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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 21, 2019

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Analysis

Thanks to Trump, diplomatic taboo around Western Wall comes tumbling down

Foreign VIPs used to insist no Israeli officials escort them to site, lest they be seen as tacitly recognizing Israeli sovereignty there. Now, the US is not alone in flouting rule

US President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall, May 22, 2017, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In first, top US diplomat to join PM at Western Wall

By Raphael Ahren

Brazil ‘still studying’ embassy move to Jerusalem

By AFP

EU reiterates opposition to diplomatic missions in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

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)

Officials: US announcement on Golan Heights recognition could come next week

By AP and ToI Staff

Sources in Jerusalem and Washington predict decision could be made during Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, where he will meet Trump, two weeks before the Israeli elections

Trump to host Netanyahu at White House twice next week, 2 weeks before election

By Alexander Fulbright

Meeting Pompeo, Netanyahu calls for recognition of Israeli Golan Heights

By ToI Staff and AFP

Pompeo to Rivlin: US has ‘moral obligation’ to secure Mideast stability

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli lawmakers welcome Trump’s Golan recognition as ‘historic, brave’

By Michael Bachner

Center and right-wing politicians hail dramatic US announcement, but Union of Right-Wing Parties warns it shouldn’t ‘blind’ Israel in run-up to peace plan rollout

6:38 pm

IDF tank strikes Hamas post in response to 'irregular' violent Gaza border riots
6:37 pm

New Right says Golan recognition can't enable Palestinian state
6:31 pm

Russian diplomats criticize US Golan recognition -- report

Israelis dressed up in costumes for the Jewish festival of Purim in downtown Jerusalem on February 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Not quite the whole megillah: 7 things to know for March 21

By Joshua Davidovich

New questions may mean new legal woes for Netanyahu, even as a key witness backs off; and Persian Jews face a holiday of Thanksgivukkah proportions

Analysis

Netanyahu tries to sink Gantz in election war over phone hacks & submarine sales

It was supposed to be a battle of a corruption-rocked incumbent versus a Mr. Clean challenger. But even as PM faces new graft claims, Gantz’s handling of phone saga raises eyebrows

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

Blue and White regains edge over Likud in polls, but right-wing bloc still leads

State prosecutors said mulling criminal probe of Netanyahu in submarine case

PM pans Gantz over hacked phone: ‘What are you hiding? What does Iran know?’

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

In Beit Shemesh, new highway collides with surprise biblical-era settlement

Unusual exhibit at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum, ‘Highway to History,’ examines the State of Israel’s fraught attempts to balance preserving the past and developing the future

A scene from the newly launched updated Masada sound and light show, 'From Sunset to Sunrise.' (Breeze Creative)

With new light show, 2,000-year-old Masada gets makeover fit for a millennial

By Johanna Chisholm

Undated photo of Rabbi Achiad Ettinger (L) and his family. (courtesy Ettinger family)

Crowdfunding effort for family of slain rabbi races toward NIS 2 million target

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

3 days after Achiad Ettinger killed in West Bank terror attack, over 4,000 donors raise NIS 1.2m for his wife and 12 children; organizers says funds intended for future weddings

IDF: Palestinian killed in West Bank may have thrown rocks in ‘internal dispute’

Hundreds attend funerals of two Palestinians killed in Nablus

Amid Temple Mount tensions, Jordan king calls Jerusalem ‘a red line’

Corey Dalton Hart, tenor, in the role of Mordocai in the March 2, 2019 Miryam Ensemble performance of Lidarti's 'Esther.' (Credit Daniel Lieber/courtesy Miryam
Ensemble)

Baroque ‘Esther’ oratorio’s fate overturned by miraculous rescue from obscurity

By Penny Schwartz

Illustrative: Members of the modern-day Jewish community of Mallorca, Spain, celebrate Tu b'Shvat, February 10, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Mallorca, Purim was once the most important day for its persecuted Jewry

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A scene from 'Vilna,' a new play by Ira Fuchs. (Carol Rosegg)

Play review

In new off-Broadway play, an exhausting, achingly human story of prewar Jewry

By Jordan Hoffman

What was right for my grandmothers isn’t right for me

Rabbis should trust that our generation knows what we need to engage Jewishly, and help us, instead of pushing us away

Andres Spokoiny

From Shushan to Sarajevo

The actions of one single person can yield incalculable horror, but salvation has come at the hands of one single person too (PURIM)

Financier and philanthropist Michael Steinhardt attends the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala at the Marriott Marquis on May 5, 2016, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Megadonor Michael Steinhardt accused by 7 women of sexual harassment

By JTA and ToI Staff

New York Times report alleges pattern of behavior in which philanthropist made sexually inappropriate propositions and remarks

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke arrives at a meet and greet at Tuckerman Brewing on March 20, 2019 in Conway, New Hampshire. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images/AFP)

Democratic contender Beto O’Rourke knocks Netanyahu for ‘siding with racists’

By Joshua Davidovich

Former Texan congressman becomes latest in crowded field to speak out against prime minister, says neither Netanyahu nor Abbas is a good negotiating partner

Bernie Sanders posts video citing ‘apartheid-like’ conditions for Palestinians

By JTA and ToI Staff

Pompeo in Jerusalem jabs at Democrats on anti-Semitism

By AFP

Progressive activists urge 2020 Democratic candidates to boycott AIPAC confab

By JTA and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Illustrative image of a pregnant woman (Wavebreakmedia; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli study: Pregnancy over 50 not a greater risk than during 40s

A couple holds hands as they walk balanced on the rails of the railroad tracks that brought more than a million people to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on January 26, 1995. (AP/Jockel Finck)

Stop trying to balance on tracks, Auschwitz museum pleads

By JTA

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)

UK, Austria to oppose UN Human Rights Council condemnations of Israel

By Stuart Winer

A protective barrier installed at a bus stop at the Givat Assaf Junction on March 20, 2019. (Menachem Bakush)

IDF installs fortification at West Bank bus stop, swiftly removes it amid uproar

An Arab Israeli woman casts her ballot at a voting station during municipal elections, in Kafr Qasim, on October 30, 2018. Roy Alima/Flash90)

Poll: 73% of Arab Israelis favor joining coalition; voter turnout on the rise

Palestinian baby Musa after receiving a heart transplant at Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Center. (Courtesy: Safra Children's Hospital at Sheba Medical Center)

Newsweek ranks Israel’s Sheba Medical Center among top 10 hospitals worldwide

By Shoshanna Solomon

Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on October 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG opposes Otzma Yehudit request to bump up candidate on right-wing list

Jonathan and Esther Pollard following his release from prison, November 20, 2015. (Courtesy of Justice for Jonathan Pollard/JTA)

Israeli consulate in New York denies reports Jonathan Pollard, wife visited

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

In this photo from March 16, 2019, an Iranian worker carries Iranian flags prior to an inauguration ceremony of a natural gas refinery at the South Pars gas field on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, in Asaluyeh, Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran struggling under reimposed sanctions, country’s leaders say

By AFP

In this picture taken March 22, 2017, journalist Javier Valdez speaks during the presentation of his latest book, in Acapulco, Mexico. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

Slain Mexican journalist’s widow targeted by Israeli spyware — watchdog

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang. (Marc Nozell/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Democratic presidential hopeful takes stand against circumcision

US President Donald Trump holds up a map detailing territory losses by the Islamic State in Syria as he speaks following a tour of the Lima Army Tank Plant at Joint Systems Manufacturing in Lima, Ohio, March 20, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Defeat of final Islamic State bastion in Syria imminent, Trump says

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