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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 20, 2016

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Students at the EMIS School in Ramat Hasharon (Courtesy)

Kids from Morocco, Afghanistan, Yemen, West Bank flock to unique Israeli school

By Simona Weinglass

Out of the limelight, an experimental boarding school has sprung up outside Tel Aviv, drawing students from 60 countries, many on full scholarship

Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of the 1943 Treblinka death camp revolt (YouTube screenshot)

Samuel Willenberg, last survivor of Treblinka revolt, dies at 93

One of the few to escape the Nazi camp in 1943, Willenberg moved to Israel in 1950, where he found success later in life as a sculptor

Scholar says Poland’s Holocaust policies a step toward ‘dark ages’

By Vanessa Gera

BDS activist to represent Holocaust survivors at Austrian state event

By JTA

Anti-Israel campus activists shifting strategies, report says

By JTA

Tuvia Yanai Weissman with his wife Yael and four-month-old daughter. Weissman was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists at a West Bank supermarket on February 18, 2016. (Facebook)

Off-duty soldier killed in Thursday terror attack was American citizen

Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, was stabbed to death while shopping with wife, baby in West Bank; State Department: Attack underscores need for both sides to reject violence

Abbas’s Fatah declares would-be attacker a ‘heroic martyr’

Troops thwart attempted car-ramming in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF preps demolition of supermarket terrorists’ homes

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, February 19, 2016. (AFP/Jim Watson)

GOP, Dems gear up for Saturday primaries in South Carolina, Nevada

By Michael Mathes

Trump seeks big win over Republican rivals ahead of Super Tuesday; Clinton and Sanders battle over minority voters

Trump: What Obama has done to Israel is a disgrace

Sanders says he’s lucky to be white, but what about Jewish?

AnalysisFrancis era finds Republicans on religious defensive

The late author Harper Lee receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 (White House / Eric Draper)

Harper Lee’s philo-Semitism

By Richard D. Zelin

The author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who died Friday, portrayed Jews and the Jewish people in a distinctly positive light

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee dies at 89

By AFP

Sanders’ no-longer-Jewish idealism

As socialist values catch on among young US voters, Israel has abandoned its universalist aspirations

The Democrat who is standing up to Iran

Rep. Ted Deutsch of Florida is swimming against his party’s tide to keep the Iranian threat on the agenda

Celebrity cake maker Sylvia Weinstock in her New York office. (Carol Chan)

At 86, NY’s Queen of Cakes still sits sweetly on her throne

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The Oscars! (courtesy: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

Marketing menace

Academy sues over Oscars ‘goody bag’ featuring Israel trip

Lawsuit says marketing firm handing out costly freebies — among them $55,000 visit to Holy Land — devalues famous trademark

'Son of Saul' star Geza Rohrig in New York, October 7, 2015. (Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images/via JTA)

Tragic family history is source of ‘Son of Saul’ star’s dark charisma

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Hungarian Geza Rohrig’s first turn on the big screen is up for an Oscar on February 28. A look at what propels his riveting performance

French President Francois Hollande (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus)

France aims for peace parley in April, direct talks in July

By ToI Staff and Agencies

TV report says Paris has given UN Security Council details of its new push for Israeli-Palestinian deal, which Netanyahu this week dismissed as bound to fail

Ron Arad. (Israeli Air Force)

Report: Israeli airman Ron Arad was tortured to death in 1988

Former militiaman tells Lebanese military court that the missing navigator died while in captivity near Beirut

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses Lebanese TV viewers in a speech broadcast Tuesday, February 17, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Hezbollah: We hacked into Israeli security cameras

Isaac Herzog addresses the Knesset on February 10, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog: PM abandoned IDF chief after he advocated troop restraint

Opposition leader slams Netanyahu for ‘shameful’ lack of response to massive right-wing criticism of Eisenkot

From left to right, Ziad Sabateen, Lonny Baskin, Mustafa Sabateen, Muhammad Sabateen and Phil Saunders pose for a photograph on the night of Muhammad's release after a three-month prison sentence. (Courtesy/Ziad Sabateen)

Palestinian peacenik’s son released from prison, changed but dedicated to non-violence

By Judah Ari Gross

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrives at a youth summer camp, organized by the Hamas movement, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas: We found tunnel detection device in Gaza

By ToI Staff and AFP

Haniyeh says group does not foresee imminent war with Israel, but warns it now has ‘a mechanism for deterrence’

Illustrative photo of Iranian worshippers listening to a sermon during Friday prayers in July 2012. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran prayer leaders urge voters to pick anti-US candidates

By AFP

Cleric in Mashhad calls on the faithful to elect lawmakers with ‘Death to America’ written ‘on their foreheads’

This photo from February 16, 2016, provided by OSN, shows actors taking a 'selfie' at the end of OSN's "Saturday Night Live Arabia," show in Cairo, Egypt. (OSN via AP)

Live from Cairo, it's...

Arabic version of Saturday Night Live hits the Middle East

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Italian author Umberto Eco in Paris on May 12, 2015 (AFP / FRANCOIS GUILLOT)

Italy mourns author Umberto Eco, dead at 84

By AFP and ToI Staff

Eric Harris (L) watches as Dylan Klebold practices shooting a gun at a makeshift shooting range March 6, 1999 in Douglas County, CO in this image from video released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. (Photo by Jefferson County Sheriff's Department/JTA via Getty Images)

Columbine shooters had tense moment over Passover, mother says

By JTA

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C), Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) (L) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) prepare to speak to reporters after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol August 4, 2015 in Washington, (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Fill Scalia vacancy swiftly, Reform Jewish leaders urge GOP senators

By Eric Cortellessa

A building is seen with heavy damage in Aleppo, Syria, February 11, 2016. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP)

Aleppo’s rebel zones prepare for total siege

By Michel Moutot

Employees work at the new SodaStream factory in Israel's Negev Desert, next to the city of Rahat, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. (AP/Dan Balilty)

SodaStream faces off with Israel over Palestinian permits

By AFP

The arrest warrant issued for 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, suspected of involvement in the November 13, 2015. terror attacks in Paris. 'Do not intervene yourself,' warns the message issued November 15, 2015.

Paris attacks suspect hid in Brussels for 3 weeks — report

By AFP

Harvard University (Shutterstock)

After pro-Palestinian talk, Harvard donor stops sponsoring events

By Collin Binkley

East quad of Brooklyn College, in New York City. (Gabriel Liendo/Wikimedia Commons)

Brooklyn lawmaker: Discipline students who said ‘Zionists off campus’

By JTA

The Jalali Jame mosque in Rochdale, Greater Manchester (photo: Google Maps)

UK police launch murder probe into Muslim cleric’s death

Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli rabbis excommunicate man who won’t divorce wife

By JTA

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a press conference in New York City on November 22, 2015. (Michael Graae/Getty Images/AFP)

Deli-icious digDe Blasio answers Bush’s gun tweet with Jewish deli food

By JTA

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