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What Matters Most On Friday, February 26, 2016

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Omar Zayed (Channel 2)

Terrorist wanted by Israel murdered at Palestinian Embassy in Bulgaria

By Itamar Sharon and AFP

Omar Zayed had fled to embassy to escape extradition for killing of Israeli student; Palestinians say Israel assassinated him, Jerusalem denies it

Security guard critically hurt in terror attack in Ma’ale Adumim

Mohammed al-Qiq announces end to 94-day hunger strike

Palestinians slam Kenyan president for visiting Western Wall, West Bank

By Agencies and Raphael Ahren

An Iranian woman walks past electoral posters of parliamentary election candidates on a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Analysis

‘Death to England’ cries underline high stakes as Iran votes

By Avi Issacharoff

Iranian conservatives leapt on a BBC Farsi report to claim outside intervention in Friday’s elections, as two camps with two very different visions for regime compete fiercely for public support

High turnout as Iranians determine country’s direction

By ToI Staff and AP

How Iran deal unexpectedly brought Israel, black lawmakers closer

What’s at stake? A primer on the Iranian vote

By Adam Schreck

Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio (L) and Donald Trump in a heated exchange over Israel during a CNN debate, February 25, 2016 (YouTube screen capture)

Rubio and Cruz batter Trump for supposed lack of devotion to Israel

By ToI Staff, JTA and Agencies

At debate, rivals pile on frontrunner for espousing ‘neutrality’ in solving Mideast crisis; ‘He thinks Palestinians are a real estate deal,’ Rubio cries

Trump to Israeli paper: I’m your biggest friend

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In Chicago, Sanders found his place in civil rights movement

By Sara Burnett

ADL calls on Trump to repudiate white supremacist support

By AP

The SS 'tower of death' entrance to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, under which trains of Jewish deportees passed in 1944, when a spur was added to the existing track. The November 2015 photo was taken from outside the camp entrance. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Do the words ‘Polish death camps’ defame Poland? And if so, who’s to blame?

By Matt Lebovic

As Poland prepares a bill that makes calling Nazi-era death camps ‘Polish’ libelous, a look at the term’s Cold War origins, and the controversy’s impressive staying power

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

To my dear Golden Calves

‘Smashing the idols’ means letting go of the very assumptions upon which she relies for comfort and understanding

Shammai Engelmayer

Scalia would’ve stewed over cholent

The talmudic sages accepted what the late Supreme Court justice did not: in order to endure, law must adapt

The human cost of occupation

On the hardships wrought by land seizures and separation barrier construction in an East Jerusalem village

Pursuing justice for US terror victims

Stepping up pressure on the Justice Department to fulfill its obligation to punish Palestinians who kill Americans

Alberto Nisman gives a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 20, 2009. (AFP/Juan Mabromata)

Argentine prosecutor says AMIA investigator Nisman was murdered

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ricardo Sáenz demands federal inquiry into death of prosecutor who was probing cover-up of Iran’s role in 1994 Jewish center bombing

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets British Prime Minister David Cameron at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. (Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL/Flash90)

Netanyahu to Cameron: If not for Israel, terrorists would destroy Jerusalem’s holy places

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Only Israel protects city from Islamic State and Hamas, PM says in riposte to UK counterpart who slammed East Jerusalem building

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on June 25, 2012. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)

Rivlin drops trip to Australia to urgently meet Putin instead

Hamas security forces next to an Egyptian watch tower on the border between Egypt and Gaza, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, September 21, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Gazans said streaming into Sinai to fight with Islamic State

By Avi Issacharoff

Veteran Hamas gunmen among those slipping into Egypt, sources say; Cairo aware of the trend and trying to stop it

File: President Reuven Rivlin sits with members of Israel's Druze community, on September 24, 2015. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Druze ex-soldier claims police assault after mistaken for terrorist

Trip to a kitchen store in Safed said to turn sour when woman calls cops on Galilee resident

A Patriot anti-missile system in Israel (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Drilling with US troops, IDF officer warns rockets on Israel unavoidable

By Judah Ari Gross

At major excercise for 3,200 US and Israeli forces, general says anti-missile system will keep state functioning in wartime, but is not impenetrable

Palestinians wave flags as they ride boats in the seaport of Gaza City on June 28, 2015. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Hamas hopes Israel-Turkey deal will lead to Gaza seaport

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir on December 17, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Temple Mt.’s Muslim Waqf ordered to pay $14,000 to far-right extremist

Itamar Ben-Gvir wins invasion of privacy case against authority that administers contested Jerusalem site

US President Barack Obama, with lawmakers and supporters of the bill, signs H.R. 644, the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015 during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on February 24, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Obama weighs in on BDS fight — but battle likely won’t end there

President signed trade deal which conflates Israel, West Bank, but won’t implement provision for ‘Israeli-controlled territories’

Sacha Baron Cohen (Photo credit: Joella Marano /CC-BY-SA-2.0)

Putting on the shvitz

Before Ali G, Sacha Baron Cohen was a sweaty Hasidic Jew

By JTA

Comedian describes act in Jewish retirement homes called ‘the schvitzing brothers’; elderly residents weren’t amused

Filmmaker Adam Benzine, left, and acclaimed documentarian Claude Lanzmann in 2013. (Jet Black Iris America via JTA)

Oscars feature shorts on Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah,’ Palestinian nuns

An EarlySense system in action (Courtesy)

Heart patients — and hospitals — breathe easier with Israeli sleep tech

By David Shamah

Hospitals facing Obamacare penalties for high readmission rates should heed the results of a new study, says EarlySense

Thousands of cranes taking flight in Israel’s Hula Valley, February 2016. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Why Israel is a pilgrimage site for birds — and bird-watchers

More Headlines

Egyptian television host and parliament member Tawfiq Okasha (YouTube screen capture)

Egyptians outraged by MP’s meeting with Israeli envoy

By Itamar Sharon

Participants in the annual Tel Aviv marathon, February 26, 2016 (Itamar Sharon)

Tens of thousands run Tel Aviv marathon

By Itamar Sharon

Sam Hershenhorn, 90, at the 2015 Walk for Israel, an 8km fundraising stroll in downtown Toronto. (courtesy)

Torontonian turns 90, plans his 46th annual Walk With Israel

By Daniel Horowitz

Police go through the parking lot of Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas, where a gunman killed at least four people and injured many more, February 25, 2016. (Fernando Salazar/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

At least four dead, 30 wounded in Kansas shooting

By AFP

Illustrative: Jerome Robbins' inspired choreography for 'Fiddler on the Roof' (Courtesy Joan Marcus)

Tradition(al) movesChoreographer brings Israeli flavor to ‘Fiddler’ revival

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu site next to Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90)

Bill Gates: Israeli tech ‘changing the world’

By David Shamah

A mother waits for her son to arrive from Gondar on what Israel called the last flight of Falash Mura to the country in 2013 (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/ToI)

Plan to bring 9,000 Ethiopians to Israel placed on hold

By JTA

Point Breeze Avenue street sign at Point Breeze northern terminus at Federal Street and 20th Street. (Wikipedia/Rgs25/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Philly activists yell anti-Semitic comments at Jewish developers

By JTA

Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)

Reform rabbis celebrate mixed Western Wall worship with prayers at future site

Defense of Israel? The IDF has an app store for that

By David Shamah

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs up during a South Carolina Republican primary night event in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Hebrew media reviewTrumping it up in the holy city

By Adiv Sterman

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