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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 22, 2017

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Reservist soldiers take part in an IDF drill on March 21, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldiers simulate ground invasion

2,000 reservists train for war in Gaza with surprise drill

By Judah Ari Gross

Four reserve brigades given 24 hours notice for largest exercise of its kind this year; army says it’s unrelated to tensions on the border

Saying tunnels not existential threat, IDF head admits hitting them from air

By Judah Ari Gross

Gazan, 18, said killed by IDF while approaching border fence

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

AnalysisArrest of Gaza manager exposes Hamas’s Turkish connection

By Avi Issacharoff

In this Tuesday, March 1, 2016 file photo, American servicemen and Israeli soldiers participate in a joint drill simulating a rocket attack at a base in Hatzor, central Israel. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israel plans mass evacuations if war erupts again

Codenamed ‘Safe Distance,’ contingency plans would see up to 250,000 civilians cleared out of border communities if they come under major attack by Hamas or Hezbollah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L) looks on during his meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on March 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Etienne Oliveau)

Netanyahu denies Russia told Israel to halt airstrikes in Syria

By Raphael Ahren

PM says coordination with Moscow critical to prevent Iranian weapons smuggling, says Jewish state will continue to carry out airstrikes

Syrian rebels report fresh Israeli airstrikes near Damascus

Ex-defense official credits much of Israel’s security to ties with Arab states

By Judah Ari Gross

North Korea a larger global threat than Iran, Liberman says

By Judah Ari Gross

An Ethiopian-Israeli woman tells the Interior Ministry she has waited 16 years for two of her children to come to Israel at a Knesset hearing on March 21, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Let our people come, Ethiopian Jews plead as immigration stalls

By Melanie Lidman

MKs accuse Interior Ministry of sabotaging Ethiopian aliyah; ministry claims it’s trying to overcome logistical challenges

Israeli security forces stand guard as Palestinian Muslim worshipers take part in Friday noon prayers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud on September 18, 2015, (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Dramatic ruling paves way for thousands of East Jerusalemites to regain residency rights

Since 1967, over 14,500 Arab residents of Jerusalem have had their right to live in the city revoked. Unanimously accepting a long-shot petition, the Supreme Court rules that, as native born Jerusalemites, they deserve better

Armed police officers guard at a police cordon outside the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Live updates (closed)

Israel expresses solidarity as three killed in London attack

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Attacker was shot dead, police say they believe there is only one attacker but still carrying out searches in area

A bottle of Gordon’s Dry Gin found at a World War I British camp near Ramle in March 2017 (Assaf Peretz, courtesy of Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeologists uncork 100-year-old liquor stash left by British troops

By Ilan Ben Zion

Aside from bottles of gin and whiskey knocked back by World War I soldiers, excavation near Ramle also turns up silver tip of swagger stick, medallion with face of Egypt’s King Fuad

Shye Ben-Tzur, right, playing with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood at the Sacred Jerusalem Festival, September 1, 2015. (Noam Chojnowski/via JTA)

Two Israel-based musicians to open for Radiohead on world tour

By Jessica Steinberg

Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis to accompany the Brit band in US, while Shye Ben Tzur heads to England, Ireland and other cities

Andrew King, who was arrested on March 20, 2017, for falsely claiming his home was graffitied with swastikas, February 10, 2017 (Screen capture: Daily Gazette)

NY man arrested for painting swastikas on own home

Schenectady resident, who claims to be Jewish, charged with reporting a false crime; local rabbi says man never converted

Being Jewy

On that time when a guy in a casino told him not to be a f*cking Jew

Algeria, where are your Jews?

UN Watch silences the Arab countries’ condemnation of Israel as an apartheid state, in the UNHRC

Moses and the Supreme Court

Will Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings check for that essential virtue in exacting justice — humility?

Hijab, kippah, crucifix

The European Court of Justice fans the flames of xenophobia when it allows Muslims to be fired for religious attire

Jules Trump controls Israel's Haifa Chemicals (Courtesy)

Another Trump hopes Israel can make ammonia great again

By Shoshanna Solomon

El Al airplanes on the tarmac at the Ben Gurion International Airport on August 14, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

No electronics ban on flights to US from Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon and AP

Israel’s Airports Authority says Jewish state has not received any instructions from US on new policy

Joint (Arab) List MK Juma Azbarga. (Screen capture: YouTube)

New lawmaker sworn in to Knesset to replace Arab MK who smuggled phones

Juma Azbarga says he plans to focus efforts on halting housing demolitions in unrecognized Bedouin villages

Arnold Roth attending a meeting of the House Oversight Committee of the US Congress in Washington in 2016. (Courtesy)

Father of Jerusalem bombing victim vows to keep pushing for terrorist’s extradition

After Jordan’s top court denies American request to arrest Ahlam al-Tamimi, who helped carry out 2001 Sbarro attack, Arnold Roth says he’ll take fight to court of public opinion

Police units move into the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of southeast Jerusalem before sealing off the home of a terrorist on March 22, 2017. (Israel Police)

Cops enter Jerusalem neighborhood to seal off terrorist’s home

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Mossad Chief Tamir Pardo speaks at the Netanya Academic College on March 21, 2017. (screen capture: Facebook)

Lack of 2 state solution is existential threat to Israel — ex-Mossad chief

By Tamar Pileggi

Tamir Pardo says government is burying its head in the sand and acting as if Arabs will someday disappear in some kind of ‘miracle’

AIPAC attendees standing and cheering Donald Trump at the policy conference in Washington on March 21, 2016. (screen capture: AIPAC/JLTV)

AIPAC confab to seek bipartisan spirit in deeply polarized capital

On agenda for March 26-28 pro-Israel lobby conference: Iran, boycott efforts, foreign assistance, but no mention of two states

Members of Hamas's military wing the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade attending a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Hamas aims to improve its image with new ideological document, but won’t revoke charter

By AP and ToI Staff

Updated program doesn’t rescind terror group’s founding commitment to holy war against Israel, Judaism and Jews; may accept temporary state in 1967 lines, without recognizing Israel

An FBI poster shown in Washington during a news conference shows a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, right, of how he would look like now, and a photo from a video released by his captors in 2010, left, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/ Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Family of Jewish ex-FBI agent sues Iran over disappearance

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Lawsuit filed in Washington accuses Tehran of using deception and lies to hide role in Robert Levinson‘s imprisonment

Tourists and worshippers wait to access the newly restored shrine surrounding what is believed to be Jesus's tomb which was unveiled at a ceremony in Jerusalem on March 22, 2017 following months of delicate work. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Newly restored shrine at Jesus’s tomb reopens in Jerusalem

Restoration was led by the Church’s three main denominations, which raised $3.7 million for the cause

Workers next to the IDF/AF TECSAR, an advanced imaging satellite produced by IAI (IAI via Tsahi Ben-Ami / Flash90)

Minister’s son reportedly arrested as probe into IAI defense firm expands

Police confirm 2 suspects detained, 10 more questioned as part of investigation into corruption at Israel’s largest state-owned company

Israel's national baseball team players celebrate their victory against the Netherlands after their first round game of the World Baseball Classic at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on March 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)

Campaign to build stadium in Israel takes off after World Baseball Classic

By JTA

Following success of Israeli squad in tournament, donations for country’s first regulation field pick up

A family visiting the Israel Museum's Shrine of the Book in 1965, when the iconic institution first opened. (Courtesy Israel Museum)

Book review

From its first curator, a breathless, memorable account of the opening of the iconic Israel Museum

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Eric Trump with his wife Lara at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, March 2, 2017. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images, via JTA)

Fake JewsTrump expecting ninth grandchild, who won’t be Jewish

By JTA and ToI Staff

An illustrative photo of a pregnant woman. (Photo credit: pregnant woman image via Shuttertsock)

Knesset extends paid maternity leave to 15 weeks

By Marissa Newman

Richard Falk (photo credit: AP/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi/File)

In Britain, protesters silence Falk

By Jenni Frazer

Artist's rendering of 'Between the cities,' a planned Tel Aviv 100-story skyscraper (courtesy Miloslavsky Architects)

Tel Aviv to get Israel’s first 100-floor skyscraper

Yair Garbuz speaks at the 85th birthday celebration of Israeli artist and sculptor Dani Caravan, at the Tzavta Theater in Tel Aviv, December 18, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bennett bars anti-‘amulet kissers’ artist from receiving Israel Prize

In this Monday, Nov. 10, 2014, file photo, Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 67, of Chicago is interviewed outside federal court in Detroit, after the Palestinian immigrant was found guilty of immigration fraud for failing to disclose her conviction and imprisonment in a Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two people. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Jewish Voice for Peace to host convicted terrorist at confab

By Josefin Dolsten

The annual CannaTech event held in Tel Aviv brings together cannabis professionals from Israel and abroad. March 20, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Kanabo Research aims vaporization at medicinal cannabis users

A heavily pregnant Natalie Portman appears in the music video for James Blake's 'My Willing Heart' 2107 (Screen capture: YouTube)

I got you babeVery pregnant Portman stars in new music video

Illustrative: Golani Brigade soldiers participate in the Golani Brigade Race on April 26, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

IDF reserve officer dies during military run

By Judah Ari Gross

Chuck Barris, the man behind TV's "The Dating Game," poses in the lobby of his apartment in New York, Dec. 20, 2002. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

‘King of schlock’ game show creator Chuck Barris dies at 87

By JOSCELYN PAINE

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 13, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Hebrew media reviewTiring of the coalition crisis

By Ilan Ben Zion

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