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What Matters Most On Friday, March 30, 2018

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A picture taken on March 30, 2018 from the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz across the border from the Gaza Strip shows tear gas grenades falling during a Palestinian protest, with Israeli soldiers seen below in the foreground. (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

15 Gazans said killed, 1,100 hurt in clashes at massive border protest

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians take part in demonstrations near the border with Israel east of Jabalya in the northern Gaza strip on March 30, 2018. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

IDF says terror groups using border protests as cover to launch attacks

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt attends a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, on July 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)

US peace envoy blasts ‘hostile march’ on Gaza border

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya flashes the victory gesture during a demonstration near the border with Israel east of Gaza City to commemorate Land Day on March 30, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Hamas leader: Protests mark the beginning of our return to ‘all of Palestine’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinians ‘will not agree to keep the right of return only as a slogan,’ Haniyeh says at ‘March of Return’ event in Gaza

AnalysisIsrael fears rallies will break out of Strip, even if protesters don’t

By Avi Issacharoff

In Arabic message, Liberman warns Gazans not to approach border fence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel media reviewBorder battles: 7 things to know for March 30

By Adiv Sterman

A picture taken on March 30, 2018 from the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz across the border from the Gaza strip shows Palestinians participating in a tent city protest. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas declares ‘national day of mourning’ after violent, fatal Gaza protests

At least 14 dead according to Hamas-run Palestinian health ministry, over 1,000 injured in clashes between IDF troops and rioters along Israel-Gaza border

6:24 pm

Palestinians report 15th Gazan killed in Friday demos
5:53 pm

Lebanese army said to disperse solidarity protest on northern border
5:42 pm

As protests disperse, march organizers say they'll be back tomorrow

Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Interview

France must ‘make an example’ of anti-Semites, former PM urges

Manuel Valls calls for tougher implementation of anti-hate laws, distances himself from last year’s Paris peace summit, says Jerusalem is Israel’s capital

Lassana Bathily praying with members of the Jewish community at the Tournelles Synagogue in Paris, March 28, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA)

'I want to tell the Jews of France, you are not abandoned'

Muslim rescuer of Jews takes seat in back at slain Holocaust survivor’s vigil

By Cnaan Liphshiz

After ceremony, dozens huddle around Lassana Bathily, thanking the 27-year-old who hid a dozen people from the jihadist who killed four at a kosher store in 2015

President Reuven Rivlin is seen during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 29, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Rivlin sends condolences to family of murdered French Holocaust survivor

Donald Trump speaks to a crowd gathered at the Local 18 Richfield Facility of the Operating Engineers Apprentice and Training, a union and apprentice training center specializing in the repair and operation of heavy equipment on March 29, 2018 in Richfield, Ohio. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)

US to leave Syrian battlefield ‘very soon,’ Trump declares

By AFP

Amid concerns about Iran extending its reach in war-torn country on Israel’s border, president says to ‘let other countries take care of it now’

Border Police confiscate a helicopter near the Qalandiya crossing that was stolen by an Israeli settler on March 27, 2018. (Border Police)

Police seize settler’s planes after he lands chopper near checkpoint

Authorities discover makeshift runway outside home of Itamar resident, who is not licensed to fly

Yehudit Jessica Singer

A refugee taught me how to love Passover

We do so well at telling our own story, but what does our liberation mean when others remain oppressed?

Ori Hanan Weisberg

Breaking the Passover cycle

Freedom becomes a grind when we lose the energy and creativity it demands of us

Donniel Hartman

We free people must unite with shared purpose

We need healthy bipartisan debate on how to implement our moral commitments, given our political reality

Shammai Engelmayer

The Exodus: Debunking the debunkers

The difference between history and sacred history is why things happened, not that they did

An illustrative photo of a shopper at a grocery store picking up a box of matzah. (William Thomas Cain/Getty Images/via JTA)

Kosher supermarkets hate cleaning for Passover as much as you do

Fulbright scholars McCall Wells, left, and Danielle Elliott are organizing an interfaith seder at the Universidad Camilo José Cela in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. (Melissa Marazas/via JTA)

American students organize a Spanish university’s first-ever Passover seder

By Margarita Gokun Silver

More Headlines

In this Sept. 8, 2014, file pool photo, Judge Stephen Reinhardt listens to arguments on gay marriage bans at the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. (AP/Jeff Chiu, Pool)

Stephen Reinhardt, liberal giant of US circuit court, dies at 87

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) poses with a congressional delegation led by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, March 26, 2018 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

House Democrats urge Netanyahu to release jailed asylum-seekers

By Eric Cortellessa

Staff Sgt. Peter Taub, who was killed in a in December 2015 suicide attack in Afghanistan (screen capture: ABC News)

Pennsylvania post office to be renamed for Jewish airman killed in Afghanistan

By JTA

1915 photo on the front steps of United Bakers in Toronto. (Ontario Jewish Archives)

Canadians make every May Jewish Heritage Month

By JTA

In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency, MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi votes in Cairo, Egypt, March 27, 2018. (MENA via AP)

Egypt’s Sissi wins second term with 92% of vote, but only 41.5% turnout

By Emmanuel Parisse

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York on March 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)

Saudi crown prince meets with rabbis in New York

Philippe de Backer speaks to the media on May 25, 2014. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Belgian state secretary: No doubt Jerusalem is Israel’s capital

By JTA

A Palestinian police member inspects the damage inside a burned-out house belonging to a key witness to an arson attack last year by Jewish extremists that killed a Palestinian family, in the West Bank village of Duma, after fire broke out in the home in the early hours of March 20, 2016. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

In first, far-right settler teen convicted of membership in terror group

Former French Presidents Francois Hollande, left, and Nicolas Sarkozy wait prior to a national ceremony for Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, Wednesday March 28, 2018 at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

France’s ex-president Sarkozy to stand trial for corruption

By Angela Charlton

Actress/executive producer Roseanne Barr attends The Roseanne Series Premiere at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, March 23, 2018 . (AFP PHOTO / VALERIE MACON)

DeplaudableTrump calls Roseanne to congratulate her on show reboot

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a rally commemorating the fifth anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 2009. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash 90, file)

PA releases Yasser Arafat’s ‘righteous son’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Education Minister Naftali Bennett leads a faction meeting of his Jewish Home party at the Knesset on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett floats compromise in Likud’s Independence Day ceremony spat

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