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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 15, 2018

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman seen talking to CBS News, March 15, 2018. (Screenshot)

Saudi Arabia vows to obtain nuclear weapons if Iran does

In US interview, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman threatens atomic arms race, says the Iranian supreme leader ‘very much like Hitler’

The new Secretary of State Michael Pompeo seen testifying on Capital Hill while still CIA Director, Washington, January 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Tillerson ouster could hasten demise of Iran nuclear deal

Rabbi Dovid Weiss of the ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist Neturei Karta fringe group, addressing the Fourth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine, held in Beirut on March 13, 2018. (Screenshot)

Anti-Zionist rabbi gives Hezbollah chief in Beirut gift ‘from the Jewish people’

People watch the annual Air Force flyover on Israel's 69th Independence Day in Jerusalem on May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel is 11th happiest nation in the world; US slides to 18th

By ToI Staff and AP

Jewish state maintains its high ranking on list of 156 countries for fifth successive year, but gets less praise for attitude to migrants; Finland tops list, PA is at 104

Illustrative: A maternity ward in an Israeli hospital. (Flash90)

Israel’s fertility rate is far higher than rest of OECD

By Michael Bachner

Part of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (Yoli Shwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Two Dead Sea Scrolls to go on display for the first time in new Denver exhibit

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israel Antiquities Authority stages massive six-month show, featuring a three-ton stone from the Western Wall and 18 other Dead Sea Scrolls

Trip leader Shuka Revak, 86, fulfills a life-long dream as he reaches Avdat in Israel from Jordan's Petra, February 2018. (courtesy)

86-year-old guide helps discover section of Incense Route lost for millennia

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israel's Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu jettisoned snap vote bid after Labor withdrew its support – report

By Raoul Wootliff

Avi Gabbay reportedly told coalition members that his opposition party would not support early elections after senior party figures pressured him to change tack

Moshe Kahlon, left, Naftali Bennett, center, and Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on March 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset passes 2019 budget, putting coalition crisis in rear-view mirror

Avi Gabbay at a meeting with supporters in Kadima on March 13, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewJust say no: 11 things to know for March 15

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Meet the hitmaker behind ‘Toy,’ Israel’s sensational Eurovision song

By Jessica Steinberg

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against deportation in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Facing deportation, asylum seekers find refuge with ‘sanctuary’ host families

By Melanie Lidman

In an act of civil disobedience, the Israel Sanctuary Movement is helping Africans locate safe homes, calls on public to show sense of humanity

Illustrative photo of asylum seekers waiting outside the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority office waiting to find out their status, in Bnei Brak, Israel, February 13, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel freezes deportations of asylum seekers after court challenge

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks during a conference in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2018. (Flash90)

In upcoming autobiography, Olmert derides hedonistic Netanyahus, mocks PM’s hair

In excerpts from tell-all tome, former PM reflects on prison life and the Second Lebanon War, takes aim at former aide ‘junior typist’ Shula Zaken

The new head of the Israel Police Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit, Yigal Ben-Shalom, flanked by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (left) and police chief Roni Alsheich, March 15, 2018. (Police spokesman's office)

Police unit investigating Netanyahu gets new commander

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Nir Hefetz, left, arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting held in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 13, 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Police seeking to question Netanyahus in Bezeq case before Passover – report

Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Bombs set off along Gaza fence, causing no injury; IDF tanks, aircraft retaliate

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says it targeted terrorist positions in response to attack along border of northern Gaza Strip; conflicting reports emerge about Palestinian casualties

IDF suspects anti-tank missile also fired at troops in IED attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Watchdog chides Defense Ministry for again missing ultra-Orthodox draft goal

By Judah Ari Gross

Comptroller report finds flaws, but largely defends IDF actions in 2014 Gaza war

By Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah deputy secretary general Naim Qassem (photo credit: AP/Grace Kassab)

Live updates (closed)

Hezbollah says not expecting war, but prepared for ‘foolish’ Israeli moves

By Tamar Pileggi

Deputy head of Lebanon-based terrorist group says its troops ‘ready to confront the Israeli aggression if it happens’

7:15 pm

Iran slams 'simple-minded' Saudi crown prince after Hitler jab
7:04 pm

2 Israelis sentenced in Germany for art forgery scheme
6:47 pm

Pedestrian bridge collapses over Miami highway

Our word is our word

The Yisrael Beytenu party stood firm against attempts to enshrine military service exemptions in the law

Who owns the Bible?

The owner of a new, privately-held global domain, dot-bible, is excluding materials according to faith

We need ‘Man Seders’ — and Woman Seders

There’s nothing wrong with creating meaningful programs that cater to different constituencies’ preferences

Jews too are dying from opioid overdose

With so many Americans dying, the community must admit addiction affects us and do what it takes to save lives

Rabbi Marc Schneier at The Times of Israel Jerusalem offices, February 28, 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Interview

A rabbi in King Hamad’s court preaches Torah of interfaith tolerance

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Illustrative image of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, on March 14, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Israel Securities Authority bans cryptocurrency companies from TASE indices

By Simona Weinglass

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) and Immigration Absorption Minister Sofa Landver (R) pose for a picture with lone soldiers at an event in Tel Aviv on January 25, 2018. (Flash90)

Army found struggling to help ‘lone soldiers’; IDF: We’re working on it

By Judah Ari Gross

399485 01: Physicist Stephen Hawking smiles during a symposium in honor of his birthday at the University of Cambridge January 11, 2002 in Cambridge, England. (Sion Touhig/Getty Images, via JTA)

Israeli academic inspired one of Stephen Hawking’s biggest discoveries

By JTA

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas takes the oath of office after the new government was appointed after German Chancellor Angela Merkel was elected for a fourth term as chancellor in the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

‘I entered politics because of Auschwitz,’ says new German FM

By Raphael Ahren

Actress and author Mayim Bialik in Los Angeles, May 23, 2017. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Fired upMayim Bialik makes pitch to light Independence Day torch in Israel

By JTA

African National Congress delegates cheer the closing speech of newly elected African National Congress (ANC) President, Cyril Rampahosa, on the final day of the 54th ANC conference at the NASREC Expo Centre in Johannesburg, December 20, 2017. (AFP/Wikus De Wet)

South Africa’s ruling ANC ‘actively participating’ in Israel Apartheid Week

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