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What Matters Most On Friday, March 17, 2017

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Illustrative: The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on December 10, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

IAF ‘Arrow’ battery intercepts Syrian missile, in first reported use of the system

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Syria fires three anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets; one knocked down by defense system, reportedly over Jordan; other two land in Israel, cause no damage

Jordan finds chunks of debris from Syria-Israel missile clash

By Dov Lieber and Judah Ari Gross

AnalysisNo offense to the ‘Arrow,’ but greater threats loom from the north

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Israel dismisses Syria’s claims it downed IAF jet, hit another

By AFP, Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, at Abbas's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. (WAFA)

Analysis

Donald Trump stuns the Middle East by sending an honest broker

By Raphael Ahren

Despite administration’s unprecedented pledge of allegiance to Netanyahu, Jason Greenblatt’s carefully calibrated visit shows US peace bid will take all sides into account

In 2nd meeting, Netanyahu and Trump envoy fail to reach agreement on settlements

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

In ‘historic’ move, Trump envoy hosts interfaith meeting

By Raphael Ahren

In unprecedented session, settler leaders meet Trump’s envoy

By ToI Staff and AFP

This file photo taken on May 24, 2016 shows African refugees waiting on a rubber boat to be rescued during an operation at sea, on May 24, 2016. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys)

Dozens of Somali refugees shot dead in Red Sea attack

By AFP

Bodies of 33 people found, 80 survivors rescued and taken to hospital including 24 in ‘extremely critical’ condition

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat with marathon winner Kenyan Shadrack Kipkogey on March 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Record 30,000 take part in Jerusalem Marathon

Kenya’s Shadrack Kipkogey wins, while Fenta Gezachew finishes first among Israeli men; Yaara Zangi-Radoshitzky is first Israeli woman

Mayor Barkat calls Jerusalem Marathon a ‘spiritual sporting event’

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem marathon up and running despite disruption threats

Ultra-Orthodox threaten to disrupt Jerusalem Marathon

China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu review an honor guard at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 8, 2013. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/FLASH90)

Hoping to boost trade, PM heads to China with largest-ever business delegation

By Raphael Ahren

Marking 25 years of relations with Beijing, Netanyahu to meet President Xi and other top officials, but focus of next week’s three-day visit is on boosting commercial ties

A Turkish pro-government newspaper depicts Chancellor Angela Merkel on its front page in Nazi uniform with a Hitler-style mustache on March 17, 2017

Turkish daily depicts Merkel as ‘Frau Hitler’ on front page

By AFP

Turkey furious over refusal in Germany, Holland to allow rallies in support of expansion of President Erdogan’s powers

In this Sunday, March 16, 1997 file photo, King Hussein of Jordan shakes the hand of members of the Badayev family in Beit Shemesh who were in mourning after their daughter Shiri was killed by a Jordanian soldier. King Hussein came to Israel to offer condolences to the seven families who lost their daughters in an attack on a class trip. The Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a 1997 shooting rampage was released Sunday, March 12, 2017, after serving 20 years in prison. (AP PHOTO/GPO/HO, File)

When King Hussein paid a shiva call

By Yisrael Ptichi

He longs for peace 20 years after the murder of his daughter and 6 other girls, as their murderer completes his life sentence

Nicholas W. Allard

No tolerance for intolerance

The eruption of anti-Semitism from sadly, ever-present mutant seeds of ignorant, self-loathing is no accident

The Sabbath: First day or last?

Shabbat offered those who built the Tabernacle, that symbolic prototype of society, a beacon to look forward to (Ki Tisa)

The cast of “Nebsu,” the first Israeli primetime show to feature a black actor in a lead role. (Courtesy of Yosi Vasa via JTA)

Groundbreaking TV comedy introduces Israelis to their Ethiopian neighbors

By Andrew Tobin

Edgar Ramirez right), the head of the archives in the Bolivian state mining company COMIBOL, with unearthed documents which reveal that Jewish-German tin baron Mauricio Hochschild helped thousands of Jews escape Nazism, in El Alto, Bolivia. (Aizar Raldes/AFP)

Decades after he died, pre-WWII files reveal unlikely heroism of ‘Bolivian Schindler’

By José Arturo Cárdenas

Vilified mining magnate Mauricio Hochschild turns out to have helped thousands of Jews escape from the Nazis

Two young men stop to view police activity outside the Jewish Children's Museum following a bomb threat, Thursday March 9, 2017 in Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

At Jewish schools hit by bomb threats, trying to teach students just enough to cope

Illustrative: Palestinians celebrate at the welcome reception for released Palestinian prisoners, at the Muqata'a in Ramallah, in the early hours of Tuesday, December 31, 2013. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel blacklists shadowy PA-linked fund as terror group

By Judah Ari Gross and Eric Cortellessa

Defense minister says Palestinian National Fund, ultimately controlled by Abbas, pays terrorists and their families ‘tens of millions of shekels’ every month

PA President Mahmoud Abbas poses with prisoners released on October 30, 2013 as part of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas says blacklisting of PA-linked fund violates Oslo Accords

By Judah Ari Gross, Eric Cortellessa and Dov Lieber

Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mladen Ivanić meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 16, 2017. (Photo by FLASH90)

Abbas: World terror will remain until Palestinian conflict solved

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Welcoming visit by Trump envoy, Abbas says upcoming Arab League summit will watch how DC attempts to tackle peace process

Joint List MK Basel Ghattas arrives for a court hearing at the Rehovot Magistrate's Court, January 5, 2017. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Charges filed against Arab MK accused of smuggling phones to prisoners

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Basel Ghattas set to go to prison for two years under plea deal, says treated unfairly as an Arab lawmaker

David Be‘eri, director of the City of David archeological park. (YouTube screenshot)

Controversial ‘builder’ of Jewish East Jerusalem awarded Israel Prize

David Be‘eri, who manages City of David in Silwan neighborhood, wins prestigious award despite being criticized for helping Jews settle in Arab areas of capital

Rabbi Eli Sadan speaks during a protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel Prize-winning rabbi rejects call to fire provocative colleague

Eli Sadan refuses to ‘cooperate with dictatorship‘ in having Yigal Levinstein fired for comments against women soldiers

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC on February 15, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Outlining budget, Trump puts aid to Israel first while slashing elsewhere

By Eric Cortellessa

White House maintains annual $3.1 billion to Israel, slashes overall State Department budget by 28%, leading to fears that Egypt and Jordan could see cuts

US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

ADL lauds court orders to block new Trump travel ban

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Smoke billows following reported air strikes on a rebel-held area in the southern city of Daraa, on March 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohamad Abazeed)

US claims deadly north Syria strike, denies targeting mosque

By AFP

CENTCOM says target of air raid was al-Qaeda meeting, will look into reports of 40 civilian fatalities

Celebrating Purim in a Dublin pub are Israelis (from left) Elad Michaely, Itamar Sinai, Michael Dulberg, Arik Warshager, Mattan Lass and Oren Shpigel. Sinai and Warshager have lived in Ireland for 17 and 14 years, respectively, and give advice to the newcomers. (Michael Riordan/Times of Israel)

St. Patrick's Day

Will the next generation of Irish Jews have a touch of Hebrew to their brogue?

By Michael Riordan

More Headlines

BMW, Intel, Mobileye announce cooperation for driverless car, July 2016 (Courtesy)

Israeli tech firms rev up their engines for self-driving cars

By Josef Federman

Sofi and the Baladis, an ensemble making music with Samaritan, Arabic and Israeli roots, will perform Sunday, March 19, 2017 at Tel Aviv's Papaito (Courtesy Sofi and the Baladis)

A former Samaritan faces the music of her complicated roots

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau and his wife Sara attend the Jewish Moroccan celebration of Mimouna, in Or Akiva on April 21, 2014. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu apologizes for ‘Mizrahi gene’ remark

By Alexander Fulbright

Fliers claiming that “Jewish privilege” is the key to social injustice found on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, March 16, 2017 (Screenshot from Twitter/Alyssa Greenberg, via JTA)

Fliers blaming Jews for social injustice found at Chicago university

By JTA

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar speaks on the movement's Al-Aqsa TV on March 8, 2017. (Screen shot/MEMRI)

Senior Hamas leader: Quran tells us to drive Jews out of Palestine’s entirety

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

Illustrative: Conjoined newborn twins in the West Bank city of Hebron on March 16, 2017. (AFP/HAZEM BADER)

Conjoined twin sisters who share a heart born in Hebron

By AFP

In this December 2008 photo, Isidore Heath Campbell, left, with his wife, Deborah, and son Adolf Hitler Campbell, pose in Easton, Pennsylvania. (AP/Rich Schultz)

Full FuhrerNazi fan dad wants to change name to Hitler

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rabbi Hyim Shafner. (Screen capture: YouTube via JTA)

DC synagogue hires successor for mikvah-peeping rabbi

By JTA

This file photo taken on November 17, 2016 shows
Steven Mnuchin arriving at the Trump Tower for meetings with US President-elect Donald Trump, in New York. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP Photo)

US Treasury’s Mnuchin, from Wall St. to Hollywood to Baden-Baden

By AFP

Then US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro seen at a farewell session in the Knesset, on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former US envoy to Israel Dan Shapiro to join hedge fund

By JTA

Danae Elon’s two sons in a scene from 'P.S. Jerusalem.' Says the director: 'I realized that I had to turn inward in order to get under the skin of the place.' (Photos copyright Danae Elon)

From our partnerDirector Danae Elon’s new film explores the complications of ‘home’

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (2L) attends the inauguration of the tunnel boring machine to be used on the new Tel Aviv Light Rail on February 19, 2017. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOh, the depths you’ll go to

By Joshua Davidovich

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