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What Matters Most On Friday, March 10, 2017

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A man looks at fallen tombstones at the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery, February 26, 2017, in Philadelphia. AFP/DOMINICK REUTER)

Hatred, prejudice on rise in Trump’s America – poll

By AFP

Seventy percent of voters say anti-Semitism is a ‘serious’ problem, split over president’s response to cemetery vandalism

Police believe single caller menacing JCCs, as more buildings threatened

By AP

NY Jewish Children’s Museum, California JCC hit with bomb threats

By JTA and ToI Staff

Le Pen’s election would be a ‘disaster,’ says French envoy to US

By AFP

A Palestinian man works in a factory in Gaza City making kippot, or Jewish skullcaps, to be exported to Israel, on March 8, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

The yarmulke-makers of Hamas-run Gaza

In a refugee camp in the Islamist-controlled Strip, a small textile factory produces Jewish skullcups for the neighbor-enemies next door

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Moscow on March 9, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Pavel Golovkin)

Rejecting Purim spiel, Putin tells Netanyahu to stop dwelling on past

By ToI Staff and AFP

After PM tries to sell concerns over Iran based on holiday tale, Russian president says ‘we now live in a different world’

Defiant Iran successfully tests another ballistic missile

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel said to be worried about IS terror, chemical attacks in Europe

US planning longer, larger presence in Syria, top general says

By AP

The title page of the 1516 Genoese Polyglot Psalter (courtesy of Kestenbaum & Co.)

Unread copy of 16th-century multilingual Psalms, loathed by Columbus’s son, up for auction

By Ilan Ben Zion

Also on the block at NY sale next week, first printing of a George Washington speech to Congress with a shout-out to the Rhode Island Jewish community

A pastry chef at Roladin serving a customer in Tel Aviv, March 7, 2017. (Andrew Tobin/via JTA)

Israeli chefs take hamantaschen to a whole new level

By Andrew Tobin

From sweet potato and feta to marzipan, the three-cornered holiday treats are getting a gourmet update this year

Top these ‘compost cookie’ hamantaschen with everything but the kitchen sink

By Shannon Sarna

From left, Michael Sheen, Lior Ashkenazi, and Richard Gere star in Joseph Cedar's latest release, 'Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.' (Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)

Richard Gere, in Israel, reflects on the ‘holy idiot’ he plays in ‘Norman’

By Jessica Steinberg

Director Joseph Cedar insists the character — though evocative of his uncle, whose cash-stuffed envelopes landed PM Olmert in prison — isn’t based on anyone in particular

Sorelle Weinstein

A little girl’s spidey sense

Costumes let people reveal the usually hidden aspects of themselves, even as they try on new personas for size

A bomb threat ended my 5th grade visit

On what goes through a father’s mind when he’s just been evacuated from his son’s school

I share British Jews’ pride in Israel

In an exclusive Jewish News op-ed, vowing to make the case against settlements ‘respectfully but insistently’

David Friedman, confirmed as US Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Panel clears Friedman for full Senate vote as US envoy to Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Trump’s ambassador pick approved in Senate Foreign Relations Committee; only New Jersey’s Democratic senator breaks ranks to vote yes

US President Donald Trump speaks during a NEC listening session with CEOs of small and community banks at the White House in Washington DC, March 9, 2017. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Trump and Abbas to speak by phone for first time Friday

Special US envoy next week set to meet Palestinian leader in Ramallah, following months of near silence from Washington

A photo from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border shows a smoke trail of rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 22, 2014. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Little-known group claims Gaza rocket fire

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Armed wing of Fatah splinter group says it launched two rockets at Eshkol region Thursday; they fell short of border fence

Basel al-A'araj, who was killed in a gunfire exchange with Israeli troops on March 6, 2017, speaks in front of a group at a cemetery in Qabatiya, in the northern West Bank, on December 19, 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israel delays returning body of Palestinian killed in shootout with IDF

Army confirms it won’t return Basel al-A’araj’s remains to his family, but declines to say if it ever agreed to

Police collect evidence at the site of a shooting on early March 10, 2017 in the city of Basel, north-west Switzerland. (AFP/Sebastien Bozon)

Two dead as gunmen open fire on Swiss cafe; terrorism ruled out

By AFP

Assailants on run after attack in Basel; third victim seriously injured

A woman looks at the sea as Palestinian families of fishermen shout slogans during a protest against Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip on March 9, 2017 in Gaza City. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Minister floats plan for Gaza seaport island to end blockade

Critics say Yisrael Katz’s proposal for an artificial land mass linked to Strip by a bridge is just a gimmick without Palestinian buy-in

Shahaf Ben-Yakov (Courtesy of Pride in Blue and White)

Ex-IDF officers fight to keep Israel’s military friendly to women, gays

By Andrew Tobin

Illustrative. Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman visits the IDF Bedouin Desert Reconnaissance Battalion army base on July 26, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

Israel offers nearly free college to Bedouin vets, in bid to calm tensions

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry proffers job help to Bedouin soldiers, after reservists say they won’t report for duty over discrimination

Former Justice Minister Ayalet Shaked with Tzohar founder Rabbi David Stav holding a new prenuptial agreement developed by the organization for Israeli Jewish couples to sign ahead of weddings in this 2017 file photo. (Courtesy)

International Agunah Day

In effort against ‘chained’ wives, justice minister urges prenups

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ayelet Shaked touts new agreement, developed by Tzohar rabbis group, based on ‘Jewish ideals of love, equality and human goodness’

Dr. Susan Weiss (center), head of the Center for Women's Justice, sits with staff in its Jerusalem offices. (courtesy)

Maverick women’s rights lawyer looks to change the game, not play it

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

From a Jean-Michel Jarre concert (Courtesy Jean Michel Jarre Facebook page)

French godfather of electronic music to play for the Dead Sea

By Michael Blum

Jean-Michel Jarre will give his first Israel concert, in April on Masada, to raise awareness of the shrinking body of water

Fatboy Slim, aka Norman Cook, arrives in Israel this weekend ahead of his Sunday, March 12, 2017 Purim rave at Tel Aviv's Hangar 11 (Courtesy Fatboy Slim)

DJ Fatboy Slim plans Purim party for first Israel visit

By Jessica Steinberg

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Illustrative photo of a person flying a kite. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Air furorAustrian given 2 years in jail for flying Nazi kite

By AP

In this Wednesday, March 8, 2017 photo, members of the Danish military check for wreckage from a World War II airplane which was found, by teenager Rom Kristiansen, near Birkelse, Denmark. (Rene Schuetze/Polfoto via AP)

Low flier Teen finds Nazi airplane, pilot in Danish swamp

By AP

ZAKA rescue workers uncover the remains of soldiers in the East Jerusalem village of Sur Baher on March 9, 2017. (Nati Shapiro, ZAKA Search and Rescue)

Remains discovered of soldiers who served in Jerusalem before 1948

Egyptians pose for pictures next to the head of a statue at the site of a new discovery by a team of German-Egyptian archeologists in Cairo's Mattarya district on March 9, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Mammoth pharaonic statues unearthed from muddy Cairo pit

By AFP

An FBI poster shown in Washington during a news conference shows a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, right, of how he would look like now, and a photo from a video released by his captors in 2010, left, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/ Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

White House presses Iran for info on ex-FBI agent, offers $5m reward

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Simon Brodkin dressed as a haredi Orthodox rabbi for an audition for 'Britain’s Got Talent.' (Screenshot from YouTube/via JTA)

The Jewish prankster who rang in the new year with ‘crappy’ routine on Britain’s Got Talent

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Facebook CEO and chairman Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a session of the APEC CEO Summit, part of the broader Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Lima on November 19, 2016. (AFP/Rodrigo Buendia)

Dropout Zuckerberg tapped as Harvard commencement speaker

By JTA

Israel's national baseball team players celebrate their victory against the Netherlands after their first round game of the World Baseball Classic at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on March 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)

Israel reaches 2nd round of the WBC with Mensch power

By JIM ARMSTRONG

Ivanka Trump speaking at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 21, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Gold standardIvanka tweets Golda on International Women’s Day

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Moscow on March 9, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Pavel Golovkin)

Hebrew media reviewLooking back at Persia and seeing Iran

By Adiv Sterman

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