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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 8, 2018

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American, Israeli troops take part in a the 2018 Juniper Cobra air defense exercise in March 2018. (US Army)

'It's not just about an exercise.' It's 'building the glue'

US, IDF troops train to protect Israel from ballistic missiles together

By Judah Ari Gross

US general says Juniper Cobra exercise, which simulates a large-scale missile attack, could look similar to actual deployment of American troops to Israel in time of war

Bennett says he’s ready for elections, will demand defense portfolio

Jewish Home party leader also says he intends to run for PM once Netanyahu steps aside, but won’t push him out

Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends the Muni Expo 2018 conference at the Tel Aviv Convention Center on February 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu threatens snap elections if coalition can’t reach long-term deal

By Alexander Fulbright

Attorney general said to want Netanyahu to resign if indicted

Israel media reviewPrime ministers are doin’ it to themselves: 9 things for March 8

By Joshua Davidovich

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch (YouTube screen capture)

Netanyahus tried to push moguls to fund Israeli version of Fox News — report

Couple said to have tried to convince billionaires Arnon Milchen, James Packer and Rupert Murdoch to invest $25 million each in new right-wing news channel

Ex-Netanyahu aide will testify against 2 Likud ministers — report

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Opposition leaders flay Netanyahu over attack on police

By Alexander Fulbright and Raoul Wootliff

In fresh broadside, Netanyahu lashes police for using state’s witnesses

By Raoul Wootliff

On International Women’s Day, Yad Vashem launches two female-focused exhibits

By Tracy Frydberg

Israel’s Holocaust museum has two new online collections built around the unique experience of Jewish women in the Holocaust

Dr. Nancy Strichman discussing her findings with attendees. (Gal Mosenson)

International Women's DayAt Tel Aviv symposium, women come together to plan Israel’s feminist future

By Tracy Frydberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 28, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi/Pool)

Prime minister marks International Women’s Day by heaping praise on wife Sara

A screen shot from a reported raid by undercover Israeli commandos at Birzeit University in the West Bank on March 7, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

In daylight campus raid, undercover commandos nab West Bank student leader

By Alexander Fulbright

Footage of incident shows armed men at Birzeit University snatching Omar al-Kiswani, a member of Hamas’s student faction

High Court delays release of Gaza fisherman’s body

Knesset passes law allowing police to hold terrorists’ bodies

Gazans plan ‘peaceful resistance’ tent protest near Israel border

Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of student protests that were exploited by the communists to purge Jews from Poland, at the Warsaw University in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 8, 2018 (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Polish president apologizes to Jews for 1968 persecution

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Amid controversy over Holocaust bill, Andrzej Duda says, ‘Please forgive the Republic, Poles’ for communist-era expulsions

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2018, in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas KIENZLE)

Polish PM ‘proud’ of student revolt that triggered 1968 anti-Semitic purge

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People laying flowers at Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw Ghetto at a monument on the site from which Jews were deported to Treblinka. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

Poland: Warsaw Ghetto museum will show the ‘mutual love’ between Poles, Jews

By AFP

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to the press in a field just outside the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman vows not to ‘succumb’ to Haredi ‘extortion,’ even if it means elections

As ultra-Orthodox parties threaten to topple government, Yisrael Beytenu party digs in and insists it will resist fast-tracking of military draft law

7:26 pm

Several hurt in reported training accident at Hamas facility in Gaza
7:16 pm

French judge drops hate crime charges against Arab gang in Jewish teen's assault
7:11 pm

Police deny opening new graft probe in the wake of PM confidant's testimony

Ryan Deitsch speaking at the Florida State Capitol building in Tallahassee, February 21, 2018. (Don Juan Moore/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish Parkland survivor dedicates himself to gun reform

By Josefin Dolsten

Ryan Deitsch, who filmed students evacuating school shooting, says Judaism taught him to question, challenge

Mourners bring flowers as they pay tribute at a memorial for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 25, 2018, in Parkland, Florida. (David Santiago/Miami Herald via AP)

139 Jewish day school leaders urge gun reform after Parkland shooting

By Josefin Dolsten

Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 19, 2018. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Florida school shooting suspect indicted on 17 counts of murder

By Curt Anderson, BRENDAN FARRINGTON and JOSH REPLOGLE

Cape Town residents residents wait to fill containers with water at a source for natural spring water, February 2, 2018.(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

As ‘Day Zero’ looms, South Africa open to Israeli water tech, researcher says

Technology from Israel could be a boon to Cape Town as reservoirs run dry, though Pretoria’s hostility to Jerusalem looms over possible cooperation

Melanie Takefman

Israel’s childbirth cult subjugates women

Are women no more than walking wombs, who can only redeem themselves through procreation? (Int’l Women’s Day)

Public transport is not gender-neutral

When you make it hard to use buses, you hurt the women the most (Int’l Women’s Day)

Walks like an anti-Semite, talks like an anti-Semite…

It’s not too much to expect progressive leadership to make wiser choices than embracing Louis Farrakhan in public

Bracha Goldstein

I am Woman — Please don’t make me roar

I teach my daughter how to listen, and I teach my son the same thing; I no longer need to roar

Prof. Steven P. Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania's Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and Religion (courtesy)

Interview

To dig up genesis of the Jewish people, a scholar goes back to the sources

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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The iconic 'Girl of Enghelab Street,' Vida Movahed, who appeared in public in Tehran, Iran, in December 2017 without wearing a headscarf, as mandated by law. (YouTube screenshot)

Iran jails woman for two years for not wearing headscarf

Avital Sharansky, president George W Bush, Natan Sharanky, Sara and Benjamin Netanyahu, March 7, 2018 (GPO / Haim Zach)

Netanyahu, Bush celebrate Sharansky at launch of new Jewish Agency initiative

By Eric Cortellessa

Benjamin Thomas Wolf (Screen capture: YouTube)

Pot-smoking Jewish Congressional candidate accused of abusing women

Outgoing head of Central Command Roni Numa (L) speaks at his exchange of command ceremony in East Jerusalem on March 7, 2018 as IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot looks on. (Screen capture/Ynet)

Outgoing general tells settler leaders to weed out extremists among them

Pro-Russian incumbent Milos Zeman (seated) is applauded as he celebrates his victory with his staff members after he was reelected Czech president, January 27, 2018, at the Top hotel in Prague. (AFP / RADEK MICA)

Czech president said pushing for faster embassy move to Jerusalem

Yaakov (left), Gur Aryeh and Amram, the three main characters of 'Kipat Barzel,' one of the newest productions to emerge from Avner Bernheimer's laptop (Courtesy 'Kipat Barzel')

Times of Israel PresentsTV’s ‘Kipat Barzel’ spotlights ultra-Orthodox in the army

By Jessica Steinberg

Laura Moser finished second in a Texas Democratic primary for a House seat to force a runoff. (Courtesy of Moser via JTA)

Jewish anti-Trump activist advances to Texas primary runoff

By JTA

Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone, left, with 2017 SXSW attendees Jeff Pulver and Marc Fischman (Photo: Gyp C Girl Photography)

Shalom y'allDeep in the heart of Texas, have a Jewish connection at SXSW

By Tracy Frydberg

A crane places a caravan on the hilltop of a new industrial zone in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on March 6, 2018. (Screen capture/Facebook)

First trailers installed at new settlement industrial zone near Hebron

A company in Russia’s Tartarstan region sells an ice cream cone named “Poor Jews.” (Slavitsa via JTA)

Cold receptionRussian company names an ice cream ‘Poor Jews’

By JTA

Jeffrey Tambor, right, with Judith Light in the second season of 'Transparent.' (Courtesy of Amazon Studios)

Transparently delayedFans will have to wait another year for new season of ‘Transparent’

By Tracy Frydberg

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a lightweight, low-cost robotic arm that they say can be used by farmers for picking fruit or in outer space to fix malfunctioning satellites (YouTube Screenshot)

On the farm or in outer space, Israeli robot arm can lend a hand

By Shoshanna Solomon

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