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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 31, 2022

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Israeli soldiers, police, and medics are seen at the scene of a stabbing attack near the Neve Daniel junction in the West Bank, March 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Israeli seriously wounded in terror stabbing near West Bank settlement

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

28-year-old rushed to hospital after Palestinian attacks him with screwdriver on bus outside Neve Daniel; assailant shot dead by another passenger

Israeli soldiers, police, and medics are seen at the scene of a stabbing attack near the Neve Daniel junction in the West Bank, March 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Bus driver says he made emergency stop to let passengers escape after terror attack

Israeli soldiers, police, and medics are seen at the scene of a stabbing attack near the Neve Daniel junction in the West Bank, March 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

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Hadera terrorists had previously set out to attack in a different northern city – TV

IDF chief said to warn terror wave may spread to Israelis and Jews abroad * Thousands at funeral for ‘hero cop’ who died stopping Bnei Brak terrorist

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Amnesty US director apologizes for purporting to speak on behalf of Jews
7:43 pm

Umm al-Fahm mayor says he is not quitting after all
6:22 pm

IDF chief said to warn terror wave may spread to target Israelis and Jews abroad

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks in a video statement released on March 30, 2022. (Screen capture / YouTube)

PM tells licensed Israeli owners to carry their guns amid ‘murderous terror wave’

By Tobias Siegal

Bennett urges the public to ‘show composure, remain resilient,’ as he bolsters security forces and vows to crack down on terror groups and illegal weapons

Defense Minister Benny Gantz gives a press conference at IDF Central Command headquarters, on March 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz vows to ‘flood the streets’ with thousands of reservists if needed

Illustrative: Ministers and MKs attend a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset to convene for emergency session next week on terror attacks

Kosher in the Bahamas

Inspired by Israeli cooking techniques, Atlantis’ Kosher dining service offers contemporary fare with an array of classic and novel dishes. For events and group functions.

A highly magnified image of the star Earendel. The collection of yellow-looking galaxies form the massive galaxy-cluster lens that magnifies background objects lying behind it. The inset shows the highly magnified red galaxy, host to Earendel, stretched into an arc due to lensing, and the highly magnified star is marked with a white arrow. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch, Dan Coe)

'A whole new insight about stars in the early universe'

US, Israeli scientists document oldest star ever seen, 13 billion light-years away

By Nathan Jeffay

Light detected is so old it’s from when the universe was just 7% of its current age; Israeli professor plays key role in verifying the finding

Israeli soldiers patrol a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on March 30, 2022, following a deadly terror attack in Bnei Brak. (AFP)

IDF kills 2 Palestinians in Jenin gunbattle during arrest operation

By Aaron Boxerman and Emanuel Fabian

One Israeli soldier lightly wounded in firefight after Israeli troops enter for a rare daytime raid in West Bank city; military action said to be ongoing

Diaa Hamarsheh, a Palestinian terrorist who shot dead five people in Bnei Brak on March 29, 2022 (Photo used under Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bnei Brak terrorist served prison time after planning to carry out suicide bombing

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli soldiers patrol on March 30, 2022 a village south of Jenin in the West Bank. (AFP)

Ministers decide against Ramadan clampdown in bid to keep lid on tensions

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Daily Briefing March 31: Biden sends support to Bennett; climate talks in Dubai

US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses president’s phone call with PM, plus more on the Negev Summit, and environmental reporter Sue Surkes reviews her visit to the UAE

Right wing activists wave Israeli flags during a protest against Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, following a recent wave of violence, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. (AP/Oded Balilty)

US ‘stands firmly’ with Israel amid terror spurt, Biden tells Bennett

Pro-Palestinian protesters in New York, March 30, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

‘Intifada until victory’: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally in New York

Protesters chant ‘From the river to the sea,’ march to Israel-linked organizations; counter-protesters hold images of Israelis killed in terror attacks

President Isaac Herzog (L) and Jordanian King Abdullah II at the Al Husseiniya Palace in Amman, Jordan, March 30, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Hosting Herzog, Jordan’s king condemns ‘tragic attacks that target civilians’

By Lazar Berman

Knesset member Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount compound escorted by police officers on March 31, 2022 (Facebook screenshot; used under clause 27a of the copyright law)

Far-right MK Ben Gvir tours tense Temple Mount with police OK

Final approval was given after morning assessment, despite concerns firebrand lawmaker could spark fresh violence as Israel contends with terror spurt ahead of Ramadan

Illustrative: Palestinian farmers inspect damage to their olive trees that were cut down by attackers in the West Bank village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiah, near Nablus, March 30, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Three arrested for suspected vandalism against Palestinians following terror attack

Amir Khoury, 32, from Nof Hagalil, a police officer who was killed in a firefight with a terrorist in Bnei Brak on March 29, 2022 (Courtesy of the family)

Family, fellow police mourn ‘hero’ cop killed while taking out Bnei Brak terrorist

Sobbing father, fiancée recall how Amir Khoury never shied from danger, wanted to protect people, as they mourn officer who raced to neutralize gunman and paid with his life

Body camera footage released by police on March 30, 2022, showing Palestinian terrorist Diaa Hamarsheh, 27, neutralized by an officer after killing four civilians and one officer in Bnei Brak on March 29, 2022. (screen grab / Israel Police)

‘Khoury, watch out!’ Police body cam footage shows shootout with Bnei Brak terrorist

Dimitri Mitrik and Victor Sorokopot, two Ukrainian foreign workers who were shot dead in a terrorist attack in Bnei Brak on March 29, 2022 (Photos used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ukrainian nationals killed in Bnei Brak named as Victor Sorokopot, Dimitri Mitrik

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Robbie Gringras

The Ukraine argument and the four Hatikvah questions

Ukrainians are dying to defend the classic Zionist idea: ’To be a people, free in our land.’ But is that no more than foolish ’liberal nationalism’?

Turkish FM says he’ll visit Israel in May, discuss reinstalling ambassadors

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry doesn’t confirm Mevlut Cavusoglu’s trip; Ankara’s top envoy also says Israel-Turkey gas pipeline will not happen anytime soon

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (left); and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right). (Hussein Malla/AP; Oliver Fitoussi/Flash90)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens to a question during a news conference, at the US Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, March 30, 2022,. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Blinken stumps for normalization with Israel in visit to Algeria, which opposes it

Fans strain for autographs from some of the soccer legends that played at a festive soccer match between an Abraham Accords team made up of players from Israel, the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco and one comprising world soccer stars, Dubai, March 29, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

A bigger goalAbraham Accords nations get battered — in a friendly soccer game

Deborah Lipstadt, nominated to be the US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, with the rank of ambassador, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Lipstadt approved as US antisemitism envoy, wrapping up 8-month confirmation process

With Republicans lacking votes to block Holocaust historian’s appointment, none of them raise objection to Democrat’s request to confirm it by unanimous consent

Jeremy Fleming, head of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in London, Feb. 14, 2019. (Frank Augstein/AP)

UK spy chief: Russian soldiers disobeying orders, shot down own planes by mistake

Head of GCHQ electronic spying agency says demoralized troops in Ukraine also sabotaging equipment, and Putin’s advisers fear reporting truth of ‘massively misjudged’ invasion

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, March 29, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin denies claim Putin being ‘misled’ on Ukraine by scared advisers

By AFP

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the Norwegian Parliament from Kyiv, Ukraine,, March 30, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine president says defense at ‘turning point’ as Russia breaks pledge to ease up

By Nebi Qena and YURAS KARMANAU

'We are probably going to have a matzah deficit this year'

War in Ukraine threatens to put the crunch on matzah prices in US

By David I. Klein

The 20,000 pounds of the unleavened bread languishing in an Odesa port represents 10% of the country’s annual exports to the US, and a local rabbi thinks the market will feel it

Illustrative: Germany's antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein, second from right, and Rabbi Gesa Ederberg, right, listen to the testimonies of Ukrainian Jewish youths at Berlin's Jewish International school in Berlin on March 24, 2022. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Ukraine’s Jews find ‘remarkable’ refuge in Germany, 77 years after the Holocaust

By Yannick Pasquet

David Fishof, right, with Roger Daltrey, left, and Slash in 2007. (Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp/ via JTA)

'You can represent rock stars and wear a yarmulke'

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David Fishof’s getaway where amateurs can jam alongside their music heroes has hosted over 5,000 campers over 25 years and gained national fame – but he hasn’t forgotten his roots

New residential buildings in the coastal city of Netanya, March 26, 2020. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Investors cool on Israeli housing market as January sales remain steady

By Danielle Nagler

Effects of purchase tax hike on second dwellings or more start to show, says new Finance Ministry report

View of a costruction site in the central Israeli city of Be'er Ya'akov, February 22, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Material costs racing ahead of state price index, putting builders under the gun

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NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio speaks with Channel 12 News in an interview aired on January 29, 2022. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

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Israel Prison Service Commissioner Katy Perry arrives for her testimony at the government committee probing the escape of the security prisoners from the Gilboa prison, in Modi'in, March 7, 2022. (Flash90)

Prison service commissioner, 4 top officers warned over Gilboa prison break

Construction of the Red Line of the Tel Aviv Light Rail on September 13, 2021. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Tel Aviv light rail no longer on track for 2022 opening — report

By Danielle Nagler

Prof. Arie Levine appears at Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on October 4, 2021 (Screen grab/Channel 12 news)

Top doctor charged with raping patient’s mom, sexually assaulting minors in his care

A house damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile attack is seen in Irbil, Iraq, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahmed Mzoori, Metrography, File)

US targets Iran missile program with sanctions after strikes on regional rivals

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Teva to settle opioid-related claims in Florida for $117 million

By Ricky Ben-David

Pluristem and Tnuva celebrated their partnership at NASDAQ in New York on Monday. (Courtesy of Nasdaq, inc.)

Israeli companies at NASDAQ want to bring lab-grown meat to the masses

The head of Russia's National Defense Control Center, Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 16, 2018. (Vadim Savitsky, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

UK hits ‘butcher of Mariupol’ and 13 others in latest round of Russia sanctions

By AFP

Illustrative: Delta planes sitting on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, Nov. 22, 2017. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

Orthodox women sue airlines for discrimination after being booted from flight to US

By julia GERGELY

Shuli Rand (far left), Micha Shitrit, Inbar Nacht next to Chili Tropper (center), Kobi Oz, Miri Mesika and Shai Tsabari (far right) gather to discuss potential music industry legislation (Courtesy Nacht Family Foundation)

Singing for their supperIsraeli recording artists seek government funding

By Jessica Steinberg

Gilad Shalit with his father, Noam, on the day of his release from captivity (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Noam Shalit, father of former Hamas captive Gilad Shalit, dies at 68

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