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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 22, 2018

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A site in western Syria suspected of housing a potential nuclear facility, captured on June 19, 2014. (Google Earth)

As Israel fetes 2007 strike on Syria nuclear reactor, is Assad building another?

By Judah Ari Gross

A US think tank revisits claims that the regime is constructing an underground facility, finding worrying questions but no real answers

Defense minister regrets releasing details of attack on Syrian nuclear reactor

By Stuart Winer

Barak says Olmert was ‘never really prime minister,’ likens him to Kevin Spacey

Netanyahu: Syrian reactor raid shows Israel won’t let its enemies get nukes

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Hamas policeman takes a position in Nuseirat, south of Gaza City on March 22, 2018, during a raid that killed a suspect in a bomb attack against the Palestinian prime minister (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Hamas says Hamdallah bomber, 2 of its men killed in shootout

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Second suspect in attack also killed as Gaza police descend on Al Nusseirat refugee camp in Gaza, third suspect arrested

Hamas seeking alliance with Iran, Hezbollah to foil Trump peace plan – report

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Israel to deploy tear gas-dropping drones on planned Gaza border protests

By Stuart Winer

Gazans burn Abbas effigy as Hamas simmers over bombing blame

Ahed Tamimi arrives for the beginning of her trial in the Israeli military court at Ofer military prison in the West Bank village of Betunia on February 13, 2018. (Flash90)

Palestinian teen who slapped soldier sentenced to 8 months in prison

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

As part of plea deal, military prosecution drops 8 of 12 charges that had been originally filed against Ahed Tamimi, though 17-year-old admits to aggravated assault and incitement

Police seek to hold woman who slapped prosecutor in Palestinian teen’s trial

Man gets community service over lynching of migrant mistaken for terrorist

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewReactor strike gives way to radioactive reactions: 9 things to know for March 22

By Joshua Davidovich

The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli teen fined for urinating on memorial at Auschwitz

By JTA and ToI Staff

Museum says it cannot recall similar previous event; 19-year-old arrested, questioned by Polish police

Former Polish politician Kornel Morawiecki (CC BY-SA Kornel Morawiecki Election Committee, Wikimedia Commons)

Polish government distances itself from PM’s father

By Vanessa Gera

Illustrative: A baked ham (iStock)

Rabbi: Lab-grown pork could be kosher for Jews to eat – with milk

By JTA and ToI Staff

Yuval Cherlow says cultured meat loses its animal ‘identity,’ can be used to stave off hunger, prevent pollution and avoid animal suffering

Illustrative: An orthophoto created from a 3D model of an adult male (center) and adult female (bottom) during excavation of the 3,600-year-old burial cave at Megiddo. (Adam Prins and Robert S. Homsher)

Revelation at Armageddon

Untouched for 3,600 years, ‘royal’ tomb may change what we know about Canaanites

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Meretz knesset member Tamar Zandberg during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill, a controversial bill that seeks to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, in the Israeli parliament on December 7, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Party veteran, ex-Peace Now head face off in Meretz leadership race

By Raoul Wootliff

Candidates Zandberg and Buskila hope first-ever open primary will mark new beginning for languishing left-wing movement

US President Donald Trump reaches to shake Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's hand before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski)

Palestinian rejection said to delay US peace plan announcement indefinitely

By Khaled Abu Toameh

PA official claims Trump has failed in attempt to bypass Abbas by enlisting Arab countries to negotiate on his behalf

Abbas health scares spark succession talk

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Move slashing Palestinian funding hitches ride on massive US spending bill

By JTA, AP and ToI Staff

AnalysisRonald Lauder’s support for a two-state solution could actually matter

Actors perform the opera 'Morning Star' at the Eldridge Street Synagogue on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. (Pavel Antonov)

In historic NY shul, opera resurrects victims of tragic Shirtwaist Factory fire

By Danielle Ziri

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a gathering of Likud party activists in Tel Aviv ahead of the Passover holiday on March 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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Netanyahu blasts press, claims ‘thuggish pressure’ working to topple Likud

By Alexander Fulbright

At gathering of ruling-party activists, PM says he’ll continue to lead country for years to come, decries investigations as a ‘witch hunt’

7:16 pm

CNN chief Jeff Zucker says Fox News is a 'propaganda machine'
6:54 pm

Netanyahu blasts press, claims 'thuggish pressure' working to topple Likud
6:39 pm

Netanyahu: Likud will lead Israel for years to come

Patrick D. John

Was Moses’ wife a monkey?

To Chief Rabbi Yosef: You make Israel look bad — own your racially insensitive remarks and apologize!

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

People of the ear

Never mind the haggadah text in front of you; really, the Passover seder is about hearing what we need to know

Dear Ronald Lauder, you missed the real problem

It’s not Israel that’s driving young people away from Judaism, it’s ignorance of their religion’s ageless wisdom

Douglas M. Bloomfield

Settlements are supposed to be obstacles

Chuck Schumer claims settlements don’t block peace. He’s wrong and here’s how I know

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

Israeli hackers offered Cambridge Analytica politicians’ emails — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Company used by Trump campaign to mine Facebook user data said to have been presented with personal information about Nigerian president and future St. Kitts and Nevis PM

Illustrative: The president of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev (left) and Igal Unna, head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate, on a visit to Israel's National CERT on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 (Avi Dor)

Bulgaria, Israel mull cybersecurity cooperation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc. (AFP Photo/Getty Images North America)

Facebook’s Zuckerberg apologizes as privacy concerns swirl

By AP

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A screenshot from the Russian Channel 1 segment depicting the Rothschilds as a sow, and Israel, the CIA, MI6, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram as nursing piglets. (Screenshot/MEMRI-TV)

Nearly 200 years of anti-Semitic conspiracies continue to cloud Rothschilds

Necati Senturk, governor of Turkey's Kirsehir province, wielding a double bladed scimitar in a speech in mid-March 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Crossing swordsScimitar-wielding Turkish governor vows to conquer Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Judge Ronit Poznansky-Katz. (Judiciary of Israel)

Judge in texting scandal suspended pending disciplinary ruling

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Colombian broadcaster Cathy Bekerman refused her news director’s order to make the sign of the cross during a newscast on March 14, 2018. (Facebook via JTA)

Colombian Jewish anchor told to quit after refusing to cross herself on-air

By JTA

Israeli author and Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon. (Courtesy Agnon House/JTA)

Times of Israel PresentsS.Y. Agnon returns to the stage in English at Jerusalem festival

Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference in Jerusalem on November 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief Gantz may enter politics, says PM fit to stay on if not indicted

By Michael Bachner

Ethiopian Jews make matzah by hand in the synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia on March 21, 2018. (courtesy)

Despite government approval, still no funds for Ethiopian immigration

By Melanie Lidman

One of Nadia Ibrahim Azzizi's designs shown at a night celebrating Arab-Israeli designers (Courtesy Nadia Ibrahim Azzizi)

Made in JaffaArab-Israeli designer sees fashion as a multicultural effort

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative image of a scientist in a lab (Likoper, iStock by Getty Images)

Israel launches $60m initiative to boost tailor-made meds

By Shoshanna Solomon

A view of the German Jewrovision contest in Munich, Germany, March 2, 2013. (Lennart Preiss/Getty Images)

Jewish harmonyIn European Jewry’s song contest, Israel is always a winner

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An activist holds a #MeToo sign during a news conference on a Title IX lawsuit outside the Department of Education January 25, 2018 in Washington, DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Israeli production company to launch reality show exposing sexual harassment

By Michael Bachner

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

From Hollywood, with loveMayim Bialik ‘happy to take a public bullet’ over Israel support

By JTA

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