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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 1, 2017

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US envoy Erin Barclay addresses the United Nations Human Rights Council March 1, 2017 (Screen capture: UNHRC)

US urges Human Rights Council to end ‘obsession with Israel’

By AP and ToI Staff

Envoy Erin Barclay says relative indifference to ongoing abuses in Syria, North Korea undermining credibility of UN body

Melanie Steinhardt comforts Becca Richman at the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery, February 26, 2017, in Philadelphia. (AFP/Dominick Reuter)

Trump wins cautious praise after speaking out on anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and JTA

Jewish groups call for translating Congress speech into concrete actions; some doubt his sincerity

Trump opens joint session of Congress with condemnation of anti-Semitism

By Eric Cortellessa

Wiesenthal Center, US lawmaker call for federal funding of anti-Semitism monitors

By JTA

Trump reportedly said JCC threats may be trying to ‘make others look bad’

By JTA and ToI Staff

The site of a stabbing in the Havat Mor settlement outpost near Hebron, March 1, 2017. (Hebron Hills spokesperson)

Terrorist sneaks into outpost, stabs man as family watches

By Judah Ari Gross

Victim lightly wounded after attacker chases him into home in Havat Mor, south of Hebron, shoots stabber dead

Illustrative: A Palestinian youth waves the national flag as the IDF searches for smuggling tunnels at the border east of Gaza City on May 15, 2016, the 68th anniversary of the 'Nakba,' a reference to the birth of Israel in 1948. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Analysis

Israel is stuck in the tunnels of yesteryear, but Hamas is digging right now

By Avi Issacharoff

You’d likely miss it amid the clamor prompted by the state comptroller’s 2014 war report, but the fact is Gaza’s terrorist rulers have 15 tunnels reaching into Israel today, and an internal underground network to challenge the IDF should major conflict again erupt

IDF chief: Army improved since Gaza war, but not ‘immune to criticism’

By Judah Ari Gross

Ya’alon: Gaza war security cabinet worst I’ve seen in 20 years

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF looked for Hamas tunnel under Gaza border community — report

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, hold a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu praises Trump for condemning anti-Semitism

By Raoul Wootliff

PM says more world leaders should follow example set by US administration; proposal to apply Israeli sovereignty over Ma’ale Adumim faces ministerial vote on Sunday

The Gordon JCC in Nashville is one of three Jewish institutions that has received three bomb threats since the beginning of 2017. (Courtesy of Gordon JCC)

Here’s how JCCs that received 3 bomb threats are coping

In Nashville, Birmingham and Wilmington, repeated threats have taken emotional toll on community center staff

Top Democrat Kaine asks FBI to ‘fully investigate anti-Semitic incidents’

By Eric Cortellessa

Bullethole found in classroom window at Indiana synagogue

Jews supporting torched Tampa mosque $18 at a time

By JTA

Binary options industry proponents Yanir Melech (left), Roni Rimon and binary options victims lawyer Nimrod Assif at the Knesset State Control Hearing on binary options fraud, February 28, 2017 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

MKs, officials reject binary options advocates’ pleas to spare industry

By Simona Weinglass

At Knesset session, supporters of widely fraudulent industry that fleeces victims worldwide say bill to ban it would put 80,000 Israelis out of work. Unfazed, regulators, police and legislators vow to expedite law

A match at the Israeli catchball tournament in Kfar Saba, Feb. 21, 2017. (Courtesy of the Israel Catchball Association)

This women’s sport you’ve never heard of is taking Israel by storm

By Andrew Tobin

Catchball, a game like volleyball with catching instead of bumps and spikes, will make its Maccabiah Games debut this summer

The double foul of Stoudemire-Morey

Israel’s star hoopster got slammed for anti-gay quip, while an NBA honcho got zero blowback for his illegal slur

Menachem Creditor

‘I feel a little less afraid now’

That moment when it made perfect sense for a despondent punk anarchist to drop by the synagogue

Syrian civil war is no ‘final solution’

Efforts to help child refugees by comparing their plight to the Kindertransport are crass, demeaning Hitler’s victims

A bitter failure of Israel’s democracy

The security establishment and government failed a key lesson from the 2006 Lebanon War — and Israelis paid dearly

Valentin Vladmir Mazlevski, a Belarusian-Israeli man charged with attempting to join Islamic State in Syria and Sinai, in a Nazareth District Court, on March 1, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Belarusian-Israeli nabbed trying to join Islamic State in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Father of 5, who converted to Islam while in the IDF, stopped at airport en route to Turkey with $1,000

A bulldozer destroys a home built on private Palestinian land in the West Bank settlement of Ofra on March 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Ofra settlement homes bulldozed after final protesters evacuated

Police special forces remove right-wing activists barricaded on roofs of 9 illegal buildings, allowing army machinery to begin demolitions

Israeli police forces arrive to evacuate protesters on February 28, 2017 in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, during an operation by Israeli forces to demolish nine buildings. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Police removing last protesters in Ofra settlement home demolition

IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a prone and wounded Palestinian assailant, in a case that has deeply divided Israel, sits with his parents as he waits for his sentence hearing at a military court in Tel Aviv January 24, 2017. (AFP/Debbie Hill)

Soldier convicted of Hebron shooting appeals jail sentence

Most members of Elor Azaria’s defense team resign in disagreement with family

Brother of late Israeli soldier Oron Shaul seen at a protest tent outside the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on June 30, 2016. The sign reads 'Returning Oron.' (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Families of fallen soldiers demand answers after Gaza report

Bereaved relatives tell lawmakers they must act upon probe’s findings, as ‘it was you who sent our sons to war’

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog and MK Tzipi Livni attend a faction meeting in the Knesset on February 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog: Netanyahu should resign over scathing Gaza war report

In wave of opposition censure, Lapid says PM ‘didn’t tell the public the truth’; Rivlin says government must learn from report, shouldn’t bury it

View of the Al-Nukhaba School in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher on February 23, 2017. (Flash90)

150 children at home after Hamas-linked East Jerusalem school shut

Parents of Sur Baher students trade blame with municipality over failure to find new schools for their kids

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Congressmen introduce bill to create Israeli-Palestinian peace fund

By JTA

US would provide $50 million over four years to encourage economic development and dialog

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump signing an executive order on January 27, 2017 at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Officials: New Trump order drops Iraq from travel ban list

By Matthew Lee and Vivian Salama

Document will also no longer provide exemptions for religious minorities or single out Syrian refugees

Klezmer musician Frank London. (Anya Roz)

Klezmatics’ Frank London brings new Yiddish-Spanish opera to Cuba

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

In an animated short video, former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks says the growing BDS campaign is aimed at eliminating Israel. (YouTube screenshot)

From our partnersRabbi Jonathan Sacks releases anti-BDS animation video

Former NBA All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire rests during a basketball training session with his Hapoel Jerusalem in Jerusalem on October 7, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Ex-NBA star makes homophobic comment after getting tolerance award

Illustrative image of a kindergarten in Petah Tikvah. (Screen capture/YouTube)

3-year-old leaves kindergarten unnoticed to walk home alone

Illustrative: Students at the UK‘s Sussex University staging a mock Israeli checkpoint during Israel Apartheid Week, March, 2012. (screen capture: YouTube/File)

UK academics protest clampdown on Israel Apartheid Week

One of the Eilat vehicles of the Eilat police rescue unit arrives at the scene of the flooding early Wednesday morning March 1, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

130 teens rescued from flooded campsites near Eilat

This June 17, 2015 file photo shows traders on the main trading floor the New York Stock Exchange. (AFP/KENA BENTACUR)

Bubble boysIsraeli study links high testosterone to market bubbles

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking at an annual Women's History Month reception hosted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2015. (Allison Shelley/Getty Images/via JTA)

Bench pressRuth Bader Ginsburg’s crazy hard workout

By Gabe Friedman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference on Operation Protective Edge at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on August 27, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPress takes a dig at Netanyahu after Gaza war report

By Ilan Ben Zion

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