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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 14, 2019

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Ukrainian comic actor, showman and then-presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with AFP after he took part in the shooting of the television series 'Servant of the People' where he plays the role of the President of Ukraine, in Kiev on March 6, 2019. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Jewish comic who plays Ukraine president on TV leads Ukraine’s presidential race

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Volodymyr Zelensky, star of hit show ‘Servant of the People,’ topping the polls ahead of March 31 vote

Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 15, 2019. A witness says many people have been killed in a mass shooting at a mosque in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Live updates (closed)

Thursday-Friday liveblog: 2 rockets fired at Tel Aviv; Israel hits back at Gaza

Nine rockets fired at Israeli towns on Gaza border overnight Thursday-Friday, Iron Dome intercepts six

8:35 am

Death toll rises to 49 in New Zealand mosque attacks
8:00 am

IDF believes Hamas may have fired rockets toward Tel Aviv by mistake
7:51 am

New Zealand Jewish Council says 'sickened' by deadly mosque attacks

Otzma Yehudit leader Michael Ben Ari attends a Central Elections Committee meeting at the Knesset on March 6, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

AG urges High Court to disqualify Ben Ari from elections over ‘extreme’ racism

Otzma Yehudit leader’s incitement isn’t ‘marginal,’ but rather ‘a defining expression of his identity as a candidate,’ Mandelblit tells court

AG investigating possible Netanyahu-Thyssenkrupp link – report

Facebook rolls out political ad transparency less than a month before polls

Central Elections Committee warns of identity theft effort committed in its name

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)

Golan wording seen by some as precursor of diplomatic shift

US calls Golan ‘Israeli-controlled,’ drops all mention of West Bank ‘occupation’

By Eric Cortellessa

Administration denies choice of language in State Dep’t report marks policy change; Netanyahu said pushing hard for Trump to recognize Israeli sovereignty on Golan before elections

File: Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2017. (Flash90)

Abbas aide blasts US report that drops references to Israeli ‘occupation’

An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits at a boarding gate at LaGuardia Airport, March 13, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Boeing 737 Max grounded after investigators find similarities between crashes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At least four US pilots made reports following the 2018 Lion Air crash, all complaining the aircraft suddenly pitched downward shortly after takeoff

Workers collect clothes and other materials, under the instruction of investigators, at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, Ethiopia on March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Netanyahu talks to Ethiopian PM as Israel pushes for access to plane crash site

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 is seen at its gate after arriving at the Miami International Airport from San Jose, Costa Rica on March 13, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

US grounds Boeing 737 Max after crash; Israel to ban it from airspace

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A sign welcoming attendees at J Street’s 2013 national conference in Washington, DC. (Courtesy of J Street)

J Street launches Birthright-style trip to Israel that will include Palestinians

By Cathryn J. Prince

Liberal Israel policy group will take 40 college students to Israel and the West Bank for 10 days in July, in a visit ‘that engages fully with Israel’s reality’

Minister reinstates Diaspora Independence Day torch amid outcry

Bernie Sanders aide apologizes for suggesting Jews have dual loyalty

Genesis Prize board member resigns over Robert Kraft honor

Hadash-Ta'al leaders at a Hebrew-language campaign event in Tel Aviv on March 13, 2019. (Courtesy Hadash-Ta'al)

Reaching out to Jewish voters, Hadash-Ta’al launches campaign in Tel Aviv

Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh skewer Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, say they believe their alliance will win over more Jewish voters than Joint List did in 2015

Actress says ‘rightists don’t represent humanity,’ drawing rebuke

Supreme Court debates election disqualification of Jewish far-left candidate

By Raoul Wootliff

Yolk's on himPM fries eggs, is mocked for warning of Arabs flocking in 2015

File: IDF soldiers monitor the Gaza security fence during violent protests along the border on May 14, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel opens criminal probe into 11 Palestinian deaths in Gaza border protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Officials head to Geneva to rebut allegations by UN Human Rights Council that IDF soldiers committed war crimes

5 Palestinians arrested after crossing into Israel from Gaza

Gantz vows to resume targeted killings of Hamas leaders ‘if necessary’

9 days after alleged car-ramming, eyewitnesses say Israel hasn’t contacted them

Illustrative. Clouds on the horizon. (SARINYAPINNGAM; IStock by Getty Images)

Clouds gather as Israel emerges from economic ‘golden decade’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ancient Greek inscription which bears the name 'Elusa,' the ancient Greek name for 'Halutza,' found at Halutza site in February 2019 (Tali Gini, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Unique 1,700-year-old Greek inscription unearthed at Incense Route city in Negev

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Cannabis and autism: An informal update

It’s a firstline treatment for all patients on the spectrum, there’s no medical justification for starting with psychotropic meds

You’re forgetting how bad anti-Semitism used to be

Not too long ago Jews were truly unsafe, now they are so successful they get lumped together with the whites

My cellphone is 13 years old

My personal operating system is just not compatible with throwing away a device every time an upgrade comes along

The books that bind us

The National Library of Israel is a singular monument to the power of texts to bind a fractious nation

Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the UN, speaks at the General Assembly on December 21, 2017, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Israel petitions UN Security Council to act on uncovered Hezbollah cell

Jerusalem ‘will not ignore the conversion of Syria and Lebanon into a military front against it,’ envoy Danny Danon says

Intel firm: Satellite images back report of new Iranian missile plant in Syria

After Hezbollah cell in Syria exposed, PM says it’s the ‘tip of the iceberg’

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israel named world’s 8th largest arms exporter

An Israel Railways train (illustrative photo: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Comptroller castigates minister on dire state of Israel’s public transportation

Report finds increased road congestion a result of dearth of alternatives; Israel Katz defiant, says he’s leading ‘a revolution’ after a century of under-investment

Artist's impression of cable cars crossing Jerusalem's Hinnom Valley, from a promotional video posted to YouTube.

Internationally renowned architects add opposition to Jerusalem cable car plan

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Historian Jan Gross on the front page of a Polish weekly that instructs readers on how to recognize Jews. (Misiek Kaminski/via JTA)

Polish right-wing newspaper’s front page teaches ‘how to recognize a Jew’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Australian sisters Nicole Meyer (L) and Dassi Erlich (R) take part in a demonstration on March 13, 2019, outside the Jerusalem District Court after an extradition hearing for Malka Leifer, a former girls school principal wanted for sexual abuse in Australia. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dozens rally in support of Malka Leifer’s alleged victims outside court hearing

By Johanna Chisholm and Jacob Magid

This picture taken on January 31, 2019, shows a view of the SSCV Thialf crane vessel after laying the newly arrived foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) west of Haifa. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

Exxon said considering gas, oil exploration in Israel

Former NBA basketball player Amar'e Stoudemire shows off his Israeli national identity card at the Interior Ministry March 13, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jumping through hoopsBasketball star Amar’e Stoudemire granted Israeli citizenship

Rod Covlin (YouTube screenshot)

New York Jewish man convicted of killing estranged wife in 2009

By JTA

Illustrative: A train pulling through the Hefer Valley, Israel. June 24, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israeli train drivers call in sick, despite agreement to scale back strike

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A poster for a book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg was vandalized in Brooklyn, March, 2019. (Chevi Friedman/Twitter/via JTA)

Bader Ginsburg poster vandalized in Brooklyn with ‘Die, Jew b****,’ swastika

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jerry Seinfeld hanging out in the Barney Greengrass deli on New York City's Upper West Side, in the music video for Vampire Weekend's song "Sunflower." (YouTube screen capture via JTA)

Ballad for the bagelSeinfeld stars in music video set in Jewish delis

By Gabe Friedman

Norwegian rapper Kaveh Kholardi. (Facebook screen capture/via JTA)

Norway prosecutor: Rapper’s ‘F**king Jews’ slur could be criticism of Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israel's Pointer Telelocation has developed cloud-based software that helps track vehicles (YouTube screenshot)

US I.D. Systems to buy Israel’s Pointer Telelocation for $140 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

Magistrate Eti Craif. (Israel Courts web site)

Judge suspected in sex scandal with ex-Bar Association head named

Madonna poses for photographers upon arrival at the world premiere of the film 'The Beatles, Eight Days a Week,' in London, September 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Hung upMadonna, Eurovision production said fighting over song choice

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