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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 15, 2018

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Students released from a lockdown are overcome with emotion following following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14, 2018. (John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Florida teen charged with 17 murder counts in school attack

By AP and ToI Staff

Nikolas Cruz, an orphaned 19-year-old with a troubled past, opened fire inside his former school with a semi-automatic weapon

Jewish students among dead, injured in Florida school shooting

By JTA and Agencies

President offers condolences after Florida shooting

Florida high school shooting plunges city into mourning

By TERRY SPENCER and KELLI KENNEDY

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Maxim Shipenkov)

Interview

Russian official: If Iran attacks Israel, we’ll stand with you

By Raphael Ahren

Moscow’s deputy ambassador in Tel Aviv says while Israel was right to shoot down intruding drone, he doesn’t buy IDF’s assertion that Tehran was behind Saturday’s launch

Head of Iran’s secret operations overseas threatens to ‘erase Zionist entity’

Israel said to fear Assad chemical weapons spillover into Golan Heights

Syria: Israeli drone over Quneitra forced to retreat by anti-aircraft fire

By Judah Ari Gross

Muhi (second from left), his grandmother, grandfather Abu Naim and Buha, the Israeli activist who helps him (Courtesy Rina Castelnuovo)

Film zooms in on 8-year-old amputee from Gaza living in an Israeli hospital

By Jessica Steinberg

Photojournalist spends 4 years making ‘Muhi – Generally Temporary,’ a film both tragic and inspiring about a child in extraordinary circumstances

Illustrative: Palestinian children do their homework by candlelight during a power outage in Gaza City on September 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Gaza’s only power plant shuts down over fuel shortage

By AFP

In Calcutta, tens of thousands at pro-Israel rally by far-right Hindu movement

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Marking 10 years of the Hindu Samhati movement, demonstration includes violent dust-up with media, arrests of protesters, and mass conversion of 14-member Muslim family

Police chief Roni Alsheich and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

State legal sources: Police don’t have proof to back all claims against PM

TV reports highlight deep rift between investigators and prosecutors over potential corruption cases against Netanyahu

Polls show support for Netanyahu may be rising after police allegations

Indian billionaire named in PM graft case denies partnership with key suspect

By Raoul Wootliff

Police minister orders probe into claims Netanyahu investigators were tailed

An undated picture of then-Walla editor Yinon Magal‎‏ in the studio. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Former news site editor says he was pressured to cover Netanyahu favorably

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Yinon Magal confirms he was directed to portray PM — who is accused of manipulating media execs — and his wife in a positive light

5 times Israeli politicians said ‘there’s nothing to it’ and ended up in jail

Netanyahu’s lawyer derides bribery allegations against PM

Hebrew media reviewFor Netanyahu cases, a no holes-barred fight

By Joshua Davidovich

Omar al-Abed (c) smiles in the Judea Military Court ahead of his sentencing on February 15, 2018 for the murders of Yosef, Elad, and Chaya Salomon. (Courtesy)

4 life sentences for terrorist who killed Salomon family of Halamish

Military court judges discuss death penalty for Omar al-Abed, but ultimately rule against it, call for 19-year-old ‘not to be released in any future deal’

Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub (L) yells at a border policewoman during an altercation in the West Bank city of Hebron on February 14, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Top Fatah official yells at Israeli police officer to ‘shut up, go to hell’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Students are seen walking at the Ariel University campus in the West Bank settlement of Ariel on January 25, 2017. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

PA urges world to blackball MKs who back law on West Bank colleges

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks during a farewell ceremony for outgoing Supreme Court chief justice Miriam Naor in Jerusalem on November 6, 2017. (Flash90)

Live updates (Closed)

AG defends police recommendations to indict PM: ‘No one is above the law’

By Raoul Wootliff

In first public appearance since proposed charges against Netanyahu revealed, Avichai Mandelblit denies rift, says force ‘carried out investigation according to the book’

7:28 pm

Lapid rejects claim he was 'central witness' in PM probes
6:58 pm

AG defends police recommendations to indict PM: 'No one is above the law'
6:17 pm

White supremacist group admits ties to Florida shooter

An Israeli in Krakow

We Jews can lie low, or we can stand up and work to resolve the crisis between Israel and Poland

You just don’t call Yair Lapid a ‘shtinker’

Bullying those who speak out against abuse and corruption is a poor defense of Netanyahu

Jewish law — far more than a dry, unbending code

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo faults halacha handbooks for a lack of legal creativity; he misses the mark (review)

Stepping out of Sergey Brin’s shadow

Investor-driven ‘free’ social media comes at a steep price: we need a slower, deeper fusing of art and technology

David Levin in action while playing for the Toronto-based Don Mills Flyers in the 2014-15 season. (Courtesy)

Sabras on ice

From the Land of Canaan to Canada, Israel’s first hockey star shoots for NHL

By Robert Sarner

As a 10-year-old, David Levin set his sights on hockey’s big leagues. Today, his once-unlikely goal could actually be realized

Adam Edelman of Israel corners in his mens skeleton training session at the Olympic Sliding Centre, during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea on February 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mark Ralston)

With ‘a lot of chutzpah,’ Israeli slider somehow found Pyeongchang

By Tim Reynolds

Aly Raisman poses for Sports Illustrated, with a message to abuse survivors (Aly Raisman / Instagram, via JTA)

In her own words

Aly Raisman poses nude, with message for abuse survivors

By Gabe Friedman

Addressing sex assault by doctor, Jewish Olympic gymnast has ‘trust yourself,’ and ‘every voice matters’ painted on her body for photo shoot

'De materia medica' by Dioscorides. Physician preparing an elixir. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund)

National Library of Israel shares interfaith love with Islamic art exhibit in NY

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

US President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Putting annexation row behind them, Netanyahu, Trump set March meet

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Eritrean demonstrators chanted "Refugees, not infiltrators," outside of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzilya on January 22, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/ Times of Israel)

Court rules Eritrean draft dodgers eligible for asylum in Israel

Yehudah Kimani blows a shofar on December 13, 2017, in his home of Kasuku in the highlands of Kenya. (courtesy Yehudah Kimani/Facebook)

Conservative rabbis call on Israel to admit Kenyan convert

By JTA

Participants at a traditional Carnival parade in Maastricht, the Netherlands, March 2, 2014. (Marcel Van Hoorn/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

For Jews in the Netherlands, Catholic Carnival feels like ‘hardcore Purim’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks at a conference of local governments in Tel Aviv on February 14, 2018. (Jorge Novominsky)

Citing Cuban missile crisis, Liberman hints Israel will hit Iran in Syria again

By Judah Ari Gross

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East on December 18, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP Photo/Kena Betancur)

US says Iran drone incursion into Israel is a ‘wake-up call’ for world

By Alexander Fulbright

The Queens Museum (Leo Chiou/Wikimedia Commons)

Ex-heads of NY’s Queens Museum ‘misled board’ over Israel blunder — report

Ofer Ben-Noon,CEO of Argus Cyber Security (Courtesy)

A day in the (tech) life‘The exit wasn’t the end. It may be the end of the beginning,’ Argus CEO says

By Shoshanna Solomon

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