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What Matters Most On Monday, March 19, 2018

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French consulate worker Romain Franck, an employee of France's Consulate in Jerusalem, covers his face during a hearing at the district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, March 19, 2018. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

French consular employee charged in Gaza gun-running scheme

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prosecutors say Romain Franck knew he could take advantage of lax checks on his diplomatic vehicle to spirit dozens of pistols and two rifles from the Strip to the West Bank

A vehicle said to be driven by French consulate in Jerusalem employee Roman Frank at the Erez border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip. (Shin Bet)

Israel: Arms smuggling by French Jerusalem consulate worker won’t affect ties

By Alexander Fulbright

French consulate in Jerusalem. (CC BY-SA Neta, Wikimedia Commons)

French consulate employee said arrested by Israel for smuggling weapons

By AFP

Mourners attend the funeral of Adiel Kolman in the West Bank settlement of Kochav Hashahar on March 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

At Jerusalem stabbing victim’s funeral, politicians pledge more building

Jerusalem terror victim wrestled with stabber, say eyewitnesses

By Stuart Winer

Israeli man killed in Jerusalem terror stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross

Jerusalem stabbing attack victim identified as Adiel Kolman

By Jacob Magid and Judah Ari Gross

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at the 15th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, February 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US ambassador blasts PA for not condemning latest terror attacks

By Stuart Winer

David Friedman protests Ramallah has remained silent in face of ‘such brutality’; President Rivlin says those who support terror are ‘enemies of Israel and the free world’

Army readies home of Old City terrorist for demolition

By Alexander Fulbright and Judah Ari Gross

Israel media reviewBlood road: 10 things to know for March 19

By Joshua Davidovich

Tires slashed, anti-Arab graffiti daubed in East Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

Former IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead an incapacitated Palestinian assailant in the West Bank city of Hebron, appears before a parole board in the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on March 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Hebron shooter Azaria to be freed in May after sentence reduction

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF’s parole board orders former soldier released after he completes two-thirds of his 14-month prison term

Illustrative: Security personnel at the scene where a security guard was attacked and seriously injured in a terror attack in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 18, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shin Bet: Stabber was in Jerusalem on a permit, looking for work

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of Israeli soccer player Maor Buzaglo (L) posing alongside Iranian national team captain Ashkan Dejagah on Sunday, March 18, 2018. (Twitter)

Friendly match

Israeli soccer star posts photo with Iranian team captain

‘In soccer the rules are different and there is one language without prejudice and wars,’ Israel’s Maor Buzaglo says of photo with Ashkan Dejagah

50,000 mirrors, known as heliostats,encircle the solar tower in the Negev desert, near in Ashelim, southern Israel, December 22, 2016. (AP/Oded Balilty)

On a cloudless day, Israel breaks its solar power production record

At precisely 12:07 P.M. on Saturday, solar energy produced 13.4 % of the total electricity being consumed nationwide

APG's Peres drone has four engines that allows it to fly both vertically and horizontally (APG)

Israel firm shows off ‘vulture’ drone with horizontal, vertical flight prowess

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of an eye test (Visivasnc; iStock by Getty Images)

‘Revolutionary’ Nano-Drops can help banish eyeglasses, Israeli researchers say

By Shoshanna Solomon

Researchers hope to create a DIY system to improve eyesight using a smartphone, a small laser and some eye drops

Bob Corker talks to Margaret Brennan on the CBS network's "Face the Nation," March 18, 2018. (Screenshot)

Trump will nix Iran nuke deal, senior Republican predicts

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker says Europeans look unlikely to amend pact before May 12 deadline

Trump prepares for visit by Saudi prince who has rocked the kingdom

By Jerome Cartillier

‘Only death’ can stop him: Saudi’s crown prince in his own words

By AFP

A frustrated Trump lashes out at special counsel Mueller

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, his wife, Sara, and their son Yair, during a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (not pictured), at Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem on December 8, 2013. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90/File)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu suspected of obstructing Bezeq probe, report says

PM said to have instructed his media adviser to delete incriminating text messages; his son Yair also reportedly a suspect

7:22 pm

White House 'not surprised' by Putin reelection
7:16 pm

Officer goes undercover as Hasid, busts drug dealers
6:43 pm

Netanyahu suspected of obstructing Bezeq probe, report says

Mikey Pauker is an up-and-coming Jewish artist. He's based in Berkeley, California, and is involved with an organization called Wilderness Torah, as well as with the Hindu-Yoga scene via Bhakti Fest. (Aleksandra Shira Dubov Lovetography)

Give thanks

Madison Margolin

In Jewish redemption song, new album fuses ancient mysticism with reggae beats

Influenced by a brief foray into ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel, Mikey Pauker’s rhyming lyrics quote the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

Ziggy Marley will perform two intimate concerts in Israel in summer 2018 (Courtesy Ziggy Marley Facebook page)

Is this loveReggae master Ziggy Marley to return to Israel this summer

By Jessica Steinberg

Gabrielle Birkner

Live from my miscarriage

Nearly a month of dizzying drama: Was I pregnant or was I not?

The fault in Bibi’s perfect budget

The 2019 budget has only winners. As always, losses are shared across the board — and that’s a lurking threat

The worst scavenger hunt ever

Shopping for Passover, I realize I’ve become my mother… and my grandmother; then I go look for the gefilte fish

PHOTO ESSAY: Desert memories

In the Israeli desert, you can escape to total solitude, disconnect, and recharge

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World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder on October 13, 2014. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Top Jewish advocate Ronald Lauder excoriates Israeli policies in rare criticism

By JTA

Actress Mayim Bialik, left, meets President Reuven Rivlin at his residence in Jerusalem, March 18, 2018. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

President Rivlin welcomes actress Mayim Bialik to Jerusalem

By JTA

Bezeq CEO Stella Handler at a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on February 18, 2018. (Flash90)

Bezeq CEO, under investigation for corruption, announces resignation

Beitar striker Antony Varenne. (YouTube screenshot)

Police to question soccer player over sex abuse video

Illustrative. Israeli officers listen to a commander during an exercise in northern Israel on September 12, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)

In apparent bid to depoliticize, IDF to slash contracts with outside educators

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: People hold a banner as they walk towards the old railway station in Thessaloniki during a commemoration marking the departure of the first train from the northern Greek city to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, held on March 18, 2018. (SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP)

Greeks delve back into Thessaloniki’s Jewish heritage

By Marina RAFENBERG and Sakis MITROLIDIS

Kfar Vradim. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli town halts tender after Arabs buy up land

Jewish Agency head Nathan Sharansky to new immigrants on August 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Sharansky awarded Israel Prize for service to immigration and Diaspora

'Kipat Barzel' writer Avner Bernheimer (left) speaks with The Times of Israel's culture editor Jessica Steinberg about his TV series focusing on an ultra-Orthodox unit in the army, March 18, 2018 at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. (Daniel Laufer)

Times of Israel PresentsAmid ultra-Orthodox conscription crisis, Israeli TV series becomes overnight hit

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Lebanese cleric Sayyed Muhammad Ali al-Husseini (Facebook image)

Shiite cleric calls to revoke Nasrallah’s Lebanese citizenship for his Iran ties

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