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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 16, 2019

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Palestinian members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas terror movement, display Qassam home-made rockets during an anti-Israel military parade on August 21, 2016 in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas arrests the 'careless' trigger man

Like Monty Python: TV details how Hamas ‘accidentally’ fired rockets at Tel Aviv

Low-level member touched rockets, setting them off by mistake, Israeli report says; fire came as Hamas chiefs were meeting with incredulous Egyptian mediators

Likud MK: Netanyahu ready to conquer Gaza before elections ‘if need be’

Hamas said to beat Gazans protesting dire economic conditions for second day

Remains of rocket fired from Gaza found in Tel Aviv suburb

Palestinians break a door of the Gate of Mercy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on March 15, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Palestinians rip doors off disputed building on Temple Mount

Protesters also raise national flag over the Gate of Mercy amid soaring tensions over access to shuttered mosque

An Israeli Merkava battle tank on the border with the Gaza Strip on March 15, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

For first time in nearly a year, Hamas calls off weekly Gaza border protest

By ToI Staff and AFP

This frame from video that was livestreamed on March 15, 2019, shows gunman Brenton Tarrant in a car before the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Shooter's Video via AP)

New Zealand mosque killer charged with murder, flashes white power gesture

Australian-born self-styled fascist Brenton Tarrant, who filmed himself gunning down 49 worshippers in Christchurch, makes first court appearance

YouTube’s PewDiePie ‘sickened’ by mosque gunman’s namedrop

By AFP

New Zealand killer says his role model was Nazi-allied British fascist

New Zealand mosque shooter brandished white supremacist iconography

By AP

The New Zealand national flag is flown at half-mast on a Parliament building in Wellington on March 15, 2019, after a shooting incident in Christchurch. Attacks on two Christchurch mosques left at least 49 dead on March 15, with one gunman, identified as an Australian extremist, apparently livestreaming the assault that triggered the lockdown of the New Zealand city. (Marty Melville/AFP)

In solidarity with Muslims, NZ Jews shut synagogues on Shabbat for first time

By ToI Staff and JTA

‘We offer our full assistance and support to the Muslim community,’ New Zealand Jewish official says after slaying of at least 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch

Flowers are placed on the front steps of the Wellington Masjid mosque in Kilbirnie in Wellington, on March 15, 2019, after a shooting attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zeland. (Marty Melville/AFP)

Israel condemns ‘depraved and despicable’ mosque massacre in New Zealand

By ToI Staff and AP

This image taken from CCTV video obtained by the state-run Turkish broadcaster TRT World and made available on March 16, 2019, shows the arrival of who it says is Brenton Tarrant, the suspect in the New Zealand mosque attacks, in Istanbul's Ataturk International airport in Turkey on March 2016. (TRT World via AP)

Rights group calls on AG to probe online praise for New Zealand killer

Abdul Aziz, survivor of mosque shooting speaks to Associated Press during an interview in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 16, 2019 (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

When gunman advanced on New Zealand mosque, this man ran at him

Abdul Aziz, who left Afghanistan as a refugee, is hailed as a hero for saving lives in massacre which left 49 dead; says anyone would have done as he did

White nationalist movement spreads worldwide, pushing lone-wolf attacks

By Paul Handley

New Zealand struggles to answer ‘why’ in wake of mosque massacre

After New Zealand attack, Trump says white nationalism not a widespread threat

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel on March 15, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz on hacking of his phone by Iran: ‘Political gossip’

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Blue and White chief questions timing of report on his hacked cellphone, says Israel has lost deterrence vis-à-vis Gaza

Blue and White's Moshe Ya'alon is seen during a visit to the Gaza border area with other members of the party on March 13, 2019. (Flash90)

Top member of Gantz’s party claims Iran not behind phone hack

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 29, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Pompeo to visit Israel in show of ‘unwavering’ support, 2 weeks before election

By AFP

US official says shared interests ‘don’t go into suspension because of the electoral cycle,’ explains secretary of state meeting with PM ‘as the head of government in Israel’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo answers questions at the State Department in Washington on March 15, 2019. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

US to deny visas to ICC officials who probe American troops, Israel

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, March 14, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump again pushes ‘Jexodus,’ waiting for Jews ‘with open arms’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Interview

Lipstadt: Jews need factual ‘ammunition’ to combat anti-Semitism

On the heels of her book, ‘Antisemitism: Here and Now,’ Deborah Lipstadt urges Jews not to panic about the resurgence of Jew-hatred in the US, but to arm themselves with knowledge

American historian and author Deborah Lipstadt poses for photographer at the Rome Film festival in Rome, on October 17, 2016. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Germany to return Nazi-looted Signac painting to Jewish heirs

By AP and ToI Staff

UK Labour lawmaker apologizes for posting anti-Semitic caricature

By Cnaan Liphshiz

EU parliament leader under fire for praising Mussolini

By Colleen Barry

My mother sews a shroud

I hear tell that making your own means you’ll live a long life

AOC isn’t Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib

I respect that she’s made no anti-Jewish or anti-Israel statement, and don’t want to push her to do so by lumping her with those who have

Berchko Adela as a young girl in Ethiopia, before Operation Moses. Now 68, she is a married mother of five and lives in Ashdod, Israel. (Doron Bacher/via JTA)

An exhibit in South Africa recalls the exodus of Ethiopian Jews to Israel

By Moira Schneider

The New Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, recently renovated for NIS 11 million (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem’s New Gate gets ‘new’ look, but lacks foot traffic

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam speaks to the media on March 13, 2017. (screen capture: WPLG Local 10)

Days after launching White House bid, Florida mayor heading to Israel

By JTA

Illustrative: A police cruiser in the Israeli coastal town of Bat Yam on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Man shot dead in suspected gang-related hit in Jaffa

Otzma Yehudit party members Michael Ben Ari (R) and Itamar Ben Gvir speak to the media after a Supreme Court hearing on whether to disqualify them from running in the upcoming elections on March 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Religious group calls on voters not to support Union of Right Wing Parties

Rasmea Odeh stands outside the Theodore Levin US Courthouse in Detroit, on August 17, 2017, for a final court hearing before she was deported for concealing her convictions in two Jerusalem bombings. (Carlos Osorio/AP)

Berlin blocks appearance by convicted Palestinian terrorist

By JTA and ToI Staff

Helene Fischer receives the award for the most successful 'Crossover' artist during the 2016 Echo Music Awards in Berlin, April 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

Germany probes far-right threats to politicians, celebrities and Jewish group

By AFP

Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver addressed students and faculty on March 11, 2016. (screen capture: Pitzer College)

President of California college says he will ignore faculty BDS motion

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Groom breaking a glass at a Jewish wedding. (illustrative photo: PavlovskiJenya/iStock by Getty)

Washington Reform synagogue to hold 3 Israeli weddings as rebuke to rabbinate

Illustrative: A member of the federal police holds an hourglass with Nazi markings at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16, 2017. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Guns seized from father, son who threatened Jewish institution in Argentina

By JTA

In this photo from December 3, 2018, Kim Kardashian West attends 'The Cher Show' Broadway musical opening night at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Can't keep up?Kim Kardashian puts off planned visit to Israel next week

US President Donald Trump signs the first veto of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House, March 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump vetoes rebuke of his emergency border order

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

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