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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 3, 2016

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MP Tawfik Okasha (left) is prevented from entering the Egyptian parliamentary chamber on March 2, 2016 (AlMasry AlYoum screenshot)

Egypt parliament expels lawmaker for meeting Israel’s envoy

MPs vote overwhelmingly to boot Tawfiq Okasha for hosting Israeli ambassador at his home; Okasha says he’ll run for president

Israeli ambassador invites any Egyptian to talk with him

Palestinian MP stages sit-in protest at parliament

By AFP

US may deport Egyptian student who threatened Trump

By Ami Taxin and Brian Rohan

US Congressional candidate Brian Mast was a US Army bomb disposal expert serving under the Joint Special Operations Command. Both his legs were blown off by an IED in Afghanistan in September 2010. (Courtesy of Mast for Congress)

Pro-Israel US Army vet runs for Congress — on prosthetic legs

By Renee Ghert-Zand

After recently volunteering with the IDF, Republican Brian Mast touts his support for the Jewish state on the Florida campaign trail

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2015 Policy Conference, March 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

With Obama out of town, Netanyahu might skip AIPAC conference

By Raphael Ahren

President’s historic Cuba trip, Biden’s arrival in Israel next week, and a desire to stay out of US electioneering could keep PM in Jerusalem

US military chief back in Israel amid aid talks

By Judah Ari Gross

Biden to visit Israel and Palestinian territories next week

By ToI Staff and AFP

Indiana passes bill banning anti-Israel boycotts

By JTA

French President Francois Hollande (R) holds a press conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on September 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/FRANCOIS GUILLOT)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas: IDF behind spate of tunnel collapses

Members of terror group report seeing Israeli soldiers using liquid explosives near Gaza border

Illustrative: Soldiers patrolling near Nablus. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Two soldiers stabbed at entrance to settlement

Large manhunt as attackers escape after lightly injuring troops at Har Bracha outside Nablus; guns reportedly stolen found nearby

Policemen stabbed, shot at in separate West Bank attacks

IDF preps home of ax attacker for razing, despite family turning him in

By Adiv Sterman

2 IS-inspired Israelis nabbed for plan to shoot troops

By Judah Ari Gross

Myrna Shiboleth and one of her Canaan dogs, Sha'ar Hagai, February 2016 (Joel Zand)

Facing eviction, breeder of Israel’s national dog hopes to be thrown a bone

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Myrna Shiboleth, who has spent 46 years working with the Canaan breed, is pinning future on appeal in Israel Land Authority lawsuit

Talli Rosenbaum

Is pink Viagra kosher?

Some key info on female desire as word gets around of a new wonder drug to raise women’s low libido

Melissa Toporek

The synagogue she doesn’t go to

A search for a place to pray in Addis Ababa reveals a branch of Ethiopian Jews, and a messianic community too

Helen Gottstein

Excuse me, are those your pants?

The link between ignoring women’s voices, dipping into public funds and believing the law can’t touch you

The business end of Palestinian despair

The ruinous implications of an angry young population facing dwindling opportunity with no diplomatic horizon

Syrian children walk past heavily damaged buildings in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern edge of the capital Damascus, on the first day of the cease-fire agreement, February 27, 2016. (AFP/Sameer al-Doumy)

Nationwide power blackout hits war-torn Syria

By AFP

Widespread outages reported across the country, limited Internet access due to ‘unexpected malfunction’

Robert Morrow, the newly elected leader of the Republican Party in Travis County, Texas, in a TV interview on August 20, 2011. (screen shot: YouTube)

Texas’s new vulgar, sexist GOP leader also an Israel-hater

Robert Morrow, obsessed with outlandish conspiracy theories about gay politicians, calls Israel-US ties a ‘cancer,’ backs Holocaust deniers

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, smiles during a campaign rally at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Can Bernie Sanders still win after Super Tuesday?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a rally at Millington Regional Jetport on February 27, 2016 in Millington, Tennessee. (Michael B. Thomas/AFP)

Where Donald Trump stands on Israel and the Jews

GOP frontrunner says he’ll be ‘neutral’ on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, approves of security barrier, but won’t recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

MKs Aliza Lavie (L) and Manuel Trachtenberg pose with the robot “visitor” at a session of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee, February 2, 2016 (Knesset Spokesperson)

New jobs for humans in robot era: Big data deep divers, time hackers, bio-meat factory engineers

By David Shamah

Professor Ido Braslavsky at work in the lab (Courtesy)

Hebrew U ‘ice tech’ could end organ transplant shortage

By David Shamah

Prof. Ido Braslavsky is working on ways to freeze hearts, livers, and kidneys

Brig.-Gen. Ofek Buchris, right, salutes during a ceremony to mark his exit as commander of the Bashan Division, along with head of the Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, center, and Brig.-Gen. Yaniv Asur, in September 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Rape allegations cast pall over decorated general’s storied career

By Judah Ari Gross

Second woman makes sexual harassment claims against Ofek Buchris; his wife pledges ‘complete support’; alleged victim’s father: ‘The system failed’

A supporter of the Dawabsha family outside Lod District Court on March 2, 2016. (Screen capture: Ramallah News)

Wife of Dawabsha murder suspect calls victims’ family ‘terrorists’

By Stuart Winer

Prime suspect Amiram Ben-Uriel reportedly laughs during preliminary hearing; families clash outside courthouse

Lebanese supporters of Hezbollah gather in the southern town of Nabatiyeh on May 24, 2015 (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

As Saudi-Iran tensions grow, Lebanon pays the price

By AFP

Both powers are important players in small country, where foreigners have long backed a range of Sunni, Shiite and Christian groups

General view of the settlement of Ariel, January 17, 2014. (Flash 90)

Decades on, state to return unused land to Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Cancellation of 1,700 dunams worth of seizure orders from 1970s and 80s in central West Bank comes after High Court petition

Géza Röhrig plays a Sonderkommando in his anguished performance in 'Son of Saul.' (courtesy)

‘They wanted to bear witness,’ says Holocaust historian who uncovered ‘Son of Saul’ story

By Jessica Steinberg

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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2015. (David Ramos/Getty Images via JTA)

$ocial mediaFacebook’s Zuckerberg is world’s richest Jew

By JTA

Father Stephen Crossan apparently doing drugs on video. (Screenshot, via JTA)

All the Hail MarysCatholic priest caught snorting coke amid Nazi artifacts

By JTA

Bob Dylan at his iron works studio, September 2013 (photo credit: © John Shearer)

His back pagesDylan archive knocks on US university’s door

By Shaun Tandon

A bird flies towards the minaret of a mosque in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, June 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)

Lawmakers propose ban on minaret loudspeakers

Ancient copies of the Quran in a tunnel at Jabl-e-Noor on the outskirts of Quetta, January 14, 2016 (AFP/Banaras KHAN/BANARAS KHAN)

Overflowing Quran burial site in Pakistan eyes risky step: Recycling

By Khurram SHAHZAD

The scene of a bus accident in northern Israel, near the community of Zarzir on March 2 2016. (MDA Spokesperson)

One dead, 18 hurt as bus overturns in northern Israel

Channel 20's Erel Segal satirizes Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir on a February 29, 2016 show. (screen capture: YouTube)

MK says satirical TV skit about her amounts to sexual harassment

Some of the Phresh Heroes (Courtesy)

Kitchen Heroes to the rescue of limp lettuce, sad strawberries

By David Shamah

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)

Hebrew media reviewGeneral shock

By Raoul Wootliff

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