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What Matters Most On Friday, March 25, 2016

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An IDF soldier loading his weapon before he appears to shoot an unarmed, prone Palestinian assailant in the head following a stabbing attack in Hebron on March 24, 2016. (Screen capture: B'Tselem)

New video corroborates Hebron soldier’s testimony, supporters say

Infantryman who shot disarmed Palestinian stabber claims he believed assailant had bomb; now facing murder charges

Soldier who shot Palestinian faces first court hearing

Netanyahu, Ya’alon slam Hebron shooting as IDF vows probe

By Itamar Sharon

Hebron soldier says he feared disarmed suspect had suicide vest

By ToI Staff and Itamar Sharon

Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)

Islamic State explains why it doesn’t attack Israel (yet)

Palestine is not the Muslims’ ‘primary cause,’ IS article argues; ending Saudi control of Mecca and Medina takes precedence

Islamic State quotes Trump in clip praising Brussels attacks

Four Palestinians indicted for supporting Islamic State

Belgian Taekwondo champ condemns suicide bomber brother

By AFP

TayTweets’ Twitter photo (Twitter via JTA)

Human error

Microsoft robot tweets praise for Hitler, is shut down

By Itamar Sharon and JTA

When engineers launched Tay, a program simulating a teenage girl, they made one fatal error: letting it learn from users

Henry Cavill, left, as Clark Kent, and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.” (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Comics)

‘Batman v. Superman’: Jesse Eisenberg on Lex Luthor’s Jewish qualities

By Curt Schleier

When you get past his ‘rageful and envious and increasingly dark’ side, the DC comics supervillain has ‘a very strong moral code and he questions things,’ says actor

The Human Rights Council in Geneva (UN/Jean-Marc Ferré)

UN approves blacklist of companies profiting from settlements

PM blasts ‘anti-Israel circus,’ and Livni blames him, as resolution passes in Human Rights Council, after fruitless US, EU bid to soften language

Palestinians welcome UN call for settlement database

By AFP

Expected UN appointee said to have history of Israel bias

By JTA

University of California OKs statement against anti-Semitism

By Janie Har and Lisa Leff

Illustrative photo of Israeli Border Police at the entrance to Isawiyah, in East Jerusalem, on November 12, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police thwart Jerusalem stabbing attack by teenage girl

By Judah Ari Gross

Troops subdue, arrest 15-year-old at entrance to neighborhood of Isawiyah; no one is injured

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally in Miami, Florida, March 8, 2016 (AP/Alan Diaz)

Sanders fighting perceptions he can’t overcome Clinton edge

Vermont’s Jewish senator has challenged Clinton on income inequality and money in politics, and won a dozen states, but remains a long shot

Mexicans to burn Donald Trump in effigy in Easter ritual

By AFP

Who votes Trump? Sketch of a typical backer

By Ivan Couronne

Republicans worry Obama is opening door to new Iran relief

By Bradley Klapper

In fact, Americans support Israel

From Gallup to AIPAC, all indicators point to widespread, bipartisan backing for the Jewish state

A BDS win at Brown University

It didn’t take much Israel-bashing for SJP to convince a transgender best-selling author to cancel her talk

A Purim lesson in why taxes are good

How a tool wielded by ruthless leaders to exercise cruelty became a means of increasing social equality

I made a mistake at AIPAC

He’s sorry he stayed for the Trump speech and can’t believe how far right the AIPAC crowd has drifted

Dahi Khalfan Tamim (screen capture AlJazeeraEnglish/YouTube)

In Twitter blitz, Dubai security chief opposes Palestinian state, urges coalition with Israel

The outspoken Dhahi Khalfan Tamim says Jews should not be treated as enemies; most of his 1.3 million followers are not impressed

Pope Francis washes and kisses the feet of refugees on March 24, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Pope washes feet of Muslim refugees, says ‘We are brothers’

By LUIGI NAVARRO and Nicole Winfield

In Easter rite at shelter near Rome, Francis calls Brussels attacks ‘gesture of war,’ greets each asylum seeker individually

A police officer takes part in an operation in Brussels, late on March 24, 2016. (AFP/Belga/Nicolas Maeterlinck)

Six people arrested in Brussels after attacks

By Danny Kemp and Claire Rosemberg

PM refuses to accept resignations of Belgian ministers over claims one of the suicide bombers had slipped through authorities’ net

(From L) European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and King Philippe of Belgium react before observing a minute of silence on March 24, 2016 at the Federal Parliament in Brussels, two days after a triple bomb attack in the city killed 31 people. (AFP/Belga/YORICK JANSENS)

Belgium: We sought metro bomber’s arrest last year for terror offenses

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amid widespread criticism of its security, Brussels confirms terrorists’ link to Paris; PM Michel declines ministers’ offer to resign

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo arrives at a European Union Summit held at the EU Council building in Brussels, on March 18, 2016. (AFP/Thierry Charlier)

Poland PM refuses to take in refugees after Brussels attacks

By AFP

Beata Szydlo reneges on deal to accept 7,000 asylum seekers, says there are terrorists among them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds an 500 hundred-year-old Torah scroll as he poses for a picture with some of the Yemenite Jews who were brought to Israel as part of a secret rescue operation, at the Knesset on March 21, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Operation to rescue Yemeni Jews was 2 years in the making, son says

By Judah Ari Gross

From the US, Manny Dahari helped orchestrate his family’s airlift to Israel; ‘I’m just so relieved right now. I know that they’re safe,’ he says

An ancient Torah scroll brought to Israel by the final group of Jewish immigrants from Yemen, March 20, 2016. (Arielle Di-Porto for The Jewish Agency for Israel)

Yemenite Jew said jailed for helping smuggle ancient Torah to Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children read the Scroll of Esther, which tells the story of the Jewish festival of Purim, at a Jerusalem yeshiva on March 24, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Photo essay

Israelis celebrate Purim carnival with costumes and drink

Parades abound as the festival marking the averted genocide of the Jews is marked around the country

Israeli children dressed up in costumes in downtown Jerusalem, during the Jewish holiday of Purim when it is customary to dress up, March 24, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Tel Aviv comes to a halt for Purim festival

The Gat brothers in concert (JTA/courtesy of Arie Gat)

Purim party canceled, Haredi rockers give Belgian Jews a private show

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A Catholic pilgrim carries a wooden cross along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) in Jerusalems Old City during the Good Friday procession on March 25, 2016. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)

Thousands trace Jesus’s footsteps on Good Friday in Jerusalem

By AFP

Procession of Catholics and Protestants passes along the Via Dolorosa in the Old City; Orthodox Christians mark Easter Sunday on May 1

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Actor and comedian Garry Shandling in 2006 (AP/Matt Sayles, File)

American Jewish comic Garry Shandling dies at 66

By AP

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the courtroom for the reading of his verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, on March 24, 2016.
(AFP / POOL / Robin van Lonkhuijsen)

Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic found guilty of genocide

By Jan Hennop and JO BIDDLE

Illustrative photo of Israelis watching flash floods in Nahal Og, which empties into the Dead Sea, November 26, 2014. (Maxim Dinshtein/Flash90)

‘Dangerous’ flash floods expected Saturday in Negev, Dead Sea areas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, March 6, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Netanyahu: Wholesale attacks on Reform Jews ‘unacceptable’

By JTA

The Babi Yar ravine. (CC BY-SA Mark Voorendt/Wikipedia)

Ukraine to allocate $1 million for Babi Yar memorial

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a software developer at an Israeli start-up working on a project. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israeli start-ups set to take Berlin, then the rest of Europe

By David Shamah

A Palestinian woman speaks with an Israeli soldier at the scene of an attack in which two Palestinians wounded an Israeli soldier in a knife attack before being shot dead by troops in the city center of the West Bank town of Hebron on March 24, 2016. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Hebrew media reviewIDF soldier’s ‘execution’ raises concerns over resurgent violence

By Ilan Ben Zion

US President Barack Obama (L) and Argentinian President Mauricio Macri shake hands in Buenos Aires on March 24, 2016 NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)

Obama offers Argentina help in probe into Jewish center bombing

By JTA

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