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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 4, 2017

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Financial fraud (Illustrative: iStock)

As Israel-based financial fraud soars, police swoop on 20 suspects as part of global, FBI-led sting

By Simona Weinglass

Suspects allegedly impersonated top executives of firms in US, France, Poland and India, and tricked lower-level staff into transferring them huge sums of company money

Juan Thompson, 31, from St. Louis, suspected of making at least eight hoax bomb threats against Jewish institutions. (Screenshot/BricTV)

Bomb scare suspect denounced threats against JCCs on Twitter

By ToI Staff and AP

Juan Thompson had tweeted Monday: ‘Another week, another round of threats against Jewish ppl. In the middle of the day, you know who’s at a JCC? Kids. KIDS’

ADL warns lone arrest won’t stop ‘unprecedented’ wave of anti-Semitism

US Jewish leaders meet FBI chief, welcome arrest of threat suspect

By ToI Staff and AP

In Atlanta, anti-Semitism is viewed through lens of history

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama pose with President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump claims Obama tapped his phone before election, without giving evidence

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

President tweets that his ‘bad or sick’ predecessor stooped to ‘a new low,’ provides no foundation for allegations

Amid firestorm, Trump appears to waver on Russia deal

North Korea: US will ‘pay dearly’ if Pyongyang reinstated on terror list

Judge gives extension to Trump lawyers in travel ban suit

By LISA BAUMANN

Rod Stewart ( in white shirt) seen doing a 'mock execution' of a friend in a parody of Islamic State executions, in a still image from a short Instagram clip posted by Stewart's wife. The singer later apologized for the re-enactment. (Screen capture/ Youtube)

Poorly executed

Rod Stewart sorry for Islamic State-style mock beheading

Singer says he and friends were just ‘larking about pre-show’ and sends ‘deepest apologies’ to those offended

Clockwise from top left: Shlomie and Dalia Yunger; Naomie and Zvi Glustein; Gadi and Atara Yunger; Ami and Samara Yunger. (Courtesy of the Yunger family/via JTA)

Four siblings land spouses at the same summer camp

By Gabe Friedman

Some might find it incredible that the whole brood found love at Camp Moshava, Ontario. But to the Yunger clan, nothing seems more natural

Jeffrey Schrager

The desecration of a dead girl’s memory

A cemetery buff who now, sadly, has before and after photos of a headstone vandalized at a Rochester NY graveyard

Why my heart won’t entirely be at AIPAC

Why the policy conference should address religious inequality in Israel, including the stalled Kotel agreement

A protester looks down from a rooftop of a building slated to be demolished in the West Bank Ofra settlement, February 28, 2017. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

When protesters in Ofra tried to ‘slow down the inevitable’

By Raoul Wootliff

View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin, in the West Bank on January 4, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

EU-Israel high-level talks in doubt over settlements

Senior European Union officials seek unified and clear positions on two-state solution ahead of future meetings with Jerusalem

Sarah Nachshon in a scene from the documentary 'The Settlers,' directed by Shimon Dotan. (Image courtesy of Philippe Bellaiche)

Film review

‘The Settlers’: An effective work of left-wing propaganda

By Jordan Hoffman

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Jordan hangs 15 convicts as deterrent to terrorism

By AFP

Executions of prisoners charged with terror and other ‘heinous’ crimes a break with Kingdom’s moratorium on death penalty

Russian-made, S-300 long-range missiles at the Fordo nuclear site in central Iran, August 28, 2016. (Screenshot/Press TV)

Iran says S-300 air defense system now ‘operational’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tehran announces it has successfully tested advanced Russian-made system delivered last year, using it to destroy airborne targets

Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg founded the anti-Trump group Indivisible with other former congressional staffers. (Courtesy of Greenberg/via JTA)

Meet the Jewish couple leading the Trump resistance

By Josefin Dolsten

Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin started Indivisible almost by accident. A few months later, they’ve inspired over 5,000 local groups

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Likud MK Avi Dichter (right), former head of the Shin Bet, in 2016 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Dichter says he’ll run for leadership of Likud, country

Netanyahu can no longer perform his duties without distraction while under criminal investigation, says MK, an ex-Shin Bet chief

Karla Raveh at her home in Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel on February 21, 2017 (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

90-year-old Holocaust survivor leads double life in Israel and Germany

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Benjamin Amsellem (R), a Jewish teacher who was stabbed by a 15-year-old student with a machete in January 2016, speaks to journalists, flanked by his lawyer Fabrice Labi, during the teenager's trial at the juvenile court of the Palais de Justice in Paris on March 1, 2017. (AFP/Geoffroy van der Hasselt)

French teen who attacked Jewish teacher with machete gets 7 years in jail

By JTA and ToI Staff

Katz’s Delicatessen has been a staple on the Lower East Side of Manhattan since the late 19th century. (Courtesy)

New York’s iconic Katz’s Deli to open Brooklyn outpost

By JTA

FILE - In this March 23, 2009, file photo, Japan's Ichiro Suzuki gets tossed around by teammates during a clubhouse celebration after their 5-3 victory over South Korea in the championship game of the World Baseball Classic, in Los Angeles. (Ted S. Warren/AP/Pool)

Israel-South Korea to kick off World Baseball Classic

Jeffrey Epstein (YouTube screenshot)

Model who lost molestation suit against Jewish billionaire charged with stealing underwear

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an Egyptian member of the armed forces in northern Sinai. (AFP/Mohamed el-Shahed)

Egypt says four would-be terrorists killed in shootout

By AFP

Mehdi Meklat (Wikipedia/ Creative Commons)

French Arab coexistence champion was anti-Semitic tweeter

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, set off for a week-long state visit to Singapore and Australia, February 19, 2017. (GPO/Haim Zach)

Netanyahu graft investigation held up due to PM’s recent travels

US actor Josh Gad poses upon arrival at the UK launch of the film 'Beauty and the Beast' in London on February 23, 2017. (AFP/Ben Stansall)

Culture clashRussian MP: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is gay propaganda

By AFP

Natalie Portman, right, and her husband Benjamin Millepied, arrive at the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, January 8, 2017 (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Aleph, BetNatalie Portman welcomes baby girl, Amalia

By ToI Staff and JTA

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