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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 29, 2017

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A section of twenty one kings, presidents and top officials from the Arab League summit pose for a group photo, at a gathering near the Dead Sea in Jordan on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (AP Photo/ Raad Adayleh)

Jordan king tells Arab summit no peace in region without Palestinian state

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh

Leaders of 21 nations expected to reaffirm 2002 peace plan offering normalization with Israel after deal with Ramallah

AnalysisWill the Arab Summit make Abbas great again?

Back in the region, Trump’s peace envoy meets Abbas

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

Arab leaders meet to address conflicts and terror

An East Jerusalem woman attempts to stab Border police officers at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on March 29, 2017. (Screen capture: Israel Police)

Police: Female attacker tries to stab cops in Jerusalem Old City, is shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

No other injuries in incident at Damascus Gate; assailant’s son was killed in a misunderstanding at checkpoint last year

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, March 26, 2017. (AFP/Gali TIBBON)

Live updates (closed)

PM to seek cabinet approval for Amona replacement settlement

By Tamar Pileggi

Arab leaders reaffirm support of ‘strategic’ 2002 peace initiative with Israel; US ambassador assures Israel it has a ‘friend and fighter’ at the UN; Palestinian shot dead attempting to stab police

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Did Netanyahu skip AIPAC to avoid peace deal-pushing Trump?

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The PM is a habitual star turn at the lobby’s annual DC confab, but stayed away this year, of all years, when the Republicans finally hold center stage. Surely it wasn’t because he preferred not to meet the president?

David Horovitz on Jason Greenblatt and peace negotiations

By ToI Staff and dennis zinn

Left-wing MK blasted for joining anti-AIPAC protest

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks with the media at the US Capitol January 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images/AFP)

At AIPAC, McConnell criticizes nuke deal as ‘windfall’ for Iran

By Richard Lardner

Senior US lawmakers show commitment to Israel and look for bipartisan support for new sanctions on Tehran

Pelosi reads out J Street-backed two-state letter at AIPAC confab

By Eric Cortellessa

In search of common ground: Snapshots from the AIPAC conference

California senator to introduce resolution condemning anti-Semitic attacks

By Eric Cortellessa

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews, protesting the arrest of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, hold a rally against army recruitment in Jerusalem, March 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox take to streets in mass anti-draft protest

By ToI Staff and AFP

Police give green light to illegal gathering that blocks main Jerusalem street; rabbis on stage condemn IDF draft

Ultra-Orthodox protesters attack a woman during anti-draft demonstrations in Jerusalem on March 28, 2017. (Screen capture: Reshet TV)

Ultra-Orthodox attack woman at anti-draft demo

Female soldiers from the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion train in southern Israel on December 10, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

AG: Liberman can’t summon rabbi over ‘sexist’ comments

By Stuart Winer

Jonathan Arkush

When campus is a no-go zone for Jews

In hosting Richard Falk, the London School of Economics failed its duty of care to Jewish students

We’re a nation of Netanyahu addicts

Despite the weakened hold of his Likud party, the PM thoroughly dominates Israel’s political discourse

Balfour just isn’t that big a deal

The century-old Declaration is not what gave Israel its legitimacy, and it’s time to start focusing on what did

Aryeh Eisenberg

Too young for sex ed

How an innocent I-Love-You WhatsApp message opened a whole can of worms in an Orthodox 4th-grade classroom

Illustrative: Police and paramedics at the scene of a suspected murder in the northern city of Tiberias, March 29, 2017. (MDA spokesperson)

Tiberias man suspected of beheading ex-wife, trying to burn the body

By Stuart Winer

Eyewitnesses say blood-soaked suspect carried victim’s head outside before tossing it in nearby dumpster

Mahmoud al-Zahar speaks at a Hamas rally in Gaza on December 14, 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

Hamas warns Faqha’s killing could impede prisoner exchange

Mahmoud al-Zahar says mysterious assassination will ‘disrupt’ negotiations over Israelis held hostage by his group in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Netanyahu and Kahlon meet again over broadcaster logjam

Election speculation swirls, and alternative coalitions are teased, as fourth round of talks ends without agreement

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets with Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 8, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

UN ‘preposterous’ for rapping Israel over Golan Heights, UK’s Johnson says

By Eric Cortellessa, Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and ToI Staff

UK foreign secretary, US ambassador Nikki Haley call on world body to drop anti-Israel bias

Rabbi Willy Wolff is the star of one of the highest-grossing documentaries in Germany of 2016. (Toby Axelrod/JTA)

Meet Rabbi ‘Willy’ Wolff, Germany’s ambassador of Liberal Judaism — and now, movie star

By Toby Axelrod

Bob Dylan accepts the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year award at a ceremony in Los Angeles, February 6, 2015. (Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)

Bob Dylan to accept Nobel Prize in Stockholm over weekend

By AFP

Musician will receive medal and diploma during private meeting, but will not give required lecture for award money

File: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrive for a joint press conference with the Russian and Iranian presidents at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 28, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Sergei Karpukhin)

Iranian foreign minister: Russia can use our bases to hit Syria

By Stuart Winer

Zarif tells Reuters that Russian airstrikes on rebels would be approved on a ‘case by case’ basis

IDF soldiers seize equipment from a workshop suspected of being used to manufacture weapons illegally in the West Bank on March 29, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF shutters 3 alleged West Bank gunsmithing operations

By Judah Ari Gross

In crackdown on illegally manufactured weapons, army seizes machinery, gun parts in Hebron region; 6 Palestinians arrested overnight

Painting of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz Ghetto's Jewish Council, created by Lodz painter Izrael Lejzerowicz during the ghetto's four-year existence (Public domain)

‘King Chaim,’ ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit

By Matt Lebovic

Illustrative: Line of taxis waiting for passengers (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

New airport taxi system aims to drop price for passengers

By Stuart Winer

Decades-old monopoly to be replaced with arrangement in which all cabs can collect arriving travelers

Putting together Better Shelter, the Ikea-funded temporary shelters used in disaster areas (Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)

After the deluge: Smart designs offer relief for disaster victims

By Jessica Steinberg

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Israeli model Bar Refaeli in Jerusalem, June 18, 2015 (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Model mom Supermodel Bar Refaeli pregnant with 2nd child

By JTA

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, on March 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman hints at support for Elor Azaria pardon

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Fans are pumped for the arrival of Britney Spears in Israel for her July 3 show (Courtesy Britney Spears)

Not a slave 4 uTickets to Britney Spears go on sale, start at NIS 340

By Jessica Steinberg

Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Colindres, right, with the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s deputy director general for Latin America, Modi Ephraim, in Managua, March 2017. (Courtesy Foreign Ministry of Nicaragua)

Israel and Nicaragua renew ties after seven-year freeze

By Raphael Ahren

The Waze application is displayed on a smartphone in San Francisco, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Waze gets into the order-ahead business with Dunkin’ Donuts

By Michael Liedtke

Illustrative: An Israeli courtroom. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Lawyers jump into the fray to back judges in pension feud

By Stuart Winer

Israeli soldiers at their base in the Jordan Valley (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

IDF soldier dies after found unconscious on base

Illustrative photo of a cargo ship at the Haifa Port. (Yaakov Nahumi/Flash90)

GE Ventures leads $25m funding round in Israeli freight firm

By Shoshanna Solomon

Culture Minister Miri Regev arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 27, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Hebrew media reviewJudge, Jewry and executioner

By Joshua Davidovich

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