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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 22, 2018

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Jewish dad of Florida school shooting victim to Trump: ‘It stops here’

At White House ‘listening session,’ parents and students call for US to emulate tough Israeli restrictions on gun ownership and safety

Andrew Pollack (C), flanked by his sons, speaks during 'listening session' on gun violence with US President Donald Trump, teachers and students in the State Dining Room of the White House on February 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students at a CNN town hall broadcast, February 21, 2018, at the BB&T Center, in Sunrise, Florida. (Michael Laughlin/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Father of slain Jewish teen confronts ‘pathetically weak’ Rubio on gun control

By AP

US President Donald Trump takes part in a 'listening session' on gun violence with teachers and students in the State Dining Room of the White House on February 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

As students and parents beg him for gun control, Trump talks of arming teachers

By Catherine Lucey and Matthew Daly

Isaiah bulla, a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which may have belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah. (Ouria Tadmor/© Eilat Mazar)

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

In find of biblical proportions, seal of Prophet Isaiah said found in Jerusalem

Chanced upon near a seal identified with King Hezekiah, a tiny clay piece may be the first-ever proof of the prophet, though a missing letter leaves room for doubt

From L to R: US Congressman David McKinley, his wife Mary Gerkin, Jean Tipton and Congressman Scott Tipton visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on February 22, 2018. (screen capture: Facebook)

US congressmen briefly questioned after Temple Mount visit

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi raise their glasses during a state dinner at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem February 1, 2010 (Avi Ohayon/Gpo/Flash 90)

Filber: I was fired for making Netanyahus give up pricey watch from Berlusconi

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu confidant, who signed a deal to turn state’s witness, also reportedly tells investigators PM explicitly told him to assist Bezeq

Bezeq owner reportedly recorded ordering favorable coverage for Netanyahu

Hebrew media reviewCommunication breakdown

By Adiv Sterman

In return for testifying against him, Netanyahu confidant won’t get jail time

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative. Israeli soldiers seen during a raid on the al-Huriya radio station on suspicion of incitement to violence in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 31, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinian tries to attack soldiers, dies after he is shot at, beaten

By Judah Ari Gross and Khaled Abu Toameh

According to army, suspect ran at soldiers with a metal table during early-morning riot in Jericho, was fatally wounded during his arrest

Israeli youth handball teams in Qatar spark social media outcry

By David Harding

Al Jazeera under fire for hosting IDF spokesperson

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Arab Knesset member complains: Saudi Arabia does not want downfall of Netanyahu

By Khaled Abu Toameh

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, center, Jared Kushner, left, and Jason Greenblatt, listen as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Palestine on February 20, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

US envoys pushing UN to back Trump’s Mideast peace plan

By AFP

Diplomats say Greenblatt and Kushner trying to secure support for upcoming proposal while continuing to keep it under wraps

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the United Nations Security Council on February 20, 2018 in New York (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

AnalysisWith toned-down UN speech, Abbas tries to signal he’s still relevant

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Husam Zomlot, the former Palestinian envoy to Washington, reviews papers in Washington, DC, February 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Estranged from White House, Palestinian envoy looks for way out of ‘box’

By Josh Lederman

Mahmoud Abbas speaking at the UN Security Council on February 20, 2018. (screen capture: UNTV)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas undergoes ‘routine’ medical examination in US hospital

By Itamar Sharon

Police ‘seeking to question PM again’ in Bezeq, submarine probes; mother of Palestinian killed by IDF in Jericho: ‘Allah take revenge upon them’

8:19 pm

French court denies release of rape-accused Islamic scholar
8:09 pm

Pence slams N. Korean leader's 'tyrannical' sister after near meet
7:50 pm

Conservatives cheer Pence when he mentions Trump’s Jerusalem move

Second place winners Or Chadash Mannheim, featuring JuJuBa at the Jewrovision 2018 contest in Dresden. (Courtesy)

In Germany, Jewrovision exists — and it’s fabulous

By Amie Liebowitz

IDF reveals it thwarted attempted Islamic State bombing of Australian flight

By Judah Ari Gross

In August, two men were arrested plotting to blow up an Etihad Airways flight out of Sydney; Israel’s Military Intelligence says it’s the reason why

IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a State Control committee meeting at the Knesset on August 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF chief tells ministers it was a mistake to return terrorists’ bodies

By Judah Ari Gross

Sammy Davis Jr. shortly before his death in 1989. (Alan Light)

Sammy Davis Jr. charms the world again in new documentary, ‘I Gotta Be Me’

By Rich Tenorio

Gerald L. Zelizer

How should Jews remember Rev. Billy Graham?

Don’t let the anti-Semitism on the Nixon tapes define him

Judith Colp Rubin

Off on the Hummus Trail

My daughter’s post-army travel adventure is a lesson in endurance — for me, impatient to hear from her

The death of Israel Apartheid Week on UK campuses

Of course BDS boycott tactics are failing; comparing Israel and South Africa never stacked up to begin with

Peacemakers: Moderation in times of extremism

Mohammed Dajani Daoudi spreads a message of reconciliation, mutual understanding and joint cooperation for peace

Illustrative: A March of the Living delegation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland on May 5, 2016. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Nazi hunter group weighs travel warning for Poland over Holocaust law

Simon Wiesenthal Center says it is considering recommending Jews only travel to the country to visit ‘ancestral graves and Holocaust-era death camps’

A visitor walks by barbed wire fences at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP/Alik Keplicz)

‘No criminal charges’ under disputed Polish Holocaust law

By ToI Staff and AP

A man participating in a Ruderman Family Foundation campaign released on February 21, 2018, urging the United States to cut its ties with Poland over a law criminalizing blaming the Polish state or nation for crimes of the Holocaust. (Screen capture/YouTube)

US Jewish group withdraws Holocaust video offensive to Poles

By Vanessa Gera

Britain's first and only Jewish prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, circa 1878. (Public domain)

150 years ago, the UK’s first and only Jewish leader changed politics forever

By Robert Philpot

Analysis

How his latest loyalist turning state’s witness could be Netanyahu’s undoing

Like Ari Harow in Cases 1000 and 2000, Communications Ministry head Shlomo Filber seems likely to turn the tide of incriminating evidence against the PM in Case 4000

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 11, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / RONEN ZVULUN)

Israel seen as slightly more corrupt in latest global index

By Raoul Wootliff

Poll: Netanyahu’s Likud would remain biggest party despite corruption probes

Minister: Likud poll shows public doesn’t buy ‘lies’ against Netanyahu

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A promotional image for the “Black Panther” film. (Chadwick Boseman/Facebook)

Why ‘Black Panther’ might also be a milestone in black-Jewish relations

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative image of baby in a stroller. (vitaliksun/iStock by Getty Images)

French rabbi’s baby burned after solvent placed in stroller

By JTA

Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations annual mission in Jerusalem on February 21, 2018. (Avi Hayoun/Conference of Presidents)

Netanyahu: Nuclear deal is setting Iran on a ‘highway to a nuclear arsenal’

By Raoul Wootliff

Billy Graham shown in February 1954. (AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

ObituaryBilly Graham’s difficult legacy: Pro-Israel in public, deriding Jews in private

Prince Harry and his princess to be, Meghan Markle, leave an evening event with Markle dressed in a body suit blouse by an Israel-trained designer Courtesy Instagram)

Body electricMeghan Markle wore bodysuit by Israel-trained designer, and it sold out

By Jessica Steinberg

A photo taken by firefighters from Beersheba of a house in Hura after a fire in which three children were hurt, February 22, 2018. (Beersheba Fire and Rescue/Twitter screen capture)

Small children seriously hurt in house fire in south

Menashe Arviv announces his retirement from the Israel Police, February 9, 2014 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Former top graft investigator convicted of failing to report bribery attempts

Israeli police remove protesters from the roof of a home slated to be destroyed in the West Bank settlement of Ofra on March 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

A year later, charges filed against 8 Ofra evacuation protesters

The Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery at the University of Chicago. (screen capture: Oriental Museum Virtual Tour, University of Chicago)

US Supreme Court blocks Hamas bomb victims’ claim to Iran artifacts

By Mark Sherman

'Wonder Woman' actress Gal Gadot poses at the 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 2, 2018, in Palm Springs, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

And the winner isGal Gadot to present Oscar at 2018 Academy Awards

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