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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 13, 2019

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at a rally of his ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) in Istanbul, March 5, 2019. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)

With implied threat to local Jews, Erdogan raps Netanyahu as child-killer tyrant

By AFP and ToI Staff

As war of words escalates, Turkish president warns ‘we have not oppressed any of the Jews in this country,’ and cautions, ‘Don’t provoke us’; Netanyahu calls criticism ‘a joke’

Netanyahu hits back at ‘Turkey’s dictator Erdogan’

By AFP and ToI Staff

In recording, Netanyahu says far-right merger saved Likud from election defeat

By Alexander Fulbright

UAE minister slams Netanyahu for ‘repugnant’ nation-state comments

Elizabeth Pipko (Courtesy/Jexodus)

She recently revealed she was a staffer on Trump's campaign

With Jexodus, this model wants to lead Jews to the promised land of Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

‘We left Egypt and now we’re leaving the Democratic Party,’ says Elizabeth Pipko, spokesperson behind new movement, in remarks retweeted by president

AnalysisTrump claims Jews are leaving the Democrats, but that might be fake news

Trump touts ‘Jexodus’ group urging Jews to bolt Democratic Party

AnalysisTrump sees advantage in debate over Israel, anti-Semitism

A 1930s hydroelectric power station at Naharayim on the Jordan River, January 29, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

At bloodied Isle of Peace, some Israelis still hope to bridge divide with Jordan

By Melanie Lidman

In this photo from December 13, 2018, Israeli soldiers stand guard next to cameras at their new position in front of a Hezbollah flag, near the Lebanese southern border village of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

IDF says it exposed new Hezbollah cell in Syrian Golan Heights

By Judah Ari Gross

In apparent bid to drive wedge between terror group and Syrian dictator Assad, military claims operation was hidden from Damascus

Israeli Navy boats take part in an exercise in northern Israel simulating a war with the Hezbollah terrorist group in September 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Iran warns Israel of ‘crushing response’ to any naval intervention

Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh in her office in Tehran, Iran, on November 1, 2008. (AP/Arash Ashourinia)

Iran rights lawyer jailed for 10 extra years

By AFP

Hasan Aljijakli running in a marathon in the UAE (screenshot )

Jerusalem raises Syrian flag as Damascus-born runner listed for city’s marathon

Flag of northern neighbor, which is at war with Israel, flies near Knesset in case Hasan Aljijakli, who lives in the Netherands, shows up for Friday’s event

Illustrative: An Israeli police car (Roy Alima/Flash90)

18-year-old shot dead in Lod a day before her wedding

Man lightly wounded in attack, reportedly carried out by family member who opposed the marriage; her mother was murdered 8 years ago

Live updates (closed)

Satellite photos show apparent missile factory in Syria

Intelligence firm says it can’t verify site at Safita is Iranian-run as reported by Israeli TV, but notes its resemblance to facility in Iran

7:24 pm

Boeing supports grounding of 737 Max, says it has 'full confidence' in plane
7:08 pm

Transportation minister says he'll bar Boeing 737 Max from Israeli skies
6:47 pm

Trump: US grounding Boeing 737 Max 8, 9 after Ethiopia crash

Members of Israel's Zaka rescue and recovery team Israel examine wreckage at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff killing all 157 on board, south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia on March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Second Israeli killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash identified as father of five

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Shimon Re’em, 55, from the northern town of Zichron Yaakov, was a security analyst and former officer in the Shin Bet security service

A grieving relative who lost his wife in the crash is helped by a member of security forces and others at the crash site of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8, March 13, 2019. (AP/Mulugeta Ayene)

Ethiopia to send black boxes from crashed jet abroad for analysis

By AP and ToI Staff

A Southwest Boeing 737 Max 8 enroute from Tampa prepares to land at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on March 11, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel mum as growing number of countries bar Boeing plane in crash

By ToI Staff and AP

Interview

Political life isn’t easy for Gantz, and that’s a good thing, says closest aide

Gantz is out ‘to make the country better,’ says Chili Tropper, Blue and White head’s confidant, speechwriter, and No. 12. ‘Bibi has drive and no boundaries; Benny has boundaries’

Chili Tropper. (Yanai Yechiel)

‘Kahanist,’ ‘Hamas wet dream’: Gantz and Bennett trade insults

Netanyahu bickers with union-leading political rival over train strikes

Gantz avoids endorsing two-state solution in meeting with EU envoys

By Raphael Ahren and Michael Bachner

Illustrative: Ziv Genesove smells a cannabis plant in the Rif mountain range. (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

In Moroccan cannabis fields, illumination of Jewish role in country’s hash trade

By Ziv Genesove

Zehut chairman Moshe Feiglin speaks during a demonstration held following the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, February 9, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg / Flash90)

Israel media review

Weeding through the competition: 9 things to know for March 13

Israeli media’s still high on Moshe Feiglin’s up-and-coming Zehut party, focusing almost exclusively on his pro-pot policies on a day chock-full of marijuana-related stories

Gal Gadot arrives for the Oscars ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, March 4, 2018, (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Not so wonderfulGal Gadot fumes at being made Labor’s election poster girl

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A video produced by the NGO Gesher that urges Israelis to ask election candidates what they will do to strengthen Israel-Diaspora relations, posted online March 6, 2019. (Twitter screen capture)

Candidates urged to consider Diaspora Jews a campaign issue

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Why are rabbis protecting Malka Leifer?

The alleged pedophile should be extradited so her accusers can seek justice in a fair trial and her potential victims can stay safe

The Romans tried to ban wild Purim parties

If hanging Haman in effigy was a stand-in to mock Jesus’ crucifixion, it was in the Jews’ best interest to tone it down

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I’m a progressive Jew and I’m going to AIPAC

When a Zionist group, left, right, or center, invites me, I’m going — I’ve got a mouth and I’m going to use it to fight for what I believe

Jerusalem’s cable car: Moving in the wrong direction

The cable car demonstrates the destructive lengths to which the Israeli right is prepared to go to pursue its vision

A since-convicted IDF soldier strikes a Palestinian prisoner in a military jeep in January 2019. (Screenshot)

Video shows convicted soldiers laughing while beating bound Palestinians

By Judah Ari Gross

Gag order on footage lifted after troops from Netzah Yehuda battalion are sentenced for abusing Palestinians suspected of aiding a gunman who had killed two of their comrades

Church official fumes after case against suspected monastery vandals dropped

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian killed in West Bank clashes with Israeli troops

By AFP and Judah Ari Gross

Jerusalem Police to reopen Temple Mount to worshipers on Wednesday

Benjamin Markovits, author of 'A Weekend in New York.' (Courtesy)

In his 8th book, Benjamin Markovits writes what he knows: Jewish and complicated

Arrival of the Exodus to the Yishuv (as the land of Israel was referred in Hebrew to before the establishment of the state). (National Library of Israel Photograph Collection/Keren HaYesod)

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Immigration on agenda as top figures gather in Jerusalem

Third gathering of the Global Forum of the National Library of Israel to focus on immigration, borders and identity — in Jewish, Israeli and universal contexts

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Illustrative: Pediatricians preparing to vaccinate a baby. (Getty Images)

Study shows that with targeted vaccines, future babies may need fewer shots

A couple looks at real estate ads in the coastal city of Netanya, July 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Law tackling gray economy by limiting cash deals lurches real estate market

A Bank Mizrahi branch in Jerusalem (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Major Israeli bank to pay $195m penalty for US tax-avoidance scheme

By AP and Shoshanna Solomon

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu put on leave from NGO job a day after deriding Rivlin

People sit outside the Carmel market in Tel Aviv, on October 22, 2018. (Sliman Khader/ Flash90)

Party powerhouseTel Aviv number 21 in world ‘best cities’ ranking, first in Middle East

By Stuart Winer

King Abdullah II, right, receives White House adviser, Jared Kushner, on August 22, 2017, in Amman, Jordan. (The Royal Hashemite Court Twitter via AP)

Jordanian king meets with White House peace team

MP Luciana Berger speaks during a press conference in London on February 18, 2019, where she and colleagues announced their resignation from the Labour Party, and the formation of a new independent group of MPs. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

From our partnerA Zion of the times: Ex-UK Labour MK Luciana Berger names newborn son

A view of Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, on March 4, 2019. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via JTA)

Nazi posters hung at school whose students played swastika beer game

By JTA

An aerial view of the Israeli resort city of Eilat on October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Protesters block access to Eilat amid outcry over Tel Aviv airport closure

ILLUSTRATIVE - Passengers disembark from a plane belonging to Saudia airlines, at Baghdad International Airport, in Iraq, Oct. 19, 2017 (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Baby not on boardSaudi plane turns around after passenger realizes she forgot baby

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