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What Matters Most On Monday, March 13, 2017

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BMW, Intel, Mobileye announce cooperation for driverless car, July 2016 (Courtesy)

Intel to buy Mobileye for $15.3 billion in largest purchase of Israeli tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Deal between computing giant and automotive technology firm marks latest push by a major tech company toward self-driving cars

Ziv Aviram, President and CEO of Mobileye, speaks at a conference at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Jerusalem, November 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Mobileye to stay centered in Israel after buyout, will lead Intel work on driverless car

Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro takes a ride in Israeli MobilEye's self-driving car (YouTube screen capture)

With Israeli tech, self-driving cars are becoming a reality

By Shoshanna Solomon

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in Jerusalem on March 6, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Trump envoy set to visit, Liberman pushes population transfer plan

Saying Arab politicians should not have Israeli citizenship, defense minister predicts any land-for-peace deal will fail if Arab towns not made Palestinian

PM said to seek OK for new settlement from Trump envoy

By Tamar Pileggi

Israeli Arab MKs thrash Liberman over call for ‘transfer’

By Dov Lieber and Jacob Magid

Abbas: Trump told me he is committed to peace process

By Sue Surkes and Alexander Fulbright

A protester draped in a European Union flag takes part in a protest in support of an amendment to guarantee legal status of EU citizens, outside the Houses of Parliament in London on March 13, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)

Live updates (closed)

British lawmakers approve bill to trigger Brexit

By Tamar Pileggi

Palestinian protesters demand Abbas resign over Israel ties; PM, Trump adviser Greenblatt begin settlement talks; Israel hails historic $15b Intel-Mobileye deal

A Lybia crab found in Eilat (Courtesy Yisrael Schnytzer)

Animals behaving badly? Maybe not...

Meet the Israeli crab that crawled out from under a rock to global stardom

By Simona Weinglass

The ‘boxer crab’ or ‘pom-pom crab’ permanently holds a sea anemone in each claw. Researchers from Bar-Ilan University are trying to figure out why

The author’s dog, Zevy, who died of cancer. (Ron Kampeas)

Lies I told about my dog

Grieving for his beloved Israeli mutt, starting with the very first lie: ‘We’re not getting a dog’

The Netherlands' Didi Gregorius (C) runs between the bases following his three-run homer in the top of the fourth inning during the World Baseball Classic Pool E second-round match against Israel in Tokyo, March 13, 2017. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

Israel crushed by Netherlands in first loss of baseball tournament

After 12-2 defeat ends unbeaten run, Israeli squad must beat Japan on Wednesday to guarantee advance to semifinals

Anti-semitic fresco at The Church of the Most Holy Blood of the Lord Jesus, Poznan, Poland (poznan.wikia.com)

Walk down Jew Street

An in-depth tour in a Polish city where a vicious anti-Semitic legend is meticulously and uncritically preserved

Illustrative: Stock market (iStock)

Don’t let the lobbyists derail the law to ban binary options

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: Proponents of the widely fraudulent industry are quietly trying to thwart law-enforcement’s long-overdue move to close it down

Purim’s silent heroes

Give credit to the couriers, who spread the royal word that the Jews could defend themselves, and turned the battle

An exit for Israel’s inane new entry law

A boycott to combat boycotts is oxymoronic and lawmakers need to admit their mistake — and correct it

Joshua Hammerman

Purim: Drama and Dramamine

How daylight savings time, snow, and the megillah’s topsy-turvy reversals of fortune together teach the value of timing

Illustrative: A woman showing off her Wonder Woman costume outside a friend’s house in Tel Aviv before the city’s big Purim party, March 10, 2017. (Courtesy of Eilit Rozin via JTA)

From Wonder Woman to Rosie the Riveter: Feminist icons abound this Purim

By Andrew Tobin

With International Women’s Day falling ahead of the holiday, Israeli women say dressing up as their role models is a way to further conversation about women’s rights

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from the chassidic dynasty of Vizhnitz-Kosov celebrating the Jewish festival of Purim, in Beit Shemesh, March 11, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Photo essayWith costumes and alcohol, jovial Israel marks Purim holiday

Ahmed Daqamseh, a former Jordanian soldier who killed 7 Israeli schoolgirls, interviewed by Al-Jazeera on his release from jail, March 12, 2017 (Al-Jazeera/MEMRI screenshot)

Jordanian who killed Israeli girls says Israeli ‘human waste’ must be eradicated

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hours after his release from 20 years in jail for murdering 7 teens, Ahmed Daqamseh says Israelis should be eliminated ‘by fire or by burial,’ calls two-state solution ‘a lie’

British pro-Palestinian activist Hugh Lanning. (Screenshot)

British pro-BDS activist barred from entering Israel

Week after Knesset passes law banning foreign nationals who call for boycotts, ex-chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign Hugh Lanning denied entry

Police and medical professionals arrive to the scene of a stabbing attack in which two Border Police officers were moderately wounded, in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 13, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

2 police officers hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack; assailant killed

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Troops sustain moderate injuries in early morning attack near Lions’ Gate in Old City, transferred to hospital for treatment

Police raid the home of an East Jerusalem assailant who stabbed two police officers on March 13, 2017. (Screen capture/Israel Police)

Troops descend on attacker’s home after officers stabbed

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir (R) dressed up as IDF solider Elor Azaria, and Lehava leader Bentzi Gopstein dressed up as US President Donald Trump, attend a Purim celebration in the West Bank city of Hebron on March 12, 2017. (screen capture: Channel 10)

In Hebron, Purim revelers pay tribute to IDF shooter Azaria

By AFP and ToI Staff

Right-wing activist Itamar Ben Gvir spotted at festival in flashpoint West Bank city dressed as soldier convicted of killing a wounded Palestinian assailant

Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)

In ‘candid’ talk with PM, Reform leaders highlight growing US partisan divide on Israel

URJ delegation discusses US-Israel ties, Palestinian conflict, welcomes appointment of minister to advance Western Wall compromise

Graffiti and banners are seen in Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem (Maya Levin/Flash90/File)

Palestinian forces said to use live fire to quell anti-PA protest in West Bank

By Dov Lieber and Jacob Magid

Clashes erupt near Bethlehem in response to police repression, legal case involving slain activist Basel al-A’araj

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaking at the 53rd Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, February 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Christof Stache)

Iranian FM chides Netanyahu over Purim spiel, says Persians saved the Jews 3 times

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Zarif accuses PM of spreading ‘bigoted lies’ by saying that modern Iran, like ancient Persia, is bent on annihilating the Jewish people

An apparently anti-Semitic cartoon published by the French Republican party on March 10, 2017. (Screenshot from Twitter)

France’s conservatives apologize for ‘anti-Semitic’ attack on rival presidential candidate

By Andrew Tobin

Republicans post, quickly delete, image of centrist Macron with hooked nose, wearing top hat and cutting a cigar with a red sickle

Police officers investigate a bomb threat outside the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester in Brighton, NY on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (Tina Macintyre-Yee/Democrat & Chronicle via AP)

Jewish centers in US, Canada hit with fresh spate of bomb threats

By ToI Staff and AP

Six JCCs receive warnings on Sunday; New York governor orders large-scale probe after Rochester building evacuated for second time in week

Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. (Courtesy of ADL/via JTA)

ADL announces plans for Silicon Valley center to combat hate online

By JTA

Aaron Hahn Tapper (Barbara Ries © 2013/via JTA)

Jake Tapper’s professor brother Aaron writes an introduction to the range of ‘Judaisms’

By Andy Silow-Carroll

Olga Levus started a single mothers' group which eventually became the Jewish Family Service in Moldova. (Courtesy of JDC/via JTA)

How a single mom revolutionized Moldova’s Jewish community

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak attends a press conference organized by the Israeli Labor Party, in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2017. (Flash90)

Ehud Barak warns against taking Trump at his word

Madonna performs in Tel Aviv during her Sticky and Sweet Tour in September 2009. (Amir Meiri/Flash90)

Queen EstherMadonna channels beauty, beast in fierce Purim costume

Avigdor Liberman in Purim costume, March 12, 2017 (Facebook)

Minister of disguiseLiberman gets wiggy as politicians play Purim dress-up

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a speech to military personnel in Manila, on October 4, 2016. (AFP/Ted Aljibe)

Israel said planning for visit by Philippines leader Duterte

Actress Scarlett Johansson impersonates Ivanka Trump in a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch on March 11, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Eau de ParodyScarlett Johansson takes on Ivanka Trump in SNL spoof

A rare Torah scroll in Tunsia dating to the 15th-century that smugglers tried to remove from the country. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Smugglers of rare Torah scroll caught in Tunisia

President Reuven Rivlin gives Purim packages (Mishloach Manot) to members of the Israeli security forces guarding at the Ofer checkpoint on March 12, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Holiday heroinesHanding out Purim treats, Rivlin praises female troops

Former Israeli defense minister Moshe 'Bogie' Ya'alon speaks at the Hebrew University, on January 18, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former defense minister Ya’alon officially quits Likud

A general view of TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries in Jerusalem, Israel, October 11, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

S&P keeps Teva’s BBB rating, cuts management score

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rapper Kosha Dillz performing in Ventura, California, June 21, 2015. Kosha Dillz is one of the Jewish highlights at this year’s South by Southwest festival. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Jewish fixSXSW 2017: Five don’t-miss Jewish events

By Gabe Friedman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, attend a ceremony marking the Israeli capture of the southern city of Eilat on March 8, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Court summons Netanyahus to testify in libel lawsuit

Yifeng Zhou speaks about Chinese interest in Israeli innovation, March 12, 2017. (Dennis Zinn)

Yifeng Zhou on China’s interest in Israeli innovation

By ToI Staff and dennis zinn

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