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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 16, 2017

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, Thursday, February 16, 2017 at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

US demands UN pull report accusing Israel of apartheid

By ToI Staff and AFP

Envoy Nikki Haley says Washington outraged by publication; Sec-Gen Guterres distances self from it; Israel slams it as ‘despicable’

Israel fumes as UN board slams its ‘apartheid, racial domination’ over Palestinians

US will leave UN Human Rights Council if it doesn’t reform

By Edith M. Lederer

David Horovitz on Trump’s White House invitation to Abbas

By ToI Staff and dennis zinn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 16, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / POOL / AMIR COHEN)

Before sit-down with US envoy, PM promises new settlement

By Raphael Ahren

Cabinet members applaud as PM recommits to resettling Amona evacuees, says he’ll negotiate with Jason Greenblatt on West Bank construction

Netanyahu, Italian FM talk expanded cooperation between nations

Trump tells Saudis he has ‘strong desire’ for Israeli-Palestinian peace

By Eric Cortellessa

Netanyahu to meet with Trump envoy for second time on Thursday

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Arab MK Basel Ghattas attends a remand hearing at Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on December 23, 2016, a day after he was arrested for allegedly passing cell phones to convicted terrorists jailed in Israel. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)

Live updates (closed)

In plea bargain, MK to serve 2 years in prison for smuggling inmates phones

By Raoul Wootliff

Bassel Ghattas will resign from Knesset immediately, admit to charges including aiding terror activities; Abbas says Liberman destroying Oslo accords

David Friedman, nominated to be US Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

With Friedman’s confirmation looming, US Jews range from despondent to exhilarated

By Eric Cortellessa

While left-wing J Street says the ambassador-designate shows ‘breathtaking disdain for the vast majority of American Jews,’ the right-wing ZOA says he reflects ‘widely-held views of the American public’

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman, left, seen with then-Jewish Home head Naftali Bennett, center, and MK Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset plenum, May 11, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman, Bennett spar over rabbi who disparaged female soldiers

Defense minister accuses Jewish Home head of backing those who want to ‘turn Israel into Iran,’ calls on Rabbi Yigal Levinstein to resign

Liberal Orthodox rabbis ban service in mixed combat units

Defense minister demands rabbi who disparaged female troops resign

Bennett blasts Netanyahu for failing to defend pre-army academy

By Alexander Fulbright and Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the Knesset vote on the 2017-18 state budget. on December 21, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mending rift, Netanyahu and Kahlon cut deal on public broadcaster

By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman

PM agrees to drop demand to delay opening, while finance minister backs plan to step up government oversight of new body

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi/POOL)

Kahlon says he and Netanyahu ‘no longer an item’ as coalition falters

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

Democrats 66 party leader Alexander Pechtold, right-wing populist leader Geert Wilders, Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer, Party for the Animals' Marianne Thieme, Green Left party leader Jesse Klaver, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Cornelis Gerrit (Kees) van der Staaij, Labour Party leader Lodewijk Asscher, and Christan Democrats party leader Sybrand Buma, from left, pose for a picture after the closing debate at parliament in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (Robin van Lonkhuijsen ANP POOL via AP)

Victorious Dutch PM Rutte expands lead over far-right as votes counted

By Mike Corder and Raf Casert

Anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders’s party sinks to third place in 2017’s first ballot-box test for European populists

EU’s Juncker hails Dutch ‘vote against extremists’

By AFP

Dutch PM Rutte beats anti-Islam leader Wilders

By Mike Corder and Raf Casert

Erdogan says Europe treating Muslims like Jews during WWII

By AFP

(YouTube Illustrative photoimage via Shutterstock)

Your YouTube habits can be tracked by third parties, Israeli expert shows

Even when they promise anonymity and encryption, video host sites can’t entirely hide users’ activities from governments, advertisers, hackers

Is your pastrami really kosher? (iStock)

Is any meat today kosher?

Virtually all animal products are the result of practices that categorically contravene Jewish law and ethics

Team Israel and their Jewish mothers

How a baseball team, with its mascot, anthem, and camaraderie, nourished the Jewish identity of its players

The Mobileye deal’s meaning for humans

The technology Intel bought for $15 billion is part of a revolution that threatens to increase income inequality

Israeli soldiers checking for explosives at Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem after a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed 15 people, August 9, 2001. (Courtney Kealy/Getty Images/JTA)

Jordan rejects US demand to extradite woman convicted in Jerusalem bombing

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Ahlam Tamimi was an accomplice in the 2001 Sbarro suicide attack; State Department wants to try her over death of 2 Americans in the blast

The 'Beware of Jews' sign which was fixed onto a lamppost in Stamford Hill that was spotted in March 2017. (Shomrim/Twitter)

London artist apologizes: ‘Beware of Jews’ sign wasn’t meant to offend

Franck Allais says road hazard marker was meant to be comment on diversity, not anti-Semitic, and he’s now shaken by the outcry

Illustrative: An IAF F-16 from the Red Dragon squadron during a drill, November 2013. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

IDF strikes two Hamas facilities after rocket fired from Gaza at Netivot

Projectile believed launched by Salafist group landed in an empty field late Wednesday

MK Nava Boker (L) alongside (R) Oshra and Charlie Azaria, parents of IDF soldier Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier sentenced to 18 months in prison for killing a wounded Palestinian stabber, speak to press outside the Knesset, March 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebron shooter takes fight for pardon to the Knesset

By Raoul Wootliff

Elor Azaria’s family welcomed to the parliament as a guest of Likud lawmaker Nava Boker; ‘I call on other MKs to join the struggle,’ she says

An OrCam device scans text and plays it back as speech for the visually impaired. (screen capture: Youtube/OrcamTechnologies)

Mobileye sale puts spotlight on founders’ other startup

By Shoshanna Solomon

Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram also behind OrCam, which develops devices to assist the blind and visually impaired

Mobileye's CEO Ziv Aviram, left, and Shai Babad, director general of Israel's Finance Ministry (Courtesy)

Israel sees Mobileye as world R&D center for self-driving cars

By Shoshanna Solomon

After Intel deal, Finance Ministry DG Shai Babad and Mobileye CEO Ziv Aviram discuss enlarging company’s Jerusalem campus

Sebastian Gorka, left, a top aide to US President Donald Trump, seen in on inauguration day wearing the uniform and medal of Vitézi Rend, a Hungarian order of merit with ties to Nazi Germany (Fox News)

Top Trump aide a sworn member of Nazi-allied group – report

Members of the far-right Hungarian group Vitézi Rend said to claim Sebastian Gorka took a lifetime oath of allegiance

Police officers investigate a bomb threat outside the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester in Brighton, NY on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (Tina Macintyre-Yee/Democrat & Chronicle via AP)

Fresh wave of bomb scares hits three JCCs in US

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jewish centers in St. Louis, Atlanta, and Boulder receive bomb threats via email; all deemed non-credible

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert is seen departing Maasiyahu Prison in Ramle on July 11, 2016, for his first leave from prison since he began his 19-month sentence in February. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Justice minister recommends pardon for Olmert

Despite opposition of her ministry, Ayelet Shaked says ex-PM’s contributions to Israel’s security are reason enough to free him

A photo from Alina and Jeff Bliumis's book, 'From Selfie to Groupie.' (Courtesy)

NY festival celebrates Russian Jewish immigrants as the ‘drivers’ of American culture

By Cathryn J. Prince

Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, gives an interview on Islam in America published in November 2016. (Screen capture/YouTube)

AIPAC paid $60,000 to group that peddles anti-Muslim conspiracy theories

By JTA

Official from pro-Israel lobbying group says payment was for an ad Frank Gaffney’s group ran against the Iran deal

Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold a monthly prayer service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, February 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Women of the Wall petition Supreme Court for right to pray undisturbed

By JTA

Petition accuses police of indifference in face of verbal and physical badgering from ultra-Orthodox protesters

Street artist Dan Groover in his studio in Talpiot, Jerusalem, March 14, 2017 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Street art graffiti with some groove, and soul

By Jessica Steinberg

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Secret agents (iStock illustration)

From Israel with LoveWhen spy paranoia costs you a date with an attractive Israeli

Yoni Ariel. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli implicated in fake Trump document scandal

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the jailing of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, Jerusalem, March 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews protest arrest of draft-dodger

Israeli authors David Grossman (L) and Amos Oz. (Screen captures/YouTube)

Israelis Oz, Grossman make first cut for international Booker Prize

Illustrative: Drones in a hangar at Israel Aerospace Industries, near Tel Aviv, on May 28, 2013. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Israel Aerospace Industries says ‘irregular’ activities led to internal probe before police raid

By Judah Ari Gross

Many Jews from all walks arrived to march on Saturday, January 21 in the Women's March in Washington, DC. (Ron Sachs/National Council of Jewish Women)

From our partnerFor Jewish feminists, ‘intersectionality’ means new minefields

A rabbi, a priest and an atheist smoke marijuana. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Lord get me highA rabbi, a priest and an atheist smoke pot

Likud MK Miki Zohar attends a Knesset committee meeting on December 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-porn bill clears first hurdle amid privacy worries

Gavin McInnes in Tel Aviv, March 2017 (Screen capture:YouTube)

Ex-Vice founder: Israelis have ‘whiny paranoid fear of Nazis’

Israel’s MedyMatch inks deal with IBM Watson Health

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBroadcast feuds

By Joshua Davidovich

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