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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 19, 2019

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IDF soldiers seen during a raid in the village of Bruqin near the West Bank town of Salfit on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinians: IDF soldiers raid village near Ramallah, surround building

Palestinians say several injured as clashes break out in Abwein; searches come amid manhunt for Ariel terrorist

8:29 pm

IDF troops 'circle building near Ramallah, urge suspect inside to surrender'
7:49 pm

Palestinians report clashes as IDF said to circle building near Ramallah
7:29 pm

Croatia's Serbs, Jews to snub WWII death camp memorial

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked at a Knesset plenary session, March 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Countdown to April 9After court bans extremist candidate, Shaked condemns 'coup'

Shaked vows to scrap panel that appoints judges, as right takes on Supreme Court

By Raoul Wootliff

Justice minister promises immediate ‘legal upheaval’ if she remains in office, with the Knesset empowered to approve judges and overrule court’s striking down of laws

Panelists Caroline Glick (The New Right) and Nir Barkat (Likud) at a Times of Israel election debate in Jerusalem on March 18, 2019 (ToI staff)

Countdown to April 9Restraining Israeli court a matter of ‘life and death,’ New Right candidate says

By Raphael Ahren

Graffiti on a wall in Jerusalem of a 'dislike' thurmbs-down sign, based on Facebook's thumbs-up 'like' sign. May 26,2011. (Sophie Gordon / Flash 90)

Facebook demands Netanyahu stop collecting users’ info — report

New Right co-chair Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in a satirical campaign ad, released on March 18, 2019, that mocks left-wing fears of her judicial reform proposals. (Twitter screen capture)

Eau de judicial reform

New Right mocks left-wing worries with faux ‘fascism’ perfume ad

‘Judicial appointments … governance … separation of powers — to me, it smells like democracy,’ Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked quips in new spot

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)

PM: ‘I didn’t get a shekel from submarine deal, Gantz and Lapid are panicking’

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu, who has backtracked to admit he held shares in company that supplies Thyssenkrupp when he was opposition head, insists law enforcement cleared him in the case

Blue and White chief Benny Gantz during a campaign event on March 18, 2019. (Courtesy: Blue and White)

Gantz: Ignore phone hack, Netanyahu guilty of ‘worst scandal in Israeli history’

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara Netanyahu, together with their son Yair at a Hannukah event, on December 13, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM’s office denies Saudi report Netanyahu’s wife’s, son’s phones hacked by Iran

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

Gantz, scrambling over recording, now vows not to include Netanyahu in coalition

After report he told his confidants the door is ‘not locked’ on unity government with PM-led Likud, Blue and White leader says that was before new revelations on PM’s graft cases

Benny Gantz gives a statement to the media in Tel Aviv, February 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz tells confidants he could invite Netanyahu into his coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 5, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Court: Netanyahu can again seek permission to okay funding of his legal defense

Photo essay

Boxing the ballot: Behind the planning of Israel’s largest-ever election

As politicians traverse the country wooing voters, intense preparations are underway to ensure every citizen can participate in the democratic process

AnalysisTo Bar Ilan and back: Benjamin Netanyahu’s changing views on a Palestinian state

Benny Gantz at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2019. Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media reviewBlack and blue and white: 8 things to know for March 19

By Joshua Davidovich

Family of Rabbi Achiad Ettinger, who was killed in a terror attack near Ariel on March 17, 2019, speak during his funeral at his home settlement of Eli, March 18, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

At solemn funeral, Ariel terror victim remembered as a hero, dedicated father

Rabbi Achiad Ettinger is hailed for confronting terrorist; no calls for revenge or retaliation as several of his 12 children deliver wrenching eulogies

Jordanian MP salutes Palestinian terrorist for ‘killing the Jews’

By Michael Bachner and Agencies

Soldier wounded in attack improves, as manhunt for terrorist continues

At site of Ariel attack, Netanyahu says Israel in ‘close pursuit’ of terrorist

Take back the Western Wall

I went to the Kotel to pray; I left in tears, after too many ultra-Orthodox girls tried to overturn my chair with me in it

Purim changed how we believe

The story of our complicated lives: God is hidden, reality is uncertain, and events are open to interpretation

Purim is the perfect holiday match for Eurovision: costumes, singing, dancing, drinking, all sorts of partying — and the music too!

Purim, how I wish I could love you

It’s not just about the obviously offensive blackface; it’s about not mocking the pain of even those you disagree with

At launch, it endorses 14 serving Democrats, 13 Republicans

After Omar controversy, new group aims to get more Israel backers into Congress

By Eric Cortellessa

Founded by former AIPAC officials, Pro-Israel America seeks to be more explicitly political than the powerful lobby

Attendees listen to US Vice President Mike Pence address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Elad Nehorai, a leader of a politically progressive Orthodox group, got his start by blogging openly about personal issues like addiction and his struggles with religion. (Courtesy of Nehorai/via JTA)

An Orthodox millennial unites Jewish artists, protests Trump and talks with AOC

Jared Kushner's brother Josh and supermodel Karlie Kloss, who converted to Judaism for him, tied the knot. (Karlie Kloss/Twitter via JTA)

TribalismSupermodel Karlie Kloss converted to Judaism to marry Joshua Kushner

By JTA

The site of an excavation at the Korazim National Park where a winepress and mosaic have been unearthed in March 2019. (Achia Cohen-Tavor/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Talmud-era winepress, mosaic unearthed in Jewish village condemned by Jesus

By Michael Bachner

A picture taken on June 18, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland, shows a general view during the opening of the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. (AFP/Alain Grosclaude)

US envoy to Germany leads pro-Israel protest at UN Human Rights Council

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘This is not just a form of bigotry. It is a sign of intellectual and moral decay,’ says Richard Grenell, as council meets to condemn Jewish state

Israeli snipers prepare for massive protests by Palestinians in Gaza and the potential for demonstrators to try to breach the security fence on March 30, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

UN panel lists Israelis suspected of war crimes on Gaza border

By Raphael Ahren

Image of then-24-year-old Yasin Abu al-Qar’a from a village near Nablus in the northern West Bank, who stabbed a security guard at the central bus station in Jerusalem on December 10, 2017. (Facebook)

Palestinian terrorist who stabbed Jerusalem guard gets 22 years

Atef Abu Seif, spokesman for Fatah in Gaza and a member of its central committee, lies in a hospital bed in Gaza City on March 19, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Fatah accuses Hamas of beating one of its top Gaza Strip officials

Fatah’s Gaza spokesman, Atef Abu Seif, assaulted by group of men near his home; Hamas denies accusation, pledges investigation

A masked Palestinian pulls a burning tire during a night demonstration near the fence along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on February 11, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Palestinians in Gaza resume nighttime border protests

Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at the UNRWA Rimal Girls Preparatory School in Gaza City, January 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UNRWA head urges donors to keep funding at same level as 2018

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Author Jamie Michaels (foreground) and illustrator Doug Fedrau working on 'Christie Pits' at Friesens in Altona, Manitoba. (Alex Michaels)

In living color

New graphic novel draws on Canada’s nearly forgotten 1933 anti-Semitic riot

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Andrew Barth Feldman performs in the titular role in 'Dear Evan Hansen' with, from left, Michael Park, Jennifer Laura Thompson and Mallory Bechtel. (Matthew Murphy/via JTA)

A star is born

The new 16-year-old star of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is a Jewish kid from Long Island

By Emily Burack

More Headlines

Flowers have been set up in tribute to victims at the site of a shooting in a tram, at 24 October square in Utrecht, on March 19, 2019, one day after three people were shot dead and several were injured in the attack. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)

Letter in Dutch suspect’s getaway car suggests terror motive: prosecutors

By AFP

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, staff work in the turbine building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant near the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr, February 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liang Youchang)

Construction of two new Iranian nuclear plants going well, atomic chief says

Diners sit at Rothschild 12 restaurant on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, on June 22, 2017 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Tel Aviv named world’s 10th most expensive city

Yisrael Goldstein, head of the KKL-JNF national workers' union. (Facebook)

Head of union calls on KKL-JNF to roll back plans to fire minority employees

By Avner Hofstein

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (L) and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters speak to the media at Parliament in Wellington on March 18, 2019.(David Lintott / AFP)

New Zealand PM vows to deny mosque gunman notoriety

By Kristen Gelineau and JULIET WILLIAMS

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

Two men dead in Haifa in suspected double homicide

Four new oversized bobbleheads were added to Holon's Adloyada Purim parade, including singer Stephane (far left), Eden Ben Zaken, Omer Adam and Netta Barzilai (Courtesy Adloyada)

Not a toyA feast of full-size bobbleheads at Holon Purim parade

By Jessica Steinberg

A subject taking an electro-olfacto-gram test in the lab of Prof. Noam Sobel at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rechovot. (YouTube screenshot)

InspirationA breath through the nose before doing a task may bring success

Illustrative. An airplane taking off from Eilat's airport, December 2012. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/ File)

Eilat city airport closes for good after final departure

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with local residents in Simferopol, Crimea, March 18, 2019. (Yuri Kadobnov/Pool Photo via AP)

Vlad the entertainerPutin jokes about Jews and money during visit to Crimea

By ToI Staff and AP

Blair Braverman, 30, says all her sled dogs are Jewish -- with the exception of one. (Christina Bodznic via JTA)

Adventurer Blair Braverman is 1st Jewish woman to finish Iditarod sled dog race

By Emily Burack

Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)

British Holocaust denier David Irving to lead Nazi death camp tour

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