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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 26, 2017

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Former US labor secretary Tom Perez, winning candidate to chair the Democratic National Committee, speaks during the general session of the DNC winter meeting in Atlanta, February 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

Tom Perez elected to chair DNC, names defeated Keith Ellison as his deputy

By Eric Cortellessa and AP

After contentious race in which Ellison’s record on anti-Semitism and Israel played a role, ex-Obama Labor sec. narrowly wins key Democratic Party post

Stylist Adena Rohatiner has amassed a collection of over 150 pairs of shoes for her clients' use. (Courtesy)

The Orthodox stylist who makes stars glimmer at the Oscars

From Mayim Bialik’s modest grace to Us the Duo’s elegant grunge, celebrity stylist Adena Rohatiner’s work lights up the red carpet

7 unexpected Jewish facts for Sunday’s Oscars 2017

By Gabe Friedman

Song and dance, protest and politics to mingle at Oscars

Oscars foreign language directors gather in shadow of travel ban

By Lindsey Bahr

US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks as he debates with Democratic presidential candidates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during their MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire on February 4, 2016 in Durham, New Hampshire. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

6 members of Congress, 4 MKs, 1 Palestinian negotiator, no top Republicans at J Street confab

By Eric Cortellessa

Liberal group’s first conference of Trump era features Bernie Sanders, Saeb Erekat, Joint (Arab) List leader MK Ayman Odeh

US considering leaving Human Rights Council – report

By Judah Ari Gross

Trump won’t attend White House Correspondents’ Dinner

By AFP

Muhammad Ali’s son detained at airport: ‘Are you Muslim?’

Likud MK Ayoub Kara attends a meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on December 30, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Hasta la vista, habibi

Israel developing terminator bots, minister claims

Ayoub Kara says ‘impossible to destroy’ androids will be able to assassinate heads of Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, center, and then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon, right, in southern Israel on July 21, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Ya’alon, Gantz go on offensive ahead of Gaza war report

By Judah Ari Gross

Former army chief says intel during the 2014 operation was excellent; ousted defense minister lashes out at Naftali Bennett

In this Monday, September 30, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas blames Egypt for deaths of 3 from toxic gas in Gaza tunnel

By Itamar Sharon and ToI Staff

Damaged headstone at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia on February 26, 2017. (screen capture: 6ABC)

Live updates (closed)

Foreign Ministry: US Jewish gravestone vandalism a ‘source of worry’

By Joshua Davidovich

Spokesman issues condemnation after Philadelphia cemetery found damaged; Trump gets lowest approval rating ever for new president; Sinai Christians flee feared IS onslaught

From a video work in 'Doing Time at Holot,' Ron Amir's first Israel Museum exhibit currently on display (Courtesy Israel Museum)

A side of the Negev that only African migrants see

By Jessica Steinberg

Photographer Ron Amir’s first Israel Museum exhibit, ‘Doing Time in Holot,’ shows daily life for 3,300 would-be refugees at Israel’s desert detention center

Thane Rosenbaum

‘Occupation’ is smart marketing

Israel’s capture of the territories doesn’t fit the definition, but that hasn’t stopped Palestinian accusations

An Israeli medley in 5 unexpected places

If you think the Jewish state is all rabbis (or camels), come see its cultural, racial, national, and, yes, religious diversity

We too were refugees

Members of a people that has been excluded, thrown out and worse must oppose Trump’s immigration policies

A member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards chants slogans after attacking a naval vessel during a military drill in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran, February 25, 2015. (Hamed Jafarnejad/AFP/Fars News)

Iran begins Strait of Hormuz navy drill amid tensions with US

By AP and ToI Staff

Latest exercise comes 2 weeks after Western navies hold mass military drill off coast of Islamic Republic

In this Monday, September 30, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas blames Egypt for deaths of 3 from toxic gas in Gaza tunnel

By Itamar Sharon and ToI Staff

Five others injured in digging accident on Rafah border while attempting to fix a shaft destroyed by the Egyptian army

The ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry)

Haifa court to rule on closing ammonia tank by Wednesday

Demonstrators block roads, high schools cancel classes as judges decide whether to renew permit for hazardous facility

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a joint press conference in Sydney, Australia, on February 22, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu: We will never relinquish security control of West Bank

In conversation with Australian foreign minister, PM says Israel learned from long experience that it can’t rely on international forces to protect it

Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan attends an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset on December 12, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bedouins say they’ll skip reserve duty because of Erdan’s ‘slander’

By Judah Ari Gross

Two dozen reservists threaten action over discrimination, allegation that deadly incident at village evacuation was terrorism

Coldplay's Chris Martin (second from left), an unidentified woman, Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland and producer Ilan Factor in a photograph sent out in late February (Courtesy Nidar Oz Communications)

Israeli PR firm confirms Coldplay finalizing concert plans, despite band’s denial

By Jessica Steinberg

Popular UK group tours sites with Israeli music festival producers, poses for selfies with local fans

Founders & Coders first group of students in Nazareth (Courtesy)

Nazareth tech scene to get programmers boost

By Shoshanna Solomon

UK’s Founders & Coders sets up program in Nazareth to support economic development and boost tech integration

It is a custom among Karaite Jews to pray kneeling on the ground, as seen here in the sanctuary of Congregation B’nai Israel in Daly City, California. (Courtesy of Karaite Jews of America via JTA)

Near San Francisco, Karaite Jews keep an ancient movement alive

By David A.M. Wilensky

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US almost deports French Jewish Holocaust scholar

By JTA

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh)

False flag operationTouting Israel ties, Pence says US stands with Nicaragua

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

Yad Vashem asks Amazon to pull Holocaust denial books

Palestinian Arab Idol TV show winners Yaacoub Shahin (C), Ammar Mohammed (L) and Amir Dandan (R) perform on stage during the final in the pan-Arab song contest on February 25, 2017 at MBC studios in Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Star of BethlehemWest Bank man crowned ‘Arab Idol’ champion

Illustrative photo of a tunnel opening discovered by the IDF in Gaza, July 20, 2014. (photo credit: IDF)

Hebrew media reviewGaza report set to emerge, tunnel vision takes hold

By Joshua Davidovich

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