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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 8, 2017

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference, at the White House in Washington, DC, February 16, 2017. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Entire US Senate demands Trump take action on threats to Jewish centers

By Eric Cortellessa

Open letter to the administration from all 100 senators comes amid a sixth wave of threats to Jewish institutions across North America

UN rights chief says US not doing enough against anti-Semitism

By Alexander Fulbright

White House condemns anti-Semitism in ‘strongest terms’

While some parents pull out of JCCs, others vow to remain despite bomb threats

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein speaking at the 'Zion and Jerusalem' convention in July 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Homophobic rabbi who mentors soldiers says IDF turns women ‘crazy’

By Tamar Pileggi

Yigal Levinstein tells graduates of a pre-army religious academy that IDF turns Jewish women into unattractive ‘non-Jews’ by eroding their values

Rabbi comes under fire after deriding ‘crazy’ female troops

Netanyahu hails female troops after uproar over rabbi’s derisive comments

By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren

Army launches new effort to end combat soldiers’ reliance on families, donors for gear

By Judah Ari Gross

State Department acting spokesperson Mark Toner speaks during a briefing in the State Department on March 7, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Mandel Ngan)

US, Israel discussing settlement restrictions — State Department

By Raphael Ahren

White House continues to discourage unilateral steps in West Bank, Trump urging ‘reasonableness’ on both sides

US envoy at UN makes bid for reviving Israeli-Palestinian talks

By AFP

Amid annexation talk, White House urges ‘reasonableness’

By Raphael Ahren

UK’s Johnson, in Ramallah, urges 2-state solution, says Trump brings fresh approach

By Agencies and Sue Surkes

Jerusalem rabbi Chacham Zechariah Barashi (photo credit: Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

End of an era

Kurdish rabbi dies in Jerusalem, at 117 (apparently)

Said to have been born in 1900, Rabbi Zecharia Barashi was thus the world’s oldest living Jew, Kurd and Israeli… though Guinness was not able to document it

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman meets with US Vice President Mike Pence, in Washington DC, on March 7, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman urges US exit from UN agencies during DC visit

By Tamar Pileggi

Key witness in PM gifts probe said to ‘dramatically’ change police testimony; fresh bomb threats emailed to JCCs; minister blames Bedouin victim for getting killed by police

CNN's Jeff Zucker interviewed by Channel 2's Yonit Levy at the INTV conference in Jerusalem on March 7, 2017. (Screen capture: Youtube)

CNN president expects Trump to see out his four-year term

By ToI Staff and AP

At Jerusalem conference, Jeff Zucker recalls his last conversation with president, in Dec., a ‘monologue’ in which Trump railed at him over CNN guest who said things he didn’t like

Members of Gondar's Jewish community attend gathering hosted by a cross-party delegation of Knesset members to Ethiopia, March 3, 2017. (Courtesy)

Despite promises, Ethiopian immigration still stalled as Israelis pass the buck

By Raoul Wootliff and Melanie Lidman

Eight months after decision to airlift 1,300 from dwindling Jewish community, officials have not processed a single request; reasons cited include lack of air conditioning in Addis Ababa embassy

Josie Glausiusz

Spa day no more

On how a day celebrating half the world’s population became a ‘thing,’ and why it’s needed as much as ever

Battling hate in the spirit of Esther

The wave of anti-Jewish attacks in America has unleashed a counter wave of generosity and solidarity

Suzanne Patt Benvenisti

The gender wage gap starts in childhood

Women earn less because they veer away from science towards professions that pay less

Esther, heroine for those who must hide

An ode to all who cloak their authentic selves, and a prayer that they find inner connectedness, and a safe place to share

Malynnda Littky-Porath

International Women’s Day in heels

She was all dolled up, making love to the camera — then she found out where the real empowerment was happening

Andrew Silow-Carroll

JCC bomb threats are weapons of fear

Op-ed: American Jews are understandably shaken by the campaign of intimidation against community centers, but they still live in the most accepting society Jews have ever known

An Israeli flag waves in front of the minaret of a mosque in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on November 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

‘Muezzin Bill’ passes first hurdle in stormy Knesset session

By Raoul Wootliff and Alexander Fulbright

At charged first reading of proposal to muffle mosque loudspeakers, Arab MKs condemn measure as a ‘racist law’ and ‘declaration of war on Islam’

Education Minister Naftali Bennett arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on March 5, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Revving up for elections, Bennett seeks early Jewish Home primaries

By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid

Announcement from senior coalition partner comes as other parties begin getting houses in order, anticipating early vote

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid (4th from right) surrounded by MKs from his party and seven regional council heads who have joined Yesh Atid, March 7, 2017. (Courtesy)

As election fever grows, Yesh Atid woos 7 rural council chiefs

By Raoul Wootliff

Regional leaders say they’re joining the surging centrist party ‘to bring about change’

A screenshot from a Canadian government website designed to prevent citizens falling victim to binary options fraud.

Canada calls on Israel to ban all binary options ‘immediately’

By Simona Weinglass

‘Every day that this continues to operate, there are more and more Canadian victims,’ says head of new government task force. ‘These companies are outright frauds’

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis (L) greets Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman upon his arrival at the Pentagon on March 7, 2017. (Courtesy: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Liberman, meeting Mattis, calls for active US role in Middle East

By Alexander Fulbright

Avigdor Liberman holds talks with defense secretary, warns of Hezbollah’s increasing power in Lebanon

Ahmed Daqamseh on trial in Jordan in 1997. (YouTube screenshot)

Jordanian who killed 7 Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 set for release

By AP

Ahmed Daqamseh served 20 years of a life sentence for the rampage; lawmakers in Amman lobbied for his freedom

Hundreds of gun parts seized by the IDF as part of a raid in the Balata refugee camp, outside Nablus, on March 8, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Palestinian gun dealers ordering parts off the internet, army says

By Judah Ari Gross

In an illegal weapons crackdown, IDF seizes hundreds of firearm components, arrests 9 suspects in Nablus

Anan Hujerat, left, Shadi Swaeed, center-left, and Mustafa Hujerat, right, participants of Israel's first army preparatory program geared towards Bedouin Israelis, pose with the head of the program, Tal Galin, center-right on their campus in Givat Haviva on February 27, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

As IDF seeks more Bedouin, prep program targets neglected community

By Judah Ari Gross

Joint (Arab) List MKs Ayman Odeh (left), Masud Ghnaim (center) and Jamal Zahalqsa (right) attend a conference on volunteerism in Kfar Qassem on March 4, 2017. (Courtesy)

In first, Arab Israeli leaders back nationwide volunteer program

Joint List MKs give their blessing to volunteerism initiative that is not connected to the army or government, but puts local Arab councils in charge

At the current Israeli Opera production of 'Faust,' which opened March 5, 2017, director Stefano Poda's massive rotating wheel dominates the stage (Courtesy Yossi Zwecker)

Bringing Faust to Tel Aviv, opera makes a wheel with the devil

By Jessica Steinberg

New Zealander film director Niki Caro, left, and US actress Jessica Chastain, who plays the main character, at a press conference prior to the gala screening of 'The Zookeeper's Wife' in Warsaw on March 7, 2017. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

Hollywood stars in Warsaw for Holocaust biopic set in zoo

By Anna Maria Jakubek

Jessica Chastain stars in The Zookeeper’s Wife, based on true story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who successfully hid nearly 300 Jews from the Nazis

This undated photo provided by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin shows the sculpture 'Lying Lion' by August Gaul, an art piece from the collection of German-Jewish publisher Rudolf Mosse. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin via AP)

Historic alliance to locate looted Holocaust art is an exercise in ‘reconciliation’

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MK Stav Shaffir (Zionist Union) addresses the Knesset on March 7, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Scold shoulderLabor MK chastised by Likud duo for sleeveless outfit

Ron Teicher, CEO of EverCompliant, heads a meeting of company employees. (Courtesy)

International Women's DayIsraeli cybersecurity company highlights potential of women in tech

In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, file photo, FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, (R), attends a gala dinner held at the Mena House in Giza, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Tut-tutEgypt’s best known archaeologist calls Messi an idiot

By AP

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson shakes hands with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during their meeting in Jerusalem on March 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / RONEN ZVULUN)

Meeting Boris Johnson, president invites UK royals to visit Israel

By Sue Surkes and AFP

In this undated image provided by Nike, figure skater Zahra Lari models Nike's new hijab for Muslim female athletes. (Nike via AP)

Just Do ItNike unveils ‘pro hijab’ for Muslim women athletes

By ANNE M. PETERSON

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

Chemical firm says hundreds will lose jobs unless compensated over ammonia tank

By Tamar Pileggi

Hashalom train station in central Tel Aviv during repair and upgrade work being carried out by Israel Railways on September 21, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After traffic snarls, Tel Aviv train station to reopen early

'Homeland' actor Mandy Patinkin. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Better call, Saul‘Homeland’ star says show trying to do right by Muslims

By Zara Eldridge

Actor Hugh Laurie meets President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on March 6, 2017. Laurie was in Israel for Keshet's INTV Conference (Mark Neyman/GPO)

In the houseHugh Laurie talks shop at Jerusalem TV conference

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Browsing on a phone (Frank Franklin II/AP)

Hebrew media reviewiSpy with my little iPhone

By Adiv Sterman

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