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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 29, 2016

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A Turkish policeman runs after an explosion on the pedestrian Istiklal avenue in Istanbul on March 19, 2016. (AFP / Bulent KILIC)

'This is a more than credible threat. This is an active plot'

Islamic State said planning imminent attack on Turkey Jewish school

Intelligence source cited by Sky News says concrete threat to Istanbul synagogue and community center, after Turkey and Israel both warn of increased danger for Jews and Israelis

Israel, Turkey mum on reported threat to Jewish schools

By AFP and ToI Staff

After Brussels attacks, Europe scrambles to close vise on jihadists

By AFP

Belgian, US security officials brief Jewish groups on attack

By JTA

Jonathan Greenblatt. (Courtesy)

Interview

Trump espousing ‘noxious ideas,’ unleashing extremism, says ADL chief

By David Horovitz

Jonathan Greenblatt urges Republican front-runner to stop using ‘xenophobic rhetoric against Muslims and Mexicans’ and decisively distance himself from radical supporters

Jewish voters keen on Clinton, Sanders, widely dislike Trump, Cruz

By JTA

With echoes of 2008, Sanders vows to fight as path narrows

By Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas

Jewish PAC endorses Hillary Clinton for president

By JTA

An IDF soldier who was filmed shooting a disarmed Palestinian assailant in the head attends a hearing in his case at a military court near Kiryat Malachi on March 29, 2016 (POOL/Flash90)

IDF tells court Hebron assailant killed by soldier posed no threat

Infantryman may escape with manslaughter charge, prosecutor hints at hearing, as hundreds rally outside on behalf of soldier

Disputing IDF, medics claim Hebron assailant wasn’t checked for bomb

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister castigates MKs backing soldier in Hebron killing

By Tamar Pileggi

Abbas demands justice over Hebron shooting

Israeli soldiers cover the body of a Palestinian assailant who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier as he lay wounded on the ground after injuring an Israeli soldier with a fellow Palestinian attacker in a stabbing assault in Hebron on March 24, 2016. (AFP / HAZEM BADER)

Live updates (closed)

US orders diplomatic, military families out of south Turkey

By Adiv Sterman

Cyprus says Egyptian plane hijacker arrested; China, Israel launch talks on free trade agreement; Palestinian who claimed his house was torched fabricated story

Leader of the Joint (Arab) list, Ayman Odeh, seen during a vote on the bill that would allow MKs to suspend lawmakers from the Knesset, March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Controversial MK suspension bill passes first Knesset reading

By Raoul Wootliff

Proposal would allow lawmakers to ban colleagues for inciting racism, supporting terror; critics say move limits democracy

Ex-Shin Bet chief says top Arab MK supports terrorists

Netanyahu said to halt return of Palestinian attackers’ bodies

By Raoul Wootliff

Knesset legal adviser warns MK suspension bill could be struck down

By Raoul Wootliff

Activists protesting for mikvah reform in Jerusalem, March 13, 2016. (Michal Smith Hazan/JTA)

At Israel’s mikvehs, women claim verbal abuse, unwanted touching

The rabbinate’s underpaid, often uneducated attendants can turn a religious ritual into an often jarring ordeal, say critics

What US Muslims are learning

Islamic studies textbooks in North America teach tolerance — except when it comes to Israel

Reaffirming my choice of Judaism

A year after her conversion, she continues her daily journey to her own spiritual ‘Promised Land’

A woman’s right to give birth at home

Her proposed law would provide financial help for those who opt to deliver in the comfort of their own bedrooms

Shelley J. Klein

The ideal Jewish city

Oh for an Israeli urban setting that could offer the rich Jewish choices available in Diaspora

Walter Benjamin speaking to Israel’s Channel 2 News from his hospital bed in Brussels, March 28, 2016. (Screenshot from Channel 2)

Jewish man hurt in Brussels blast plans Israel move after recovery

By JTA

Belgian Jew who lost leg in airport attack while waiting for flight to Tel Aviv says he’ll probably pack bags and move to be closer to daughter after release from hospital

An Egypt Air Airbus sits on the tarmac of Larnaca airport after it was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus on March 29, 2016. (AFP/STR)

Egypt plane drama ends with hijacker arrested, passengers freed

By AP and ToI Staff

‘It’s over,’ tweets Cypriot Foreign Ministry after seven-hour standoff at Larnaca airport; officials say no explosives found

An Egypt Air Airbus sits on the tarmac of Larnaca airport after it was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus on March 29, 2016. (AFP/STR)

Hijacker forces Egyptian jet to Cyprus in possible lovers’ tiff

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

Illustrative: A long exposure photograph of traffic on the Ayalon Highway through Tel Aviv, December 19, 2015. (Esther Rubyan/Flash 90)

Podcast

TOI talks: The dark underbelly of the start-up nation

By Raoul Wootliff

Smoke rises from the detonation of the 2,000-year-old temple of Baal Shamin in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, August 25, 2015. (Islamic State social media account via AP, File)

UN expert says Palmyra likely beyond repair after IS carnage

By AFP

During its 10-month occupation, Islamic State destroyed the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel and shrine of Baal Shamin

Illustrative: View of a special plenum session marking the 50th anniversary of the Knesset's current building, January 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset ups tax penalties for extravagant pay to bank CEOs

A financial institution may pay its top earner no more than 35 times the salary of the lowest earner or risk double taxation

A supermakert worker bagging groceries in plastic bags at the Rami Levi supermarket in Talpiot, Jerusalem, September 3, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After long haul, Knesset okays 10 agorot charge for plastic bags

By Melanie Lidman and Raoul Wootliff

Lawmakers unanimously pass law after two-year slog, but environmental activists warn tiny charge, down from original 40 agorot, won’t be enough to dissuade use

Gilbert Chikli, 50, and his wife, Shirly Chikli, 31, pose at their home in Ashdod on March 28, 2016. (AP/Oded Balilty)

How a French-Israeli grifter became a money-laundering pioneer in China

By AP

Convicted con man Gilbert Chikli, sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison by a French court last year but living openly in Ashdod, is credited with masterminding a fraud that has cost companies $1.8 billion. To get away with it, he became the first of many to look east

Illustrative photo of a Spanish Civil Guard policeman detaining a suspect in Madrid, Spain. February 17, 2016 (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

From Israel to Colombia, who’s laundering money in China

By Erika Kinetz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a visiting delegation of Indonesian journalists at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 28, 2016. (Haim Tzach, GPO)

Netanyahu calls for normalizing ties with Indonesia

By Tamar Pileggi

PM tells visiting Indonesian journalists establishing a diplomatic link with world’s largest Muslim country would open up vast trade opportunities

File: Beth Shalom in Havana, August 1, 2004. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Cuban Jewish leader: Synagogues are safe here

By JTA

Vice president of 1,500-strong community says it has ‘excellent’ relations with Castro government, welcomes Obama visit

Rabbi Moshe Azman, founder of the Anatevka community near Kiev, February 29, 2016. (R. Litevsky/Courtesy of the Office of Rabbi Moshe Azman)

In real-life Anatevka, Ukraine’s Jewish refugees cling to tradition

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers conducting training in a field near the border with Gaza in southern Israel, on July 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

State watchdog slams IDF for letting troops fund-raise for arms

By Tamar Pileggi

Screen capture of University of Michigan student Jake Croman in a viral YouTube video. (YouTube screen capture)

Candid cameraViral rant at driver followed anti-Semitic insult, says student

By JTA

File: British singer and musician Sir Elton John performs in a venue near Tel Aviv, on June 17, 2010. (Flash90)

Can you feel the love?Israel says Elton John not forced to declare loyalty

By AFP

Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Feb. 6, 2015. (Carlos Osorio/AP Images via JTA)

'Justice be thy plea'Ruth Bader Ginsburg to make ‘Merchant of Venice’ cameo

By JTA

President Rivlin with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong in Jerusalem, March 29, 2016 (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Israel and China enter talks over establishing free-trade zone

By Raphael Ahren

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah addressing supporters via satellite link during a rally in the southern Lebanese border village of Aita in August 2013. (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Kuwait to deport 60 Lebanese for alleged Hezbollah links

By AFP

Roseanne Barr speaks at an anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem, March 28, 2016. (CC BY-SA, monterey media, Flickr)

Open BarrRoseanne Barr brings anti-BDS rage to Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

A Gett Coca Cola app user orders a soft drink from his smartphone, via Dov-e ultrasound technology (Courtesy)

Ultrasound tech plus Gett taxis turn TVs into Coke vending machines

By David Shamah

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (L) speaks with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in the Israeli parliament on June 5, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewCalling out politicians for calling out politicians

By Judah Ari Gross

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