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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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Muhammad Murtaja, 40, arrested by the Shin Bet for allegedly helping funnel money from Turkish charities to the Hamas terrorist group. (Coordinator of the Government's Activities in the Territories)

Shin Bet: Hamas stealing Gaza aid from Turkish charities

By Judah Ari Gross

Security service arrests one, accuses another of funneling reconstruction money to terrorist group’s military wing

Australian probe clears World Vision over Gaza case

By AFP

IDF tests rocket warning system in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel facilitates transfer of NIS 300 million to Gaza… in cash

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, February 19, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi/Pool)

Kahlon says coalition crisis over new broadcaster is ‘all spin’

Netanyahu’s threat of new elections surprised the finance minister, he says; Likud minister warns her ruling party could lose

Government scrambles to find solution for broadcasting crisis

By Sue Surkes and Raoul Wootliff

Israel passes law limiting activities, funding for get-out-the-vote groups

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Bennett says coalition broadcaster spat ‘nearly over’

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Jason Reed/Pool Photo via AP)

What in the world is Netanyahu up to?

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: There’s no shortage of real challenges to Israel’s security and well-being right now. So why is the PM zigging and zagging about the minor matter of the state broadcaster, and threatening new elections?

David Horovitz on the possibility of elections

By ToI Staff and dennis zinn

Israelis celebrating on Independence Day in Jerusalem on April 23, 2015. ( Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel is world’s 11th-happiest country, but…

Separate poll finds that about one-third of Israeli Jews would move abroad given the opportunity; Jewish state places above US (14th), Germany (16th) and UK (19th)

Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry’s political-security division. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli Jewish-Arab band to tour with Radiohead in US

By Ilan Ben Zion

Israel’s security owed to cooperation with Arab states, ex-defense official says; ex-Mossad chief warns of ‘demographic threat’ to Israel

This undated handout image released on Friday, May 13, 2016, by Hezbollah Media Department, shows slain top military commander Mustafa Badreddine smiling during a meeting. (Hezbollah Media Department via AP)

IDF chief: Hezbollah commander killed by his own men last year

By Judah Ari Gross

Heads of army, Mossad say Shiite extremism presents biggest threats to Israel’s security

Israeli drone shot down by Syria forces

Assad: Russia has ‘important role’ in preventing Israel-Syria clash

By Alexander Fulbright

Air Force defends use of Arrow system against Syrian missile

By Judah Ari Gross

A test of the David's Sling missile defense system (Defense Ministry)

Israel to deploy David’s Sling, final piece of missile defense shield

By Judah Ari Gross

Senior air force officer says Jewish state still vulnerable to attack, but multi-tiered system will put it ‘one step ahead’ of enemies

China's Premier Li Keqiang (4th L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3rd R) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 20, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Lintao Zhang)

Backing UN moves and Iran deal, China shows Netanyahu it’s not (only) about the money

By Raphael Ahren

Chinese premier also stresses hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace in talks with Israeli PM, despite visit’s focus on trade ties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, March 21, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel can be ‘perfect partner’ for China, Netanyahu says

By Raphael Ahren and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong at an innovation gathering in Beijing, March 21, 2017. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

In Beijing, Netanyahu looks to ‘marry Israel’s technology with China’s capacity’

By Raphael Ahren

In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump walk to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci, File)

Ivanka Trump to get West Wing office, security clearance

By Catherine Lucey

First daughter to serve as informal adviser to president, will follow the ethics rules that apply to government employees

Men hauling a cart for bread distribution. (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario, gift from the Archive of Modern Conflict/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts)

'It was a calculated act and a kind of resistance'

Exhibit trains overdue lens on secret record of life under Nazis

By Penny Schwartz

Prior to the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, photographer Henryk Ross risked his life by capturing Jews’ daily existence, then buried his trove of film, which will now finally see light of day in Boston

The entry law bars too many Zionists

She’s pro-Israel and anti-settlements, and fears that Israel will decide one day that she’s too lefty to be an Israeli

Ori Hanan Weisberg

A call for fundamental, non-violent change that will fulfill Israel’s founding principles does not a traitor make

Israel’s appalling error

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish deserves an apology and reparations for the Israeli tank shell that hit his Gaza home, killing 4

Graffiti sprayed on a roadblock in the West Bank city of Hebron reads 'Boycott Israel' (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Police minister said planning database of Israeli BDS activists

Justice officials reportedly oppose proposal on grounds Strategic Affairs Ministry isn’t authorized to track citizens’ political activism

The renovated Edicule is seen in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the site of the crucifixion of Jesus, in Jerusalem's Old City March 20, 2017. A Greek restoration team has completed a historic renovation of the Edicule, the shrine that tradition says houses the cave where Jesus was buried and rose to heaven. (AP Photo/ Sebastian Scheiner)

Historic restoration of Jesus’s burial shrine in Jerusalem completed

By Daniel Estrin

In October, when conservation work was in full swing, experts said they’d found original limestone bed on which Jesus was laid to rest

A post on a Facebook page connected to Fatah from 2015 of a gun and the party's flag on top of a pile of skulls with Stars of David on them, alongside the text, “lingering on your skulls.” (Screenshot: Facebook)

Fatah official says US embassy helped reinstate group’s Facebook page

Abbas party’s page was temporarily closed last month for incitement, but came back online a day later

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaking at the 53rd Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, February 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Christof Stache)

Iran says it’s ‘completely ready’ to restart nuclear program

Accusing US of violating 2015 nuclear deal, FM Zarif says relaunched program would be more advanced than previous one

In this Sept. 30, 2015 file photo released by the official website of Khamenei's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a graduation ceremony of Iranian Navy cadets in the northern city of Noshahr, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Undermining Iran’s president, supreme leader says economy ailing

By AFP

In this Thursday, February 16, 2017 photo, members of the Sisterhood Salaam Shalom, gather for a group photo after a unity vigil held at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

US Muslims and Jews strengthen bonds amid acts of bigotry

Sabrin Zabidat appears in a Haifa district court for her sentencing on March 21, 2017. (Screen capture/Ynet)

Arab-Israeli woman sentenced to 50 months for joining Islamic State

Sabrin Zabidat traveled with her family to Iraq, where she worked in an IS hospital while her husband fought with terror group

Members of the Hamas terror group's military wing at a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017, for Mohamed Zouari, a 49-year-old Tunisian engineer and drone expert, who was killed at the wheel of his car outside his house in Tunisia in December 2016. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Shin Bet says it thwarted 16 suicide bombings, 16 kidnappings, last year

By Judah Ari Gross

Agency chief Nadav Argaman says Hamas biding its time in Gaza and trying to stir up trouble in the West Bank

David Shimron in Tel Aviv on February 17, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s lawyer testifies in graft investigations

David Shimron is grilled in ongoing inquiries into extravagant gifts the PM received from wealthy businessmen

Yesha Council head Avi Roeh speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on March 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Settler leader blasts lack of new settlement construction

Yesha Council head Avi Roeh says ‘we are no longer in the Obama era,’ will not accept limitations on building

Shai Wallach (left) and Elie Fenyes chat about their studies and interests on Radio Gesher. (Dana Wachter/Times of Israel)

Twinned college radio shows get Israelis and Canadians on the same wavelength

By Dana Wachter

More Headlines

Mel Gibson at the 89th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 26, 2017. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images, via JTA)

His new passionMel Gibson now donates to Holocaust survivors

By Gabe Friedman

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the arrest of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a recruitment order, at the entrance to Jerusalem, on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police officer injured in ultra-Orthodox draft riots

Illustrative image of Cleveland Police car 2014 (CC BY-SA Raymond Wambsgans, Flickr)

Israeli man in intensive care after Cleveland shooting

This file photo taken on November 21, 2016, shows Facebook logos pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London. (AFP)

Haifa court fines Facebook user for defamatory post

By Shoshanna Solomon

Historian Elliott Horowitz, expert on Jewish violence, dies at 64

By JTA

In this Sunday, March 19, 2017 photo, Palestinian coach, Mahmoud Tafesh, gives instructions before starting training for an all women's baseball game, on a soccer field in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

League of their ownFemale baseballers swing for the fences in Gaza

Batia Bresca (YouTube screenshot)

Reality bitesMexican Jewish girl cooks pork on TV show, won’t eat it

By JTA

New Sesame Street character Julia (L) with longtime figure of TV show Elmo. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Open SesameA Muppet with autism heads to ‘Sesame Street’

By Frazier Moore

Israeli news anchor Geula Even, a witness in the court case against former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on June 12, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe aftermath of Kan

By Ilan Ben Zion

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