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What Matters Most On Monday, March 18, 2019

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Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, who was shot March 17 at the Ariel junction and succumbed to his injuries the following day (Nadav Goldstein/TPS)

Father of 12 succumbs to injuries from Sunday terror attack

IDF soldier Gal Keidan, who was killed in a stabbing and shooting attack by a Palestinian terrorist in the northern West Bank on March 17, 2019. (IDF Spokesperson)

Victim of West Bank attack identified as IDF soldier Gal Keidan, 19

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Israeli security forces at the scene where a Palestinian carried out a deadly attack near Gitai-Avishar junction, March 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Israel media reviewSeeking safety from terror and extremism: 7 things to know for March 18

By Joshua Davidovich

Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Gili Yaari, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Mocking hacked phone, Netanyahu says Gantz won’t keep Israel safe

PM ridicules rival over alleged breach by Iran; Blue and White leader pledges parliamentary inquiry into submarines affair

7:26 pm

New Right campaign ad has Shaked modeling 'Fascism' perfume
7:09 pm

Fatah official badly beaten in Hamas-run Gaza
6:52 pm

TV: Gantz signals that he's still open to government with Likud

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at an event in Jerusalem on October 16, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

US ambassador pans Abbas for not condemning deadly West Bank terror attack

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

David Friedman notes Palestinian leader spoke out against Christchurch massacre but ‘is now deafening in his silence,’ declares Palestinian celebration of terror ‘is the problem’

IDF soldiers respond to a shooting attack near the Ariel Junction in the northern West Bank on March 17, 2019. (B'Lev Hadashot)

Suspected Ariel attacker has no history of involvement in terror, official says

Israeli soldiers carry out a a raid in the village of Bruqin near the West Bank town of Salfit on March 17, 2019, after a terrorist fled to the village following a deadly stabbing and shooting attack (Flash90)

Father and brother of suspected Ariel terrorist arrested as manhunt continues

Israeli security forces at the scene of a deadly attack near the Gitia junction in the West Bank, on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Sunday’s deadly attack underlines relentless rise in West Bank terror attempts

Hamas is doing its best to foment terror in the West Bank, in part to distract attention from Gaza, in part to hurt the PA

West Bank terrorist said shot in shoulder by IDF soldier as he fled

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Security forces say stabbing attack foiled in Hebron

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian teenager caught with knife at Tomb of the Patriarchs

Illustrative: Palestinian demonstrators attend a protest in Gaza City, on February 24, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

7 reporters held, ‘brutally beaten’ by Hamas for covering Gaza protests

By Adam Rasgon and AFP

UN envoy strongly condemns terror group over violent treatment of Palestinian reporters and rights activists, four of whom were hospitalized

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

Israel said ready to offer Gaza easing of export limits, larger cash transfers

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a conference in Netanya on March 18, 2019. (Flash90)

Israel was a ‘hair’s breadth’ from war with Hezbollah, ex-IDF chief says

Then-Otzma Yehudit party members Michael Ben Ari (R), and Baruch Marzel (L) speak during a press conference held in response to the High Court decision to disqualify Ben Ari's candidacy for the upcoming Knesset elections, in Jerusalem on March 17, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Ari: 'Judicial junta seeks to take over our lives'

High Court bars far-right party leader Ben Ari from running in elections

Marking first time individual candidate has been banned, justices prevent Otzma Yehudit chief from Knesset run; approve Arab slate, Jewish far-left candidate, and Otzma’s Ben Gvir

Extremist Otzma Yehudit demands top posts after leader banned from Knesset run

Former Shin Bet deputy chief said to claim MK Smotrich planned terror attack

Right seethes, left cheers as top court disqualifies far-right candidate Ben Ari

Head of the Blue and White party, Benny Gantz, speaks during a campaign event in Haifa, on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz calls for state commission of inquiry into submarine scandal

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Demand comes after fresh allegations that Netanyahu made NIS 16 million off the deal; Likud says Blue and White leader has lost his sense of judgement

Left, Benny Gantz, center, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, Yair Lapid. (Hadas Parush, Noam Revkin Fenton, Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Poll shows Likud overtaking Blue and White, for first time in weeks

By Stuart Winer

Former prime minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, on December 22, 2017. (Flash90)

Report: Barak’s phone breached, info apparently sold to Iran by foreign hackers

Armed police patrol a cemetery near Muslim graves in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 18, 2019. (AP/Mark Baker)

Police: New Zealand gunman acted alone, but may have had support

Prime minister promises tough gun laws, wants Facebook to answer how 1.5 million copies of massacre video were uploaded

At least 1 killed, several hurt in suspected Dutch terror shooting

By AFP

Facebook scrubs 1.5 million Christchurch attack videos, but criticism goes viral

By AFP

Accused mosque gunman appears ‘rational,’ will represent himself

By AFP

Residents pay their respects by placing flowers for the victims of the mosques attacks in Christchurch at the Masjid Umar mosque in Auckland on March 17, 2019.(Photo by MICHAEL BRADLEY / AFP)

US Jewish communities support Muslim neighbors at prayer vigils

By JTA

Jews stand outside services nationwide with messages of support, rabbis address interfaith sessions to honor victims of New Zealand mosque massacre

Protesters with Palestinian flags turn backs on Dutch rabbi’s New Zealand eulogy

By Cnaan Liphshiz

NYU students tell Chelsea Clinton she is a cause of New Zealand mosque attack

New Zealand PM comforts mourning Muslim community after deadly mosque shooting

By AFP and ToI Staff

ToI investigates

Avner Hofstein and Anabel Zamir

Where are the mobile bomb shelters KKL-JNF promised Golan residents last spring?

During what it termed an emergency in May 2018, the organization raised NIS 2.4 million, circumvented the tender vetting process… and delivered one unit out of a promised 70

Analysis

Esther’s last letter

Vashti’s secret fate revealed: ’We faced one another: she, the king’s former chief wife, humiliated and outcast, and I, high in his favor.’

We crashed along with Ethiopian flight ET302

The Jewish mourners reacted strongly when retrieving the bodies didn’t happen quickly, and they are apologizing for it now

This ugly election campaign

These uncivil politics destablize the Israeli public and make it even harder to achieve any kind of productive consensus

The Times of Israel Election Debate 2019

Watch Times of Israel’s pre-election debate, Monday evening in Jerusalem

Sold-out event is 2nd of 4 debates nationwide hosted by ToI, co-sponsored by AACI; meanwhile, our Tel Aviv one-on-one series continues with Feiglin, Bennett, Gabbay

Times of Israel Jewish World editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, left, interviews Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, at an English-language event in Tel Aviv co-hosted by The Times of Israel and the Tel Aviv International Salon, March 17, 2019. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

Times of Israel PresentsKnesset speaker: US Golan stance is good first step toward West Bank recognition

By Yaakov Schwartz

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

In this December 15, 2018 photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at an event organized by the Museum of the City of New York with WNET-TV held at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York. (AP Photo/Rebecca Gibian)

Interview

Ginsburg biographer says justice, 86, is still the ‘leader of the liberal court’

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat-Minnesota, in the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 12, 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Amid anti-Semitism uproar, Ilhan Omar says 2-state solution ‘fair and balanced’

Former US senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman leaves the West Wing of the White House after meeting with US President Donald Trump on May 17, 2017. (AFP/Olivier Douliery)

Joe Lieberman says some Democrats are anti-Jewish, but party is not

By JTA

A boy looks as forensic investigators comb the ground for DNA evidence near a pile of twisted airplane debris at the crash site of an Ethiopian airways operated Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on March 16, 2019 at Hama Quntushele village near Bishoftu in Oromia region. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP)

Police team dispatched to Ethiopia crash site to search for Israelis’ remains

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, speaks at a rally against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court in Washington, October 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

5 Jewish things about Democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand

In a bid to allow its commanders on the field make better and faster decisions, the IDF will train rookies with data analytic skills (IDF spokesperson unit)

IDF to arm rookies with new weapon: data analytic skills

By Shoshanna Solomon

Alaa S, right, who is suspected of being responsible for the stabbing of Daniel Hillig in Chemnitz, escorted by a police officer as he arrives for the start of his trial at the court in Dresden, Germany, March 18, 2019. (Matthias Rietschel/AP)

Syrian in court for killing that sparked German far-right riots

By Andrea HENTSCHEL and David Courbet

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