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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 23, 2017

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A Jewish Israeli teen is brought for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, on suspicion of issuing fake bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the US and around the world, on March 23, 2017. At right is his lawyer, Galit Besh (Flash90)

Suspect also forced plane to make emergency landing in 2015

Jewish Israeli-US teen arrested for phoning in JCC bomb threats

By Tamar Pileggi and AP

After months-long undercover investigation, police and FBI say suspect, who lives in Ashkelon, used voice-altering technology to make threatening calls

A man looks at fallen tombstones at the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery, February 26, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA. (AFP/Dominick Reuter)

Anti-Semitic attacks on the rise, five US states still lack hate-crime laws

By Eric Cortellessa

David Friedman, confirmed as US Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu praises confirmation of Trump’s US ambassador to Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

PM says David Friedman ‘will be warmly welcomed as a close friend’; JCCs thank Israel Police, FBI for arrest of bomb hoax suspect

A man is treated by emergency services outside the British Parliament in London on Wednesday March 22, 2017. Reports claim this man to be responsible for the attack that killed three. (Screen capture/YouTube)

May: London attacker ‘British-born,’ known to security services

By Jill Lawless and Danika Kirka

Day after terrorist kills 3 outside Parliament, PM delivers defiant message to the House of Commons, declaring: ‘We are not afraid’

Islamic State claims London attack that killed 3

Police officer, Spanish teacher among victims of London attack

By AFP

Police arrest 7 over London terror attack that killed 3

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 13, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Israel said to reject US call for building freeze in isolated settlements

By Alexander Fulbright

Hebrew media reports claim Trump envoy Greenblatt dismayed PM with proposal that would green-light E. Jerusalem building, but set quotas in the blocs; US sources say reports are inaccurate

Minister vows to quit coalition if settlement freeze goes ahead

Likud MK to petition top court against PM’s Temple Mount ban

West Bank settlement construction up in 2016 — report

By Alexander Fulbright and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Beijing hotel room, interviewed by The Times of Israel's diplomatic correspondent Raphael Ahren (left) and Times of Israel's Chinese editor Yifeng Zhou (Times of Israel staff)

Interview

Netanyahu to Times of Israel Chinese: I hope Beijing’s ‘superb’ relations with Israel will affect its UN votes

By Raphael Ahren and Yifeng Zhou

PM says new bilateral partnership on innovation underlines China’s readiness to apply Israeli technology for the benefit of its people; also says he discussed Chinese role in rail route from Asia to Israeli Mediterranean ports

A few super rotten rabbis

He can’t quite claim that Israel’s Rabbinate is rife with corruption, but it’s far from a model for Torah ethics

Sara Renee Miller

Mom, I might be Jewish

An evangelical Christian, whose calling is to stand resolute with Israel, no matter the anti-Semitic vitriol

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Passover prep? You’re already late

It’s the last Passover countdown checklist you will ever need

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan speaks to the media after returning from Iran at the Vienna International Airport, Austria, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

UN atomic chief: Iran inspections at risk without more money

By Josh Lederman

Yukiya Amano says nations, including a reluctant US, must contribute more money in order for IAEA to have funds to monitor nuclear deal

President Donald Trump walks to the White House after arriving on Marine One, Sunday, March 19, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

New day?Trump issues warm New Year greeting to Iranians

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu, sick, cancels coalition talks on defusing crisis

Government scrambling to negotiate compromise on launch of new public broadcaster threatening to bring down the government

In this March 17, 2017 photo, Jose Luis Garcia embraces and cries as he says goodbye to his little brother that departs to Bogota on his way to Israel, at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

After bureaucracy battle, 9 Venezuelan converts immigrate to Israel

By Daniel Estrin and Joshua Goodman

New arrivals fly in after fight for government recognition, with a stopover in Colombia for a second ritual conversion

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks to reporters on February 16, 2017 at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Arabs protest to UN chief about withdrawal of Israel ‘apartheid’ report

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian envoy says conversation with Guterres was ‘frank but warm,’ claims ‘bullying tactics and intimidation’ were used to nix controversial document

Illustrative. Smoke rises after a house was blown up in a military operation in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on November 20, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

10 Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai roadside bombings

By AFP

15 jihadists also killed in clashes as soldiers raided ‘extremely dangerous’ hideout, army says

Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attends the opening of a new mosque in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on February 24, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas’s Gaza chief vows to ‘liberate all of Palestine’

Yahya Sinwar says terror organization is committed to ‘not surrender even a morsel’ of the land to Israel

A still from a video showing a police officer assaulting an East Jerusalem truck driver (YouTube screenshot)

Cop suspended for beating East Jerusalem truck driver

Public security minister hails decision after footage emerges showing police officer assaulting Arab man, seemingly unprovoked

Illustrative: A Palestinian youth waves the national flag as the IDF searches for smuggling tunnels at the border east of Gaza City on May 15, 2016, the 68th anniversary of the 'Nakba,' a reference to the birth of Israel in 1948. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Police deny permit for annual Nakba march over security concerns

By Tamar Pileggi

Citing insufficient personnel, cops urge Arab groups not to hold procession marking ‘catastrophe’ of creation of Israel on same day as country’s independence festivities

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attending a ceremony marking 25 years since the 1992 terror attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, in Jerusalem, March 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu support for Trump’s wall triggers Mexican anti-Semitism

By JTA

Jewish watchdog notes ‘alarming’ wave of online talkbacks vindicating Hitler, representing Jews as avaricious, greedy usurers

A general view of TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries in Jerusalem, Israel, October 11, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teva said to plan cuts of as many as 6,000 jobs globally

By Shoshanna Solomon

Layoffs, including of workers in Israel, come as drugmaker contends with a drop in profit and high debt, Calcalist reports

Inter Aliyah players posing for a team photo on their home field in Tel Aviv, Nov. 18, 2016. (Courtesy of Inter Aliyah Club)

New immigrants’ soccer team hopes to beat Israel at its own game

By Andrew Tobin

More Headlines

Mossad spy Eli Cohen, executed in Syria in 1965. (Israel GPO)

Russia asked Syrians to return famed Israeli spy‘s remains – report

Illustrative photo of an El Al flight taking off at Ben Gurion Airport. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

US sex offender admits groping woman on El Al flight

By AP

Jessica Biel at the 89th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 26, 2017. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

Total recallJessica Biel discovers she’s a ‘little bit’ Jewish

By Curt Schleier

Attendees at an event March 20 celebrating Polish-Jewish cuisine — part of Berlin’s 'first-ever Jewish food week' — sample fresh potato latkes. (Toby Axelrod/via JTA)

Celebrating Berlin’s first-ever Jewish food week

By Toby Axelrod

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (YouTube screenshot)

A winning voiceJewish countertenor takes Metropolitan Opera award

By JTA

Bob Dylan performing at the Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, March 23, 1975. (Alvan Meyerowitz/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)

Don't think twiceCelebrate Bob Dylan at the Tel Aviv Diaspora museum

By Jessica Steinberg

Budapest-based thriller author Adam Lebor. (Courtesy)

Times of Israel PresentsEnglish-language authors to go head-to-head at Jerusalem TOI events

By Matthew Kalman

Illustrative photo of a clock. (Shutterstock)

Israel’s clocks spring forward early Friday morning

Members of the emergency services work to help victims on Westminster Bridge, alongside the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Miklas Halle'n)

Hebrew media reviewIsrael on the Thames

By Joshua Davidovich

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