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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 31, 2016

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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)

Soldier to face manslaughter charge, not murder, in shooting

By Tamar Pileggi and Judah Ari Gross

Military prosecutors says soldier killed Palestinian assailant ‘deliberately and unnecessarily,’ seeks to keep him in jail 7 more days

Police summon Palestinian who filmed Hebron shooting for questioning

Netanyahu pans US senator’s call to probe ‘extrajudicial killings’

Army demolishes home of Hebron terrorist who murdered Israeli

File: US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during a press conference in Jerusalem, May 27, 2015 (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Interview

Trump is worse than Obama on Israel and foreign policy, GOP senator says

By Raphael Ahren

Current Republican front-runner ‘completely misunderstands’ value of US-Israel ties, fumes Lindsey Graham

Trump: Ban abortions, ‘punish’ women who get them

By AP and AFP

Trump says nuclear Saudi Arabia may be inevitable

By JTA

Bill Clinton brings Hillary’s message to leading rabbis

By JTA

Secretary of State John Kerry, right, talks with Sen. Patrick Leahy on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 13, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Live updates (closed)

Give Palestinians hope and they will stop stabbing, Abbas says

Palestinian leader tells Israeli TV he wants peace, but Netanyahu doesn’t, warns PA is near collapse

Rabbi Burt Siegel in his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)

NY Reform rabbi seeks spirituality in all the wrong places

By Cathryn J. Prince

After searching for years in ashrams in India, yeshivas in Jerusalem, Burt Siegel finally reconnects with his Judaism — in New York at a Chabad House

Students who did Justice for Palestine

In Louisville, they stood holding banners that equated Zionism to terrorism and, for once, it was inspiring

My mom donated her body to science. Would I?

Dissecting what remains after the remains have been dissected

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

God in living color

Spring has sprung in Israel, bringing with it dazzling lessons in the beauty of change and diversity

My name is Elizabeth and I am Jewish

Her father did everything he could to hide her Jewishness, but then she arrived in Krakow and met a rabbi

The three-story reading room planned for the new National Library of Israel, with a massive skylight in the roof (Courtesy The National Library of Israel)

Accessibility is the word in National Library’s new home, due in 2020

By Jessica Steinberg

MK Taleb Abu Arar during a meeting of the Knesset Interior Affairs Committee, November 17, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Arab MK: Israel founded on ‘exploitation, racism, terrorism’

By Raoul Wootliff

At Land Day demonstration, Taleb Abu Arar pans Arab Israelis who serve in IDF, calls on them to ‘come back to our struggle’

Illustrative photo of Israeli security forces stopping a Palestinian man at the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, on December 2, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel, PA said to meet on future of security coordination

As diplomatic ties wither, sides mum on details of proposals for continued anti-terror cooperation

Protesters attend a Land Day demonstration in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. (Courtesy Joint List)

In first, Arab leadership holds Land Day event in Negev

Higher-Up Committee brings protest to Umm al-Hiran, highlighting plight of unrecognized Bedouin villages; Arab List head calls government land grab ‘apartheid’

File: Israeli security forces gather at the site where a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, on December 7, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Analysis

Revisiting the IDF’s rules of engagement, in light of Hebron shooting

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians hold posters showing Dalal Mughrabi, A Palestinian terrorist involved in a 1978 attack in which 38 Israelis were killed, file (Issam Rimawi / Flash 90)

Fatah holds girls’ basketball cup in terrorist’s honor

School near Ramallah names tournament after Dalal Mughrabi, responsible for one of the deadliest attacks in Israel’s history

Zionist Union party chairman MK Isaac Herzog leads a faction meeting in the Knesset, January 4, 2016 (FLASH90)

Campaign invoices said to be ‘smoking gun’ in Herzog graft probe

Channel 10 says investigation into opposition leader centers around donations during his successful 2013 bid to become Labor chief

Shas rabbinical council said to back Deri in new graft probe

By Raoul Wootliff and Tamar Pileggi

‘Continue your holy work,’ head of party’s highest body reportedly tells accused interior minister after latest allegations

Shimon Gapso, at the time mayor of Nazareth Illit, October 30, 2013. (photo credit: Flash 90)

Nazareth Illit mayor ordered to jail after losing graft appeal

By Stuart Winer

Supreme Court accepts state’s claim that Shimon Gapso is guilty of moral turpitude, forcing him from politics for seven years

Illustrative photo of members of Brazil's Jewish community rallying in solidarity with Israel, June 17, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy)

Interview

Brazilian Jews ‘relieved’ spat over envoy finally resolved

By Raphael Ahren

Community leader’s hope that new Israeli ambassador arrive in time for Rio Olympics likely to remain unfulfilled

Newly-appointed Israeli Consul General in New York Dani Dayan seen at the opening of a conference discussing issues and ways to fight the boycott Israel movement, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

J Street slams incoming NY envoy for ‘un-Jewish’ slur

By JTA

A man lights a candle at a makeshift memorial in tribute to the victims of the Brussels attacks, in Casablanca on March 26, 2016. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

In Brussels, Orthodox Jewish paramedics were among first on scene

By JTA

Medical professionals are part of Hatzolah emergency service that primarily serves Antwerp’s 12,000 Haredi Jews

Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz, left in upper row, with hikers at the Chabad House of Kathmandu, March 2012. (Courtesy of Chabad Nepal)

In wake of tragedy, a Passover seder in Nepal offers respite

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Belgium vice prime minister Jan Jambon arrives at the European Commission to take part in a ceremony in memory of the victims of Brussels' terror attacks on March 23, 2016 in Brussels. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)

Belgian vice PM: There were celebrations following Brussels attacks

By JTA

While acknowledging that Belgium has a jihadist problem, Jan Jambon warns of ineffectiveness of racial profiling

Members of the RAID, the French national police intervention group, take part in a terror attack exercise in an urban environment, on March 30, 2016. (AFP/Kenzo Tribouillard)

France charges main suspect in foiled attack plot

By AFP

Reda Kriket, 34, was arrested after a police raid on his apartment uncovered a cache of assault rifles, handguns and explosives

The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (CC BY-US Mission Geneva/Flickr/File)

US pans move to blacklist companies working with settlements

State Department condemns Human Rights Council’s ‘bias’ against Israel in resolution that is ‘far outside their scope of authority’

Jack Lew with President Barack Obama in the White House ( AP/Susan Walsh, File)

US treasury secretary warns against overuse of Iran sanctions

By AP

Jack Lew says too many restrictions on nations could undermine American leadership position in global economy

Illustrative photo of Newark airport. (CC BY/switchstyle/Flickr)

Major drop in rejections brings Israel near US visa waiver threshold

By JTA

Refusal rate drops from 8.2% in 2014 to 3.8% in 2015, just above the 3% limit for countries wishing to enter program

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz speaks during a Knesset plenum session on September 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

World leaders tackle threat of nuclear terrorism

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli energy minister flies to Washington to participate in summit on threat of extremist groups attacking Western city

A photo taken on January 4, 2014, shows Syrians walking along a severely damaged road in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor (Ahmad Aboud/AFP)

Assad rejects Syria ‘transitional body’ demanded by opposition

President says rehabilitating war-torn country after 5 years of brutal conflict ‘will take a long time,’ cost over $200 billion

An Instagram color-corrected photo of a driver using Waze in the Philippines. (Raramaurina/Flickr)

Find that navigation voice annoying? Cellepathy feels your pain

By David Shamah

More Headlines

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Jerusalem, March 29, 2016. (Facebook via JTA)

Strongman strong-armedVan Damme de-Israelizes Facebook post

By JTA and ToI Staff

Argentina's Lionel Messi (L) vies for the ball with Bolivia's Fernando Saucedo during their Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup South American Qualifiers' football match in Cordoba, Argentina, on March 29, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / EITAN ABRAMOVICH / AFP / EITAN ABRAMOVICH)

Wrong footEgypt cries foul over Messi’s shoe donation

By AFP

People gather to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the Brussels airport and metro bombings a day earlier, on the Place de la Bourse in central Brussels, March 23, 2016 (AFP/Patrik Stollarz)

Belgium terror hotline operator says of Israel: It’s called Palestine, sir

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an air stewardess on board a flight. (CC BY 2.0 Flikr/Paul Stocker)

By the numbersState Department sorry for travel tip for the unattractive

By AFP

TayTweets’ Twitter photo (Twitter via JTA)

The Hitler-bot strikes backMicrosoft AI reactivates, promptly becomes druggie

By Itamar Sharon

Kulanu party member MK Eli Cohen attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, November 02, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lawmaker proposes once-a-month vacation Sundays

By Stuart Winer

Andrew Auernheimer was part of a group in 2010 that hacked AT&T’s servers, but his conviction was overturned on appeal. (Wikimedia Commons)

White supremacist claims swastika printing hack at US colleges

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an agricultural field in Israel, May 7, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Thai man found dead near Netanya in possible murder

By Raoul Wootliff

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem Labor Court on October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State rejects Sara Netanyahu’s bid to remove judge who ruled against her

Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., right, meets with Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, becoming the only Republican senator to meet the embattled nominee, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Garland holds first meeting with GOP Illinois senator

Infant and mother seriously hurt in Bnei Brak fire

The East Quad at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York network (Wikimedia Commons)

NY legislators demand suspension of CUNY pro-Palestinian group

By JTA

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