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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 2, 2016

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens during a news conference after speaking at the TD Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina, August 27, 2015 (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)

Trying to make sense of that ‘neutral,’ ‘totally pro-Israel’ Donald Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

What to think of a candidate who courts Jewish Republicans but tells them, ‘I don’t want your money’; has a daughter who converted to Judaism but finds difficulty disavowing an ex-KKK leader?

Prospect of Trump nomination poses dilemma for Jewish Republicans

Patriots owner Robert Kraft: Trump a ‘very close friend’

By JTA

Nation of Islam leader hails Trump for resisting ‘Jewish money’

By JTA

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives to address supporters at her Super Tuesday election night rally in Miami, Tuesday, March 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Clinton and Trump cemented as 2016 leaders

By Julie Bykowicz and Lisa Lerer

Democratic front-runner surges to 700-delegate lead over rival Sanders; Republican billionaire holds nearly half of all delegates in crowded field

Trump: Clinton doesn’t have ‘stamina’ to be president

By AP and ToI Staff

Clinton, Trump move closer to showdown with primary wins

By AP

John McCain decries ‘disturbing’ Republican race

By AFP

Illustrative: Palestinian members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah movement, raise their weapons during a rally to support Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his government on March 1, 2016, in the West Bank Balata refugee camp near Nablus (AFP / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Analysis

No longer ‘lone wolves,’ Palestinian attackers pair up

By Avi Issacharoff

Wednesday morning’s terror attack in Eli highlights a new pattern of ‘cooperative’ strikes in twos and even threes

Israeli father of 5 lightly hurt in attack at West Bank settlement

By ToI Staff and JTA

Netanyahu advances bid to expel attackers’ families to Gaza

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli teens charged in racist attack on Arabs

By AFP and ToI Staff

File: The settlement of Har Bracha in the northern West Bank in September 2014.

Live updates (closed)

Troops scour Nablus area for attackers after Har Bracha stabbing

By Raoul Wootliff

Residents told to stay indoors as army searches area for perpetrators following attack on two soldiers

Renee Rabinowitz, the 81-year-old whose El Al experience helped create a lawsuit (Courtesy Jessica Steinberg)

'I'm not a confrontational kind of person'

El Al plaintiff, 81, sees discrimination lawsuit as chance ‘to do some good’

By Jessica Steinberg

Meet Renee Rabinowitz, grandmother, litigant, and ‘flavor of the month’ at Israel Religious Action Center

Arab-Israeli women part from a Palestinian colleague (2ndR) at SodaStream's plant in the Israeli city of Rahat in the Negev desert. She was one of the last Palestinian employees of the SodaStream drinks firm laid off following a work permit battle on February 29, 2016 (AFP / JACK GUEZ)

SodaStream CEO: Idiotic Israeli red tape, not BDS, got Palestinians fired

Government says permits were rescinded because of preference for Israeli workers, not for security reasons; after laying off final 74 Palestinian employees, Daniel Birnbaum vows to somehow find work for them in West Bank

The rabbi eats a bacon cheeseburger?

Every Reform Jew has a chance to make informed choices about the role kashrut observance plays in their life

Syria and the new world order

John Kerry’s idea of partitioning Syria along ethnic lines signals the end of the nation-state

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Who cares which Arabs SodaStream hires?

There’s no defensible reason Palestinians should get work permits when Israelis living nearby need the jobs

The Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow near Krakow. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Gas workers dig up human remains at Nazi death camp in Poland

By JTA and AP

Construction crew was repairing pipeline near Plaszow death camp outside Krakow

File: Brig. Gen. Ofek Buchris, second right, motions to then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz during a tour in northern Israel, when Buchris was head of the IDF's Bashan Division in 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Suspended IDF general suspected of rape

By Judah Ari Gross

Ofek Buchris denies allegations by former subordinate soldier; submits polygraphs to military court to prove innocence

Meretz MK Michal Rozin speaks during a committee meeting in the Knesset, December 14, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill aims to outlaw sex between rabbis and their followers

Illustrative photo of a steering wheel (Pixabay)

Bloody Qalandiya clash underscores danger of relying on Waze

By Simona Weinglass

Many drivers like to turn on the navigation app and turn off their minds, but experts say misplaced trust in technology comes at a price

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2016 (Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry)

Ya’alon: Syrian regime used chemical weapons during truce

By ToI Staff and AFP

Defense minister says government forces ‘dropped barrels of chlorine on civilians’ this week

Illustrative. Palestinian students seen on their first day of the new school year in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 25, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90/File)

‘No education toward 2 states in Palestinian textbooks,’ report finds

Israel left off maps, Israeli cities said to be in Palestine, martyrdom praised, Holocaust not mentioned in over 70 PA textbooks for Grades 1-12, says Israel Radio journalist

Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)

Gazan Islamic State fighter blasts group’s close Hamas ties

In letter to ‘caliph,’ jihadist in Syria complains of joint military efforts with Hamas in Sinai even as group tortures IS supporters

Jordanian forces conduct a military drill as part of the 7th Annual International Warrior Competition hosted by the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC), Sunday, April 19, 2015, Amman, Jordan. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan says deadly raid foiled Islamic State attacks

7 jihadists killed in firefight with security forces near Syria border; PM says kingdom able to withstand extremists’ advance

Family and friends of Yosef Salamsa protest at the entrance to the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on March 1, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

8 arrested as Ethiopian-Israelis protest alleged police abuse

Demonstrators block Jerusalem roads after investigation into death of community member Yosef Salamsa is closed

European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, right, shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas prior to a meeting at the EU External Action Service building in Brussels on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. (AP/Francois Walschaerts)

EU approves $274 million in aid for Palestinians

Foreign affairs chief calls on Palestinian Authority to be ‘more transparent, more accountable, and more democratic’

A member of the Jewish community looks at broken tombstones after a ceremony at the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union, eastern France, on February 17, 2015, following the desecration of around 300 tombs. (Photo credit: AFP/PATRICK HERTZOG)

Council of Europe: Racism ‘commonplace’ in France

By AFP

Figures show a 36% rise in anti-Semitic attacks, a 14% uptick in racist violence between 2012-2014

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

Argentine ex-spy chief: AMIA investigator Nisman was murdered

By Ilan Ben Zion

Antonio Stiuso says he is sure the ex-president ‘impeded’ probe on Iran’s role in deadly 1994 bombing; case to go to federal court

Excavation director, Alex Wiegmann, alongside an ancient winery complex uncovered on the site of the former Schneller IDF base in Jerusalem. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

1,600-year-old wine press found in old Jerusalem army base

By Stuart Winer

Archaeologists also uncover ancient bathhouse within compound of former Schneller camp

Fairmount Bagel owner Irwin Shlafman in 'Bagels in the Blood.' (Wire Walker Studios)

Bittersweet bagel story gives audiences something to chew on

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Matthew Broderick, left, and Nathan Lane in a parody of The Producers on Jimmy Kimmel Live, aired on February 20, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Make America grate againIt’s springtime for Trump-thwacking on late-night TV

Columbia University. (CC-BY-SA InSapphoWeTrust/Flickr)

40 Columbia professors sign BDS petition

By JTA

Payam Feili (left), with a translator, in Jerusalem on February 29, 2016 (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Gay Iranian poet seeking Israel asylum gets visa extension

German Federal Constitutional Court judges in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, open a hearing on a possible ban of the far-right NPD party on March 1, 2016. (AFP/DPA/Marijan Murat)

Germany’s top court weighs ban on neo-Nazi party

By Juergen Oeder

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

Executed Hamas commander may have been accused of gay sex

By Stuart Winer

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro (center) reviews projects at the Gaia Symposium, February 25, 2016 (Amir Ezer)

Can the environment survive Israeli-Palestinian politics?

By David Shamah

Mumbai's Chabad House, where Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his 28-year-old wife Rivka, were killed by Islamist terrorists attack, seen here on December 25 2008. (Serge Attal/ Flash90)

Son of Mumbai Chabad emissaries named for murdered rabbi

By JTA

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. (Courtesy Core18)

Templeton prize goes to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

By Daniel Douek

BlueSnap screenshot

An Israeli cure for web checkout abandonment

By David Shamah

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, Ofek Buchris, center, and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon seen at Mount Hermon, overlooking the Israeli border with Syria. February 04, 2015. (Effi Sharir/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewAn officer, but maybe not a gentleman

By Joshua Davidovich

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