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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 30, 2017

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Palestinian women shout slogans at Damascus Gate, outside Jerusalem's old city, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 marking the 13th anniversary of the second Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Planned study by UN body behind ‘apartheid’ report will compare Israel to US slavery

By Eric Cortellessa

After its last report was rejected, and its director quit in protest, ESCWA now working on ‘project to calculate cost of Israeli occupation,’ looking at South Africa and US as models for future reparations

At Israeli event at UN, Haley slams BDS movement as nothing to do with ‘justice’

By Cathryn J. Prince

Israel cuts UN payment by $2 million over ‘anti-Israel’ bias

By AP and AFP

Iran denies Arab League accusation of Mideast meddling

By AFP

Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler speaking to a Knesset committee in Jerusalem on March 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Saying he was poisoned in Russia, ex-Canadian justice minister fights a Kremlin bullying campaign

By Simona Weinglass

Irwin Cotler believes he was targeted during a 2006 official visit to Moscow, and says dozens of other journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, opposition leaders and dissidents have been as well

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on March 16, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Cabinet set to approve new settlement for Amona evacuees

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu vows to ‘fulfill the promise’ he made months ago, despite failure to reach understanding with Trump on West Bank construction

Greenblatt: Peace deal would ‘reverberate’ through the world

By Alexander Fulbright and Dov Lieber

Dershowitz says Trump ‘clearly’ endorsed Palestinian state

By Daniel Estrin

In Jerusalem, Trump special envoy asks rabbi for peacemaking advice

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Analysis

How does Trump intend to square the Israeli-Palestinian circle?

By Raphael Ahren

The president wants to broker a peace deal, but has not endorsed a two-state, one-state or any other framework. Netanyahu relishes this ambiguity, but at some point US leader will have to make decisions

A section of 21 kings, presidents and top officials from the Arab League summit get ready for a group photo, at a gathering near the Dead Sea in Jordan on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (AP Photo/ Raad Adayleh)

Arab leaders ready to work with Trump on Mideast peace deal

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh

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)

Deal on new public broadcaster ends coalition crisis

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu, Kahlon agree to strip new corporation of news division and create a separate entity for state-funded current affairs programming

A telegram from senior Nazi Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, probably dating to 1943, found in the archives of the National Library, March 29, 2017.

In rediscovered telegram, Himmler offers Jerusalem’s mufti help against ‘Jewish intruders’

Hitler’s deputy assures pro-Nazi Haj Amin al-Husseini of Nazis‘ ‘particular sympathy‘ for struggle of ‘freedom-loving Arabs’ of Palestine and beyond

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions (C) meets with a delegation of Jewish leaders at the US Department of Justice in Washington D.C. on March 30, 2017. (JCC Association of North America)

Live updates (closed)

Israel approves first new settlement in decades to replace Amona

By Tamar Pileggi

Cabinet also okays some 2,000 new settlement homes in other areas of West Bank; UN calls on Hamas to reopen Gaza crossing; AG says incarceration times for Palestinian detainees to be reduced

Meir Ephraim Goldstein, suspected of beheading his wife in burning her body in Tiberias, is seen at the Nazareth Magistrate's Court as he arrives for a hearing on March 30, 2017. (Flash90)

Killer husband says ‘God told me’ to behead his ex-wife

By Alexander Fulbright

Meir Ephraim Goldstein promises to reveal in 8 days why he gruesomely murdered his former spouse; judge sends him to psychiatric hospital

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

Tiberias man walked around with ex-wife’s severed head under his arm

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Shira Nir, a lawyer of an American-Israeli teenager suspected of calling in fake bomb threats to Jewish community centers across the world, shows the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court what she says is an image of a cancerous growth in her client's brain, on March 30, 2017. (Flash90)

JCC bomb threat suspect ordered kept behind bars, as tumor blamed

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Ashkelon teen’s attorney says medical issues may have caused him to call in hundreds of bomb hoaxes; father released to house arrest

Avi Appelbaum donated his kidney to Ilanit, who had been undergoing dyalisis for seven years previously. (Courtesy)

For Israel’s cadre of kidney donors, giving is a given

By Stéphanie Bitan

Matnat Chaim has saved lives nationwide by facilitating over 400 altruistic donations, though policy of allowing donors to limit their giving to Jewish recipients draws ire

On ‘hating’ David Grossman

Strong disagreement with his views is exactly the reason to come hear what the world-renowned novelist has to say

We refuse to fall into the abyss

Israelis’ readiness to aid children in Syria, an enemy state, shows they are walking a very narrow bridge

Sunday’s Grossman interview will culminate our first, terrific, ToI Presents series

Op-Ed: Thanks for making our opening set of English-speaking events such a success. And be sure not to miss Sunday’s finale

Sell your hametz in Israel

Few can travel to the holy land for a Passover pilgrimage, but everyone can cement their Zionist connection via the internet

The black hole of Gaza aid

Safeguards would go a long way to ensuring that foreign funds help needy civilians and don’t feed the Hamas corrupt thuggery

US Vice President Mike Pence (L) administers the swearing-in ceremony for David Friedman (C) as the US ambassador to Israel, as his wife Tammy Sand looks on, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, on March 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

David Friedman sworn in as Trump’s envoy to Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Pence administers oath of office to former bankruptcy lawyer, a staunch supporter of the Jewish state and first Trump ambassador to take office

David Friedman is sworn in as the US ambassador to Israel during a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House in Washington, DC, on March 29, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

White House: Trump believes envoy’s ties to Israel are an ‘asset’ toward peace

Roi Avrahami. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Son of soldier killed in Ramallah lynching says no one told him of attacker’s release

By Alexander Fulbright and Sue Surkes

Victims’ families learn from media that Hatam Faiz Khalil Magari, who was imprisoned for the 2000 attack, has been set free

Ben Gellman and Brooke Davies of J Street U. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)

Liberal student advocacy group proposes proactive investment in Israel and West Bank

By Cathryn J. Prince

Police respond to an attempted stabbing at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on March 29, 2017. (Israel Police)

Jerusalem stabber motivated by grief, anger over son’s death — report

Woman shot dead in Old City attack lost her son in shooting due to apparent misunderstanding by police in September

Culture Minister Miri Regev speaks with the media before the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 16, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Culture minister Regev demands closer examination of film funds

By Jessica Steinberg

Ministry seeks detailed information about the approval process for movies, in apparent bid to clamp down on those portraying Israel in a negative light

Moshe Cohen, of the Yasam special police force, filmed assaulting Arab truck driver Mazen Shwieki (Screen capture: YouTube)

Policeman filmed attacking Arab truck driver indicted

Moshe Cohen charged with assault, causing serious harm and breach of trust, after he was videoed beating victim

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, center, at a ceremony commemorating 175 men from overseas who won Britain’s highest military honor, the Victoria Cross, for service in World War I, on 26 June 2014. (Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Wikipedia)

Muslim baroness decries ‘loophole’ that allows UK Jews to join IDF

By Jenni Frazer

British Jewry up in arms after Sayeeda Warsi says Israeli soldiers should be prosecuted just like those who join Islamic paramilitary groups

Tamar Alon, second from left, and Tamar Ze'evi, center, protesting against being drafted into the Israeli army. The sign reads, 'Neither clerks nor tank drivers, we are refusers and feminists.' (Courtesy of Mesarvot)

Should teens who oppose the occupation be exempt from the IDF?

By Andrew Tobin

The Defense Ministry's "Eitan" ("Steadfast") armored personnel carrier. (Dana Shraga, Israeli Ministry of Defense)

Israeli military exports to Africa jump 70%

Overall defense exports amounted to $6.5 billion in 2016, an $800 million bump from previous year

Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug presents the bank's 2016 report to President Reuven Rivlin, March 29, 2017. (Mark Neiman, GPO)

Bank of Israel’s Flug says Israel must spend more on infrastructure, education

By Shoshanna Solomon

Governor says level of investment in infrastructure in Israel ‘is markedly below that of most advanced economies’

Dr. Gary Glassman flies to Jamaica several times a year to volunteer as an adjunct professor at the University of Technology’s College of Oral Health Sciences in Kingston. (Courtesy)

The Canadian dentist who brings smiles to Jamaica

By Robert Sarner

More Headlines

Workers clean notes with prayers written on them from the Western Wall ahead of Passover, in a biannual cleaning, March 29, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Clean as an epistleAhead of Passover, Western Wall cleared of all notes

El Al plane at Ben-Gurion Airport 2012 (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Knesset to ban MK trips funded by pro-BDS groups

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

Liberman backpedals on demand that pre-army yeshiva head resign

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, on October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Samsung to integrate Israeli tech in bid to spot strokes

By Shoshanna Solomon

Erin Schrode behind a laptop displaying anti-Semitic images of herself that she received via email and social media, February 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Jewish congressional candidate battles anti-Semitic trolls

By Michael Kunzelman

Illustrative photo of hackers in Tel Aviv taking part in a hackathon to develop cyber-security apps (Courtesy)

Israel second to US for cyber-defender firms

By Shoshanna Solomon

A still from 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah' (Courtesy: HBO Documentary Films)

The pain and defiance of ‘Shoah’ maker Lanzmann

By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS

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

Hebrew media reviewMurders most gruesome on the front page

By Joshua Davidovich

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