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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 23, 2017

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Kulanu party member Michael Oren attends a political debate held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on March 03, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Interview

Defending Trump, ex-envoy to US says nobody blamed Obama for leftist anti-Semitism

By Raphael Ahren

New Jersey-born deputy minister says Jew-hatred is not new in the US; hails PM for being ‘responsible’ in not criticizing US president’s Holocaust statement that didn’t mention Jews

Pence visits damaged Jewish cemetery, condemns ‘vile’ vandalism

By AP and ToI Staff

Contender for Democratic head Ellison denounces anti-Semitism

US lawmakers demand ‘urgency’ in probe of JCC bomb threats

By JTA

A Hamas drone paraded at a celebration marking the 27th anniversary of the founding of the terror group in 2014. (YouTube/RuptlyTV)

IDF jet downs Hamas drone off the Gaza coast

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says the UAV never entered Israeli airspace, vows not to allow violations of sovereignty

Miriam Naor, left, Ayelet Shaked, center, and Moshe Kahlon discussing Supreme Court candidates on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

4 new Supreme Court judges tapped, as right starts to shift bench

By Raoul Wootliff

‘Finally, a humane, judicious selection,’ says Justice Minister Shaked, hailing incoming justices, 3 of whom are considered conservative or non-activist

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked attends a meeting of the Israeli Judicial Selection Committee at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Minister: New judges will restore right-wing trust in High Court

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan announcing new measures to decriminalize marijuana use, January 26, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Minister promises apology if probe finds Umm al-Hiran incident not terror

Admitting mistake was ‘possible’ in deadly car crash, Erdan says police intel initially indicated slain Bedouin driver was an attacker

Calls mount for minister to apologize for Umm al-Hiran terror claim

UN concerned over new West Bank demolition plans

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police testimony said to back up claim driver was shot before hitting cop

A replica of the Siloam Inscription at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The original is in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. (יעל י CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)

Minister offers Turkish mayor elephants for ancient Hebrew inscription

By Ilan Ben Zion and ToI Staff

Miri Regev tries to get back 2,700-year-old Siloam inscription, taken by the Ottomans and still held in Istanbul, marks direct evidence of Bible’s account of King Hezekiah’s tunnel-building in Jerusalem

A member of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, stands next to mock jails during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoner Day in Gaza City on April 17, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Live updates (closed)

Israel reinstates life term for Hamas prisoner freed in swap

By Raoul Wootliff

Nael Barghouti served 33 years for participating in the kidnapping and killing of a soldier; police say PM’s ex-chief of staff breached conflict of interest agreement by faking sale of his global consultancy firm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull, right, meet with students during a visit to the Moriah War Memorial College in Sydney on February 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Dean Lewins)

PM urges pardon for soldier who killed wounded stabber

Netanyahu says jail time for Elor Azaria may send chilling effect through army, stopping troops from acting; says it may have been ‘a mistake’ to call fatal incident in Bedouin village last month terror

Arab League denounces ‘racist’ 18-month sentence for Hebron shooter

By AP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu seeks to triple trade with Australia

By AP

Anti-Israel protesters in Sydney depict Netanyahu as Hitler

By AFP

Anti-Semitism is the new social justice

All the cool kids are busy fighting against the movement for Jewish indigenous rights

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jews control the banks? Not in Israel

When that simple financial transaction turns into an existential crisis

What is driving Netanyahu’s total alignment with Trump?

Op-ed: Months before Election Day, the PM decided never to antagonize the vindictive real estate mogul-cum-politician. That’s the basis for their friendship, but it carries long-term risks

Melanie Takefman

I’m a Zionist, not your punching bag

A proud McGill alum on her alma mater’s new oppressive student culture inhibiting open discussion, and what to do about it

Former Israel chief rabbi Yona Metzger at the Jerusalem District Court on Monday, January 30, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judge throws out plea deal, jails ex-chief rabbi for 4.5 years

Explaining rare about-face, court says Yona Metzger would have received 7-year sentence had he not reached arrangement with prosecution

External view of headquarters of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York (Screen capture: Google maps)

ADL headquarters receives bomb threat in latest scare

Law enforcement determines new threat not credible; group says it won’t be deterred from work to fight anti-Semitism

A memorial constructed in a playground outside a kindergarten in the Beit Horon settlement, near Jerusalem, where Shlomit Krigman was stabbed to death a year earlier, on February 12, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Year after deadly terror, Beit Horon fights to prevent next attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Remembering Shlomit Krigman, killed when two stabbers entered the small settlement, residents say the government is dragging its feet in preventing another tragedy

Senator Lindsey Graham gestures during a press conference with members of his Congressional delegation in Cairo, Egypt, on April 3, 2016. (AFP/Mohamed el-Shahed)

US senator to reintroduce bill cutting funds to PA for payouts to terrorists

By Eric Cortellessa

Republican Lindsey Graham to bring back Taylor Force Act, named after American veteran killed in Palestinian stabbing attack in Jaffa

Simha and Leah Goldin with US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, left. (US Mission to the UN)

US envoy to UN meets family trying to retrieve son’s remains from Gaza

Parents of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, killed in 2014 war, seek help from Nikki Haley, who recently blasted UN for ‘outrageously biased resolutions‘ against Israel

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hezbollah, Hamas have no fight in them, IDF chief says

By Alexander Fulbright

Gadi Eisenkot says recent threats by Lebanese terror group meant to conceal its ‘morale crisis’; Gazans ‘unwilling’ to launch new war

Successful test of Iron Dome anti-missile system, February 22, 2017 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israel successfully tests improved version of Iron Dome

Anti-missile defense system, using new US-made interceptors, put through paces and comes out with flying colors

Pedestrian navigational app Sidekix gets you what you want, and tells you how to get there (Courtesy Sidekix)

Israeli GPS app for pedestrians goes the extra mile

By Jessica Steinberg

An artist's illustration of what TRAPPIST-1's seven planets might look like. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

7 Earth-like planets found orbiting star, boosting search for alien life

By Marlowe HOOD

Marlee Matlin made history with her Academy Award 30 years ago for her role in “Children of a Lesser God.” (Jack Jason via JTA)

Interview

Marlee Matlin on why Trump’s comments may help people with disabilities

By Gabe Friedman

More Headlines

An illustration of a Latam airlines plane flying in the air. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Fake fuseIsraeli arrested for bomb ‘joke’ at Colombia airport

An aerial view of an Israeli offshore gas rig (Albatross Aerial photography/Noble Energy/Flash90/File)

Noble Energy gives go-ahead to develop Leviathan gas field

By ToI Staff and AFP

View of Paris suburb Créteil. (CC BY Christophe Pinard/Flickr)

Hate crime charge dropped in rape-robbery of French Jewish couple

By JTA

A Palestinian boy pretends to fire a rifle-shaped wooden stick during a graduation ceremony for the first group of school children's military training organized by Hamas in Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 24 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Officials shut East Jerusalem school accused of being Hamas front

Journalists take pictures of the original iron gate with the slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work will set you free') at the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, southern Germany, on February 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Uwe Lein)

Stolen ‘Work will set you free’ gate returned to Dachau

By AFP

Jonathan Safran Foer attends the 2011 WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year Awards at the Museum of Modern Art on October 27, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Fernando Leon/Getty Images via JTA)

Jonathan Safran Foer: My Israeli friends want to raise kids elsewhere

By JTA

Fidmi Medical's feeding kit replaces traditional feeding tubes. (Courtesy)

Israeli startup creates user-friendly, cost-saving feeding tube

By Shoshanna Solomon

Beitar Jerusalem fans at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem in 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Soccer fans held for suspected beating of Arab mall workers

Illustrative: A meeting of the Judicial Selection Committee at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on February 22, 2017, with justice minister Ayelet Shaked, chief justice Miriam Naor, finance minister Moshe Kahlon and members of the committee (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewShaked has her day in court

By Adiv Sterman

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