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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 5, 2017

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Headstones toppled in a Brooklyn Jewish cemetery on Saturday, March 4, 2017 (screen capture: Twitter/Dov Hikind)

Vandalism reported at largely Jewish Brooklyn cemetery

By Agencies and ToI Staff

New York police probing latest in a string of violations of Jewish cemeteries, amid nationwide surge in anti-Semitic incidents

At Yad Vashem, NY governor vows zero tolerance for anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and AP

Seattle Sikh man shot in suspected hate crime

By AP

Oklahoma lawmaker asks Muslims: ‘Do you beat your wife?’

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS

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

Live updates (closed)

Jewish Home moves ahead with new settlement, despite Netanyahu freeze

IDF prosecutors to appeal ‘light’ sentence for Hebron shooting soldier; troubled Labor Party sets July 3 leadership race

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog in the Knesset, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Joint Netanyahu-Herzog peace bid was stymied by Amona crisis last fall – report

PM and opposition leader said to have drafted an 8-point regional peace call before coalition talks collapsed in October

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former British PM Tony Blair meet in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Tony Blair said in talks to become Trump’s Mideast envoy

By ToI Staff and AFP

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

Zionist Union party chair Isaac Herzog leads a party meeting in the Knesset, January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Labor in upheaval as crowded leadership battle turns ugly

By Raoul Wootliff

Herzog, who’s facing challenges from at least 6 candidates, slams ‘self destructive’ elements in the party

Likud’s Katz says he’ll run for leadership, after Netanyahu steps down

By Raoul Wootliff

In apparent backtrack, Likud MK says he’ll only run for PM after Netanyahu

Ex-Kulanu minister to challenge Herzog for Labor leadership

Rolling a joint (illustrative photo: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Government approves measure to decriminalize marijuana

By Alexander Fulbright

Netanyahu says ‘we are open to the future… but also understand the dangers’; critics say new proposal watered down

Trump is Putin’s twin, not his puppet

The two leaders are both strongmen in waiting, using the trappings of democracy to establish autocracies

Tzachi Hanegbi, do the right thing!

Forty years later, it’s time to liberate the Western Wall again, by making it a place which welcomes all Jews

Jewish joy in Cambodia

A chuppah in the land returning from the killing fields celebrates world Jewry as much as it welcomes the new couple

A dolmen in the northern Galilee (Gonen Sharon, Tel Hai College)

Massive 4,000-year-old Galilee tombs force rethink of Bronze dark age

By Ilan Ben Zion

Likud MK Yehuda Glick, second left, Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis of Florida, center, and their staffs, meeting in Jerusalem on March 5, 2017. (Courtesy)

US lawmakers make fact-finding trip for Jerusalem embassy move

By Raphael Ahren

Congressional group meets with Netanyahu, touring sites around Jerusalem; Fatah warns move will ‘explode situation in region’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/EPA Pool and AFP Photo/Abir Sultan)

Netanyahu: Putin meeting to focus on averting Iranian entrenchment in Syria

By Alexander Fulbright

Ahead of Moscow trip Thursday, PM warns of attempt to establish a Golan Heights front against Israel, lauds cooperation with Russia

Then President Barack Obama meets with then President-elect Donald Trump to update him on transition planning in the Oval Office at the White House on November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Obama spokesman denies ex-president tapped Trump’s phone

Hitting back at charge by US president, Kevin Lewis says predecessor never ‘ordered surveillance on any US citizen’

Members of the Palestinian Hamas armed forces take part in a graduation ceremony in Gaza City on January 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Analysis

In Gaza, the road to escalation grows shorter

By Avi Issacharoff

While both Israel and Hamas have an interest in keeping the calm, it remains to be seen if the terror group will withstand internal pressures to make a show of force

Syrians walk along a damaged street in Aleppo's Tareeq al-Bab neighbourhood on January 18, 2017, a month after government forces retook the northern Syrian city from rebel fighters. (AFP Photo/George Ourfalian)

Citing Jewishness, Aleppo family appeals to Israel for help

In recording, woman heard calling on Jewish state to not abandon her kin, but Jewish Agency casts doubt on her claims

Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yad Vashem)

Hitler’s tipping point: When extermination of the Jews became official Nazi policy

By JP O’ Malley

More Headlines

Nuseir Yassin, creator of the one-minute Nas Daily videos and a meetup he arranged in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Nuseir Yassin)

For Israeli Arab one-minute video blogger, time is of the essence

By Jessica Steinberg

Security forces gather on July 1, 2016 near the entrance of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Palestinian man caught with knife in Hebron

Rabbi Ethan Tucker, a co-founder of Hadar, speaking with rabbis during a seminar at the New York yeshiva, March 1, 2017. (JTA/Ben Sales)

At 10, egalitarian yeshiva wants to expand learning among Jews in the pews

A picture taken on November 9, 2016 shows a large printed photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hanging outside a door leading to a recreation of the small bedroom where he spent his final years at the new Arafat Museum in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Netanyahu vows to remove Arafat street sign in Arab village

By Alexander Fulbright

Then US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro seen at a farewell session in the Knesset, on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former US envoy to Israel to join Tel Aviv-based think tank

By Alexander Fulbright

Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich and fellow party member Eitan Cabel attend a meeting at the Knesset in 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liar, liar, party on fire

By Joshua Davidovich

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