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What Matters Most On Monday, March 12, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu political party Avigdor Liberman sign an agreement bringing Liberman's party into the government, May 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Liberman sticks to guns on IDF bill as Netanyahu tries to save coalition

By Michael Bachner

PM calls on defense minister not to bolt government but Yisrael Beytenu vows to vote down ‘absurd’ bill, which could cause ultra-Orthodox parties to topple coalition

Ministers approve conscription bill as Yisrael Beytenu tries to halt move

By Michael Bachner

Senior Likud source: Still unclear if Netanyahu wants to avoid elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewA compromise celebrated too early: 7 things to know for March 12

By Adiv Sterman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett (L) at the Knesset on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Opposition parties pushing for vote to dissolve government

By Alexander Fulbright

After fiery Netanyahu speech, Yesh Atid and Meretz ask Knesset speaker to allow vote dissolving parliament

7:25 pm

Saudi crown prince to visit White House on March 20
7:12 pm

German media: 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' dies at 96
6:54 pm

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox men protest in Jerusalem against draft-dodger's arrest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 5, 2015. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

AG expected to shoot down IDF conscription bill compromise — report

By Michael Bachner

Coalition sources quoted saying Mandelblit will reject deal between PM and ultra-Orthodox parties since legislation is different from the law he had approved

Rivlin: Israeli democracy can withstand attacks on institutions

State prosecutor implies early elections won’t affect decision on Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Ovadia Yosef’s daughter lashes Shas leader, hints at new party

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office, March 5, 2018 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Nearly finished US peace plan won’t call for two-state solution — report

Senior White House officials say proposal also won’t urge ‘fair and just solution’ to Palestinian refugees, but will offer specific prescriptions for borders and other issues

Netanyahu says he appreciates Trump for ‘cutting through’ BS

Europe offers minor changes only to Iran nuke deal, Trump said to tell Netanyahu

Trump administration backs PLO in terror lawsuit, angering conservatives

Maziar Bahari, December 4, 2017. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Tortured Iranian expat makes documentaries to educate Muslims about Holocaust

By Cathryn J. Prince

Apparel industry workers and business owners protest in Tel Aviv, March 7, 2018 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

The internet is killing Israel’s fashion industry. Should we care?

By Simona Weinglass

Hundreds of apparel workers and small business owners take to the streets to protest government policies they say favor e-commerce sites and Chinese sweatshops

Designs for Tel Aviv Fashion Week by Shenkar students, revealed during a runway rehearsal (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Hard wearTel Aviv Fashion Week kicks off with leather and hardware

By Jessica Steinberg and Video by Luke Tress

Detail from Pensive David Looking Out On His City scene in new Tower of David King David Night Experience, March 2018 (Naftali Hilger)

In Jerusalem’s Old City, futuristic hi-tech illuminates ancient biblical past

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Television footage allegedly showing an Israeli Border Police drone dropping tear gas on Palestinian demonstrators along the southern Gaza security fence on March 9, 2018. (Screen capture: Al-Mayadeen)

In first, Israel uses drones to drop tear gas on Gaza protesters — report

By Judah Ari Gross

Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen TV airs footage apparently showing Israeli UAV responding to riot along security fence

Top US general in Europe pledges support for IDF during joint air-defense drill

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry approves new armored vehicles for IDF

Arms imports to Middle East jump 103 percent in 5 years

By AFP

Itzhak Perlman, shown in a scene from the documentary 'Itzhak,' has endured hardships to become perhaps the most famous violinist in the world. (Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment/via JTA)

Itzhak Perlman’s inspiring musical journey, and 50-year marriage, in new film

By Curt Schleier

A nice Jewish doll called Barbie

The cultural icon immigrated from Europe, changed her name, and wove herself into the fabric of America

Sex assault in the city

Parents: Make sure your kids know to talk to you, no matter how minor (or major) the trauma

Doing gender equality

If we want a just, decent society, we must close the gaps between men and women

Mallory forfeits inclusion by exalting Farrakhan

Why should we have to choose between what we believe and normalizing bigotry?

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan delivers a speech and talks about US President Donald Trump, at the Watergate Hotel, on November 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

Jews agree that Farrakhan is anti-Semitic. After that, it gets complicated.

Divisions over controversial Nation of Islam leader emblematic of a wider split in how Jewish groups are responding to bigotry

Amid far-right rise, Austria marks 80 years since annexation by Hitler

By Sophie MAKRIS

France’s Le Pen proposes far-right rebrand

By Anne Renaut and Adam PLOWRIGHT

Hundreds of Poles gather to express solidarity with Jews

By AP

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Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman (Uri Lenz/FLASH90)

Prominent rabbi withdraws support for alleged Australian child molester

Netta Barzilai, Israel's contestant in the 2018 Eurovision. (screen capture: YouTube)

A solid bettaIsrael’s Eurovision entry early favorite to win song contest

By Michael Bachner

Israeli security officials drag an assailant into custody after he attacked two police officers and an elderly couple in their Haifa apartment before barricading himself inside on March 12, 2018. (Screen capture/Hadashot news)

Man armed with handsaw attacks cops, seniors in Haifa

Members of Syrian civil defence forces known as White Helmets evacuate a victim of an air strike in the rebel-held enclave of Arbin in the Eastern Ghouta near Damascus on February 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Amer ALMOHIBANY)

Syria war has killed more than 350,000 in 7 years, monitor says

By AFP

People lay flowers on railway tracks, during a commemoration for the victims of the Holocaust, at the railway station in Bitola, southern Macedonia, on March 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Macedonia: 75th anniversary of Jewish deportations observed

By AP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas attends a meeting with the Revolutionary Council of the ruling Fatah party on March 1, 2018, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Abbas warns officials not to lash out at Arab countries

By Khaled Abu Toameh

YES show 'Fauda' was the big winner at the recent Israeli TV awards (Courtesy 'Fauda')

Successful operation‘Fauda’ storms Israeli TV awards with 11 prizes

By Jessica Steinberg

Egyptian actress Yasmin Raeis speaks during an AFP interview in the capital Cairo, on March 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)

Egypt filmmakers defy taboos of conservative society

By AFP

Contestants struggle to name the country which has Tel Aviv as its capital in Argentinian TV show 'La Tribuna de Guido' on March 8, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Capital offenseArgentinian TV show confused about Israel’s capital

Ben-Gurion University researcher Prof. Gabby Sarusi demonstrates his infrared sensor technology on March 5, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Israeli researchers develop infrared film for smartphones, self-driving cars

By Shoshanna Solomon

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