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What Matters Most On Friday, March 4, 2016

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File: A photo taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a Hamas outpost on a hill (right) along the border, February 25, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Analysis

Why is Israel sitting around waiting for the next war with Hamas?

By Judah Ari Gross

The terror group’s cross-border tunnels represent a grave threat to Gaza-adjacent communities, but for now Israel’s military planners prefer uneasy quiet to war

AnalysisHamas has replenished its rocket arsenals, Israeli officials say

By Avi Issacharoff

Hamas man killed as Gaza tunnel collapses

Gazan accused of planning attacks in Ukraine, Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

Ahmad Nabil Ahmad Ahmad, left, and Bahaa Eldin Ziad Hasan Masarwa, right, have been charged with conspiracy to commit a crime, it was revealed on March 3, 2016. (Shin Bet)

IS ‘on the rise’ among Arab Israelis, with 34 indicted to date

40 Israelis have left to fight with Islamic State, report says; terror group working relentlessly to encourage a major attack here

Gunmen kill 16, including 4 nuns, in Yemen retirement home

By Ahmed al-Haj

Turkey jails Syrian smugglers over death of tot Aylan Kurdi

By AP

In new trade deal, Jordan to employ 200,000 Syrian refugees

By Karin Laub and KHETAM MALKAWI

Then-Republican presidential candidates Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, left, and Donald Trump argue during a Republican presidential primary debate in Detroit, Michigan, March 3, 2016. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Swallowing hard, Trump rivals vow to back him if nominated

By Nancy Benac and Steve Peoples

After piling on criticism of billionaire businessman, a pained Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich commit to supporting GOP nominee

Insults fly once more in fraught, often crude Republican debate

By Nancy Benac and DAVID EGGERT

Bloomberg’s policy crusades could pose obstacles with voters

By Jonathan Lemire

Mitt Romney says ‘phony’ Trump unfit for presidency

By Steve Peoples and BRADY McCOMBS

Rabbi Micah Greenstein (right) led prayer at a dedication ceremony, which included Rev. Jesse Jackson, for 'Dr. M. L. King Jr. Ave.' in downtown Memphis, April 4, 2012, 44 years after Dr. King was killed in Memphis. (courtesy)

Interview

How a Memphis Reform rabbi joined the national board of NAACP

By Cathryn J. Prince

‘The NAACP is about everything I stand for as a rabbi and a Jew,’ Rabbi Micah Greenstein says. Here’s why

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

That half-naked girl with one sock

What happened when the man she loved became the man who nearly destroyed her

What if Trump was one of us?

American Jewish identity plays an outsize role in this election, begging the question: who do we want to be?

Laura Ben-David

A day in this adrenaline-charged life

She was driving her son to school when, to no one’s surprise, a tense security scene unfolded before them

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Sioux Center, Iowa, on January 23, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump cites Jews in explanation for not disavowing KKK

By JTA

While asserting David Duke is a ‘bad man,’ presidential candidate can’t account for fumbling response to white supremacist endorsement

Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to a couple thousand supporters in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday March 1, 2016. (Mark Cornelison/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS via Getty Images)

Jewish Republicans call Trump feckless, dangerous

By JTA

Anxious senior party members write open letter castigating ascendent, controversial presidential hopeful

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

Booted Egypt lawmaker apologizes for hosting Israeli envoy

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

MP Tawfiq Okasha, who was kicked out of parliament after meeting ambassador Haim Koren at his home, says he was acting ‘in good faith’

Illustrative: A prostitute on a street in south Tel Aviv on January 1, 2013. (Flash90)

12,000 women work in prostitution in Israel, gov’t says

Welfare Ministry study finds 62% are mothers, 11% are minors; 52% born in the FSU; each sees an average of 5.5 customers per day

Israeli security forces approach the car of a Palestinian attacker at the scene of a car-ramming attack near the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank on March 4, 2016. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Soldier lightly hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Female assailant shot, killed after driving into IDF troops at Gush Etzion Junction, army says; knife found in car

A Palestinian woman sits next to the remains of her home after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers in a disputed military zone in the area of Musafir Jenbah, south of the West Bank town of Hebron, on February 2, 2016. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

UN: Israel razed 41 buildings in West Bank this week

By AFP

10 Palestinian families said left homeless by demolitions near Nablus; Israel says many structures in area built illegally

Jordanian Lina Khalifeh (R) teaches a self-defense class on February 15, 2016 in the Jordanian capital Amman.(AFP / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Jordan’s taekwondo star trains thousands of women to fight harassment

With self-defense classes at Amman center, Lina Khalifeh wants to empower women to protect themselves from attack

Yemenite Jews walking to Aden, the site of a reception camp, ahead of their emigration to Israel, 1949. (Kluger Zoltan/Israeli National Photo Archive/public domain)

House bill links peace talks to Jewish refugee recognition

By JTA

Bipartisan legislation seeks to include in US peace efforts redress for Jews who fled Arab lands and Iran

Illustrative: The Arava desert. (Batya Ben Zvi/public domain/via Wikipedia)

Mideast just experienced worst drought in 900 years – NASA

By Daniella Cheslow

Scientists examining tree rings suggest unprecedented 14-year dry spell that ended in 2012 helped spark Syrian war

Religious participants in the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem, September 18, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Israel touts gay-friendly climate, but rights fight faces religious firewall

While gays are accepted by most of Israeli society, religious lawmakers have kept the Knesset from anchoring that acceptance in law

Khader Abu-Seif draped in opposing flags for part of the Celebration series by photographer Xavier Klaine (Courtesy Xavier Klaine)

Flagging prideGay Arab activist wraps himself in the flags

By Jessica Steinberg

An effigy of an Orthodox Jew is torched at an anti-Islam rally in Poland in November 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Pole indicted for burning Jew effigy at anti-Muslim protest

By JTA

Piotr Rybak could face two years in jail if convicted; in separate incident, Polish high school nixes reading anti-Semitic poem at graduation

A scene from 'My Sister' with twins Elizabeth and Emily Hinkler. (Encio Box)

On stage in LA, a sisterhood of survival in pre-Nazi Germany

Inneractive's office at work (YouTube screenshot)

2 new exits highlight Israeli mobile, chip-tech strength

By David Shamah

Start-ups Inneractive and Leaba Semiconductor, acquired this week by international giants, are prime examples of Israel’s diverse tech talent

More Headlines

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

Regulator seeks to curtail bankers’ ‘extravagant’ salaries

The parents of four-month-old Daniel Gerson at the Schneider Children's Hospital, Petach Tikva, March 3, 2016 (Channel 2)

Baby in serious condition after allegedly shaken by nanny

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during a plenum session at the Knesset on November 16, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Center-right leaders said to plot Netanyahu’s ouster

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA, left), talks with the committee's ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 7, 2016. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Obama urged to meet survivors of Argentina terror attacks

By JTA

Part of a document said by an Italian expert to be the oldest known complete Torah scroll. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna)

Oldest Torah scroll still in use found in Italy

By JTA

A photo of Donovan from 2007, taken from a YouTube video of Donovan performing live at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California (Courtesy YouTube)

Happiness returnsDonovan reschedules concert, dedicates it to meditation

By Jessica Steinberg

Contestants pose for the judges during auditions for the first Miss Trans Israel beauty pageant in Tel Aviv, Thursday, March 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Transcendent beautyTel Aviv to hold first ‘Miss Trans Israel’ pageant

By AP

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA's new editor-in-chief (JTA)

Andrew Silow-Carroll tapped to lead JTA

The HotMat is the first foldable Shabbat hotplate on the market. (Courtesy Rafi Gabbay via JTA)

Heat and safetyHotMat, Shabbat hotplate, offers safety and design

By Uriel Heilman

Comedian Stephen Colbert sings with the cast of the Broadway revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof,' March 1, 2016. (YouTube screen capture)

L'chaim!Colbert sings with ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Broadway cast

By JTA

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)

Hebrew media reviewThe unbecoming of an officer

By Adiv Sterman

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