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What Matters Most On Friday, March 23, 2018

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Parkland shooting survivor Dani Tylim speaking at the 'March for Our Lives' protest in Tel Aviv on March 23, 2018. (Tracy Frydberg/Times of Israel)

'I will not allow anyone else to see the things I saw'

Parkland survivors speak out at Tel Aviv’s ‘March for Our Lives’ rally

By Tracy Frydberg

Three Jewish teen survivors of last month’s Florida shooting address protest against gun violence in front of the US embassy, one of 800 demonstrations worldwide

Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat, heads to the Senate to vote on the bipartisan "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" which would allow victims of sex trafficking to sue websites that enabled their abuse, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 21, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Alabama senator says Congress must act on gun violence

By Matthew Daly

This March 14, 2018 file photo shows students at Roosevelt High School in Seattle taking part in a protest against gun violence. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes, File)

After Parkland shooting, worldwide ‘March for Our Lives’

By KELLI KENNEDY

French gendarmes block access to Trebes, where a man took hostages at a supermarket on March 23, 2018 in Trebes, southwest France. (AFP Photo/Eric Cabanis)

Police kill IS hostage-taker who shot 3 dead in southern France terror spree

By Remi Zaka and Pauline Talagrand

Most employees and customers at Super U market in Trebes escape unharmed from gunman, believed to be a Moroccan with a history of extremism

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to a meeting on the second day of a summit of European Union (EU) leaders at the European Council headquarter in Bruxelles, on March 23, 2018. (AFP/Ludovic Marin)

Anti-Islam protest with funeral candles at Merkel’s office

By AFP

Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)

Arab Israeli who tried to join Islamic State gets 28 months in prison

John Bolton (photo credit: Gage Skidmore)

Israeli ministers praise appointment of John Bolton

By ToI Staff and AFP

Naftali Bennett, Ze’ev Elkin, Ayelet Shaked, Michael Oren welcome Trump’s new national security adviser as ‘a stalwart friend of Israel’

his combination of pictures created on March 22, 2018 shows outgoing White House National Security Advisor HR McMaster giving a key note speech in front of the Jamestown Foundation in Washington,DC on December 13, 2017 and former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton speaking on February 22, 2018 during CPAC 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. (AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO AND GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Eric BARADAT AND Alex WONG)

Israel media reviewStache or credit? 8 things to know for March 23

By Joshua Davidovich

PLO official Hanan Ashrawi (Ahmad Gharabli/Flash90)

Palestinians slam Trump national security adviser pick John Bolton

By AFP

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump names hawk Bolton new national security adviser, boots McMaster

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president tweets announcement after several weeks of rumors top aide would be axed; appointment of former UN envoy, who has pushed for war with Iran, had been fiercely opposed

Palestinians help evacuate an injured protester during clashes with Israeli troops, near Khan Yunis, by the border fence between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip, on March 9, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

Most Israelis think moving US embassy will spark violence, but still say do it

Former US ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Las Vegas. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Bringing in Bolton, White House appears to stiffen against Palestinians, Iran

By Eric Cortellessa

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks during a news conference about the massive government spending bill moving through Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress passes Taylor Force act as part of $1.3 trillion budget bill

By AP and ToI Staff

Rider to the omnibus spending bill, named for an American killed by a Palestinian terrorist, cuts US aid to Palestinians until PA and PLO stop funding terrorists and their families

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends a meeting of the lobby for Israel–United States relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinians call to put US ambassador Friedman on ‘global terror list’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures with his hand during a joint press conference with the visiting Bulgarian president at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Abbas to Hamas: You ‘hijacked’ Gaza, now give it back

By Khaled Abu Toameh

A golden lion tamarin monkey holds its newly born baby at a zoo in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 22, 2018. Golden lion tamarins are among the rarest animals in the world, according to the World Wildlife Fund. It is listed as endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Monkey time

Rare, endangered golden lion tamarin born at Jerusalem Biblical Zoo

By AP

Baby has not yet been named; primate is one of rarest in the world, according to World Wildlife Fund

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

Israel to probe Facebook over Cambridge Analytica data breach

By Raoul Wootliff

Investigation comes following mass leak of social media giant’s data on 50 million users, which was used to aid Trump campaign in 2016 race

Behind Facebook’s baby step fixes — defending its ad business

By Barbara Ortutay and ANICK JESDANUN

Austrian-Jewish leader Ariel Muzicant in Jerusalem, March 21, 2018 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Interview

An Austrian Jewish leader worries Israel may be embracing the far right

Netanyahu’s ‘realpolitik’ weakens European Jewry, Ariel Muzicant argues, vowing to fight any attempt by Jerusalem to normalize ties with Freedom Party

Illustrative: Leader of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache (C) stands next to his wife Philippa Beck and FPOe members Norbert Hofer (L) and Johann Gudenus (3rdL) at the end of a campaign event for the country's parliamentary elections on October 13, 2017 in Vienna. (AFP Photo/Joe Klamar)

Austria’s far-right party hit by yet another Nazi scandal

By AFP

Illustrative: Jews from Hungary arriving at Auschwitz in May of 1944, part of 'The Auschwitz Album' series of photographs. Most of these Jews were murdered later that day. (public domain)

Polish attorney general’s office calls Holocaust law unconstitutional

By AFP

Law attempting to penalize people overseas, independently of the laws in their countries, may go against Poland’s constitution, says country’s top justice official

Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz, left, speaks with German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas, right, ahead of a Foreign Affairs minister meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on March 19, 2018. (JOHN THYS/AFP)

Poland puts Berlin’s WWII bill at 440 billion euros

By AFP

Dudley North representative Ian Austin. (UK Parliament)

Analysis

A quiet English town fights anti-Semitism thanks to a Holocaust survivor’s son

Representing Dudley North, MP Ian Austin has drawn on his father’s legacy to become one of the harshest critics of Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn from within the Labour party

Screenshot from a TV story on a campaign on Cincinnati WLWT5.

Ohioan charged with hate crime for beating man he believed was Jewish

By JTA

In this photo dated February 28, 2018, Ennahdha party candidate in the May municipal elections Simon Slama poses in his sewing machine repair shop in Monastir, Tunisia. (AP Photo/Mehdi Arem)

Jewish candidate for Muslim party breaks barriers in Tunisia

By BOUAZZA BIN BOUAZZA

Opponents of Islamist Ennahda say it is using Simon Slama’s candidacy as a ‘propaganda operation to seem like an open and tolerant party’

In this March 15, 2018 photo provided by Egypt's state news agency, MENA,Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi holds a child at an education seminar in Cairo, Egypt. (MENA via AP)

In Arab Middle East, democracy struggles to take root

An advert for Paddington 2 in which his sandwich is switched for matzah for the film that comes out over the Passover holiday (Courtesy)

Matzah bear

On Israeli posters, Paddington Bear goes kosher for Passover

By AP

The bear has his sandwich switched for a matzah and marmalade snack

A call to Muslim faith leaders

As Chief Rabbi of the UK, I ask Muslim faith leaders to engage in dialogue with me — if need be, we can meet in secret

Judith Colp Rubin

No longer alone for the seder

It took years of trial, error, tragedy and farce to learn that, for this holiday, there’s no place like home

Gratitude with attitude

We’re innately hyper-alert to potential danger, but simply being grateful may do more to extend our lives (Tzav)

How we stop the machines from taking over

The humanities remind us that we’re people, not outgrowths of our phones

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Screen capture from video of Saudi Arabian journalist Loay al-Shareef speaking in Hebrew in a message to Israelis about his country's nuclear ambitions. (Facebook)

Don’t worry about us having nukes, Saudi journalist tells Israelis, in Hebrew

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

AnalysisDecade after clandestine Syria strike, revelation sparks a war for credit

By Judah Ari Gross

A Boeing 787 flight number AI139 of Indian national carrier Air India, from New Delhi, performs maneuvers on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2018 after using Saudi airspace for the first time. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)

In world first, Air India crosses Saudi airspace to Israel

By Stephen WEIZMAN

Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski talks on his cellphone as he leaves the Government Palace also known as the House of Pizarro, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, March 21, 2018. (AP/Martin Mejia)

Peru president undone by corruption scandals he vowed to end

By FRANKLIN BRICENO and Joshua Goodman

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, left, and Stephen Colbert stretching before working out. (screen capture: YouTube)

Bench pressColbert struggles to keep up with Bader Ginsburg workout routine

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators blocking a road in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv as they protest against the army draft, March 22, 2018. (Police spokesperson)

30 arrested as ultra-Orthodox army draft protesters block major highway

An Israeli border police officer guards outside the 'Machpela House' in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 28, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Settlers evacuate disputed Hebron building after squatting for 8 months

Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg casts her vote at a polling station in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tamar Zandberg crowned new Meretz leader after resounding primary win

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a rally with his supporters and for the Jewish holiday of Passover in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM slams ‘thought police’ media for skewed reporting of graft probes against him

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Jack Tato Bigio, co-founder and chief executive at UBQ, holds a recycled plastic bucket next to a pile of dried and shredded garbage at the UBQ factory in Kibbutz Tzeelim, March 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli firm says it can turn garbage into plastic gold

By Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, center, attends a hearing at the Ofer military court in the West Bank on January 1, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Court orders release of woman who slapped prosecutor at soldier-slapper’s trial

American, Israeli troops deploy a Patriot missile defense battery during the 2018 Juniper Cobra air defense exercise in March 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel, US end biennial Juniper Cobra exercise with live-fire air defense test

By Judah Ari Gross

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