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What Matters Most On Monday, March 5, 2018

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Nir Hefetz, longtime aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Netanyahu family, arrives for extension of his remand in case 4000 at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion, February 18, 2018. (Flash90)

Top ex-Netanyahu adviser turns state’s witness against him in Bezeq probe

By Michael Bachner

In dramatic development marking an additional blow to PM, Nir Hefetz signs agreement to join Shlomo Filber in testifying on Case 4000

Floppy dissCulture minister knocks ‘falling flag’ placed in Rabin Square

Jewish Home ministers accuse Netanyahu of manufacturing ‘fake’ coalition crisis

Rivlin defends free press amid Netanyahu onslaught

By Raoul Wootliff

AIPAC's Executive Director Howard Kohr addresses the lobby's policy conference, March 4, 2018 (AIPAC screenshot)

On eve of Netanyahu-Trump talks, AIPAC chief calls for Palestinian statehood

What’s needed, Howard Kohr declares, is ‘two states for two peoples: One Jewish with secure and defensible borders, and one Palestinian with its own flag and its own future’

Likud and Jewish Home lawmakers at a ceremony at the evacuated Sa-nur settlement in the northern West Bank. (Jacob Magid/The Times of Israel)

Echoing settler leader, Likud MKs blast AIPAC’s two-state support

Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan speaks during a protest against the planned eviction of the outpost of Amona, in front of the Knesset on January 30, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Settler leader to AIPAC: Your support for two-states has ‘no basis in fact’

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the cheering audience as he arrives to speak to the AIPAC meeting at the Washington Convention Center, March 4, 2014, in Washington. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Analysis

From interrogation room to echo chamber: Netanyahu looks for love in the US

Days after his latest police grilling, PM tries to leave his legal woes behind him and revel in the friendly embrace of Trump and adoration of most in the pro-Israel lobby

Trump’s Mideast peace plan in limbo as Netanyahu visits

By Josh Lederman

IAEA chief: Iran accord failure would be a ‘great loss’

By AFP

Israel’s US envoy: Trump will bolt Iran nuclear deal if it’s not fixed

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales speaks to the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington DC, March 4, 2018. (Courtesy)

Guatemala president tells AIPAC he’ll move embassy to Jerusalem in May

By Eric Cortellessa

President Morales promises 18,000 pro-Israel advocates he’ll relocate his embassy to holy city two days after the US does, for Israel’s 70th birthday

Zionist Union party leader Avi Gabbay addresses the pro-Israel US lobby AIPAC at its policy conference in Washington DC, March 4, 2018. (John Bowel)

In AIPAC debut, Gabbay slams settlements, touts demilitarized Palestinian state

By Michael Bachner

AIPAC president Mort Fridman, March 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

AIPAC launches conference with appeal to progressives

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on February 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Likud would win 29 seats if new elections held

Amid coalition crisis and interrogations, survey finds Netanyahu would continue to lead country, Yesh Atid closest challenger

Israel media reviewThe Big Skim: 9 things for your March 5

By Tamar Pileggi

State prosecutor: Alleged collusion between judge, investigator ‘an exception’

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Supreme Court head announces collusion inquiry following judge texting scandal

Host Jimmy Kimmel, left, and Gal Gadot appear on screen via satellite at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

And The Winner Was

All that was Jew-ish about the 2018 Academy Awards

By Tracy Frydberg

Aside from a gleaming Gal Gadot, this year’s Oscars marked a dull finish to a dramatic year focused on elevating the treatment of women in Hollywood

Ashley Judd, from left, Annabella Sciorra and Salma Hayek speak at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

‘Shape of Water’ triumphs at an Oscars full of change

Former prime minister's spokesman Nir Hefetz at the Herzliya Magistrate's Court for a libel suit against him and other associates of the prime minister on December 26, 2017. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ex-Netanyahu adviser reportedly says PM’s son interfered in security decisions

By Alexander Fulbright

Israeli TV quotes state’s witness Nir Hefetz as saying Yair Netanyahu ’caused damage to his father and the state’

7:31 pm

British media say former Russian spy in critical condition
7:07 pm

Pentagon: Operations against IS in eastern Syria 'paused'
6:44 pm

UN report decries 'pattern' of torture, abuse in Iranian prisons

Students protest for increased school safety after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, on February 14. (Zoe Terner/NFTY)

Time to walk the talk

Jewish students march for their lives to advance stricter gun control laws

By Cathryn J. Prince

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)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

When Nakba Day meets US embassy move day, expect fireworks in Gaza

While the West Bank waits for the day after Abbas, Palestinians in the Strip are using social networks to plan massive clashes with Israeli soldiers

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas attends a meeting with the Revolutionary Council of the ruling Fatah party on March 1, 2018, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Amid health scare, Abbas vows not to end his life as a ‘traitor’

By Khaled Abu Toameh

A view of Marcus Street in Talbieh, one of the Jerusalem neighborhoods in which the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate has sold land to private investors. (Courtesy Eiferman Realty)

Government tells Jerusalem homeowners on former church lands, ‘Don’t sell’

Deputy Attorney General Erez Kamenitz heads committee looking for solutions for apartment owners whose property rights were put in limbo by churches’ sales

Does the peace process need Donald Trump?

The US president’s brash disregard for convention may just get Israelis and Palestinians to make a deal

Judith Colp Rubin

Why Israelis can’t write

If we’re the people of the book, why aren’t resources being allocated toward improving writing?

Israel needs more playgrounds

Sure, kids love swings and slides, but it’s the mix of adults chatting on the sidelines who gain the most

Shaul Arieli and Nimrod Novik

In West Bank reality, annexation is a pipedream

The settlement enterprise has failed to scuttle a two-state solution; separation is still eminently possible

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In this May 13, 2016 file photo, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf speaks at a news conference in Oakland, California. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Jewish Oakland mayor defends decision to warn community of immigration raid

By JTA and AP

The Polish sock company Nanushki's "Patrick" novelty sock character, once named "Adolf." (Nanushki website)

Polish company dumps ‘Adolf’ sock character after Auschwitz complaint

By JTA

Illustrative image of Germans carrying flags during rally in Dresden, December 15, 2014. (AP/Jens Meyer)

PC above allFatherland no more? Equality boss wants German anthem change

By AP

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)

Auschwitz guide’s Krakow home vandalized with xenophobic slogans

By JTA

People hold banners of Egyptian presidential candidate Moussa Mustafa Moussa on a street in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Constituency of noneEgypt president’s opponent organizes rally, no one shows up

By AP

Check Point Software's founder Gil Shwed speaking at CyberTech 2017. (Courtesy, Gilad Kavalerchik)

Check Point CEO awarded first Israel Prize for tech

By Alexander Fulbright and ToI Staff

Martin Glenn, chief executive of the English Football Association, speaks during the press conference of the 132nd IFAB Annual General Meeting at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland, Saturday, March 3, 2018. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)

British soccer chief under fire for lumping together Star of David, swastika

By Julian GUYER

Screenshot of Edgybees’s augmented reality mapping software used in emergency management situations. (Courtesy)

From video game to disaster relief, pioneering Israeli tech showcased at AIPAC

By Urvashi Verma

Israeli security forces at the scene of car-ramming attack near the train station in the northern city of Acre, on March 4, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Acre car-rammer to remain in custody; family, lawyer deny terrorist motive

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli teens Dana Kordova (left) and Lior Malka, both 15, from Eilat, missing since Sunday evening, March 4, 2018. (Israel Police)

Police call on public to help locate 2 missing teens

By Michael Bachner

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