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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 19, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, flanked by ministers Miri Regev and Yisrael Katz, in the Knesset on February 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu rivals, loyalists in Likud spar over election threat

By Raoul Wootliff

Yisrael Katz says there’s no reason to dismantle coalition and Miri Regev threatens to ‘blow it all up,’ as PM and Kahlon go to war over public broadcasting

As early election talk swells, PM digs in against new broadcaster

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox MKs fume over Netanyahu’s Saturday meeting

Netanyahu reneges on deal for new state broadcaster, prompts election talk

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Likud Knesset member Yehuda Glick, September 27, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK pens anguished account of culture of fear in Netanyahu’s coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

Yehudah Glick says coalition chair David Bitan insults and mocks colleagues to force them to toe the party line, and PM does nothing to stop him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, arrive in China on Sunday, March 19, 2017 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Eyes on boosting trade, PM lands in China as coalition crisis simmers

By Raphael Ahren

With ministers and industrialists in tow, Netanyahu will hope to bury trouble brewing at home under heaps of economic agreements with the Asian giant

A man watches a TV news program showing an image, published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the country's Sohae launch site, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea tests newly developed high-thrust rocket engine

By Eric Talmadge

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during an Israel Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on June 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman threatens to ‘destroy’ Syrian air defense systems

By AFP

After Friday’s attempt by Syria to down IAF planes, defense minister says in next incident Israel will have no ‘hesitation’

After Syria airstrike, Hezbollah says Israel fears Islamic State defeat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Islamic State claims Israel bombed its members in Sinai

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

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri attends a press conference during the Shas faction meeting in the Knesset on February 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Deri: ‘Unforgivable’ to call early elections over broadcaster

By Marissa Newman

Interior minister confident solution will be found; IDF chief says Lebanon to be held responsible for Hezbollah in future conflict

This file photo taken on December 14, 2016 shows Syrian pro-government forces advancing during a military operation in the northern city of Aleppo. (AFP Photo/George Ourfalian)

Analysis

Islamic State’s wane sets the stage for regional superpower Iran

By Avi Issacharoff

The country once known as Syria is being carved up, and Tehran and its terrorist proxies are in a position to benefit more than any other player

David Seidenberg

Sarsour didn’t really say that

If you support human rights, you must condemn the occupation; in fact, you can’t be a real ally of Israel otherwise

Petra Marquardt-Bigman

Sarsour: In her own words

A survey of the Palestinian activist’s tweets and posts of recent years, revealing her intense hatred of Israel

Helen Maryles Shankman

Why potatoes matter more than batteries

When the desire for a full pantry in a blizzard means so much more than surviving the storm

Elliot J. Cosgrove

Intermarriage: To officiate or not

Conservative rabbis unapologetically promote Jewish living and marrying — and must also embrace Jew and non-Jew alike

Joint (Arab) List MK Basel Ghattas at a press conference in Nazareth, March 17, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

MK accused of smuggling phones to jailed terrorists resigns from Knesset

By Raoul Wootliff

Basel Ghattas set to go to prison for two years under plea deal; move ends efforts to impeach him under new ouster law

Illustrative: A gallows is prepared for an execution in Gaza in 2013. (AP/ Gaza Interior Ministry/ File)

In first, Hamas sentences two drug dealers to death

Gaza terror group blames drug epidemic on Israel, says traffickers will be treated like spies

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference after meeting with Belgian Prime Minister in Brussels on February 9, 2017. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)

Abbas said invited to White House mid-April

Palestinian media report PA president heading to Washington next month, a week after he spoke to Trump for the first time

Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a meeting at the Plaza Hotel on September 19, 2016 in New York. (AFP/Dominick Reuter)

Egyptian president to make first White House visit in April

Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Palestinian leaders pan UN for scrapping Israel ‘apartheid’ report

Hanan Ashrawi says reality is one of ‘ethnic cleansing,’ claims secretary-general gave in to ‘political blackmail’ when he rejected Israel-bashing paper

RAID police unit officers secure the area at the Paris' Orly airport on March 18, 2017 following the shooting of a man by French security forces. (AFP/Benjamin Cremel)

Paris airport suspect previously investigated for Islamic extremism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Man shot dead trying to grab soldier’s weapon was ‘known to the police and intelligence services,’ minister says

Toptal's Taso Du Val (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Dropout turned entrepreneur helps find talent amid engineer squeeze

By Shoshanna Solomon

US firm Toptal matches firms with top talent globally in virtual marketplace where no visas are needed

Anti-Semitic notes left on Toronto doorways, February 19, 2017. (Screen capture: CTV News)

Jews most targeted group in Toronto hate crimes, police say

Community subjected to vandalism more than any other group, study shows, amid slight uptick in hate crimes across region in 2016

Francois Fillon, with open jacket, shaking hands with CRIF President Francis Kalifat in Paris, March 14, 2017. (Courtesy CRIF via JTA)

Courting Jews, French candidate Fillon struggles to forge connection

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Under shadow of corruption scandal, presidential wannabee makes pitch to CRIF gathering, but many uninspired and unimpressed

Israeli author David Grossman (Kobi Kalmanovitz)

Times of Israel Presents

David Grossman, Melanie Phillips, thriller writers to headline upcoming TOI events

By Matthew Kalman

From left, Michael Sheen, Lior Ashkenazi, and Richard Gere star in Joseph Cedar's latest release, 'Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.' (Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)

Interview

‘Norman’ director Joseph Cedar talks court Jews and herring

By Jordan Hoffman

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Britney Spears (CC BY-SA 2.0, loveyousave, Wikimedia Commons)

Her prerogativeBritney Spears said set to play first show in Israel

Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel forex buying slows shekel’s gains, study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

A new billboard created by an artist depicting President Donald Trump with swastika-like imagery for dollar signs in downtown Phoenix, Arizona on March 18, 2017. (Screen capture/Reuters)

My way or the heil-waySign depicts Trump with swastika-like imagery

Greek Jewish community head David Saltiel (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

Greek Jewish community hails citizenship decision

By AFP

An Iranian couple walk in a park in the capital Tehran on March 14, 2017. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)

Doghouse to jailhouseIranian pre-nups land thousands of men behind bars

By Eric RANDOLPH and Ali Noorani

Chuck Berry performing at the Congress Theater in Chicago, Illinois, December 31, 2010. (AFP Photo/Getty Images/Timothy Hiatt)

From the webHow Jewish record men helped Chuck Berry invent rock ‘n’ roll

Former AP correspondent George E. Bria. (Screen capture: YouTube)

AP newsman who sent word of Nazi surrender dies at 101

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on March 8, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAnatomy of a crisis

By Ilan Ben Zion

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