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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 25, 2018

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The Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilus lll announces the closure of the Holy Sepulchre Church in protest at Israeli policies, February 25, 2018. (Courtesy)

Stepping up protest against Israel, fuming church leaders shutter Holy Sepulchre

Christian holy site in Jerusalem closes down over Knesset bill restricting sales of church land and Jerusalem move to charge millions of shekels in disputed back taxes

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III delivers a statement to the press as he stands next to the Custodian of the Holy Land Fr. Francesco Patton and Armenian Bishop Siwan (L) on February 25, 2018, outside of the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

After Holy Sepulchre locked, bill allowing seizure of former church land shelved

By Sue Surkes and Tamar Pileggi

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III delivers a statement to the press announcing the closure of the Holy Sepulchre church as he stands next to the Custodian of the Holy Land Fr. Francesco Patton and Armenian Bishop Siwan, left, on February 25, 2018. (AFP/ GALI TIBBON)

After holy site shuttered, lawmaker defends bill to confiscate ex-church land

By Sue Surkes and Michael Bachner

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against deportation in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Over 20,000 protest in Tel Aviv against plan to deport asylum seekers

By Melanie Lidman

African migrants march from Holot detention center to the Saharonim Prison, on February 22, 2018. (AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA)

In deal inked with Canada, Israel agrees to hold off on deporting 2,000 migrants

Ultra-Orthodox followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach mourn during his funeral in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2018. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tens of thousands throng Jerusalem streets for radical rabbi’s funeral

By Michael Bachner

Members of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach’s anti-conscription ‘Jerusalem Faction’ use eulogies to call on ultra-Orthodox to shun army offices

Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach speaks during a rally in Jerusalem against the draft of the ultra-Orthodox community on March 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shmuel Auerbach, leader of anti-draft ultra-Orthodox group, dies aged 86

Jewish inmates of the Lodz ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland at labor making baskets (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Poland said to deny freezing controversial Holocaust law

By Michael Bachner

After Israeli TV report, government spokesperson says law to come into force as planned, but confirms Warsaw sending team to Jerusalem for discussions

The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

TV report: Poland freezes Holocaust law, is sending team to Israel to reword it

By Agencies and Raphael Ahren

A consumer buys meat in Warsaw, Poland, Friday July 9, 2004. After Poland joined the European Union on May 1st, food prices increased in the country, with the sharpest rise, 21.7 percent, for meat.(AP/Alik Keplicz)

Polish lawmaker backs Jews fighting proposed ritual slaughter ban

By Yaakov Schwartz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 25, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

Netanyahu warns ‘disproportionate’ settlement growth would anger Trump

Comments come in response to proposal on behalf of slain Israeli’s widow to expand Har Bracha; annexation bill delayed until Knesset summer session

In this Tuesday, May 23, 2017 file photo, US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Netanyahu to invite Trump to inaugurate US embassy in Jerusalem in May

By ToI Staff and AP

PM thanks US president for his leadership and ‘strong friendship,’ will reportedly ask him to visit Israel for ribbon-cutting ceremony

View of the US Consulate in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood, February 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cheering Netanyahu says US embassy move will have ‘long-term implications’

By Raoul Wootliff

Stella Handler (L), CEO of the Bezeq telecom company, appears in the Tel Aviv District Court on February 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Live updates (closed)

Report indicates collusion between judge, investigator in Bezeq corruption probe

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Channel 10 reveals chats between investigator from Israel Security Authority and judge, telling her ‘to act surprised’ by their requests to hold people in remand

7:25 pm

IDF to impose closure on West Bank for Purim
7:18 pm

Securities Authority to urgently investigate Bezeq probe collusion
7:06 pm

Judge removed from hearing on Bezeq probe, in wake of damning report

A bulldozer demolishes a woodshop at the illegal Netiv Ha'avot outpost, November 29, 2017 (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Ministers okay legalizing outpost, paving way for hundreds new homes

Cabinet moves to give Netiv Ha’avot official standing despite demolition order, funnel NIS 60 million to residents, including to help pay owners of to-be razed houses

Nir Hefetz appears in a Tel Aviv court on February 22, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Police said to have tapped suspects’ phones in Bezeq investigation

Decision to listen to conversations was made after the CEO of the Walla news site gave testimony in December, report says

Shaul Elovitch arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court for an extension of his remand in Case 4000, February 22, 2018. (Flash90/File)

Bezeq controlling shareholder to step down from board amid probe

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israelis attend a weekly protest against public corruption in Tel Aviv on February 16, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

1,500 turn out in Tel Aviv to protest government corruption

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara and Likud lawmakers attend a rally in support of the premier in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Poll: Likud gaining strength despite Netanyahu graft allegations

TV survey says ruling party would win 28 seats if fresh elections held, its best showing since police recommended PM be indicted in 2 cases

Israel's Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition chief: Netanyahu must resign if questioned as suspect in subs probe

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

Hebrew media reviewOn tap for Netanyahu: More investigations

By Tamar Pileggi

The Su-57. (Photo by Anna Zvereva, CC BY-SA 2.0, Flickr)

Russia deploys advanced stealth jets in Syria with warning aimed at Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Satellite images show two Su-57 at airbase in Latakia; Russian official says presence of planes a ‘message’ to neighboring states who fly aircraft into Syria ‘uninvited’

Fresh regime strikes in Syria rebel enclave reported after ceasefire call

By Hasan Mohamed

UN Security Council unanimously backs 30-day cease-fire across Syria

By Edith M. Lederer

Iran’s FM says its missile development is not open to negotiation

Attendees pose with a cardboard cutout of Sammy Davis Jr. at the opening night of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. (AJFF)

Why a southern US city is home to the largest Jewish film festival in the world

By Patrice Worthy

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

This Palestinian from Hebron has an Israeli ID card

When the jeweler told me his grandfather and father saved 24 Jewish families during the 1929 pogrom

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The Sheldon & Miriam Adelson US Embassy

Dear American Friends: Your generosity is why we have deluxe facilities to represent our national priorities in the region (satire)

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David Mamet addresses reporters during the HBO Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, California, January 4, 2013 (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

David Mamet says he wrote a play about Harvey Weinstein

Logos of US multinational technology company Google, on December 28, 2016, in Vertou, western France. (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)

Israel, Google eye greater productivity at low-tech manufacturing plants

By Shoshanna Solomon

During his J-TV interview, released June 21, 2016, former London mayor Ken Livingstone said he would take out to dinner whoever succeeded in proving him wrong on the 'fact' that Hitler supported Zionism. (YouTube screenshot)

Ex-London mayor Livingstone set to return to Labour after anti-Semitic remarks

Police examine the scene of an accident where a man was killed after his car crashed into a cow, February 25, 2018 (Israel Police)

Man dies after his car crashes into cow

New uniforms that are due to be distributed to the IDF's special forces, as revealed on February 25, 2018. The faces of special forces cannot be displayed. (Israel Defense Forces)

War-drobeIDF special forces to receive sweat-wicking, flame retardant duds

By Judah Ari Gross

In this February 7, 2018, photo, Reza Daneshmir, right, gestures as he talks with his wife Catherine Spiridonoff, both architects of Vali-e-Asr mosque, while they walk on one of the mosque's ramps, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Avant-garde mosque angers hardliners in Iran

By Nasser Karimi and Mohammad Nasiri

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