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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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US President Donald Trump leaves after speaking following a tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, February 21, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Live updates (closed)

White House: Trump’s comments on anti-Semitism ‘never good enough’ for some

By Elie Leshem, Ilan Ben Zion and Judah Ari Gross

Anne Frank Center: Trump administration ‘infected’ with ‘anti-Semitism’; lawyer enlisted to defend outpost law was grilled by police

IDF soldier Elor Azaria, convicted on the manslaughter of a wounded Palestinian, at the start of his sentencing hearing in a military court in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2017. (AFP/POOL/ JIM HOLLANDER)

Soldier Elor Azaria given 18 months in jail for killing wounded stabber

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Judge says medic violated army’s rules and values by shooting Palestinian assailant in Hebron last year; sentence to begin March 5; protests outside Tel Aviv tribunal mostly peaceful; defense plans to appeal

Families of soldier and Palestinian he killed both lament sentence

By Stuart Winer and Dov Lieber

Right-wing politicians call for Hebron shooter Azaria to be pardoned

Liberman stops short of urging pardon for Azaria

The Jewish community center in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. (screen capture: Google Street View)

New wave of bomb threats at Jewish centers across US

By JTA and ToI Staff

For fourth time in five weeks, JCCs evacuated, after phone calls threaten attacks in Minnesota, Texas, Wisconsin, Alabama and other states

White House, Ivanka Trump denounce JCC bomb threats

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Over 170 headstones vandalized in St. Louis Jewish cemetery

US Jewish leaders urge Israel to query Trump on anti-Semitism

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, August 1, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader backs ‘holy intifada’ to destroy ‘cancer’ Israel

By Raphael Ahren

At conference backing violent uprising, Khamenei says no people in history ever suffered as badly as Palestinians

Hezbollah warns ‘no red lines’ in next war with Israel

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Threatening US, Iran general says his country will be a ‘graveyard’ for attackers

By Stuart Winer and Alexander Fulbright

Economy ministry requests delay in closure of Haifa ammonia tank

Shimmie Pesis gazes longingly into the deli case as he waits for a table at 2nd Avenue Deli in Midtown, New York. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

A Jewish-American expat eats his way through the Big Apple

By Yaakov Schwartz

Running loose in New York, a nostalgic writer homes in on the best pastrami and kasha varnishkes in the city

Avi Issacharoff

Sorry Trump, 2-states is off the table

That option is long gone — instead of celebrating, Netanyahu should be preparing Israelis for certain bloodshed

Don’t tell me it’s raining

Why won’t President Trump call out indisputable anti-Semitism, like the many JCC bomb threats…and the Holocaust?

About that music biz Israel boycott

100s of musicians know better than to let BDS’s noise prevent them from performances that unify people like nothing else

Tzachi Hanegbi (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Minister close to Netanyahu insists the PM still backs two-state solution

By Marissa Newman

Tzachi Hanegbi, who holds regional cooperation portfolio, says Netanyahu has not changed his mind, calls status quo ‘a Palestinian tragedy’

New prefabricated homes are seen under construction in the West Bank between the now-evacuated illegal outpost of Amona (background) and the Israeli settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah, on January 31, 2017. (AFP/ Thomas Coex)

PM has not backtracked on pledge for new Amona settlement, says aide

By Raphael Ahren and Raoul Wootliff

Senior PMO official refutes reports that Netanyahu is reconsidering his promise; TV report says any new settlement would need White House okay

Nationalists marching in the annual Lukov March in Bulgaria On February 15, 2016. screen capture: YouTube)

Ignoring ban, neo-Nazis march in Bulgaria

Rally honoring late Bulgarian war minister and Nazi ally goes on as scheduled in Sofia, despite mayor’s prohibition

Margalit Zinati, sole Jewish resident of the Druze village of Peki'in in the Galilee, with an 1,800-year-old limestone capital bearing two Hebrew inscriptions found there in February 2017. (Ritvo courtesy of Beit Zinati)

Hebrew carvings on column lend weight to Galilee village’s Jewish past

By Ilan Ben Zion

View of the plenum hall in the Israeli parliament on February 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Controversial NGO finance bill passes first Knesset reading

So-called ‘V15 bill’ seeks to restrict political activities of groups during national elections to prevent interference or influence

Knesset passes ban on discrimination against settlers

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Legislation prohibits vendors, suppliers from refusing to serve consumers based on where they live, unless policy is clearly stated in advance

The Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

In surprise attack, IS affiliate captures land near Israeli-Syrian border

By Stuart Winer

Gunmen in dozens of APCS and tanks overwhelm moderate rebels in pre-dawn assault near Yarmouk River

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to the press during a visit to the West Bank settlement of Ariel on February 1, 2017. (Flash90)

Defense minister: Islamic State in Sinai ‘not a serious threat’

By Alexander Fulbright

After 2 rockets fired from peninsula, Liberman says jihadist group’s affiliate ‘not even a terror group’ compared to Hamas, Hezbollah

Pro-Palestinian protesters force the cancellation of a talk by Israel Ambassador Ze'ev Boker in Dublin's Trinity College, February 20, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook video)

Jerusalem fumes as Israeli envoy’s talk in Dublin nixed by protests

Pro-Palestinian students take over hall, keeping ambassador Ze’ev Boker from Trinity College event

President Donald Trump, listens as Army Lt. Gen. HR McMaster talks, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Monday, February 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump taps military strategist as new national security adviser

By Catherine Lucey

Serving US Army general H.R. McMaster to take reins at troubled NSC after departure of Michael Flynn over Russia scandal

US President Donald Trump addresses a rally at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport on February 18, 2017 in Melbourne, Florida. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

After Trump comments, the reality of crime and migrants in Sweden

By Hugues HONORE

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox students studying at a yeshiva. Bnei Brak, September 11, 2016. (Flash90)

‘Choke’ ultra-Orthodox out of neighborhood, says Jerusalem official

Rapper Drake as he accepts Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist onstage during the 2016 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, November 19, 2016. (AFP Photo/Getty Images North America/Kevin Winter)

(Skin) tone deafDrake says Grammys pigeon-holed him as black artist

By AFP

Illustrative: Suspected fake erection dysfunction pills seized by Israel Police, Health Ministry and Tax Authority investigators, September 7, 2016 (Israel Police)

Hard sell16 arrested for selling fake erectile dysfunction pills

Ironi Nahariya basketball coach Eric Alfasi (l) with members of the team during their victory over Gaziantep, February 8, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli basketball team gets security clearance for Turkey tip-off

A depiction of Jewish captives and the gold menorah taken from Jerusalem following the destruction of the city in 70 CE, seen on the Arch of Titus, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Vatican, Rome’s Jewish Museum, team up for first joint show

By Frances D'Emilio

Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 27, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Personal archives of Holocaust historian dedicated at Yad Vashem

By JTA

An Israeli woman works at the Tikkun Olam medical cannabis farm. (photo credit: AP)

US Kalytera buys Israel medical cannabis firm Talent for over $10m

By Shoshanna Solomon

IDC speed-dates students with startups (Courtesy: Adi Cohen Zedek)

IDC opens Israel’s first BA in entrepreneurship

By Shoshanna Solomon

David Horovitz. (Dennis Zinn)

David Horovitz on Trump and Netanyahu

By ToI Staff and dennis zinn

IDF soldier Elor Azaria at a military court hearing in Jaffa, August 30, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/JTA)

Hebrew media reviewAwaiting Azaria

By Ilan Ben Zion

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