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What Matters Most On Monday, February 29, 2016

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Actress Sofia Vergara and actor Byung-hun Lee present the award for Foreign Language film, Son of Saul, to director Laszlo Nemes (R) on stage at the 88th Oscars on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California (AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON)

‘Son of Saul’ wins Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film

By JTA, AP and ToI Staff

Hungarian Holocaust tale was favorite to win after taking Golden Globe, Grand Prix at Cannes; Amy Winehouse portrait awarded best documentary accolades

Scene from Hungarian director László Nemes’s
first feature film, 'Son of Saul.' (courtesy)

Is Germany ready for ‘Son of Saul’s up-close Holocaust experience?

By Toby Axelrod

Basil Khalil, the British-Palestinian director of the Oscar-nominated short film 'Ave Maria' (YouTube screenshot)

Oscar-nominated Palestinian: I don’t represent a country or a people

A Palestinian woman works at SodaStream's plant in Mishor Adumim, February 2, 2014 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Analysis

Victory for BDS as SodaStream’s last Palestinian workers lose their jobs

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: The liberal-minded beverage firm used to employ hundreds of locals until anti-Israel boycott pressure forced the closure of its West Bank factory. Now the final 75 Palestinian staffers have been fired. Viva Palestina!

SodaStream fires last Palestinian workers after permit row

By AFP

Immigration Minister Zeev Elkin arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the PM's office in Jerusalem, on February 14, 2016. (Olivier Fitoussi/POOL)

Interview

Elkin: Israel must overhaul Palestinian education when PA inevitably falls

By Marissa Newman

Top minister predicts ‘anarchy’ resulting from Palestinian leadership’s imminent demise, for which he says Israel and the world are woefully unprepared

Senior minister: Israel ignores imminent PA collapse at its own peril

By Raoul Wootliff

PA demands control over Iran cash handouts to terrorists

By ToI Staff and AFP

Netanyahu: Palestinian terrorism not motivated by despair

Mural of Abraham Joshua Heschel by Solomon Souza in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, February 25, 2016. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

Times of Israel video shows Solomon Souza in action

Young artist turns Jerusalem’s market into gallery of famous faces

By Renee Ghert-Zand and Luke Tress

Mahane Yehuda comes to life on the Sabbath as colorful murals of historical and contemporary figures appear on shops’ closed shutters

Baseball and the Jewish question

The leisurely-paced American sport has some fundamental lessons for many issues that confront Israelis

Those scary path-breaking women

Society punishes females who act for change and rewards those who protect the status quo

Avi Issacharoff

What Elkin didn’t say about a PA collapse

When the minister warned the end of the Authority is nigh he left out the reasons, the implications and the solutions

A reckless Rabbinate

Tzohar will not be deterred despite revelations that couples were denied marriage licenses for associating with them

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Sumter, South Carolina, on February 17, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Rubio, Cruz pounce on Trump’s KKK hesitation

By AP and ToI Staff

Republican candidate attacked by rivals over initial refusal to disavow white supremacist; billionaire frontrunner unapologetic over quoting Mussolini

Hassan Rouhani (right) and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a session of Assembly of Experts in Tehran, September 2013. (AP)

Relative moderates win majority on key Iran leadership body

Two leading hardliners ousted as Rouhani camp takes 52 of 88 seats on Assembly of Experts, which chooses supreme leader

Iran said withdrawing all its fighting forces from Syria

By ToI Staff and AFP

After 160 fatalities, Tehran pulling back all 2,500 troops, TV report says, although hundreds of military advisers will remain

A photo composite showing Nasser, right, and Akram Badawi, who are believed to have carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israelis since November. (Shin Bet)

Hebron snipers caught after months-long search

By Judah Ari Gross

Two brothers, Nasser and Akram Badawi, accused of carrying out shooting attacks that left 4 Israelis wounded

An activist with the Inernational Auschwitz Committee rolls up a poster featuring Holocaust victim Anne Frank outside the regional court of Neubrandenburg during the first day of the trial against former SS medic Hubert Zafke, accused of aiding in 3,681 murders in Auschwitz in 1944, on February 29, 2016. (AFP/John MACDOUGALL)

German court suspends trial of sick Auschwitz medic, 95

Hubert Zafke faces 3,681 counts of accessory to murder; served at death camp when teenage diarist Anne Frank arrived

Louis and Flora Barzelay photographed in Amsterdam, May 31, 1942. (Courtesy of Stans Barzelay)

How a Dutch thrift store returned the wedding book of Holocaust victims

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Within hours of staff posting that they’d found heirloom, thousands pitch in to help ensure it finally reaches groom’s niece

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at his Jerusalem office on Monday, February 23, 2016 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu to visit Africa, first Israeli PM to do so in 50 years

By Raphael Ahren

‘Israel is coming back to Africa. Africa is coming back to Israel. It’s happening in a big way,’ premier proclaims

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, being greeted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Berlin on February 16, 2016. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Germany irked by Netanyahu’s claim that Merkel disavowed two-state solution

By Raphael Ahren

Pro-Israel MP from chancellor’s center-right party to tell PM during visit to Jerusalem that he ‘must not misinterpret’ Berlin’s position

Omar Zayed (Channel 2)

Israel and PA to blame for death of Palestinian terrorist, says his family

By Itamar Sharon and AFP

Relatives say PA pressed Omar Zayed to leave mission in Bulgaria, where he was found dying Friday after apparent fall from upper story

Haim Koren, Israeli ambassador to Egypt, October 2013 (screen capture/YouTube/medisraelforfred)

Israeli envoy to Egypt: I won’t be deterred by shoe-throwing

By Tamar Pileggi

After Egyptian MP is attacked for hosting him, Haim Koren says he meets regularly with el-Sissi and ‘countries have shared interest in fighting terror’

Still from a video produced by a settler group against EU ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen, which shows the envoy in a Hannibal Lecter mask. (Facebook: screen capture)

Settler group accuses EU envoy of supporting ‘terror state’

In video, ‘Jerusalem Periphery Forum’ shows ambassador Faaborg-Andersen in Hannibal Lecter mask, slams EU housing aid to Palestinians

Israeli-American author and educator Nir Eyal (screen capture: YouTube)

Interview

A ‘kibbutz’ experience in California does wonders for the soul

A nano-satellite made in Israel (photo credit: CC BY-SA Royroy903 Wikimedia Commons)

Satellite pioneer SkyFi’s Vision: Worldwide internet access

By David Shamah

An Israeli nano-sat start-up is betting it can bring communication technology to the entire globe for next to nothing

Friends and family carry the bodies of Naama and Eitam Henkin during their funeral at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem, October 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Podcast

TOI talks: Twenty-nine Israelis and counting

By Raoul Wootliff

More Headlines

Still from a video showing a black-clad woman waving the severed head of a child in Moscow, ABC, February 29, 2016.

Russian police arrest ‘terrorist’ nanny with child’s severed head

By AFP and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (right) with Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug, June 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s top banks laugh all the way to more profits

A first grader raises his hand in a classroom in Nitzan, southern Israel. (Edi Israel/Flash90/File)

Dismal grade for Israel in class size rankings

By Raoul Wootliff

Clockwise from top left: Seth Rogen, Matisyahu, Ralph Lauren and Sheryl Sandberg all went to Jewish camp (Courtesy JTA)

Yiddish youths9 famous Jews who attended Jewish summer camp

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative photo of Israeli police cars (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Hit-and-run that left cop badly hurt was accident, police say

(L to R) ISF Founding Partner Shmuel Shilo; Dror Glass, Founding Managing Partner; Nir Linchevski, Managing Partner (Courtesy)

Israeli investment firm turns unwanted start-up options into gold

By David Shamah

A staging of "Seven Jewish Children" by drama students (YouTube screenshot)

Jeremy Corbyn’s son helps stage pro-Palestinian play on campus

The Arts Building at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

McGill U students refuse to ratify BDS motion

By JTA

Former Israel Museum director James Snyder (Elie Posner, Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

Director of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem steps aside

By AP

Screen capture from an MBC comedy sketch parodying Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. (YouTube/Mishel Zarifeh)

Not-srallahHezbollah parody TV skit causes riots in Lebanon

By Stuart Winer

Saadi Ali Abu Ahmad, the Palestinian terrorist who attacked Tzvika Cohen, an unarmed guard, at a mall in Ma'ale Adumim on February 25, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Hebrew media reviewAxes of evil

By Joshua Davidovich

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