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What Matters Most On Monday, March 25, 2019

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A home in the central Israeli town of Mishmeret, which was destroyed in a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on March 25, 2019. (courtesy)

7 injured, including 2 infants, in Gaza rocket attack on central Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

One projectile directly hits home in the Sharon region, leveling it and starting fire; army says Hamas built and launched the rocket

Screen capture from video of a home in the central community of Mishmeret which was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, March 25, 2019. (Ynet)

‘My husband pulled our son from the window and the glass smashed a second later’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A damaged house after it was hit by a rocket in the village of Mishmeret, north of Tel Aviv on March 25, 2019. (Jack GUEZ/AFP)

International condemnation of rocket fire from Gaza that injured seven

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli soldiers stand guard on a road near the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel, on March 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF blames Hamas for rocket that hit Israeli home, sends troops to Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

Two additional brigades sent to border area, air defense reservists called up ahead of expected clashes following direct hit on central Israeli home that injured 7

Police inspect a home in the central Israeli town of Mishmeret that was destroyed in a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on March 25, 2019. (Israel Police)

Gaza terror groups abandon posts ahead of expected retaliation to rocket attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Fighters from the Islamic Jihad terror group march during a military drill near the border with Israel, east of the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 27, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Islamic Jihad head says terror group will respond to ‘any aggression’ with force

Screen capture of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Hebrew-language video released by his office from Washington on March 25, 2019, telling Israelis he would be heading back home following a Gaza rocket attack earlier in the day. (Courtesy PMO)

Netanyahu vows to respond ‘forcefully’ to rocket attack, cuts short US trip

After expected Monday signing of US declaration on Golan at White House, PM will return to Israel ‘to oversee our response’ to Gaza attack

A home in the central Israeli town of Mishmeret that was destroyed in a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on March 25, 2019. (Israel Police)

Ministers push hard response to rocket attack; Gantz: PM ‘lost grip on security’

By Raoul Wootliff

From left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speak at a press conference at the Prime Minister Office, following Operation Protective Edge, on August 27, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett accuses Gantz and Ya’alon in deaths of soldiers during 2014 Gaza war

By Stuart Winer

Benny Gantz addresses AIPAC's policy conference in Washington DC, March 25, 2019 (AIPAC screenshot)

Benny Gantz, Mike Pence addressing AIPAC confab’s second day

Netanyahu to leave Washington early, canceling appearance at summit, after Monday morning Gaza rocket attack on central Israel; watch the live-stream

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu departs US for Israel as rocket fire continues into the night

By Michael Bachner

PM says he’ll head straight to army HQ upon landing; sirens blare in Gaza periphery despite Hamas claims that truce reached, IDF reportedly continues striking targets

1:24 am

Air force strikes 15 targets in the Gaza Strip
12:58 am

IDF: Around 30 rockets launched since 10 p.m., some destroyed by Iron Dome
12:12 am

Sirens wail in Ashkelon and surrounding area

Illustrative: IDF soldiers vote in elections for Israel's 18th Knesset at a West Bank checkpoint near Bethlehem, February 9, 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

Analysis

Voting under fire: It’s (almost) impossible to delay elections because of war

Calls from across the political spectrum for a harsh response to the latest rocket fire from Gaza could pose a real chance of an unwanted ‘khaki election’

A home in the central Israeli town of Mishmeret that was destroyed in a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on March 25, 2019. (Israel Police)

Israel media reviewGut-shot from Gaza: 10 things to know for March 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu seen after delivering a statement to the media at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Insider’s Daily Kickoff: March 25, 2019

AIPAC CEO Howard Kohr addresses the Policy Conference in Washington on March 24, 2019. (Screen capture/AIPAC)

Head of AIPAC accuses lobby’s critics of ‘defamation’ as confab kicks off

By Eric Cortellessa

Following the Ilhan Omar firestorm, CEO Howard Kohr says those attacking pro-Israel advocacy ‘want the Jewish state vulnerable, and alone’

At AIPAC, Democratic majority leader aims fire at Ilhan Omar

As 2020 Dems call to rejoin Iran deal, Dermer says that’s ‘totally unacceptable’

By Eric Cortellessa

MP who quit UK Labour over anti-Semitism warns AIPAC ‘things can change quickly’

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Minister says Trump to formally recognize Golan as Israeli territory Monday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president will sign order during meeting with Netanyahu at White House, acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz writes on Twitter

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the supporters of opposition Nationalist Movement Party, MHP, and ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP, during a joint rally in Istanbul, March 24, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Erdogan vows to take US recognition of Golan to United Nations

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Syrian president Bashar Assad, left, meets with Ali Akbar Velayati, a top foreign policy adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in Damascus, Syria, April 12, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Iran says Trump’s Golan recognition a pro-Netanyahu election ploy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man near a billboard with pictures of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shas head Aryeh Deri, as part of the Shas election campaign, in Safed, March 10, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Analysis

Ultra-Orthodox parties are losing voters — to Netanyahu’s benefit

The number of Haredim who won’t be voting for community’s traditional parties is up considerably, and most are right-wing, according to recent surveys

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox women entering a bus through the back door in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, in 2011 (Uri Lenz/Flash90/File)

At UTJ event, rabbi says ‘even Nazis’ understood need to separate men and women

Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party, speaks during a party meeting in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In private remarks, Gantz muses that desperate Netanyahu would like him dead

Blue and White leader also recorded speculating on possibility the PM asked the Russians to interfere in the elections; Likud says ‘paranoid’ Gantz has ‘lost it’

In Washington, Gantz says Netanyahu cares only about his own woes

By Raphael Ahren

Thyssenkrupp says firm tied to PM not involved in its submarine manufacturing

By Michael Bachner

Contradicting PM, Mandelblit says he wasn’t given intel on Egypt sub sale

Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă speaks at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2019. (Screen capture/AIPAC)

Analysis

With Romanian PM powerless, celebration over embassy move premature

Despite promise by Viorica Dăncilă to AIPAC on Sunday, it is President Klaus Iohannis who has the final word on relocating mission, and he has not been shy about his opposition

Romanian president rebuffs his ‘ignorant’ PM over pledge to move embassy

Palestinians blast Romanian prime minister’s pledge to move embassy

Romanian prime minister says she will move embassy to Jerusalem

The case for Jewish sovereignty in the Golan

Jewish history and the Syrian alternative give Israel the moral highground, literally

Can Michael Steinhardt be redeemed?

On the chance of rehabilitating the disgraced mega-donor, who has been both bullish and boorish about Jewish procreation

Eroding Israeli democracy

Netanyahu’s campaign in the face of possible indictment subverts the rule of law and betrays the public’s trust in the state

Will Trump’s justice department protect Sabbath observers?

The Supreme Court may soon give a far broader interpretation to a law against job discrimination on account of religion

A wheelchair user tries out the newly accessible streets in Jerusalem's Old City, part of a NIS 20 million ($5.5 million) project along four kilometers of Old City streets (Courtesy City of Jerusalem)

Ancient meets accessibility as Jerusalem makes Old City wheelchair-friendly

By Jessica Steinberg

Heavily visited tourist site and residential area renovated with 4 kilometers of smooth sidewalks and alleyways in Muslim, Christian and Armenian quarters

Clip on mirror that allows a wheelchair-bound person see what is on shelf above their eye level produced in a joint project between IKEA and Israeli accessibility groups. (YouTube screenshot)

Ikea teams with Israeli groups to make products accessible to disabled

US President Donald Trump speaks with the media after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, March 24, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Analysis

Trump declares victory after Mueller ‘exoneration,’ but legal perils not over

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are pursuing at least 2 criminal inquiries, one on possible corruption in US president’s inaugural committee and another in a hush-money scandal

President Donald Trump speaks to media before boarding Air Force One, Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Fla., en route to Washington. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump declares ‘total exoneration’ after Mueller report finds no collusion

By Paul Handley

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks, after attending church, on March 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)

Mueller probe into Trump finds no evidence of collusion with Russia

By Eric Tucker, MICHAEL BALSAMO, CHAD DAY and Julie Pace

More Headlines

A van in the French Hill neighborhood of East Jerusalem targeted in an apparent hate crime attack on March 25, 2019. (Courtesy)

East Jerusalem neighborhood targeted in apparent hate crime

Screen capture from video of Israeli Nati Hadad during his arrest in Thailand, July 2017. (Ynetnews)

Israeli imprisoned in Thailand to transfer to Israel for remainder of sentence

By Stuart Winer

A fire rages in a police post on Jerusalem's Temple Mount after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at it on March 12, 2019. (Ir Amim)

Jerusalem teens indicted for firebombing police on Temple Mount

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers evacuate a wounded guard of the Israel Prison Service to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel, on March 24, 2019. (Meir Even Haim/Flash90)

After guards stabbed in riot, Hamas declares support for Ketziot prison inmates

Israel's midfielder Eran Zahavi celebrates after scoring his hat trick during the Euro 2020 Group G football qualification match between Israel and Austria at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa on March 24, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Zahavi hat-trick helps Israel surprise Austria in Euro qualifiers

Several hundred protesters gather outside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to denounce the deadly attacks on two mosques in New Zealand on March 16, 2019 in Istanbul. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

Erdogan moots renaming Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum a mosque

By AFP

Otzma Yehudit party's Michael Ben Ari, left, and Itamar Ben Gvir, attend a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 14, 2019. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP)

Election Committee rejects right-wing alliance’s request to alter election slate

Krispy Kreme Donuts (Photo credit: Courtesy)

German family that owns Krispy Kreme to donate $11m after learning of Nazi past

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 5, 2018. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu to address AIPAC youth event in Washington

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Beresheet taking a "selfie" with the Earth at a distance of 265,000 kilometers above the planet's surface in a photo released on March 24, 2019. (courtesy Beresheet)

Snapping more selfies, Beresheet makes last pass around Earth before moon try

By Melanie Lidman

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Flash90)

Reporter sorry for calling Yair Netanyahu a ‘shithead’

Omar Abu Laila, 18, the suspected terrorist in a fatal attack at Ariel Junction on March 17, 2019 (Facebook)

Jordanian parliament reads Quran chapter in honor of slain Palestinian terrorist

By Michael Bachner and Agencies

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