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What Matters Most On Friday, March 24, 2017

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An American-Israeli Jewish teenager, accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, is escorted by police as he leaves a courtroom in Rishon Lezion on March 23, 2017. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Analysis

Is Trump owed an apology after the JCC bomb threat arrest? Is anybody?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Arrest of a Jew for one of the most dramatic anti-Semitic acts of recent memory could make it harder to keep the focus on real anti-Semitism

Arrest of JCC bomb hoaxer challenges the narrative on anti-Semitism

Online slip-up led police to JCC bomb threat suspect

By ToI Staff and AP

Bomb threat suspect’s arrest brings relief, but US Jews vow to stay vigilant

By Eric Cortellessa

Avner Harari seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on February 23, 2017. (Flash90)

They wouldn’t play his songs, so hit man turned soul singer allegedly returned to old habits

By Gavin Rabinowitz and Alexander Fulbright

Avner Harari charged for car bomb spree; alleged targets included singer Margalit Tzanani, because she would not play his music on her radio show

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing Street in London, February 6, 2017. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

In phone call to May, PM offers condolences after London terror attack

Netanyahu tells British counterpart ‘war against terror is common to us all’; she thanks him for close UK-Israel cooperation

British police reveal more details of Parliament terrorist

By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless

London terrorist Khalid Masood said to be convert to Islam

75-year-old London attack victim dies of his wounds

By AP

Illustrative: Chef Michael Solomonov samples spices at the Levinsky Market in Tel Aviv. (Florentine Films)

'It was a totally different taste experience'

Top American chef Michael Solomonov is on a quest for ‘Israeli cuisine’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In a documentary jam-packed with action and levity, filmmaker Roger Sherman uses Israel’s dynamic food scene to project the country beyond the conflict

A sample of the geological core drilled 450 meters (1500 feet) into the Dead Sea floor reveals layers of mud from the rainy season on the left and layers of salt deposits, during the dry season, on the right. (Courtesy Yael Kiro/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

Dead Sea drilling reveals ‘epic’ droughts throughout history

By Melanie Lidman

Scientists from Columbia University use geological sample to reveal arid spells that lasted for decades or centuries, thousands of years ago

Encampments and journeys

It’s an existential truth that when Jews stop to rest, as in the wilderness, they never cease traveling (Vayakhel/Pekudei)

Night in Tel Aviv

Musings on homeland, terrorism, London casualties, the complications of occupation, and naive Israeli hot-heads

Higher walls won’t bring peace

Israelis and Palestinians are colleagues and friends across industrial zones in Judea and Samaria — coexistence is a given

The JCCs and the perp

She checks for Jewish participation in reported crimes, but never expects to find it, and is none too likely to forgive

A Palestinian boy being led through the streets of Hebron, whom the army says is suspected of throwing a firebomb at a Jewish settlement, on March 21, 2017. (Screen capture: B'Tselem)

Army says kid dragged through Hebron had firebombed Kiryat Arba

By Judah Ari Gross

B’Tselem releases clip of shoeless 8-year-old filmed being led through West Bank city by soldiers; IDF says he was suspected of tossing Molotov cocktail — and was taken home

David Friedman testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his nomination to be the US ambassador to Israel, Feb. 16, 2017. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

David Friedman confirmed as US ambassador to Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

In a 52-46 vote almost entirely along party lines, Trump’s firebrand envoy pick makes it through Senate

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)

Netanyahu, settlers welcome confirmation of Trump envoy pick

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Palestinian hurls a Molotov cocktail toward Israeli security forces during clashes, near the city of Hebron, in the West Bank, on October 11, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Palestinian teen throwing firebomb killed by troops — IDF

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Army says soldiers opened fire on group hurling Molotov cocktails at West Bank settlement of Beit El; three others reported hurt

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak speaks during an address to the World Economic Forum on the Middle East at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Congress Center.May 18, 2008. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Mubarak, symbol of dashed hopes, goes free

By Samer al-Atrush

In light of chaos since 2011 revolution, many Egyptians now look fondly upon rule of former strongman

This file photo taken on October 6, 2016 shows Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak waving to people from his room at the Maadi military hospital in Cairo. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)

Ousted Egypt president Mubarak freed from detention — lawyer

By AFP

Rasmea Odeh speaking at an event for the 2016 International Working Women’s Day in Chicago. (YouTube via JTA)

Palestinian ex-terrorist takes US plea deal, losing citizenship

By JTA

Rasmea Odeh failed to reveal to US immigration authorities that she was jailed for 10 years in Israel for her role in 1969 Jerusalem bombing

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

UN secretary-general reaffirms ancient Jewish ties to Jerusalem

By JTA

After meeting with Guterres, WJC praises ‘breath of fresh air coming from the United Nations’

US President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

After more deadlocked talks, White House expresses ‘concerns’ with settlement building

By Eric Cortellessa

Amid reports denied by Netanyahu that Trump wants a freeze at isolated settlements, Israel says it intends to adopt a policy that takes US stance ‘into consideration’

Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Monday, March 13, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Israeli official denies US demanding freeze in isolated settlements

By Alexander Fulbright and ToI Staff

Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey addresses the AIPAC annual policy conference in Washington, DC, March 5, 2013. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)

Senators bring new Iran sanctions bill over missile tests, terrorism

On eve of AIPAC conference, bipartisan group of lawmakers seeks to punish those involved in arms sales to or from Iran

In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 photograph, Lt. Cmdr. William Vuillet speaks to The Associated Press on board the USS George H.W. Bush as it travels through the Persian Gulf. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

US pilot describes challenges of bombing Islamic State

By Jon Gambrell

‘It really is a fight of good and evil,’ says Lt. Cmdr. William Vuillet, who flies off the USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal at a Hanukkah ceremony at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, December 6, 2015. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images/via JTA)

Analysis

What a ‘kippah walk’ in Berlin won’t tell you about anti-Semitism

By Toby Axelrod

More Headlines

Israeli and foreign fighter jets fly in formation through cloudy skies over the Negev desert during the 'Blue Flag' exercise at Ovda Airfield near Eilat on October 27, 2015. (Israeli Air Force)

Israel to host seven overseas air forces for largest ever drill

Richard Gere in Hebron's Shuhada Street, March 13, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Richard Gere likens Hebron to segregation in ‘Old South’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Netanyahu asked publisher to give poor coverage to rival — report

By Alexander Fulbright

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich attends a committee meeting regarding the so-called Regulation Bill, which is designed to avert the court-ordered demolition of the West Bank outpost of Amona by December 25, on November 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Right-wing MK urges draft-dodging to protest ‘feminist agenda’ of IDF

This file photo taken on January 11, 2017 shows US President-elect Donald Trump whispers to his daughter Ivanka during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Ivanka Trump: A White House force, just not an ’employee’

By Julie Bykowicz

Jewish Funders Network President Andres Spokoiny speaking at the group’s international conference, March 20, 2017. (JFN/via JTA)

Trump era prompts Jewish donors to step up giving to liberal causes

Canadian masked DJ deadmau5, will join the list of 2017 performers in Israel with his June 8 performance at Rishon Lezion's Live Park (Courtesy deadmau5)

Mouse in the houseCanadian DJ deadmau5 books June date in Rishon

By Jessica Steinberg

The Israeli-American teenager suspected of making hundreds of fake bomb threats to JCCs and other Jewish institutions in the US and elsewhere leaves the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on Thursay, March 23, 2017, where his remand was extended for 8 days. (Screenshot/Channel 10)

Hebrew media reviewFake threats, fake news

By Adiv Sterman

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