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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 29, 2018

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UK Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush meets with Labour Party chair Jeremy Corbyn, February 9, 2016. (courtesy)

'Nobody should be vilified for opposing anti-Semitism'

Jewish leaders won’t meet Corbyn yet, decry abuse of MPs who joined their rally

Community heads demand Labour chief personally lead battle against anti-Semitism in his party, fume that Labour MPs who support them are now being threatened: ‘This is a disgrace’

Jeremy Corbyn says he plans to come to Israel ‘at some point,’ meet Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

From our partnerJeremy Corbyn: ‘I’m not an anti-Semite in any form’

UK Labour official quits after backing candidate who posted Holocaust hoax link

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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, March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Political tensions cloud tribute to slain Holocaust survivor

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and Elaine Ganley

Son of Mireille Knoll decries insults shouted at far-right, far-left leaders during march held in his mother’s honor following her grizzly slaying last week

Paris Jewish student group office vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti

In handling of Holocaust survivor’s slaying, French Jews see a ‘lesson learned’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

French Israelis memorialize murdered Holocaust survivor

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on March 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy says he was misquoted about Washington wanting to replace Abbas

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Ambassador David Friedman clarifies it is for the Palestinian people to decide who should be their leader

US ambassador: If Abbas won’t negotiate with us, his replacement will

Liberal Jewish groups slam Bolton for ‘bellicose ideology, anti-Muslim bigotry’

By Eric Cortellessa

Trump ousts Veterans Affairs chief, taps White House doctor to replace him

By Hope Yen and Zeke Miller

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (R) speaks during a ceremony before the Passover holiday, April 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel mulls criminal action against top rabbi who called black people ‘monkeys’

By Michael Bachner

Justice Ministry said considering various steps against Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, examining whether remark constitutes incitement to racism

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s wife, son file complaint over leaked interrogation details

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Dr. Julius Golender, back left, and Dr. Gavri Sagi pose for a picture with Filipina mother Nina and her baby Francis Joseph, who was born with a rare heart defect and whose life they saved in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in February 2018. (Hadassah Hospital)

Using Brazilian procedure, Israeli doctors save Filipino newborn in Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

A screenshot from a Canadian government website designed to prevent citizens falling victim to binary options fraud.

European Union bans binary options, strictly regulates CFDs

By Simona Weinglass

Vise tightens around Israeli online scammers; Israeli banks close forex companies’ accounts, and Twitter follows Google and Facebook in banning cryptocurrency ads

Police officers arrest a man suspected of planning to carry out a terror attack in the southern city of Beersheba on March 29, 2018. (Israel Police)_

Live updates (closed)

TV: Bedouin men arrested in Beersheba weren’t planning terror attack

Suspects, detained after police manhunt, were poised to carry out criminal activity, report says

5:38 pm

Russia to expel 60 US diplomats, close a US consulate
5:35 pm

Israel to restrict entry of Gaza Christians for Easter
5:15 pm

TV: Bedouin men arrested in Beersheba were not planning terror attack

The 10-second Passover seder

It will get you to the food faster, but will it really make this night different from all other nights?

7 discussions to have at your seder

On the suffering of our enemies, the role of food, the question of where we’d be without this story and more

This Passover: Freedom to and freedom from

Israeli Jews are free to do many things, but they are bound by an overreaching government when it comes to religion

In defense of the Wicked Son

He’s the challenge to norms: Abraham smashing idols, the midwives in Egypt, suffragettes, and that man in Tienanmen Square

Hanan Schlesinger

This year we are not slaves

In a world of ‘us and them,’ how can we go from a Passover of alienation to a Passover of empathy?

Avidan Freedman

‘Come share our slave food!’

The Passover mentality is one of bounty, which should help open Israeli hearts to asylum seekers

Hussein Jabar, a hotelier from Abu Ghosh who legally purchases all of Israel's leavened goods each year for the duration of Passover. (Courtesy)

Breadwinner

Meet the Arab Israeli who buys all of Israel’s hametz

Hussein Jabar can afford a down payment for the nation’s leavened goods every Passover, but somehow never manages to scrape together the whole price

Clockwise, from top left, covers for 'Search for the Shamir' (Kar-Ben); 'The Passover Parrot' (Kar-Ben); 'The Spy Who Played Baseball' (Kar-Ben); and 'Paulie’s Passover Predicament (Kar-Ben). (All cover art via JTA)

Read it here firstFresh children’s books perfect for Passover gifts

By Penny Schwartz

Jullius Distillery's Akko Gin, made from a base of grapes, which renders it kosher for Passover (Courtesy Jullius Distillery)

Holiday spiritsMove over, slivovitz; here comes kosher-for-Passover aromatic gin

By Jessica Steinberg

Koolulam event in Haifa, February 2018. (Koolulam/Facebook)

Reporter's notebook

Mass singing initiative works to change fractured Israeli society’s tune

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A depiction of Moses bringing forth water from the rock (iStock)

Watershed

Netanyahu knows a rock from Iraq, Wall Street Journal clarifies

By Stuart Winer

Newspaper issues correction after misquoting prime minister talking about how Moses provided water for thirsty Israelites in the desert

Designer Kim Smiley wearing some of her creations, Toronto, March 2018. (Gilbert Benamou)

Toronto designer worn by Trudeaus stitches together fashion with social justice

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The cast of Israeli drama series 'Fauda' (Ohad Romano via JTA)

Boycott Israel campaigners urge Netflix to drop ‘racist’ hit series ‘Fauda’

By Stuart Winer

BDS movement threatens legal action if streaming company doesn’t remove TV show about undercover West Bank unit, claiming it ‘gives legitimization to war criminals’

Police officers arrest a man suspected of planning to carry out a terror attack in the southern city of Beersheba on March 29, 2018. (Israel Police)_

Suspected would-be terrorist, accomplice arrested in Beersheba

By Judah Ari Gross

Police had set up roadblocks, searched area with helicopters amid concerns of a potential ‘security incident’

An Israeli soldier watches Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the Israel-Gaza border, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, March 2, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Two Palestinians breach Gaza security fence in fourth incident in a week

Palestinian children ride bikes near the border with Israel on the outskirts of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, as they take part in a cycling race demanding a 'Right of Return' for millions to Israel on March 26, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Israel warns Gaza bus companies ahead of ‘March of Return’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Abed al-Karim Assi in a Facebook post from December 30, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Arab Israeli indicted for stabbing rabbi to death in West Bank terror attack

By Michael Bachner

Abed al-Karim Assi, 19, accused of picking Itamar Ben-Gal as his victim based on his kippa

Liberman urges Israelis to calm down over Gaza infiltration

By Michael Bachner

Acre car-rammer charged with attempted murder in alleged terror attack

By Michael Bachner

Israel media reviewAll eyes on Gaza: 8 things to know for March 29

By Tamar Pileggi

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Banners showing Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi hang in Tahrir Square, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

As expected, Egypt’s Sissi reelected with more than 90% of vote

Clifton College in Bristol, UK, on May 15, 2010.(CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0, Rept0n1x/Wikipedia)

UK school slammed after ‘friends’ try to force Jewish student to eat ham pizza

By Michael Bachner

A UN Security Council meeting on February 26, 2018. (Eskinder Debebe/UN)

Germany denies deal to give Israel UN council seat

By AFP

Illustrative: A delegation of rabbis from the Lubavitch-Chabad movement visit President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 27, 2018. (White House)

Trump meets with Chabad rabbis in Oval Office

By JTA

Trayon White Sr. (Facebook via JTA)

Rain beating downCouncilman got ‘butt whooping’ for saying Jews control weather

By JTA

Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Amir Weissbrod (Courtesy MFA)

Jordan approves Israel’s new ambassador to the kingdom

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