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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 24, 2016

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Cpt. (res.) Eliav Gelman (Hagar Amibar/Israel Air Force)

Father of 2 killed in friendly fire attack during stabbing

Thousands attend funeral for reserve officer Eliav Gelman, 30, of Karmei Tzur, who also leaves behind a pregnant wife; ‘He was loved and loving,’ brother says

Reserve officer killed by errant fire during West Bank stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross

2 Arab vendors caught with pipe bombs in Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

Number of Israelis injured by terrorism jumps 284% in 2015

By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visits a caucus site, Tuesday, February 23, 2016, in Las Vegas (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Donald Trump notches 3rd straight win in Nevada caucuses

By Steve Peoples and Nancy Benac

Presidential hopeful on a roll after primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina; Rubio set to edge Cruz for second place

Trump lauds the ‘poorly educated’ after Nevada win

By AFP

Director Spike Lee endorses Bernie Sanders

By AFP

Democrats name Jewish studies grad to head outreach

By JTA

Dead Sea Scroll fragments -- from the conservation table to the virtual table (Shai Halevi, courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)

Dead Sea Scrolls project will use latest tech to solve ‘ultimate jigsaw’

Ambitious collaboration aims to make sense of 20,000 fragments of 2,000-year-old texts that have baffled researchers for decades

Security forces and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack at Gush Etzion Junction, on February 24, 2016. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Hundreds attend funeral for reserve officer slain in attack

Mourners at late night burial in Kfar Etzion remember Maj. Eliav Gelman, 30, who leaves behind two sons and a pregnant wife

Minister of Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan at the swearing-in ceremony of new police officers at the Ministry of Interior Security in Jerusalem on January 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli minister holds confab with Jewish leaders on tackling BDS

Strategic affairs minister Erdan wants to appoint anti-boycott coordinators around the world

As anti-BDS laws spread across US, some say they go too far

Students at Montreal’s McGill U pass pro-BDS motion

By JTA

At 3 US campuses, anti-Semitic incidents meet very different responses

By JTA

I can’t keep track of the victims

After yet another Israeli death, it’s time to shut down PA channels that openly call for the murder of Jews

Small joys in dark days

The conundrum of focusing on personal ups and downs against the tragic backdrop of hatred, violence and fear

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Lonely, but not alone

On how he came to be someone who prays with people he can’t speak with and speaks with people he can’t pray with

Miriam Herschlag

The Times of Israel conversation just got better

New ReplyAll tool allows several authors to converse in a single, dynamic article — and lets readers follow the action

The family of Dafna Meir at her funeral in Jerusalem on January 18, 2106. Meir was stabbed to death at the entrance to her home in the settlement of Otniel on January 17. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s first foster care law dedicated to terror victim Dafna Meir

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Advocates hope new legal protections and clearer regulations will encourage more Israelis to become foster parents

Secretary of State John Kerry testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill February 23, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Kerry: Even IDF chief says Iran deal boosts Israeli security

By Adiv Sterman

At Senate hearing, US secretary of state insists nuclear accord has made world a safer place

The knife used by a 17-year-old Palestinian suspected of stabbing 65-year-old Shlomit Gonen in the southern Bedouin town of Rahat on February 6, 2015. (Israel Police)

Suspect nabbed in stabbing of Jewish woman in Bedouin town

17-year-old Palestinian from Hebron accused of carrying out Feb. 6 attack was working illegally for family in Rahat

Illustrative photo of a Palestinian prisoner (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Shin Bet accused of benefiting from Palestinian torture

By Marissa Newman

Report claims ‘cruel, degrading, and inhuman’ treatment of prisoners; security agency says its actions are lawful, allegations ‘distorted’

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (L) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they deliver joint statements in Jerusalem on February 23, 2016. (AMIR COHEN / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu pledges terrorism cooperation with Africa

By Ari Solomon and AFP

Prime minister and President Rivlin meet in Jerusalem with Kenyan president

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon during a visit to Israel's southern border, February 23, 2015 (Diana Hananashvilli/Defense Ministry)

Ya’alon: Bereavement not equal for Israelis and our enemies

Weighing in on public debate over grief, defense minister says the Jewish state strives for life while the ‘opposing society wishes for death’

Lisa Robins in 'The Blessing of a Broken Heart' at The Braid in Santa Monica, California, on February 18, 2016 (Zachary Andrews)

From grief to healing, LA play chronicles journey of bereaved Israeli mother

An IDF soldier guards at a bus stop in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, on January 25, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Analysis

Rather than save lives, arming off-duty soldiers could bring greater risk

By Judah Ari Gross

By requiring troops to bring home their service weapons to defend against terror attacks, the army is taking away its most effective means of preventing suicide

File: Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, an IDF soldier who was killed in a stabbing attack in a West Bank supermarket on Thursday, February 18, 2016 (courtesy)

Supermarket stabbing victim’s widow pleased soldiers will take guns home now

File: Israeli Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi in Jerusalem on November 2, 2015. (Flash90)

IDF intel chief warns despair in Gaza could explode toward Israel

Herzl Halevi says economy must be strengthened to avoid new conflict, agrees with UN report that Strip could be uninhabitable by 2020

File: Avichai Mandelblit arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on January 17, 2016. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Israel won’t demolish homes of families who turn in terrorists

In precedent-setting move, government accepts position of new A-G to spare home of killer whose father handed him over

Author Ayelet Waldman, wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon. (Reenie Raschke)

Authors Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon take on the Israeli occupation

By Jessica Steinberg

Husband and wife writers to edit a book of essays to mark the 50th anniversary of Israel’s capture of the West Bank

Likud MK Oren Hazan on May 13, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud boots its own scandal-ridden MK from Knesset panels

Oren Hazan suspended after he failed to appear for a parliamentary vote and thus prevented coalition from passing bill

A Lebanese protester raises a placard during a mass rally against a political class seen as corrupt and incapable of providing basic services on August 29, 2015, at the iconic Martyrs Square in Beirut. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Analysis

Defeated by Iran, the Saudis wash their hands of Lebanon

By Avi Issacharoff

Riyadh’s decision to halt aid and bar its citizens from Beirut marks a victory for the Shiite axis over the Sunnis in an ever-deepening regional war

Syrian volunteers and their relatives wave the national flag and portraits of President Bashar Assad as they celebrate at the end of a paramilitary training conducted by the Syrian army on February 22, 2016. (AFP / LOUAI BESHARA)

Assad assures Putin of ‘readiness’ to respect Syria ceasefire — Kremlin

By AFP

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Sin City’s Jewish mayor on why her hubby would have loved to run against Trump

More Headlines

A US couple's wedding in Haifa is joined by Israeli merry-makers who came to enliven the party (Facebook video)

The wedding crashersDozens of Israelis drop in to enliven US couple’s nuptials

This X-Ray image shows a grenade in the bag of an Israeli woman who tried to board a plane at the Sde Dov Airport on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 (Israel Airports Authority)

Packing heatIsraeli woman takes gun, grenade to airport

Haifa's industrial area. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Haifa mayor urges PM to move chemical plant threatened by Hezbollah

By Tamar Pileggi

In this Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015 photo, Iranian poet Payam Feili poses for a photograph in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Gay Iranian poet said to seek asylum in Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Imam Shaban Sherif Mady during a sermon in Alberta, Canada (YouTube screenshot)

Canadian imam: Islam will conquer Rome

US director Spike Lee arrives for the screening of his film "Chi-Raq" presented out of competition at the 66th Berlin Film Festival in Berlin on February 26, 2016. (AFP / John MACDOUGALL)

Director Spike Lee endorses Bernie Sanders

By AFP

Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev in the Knesset on June 15, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice Ministry OKs conditioning arts funding on ‘loyalty’

By Tamar Pileggi

The BreezoMeter interface, with red sections showing areas of high pollution, and green sections showing areas with low pollution (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli pollution detector expands to 9 more countries

By David Shamah

(L to R) Team8 Founders Nadav Zafrir, Liran Grinberg, and Israel Grimberg, (Courtesy)

Israeli ‘cyber-syndicate’ Team8 raises another $23m

By David Shamah

Holocaust denier David Irving (photo credit: public domain via wikipedia)

Don’t host Holocaust denier David Irving, Dutch group appeals to event halls

By JTA

Benjamin Terrell, hard at work at Ikea Rishon Lezion (Courtesy Benjamin Terrell)

Box-carThe man with a van and a shuttle to Ikea

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative. Police guard a synagogue during a visit by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, in Marseille, southern France, January 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

French Jew arrested for lying over Islamic State attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

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