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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 8, 2016

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Israeli security forces frisk Arab Israelis near the Central Bus Station in Herzliya on January 5, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Pew Research Center publishes major survey on Israel

Nearly half of Jewish Israelis want to expel Arabs, survey shows

By Marissa Newman

Pew study finds 79% believe Jews should get preferential treatment over Arab citizens; number of those who believe settlements are helpful to Israel’s security growing; majority identify as centrist

Pew study: Reform, Conservative not catching on in Israel

By Marissa Newman

Israel’s Druze, Muslims, Christians more likely than Jews to believe in God, Pew study finds

By Marissa Newman

Evolution a hard sell among Israeli Jews, Pew study finds

By Marissa Newman

US President Barack Obama listens to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their visit to the Children's Memorial at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s unprecedented snub of Obama meeting defies explanation

By Raphael Ahren

The PM’s reasons for not going to DC don’t add up, experts say. And the way the saga played out has again injected unnecessary friction into the perennially fraught relationship with a key ally

Netanyahu nixes US trip, says he rejected Obama offer to meet

By Raphael Ahren

White House ‘surprised’ Netanyahu spurning offer to meet Obama

By Raphael Ahren

Obama knew Netanyahu was unlikely to visit, Jerusalem says

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump calls on supporters in North Carolina to pledge to vote for him on March 7, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Defying critics, Trump again urges supporters to pledge to him

By ToI Staff and AP

Republican front-runner has rally in North Carolina raise their right hands, once more evoking Hitler salute

Before Arab audience, Biden decries ‘petty’ US presidential campaign

By Jon Gambrell

NRA praises Sanders for stance on gun manufacturers

By JTA

Bloomberg opts out of bid for White House

By Jonathan Lemire

Security forces and and medics at the scene of a stabbing attack that killed one and injured nine others in Jaffa on March 8, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

1 killed, 14 wounded in series of attacks across Israel

By Adiv Sterman

Palestinian stabs 12 in Jaffa; motorcyclist opens fire at police near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, wounds 2; minutes earlier, man stabbed in Petah Tikvah

Actress Liora Rivlin will read her poems at Holon's Women's Festival, three days of events celebrating women's identity (Courtesy Oscar Avosh)

To empower and appreciate: Women’s Day across the land

By Jessica Steinberg

Take a stand for gender equality with a selection of tours, reading and eating in honor of international annual event

One in three Arab women fears violence within family

By Daniel Douek

Ya’alon: Stop smearing names of sex crime accusers

No glass ceiling for women in tech, says top executive

By David Shamah

Israel’s evangelical enemies gather

Christian anti-Israel activism is profoundly unbiblical: Scripture establishes the Jews’ link to Zion

Jeremy Benstein

My grandfather’s assassin and me

Fifty years ago a deranged young man entered a synagogue armed with a gun and a hauntingly familiar ideology

Nicole Jansezian

She welcomed my son with open arms

On the healing moment when her child with special needs wasn’t merely tolerated

Micro-agressions and matzo balls

He has a job at a place committed to progressive ideals of justice — so why did his colleague make that joke?

Policemen secure the area around a building in Copenhagen, Denmark, where shots were fired outside the venue of a free-speech debate, February 14, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Mathias Oegendal/Scanpix Denmark)

Danish girl, 16, accused of plotting to bomb Jewish school

By AP

Suspects charged with trying to produce explosives from chemicals; court extends pre-trial detention by 3 weeks

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech during the annual dinner of the Representative Council of France's Jewish Associations (CRIF) in Paris on March 7, 2016. (AFP / POOL / Michel Euler)

French prime minister says he understands Jews’ fear

By AP

Manuel Valls voices ‘solidarity’ with French Jewry, calls community’s current tense situation ‘a reality we do not accept’

Illustrative: A supporter of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party displays a placard showing crossed out Niqabs during a demonstration against the German government's asylum policy organized by the AfD party in Berlin on November 7, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL)

Anti-migrant German populist party surges in local polls

By AFP

Then-president Barack Obama and then-vice president Joe Biden, along with then-Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and Mohammed Shtayyeh (right) and then-Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni and Yitzhak Molho (left) at the formal resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, in the Oval Office, July 30, 2013. (Official White House Photo, Chuck Kennedy)

US may back UN outline of two-state deal in fresh peace push — report

Officials preparing options to get Israelis and Palestinians back to table before Obama leaves office, according to Wall Street Journal

Joe Biden points to one of the Masdar City employees as Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber UAE minister of state and the chairman of Masdar City, third left, looks on during his first day tour in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 7, 2016. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Biden heads in for lightning visit to Israel, Palestinian Authority

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Trip by US vice president, amid fresh tussle between Netanyahu and Obama, not expected to include new peace push, though report points to renewed talks effort

Iran's test launch of the Emad long-range ballistic missile on October 11, 2015. (YouTube Screenshot: Press TV)

Iran test fires ballistic missiles in show of ‘deterrent power’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Exercise aimed at proving Tehran’s ‘all-out readiness to confront threats,’ state media says; no immediate international or Israeli reaction

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hits out at Arab MKs for supporting Hezbollah during a speech in the Knesset on March 7, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

PM lashes Arab MKs for Hezbollah support: ‘Have you gone mad?’

Hezbollah shoots missiles at Arab villages, too, Netanyahu says after lawmakers denounce Gulf states’ ban on Lebanon terror group

Hamas members at a funeral in the southern Gaza Strip on March 4, 2016. (AFP/SAID KHATIB)

Analysis

PA security raids Hamas cell planning attacks against Israelis

By Avi Issacharoff

Terror operatives in Hebron being directed from Gaza by ‘bureau’ of former West Bankers exiled as part of Shalit exchange

Police rope off area in the Old City of Jerusalem where an Arab woman attempted to attack a group of Border Police officers on March 8, 2016. (Israel Police)

Female stabber shot and killed during Old City attack attempt

By Judah Ari Gross

Police open fire as East Jerusalem woman, 50, who had Israeli citizenship, tries unsuccessfully to knife them near Damascus Gate

Zionist Union MKs (Erel Margalit (3rd left) and Tzipi Livni (5th left) argue during a faction meeting at the Knesset on March 7, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Zionist Union meeting descends into open revolt over Labor leadership

MK Erel Margalit accuses Isaac Herzog of ‘destroying’ Labor, tells Tzipi Livni she’s just a ‘guest’

SodaStream’s West Bank factory was relocated to the Negev following international criticism. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/via JTA)

Podcast

TOI talks: Finding Waze out of the occupation, gently down the SodaStream

By Raoul Wootliff

Milena Rozenbrah and her family. (Courtesy of Rozenbrah family / via JTA)

Battling Zika, Brazil’s Jews turn to bug repellent and indoor activities

By Marcus M. Gilban

More Headlines

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)

Police question artist who inserted flag into his bottom on stage

By Stuart Winer

Shimon Peres and Naomi Campbell at the Peres Center for Peace in honor of International Women's Day, March 8, 2016 (Courtesy Rafi Delouya)

Model behaviorSupermodel Naomi Campbell says Peres inspires her

By Jessica Steinberg

Rabbi Erwin Schild speaks to Yad Vashem (screen capture: YouTube)

Bonus fortunaPope blesses rabbi, wife on 70th anniversary

By JTA

Herbs (Pixabay)

Study: Using herbs for treatment of cancer not necessarily a good idea

By David Shamah

File: Britain's Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the annual Labour Party Conference in Brighton, south east England, September 29, 2015. (AFP/Leon Neal)

Probe into Oxford U’s Labour club reveals ‘poisonous’ anti-Semitism

London Uber driver who shouted anti-Semitic slur gets suspended sentence

By JTA

Illustrative photo of Israeli police cars (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Beersheba woman, 30, shot dead in front of her kids

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)

Bill barring mosques from blasting call to prayer withdrawn

By JTA

File: The Carnegie Building on the Oberlin College campus in Ohio. (Wikimedia Commons)

Oberlin told to probe teacher’s ‘anti-Semitic’ posts

By JTA

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)

Hebrew media reviewNeighborhood bullies and familiar news

By Raoul Wootliff

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