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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 17, 2019

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After court bans Knesset run, Ben Ari claims Israel controlled by ‘legal junta’

Controversial leader of extreme-right Otzma Yehudit party slams ruling as undemocratic, says AG Mandelblit behind power grab at Justice Ministry

7:42 pm

Israel to resume Egypt-mediated talks with Hamas -- report
7:38 pm

New Zealand mosque shooting suspect reportedly visited Israel in 2016
7:21 pm

New poll shows Likud overtaking Gantz's Blue and White for first time

Israeli forensic workers inspect a car near the scene of a deadly terror attack near the Ariel Junction in the West Bank on March 17, 2019. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

1 Israeli killed, 2 critically injured in West Bank terror shootings

An Israeli man injured in a shooting attack in the northern West Bank is brought to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu, Rivlin condemn West Bank terror shootings, vow to apprehend attacker

Illustrative. IDF soldiers near the scene of a shooting attack near the northern West Bank Ariel Junction on March 17, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas and Islamic Jihad praise deadly West Bank terror shootings

Benny Gantz at the launch of his Israel Resilience party's Knesset list, in Tel Aviv on February 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz demands AG probe whether Netanyahu leaked Iran phone hack claims

Likud claims Tehran ‘openly supports’ Blue and White leader, whose running mate Lapid says PM ‘lies when he breathes’

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

After phone hacking, Likud claims Iran pushing for Gantz, Lapid to win election

Then-MK Erel Margalit speaks at a conference he organized in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Cyber entrepreneur says Netanyahu behind ‘Iranian hack’ of Gantz

Op-ed

The curious, potentially election-shaping case of Gantz and the Iran phone hack

‘The phone is not the story,’ Netanyahu’s main rival is insisting. Actually, it might well be

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Gaza border, on March 15, 2019. (Flash90)

Benny Gantz, head of the Israel Resilience party, speaks at a conference presenting the party's list of candidates for coming Knesset elections at an event held in Tel Aviv on February 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media reviewPolitical hacks and the hacks they hawk: 7 things to know for March 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 28, 2017. (Sergei Karpukhin/AFP)

Russia supplied Iran with advanced phone hacking tech — Israel TV report

Residents pay their respect at Hagley College for the victims of the mosques attacks in Christchurch on March 16, 2019. (MICHAEL BRADLEY / AFP)

Death toll rises to 50 as New Zealand mourns mosque massacre victims

By AFP

Two other suspects arrested not connected to Brenton Tarrant’s assault on Christchurch mosques, police say, amid outpouring of grief in shaken nation

Christchurch shooting victim Atta Elayyan (social media)

At least 6 Palestinians said among dead in New Zealand shooting

A police officer stands guard in front of the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, March 17, 2019. (AP/Vincent Yu)

Once sanctuaries, houses of worship struggle with security

By Mike Householder, Rebecca Santana and KELLI KENNEDY

In New Zealand, thoughts that count, prayers that matter

From the Prime Minister as well as the public, response to the massacre was a model of compassion and solidarity

Police stand outside the airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Iranians arrested in Buenos Aires with poorly forged Israeli passports

Authorities in Argentina said to raise alert level after catching pair traveling on documents riddled with Hebrew mistakes, note proximity to embassy bombing anniversary

The chief rabbi of Argentina, Gabriel Davidovich, speaks at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. on November 8, 2018. (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center via AP)

Two arrested in violent assault on Argentina’s chief rabbi

Israeli elections 2019

Ex-Shas MK, economist, anti-vaxxer: Who’s on Feiglin’s pro-cannabis Zehut list?

Array of candidates are united not by support of marijuana legalization but by a rejection of mainstream opinions and an embrace of issues on the political fringes

Zehut party number two Rabbi Haim Amsalem speaking to potential voters in Safed, March 9, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

The New Right party co-leaders Ayelet Shaked (left) and Naftali Bennett hold a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)

New Right launches election campaign aimed at ‘defeating’ High Court, Hamas

Avi Issacharoff

Running through eternity

I was here in Jerusalem’s Old City just last week when a riot broke out, now we are running through the landscapes of my childhood

The secret Purim food code

What if we use our gifts of food to engage our hidden selves in subtle conversation, and reveal what’s behind our masks?

Hamas's West Bank headquarters compound in Gaza that was flattened during an Israeli air raid on March 15, 2018. (IDF)

IDF releases photos of Hamas posts flattened in response to rocket fire

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Targets in Gaza include headquarters where terror group directed operations in West Bank as well as a compound used by its special naval force

Tzachi Hanegbi speaks at a cultural event in Ra'anana on March 16, 2018. (Screen capture/Ynet)

Likud minister: I don’t buy claim rockets fired at Tel Aviv were a mistake

A screenshot of video shown by the Kan public broadcaster of a protest in the Gaza Strip over the cost of living on March 15, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Hamas violently disperses demonstrators on 3rd day of internal protests

Egyptian marines stand on the deck of an S42 submarine manufactured by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems for the Egyptian navy during a ceremonial handover of the vessel in the Baltic Sea harbor of Kiel, Germany, Tuesday, August 8, 2017. (Christian Charisius/dpa via AP)

Top defense aide said to testify that PM okayed sale of advanced subs to Egypt

Netanyahu’s office has denied he gave go-ahead to German deal, but Channel 13 says Amos Gilad told police that Germans informed him of PM’s move when he tried to raise objections

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)

Ex-judge ‘pressured’ to quit panel that barred tycoons from funding PM’s defense

The Association of Jewish Refugees' Michael Newman, right, and British politician John Attlee in London November 21, 2018. (Courtesy of AJR)

Due to Brexit, Jews seek passports from countries that oppressed their ancestors

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

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)

Jerusalem court orders closure of disputed building on Temple Mount

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a local election rally for his Justice and Development Party on March 5, 2019, at Istanbul's Kasimpasa district. (Ozan KOSE / AFP)

Erdogan tells Netanyahu to twist son’s ear for calling Istanbul ‘Constantinople’

Debjani Ghosh, the president of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), a trade association of Indian technology companies, during a visit to Israel, March 6, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Fathers and mentors are key to powerful women, says India’s head of tech firms

By Shoshanna Solomon

A man taking part in a march to honor member of the Latvian Legion SS units in Riga, Latvia, on March 16, 2019. (Courtesy: JFDA e.V. / Grischa Stanjek(

Latvians march to honor troops who fought alongside Nazis

By ToI Staff and JTA

Israeli judoka Gili Cohen (R) poses for a photo with coach Shani Hershko after winning the gold medal at the Grand Slam competition in Ekaterinburg, Russia on March 15, 2019. (Israel Judo Association)

Two Israeli judokas win gold medals at Grand Slam in Russia

Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor party, seen during a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor head slams Likud for lack of Mizrahi Jews in leadership

Illustrative image of autism (KatarzynaBialasiewicz; iStock by Getty Images)

Upgraded autism research center opens in Beersheba

By Shoshanna Solomon

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent-Vermont, speaks during a rally in Greenville, South Carolina, February 21, 2016. (John Bazemore/AP)

Cut and runBernie Sanders stitched up after run-in with shower door

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