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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 28, 2016

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Security camera footage showing Palestinian Saadi Ali Abu Ahmad attacking unarmed security guard Tzvi Cohen with an ax, in a mall in the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, February 25, 2016. (YouTube/Alik Maor)

Family of terror victim appalled as ax assault video goes online

By Stuart Winer

Security camera footage shows attacker hacking at unarmed security guard Tzvika Cohen; victim’s brother collapses on seeing the clip

Forces nab Palestinian suspect in settlement mall attack

Security guard remains in serious condition after terror attack

Playground at Beit El settlement comes under sniper fire

Syrian children play on a swing at a park in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern edges of the capital Damascus on February 27, 2016. (AFP / Sameer Al-Doumy)

Netanyahu: Syria truce must guarantee security for Israel

While ceasefire is important ‘from a humane standpoint,’ it should also block ‘Iranian aggression,’ prime minister says

Fledgling Syria truce appears to hold into second day

By Maher Al-Mounes and Karam al-Masri

New Sanders adviser speculated that Israel gassed Syria rebels

After enduring IS ‘hell,’ Yazidi girls seek healing in Germany

Illustrative photo of Israeli Border Police officers (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Cop badly hurt in apparent hit-and-run near Nazareth

By Marissa Newman

Suspect arrested after fleeing scene; police officer taken to hospital for treatment

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledges supporters at her election night watch party after winning the South Carolina Democratic primary in Columbia, South Carolina, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Black voters lead Clinton to resounding South Carolina victory

By EMILY SWANSON

Clinton soars among minorities and women, and even begins to eat away at Sanders’s lead among young voters

Cruz, Rubio escalate case against Trump

By Bill Barrow and Thomas Beaumont

French far-right pol Jean-Marie Le Pen endorses Trump

By AFP

Mexican ex-president compares Trump to Hitler

By AFP

Jennifer Jason Leigh speaking at a press conference for “The Hateful Eight” at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, Dec. 14, 2015. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company, via JTA)

5 incredible Jewish stories behind this year’s Oscars

By JTA

From Jennifer Jason Leigh’s ‘Hateful Eight’ comeback to ‘Room’ director Lenny Abrahamson and ‘Son of Saul’ star Geza Rohrig, Sunday’s ceremony is set to be quite a kosher affair

‘Son of Saul’ scoops Best Foreign Film at Spirit Awards

By Stuart Winer

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

Party for the postnup

Though happily married, she signed a pre-divorce agreement because she remembers that feeling of powerlessness

Possessed by a dybbuk

Finding that elusive sense of the sacred in an old Yiddish movie whose Polish director was on his own spiritual search

The children’s intifada

Why children have been at the forefront of the latest round of Palestinian violence

Laura Janner-Klausner

For Reform Jews, the fight is not over

Although ultra-Orthodox lawmakers are fighting a losing battle, progressives cannot afford to lose focus now

Iranian journalists work in a press room at the Interior Ministry as they follow the preliminary results of the parliamentary and Experts Assembly elections on February 28, 2016 in Tehran. (AFP / STRINGER)

Rouhani allies win all 30 parliament seats in Tehran

By Arthur Macmillan

Preliminary results for powerful Assembly of Experts also looking good for president

Iranian head of the reformists' coalition list for the parliamentary elections Mohammad Reza Aref shows his inked finger after casting his ballot at a polling station in Tehran, February 26, 2016. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)

Rouhani allies sweep Tehran seats from conservatives

By AFP

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) and his Swiss counterpart Johann Schneider speak during a press conference following a meeting in Tehran on February 27, 2016. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Sanctions lifted, Tehran looks to boost financial ties with Swiss

Days after Iran offers money to Palestinians who attack Israelis, Iranian official says Swiss can take Tehran off banking blacklist of terror supporters; Bern reportedly to help regime obtain full membership in World Trade Organization

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

Egyptian MP hurls shoe at colleague for hosting Israeli envoy

Legislators outraged after Tawfiq Okasha invited ambassador Haim Koren to his home for dinner last week

Gunmen from Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades, squat in a tunnel used for ferrying rockets and mortars back and forth in preparation for the next conflict with Israel, as they take part in military training in the south of the Gaza Strip on March 3, 2015. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Five reported injured in fresh Gaza tunnel collapse

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Cause of latest in series of cave-ins unclear; Zionist Union lawmaker accuses government of remaining idle, just as on the eve of 2014 war

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)

Attorney general: Israel can’t expel terrorists’ families to Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Avichai Mandelblit says deportations supported by Likud ministers would contravene Israeli and international law

Hamas fighters take part in an anti-Israel rally in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, February 26, 2016. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Analysis

On Gaza seaport, Israel navigates narrows between Cairo and Hamas

By Avi Issacharoff

Jerusalem’s mixed message regarding wharf comes as result of Egyptian opposition, despite Palestinian warnings of renewed hostilities if project does not go forward

Oliver Anisfeld (left) on the Jewish Wisdom segment on the newly launched J-TV in discussion with Rabbi Shlomo Farhi. (YouTube screenshot)

New Jewish YouTube channel J-TV launches from the UK

By Jenni Frazer

Omar Zayed (Channel 2)

Death of Palestinian terrorist is ‘happy day’ for sister of Israeli he murdered

By Itamar Sharon and AFP

As Omar Zayed dies in mysterious circumstances in Bulgaria, family of yeshiva student Eliyahu Amedi ‘close a circle’ after 30 years

A statue of Brigham Young at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. (George Frey/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Hybrid identity no contradiction for Jewish Mormons

By Uriel Heilman

Illustrative: Israelis walking past the Knesset during the annual gay parade in Jerusalem, July 29, 2010. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

LGBT activists protest after MKs nix 5 gay rights bills

200 members of the community take to the streets near government district in Tel Aviv demanding change in the law

Undated photo of the Singer family. Grete is standing third from right (Courtesy)

In London attic, a Holocaust survivor’s story is rediscovered

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Illustrative: Soldiers in the IDF's Netzah Yehuda Battalion at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan Valley, August 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Facial discriminationRabbi: IDF beard ban is like Nazi Germany

Illustrative: A Ku Klux Klansman, left, uses an American flag to fend off angry counter protesters after members of the KKK tried to start a 'White Lives Matter' rally at Pearson Park in Anaheim, California, on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via AP)

3 stabbed at KKK gathering in Southern California

By AP

Islamic missionary and Dubai-based Peace TV founder Zakir Naif. (Wikimedia/maapu/CC BY 2.0)

UK to probe Muslim missionary TV channel that broadcasts anti-Semitism

Amir Haddad performs on the French version of reality singing show The Voice in 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Seine sabra singerFrance’s Eurovision entrant is an ‘Israeli Idol’

Minister of Education Naftali Bennett (right) seen with Education Ministry Director-General Michal Cohen at a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 18, 2016. (Flash90)

Top education official quits after Bennett ignores racism study

Illustrative photo: Israeli police officers in Bet Shemesh, on March 17, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

Domestic violence suspect stabs arresting officer, is shot dead

An illustrative photo of IDF Military Police, November 17, 2014 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

Soldier suspected of passing classified info to right-wing activists

A building on the Oberlin College campus, Oberlin, Ohio. (Wikimedia Commons)

Oberlin president ‘respects’ free speech of prof. behind anti-Semitic posts

By JTA

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announces his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Fort Worth Convention Center on February 26, 2016, in Fort Worth, Texas. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewChristie’s Trump card

By Ilan Ben Zion

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