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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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MKs Michal Rozin (center with hat), Stav Shaffir (in blue) and Tamar Zandberg with the Women of the Wall, at the Western Wall, on Tuesday March 12, 2013. (photo credit: via Stav Shaffir/Facebook)

Female MKs join Women of the Wall prayer service

By Gabe Fisher and ToI Staff

Stav Shaffir, Michal Rozin and Tamar Zandberg use parliamentary immunity to wear prayer shawls at the Western Wall

Members of the Weinrauch family, including future filmmaker Gita, center, remained in Vienna until after WWII was underway. (Courtesy of Gita Kaufman)

75 years after Anschluss, Nazi ‘Shadows’ haunt Austria

By Matt Lebovic

On the anniversary of the country’s union with Hitler, a former child refugee preps for the premiere of her long-gestating film

Austria marks annexation by Germany 75 years ago

The miracle of Israel’s enduring love

Despite 2,000 years of persecution, the Jewish response to religious pilgrims is a welcoming embrace

Undiplomatic EU diplomats

A report by Jerusalem diplomats urging sanctions against settlement activity is a one-sided effort to isolate Israel

Pajamas, headscarves and a seder plate

Memories of the year an unexpected Passover guest provided the spark that lit up a bleak night

Egyptian protester Ibrahim Muhammad Ibrahim holds up what he claims is an ear he chopped of a dead Israeli officer during the 1973 war, during an anti Muslim Brotherhood protest in Cairo (photo credit: image capture/MEMRI)

Egyptian protester brandishes ‘severed ear of Israeli officer’

‘Whoever tries to take Egypt from me again – I will chop him to pieces,’ declares Mubarak loyalist in video clip

Illustrative photo of a Cobra AH-1 attack helicopter (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Two air force pilots killed in helicopter crash

Cobra gunship comes down in south, near Revadim; military looking into the cause of the accident

The self-proclaimed Paper of Record had at best a mixed one during World War II. (Kickstarter screenshot)

Meek media

Film looks at NY Times and Holocaust

By Nathan Burstein

A student documentary about the paper’s shallow coverage of the genocide — just six front-page stories throughout the war — will premiere at one of America’s most prestigious festivals

Shimon Peres addresses the European Parliament, March 12 (photo credit: EU screenshot)

World must limit Iran’s missile capacity, Peres tells EU

By Raphael Ahren

Addressing European parliament in Strasbourg, president demands that Hezbollah be branded a terror group, urges Arab League intervention in Syria

Rabbi Shai Piron at the Knesset, on February 3, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yesh Atid’s No. 2 forbade sale of apartments to Arabs

MK Rabbi Shai Piron, who could become minister of education, renounces opinion espoused over 10 years ago

File: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, with US President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting in 2011. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to push for Israel-Turkey reconciliation

By Ron Friedman

Israel says it’s willing to take steps, but is unsure whether Erdogan is interested in mending ties

Yossi Beilin meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, August 2008. (photo credit: Omar Rashidi/Flash90)

Talks with PA snagged on Ariel, not refugees, former official says

By Elhanan Miller

Refusal to concede settlement and Olmert’s ‘lame duck’ status were main stumbling blocks blocking peace breakthrough with Abbas in 2008, claims Yossi Beilin

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (L) and Jewish Home party head Naftali Bennett at a conference in Ramat Gan, December 17, 2012 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Religious Zionist rabbis slam Bennett, Lapid

By Asher Zeiger

In harshly worded letter, hard-line yeshiva heads criticize Jewish Home and Yesh Atid leaders for campaign to draft ultra-Orthodox

The villa at 56-58 Am Grossen Wannsee, where the Wannsee Conference was held. Today it is a memorial and museum. (photo credit: Adam Carr)

Scroll in the sky

Heaven-bound, a Torah in Wannsee

By Raphael Ahren

Once the Nazis planned the Holocaust at the infamous Berlin villa; now Jews are writing a Torah scroll there

Graduating naval officers of the Israeli Navy toss their hats during a graduation ceremony (Photo credit: Ofir Shifrin/ IDF Spokesperson/Flash 90)

Putting the touch on alumni, the high-tech way

By David Shamah

Schools looking to engage with former students have a friend in the UK/Israeli start-up Graduway

Afi Hossein Jarhomi, right, the founder of the Hungarian Iranian Business Group, attends a meeting with Jobbik chairman Gabor Vona, third from right, and visiting Iranians. (tiszavasvari.hu via JTA)

Iran and Hungarian party form anti-Semitic alliance

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Benjamin Netanyahu (center), arriving at a Cabinet meeting in March 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe itty bitty governing committee

By Joshua Davidovich

In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, a Syrian boy shouts slogans against the regime in front of a flag of the armed Islamic opposition group, the Nusra front, during a demonstration in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria (photo credit: Manu Brabo/AP)

Arabic media reviewLet the battle of fatwas begin

By Elhanan Miller

Shown at the March 7, 2013 signing of the memorandum of understanding with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are: (front row, from left) BGU Vice President and Dean for Research and Development Moti Herskowitz and U-M Vice President for Research Stephen Forrest, and (back row, from left) Ben-Gurion President Rivka Carmi and U-M President Mary Sue Coleman. (Photo credit: Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography)

Ben-Gurion, Michigan universities to run joint projects

By David Shamah

(photo illustration: Flash90/Times of Israel)

Church and stateLapid cracks a pope joke on Facebook

By Asher Zeiger

Teva's facility in Har Hotzvim, Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

From the webTreasury concealed Teva’s 2011 NIS 3 billion tax break

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