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What Matters Most On Monday, March 7, 2016

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Donald Trump at a rally in Orlando, Florida on March 5, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

'I am a Holocaust survivor and this made me quiver'

Ex-ADL chief: Trump’s ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’

By Eric Cortellessa

Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing

A still from the Saturday Night Live skit "Racists for Trump" (YouTube screenshot)

Mein Drumpf‘Racists for Trump’ SNL ad mocks extremist support

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

Sanders, Cruz beat Clinton, Trump in Maine caucuses

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jewish democrat clinches 64% of the vote; billionaire businessman trails Texas senator by 13%

Israelis unruffled by Trump, left cold by Bernie — poll

Marco Rubio wins Puerto Rico primary

By AFP

Debating Clinton, Sanders says he’s ‘very proud to be Jewish’

By ToI Staff and AP

Palestinian women mourn during the funeral of Raed Jaradat, 22, in the West Bank village of Sa'ir, near Hebron, Sunday, Nov 1, 2015. According to the Israeli army, Jaradat stabbed an Israeli before being shot and killed. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Analysis

Why has a Hebron village, home to 12 recent ‘martyrs,’ suddenly gone quiet?

By Avi Issacharoff

‘We want our children alive,’ says the mayor of Sa’ir, which has contributed a record-high number of attackers, explaining what the authorities did in recent weeks to try to calm things down

Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds a joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in Jerusalem on March 7, 2016. Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Live updates (closed)

IDF dismisses senior officer for ‘unreliable statements,’ amid sex scandal

By Joshua Davidovich

Head of the Southern Command relieves officer of his position, as probe into alleged relationship continues

Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Isabella Lövin speaking in parliament at a debate about Stockholm’s assistance to Ramallah, March 4, 2016 (Screen grab YouTube)

Sweden refuses to condition aid to PA on curbing incitement

By Raphael Ahren

Minister criticizes opposition MP for citing examples of violent rhetoric linked to Palestinian Authority; Israel slams her ‘irresponsible’ position

Palestinian incitement watchdog back on YouTube

East Jerusalem lawyers jailed for acting as Hamas messengers

Shin Bet nabs Palestinian suspected of recruiting terrorists in Cairo

A recent photo of Rafi Daugherty and his daughter, Ettie. (Courtesy of Rafi Daugherty)

The transgender man who gave birth and told the world

By Rafi Daugherty

BLOG: Rafi Daugherty says his story of identifying as a man and wanting a baby is not unique, and challenges a rigid understanding of gender

Memory unraveled

Life is forever divided into before and after the terror attack that killed his child

Frederick M. Lawrence

Want to combat BDS? Build bridges

Brandeis University employs ‘Jewish authenticity’ to keep the most pernicious anti-Israel sentiment off campus

Why I met with Pope Francis

A trip to the Vatican to advance a vision of Israel in which Jews and Arabs coexist in mutual respect and shared goals

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox women at an Israeli high-tech company (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Israeli women earn 22% less than men, study finds

Israel’s wage gap is fourth in size among developed countries; nearly 90% of educated women work

A seal bearing the inscription: 'to Elihana bat Gael' (Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

‘Exceptional’ woman’s 2,500-year-old seal unearthed in Jerusalem

First Temple-era relic bearing name ‘Elihana bat Gael’ discovered near City of David; second seal, a man’s, located in same area

The opening to two of the tombs at the Khalet al-Jam'a necropolis near the town of Bethlehem.
Credit: ®ROSAPAJ - Sapienza University Rome

Huge Canaanite burial ground found near Bethlehem, shows city thrived 4,200 years ago

Finds at cemetery, which was abandoned after the Assyrians conquered area from the Hebrew kings, cast new light on ancient burial practices

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset on February 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid: I could make deal with US to build in settlement blocs

By Marissa Newman

Yesh Atid leader says as prime minister, it would take him ‘three weeks’ to clinch agreement with Washington

Members of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah hold their flags during the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter, who was killed while fighting alongside Syrian government forces in Syria, March 1, 2016. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)

Arab Israeli parties slam Gulf states for Hezbollah terror listing

Ayman Odeh’s Hadash faction and nationalist Balad say ostracizing of Lebanese group serves Israeli interests

An Israeli Border Police guard seen at the road block set up at the entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, on October 14, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Most Israelis consider Jerusalem divided, poll finds

By Stuart Winer

Israel Democracy Institute survey also shows Jews don’t believe discrimination against Arabs motivates terror attacks

Tuvia Yanai Weissman with his wife Yael and four-month-old daughter. Weissman was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists at a West Bank supermarket on February 18, 2016. (Facebook)

Widow of slain off-duty soldier insists he was no victim

Yael Weissman fights Defense Ministry to recognize her fatally stabbed husband as having ‘fallen in battle’

The entrance to the offices of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Defying court, rabbinate fails to deliver list of ‘acceptable’ Diaspora rabbis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

At hearing Sunday, judge denounces recalcitrant religious authority as ‘desecrating God’s name’

A scene from the original 'Curious George' book by H.A. Rey. (YouTube)

Monkey business

Curious George goes to the mosque

By Renee Ghert-Zand

This file photo taken on June 2, 2009 shows former US First Lady Nancy Reagan at the unveiling of a statue of her husband, US President Ronald Reagan, in Washington, DC. (AFP/KAREN BLEIER)

Former US first lady Nancy Reagan dies at 94

By AP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu and Peres pay tribute to a ‘great friend’ of Israel, who would ‘illuminate the White House with a big smile’

An illustrative photo of a firefighter extinguishing a fire in a field near the Gaza Strip that was sparked by a flaming object flown from the Palestinian enclave, on June 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Army tests Patriot missile system as Israel-US drill ends

By Judah Ari Gross

Civilian planes warned to keep away from the Palmahim air base, where air force fires anti-aircraft missile

Back in the spotlight after taking a year off, Neshama Carlebach has changed her lifestyle -- and her career (courtesy)

How ‘Soul Daughter’ Neshama Carlebach got her groove back

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

A three ton rhino named Tibor makes his escape from the Ramat Gan Safari on March 6, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

On the lamRhino flees Ramat Gan zoo… again

Stretcher-bearers help a Maccabi Ahi Nazareth off the field on Saturday, March 5, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Red cardStretcher-bearer drops hurt Israeli soccer player

Illustrative: Israeli security forces seen patrolling near the Lions’ Gate of Jerusalem's Old City on October 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tourist lightly hurt in Jerusalem rock-throwing attack

The scene of an alleged execution in Saudi Arabia, posted on YouTube in late February (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Saudi Arabia executes 70th convict this year

By AFP

V15 activists convene at their campaign offices in Jerusalem on February 09, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Likud pushes bill to limit NGOs’ role in future elections

The Bedouin village of Umm al Hiran in Israel’s Negev Desert, Aug. 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Negev Bedouin to hold first-ever municipal election

By JTA

Israeli artist Ariel Bronz after penetrating himself with an Israeli flag during the Haaretz Cultural Conference at Tel Aviv Museum, March 6, 2016. (YouTube: Haaretz)

Butt it's art!Backside-baring artist shocks conference crowd

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (R) arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem for the weekly cabinet meeting, March 6, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Exterior ministerAryeh Deri ‘gets locked out of cabinet meeting’

The mHealth conference, February 18 2016 (Oleg Luft)

Israeli remote health tech sought for China’s healthcare system

By David Shamah

Crowdfunding guru Jon Medved (photo credit: Courtesy)

Via Singapore, OurCrowd brings crowdfunding platform to Asia

By David Shamah

Artist Ariel Bronz getting personal with a flag at a Haaretz conference in Tel Aviv on March 6, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube/Haaretz)

Hebrew media reviewIn debate on censoring culture, ifs and butts take center stage

By Joshua Davidovich

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