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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 18, 2017

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Jordanian UN official Rima Khalaf who heads the Beirut-based U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. (YouTube/UNESCWA)

Head of UN body resigns as her group’s ‘apartheid Israel’ report is withdrawn

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rima Khalaf quits after Sec.-Gen. rejects document accusing Jewish state of ‘racially dominating’ the Palestinians; Israeli envoy: Her departure was ‘long overdue’

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cairo on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

UN chief orders report accusing Israel of ‘apartheid’ pulled from web

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Two Israeli Air Force F-15 Ra'ams practicing air maneuvers. (TSGT Kevin J. Gruenwald, USAF/Wikipedia)

Netanyahu: Syria raids targeted ‘advanced’ Hezbollah arms

By Steve Weizman

After unprecedented missile clash, PM says Israel will continue to operate against weapons transfers from Assad regime to Shiite terror group

Iran: Israel’s ‘aggression’ in Syria proves it’s aligned with ‘terrorists’

Russia summons Israeli envoy, demands clarifications on Syria strike

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Syria complains Israeli airstrikes violated international law

Travelers wait after being evacuated from Paris' Orly airport on March 18, 2017 following the shooting of a man by French security forces. Security forces shot dead a man who took a weapon from a soldier. Witnesses said the airport was evacuated following the shooting. (AFP PHOTO / Benjamin CREMEL)

Attack thwarted at Paris airport as man shot dead after grabbing soldier’s gun

By Agencies and ToI Staff

No other casualties, but thousands evacuated at Orly; assailant earlier shot a cop elsewhere in city, and was reportedly a ‘radical Muslim’ known to authorities

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Coalition Chairman David Bitan attend a Likud faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on January 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Coalition chairman says ‘good chance’ of new elections

David Bitan warns continued political wrangling by other parties could prompt Likud and Netanyahu to go to the polls

The cast of 'Come From Away.' (Photo by Matthew Murphy/Courtesy Polk and Co.)

'This isn’t a story about 9/11, but a 9/12 event'

Musical explores how a small Canadian town rebuilt the world on September 12, 2001

Open this week on Broadway, ‘Come From Away’ tells the story of 6,500 people diverted to Newfoundland, and the infinite kindness of their hosts

A replica of the 2,500-year-old Ma'agan Michael ship excavated off the coast of Israel in the 1980s at dock in Haifa on March 17, 2017. (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)

Replica of 2,500-year-old ship found off Israel christened ahead of maiden voyage

By Ilan Ben Zion

‘Ma’agan Michael II’ gets set to sail down the coast from Haifa to Herzliya as part of project to crack mystery of ancient seafaring

Shhh, don’t talk about mental illness

On a campus initiative that lets Jewish students coping with mental health issues know they’re not alone

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Can you be religious and unethical?

It is vital to embrace the notion that none of the religious traditions of the world is absolutely perfect

US President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

No handshake: Tensions show as Trump, Merkel meet for first time

By Andrew BEATTY

President fails to shake German leader’s hand during uneasy Oval Office encounter

Johan Heldenbergh co-stars with Jessica Chastain as Jan Zabinski in 'The Zookeeper's Wife.' (Anne Marie Fox/Focus Features/via JTA)

Jessica Chastain on playing a Holocaust heroine in ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’

By Curt Schleier

Actress says she’s ‘honored’ to portray the real-life superhero who risked everything to save 300 Jews from the Nazis

Iran's heavy water nuclear facility, near the central city of Arak (AP/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan/File)

Iran disputes cap on heavy water under nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and AFP

Tehran argues it should be allowed to hold more than the 130-ton limit as it searches for buyers for the excess material

Illustrative. IDF soldiers at the Al-Aroub intersection near Hebron, July 18, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinian teen said killed by IDF when hurling firebombs at cars

By AFP and ToI Staff

Another Palestinian reported to be seriously wounded in incident north of Hebron, while attempting to attack Israeli drivers

Illustrative: The Israel-Gaza border, from the Israeli side, with rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 20, 2014. (Albert Sadikov/Flash90)

2 rockets fired from Gaza, prompting IDF retaliatory strikes

One projectile explodes near Ashkelon, causing no casualties or damage; Israel responds with tank fire and air strikes at Hamas targets

Archive: Former US National Security Advisor Susan Rice, views the Arrow 2 intercepting missile launcher at the Palmachim Israeli Air Force base in central Israel during her visit to the country on May 9, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

In first reported use, ‘Arrow’ intercepts its target — but was it a success?

By Judah Ari Gross

After 17 years of waiting to knock out an incoming ballistic missile, defense system takes out a surface-to-air rocket instead, raising more questions than answers

William Daroff, left, the Washington director of the Jewish Federations of North America, and Michael Feinstein, the director of a Jewish community center in suburban Washington, DC, testify before a House subcommittee, March 16, 2017. (Ron Sachs)

Jewish officials fret Trump budget will gut security grants

Heads of influential organizations say they anticipate vigorous resistance to proposed cuts from Jewish community

Devin Naar says Ladino connects Jews with Latinos and Muslims, two communities he considers marginalized in Trump’s America. (Meryl Schenker Photography/The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at Washington University/via JTA)

Sephardi studies scholar sees preserving Ladino as ‘act of resistance’ against Trump

By Josefin Dolsten

Then State Sen. Jamie Raskin talks to a supporter who voted early for him on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 before he successfully won his seat to represent Maryland's 8th congressional district in the House of Representatives. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Interview

Jamie Raskin promotes his brand of progressivism to counter Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

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Hillary Clinton speaks at the Society of Irish Women's annual dinner on St. Patrick's Day in her late father's hometown in Scranton, Pa., Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Hillary Clinton says she’s ‘ready to come out of the woods’

By Michael Rubinkam

Dutch PVV leader Geert Wilders is seen prior to a meeting between main parties leaders and the Chairman of the Senate in The Hague, on March 16, 2017, one day after the general elections. (Jerry Lampen/AFP/ANP)

Analysts say Wilders remains a force to be reckoned with

Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he delivers his 'Urbi et Orbi' blessing message from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica on December 25, 2015 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images via JTA)

I cast you out!Pope tells priests to call in exorcists when needed

By AFP

The Levite JCC in Birmingham, Alabama (YouTube screenshot)

Evangelical Christians in Alabama raising $100,000 to secure Birmingham JCC

By JTA

Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the free-market VVD party speaks to his supporters after exit poll results of the parliamentary elections were announced in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (Patrick Post/AP)

AnalysisAfter Dutch reject populism, will other Europeans follow?

By Raf Casert and Angela Charlton

Palestinian security prisoner Abed al-Basat (Channel 2 screenshot)

New Israeli TV series follows lives of Palestinian security prisoners

By Itamar Sharon

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of Congress in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Sources: No evidence for Trump wiretap claims in DOJ report

Rachel Brosnahan stars as Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel, the titular character in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.’ (Amazon Studios)

Midge's moments‘Gilmore Girls’ creator makes a very Jewy TV pilot

By Josefin Dolsten

David Letterman at the 5th anniversary of Joining Forces and the 75th anniversary of the USO, May 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Bearded OneLetterman now repeatedly ‘mistaken for a rabbi’

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