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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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Palestinian protesters wave national flags during clashes with Israeli security forces on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, near the border with Israel, on January 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Trump peace plan could recognize Palestinian state – report

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Arab diplomats quoted as saying yet-to-be revealed plan will nix refugees’ right of return, raze far-flung settlements, place Jerusalem’s Old City under international protection

Exiled former senior Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan attends a Palestinian Legislative Council meeting in Gaza City through video conference from the United Arab Emirates on July 27, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

Deposed Fatah strongman slams ‘fascist, corrupt’ PA

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinian Football Association (PFA) head Jibril Rajoub holds a press conference on October 12, 2016, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

PA official slams world soccer chief for folding under Israeli pressure

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a persimmon as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 25, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

Op-ed

The weakening of Israeli democracy

Colleagues marvel at PM’s ‘luck’ in facing down graft claims. In fact, he and his allies are targeting key hierarchies, some of which are complicit in their own falling credibility

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (second left) and US President Donald Trump's special envoys Jason Greenblatt (left) and Jared Kushner (center) meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the PMO in Jerusalem, June 21, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Israeli officials discussed ways to manipulate ‘naive’ Kushner — report

By AP and ToI Staff

People in four countries sought to leverage White House aide’s lack of experience and business interests in their favor, US officials tell Washington Post

Jared Kushner said to lose top secret security clearance

By ToI Staff and AP

US team said headed to Israel to coordinate consulate transformation

Kushner spokesman Josh Raffel to leave White House

By Eric Cortellessa

The 1804 painting, 'Der Voller,' or, 'The Full One,' by George Emmanuel Opitz. (Public domain)

How the Talmud helped inspire one scholar’s case for eating ethically this Purim

By Rich Tenorio

Jonathan K. Crane of Emory University draws upon sacred and secular sources — including midrashic wisdom — to remind us that enough is as good as a feast

Female rabbis said the themes related to gender in the Purim narrative take on an added significance in the wake of the #MeToo movement. (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)

The Megillah MonologuesIn a #MeToo era, Purim to be celebrated differently by Jewish feminists

By Josefin Dolsten

Yarden, a pleased fairy in her sparkling costumed wheelchair at Beit Issie Shapiro (Courtesy Beit Issie Shapiro)

Wheels and attireWhen the wheelchair becomes part of the Purim costume

By Jessica Steinberg

Judge Ronit Poznansky-Katz. (Judiciary of Israel)

Bezeq corruption probe

Justice minister okays disciplinary action against judge in texting scandal

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Tribunal to impose measures against Ronit Poznansky-Katz, who was caught ‘inappropriately’ messaging state prosecutor in case 4000

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

Bezeq announces new interim CEO to replace Stella Handler amid probe

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit in Jerusalem on December 27, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Bezeq corruption probePM addressed policies affecting friend’s firms despite legal warning – report

By Tamar Pileggi

In this Oct. 17, 2016, file photo, Rep. Don Young, R-Ak., speaks to reporters in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Republican lawmaker blames Holocaust on gun control

Alaska congressman Don Young, a longtime NRA member, says millions of Jews could have avoided gas chambers had they been armed

Spokesperson for the National Rifle Association (NRA) Dana Loesch speaks during the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)

NRA spokeswoman accused of anti-Semitism over 2010 tweet

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with state and local officials on school safety in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

As anti-Semitic incidents in US soar, ADL says Trump is part of the problem

By Eric Cortellessa

Jonathan Greenblatt: US president’s Twitter account has ’emboldened and given encouragement to the worst anti-Semites and bigots’

Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, nominates Mateusz Morawiecki to be prime minister at the presidential palace in Warsaw, December 11, 2017. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Polish team heading to Israel to discuss controversial Holocaust law

By ToI Staff and AFP

Milli Segal says “you need to use a lot of diplomacy” as a producer of Jewish-themed in events in Austria now that the Freedom Party is in the government. (Courtesy of Segal via JTA)

Austrian anti-Semitism confab held under shadow of far-right

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Church of the Holy Sepulchre reopens as three-day protest ends

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pilgrims enter Christian holy site as doors unlocked before dawn, ending rare closure to demonstrate against Israeli decisions to collect taxes and restrict land sales

People gather outside the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on February 25, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After Church of Holy Sepulchre shut, Jerusalem suspends church tax collections

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara wait for the arrival of the Ethiopian prime minister and his wife ahead of a welcoming ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Netanyahu, wife to be questioned Friday in Bezeq graft probe

By Alexander Fulbright

Israeli TV says PM to be questioned under caution over suspicions he advanced regulation benefiting company in exchange for favorable news coverage

7:34 pm

Iranian FM on Eastern Europe trip meets Bulgarian officials
7:01 pm

Iranian official says government opposes use of force on hijab
6:42 pm

Sara Netanyahu to Bezeq owner's wife: 'You're slaughtering us'

A satellite image showing an alleged Iranian base on the outskirts of a Syrian army base outside Damascus. (ImageSat International ISI)

Defense minister casts doubt on ‘new’ Iranian base in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

With no explanation for the change, satellite imaging firm now says building it once called a dining hall is a missile depot

Netanyahu: Zero tolerance for rockets — ‘they get hit immediately’

Vote on military draft bills delayed, prompting Haredi threat to coalition

By Marissa Newman

Fresh violence mars first day of Syria enclave ‘truce’

By Hasan Mohamed

Netanyahu, police chief do Purim during interrogation

PM to host Roni Alsheich for festive meal, as investigators question premiere over corruption allegations (satire)

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Purim grabbed my world and turned it upside down

The time an ultra-Orthodox woman kissed me in the middle of Jerusalem

An Agunah Day reckoning

Taking stock of preventative solutions that should be used by all couples marrying according to Jewish law

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Agunah Day: Time for the community to man up

Here’s how to handle Jewish divorce law: encourage friends and family to sign pre- and postnups

Andrew Silow-Carroll

LaPierre’s speech smelled a lot like anti-Semitism

I can’t speak to the intent of the NRA leader, but he used just a few too many anti-Semitic tropes at CPAC

The price of Netanyahu’s stay in office

Each day this lame duck PM remains in office creates distortions that will prove very costly to undo

CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) David M. Schizer with campers at the Szarvas International Jewish Summer Camp in Hungary, a project of JDC and Ronald Lauder. (courtesy)

Interview

New JDC head brings a business approach to aiding needy Jews

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Authors Elliot Jager (left) and Azriel Bermant (center) discussing British-Israeli relations with journalist Matthew Kalman at a Times of Israel event in Jerusalem on February 27, 2018. (Eliyahu Yanai/Mishkenot Sha'ananim)

Times of Israel Presents

100 years after Balfour, Britain still shaping the region, say pair of authors

By Tracy Frydberg

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Coalition head David Amsalem at a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on February 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Israel media reviewThe Big Skim: 10 things for your February 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Border Police officers guard near tractors during preparations for the evacuation and demolition of the illegal Netiv Ha'avot outpost on February 7, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

High Court delays demolition of 15 homes in Netiv Ha’avot outpost

The four popera tenors of Il Divo, performing in Israel in June 2018 Courtesy Il Divo)

Tenor timePopera tenors Il Divo plan June performance

By Jessica Steinberg

Tahera Rahman, the first full-time Muslim reporter to wear a hijab on mainstream TV news in the US, on February 21, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

First full-time hijab-wearing on-air reporter breaks barriers in US

Newly elected Supreme Court justice Alex Stein (YouTube screenshot)

New Supreme Court judge deleted Facebook account in which he disparaged court

Illustrative image of African asylum seekers attending a memorial ceremony to commemorate 14 years since the genocide in Darfur, at Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv on Thursday, April 27 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Jewish Agency urges Israel to grant asylum to 500 young African migrants

Illustrative image of the passcode screen of an iPhone. (ymgerman/iStock by Getty Images)

In reported breakthrough, Israeli tech can now unlock any phone

An illustrative photo of a cat. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Cruel and unusualKatzrin man accused of killing cats with ax, eating them

Meretz head Zahava Galon and Meretz MK Ilan Gilon during a party meeting at the Knesset on November 25, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meretz old guard bows out of party leadership race

By Marissa Newman

Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority. (Courtesy)

InterviewIsrael to provide loan guarantees for startups, tech chief says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Presenter Barbra Streisand speaks onstage during the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via JTA)

Ruff & readyBarbra Streisand says she cloned her dog — twice

By AFP

Ilan Cohen says it was a 'very easy process' to get on the ballot in Kansas even though he is not legally allowed to vote. (Courtesy of Cohen via JTA)

Not in Maryland anymoreJewish teenager from Maryland running for governor of Kansas

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