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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 1, 2016

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Illustrative: A RyanAir Boeing 737 plane. (Courtesy)

2 Israeli fighter jets said to nearly crash into Ryanair plane

IAF F-16s come ‘dangerously close’ to passenger aircraft, with 162 on board, above Eilat’s Ovda airport; airline denies near-miss

Illustrative photo of Israeli border police and soldiers clashing with Palestinians shooting fireworks at the Qalandiya checkpoint on July 24, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

IDF rescues 2 soldiers from Qalandiya refugee camp

By Judah Ari Gross

The two split up after their jeep was hit by firebombs; one Palestinian killed, dozens injured in ensuing clashes

‘Last resort’ measure used to ensure troops weren’t kidnapped in Qalandiya, army says

By Judah Ari Gross

Troops rescued from Qalandiya followed Waze navigation app

Inside storyMassive IDF raid nothing new for hardened refugee camp

By Avi Issacharoff

File: Refugees who arrived by train from Salzburg, Austria, wait on a platform at the central station in Munich, Germany, on September 6, 2015. (Photo by Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

As refugees flood in, German Jews are torn between embrace and worry

By Raphael Ahren

The Cologne Jewish community’s dilemma over teenage refugees living opposite the city’s synagogue is a microcosm of German Jewry’s concerns over the migrant wave

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Signature Flight Hangar at Port-Columbus International Airport, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Live updates (closed)

Trump says Clinton lacks the ‘stamina’ to be president

Ya’alon: Syrian forces used chemical weapons during truce; PA official won’t meet Israeli MK after getting death threats

The Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee erupts in angry debate on February 29, 2016, and a Knesset security staffer prepares to eject MK Abdullah Abu Maaruf (Knesset channel screenshot)

Amid furious scenes, Knesset law panel okays first reading for MK suspension bill

Leader of Joint (Arab) List Odeh ‘will weigh resigning’ if Balad MKs are ousted, says controversial legislation will strengthen ‘Arab separatists’

Top Arab MK accuses Israel of murdering Yasser Arafat

Ex-Shin Bet head Dichter slams Joint List leader’s ‘murder’ claim

Portugal journalists: Slain Palestinian terrorists are not ‘murdered’

By JTA

Maree Miller, of Cairo, Ga., reacts to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as he speaks to supporters during a rally at Valdosta State University February 29, 2016 in Valdosta, Georgia, on the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)

As Super Tuesday voting begins, Clinton and Trump hope to wipe out rivals

By Michael Mathes

Pivotal day in presidential nomination race finds Clinton riding high after South Carolina, Trump leading in polls in at least eight of the 11 states up for grabs

After Trump wavers on David Duke, ADL publishes candidates’ guide to racists

By JTA

Sanders keeps his Judaism in the background, irking US Jews

By Rachel Zoll and Josef Federman

Final batch of Clinton emails includes message to ‘Hashem’

By AP and ToI Staff

Maniya Bergson waited 100 years to turn 25 on February 29, 2016. (screenshot: Channel 2)

What are the odds?

Israeli centenarian finally turns 25

Maniya Bergson, born February 29, 1916, moved to pre-state Israel from Poland in 1947, lost a son in the Yom Kippur War

Richard L. Cravatts

Hateful paranoia infects Oberlin

The college is legitimating the sort of anti-Jewish rhetoric usually reserved for hate groups and cranks

Gheula Canarutto Nemni

The voice of an Arab Israeli doctor

She was in an Israeli hospital, where she met Faiza, the head of the ICU, who ‘wouldn’t live anywhere else’

Iran funding Palestinian terrorism

An update for those who may be wondering what Teheran is doing with its billions in sanctions relief

I may have saved a child’s life

He signed up for the bone marrow registry — and then he got a call and learned he was a match

File: Americans rally in support of Israel, Chicago, November 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy JUF Chicago/JTA)

Two thirds of Americans favor Israel over Palestinians

More Americans are for a Palestinian state than against; religious Republican over-50s strongest Israel supporters

A test of the David's Sling missile defense system (Defense Ministry)

Defense Ministry begins installing David’s Sling missile defense

By Stuart Winer

Ahead of full deployment, air force to get major components of system over the next few weeks

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani registering his candidacy for president in May 2013. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Analysis

Rafsanjani and Iran’s ‘House of Cards’

By Avi Issacharoff

Once a key ally of Khamenei, then pushed out by conservatives, the former president returns in force to dominate Tehran politics

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani waves to the crowd during a rally in Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) to mark the 37th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on February 11, 2016. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran voters chose ‘right and proper path,’ Rouhani crows

By AFP

A group of Israeli Jews, accompanied by Yehudah Glick, chairman of the Fund for the Temple Mount and Temple Heritage organizations, seen in the Temple Mount courtyard near Al Aqsa Mosque, November 19 2013. (Photo credit: Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Right-wing activist Glick returns to Temple Mount

Would-be MK’s first visit to holy site since 2014 attempt on his life follows court cancellation of restraining order

Avraham Avera Mengistu, undated. (Courtesy of the Mengistu family via AP)

Family of Israeli missing in Gaza pleads for global pressure on Hamas

By AFP

Avraham Mengistu’s parents and brother travel to Geneva to meet diplomats and seek humanitarian assistance

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)

EU slams ‘appalling’ video targeting its Israel envoy

Settler group’s film depicts Lars Faaborg-Andersen in a Hannibal Lecter mask, accuses ambassador of supporting ‘terror state’

Leader of the Yesh Atid political party, Yair Lapid, and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party, Avigdor Liberman, lead a joint conference in the Knesset regarding Israel's foreign policy, February 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM deliberately destroying Israel’s foreign service, say Lapid and Liberman

By Raphael Ahren

Unlikely political pair bemoans plans to close embassies, urge Netanyahu to appoint a full-time FM for the sake of nation’s standing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), seen in the Knesset during a special plenum session in memory of late Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, on February 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

At Sharon memorial, Netanyahu laments Gaza pullout

By Stuart Winer

PM says giving Palestinians responsibility for rule in coastal enclave didn’t bring peace, but increased terror; Herzog hails ex-PM’s boldness

Winston Churchill and Stefan Lorant, 1939. Detail from front cover of 'Jews and Photography in Britain.' (Kurt Hutton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How Jews shot their way into Britain’s photographic memory

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The older students take time out of the day to read stories to younger students at the McGillis School in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Judaism is an ethos at Utah Jewish school where Jews are a minority

By Uriel Heilman

More Headlines

From left to right: Li Yuan, Yue Ting, Li Jing, Li Chengjin and Gao Yichen standing in front of the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, February 29, 2016. (Laura Ben-David/Courtesy of Shavei Israel)

5 Chinese women immigrate to Israel, plan conversion

By JTA and Stuart Winer

A member of the Ku Klux Klan is attacked by counter-protesters at an anti-immigration rally in Anaheim, California on Saturday, February 27, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish prof saves 3 KKK members at bloody California rally

By JTA

Illustrative photo of bearded religious soldiers. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Grizzled blizzardIDF piled with beard requests as ban comes into force

A man removes cash from a Bank Leumi ATM machine in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Zombies and mules: The inside story of the first-ever shekel bank hack

By David Shamah

Alberto Nisman, the slain prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center, talks to journalists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina ex-spy chief testifies in prosecutor’s death

By AP

Actress Sarah Silverman speaks onstage during the 88th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 28, 2016. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Academy of mishegas5 unexpected Jewish moments from the Oscars

By JTA

IDF soldiers stand to attention during a ceremony. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Top IDF general suspended over alleged ‘sexual offenses’

By Judah Ari Gross

Oil painting in the style of "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo, depicting the Flying Spaghetti Monster; two large meatballs wrapped in noodles, with eyes on stalks which are also noodles, floating in mid-air. ( Wikimedia Fair Use Image)

Joined in holy macaroniNew Zealand gets first ‘Pastafarian’ pastor

By AFP

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee meets with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during the first official visit to Israel of an Indian leader, October 14, 2015 (Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO)

India’s third-biggest firm shops Israel for innovative tech

By David Shamah

From left, presidential candidates Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders. (Getty Images via JTA)

Hebrew media reviewVoting in, voting out

By Marissa Newman

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