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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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African asylum seekers wait outside the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority office waiting to find out their status, in Bnei Brak, Israel, February 13, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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Population Authority: Half of the asylum seekers can stay if we deport the rest

By Melanie Lidman

A woman who identified herself only as Varda filmed heaping racial abuse on a young man of Ethiopian origin as other customers in the supermarket kept silent, March 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli woman filmed hurling racial abuse at black man in supermarket

African asylum seekers protest against their deportation of asylum during a demonstration at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, March 24, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israel delays deportation of African migrants until after Passover

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the annual health conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

' Some rest and hot soup will sort it all out,' PM tweets

Netanyahu released from hospital, diagnosed with mild viral infection

Prime minister had been admitted with high fever, cough; doctors say all tests negative, so he was sent home and told to rest

AnalysisBrief hospitalization shows risk Netanyahu takes by not designating a deputy

By Raoul Wootliff

A Flygermania plane collided with an El Al plane on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport on March 28, 2018. Nobody was hurt. (Israel Airports Authority screenshot)

German plane collides with El Al jet on Tel Aviv tarmac; no injuries

Tail-to-tail collision at Ben Gurion Airport follows Budapest incident on Tuesday, in which an Israeli woman was seriously hurt when she fell from door of plane

El Al aircraft Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrives for a welcome ceremony after landing at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv on August 23, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

El Al sues Israeli government over new Air India route

By Raphael Ahren

Screen capture from video showing an airliner after passengers evacuated due to smoke in the cabin, Budapest, Hungary, March 23, 2018. (YouTube)

Israeli woman fighting for life after falling out of plane door

By Stuart Winer

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Gaza infiltration puts IDF limitations on display at the worst possible time

Unlike the Iron Dome snafu, which showed the army being overly cautious, the 3 armed Gazans who walked 20 km into Israel exposed a major weakness just ahead of an expected flare-up

Three armed Palestinian men walk past Kibbutz Tzeelim in southern Israel after breaking through the security fence around the Gaza Strip on March 27, 2018. (Screen capture)

IDF nabs Gazan in third infiltration incident in under a week

By Judah Ari Gross

Army announces 9-day closure of West Bank, Gaza for Passover

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel media reviewOn the fence: 7 things to know for March 28

By Adiv Sterman

A man stands in front of a picture of Mireille Knoll and a message announcing a "Marche Blanche" condemning the alleged anti-Semitic motive for of her killing, placed on the fence surrounding her building in Paris on March 27, 2018, after she was found dead in her apartment on March 23 by firefighters called to extinguish a blaze.
Two people have been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old French Jewish woman, who was stabbed and whose body was then set alight in a crime being treated as anti-Semitic, a judicial source said on March 27, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / Lionel BONAVENTURE)

Jewish grandmother murdered in Paris home ‘didn’t believe in evil’

Granddaughter says Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll was ‘in contact with many friends of all religions’; a neighbor and accomplice have been charged in anti-Semitic slaying

Provided by Daniel Knoll on Tuesday March 27, 2018, this photograph shows the late Mireille Knoll, center, with her son Daniel and granddaughter Jessica. (via Daniel Knoll via AP)

France’s far-right and far-left to join march honoring slain Holocaust survivor

By Joseph Schmid

In this photo from April 30, 2017, Emmanuel Macron looks at some of the 2,500 photographs of young Jews deported from France, during a visit to the Shoah memorial in Paris, France. (Philippe Wojazer/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Macron ‘appalled’ by Holocaust victim’s murder, vows to fight anti-Semitism

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot addresses the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on July 5, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

IDF chief: 100 snipers authorized to use live fire during Gaza march

By Michael Bachner

Gadi Eisenkot warns army could use ‘a lot of force’ to keep protesters from the border; says ‘high chance’ of military conflict with the Palestinians this year

IDF tanks shell Hamas positions after 2 Gazans start fire near border

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians to protest Friday after Jews sacrifice lambs near Temple Mount

IDF probe finds Palestinian paraplegic not killed by Israel – report

By JTA

Analysis

In spy wars, Israel chooses Russia over UK, but Trump could play spoiler

London expects solidarity after Salisbury poisoning, but Jerusalem is unlikely to start antagonizing Moscow — unless Washington gets involved

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend an event marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the complete lifting of the Nazi siege of Leningrad, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow on January 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Vasily Maximov)

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session, in Parliament in London, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Britain shared ‘unprecedented’ intelligence over spy attack

By Alice Ritchie

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets with a group of entrepreneurs and innovators during a round-table discussion at Cortex Innovation Community technology hub in St. Louis, November 9, 2017. (Jeff Roberson/AFP)

Facebook’s Zuckerberg rebuffs British MPs for data privacy grilling

By Dario Thuburn

Kyle McKaskle from Louisiana asked Wassim Razzouk to tattoo the word 'Abide' in Greek on his arm. The word is taken from a phrase in the Gospels. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

All about the branding

For centuries, Easter pilgrims are inked by this family in Jerusalem’s Old City

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Composite image of the leader of Britain's Labout Party Jeremy Corbyn (L) seen on March 9, 2018 and former London Mayor Ken Livingstone seen March 18, 2008. (AP)

UK Jewish leaders said set to tell Corbyn: Oust Livingstone, ‘drain the sewer’

Board of Deputies reportedly drafting list of demands to present to Labour leader after he promised to rid party of anti-Semitism

A picture taken on March 27, 2018 at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv, shows an orangutan eating traditional matzah (unleavened bread) in the run up to the Jewish holiday of Passover. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Monkey see, monkey dough

Safari animals munch on matzah as Passover nears

Unleavened bread and kosher-for-Passover feed provided at Ramat Gan Safari Park in line with festival injunction to steer clear of leavened products

From the "Survivors' Haggadah" written for the 1947 Survivors' Seder in Munich, Germany (Courtesy National Library of Israel)

Post-Holocaust Haggadahs reflect altered versions of slavery and freedom

By Jessica Steinberg

People attend a silent march to honor an 85-year-old woman who escaped the Nazis 76 years ago but was stabbed to death last week in her Paris apartment, apparently targeted because she was Jewish, and to denounce racism, in Paris, France on, March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Live updates (closed)

French boo far-right leader Le Pen at memorial for slain Jewish woman

By Tamar Pileggi

Cries of ‘Go home!’ and ‘Nazi!’ ring out at Paris march honoring Holocaust escapee killed in a grisly attack believed to be anti-Semitic

6:18 pm

French Israelis memorialize murdered Holocaust survivor
6:10 pm

French boo far-right Le Pen at memorial march
6:00 pm

Russia in 'no rush' to retaliate to diplomat expulsions

Israel, don’t shut the door in my face

I seek asylum after fleeing a brutal dictatorship — how can Jews forget what the word “refugee” means?

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate should be abolished

A coercive state rabbinate is a severe threat to democracy, to non-Orthodox Judaism, and also to Modern Orthodoxy

Playing the Holocaust card on Passover

A Sudanese man came to the clinic with hands bloodied from barbed wire; how could I not think of my murdered grandmother?

Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

Here’s how I know Passover is here

PHOTO ESSAY: The market smells of fresh garlic, the wisteria is blooming, and you can get matzah (almost) everywhere

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Mohammad Delavari, left, and two members of his filming crew interviewing Iris Tzur at her home in Amsterdam, March 1, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Reporter's notebookWhat a Jewish reporter learned from an afternoon with 3 Iranian journalists

By Cnaan Liphshiz

View of the US Consulate in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood, February 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance minister signs waiver fast-tracking transfer of US embassy

Illustrative: About 100 'Bnei Menashe' (Sons of Menashe) from India landed at Ben Gurion Airport, on June 25, 2015, immigrating to Israel. (Flash90)

Ministry: Israel should woo 60 million people who have Jewish links to aid state

A computerized simulation of a planned soccer penalty shootout at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. (Courtesy: Kulna)

Common goalJaffa Gate to host Jewish-Arab penalty shootout during World Cup

By Michael Bachner

In this photo taken March 13, 2018, Jan Gross, a Holocaust scholar who has been a catalyst for historical debates about Polish behavior during the Holocaust, speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland is trying to ‘gag’ history, says Holocaust historian who triggered debate

By Vanessa Gera

A Palestinian Muslim woman walks by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, on June 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Expert confirms Jews and Arabs nearing population parity

Top row: Former Mossad chiefs from L to R: Danny Yatom, Tamir Pardo, Zvi Zamir, Shabtai Shavit, Nahum Admoni and Efraim Halevy. Bottom row: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin host a candle lighting ceremony for of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at the President's residence in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Ex-Mossad chief: Israel ‘dangerously sick’ under Netanyahu’s leadership

US President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, March 25, 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Countering TV report, White House says Trump ‘undecided’ on Jerusalem visit

Canadian data analytics expert and whistle-blower, Christopher Wylie poses for photographs outside a press conference in London on March 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN)

Whistleblower: Cambridge Analytica used Israeli firm to hack Nigerian president

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative: An Israeli family seen during the Passover Seder on April 3, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

DayenuDoze off before Had Gadya? You’re not alone

By Melanie Lidman

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