Hebrew media reviewAs bomb victims return, melancholy and a glimmer of hope

By Joshua Davidovich

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