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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 17, 2018

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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2018, in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas KIENZLE)

Polish prime minister says Jews perpetrated Holocaust too

By Tamar Pileggi

Defending controversial Holocaust law, Mateusz Morawiecki tells Israeli journalist that many Poles aided their ‘Jewish brothers and sisters’ during the war

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a press conference with the German Chancellor on February 16, 2018 at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP Photo/John MacDougall)

Israeli opposition hammers Polish PM for saying Jews also perpetrated Holocaust

By Alexander Fulbright and Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative photo of Jewish people praying in a synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, on February 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Polish Jews stunned, scared by eruption of anti-Semitism

By Vanessa Gera

Israeli troops and first responders at the Gaza border following an explosion that targeted an IDF patrol, February 17, 2018 (Hadashot news screenshot)

Four soldiers wounded, two seriously by bomb targeting Gaza border patrol

Troops were removing a flag from border fence when blast occurred; IDF tank hits observation post; Netanyahu promises ‘we will respond appropriately’

Family and friends console each other as they arrive for the funeral of Meadow Pollack, a victim of the Wednesday shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

‘You killed my kid!’ Father of shooting victim yells at funeral

By TERRY SPENCER

‘Just unimaginable that I will never see my princess again,’ Andrew Pollack laments, standing over the plain pine coffin of his 18-year-old daughter, Meadow

At funeral, rabbi urges friends of slain 14-year old to ‘be her voice’

By JTA and AP

Jewish brothers who survived school shooting learn what they mean to each other

White nationalist now appears to disavow connection with Florida shooter

By AP

A young girl clutches a friend during candlelight vigil for victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School yesterday, at Pine Trail Park, in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 15, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images, via JTA)

Florida victim’s aunt urges end to gun ‘sickness that has gripped our country’

Abbie Youkilis, whose niece Jaime Guttenberg was one of the 17 killed in school massacre, calls guns a ‘national disease’ and pleads with voters to challenge the NRA

Calls for FBI director to resign following missed tips on Florida shooter

By SADIE GURMAN

Students, parents demand gun curbs after Florida school shooting

By AFP and AP

Trump meets hospitalized Florida shooting victims, first responders

By Catherine Lucey and Jonathan Lemire

Jay Wolman (left), defends Andrew Anglin (right), the founder of the anti-Semitic website The Daily Stormer. (Randazza Legal Group/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Jewish lawyer defends America’s most infamous Nazi

Seniors from Sun City in Palm Springs, California gather for Shabbat dinner at their local Wendy's fast food restaurant, as seen in 'Wendy's Shabbat' short documentary film (Courtesy of 3 Penny)

Jewish seniors fight isolation with a fast food community in ‘Wendy’s Shabbat’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at the daily briefing of the White House in Washington, DC, July 31, 2015 (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Risk of nuclear war at ‘highest point since Cuban missile crisis’

Ex-US energy secretary Ernest Moniz, who help negotiate Iran deal, says poor diplomacy and better technology increase the risk of an accidental weapons launch

AnalysisFear of Syrian war expanding may paradoxically trigger peace deal

By Philippe RATER

Nasrallah: Downing of Israeli F-16 ‘a great military accomplishment’

By ToI Staff and AP

US accuses 3 men of trying to export drone parts to Hezbollah

By AP

A baby Gabrielle Birkner with her late father Larry Birkner c. 1980 (Courtesy)

There is no guidebook for grief, say editors of new compilation, ‘Modern Loss’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Visiting Ramallah

I saw a vibrant city, one like any other except for the misplaced, unjustified hatred lining its foundations

David Zachary Sidman

Teddy the dog & the Haredi bridegroom

When a rescue canine crashed a ultra-Orthodox wedding and became the life of the party

'The Final Year' follows the Obama administration's last attempt to shape world affairs. (Magnolia Pictures)

A stitch in time

Documentary captures dramatic ‘tick-tock’ of Obama administration’s last days

By Tracy Frydberg

The US Capitol building shown on Feb. 9, 2018. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images via JTA)

Only 6% of Washington’s booming Jewish community identify as Republican

New wide-ranging survey of US capital shows many area Jews are observant, though few affiliate with religious institutions

Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference held at the Verizon Center in Washington, on March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Haley to address AIPAC conference; Trump-Netanyahu to meet March 5

By Eric Cortellessa

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 21, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

TV report claims ‘dramatic’ developments in Case 4000, involving PM’s associates

Arnon Milchan (Flash90)

Milchan’s lawyers decry police treatment in Netanyahu graft crase

24-year-old American film actor Christopher Reeve stands before the Manhattan skyline dressed as the comic-book hero of the film 'Superman'. (Keystone/Getty Images)

DC Comics’ newest writer is poised to make Superman Jewish again

US gymnast Aly Raisman confronts Larry Nassar in court, Janury 19, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Aly Raisman to BBYO: Be kind, speak out, stand up for survivors

By JTA

Nimer Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal, who carried out a terror attack in the settlement of Har Adar on September 26, 2017 (Facebook)

IDF said to return bodies of 2 West Bank terrorists

A view of the Lille University campus in Villeneuve d'Ascq, northern France (CC BY-SA Frédéric Kuhlmann/Wikipedia)

French students cancel Israel festival due to pro-Palestinian protests

By AFP

An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)

Anti-Semitic hate speech incidents in Austria at all-time high, watchdog says

By JTA

Kfar Saba Mayor Yehuda Ben-Hamo appears at a remand hearing at Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on February 13, 2017, after he was arrested for suspected corruption. (Flash90)

Kfar Saba mayor resigns after charged with fraud, witness tampering

This poster featuring US billionaire George Soros in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, reads, 'We can't let Soros get the last laugh.' It was part of a government campaign, July 6, 2017. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)

UN urges Hungary to review anti-Soros bills

By AFP

Then health minister Yaakov Ben-Yezri speaks to journalists outside his office in Jerusalem on June 2, 2008. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Former health minister Yaakov Ben-Yezri dies at 91

Iranian wrestler Alireza Karimi leading his match against Russia’s Alikhan Zhabrailov 3-2, when his coach can be heard from the sidelines instructing him to lose, at the World Championships in Poland, November 25, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Iranian wrestler who threw match to avoid Israeli banned for 6 months

This file photo taken on August 20, 2016 shows USA's J'den Michael Tbory Cox (red) wrestling with Iran's Ali Reza Karimi during a match at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Iran protests ban on wrestler who threw bout to avoid Israeli

By Eric RANDOLPH

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