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What Matters Most On Friday, March 29, 2019

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Illustrative: A Palestinian uses a slingshot to fling back a tear gas canister thrown by Israeli forces during clashes at the fence along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on March 8, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Hamas said to back Egypt’s plan for Gaza calm ahead of huge anniversary protest

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel media reviewGaza border or (hopefully) bust: 8 things to know for March 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel said to warn Hamas any error could lead to war, as IDF preps for violence

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

False missile alarm sounds in south amid skyrocketing Gaza tensions

A Palestinian man walks past a mural depicting a masked fighter of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, next to a missile with a caption reading in Arabic "Oh Jerusalem, we are coming" and the Dome of the Rock, in a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 14, 2019. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Hamas claims rockets fired at central Israel were self-activated

Terror group says it’s on war footing because it has intelligence indicating Israel planning attack before elections

AnalysisHamas and Israel risk another Gaza war in deadly game of chicken

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF readies for massive weekend protests along Gaza Border

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF strikes Gazans launching airborne arson devices into Israel, injuring 3

By Judah Ari Gross

An image of the CIA's map of Israel taken on March 28, 2019, that refers to the Golan Heights as "Israeli occupied." (Library of Congress)

US redrawing official maps to include Golan as part of Israel

State Department official says maps will be updated to reflect change in policy and Israel’s need for ‘secure and defensible borders’

Iran to ‘resist’ Trump decision on Golan Heights

By Agencies and ToI Staff

AnalysisArabs seek unity on Golan, but summit in Tunisia likely to expose rifts on Syria

By BOUAZZA BIN BOUAZZA and Samy Magdy

Starting with Golan, Trump surprises aides, allies with series of abrupt decrees

By Matthew Lee and Deb Riechmann

Stephen Bannon in a scene from 'The Brink.' (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures)

Interview

New Steve Bannon documentary goes into the back rooms behind The Movement

By Jordan Hoffman

Campaign notebook

At working class market, Kahlon clings to hopes of being a kingmaker again

A trip to Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood highlights the underdog Kulanu leader’s balancing act as he tries to hang on to cast-off Likud voters and remain in the Knesset

Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon (R) embracing a supporter during a visit to Tel Aviv's Hatikva Market, March 28, 2019. (Kulanu)

Diplomats and emissaries worldwide get in their votes ahead of Israel’s election

By Raoul Wootliff

Fake news hits new high as bots, trolls continue to bat for Netanyahu – report

Meretz cancels campaign ad that used Auschwitz gate to portray occupation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, March 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Poll: Likud catches up to Blue and White, Netanyahu still favored for PM

By Stuart Winer

Nearly two-thirds fault PM on his handling of Gaza violence; 46% see Trump recognition of Golan Heights sovereignty as election interference

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama meet at the White House, May 2011. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/Flash90)

Netanyahu campaign video boasts of ‘lecturing’ Obama in the Oval Office

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during ceremony at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, March 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Visiting Brazil president likely won’t announce embassy move

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: A lithograph, circa 1880, of a group of men, women, and children being taken to a slave market. (Wellcome collection)

19th-cent. Slave Bible that removed Exodus story to repress hope goes on display

From joy to mourning in one act

The two brothers who try to follow in the family tradition of taking initiative, but misjudge horribly

The isolation of being pro-Israel on the modern campus

Few of my fellow students recognize the common American values that Israel upholds

Can human efforts negate a miracle?

If you ever thought Moses’ punishment for hitting the rock was too extreme, the ’strange fire’ offered by Aaron’s sons explains why it was not (Shemini)

Integrating the ultra-Orthodox

The current Knesset undermined policies that promote the integration that is key to Haredi well-being; the next Knesset has the capacity to reverse the trend

Debris from the crashed Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 737 plane some 60 kilometers southeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, March 11, 2019. (Michael Tewelde/AFP)

Investigators believe anti-stall system activated in Ethiophia crash – report

By AFP

Wall Street Journal says findings represent strongest indication yet of system malfunction similar to Lion Air crash last year in Indonesia

Workers collect clothes and other materials, under the instruction of investigators, at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, Ethiopia on March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Rabbis to clarify marital status of Israeli Ethiopia plane crash victims’ wives

Beit Venezuela administrator Rivka Lobl Mitelberg. (Federico Maccioni/ Times of Israel)

Jews fleeing Venezuela for Israel face language barriers and work shortages

By Federico Maccioni

Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of American lone soldier Alex Sasaki, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on March 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over a thousand Israelis attend funeral for American lone soldier

By Jacob Magid and JTA

After Alex Sasaki found dead due to apparent drug overdose, lawmaker demands emergency Knesset session on ‘worrying trend’ of suicides among new immigrant enlistees

Volodymyr Zelensky as the character Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko in his TV comedy show 'Servant of the People' (Yaroslav Burdovitsin/Wikimedia Commons)

Is he or isn't he?

Is Ukraine’s top presidential candidate Jewish? Even his spokesman won’t comment

In a country where it is ‘rude’ to ask about religion, ToI gets mixed results when speaking with Jewish leaders about Volodymyr Zelensky and his projected impact on the community

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko greets his supporters during a campaign rally in the western city of Lviv on March 28, 2019, ahead of the presidential election on March 31. (Yuri DYACHYSHYN / AFP)

Ukraine president accuses Israeli tycoon of meddling in election for revenge

By AP

Nathan Englander (Joshua Meier)

Interview

After outsourcing kaddish, son faces a world of regret in new Englander novel

By Renee Ghert-Zand

ToI Election Collage

Countdown to April 9

Gabbay, then Gantz, are next ToI election interviewees, in Tel Aviv next week

Labor leader will be one-on-one with ToI’s Haviv Rettig Gur on Sunday; Blue and White chair will speak with David Horovitz on Tuesday

Benny Gantz, the leaders of the Blue and White political alliance attends a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz gets bodyguards following threats on social media

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Menachem Stark (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Conspirator in New York Hasid’s murder gets maximum sentence of 7 years

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are seen in a cooler at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, New York, March 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Amid crackdown, vaccinations on rise in NY county with many ultra-Orthodox

By AP and ToI Staff

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian leaves the Elysee presidential palace in Paris after a weekly cabinet meeting, on May 30, 2018 (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)

French-Israelis said to swindle millions by impersonating foreign minister

Illustrative: A German edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' ('My Struggle') on display at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, December 11, 2015. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP, File)

Five other times when ‘Mein Kampf’ was heard in Congress

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

French consulate worker Romain Franck, an employee of France's Consulate in Jerusalem, covers his face during a hearing at the district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, March 19, 2018. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Israel convicts French consulate worker of Gaza-West Bank gun-running

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this file photo taken on December 7, 2018 Premier of Quebec François Legault looks on as prime ministers of the Canadian provinces gather for a meeting set-up by Canada prime minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal, at the Marriott Chateau Champlain. (MARTIN OUELLET-DIOTTE / AFP)

Jews worried as Quebec moves to ban religious symbols on public workers

By JTA

A promo poster for season 3 of 'Fauda,' featuring both familiar and new faces (Courtesy 'Fauda' Facebook page)

New territoryIn departure, season 3 of ‘Fauda’ takes place in Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

Netanyahu’s links to his cousin’s medical firms may be probed

Beresheet on display before its launch, December 17, 2018. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

$1 million prize awaits Israeli team if moon landing works

By AP and ToI Staff

In this photo supplied by the New Zealand government, mosque shooting survivor Farid Ahmed addresses the national remembrance service in Hagley Park for the victims of the March 15 mosques terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 29, 2019. (Mark Tantrum/New Zealand Government via AP)

At memorial, New Zealand mosque survivor says he forgives attacker

Illustrative: This file photo from February 19, 2013, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vermont. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

New York sues Sackler family, Teva over opioid crisis

By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz

US Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Fall Gala, October 6, 2018, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Man of the bookCory Booker shows off his Hebrew skills at town hall event

By Gabe Friedman

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