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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 12, 2019

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Border Police officers secure one of the entrances of the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem after closing the access to the site on March 12, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Temple Mount shuttered after firebomb thrown at police post

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF: Palestinian tries to stab soldiers in Hebron, is shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

Two soldiers sentenced to jail terms for beating Palestinian detainees

Terror suspect Asem Barghouti indicted over deadly West Bank attacks

Illustrative photo of drugs (Orel Cohen /Flash90)

Police bust major cannabis-trafficking network, arrest 42 top members

By Michael Bachner

Authorities unmask managers of anonymous online network Telegrass; crackdown, which includes arrests abroad, comes as Netanyahu vows to weigh pot legalization

SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum at the SodaStream factory in Israel’s Negev Desert next to the city of Rahat on August 20, 2018. (Eliran Avital)

SodaStream’s Birnbaum invests in Israel-based cannabis tech firm Seedo

By Shoshanna Solomon

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with then-Likud MK and later Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin at the Knesset, July 2, 2013. (Flash90)

As pro-pot rival sweeps in, Netanyahu says he will consider legalizing cannabis

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Avraham Matsliah, 49, from Ma'ale Adumim, was killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight near Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019. (Facebook)

Israeli killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash identified as Ma’ale Adumim father

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Avraham Matzliah, 49, remembered as ‘a wonderful father and a funny man’; second Israeli victim yet to be publicly identified

Rescuers at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 11, 2019. (AP /Mulugeta Ayene)

US joins Ethiopian-led investigation at Boeing crash site

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Yesha chief foreign envoy Oded Revivi speaks at the umbrella council's event in Washington, DC in support of the settlement movement on March 5, 2018. (Courtesy: Yesha Council)

In first, settler leader to address upcoming AIPAC conference

By Raphael Ahren

Yesha Council chief foreign envoy Oded Revivi to take part in panel discussion; US Israel lobby reiterates support for two-state solution, takes no position on settlements

Union of Right Wing Parties' candidates from the Jewish Home and National Union parties at the joint list's campaign launch event in the Jerusalem Gardens Hotel on March 11, 2019. (Miri Shmanovitz)

Israel media reviewRight of passage: 8 things to know for March 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel Resilience party chairman Benny Gantz speaks at the 55th Munich Security Conference in southern Germany, February 17, 2019. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP)

Gantz to deliver ‘keynote speech’ at upcoming AIPAC conference

By Raphael Ahren

Screen capture of a Likud campaign ad warning that a vote for the Benny Gantz-led Blue and White party is "dangerous," against the graves of fallen IDF soldiers, February 26, 2019. (Twitter screen capture)

Live updates (closed)

Likud campaign presenter fired for video at soldiers’ graves

Decision comes after Avishai Ivri had been placed on leave over clip in which he claimed, while standing in front of cemetery, that hundreds would be killed if Gantz becomes PM

7:24 pm

US announces 'significant' new Venezuela sanctions 'soon'
6:56 pm

US envoy thanks outgoing Palestinian PM, wishes new one luck
6:47 pm

EU: No Brexit transition period without withdrawal agreement

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in the Knesset on November 24, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Ultra-Orthodox MK says he’d weigh law shielding Netanyahu from graft charges

By Michael Bachner

Moshe Gafni downplays bribery allegation against PM, saying ‘it isn’t espionage or treason’ and backing so-called ‘French law’ if premier is reelected

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu pre-trial hearing to take place by mid-July, attorney general says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 5, 2018. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu said to owe Brazilian Hilton $2,500 for stay

By Stuart Winer

Union of Right Wing Parties' candidates from the Jewish Home and National Union parties at the joint list's campaign launch event in the Jerusalem Gardens Hotel on March 11, 2019. (Miri Shmanovitz)

Reporter's notebook

National religious parties launch campaign, with far-right far from sight

Leaders of Union of Right Wing Parties appear eager to broaden appeal, while almost entirely ignoring the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit, whose representatives are stumping separately

Illustrative: Arab-Israeli citizens cast their votes at a polling station in Ramla on elections day for the 20th Knesset, March 17, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

5.8 million Israelis eligible to vote in coming election, central bureau says

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the launch of his Likud party's election campaign in Ramat Gan, March 4, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/ Flash90)

New poll shows small right-wing parties clearing threshold, bolstering bloc

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a signing ceremony for an agreement to build new apartments in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Defending nation-state law, PM says Israeli Arabs have 22 other countries

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu brushes off criticism of controversial legislation, says individual rights anchored in preexisting laws

Gantz: We’re willing to sit in government with ‘anyone Jewish and Zionist’

By Raoul Wootliff

PM’s son snipes at Rivlin after he rebukes politicians’ anti-Arab rhetoric

By Michael Bachner

Erdogan slams Netanyahu’s ‘blatant racism’ toward Arab Israelis

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this still from the new historical dramatic film 'The Light of Hope,' Swiss nurse Elisabeth Eidenbenz speaks with Pat, one of the children at her maternity hospital that she ran for refugees from 1939 to 1944 in Elne, France. (Courtesy)

How one Swiss nurse hid hundreds of pregnant women and their kids from the Nazis

By Rich Tenorio

In this June 25, 2008, file photo, Hal Blaine holds up his hands covered in cement after placing them in wet cement with Don Randi and Glen Campbell, representing The Wrecking Crew following an induction ceremony for Hollywood's RockWalk in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

Analysis

AP and ToI Staff

Hal Blaine, legendary Jewish drummer for Elvis, Sinatra, Lennon, dies at 90

Hall of Famer, a session musician for countless top hits in ’60s and ’70s, and possibly the most recorded drummer ever, spoke about his Jewish upbringing in 1990 memoir

Poor shaming ruined my childhood Purim

I will never forget the look on my fellow kindergartner’s face when he was unfortunate enough to receive my mishloach manot

Donniel Hartman

’Bibi or Tibi’ is a shameful campaign

The PM’s racially tainted slogan is meant to break down social cohesion, to create a wedge between us and them

Opening the Vatican Archives won’t matter

There will be no dramatic revelations about the Pope’s Holocaust record — and it’s time for Jews to abandon that quest

Rabbis who attend the conference prop up an organization that fails to challenge Netanyahu’s reprehensible policies

A picture released on June 1, 2014 shows the 29-year-old suspected gunman Mehdi Nemmouche. (AFP PHOTO)

Brussels Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison

By AFP

Prosecutors call jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche a ‘coward’ and a ‘psychopath’; Nacer Bendrer, who supplied murderer with weapons, jailed for 15 years

Illustrative: A view of Amsterdam (CC BY-SA Swimmerguy269/Wikipedia)

Woman raped abroad by Palestinian in 2003 to be recognized as terror victim

By Stuart Winer

A sign reading "Jews are not wanted here," erected somewhere in Germany following the introduction by the Nazis of the Nuremberg race laws in 1935. (Youtube screenshot)

Anne Frank center denies equating jihadists with Jews persecuted by Nazis

US Senator Lindsey Graham, left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, on a tour of the Golan Heights, March 11, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Trump ally Graham says he’ll lobby White House for Golan recognition

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After touring Israel’s north with US senator, Netanyahu says move is aligned with Trump’s pro-Israel policies

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders listens to a question during a press briefing at the White House, March 11, 2019, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

White House mum on whether Trump really thinks Democrats ‘hate Jews’

By Deb Riechmann

This combination photo shows Fox News host Jeanine Pirro at the HBO Documentary Series premiere of "THE JINX: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst" in New York on Jan. 28, 2015, left, and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at a rally outside the Capitol in Washington on March 8, 2019. (AP Photo)

Fox News condemns host’s criticism of Ilhan Omar’s hijab

By David Bauder

Kobi Marimi, who will represent Israel at the 2019 Eurovision song contest. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Eurovision entry review

Jessica Steinberg

Like a ‘memorial’ lament: Israel’s Eurovision pick doesn’t quite bring it ‘Home’

Sung by Kobi Marimi, ‘Home’ is suited to his operatic style, but lacks the oomph and presence of a winning tune

Shiri Maimon (left) and Terra MacLeod as Velma Kelly in the final scene of 'Chicago,' currently touring in Tel Aviv, March 2019 (Courtesy Orit Pnini)

Tel Aviv hosts ‘Chicago’ as Shiri Maimon fills the house

By Jessica Steinberg

Lil Dicky, real name Dave Burd (FX via JTA)

Hopping to the screenComedic rapper Lil Dicky getting his own FX show

By JTA

More Headlines

President Reuven Rivlin and his wife Nechama cast their ballots at a voting station on the morning of the municipal elections, on October 30, 2018, in Jerusalem. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Nechama Rivlin said recovering well after lung transplant

By Stuart Winer

Mohammed al-Emadi, chairman of Qatar's National Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, speaks at a press conference in Gaza City on January 25, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Qatari envoy signs contracts for new projects in Gaza valued at $1.7m

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 13, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Netanyahu said considering bringing Finance Ministry back under Likud

Illustrative. Gabi Ashkenazi of the Blue and White party during a campaign event in northern Israel, March 7, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Senior Blue and White candidate admits concern over union chief colleague

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: A Palestinian uses a slingshot to fling back a tear gas canister thrown by Israeli forces during clashes at the fence along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on March 8, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Palestinian dies two weeks after being shot in Gaza clashes – Hamas ministry

By AFP and ToI Staff

Right-wing activists protest alleged Shin Bet torture of Jewish terror suspects, staging mock torture scenes in Tel Aviv, December 25, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Prosecution drops case against far-right activists in Jerusalem church arson

Illustrative: The northern West Bank settlement of Rehelim. (Samaria Regional Council)

Israeli car comes under fire in northern West Bank, none hurt

Mellanox founder and CEO Eyal Waldman at a press conference in Tel Aviv, March11, 2019. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

‘Happy and sad day,’ Mellanox founder says of $6.9 billion sale to Nvidia

By Shoshanna Solomon

Iraqi Jews arrive in Israel's Lod Airport on May 1, 1950. (GPO / BRAUNER TEDDY)

Israel: Iraqi victims of WWII-era pogrom not eligible for Holocaust compensation

By Tamar Pileggi

At the first session of INTV, the Innovative TV Conference in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019, with Netflix's Cindy Holland and Keshet's Avi Nir (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Netflix exec tells Jerusalem gathering: Foreign shows are ‘essential’

By Jessica Steinberg

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