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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 24, 2018

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Smoke billows following a regime air strike on the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, late on February 23, 2018. (AFP/ Ammar SULEIMAN)

Death toll in Syria enclave tops 500 after UN delays truce vote

By Hasan Mohamed

Syrian and Russian forces launch new airstrikes on besieged Eastern Ghouta, controlled by two Islamist factions and ex-Al-Qaeda affiliate

A civil defense volunteer, known as the White Helmets, checks the site of a regime air strike in the rebel-held town of Saqba, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 23, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSA)

UN delays vote on Syria humanitarian cease-fire

By AFP

A Syrian woman and children run for cover amid the rubble of buildings following government bombing in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 19, 2018.
(AFP/Abdulmonam Eassa)

Strikes pound Syria’s Eastern Ghouta for 6th day as world fumbles for response

By Hasan Mohamed

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

Netanyahu on US embassy relocation in May: ‘A great day for Israel’

By ToI Staff and AP

PM says Washington’s decision to open Jerusalem embassy ‘will turn 70th Independence Day into an even bigger celebration,’ thanks Trump for ‘leadership and friendship’

Trump says countries begged him to nix Israeli embassy relocation: ‘Don’t do it’

By AP and ToI Staff

Turkey: US embassy Jerusalem opening in May damages peace, tramples on law

By AFP and ToI Staff

US weighs Sheldon Adelson offer to fund Jerusalem embassy

By Josh Lederman

A picture taken from the Mount of Olives shows the Old City of Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock shrine in the center, on December 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Palestinians say embassy move ‘provocative’ as US announces May date

By Khaled Abu Toameh, ToI Staff and AP

Erekat notes timing of planned opening of US embassy in Jerusalem coincides with Nakba, while Abbas spokesman says it will ‘obstruct’ peace; Hamas warns of ‘explosion’ in region

Hamas tells Nikki Haley: Your peace plan is ‘worthless’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

2 Palestinians wounded by IDF fire during riots along Gaza fence

Autopsy shows Palestinian assailant in Jericho died from gunfire

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Sipora, a Jewish refugee from Iran, looking out the window of her daughter’s Netherlands home, Feb. 15, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Jewish grandmother sentenced to death in Iran; Holland won’t grant her asylum

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Persian language teacher ‘Sipora’ was convicted in absentia for running underground organization that found housing for women with abusive husbands who could not get a divorce

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu ‘pushed Bezeq owner’s wife to axe news site editor’

TV report shows Whatsapp message written by PM’s spouse; Walla CEO says owner and suspect Shaul Elovitch and his wife are ‘a crime family’

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a conference for the Darkenu organization in Rishon Lezion on August 17, 2016. (Neri Lider)

Netanyahu would lose if elections were held today, Barak says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses American-Jewish leaders in Jerusalem on February 21, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

TV report: PM may be questioned in sub affair next week as potential suspect

Ruth and Roman Blank in the film 'On My Way Out.' (Youtube Screenshot)

When this grandfather came out as gay at age 95, two brothers grabbed the camera

By Patrice Worthy

European Council President Donald Tusk (C) arrives to attend a lunch during an informal meeting of the 27 EU heads of state or government at the European Council headquarters in Brussels on February 23, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Ludovic MARIN)

EU president: Poland’s conduct on Holocaust risks ruining its global standing

By AFP and ToI Staff

Donald Tusk, a former Polish premier, warns Warsaw against ‘anti-Semitic excesses’ that hurt country’s reputation

Police control a road near the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed by a gunman on February 15, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

After shooting, Florida to station police at every school

By Leila Macor and Chris Lefkow

Governor unveils $450 million security plan in response to Valentine’s Day rampage; Trump repeats controversial call to arm teachers

Police officers are seen in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as law enforcement officials investigate the mass shooting that took place at the school, on February 17, 2018, in Parkland, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Florida school starts to reopen, as extent of authorities’ failures emerges

By Gary Fineout, JENNIFER KAY and JOSH REPLOGLE

My Jewish journey to Ghana

No, we didn’t cure Africa’s poverty, but we stepped out of our bubble, found common ground, and did good

What would Begin do?

How I miss the former prime minister, who responded to failure with soul-searching and self-blame

Heading down to Jaky Ben Zaken's boat for a ride on the Dead Sea (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A salty, 36-hour break at the Dead Sea

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Eric Greitens speaking at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York, May 7, 2012. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation via JTA)

Missouri’s Jewish governor defiant after being indicted for blackmail

By JIM SALTER, DAVID A. LIEB and Summer Ballentine

This undated image provided by João Zilhão in February 2018 shows perforated shells found in sediments in the Cueva de los Aviones near Cartagena, Spain. (João Zilhão via AP)

Earliest cave art belonged to Neanderthals, not humans, study finds

By Kerry SHERIDAN

Illustrative: The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto, Portugal, on September 2, 2016. (AFP Photo/ Miguel Riopa)

A soaring number of Jews acquired Portuguese citizenship in 2017

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2018 in National Harbor, MD (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump announces ‘heaviest ever’ sanctions on North Korea

By AFP

Rasmea Yousef Odeh, November 10, 2014. (AP/Carlos Osorio, File)

Palestinian ex-terrorist deported from US invited to speak in Amsterdam

By JTA

An Israeli flag flies over the remains of a woodhsop in the Netiv Ha'avot outpost after Israeli security forces demolished it on November 29, 2017. (Courtesy: Campaign to save Netiv Ha'avot)

Cabinet seeks to legalize outpost where half of homes to be razed

Illustrative: A brit, or Jewish circumcision ceremony, in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)

500 Icelandic physicians back bill to outlaw circumcision

By JTA

Paul Manafort walks from Federal District Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ex-Trump aide paid Europeans to lobby for pro-Russia Ukraine

By AFP

Hamzeh Abu Hashem being bitten (YouTube screenshot)

Palestinian stone-thrower bitten by Israeli army dog sues Dutch breeder

By JTA

Levi Sanders, right, with his father, Senator Bernie Sanders, at a campaign rally in New York City, April 17, 2016. (Mireya Acierto/FilmMagic/Getty Images via JTA)

Bernie Sanders’ son weighing Congressional run in New Hampshire

By JTA

Julie Hammerman, who founded the JLens Investor Network, at the group’s 2017 conference on impact investing. (Courtesy of JLens/via JTA)

Angel investors

Can Jewish charities do good and make money? Impact investors say yes

Sabbatai Zevi (1626–76), depicted in an illustration from an early 20th-century Russian encyclopedia of the Jews, was regarded by some Jews in his day as the messiah, until his forced conversion to Islam in the 17th century. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

For some Balkan Muslims a Jewish false messiah inspires interfaith understanding

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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