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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 20, 2018

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sits in front of a picture of the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem's Old City during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 19, 2018. (FLASH90)

Fuming at US, Abbas calls ambassador a ‘son of a dog, settler’

Friedman shoots back that PA president’s unprecedented attack could be a form of anti-Semitism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After Abbas rips US envoy as son of dog, PM says Palestinians losing their cool

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Stray dogs. (JDMaddox/ iStockphoto, Getty Images)

Israel media reviewWho’s not a very good boy? 10 things to know for March 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a press conference with the French president, following a meeting at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on December 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Francois Mori)

Analysis

Khaled Abu Toameh

Burning all bridges, Abbas sets himself up for complete isolation

PA chief thinks Palestinians have nothing to lose in confrontation with a US administration that, he feels, has endorsed Israel’s positions. But it’s not only the US he’s taking on

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

US slams Abbas over ‘outrageous’ insult of its Israel envoy

By Raphael Ahren

A handout picture released by the Palestinian Authority president's office shows Mahmoud Abbas (right) in a meeting with the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, in Doha, on July 20, 2014. (AFP/PPO/Thaer Ghanem)

Hamas slams Abbas for threatening sanctions on Gaza

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a ceremony in Jerusalem, October 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Chief rabbi calls black people ‘monkeys’

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef uses pejorative term ‘kushi’ for African Americans in weekly sermon

Iran Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Khonsari in Brussels on January 11, 2018. (AFP/John Thys)

Live updated (closed)

Iran lashes Trump over ‘absurd insults’ against regime

In Nowruz Persian New Year message, US president denounced Revolutionary Guards, government

7:24 pm

Father of Polish PM: Jews gladly moved to ghettos to get away from non-Jews
6:57 pm

Elon Musk denies he's in Israel for Cortica meeting
6:29 pm

Twitter shares plunge after Israel threatens legal action

Kiryat Bialik Mayor Eli Dukorsky delivering a speech about the Holocaust during a trip to Poland with Israeli high school students on Monday, March 19, 2018. (Screen capture: Mako)

Poland censors Israeli mayor who sought to cite Polish Holocaust crimes at event

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In Holocaust law dispute, Kiryat Bialik mayor, leading group of students to Poland, refuses to remove reference to Poles who handed Jews to Nazis; authorities cancel joint ceremony

Izzy Ezagui, center, and fellow reserve soldiers in 2014 (Courtesy of Izzy Ezagui)

Interview

One-armed IDF sharpshooter still fights on the front lines — from the US

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Cambridge Analytica executives filmed on hidden camera boasting of using British, Israeli spies. (Screen capture: Channel 4)

Trump campaign mined Facebook user data using Israeli ‘intelligence gathering’

By ToI Staff and AP

Cambridge Analytica CEO filmed boasting of using entrapment, bribes and honey-traps to influence election

Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi interviewed on Bloomberg TV on April 24, 2017. (Screen capture: Bloomberg TV)

Kushner company met with Qatari minister but turned down money – report

Trayon White Sr. (Facebook via JTA)

Fogging Jews

Washington councilman accuses Jews of controlling weather

By JTA

Following backlash, Trayon White Sr. apologizes for saying ‘Rothschilds’ created snowstorm to make money, says he didn’t mean to be anti-Semitic

Orbotech's offices in Yavneh. (Google Street View)

Israeli firm Orbotech sold to US company in $3.4 billion deal

By Michael Bachner

Yavneh-based electronics maker will keep offices in Israel after purchase by KLA-Tencor in one of country’s largest-ever deals

A medical marijuana plant (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli medical marijuana firms may flee if export ban persists

By Shoshanna Solomon

What you don’t know if you don’t live in Israel

It’s the weight of the sacrifices IDF soldiers make for safety and security — yours and mine

Why do you cover your hair?

Each woman has her own path; most are making a statement: ‘I am observant and proud of it’

Joshua Hammerman

Marching for our lives by hopping on the Shab-bus

The gun control rally is so important that I, a rabbi, am going to blatantly disrupt God’s holy Sabbath

Andrew Silow-Carroll

‘Nobody’s talking about anti-Semitism.’ Wait, what?

Jewish groups are most certainly not downplaying the threat, they just disagree on where it’s coming from

Gideon Sa'ar speaks at a Likud party conference in Lod, on December 31, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Interview

Gideon Sa’ar: Instead of new settlements, build up existing ones

By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz

Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their meeting in Sochi on August 23, 2017. (AFP/Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky)

Netanyahu congratulates Putin, refrains from criticizing Russian elections

By Michael Bachner and AFP

PM hails ‘personal dialogue’ with re-elected leader, as Europe largely denounces process and inclusion of Crimea in vote

Russian citizens living in Israel voting at one of the 14 polling stations across the country, March 2018. (Facebook Embassy of Russia in Israel)

Few Russians in Israel cast ballots, but most who do back Putin

By Raphael Ahren

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Palestinian men evacuate an injured protester during clashes with Israeli troops along the border fence near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Security forces gear up for mass Palestinian protest marches on Passover eve

Democratic candidate for the 3rd congressional district Marie Newman speaks with supporters at a campaign event in LaGrange, Ill, on Feb. 13, 2018 (AP Photo/Sara Burnett).

Illinois Democratic primary pits J Street against AIPAC

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: Doctors at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem performing surgery, Jerusalem, March 5, 1990. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Israeli parents want kids to be doctors; lawyers, not so much; cops, no way

A sapper working to clear mines from the area around the Qasr al-Yahud Baptism site on the Jordan River, March 2018. (Defense Ministry)

Israel begins clearing thousands of landmines from Jordan River baptism site

By Melanie Lidman and ToI Staff

Security forces at the scene of the fatal stabbing by a Palestinian terrorist of Adiel Kolman in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 18, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Police detain 8 Palestinians for not intervening in Old City stabbing

Inventor Elon Musk. (CC BY Heisenberg Media/Wikipedia)

Tesla mogul Elon Musk visits Israel, to meet AI startup Cortica

By Shoshanna Solomon

Actress Cynthia Nixon during a photo call for the film 'A Quiet Passion' at the 2016 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

‘Sex and the City’ NY governor hopeful draws praise, scorn from Jewish leaders

Likud MK David Bitan attends a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, February 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Prominent architect reportedly suspected of bribing Likud MK

Raed Saleh, left, a Berlin senator, and the city’s Jewish community president, Gideon Joffe, hold an architect’s rendering of a planned reconstruction of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Palestinian-born legislator dreams of rebuilding a synagogue in Berlin

By Toby Axelrod

French Foreign Affairs minister Jean-Yves Le Drian looks on prior to a meeting between Iran Foreign minister and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on January 11, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)

Europeans, US working behind scenes to salvage Iran deal — report

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of drugs (Orel Cohen /Flash90)

Holy smokePolice agent disguised as Bratslav Hasid incriminates drug dealers

By Michael Bachner

Ben Platt and Lin-Manuel Miranda in their new charity single, 'Found Tonight' (YouTube)

Ballad for changeBen Platt and Lin-Manuel Miranda fight violence with vocals

By Tracy Frydberg

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