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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 18, 2018

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An Israeli army officer looks at a destroyed Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnel, leading from Gaza into Israel, near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Kissufim, January 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP/POOL)

IDF destroys two Gaza tunnels amid rising border tensions

By Judah Ari Gross

One was an ‘old tunnel’ being revived by Hamas that crossed into Israeli territory from southern Gaza, second was located only inside the Strip

Hamas dismisses IDF-bombed tunnel as ‘old’ and ‘unused’

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu warns donors to Gaza their aid money is being ‘buried’ in tunnels

By Michael Bachner

Israeli jets strike Hamas post in Gaza, hours after bomb explodes on border

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington on August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

State Department’s new undersecretary was in a Gaza tunnel when boss was fired

By Matthew Lee and Josh Lederman

Sidelined by Tillerson, whose firing caught her in a terror tunnel during a trip to Israel, Heather Nauert now finds herself nearly atop Foggy Bottom

Ali Shamkhani, the the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, is seen in Tehran, Iran, January 17, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/ AP)

Iran rejects any change to nuclear deal, vows to push ahead with missile program

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a meeting of foreign ministers of the Caspian Sea littoral states in Moscow on December 5, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV)

Iranian foreign minister briefly hospitalized, cancels meetings

By AP and ToI Staff

Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, left, and Cpt. Ziv Daos, right, the soldiers killed in a car-ramming terror attack on March 16, 2018. (Courtesy)

‘He had a heart of gold:’ Family, friends mourn soldiers killed in car-ramming

Thousands attend funeral for Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, day after deadly attack; Capt. Ziv Daos set to be laid to rest on Sunday

Israeli security forces and forensics experts at the site of a car-ramming attack on Israeli soldiers near the West Bank settlement of Mevo Dotan on March 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Soldier injured in West Bank attack no longer in mortal danger

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Family members of Cpt. Ziv Daos mourn near his coffin during his funeral in Holon on March 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Second soldier victim of West Bank car ramming buried

Israeli soldiers inspect a car at the scene where two Israeli soldiers were killed and another two were injured in a car-ramming terror attack near Mevo Dotan, in the West Bank, March 16, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Shin Bet says driver confesses to terror attack; ‘accelerated’ into soldiers

Former security prisoner, 26, suspected of killing two soldiers and wounding two others; army prepares to demolish his home; his father claims it was an accident

IDF names Ziv Daos, Netanel Kahalani as soldiers killed in Friday’s car-ramming

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Army said mulling moving security fence to split car-ramming suspect’s hometown

Israel nabs terror suspect wanted for stabbing West Bank rabbi to death

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians wave Hamas flags as they celebrate the prisoner swap deal reached between Israel and Hamas in East Jerusalem. Oct 18, 2011.(Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

As anniversaries loom, Palestinian ‘lone wolf’ attacks likely to gain traction

Upcoming Land Day and Nakba Day protests set stage for violence engineered by Hamas from Gaza and abroad

Palestinians believe US delaying peace plan for a post-Abbas era — report

By Khaled Abu Toameh

PA lashes ‘racist’ Liberman for ‘incitement’ against Abbas

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Liberman: Abbas trying to force Hamas into conflict with Israel

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 24, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Defense minister to visit three African nations

Liberman expected to meet defense officials in Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania

7:29 pm

Heroin and hashish trafficking ring busted in Nazareth
7:16 pm

Syria's Assad visits troops in battle-scarred Ghouta
6:42 pm

3-year-old girl hit by car in Tiberias dies from her wounds

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert in a Keshet TV interview broadcast on March 17, 2018 (Keshet screenshot)

Olmert says Netanyahu should ‘resign elegantly’ right now: ‘Go, run, disappear!’

In first post-jail interview, ex-PM blames Netanyahu and Sheldon Adelson for his fall, claims he was brought down because he tried to make peace; says he’s not a crook

Ido Netanyahu, brother of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (YouTube screenshot)

Netanyahu’s brother: Police methods are ‘a danger to democracy’

A young Palestinian protester prepares to fire a slingshot during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus, in the West Bank, on March 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Israel media reviewPlaying catch-up: 7 things to know for March 18

By Tamar Pileggi

From left: Nesha Ruther, president of SJP at UW-Madison, Henya Matusof, and Rabbi Mendel Matusof, Chabad on campus representatives. (Courtesy Chabad UW-Madison)

The pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel campus leader who is also a regular at Chabad

By Yaakov Schwartz

Camels rest at the night camp after grazing in the open all day near Kibbutz Kalya, in the West Bank, February 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Photo essay

Bedouin revert to nomadic lifestyle for camel birthing season

By Oded Balilty

Men leave modern life behind and bring sons and hundreds of camels to area near Kibbutz Kalya by the Dead Sea to continue ancient traditions

Indiana Pacers player T.J. Leaf's father also played for the Pacers before moving to Israel, where T.J. was born. (Courtesy)

Hoop dreams

Meet the NBA’s Israeli-born rookie, a 6’10” forward named T.J. Leaf

The peacemakers who climbed Capitol Hill

Israelis and Palestinians urged US policymakers to set up a global fund to support the many co-existence efforts

Israeli voters deserve moral leaders

The country needs big change, including direct elections, term limits and curbs on hoarding ministerial portfolios

Chananya Weissman

The senior singles crisis of 2040

When an efficient matchmaker stops getting to know her clients and just mixes and matches their names

Avrohom Gordimer

Yeshiva University’s policies about women

To Deborah Klapper: A yeshiva is no place for mixed-gender religious leadership, pluralism, or any contemporary value

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Warsaw residents protests the rise of racism and anti-Semitism in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, March 17, 2018. Similar protests were held in some other cities across Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poles march to protest rising racism, anti-Semitism

The Foundation for Jewish Heritage has published a map that allows users to scroll through all of Europe’s 3,318 remaining synagogues. (Screenshot from Foundation for Jewish Heritage via JTA)

GIStaltInteractive map shows all Europe’s remaining synagogues

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative woman using laptop on beach (Poike, iStock by Getty Images)

Facing worker squeeze, Israeli startups set their sights overseas

By Shoshanna Solomon

Production line workers at a factory in Rehovot, central Israel, on October 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli workers to get one hour off a week from April

Two men cast their ballots at a polling station in Yelizovo, about 30 kilometers ( 19 miles) north-east from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, capital of Kamchatka Peninsula region, Russian Far East, Russia, on Sunday, March. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Petpov)

Vladimir Putin certain to win 4th presidential term as Russia votes

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and Angela Charlton

An aerial view of the Israel Shipyards facility in the Port of Haifa, June 2013. (CC-BY-SA-3.0 Meronim/Wikipedia)

Shipbuilder suspected of bribing Nigeria for multi-million dollar deal

By Michael Bachner

Tel Aviv's Azrieli Center by night (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

In bid to beat isolation, startup community leaders to gather in Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook. (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)

Facebook bans Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica

Iraqi Kurdistan Jewish representative Sherzad Mamsani speaks at a Holocaust Memorial Day event on May 5, 2016. (Judit Neurink/Times of Israel)

Kurdish ministry denies it sacked Jewish representative to appease Iraq

Zionist Union MK Omer Bar-Lev holds a press conference at the Knesset on November 30, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Labor lawmaker: Top Arab MK said he could dissolve Arab party, join us

By Marissa Newman

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