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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 15, 2017

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Voters queue outside a polling station at The Hague on March 15, 2017, as polls open across the Netherlands. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Polls open in key Dutch elections as far-right slips

By JO BIDDLE and Jan Hennop

Performance of Geert Wilders is seen as a litmus test for strength of right-wing populists ahead of other European ballots

Rutte vs. Wilders puts Dutch elections in a stark light

By Mike Corder and Raf Casert

Wilders, the ‘Dutch Trump’ set to rise as Holland votes

EU slams Turkey’s Nazi jibes as ‘detached from reality’

By AFP

Adam Krief, with his wife, Lia, had a rare form of blood cancer that proved to be fatal. (Facebook)

Jewish cancer patient, whose bone marrow search touched celebs, dies

By JTA

Kim Kardashian, Mayim Bialik, drawn into worldwide gene match drive which ultimately failed to save Adam Krief, 31, a father of three

Japan's Seiya Suzuki steals second as Israel's second baseman Tyler Krieger drops the ball during the second inning of their second-round game at the World Baseball Classic in Tokyo, March 15, 2017. (AP/Toru Takahashi)

Israel falls to Japan, ending miracle run at baseball tournament

By Joshua Davidovich

Team loses 8-3, falling short at the World Baseball Classic after becoming the tourney’s darlings and astounding the baseball-watching world

Illustrative: Infielder Cody Decker #14 of Israel holds team mascot 'The Mensch on a Bench' after the World Baseball Classic Pool A Game Five between the Netherlands and Israel at Gocheok Sky Dome on March 9, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images via JTA)

Team Israel baseball gear a home run with kvelling American Jewish fans

By Andrew Tobin

A picture taken from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza Border on August 21, 2014, shows smoke rising from buildings in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from Gaza landed short of its target (photo credit: AFP/DAVID BUIMOVITCH)

Live updates (closed)

Rocket launched from Gaza lands in open field

By Marissa Newman

Justice minister urges president to commute Olmert’s sentence; Israel slams UN commission report alleging ‘apartheid’; US hails Jordan as ‘important ally’ for peace

FBI (iStock)

FBI places public warning against ‘Binary Options Fraud’ at top of its main website

By Simona Weinglass

As lobbyists for widely fraudulent, vast, Israel-centered industry try to persuade ministers to block regulator’s bill to ban it, US bureau highlights the widespread fleecing of victims, says the crooks are in its ‘crosshairs’

Test tubes filled with blood samples (Illustrative photo credit: Rebecca Zeffert/Flash90)

Israeli-American medical tech makes taking blood easier

By Shoshanna Solomon

Joystick-like robot, developed by BGU and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, offers precise needle placement, reduces discomfort

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Abbas to US envoy: Peace deal possible under Trump

PA president commits ‘to preventing inflammatory rhetoric and incitement’ in meeting with Jason Greenblatt

Rivlin meets Trump envoy, offers to ‘assist’ in peace efforts

PM: No agreements on settlements in talks with Trump adviser

Trump administration threatens to leave UN Human Rights Council

By JTA and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, at Abbas's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

You may be as surprised to be here as we all are to see you

Advice for Trump’s would-be peacemaker

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Mr. Greenblatt, don’t try to strong-arm the sides into an impossible deal. Do focus on education. Insist on changing what the Palestinians are taught about Israel, and you might just make some headway

Trump the change agent looks positively traditional on Mideast peace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his wife, Sara, as they enter the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 14, 2017. (AFP/Heidi Levine, Pool)

‘False, absurd, ridiculous’: Netanyahu denies his wife kicked him out of the car

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Prime minister and his wife give testimony in court against journalist in libel case

Students from St Angela’s School, Ursuline Convent view 'Representations of Jews in Irish Literature' exhibition at Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland, February 2017 (Jennifer Bolger/WIT)

St. Patrick's Day'Not many Irish people know Jews'

Dracula the ‘Wandering Jew,’ and other unknown facets of Irish lit in NY-bound exhibition

By Renee Ghert-Zand

From the Middle Ages and the Annals of Innisfallen to Leopold Bloom, Jews are a surprisingly constant presence in a millennium of Irish writing

Potkin Azarmehr

Purim made simple for Netanyahu

Using the megillah to demonize the Islamic Republic of Iran was silly, and worse, insulted Bibi’s would-be Iranian allies

BDS and my summer vacation

The new amendment to Israel’s entry law means he might be turned away at Ben Gurion, and it’s just not worth the risk

Trump’s Stalinesque aversion to experts

The US president, who takes his counsel from cronies, is doing his part to diminish ‘the administrative state’

Asher Faraj seen in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 15, 2017. (Flash90)

Court remands elderly man who burned nurse to death

Holocaust survivor Asher Faraj to remain behind bars pending a psychiatric evaluation; family members say he’s mentally ill

Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, on October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Health and social workers, teachers stop work to protest violence

The aftermath of a suicide bombing at a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in August 9, 2001, that killed 15 and wounded over 100 more. (Flash90)

US seeks extradition of Sbarro bombing accomplice

By AP and ToI Staff

Jordanian woman charged in connection with 2001 terror attack on Jerusalem pizzeria that killed 15; sought by Justice Department over deaths of US citizens

Israeli police look for evidence at the scene where Miki Mark was killed and three members of his family were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on their car, on July 1, 2016, south of Hebron. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Accomplice in 2016 terror attack that killed rabbi gets 2 life terms

By Tamar Pileggi

Muhammad al-Amarya confessed to driving vehicle from which a Hamas gunman opened fire on Rabbi Miki Mark’s car near Hebron

A vendor sets up his stall on the first day of the 30th Annual Meeting of France's Muslims, in Le Bourget, Paris, April 2013. (AP/Remy de la Mauviniere)

European rabbis pan ruling to prohibit religious garb in firms

By JTA

Jewish leaders say ‘Europe is sending a clear message; its faith communities are no longer welcome’

Protesters sing songs and chant slogans outside the Dutch Consulate on March 12, 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

In Turkey-Netherlands row, a foreboding sign for Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Drones in a hangar at Israel Aerospace Industries, near Tel Aviv, on May 28, 2013. (AP/Oded Balilty)

13 arrested for ‘deep corruption’ at Israeli Aerospace Industries

By Judah Ari Gross

Months-long covert probe yields suspicions of fraud, money laundering against employees of IAI, former senior IDF officer

Illustrative: In this March 11, 2017 picture, a man reads The Book of Esther. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Photo essay

In Romania’s small Jewish community, large helpings of Purim cheer

By AP

Children don costumes to join aging congregation in celebrating the averted genocide of the Jewish people in ancient Persia

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

Ya’alon lays out Mideast vision, which resembles Netanyahu’s

By Judah Ari Gross

Ex-defense minister says no solution in sight for Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but it’s ‘irrelevant’ given regional upheaval

People inspect damage in a parking lot at the site of an attack by twin explosions in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 11, 2017 (SANA via AP)

Suicide bomber kills at least 25 at Damascus courthouse

By AFP

Security forces close off area as ambulances and firefighters rush to scene of latest attack

An Israeli soldier holds a Skylark drone during the search for three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, in the West Bank, June 14, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Small Israeli drone crashes in northern Gaza — army

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF investigating what caused Skylark-model UAV to fall out of the sky, in year’s second such incident

Ofir Shaer (second from right) with volunteers and Israeli travelers at Ben Gurion Airport, March 2017. (Courtesy)

To honor slain sons, families send 1000s of gifts to Diaspora

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Amnon Shashua, co-founder and chairman of Mobileye arrives at a Mobileye and Intel Workers Conference in Jerusalem, March 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pricey Mobileye buy puts Intel in fast lane of competitive industry

By Shoshanna Solomon

The $15 billion deal, announced Monday, may spur innovation and encourage further acquisitions by automakers interested in Israeli machine learning and vision technology

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (third from left) meets with Intel Corp. CEO Brian Krzanich (to his left) and Mobileye founders Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram , respectively first left and first right; (Courtesy: Haim Zach, GPO)

Netanyahu congratulates Intel, Mobileye on deal

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

People demonstrating at a Stand Against Hate rally at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, March 2, 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

The surge in anti-Semitism? Here’s how to stop it

By Daniel Elbaum and Marc Stern

Jewish Iranian MP Siamak Moreh Sedgh during an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Sunday, September 29, 2013 (photo credit: CNN screen cap)

Fangs but no fangsJewish Iran MP brands Netanyahu ‘insane vampire’

Illustrative photo of elderly men playing backgammon at a country club in northern Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

By law, Israelis over 80 can now skip to front of lines

Fish, chips and mushy peas, the ultimate British dish, brought to the UK by Jews. (CC-BY-SA-2.0 Charles Haynes/Wikipedia)

New angleBBC: ‘Typically British‘ fish & chips introduced by Jews

The newly-built control room at the offices of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation in Tel Aviv, August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu uses employee tweet to slam new state broadcaster

Orville (L), Katharine and Wilbur Wright, 1909. (Photo: Bain Collection/Library of Congress)

Writer to right passage on Wright’s wrong

By Marshall Weiss

A clown version of US President Donald Trump is seen in a new music video by Snoop Dogg (YouTube screenshot)

Bad rapTrump calls out Snoop Dogg over shooting video

By AFP

A model struts the runway at the Gindi TLV Fashion Week, on Monday, March 13, 2017. (Ido Izsak/Motty Reif)

Out of styleTLV Fashion Week falls flat on the runway

By Jessica Steinberg

The 'Beware of Jews' sign which was fixed onto a lamppost in Stamford Hill that was spotted in March 2017. (Shomrim/Twitter)

‘Beware of Jews’ sign hung in London neighborhood

By JTA

Hapoel Jerusalem fans cheer during a match, illustrative (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hapoel Jerusalem basketball fans say Spanish police beat them during game

MK Orly Levy-Abekasis at a Knesset House Committee meeting, March 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Orly Levy-Abekasis officially ousted from Yisrael Beytenu

By Raoul Wootliff and Itamar Sharon

Scene of an alleged arson attack in the city of Holon in central Israel, March 14, 2017 (Magen David Adom spokesperson)

Hebrew media reviewDeadly fire shines light on societal ill

By Joshua Davidovich

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