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What Matters Most On Friday, February 21, 2020

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In vigils across Germany after shooting, calls of ‘Never again’ and ‘Nazis out’

By AFP

Thousands rally in cities throughout country amid shock over far-right attack in Hanau that claimed lives of nine people

A man holds a placard featuring Regional leader of AfD Thuringia Bjoern Hoecke and the words 'Never again' during a vigil in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on February 20, 2020, after at least nine people were killed in two shootings late on February 19, 2020 (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Far-right and neo-Nazi supporters walk through Plauen in eastern Germany, May 1, 2019. (Sebastian Willnow/DPA/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Switching gears, German authorities focus on alarmingly organized far right

By Rebecca Spiess

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer in Berlin on February 14, 2020. (Michael Sohn / POOL / AFP)

Germany says security threat from far-right extremism, anti-Semitism ‘very high’

Blood runs from the lip of a man wearing a shirt with swastikas after he was punched by a protester outside a University of Florida auditorium where white nationalist Richard Spencer was preparing to speak, Thursday, October 19, 2017 in Gainesville, Fla. (Will Vragovic/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Analysis

White supremacists increasingly collaborating across borders, experts say

Extremists forming alliances, working together, inspiring each other in growing international movement similar to jihadism; many blame Jews for facilitating immigration

In this December 10, 2019 image made from newly released video provided by the Jersey City Police Department via the New Jersey Attorney General's Office, a Jersey City police officer fires his weapon from the window of a Catholic school during a fierce gun battle in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Jersey City Police Department via the New Jersey Attorney General's Office)

New video shows details from fatal shootout at kosher US deli

By MIKE CATALINI

A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)

Israel calls on Belgium to scrap this weekend’s parade over anti-Semitism

By AP

Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist, visits with friends on a field trip to Bali, Indonesia, in 1957. (AP Photo)

Author interview

How a 19th century progressive Jewish scientist’s ideas beat out racist eugenics

By Rich Tenorio

Israelis who were aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined off Japan are seen on a plane bringing them to Israel, February 20, 2020. (Israeli Embassy in Japan)

Israel confirms first coronavirus case as cruise ship returnee diagnosed

By ToI Staff and Agencies

One of 11 Israelis who arrived in the morning following quarantine aboard Diamond Princess ship tests positive, after entering 14-day isolation at Sheba Medical Center

Israel media reviewAbandon ship: 7 things to know for February 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Israelis who violate coronavirus self-quarantine could face 7-year prison term

Ukrainians riot to block China virus evacuees, including Israeli, from area

By AP and ToI Staff

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Ramat Gan on February 19, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Police to investigate Gantz’s former company; AG signals he’s not a suspect

Mandelblit’s office says he’s not tackling case of Fifth Dimension, formerly headed by Blue and White chief, who expresses confidence in law enforcement

Officials in prosecution, law enforcement slam probe of Gantz’s former company

Court okays police search of Netanyahu aides’ phones in witness harassment case

Right-wing pundit reads out gagged Harpaz affair transcripts at Likud gathering

Analysis

Why the Palestinian case at The Hague took a big hit this past week

Backing Israel’s position against pending war crimes probe, 7 countries say Palestine is not a state that can transfer jurisdiction to the ICC. Not a single one argues the opposite

Demonstrators carry banners and Palestinian flags outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes in The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

A suspect is arrested in a stabbing attack at Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv promenade on February 21, 2020. (ZAKA)

Palestinian woman tries to stab passers-by in suspected Jerusalem terror attack

A bunch of balloons attached to an incendiary device is prepared to be flown into Israel, near the Israel-Gaza border east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, January 22, 2020. (Ail Ahmed/ Flash90)

Gaza balloon carrying RPG warhead lands near Ashkelon home

Illustrative: Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion study at the Peles Military Base, in the northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

IDF admits egregious failure to accurately tally ultra-Orthodox recruits

By Judah Ari Gross

Senior officers, including Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz, censured for their role in the years-long inflating of Haredi enlistment numbers

Israel’s Dr Josef Haik teaching Haitian surgeon Dr. Jerry Bernard how to use the laser machine, Milot, Haiti, January 2020. (Courtesy of Burn Advocates Network)

Bringing latest laser tech, Israeli surgeons help young burn victims in Haiti

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamedan, Iran. (CC BY-SA Philippe Chavin/Wikipedia)

US ‘troubled’ by report Iranians want to raze tomb of Mordechai and Esther

Militant student group in Hamadan proposes turning Purim heroes’ tomb into Palestinian consulate in response to Trump plan; local official says site protected

Iranian voters check a list of candidates before casting their ballot during parliamentary election at a polling station in Tehran on February 21, 2020. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Voting underway in Iran parliamentary election amid rising public apathy

By Abhik Kumar Chanda

Sarah C. Rudolph

Everyone knows an ‘eye for an eye’ isn’t literal

The sages did away with the biblical tit-for-tat corporal punishment without argument; they only debated which of the many re-interpretations abolished it (Mishpatim)

The IDF’s Momentum Plan and its fallacy

The modern Israeli army has yet to answer is how to train for those situations in which quick, decisive, conclusive victories are impossible

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (4th from right) tours the Efrat settlement with settler leaders on February 20, 2020. (Courtesy)

Breaking with colleagues, 6 settler mayors meet with US envoy to talk peace plan

West Bank municipality heads who opposed Yesha Council’s lashing out against Trump proposal thank David Friedman for Washington’s willingness to okay annexation

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide meeting in Ramallah on February 20, 2020. (Credit: Wafa)

PA premier calls on Europe to recognize Palestine to ‘counter’ annexation plan

Nine-year-old Palestinian boy Malik Eissa in Hadassa hospital in Jerusalem, February 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian boy shot by Israeli police in East Jerusalem loses sight in eye

By AP and ToI Staff

US Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during a campaign event, February 20, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Wounded but defiant, Bloomberg promises to keep fighting

By Steve Peoples and LINDSAY WHITEHURST

After poor debate dims his aura in US Democratic primaries, billionaire tells campaign rally he’s not going away, adviser says ‘he was just warming up’

Warren trolls Adelson with ad in newspaper that he owns

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bloomberg News wrestles with coverage of Bloomberg news

By David Bauder

Two Jewish House members endorse Bloomberg after debate shellacking

By Eric Cortellessa

Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., flanked by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY, launches the black-Jewish caucus at the annual American Jewish Committee Global Forum in Washington DC, on June 3, 2019. (AJC via JTA)

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Founders of the Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations talk race and equality

Episode #24: US congressional reps get down to brass tacks on race relations * What’s up with Israel’s 3rd election on March 2? * Israel’s bid for more international students

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A rabbi accidentally plows a Jaguar into two pedestrians on a London sidewalk, March 2018. (Screenshot)

UK rabbi trying to help woman park plowed her Jaguar into 2 people, court hears

In this photo from November 30, 2018, US President Donald Trump, right, walks past Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, as they gather for the group photo at the start of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File

Intel officials say Russia interfering to boost Trump campaign — report

By AP

Undated photo issued Feb. 21, 2020, by London's Metropolitan Police, showing Safiyya Amira Shaikh (Metropolitan Police via AP)

UK Islamic State supporter pleads guilty to St. Paul’s Cathedral bomb plot

By AP

Larry Tesler on July 23, 2007. (Yahoo! Blog from Sunnyvale, California, USA/Wikipedia CC-BY-2.0)

ObituaryUS Jewish computer scientist who pioneered ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ dies aged 74

By AP

Roger Stone arrives for his sentencing at federal court in Washington, February 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump ally Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months in prison

By ASHRAF KHALIL, Mark Sherman and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Pope Pius XII in an undated photograph. (AP)

Researchers line up to view archives of World War II-era Pope Pius XII

By Nicole Winfield

Illustrative: Construction in Ashdod, March 22, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Green building codes to become compulsory countrywide from July 2021

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at an event with Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (unseen) at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in London on January 30, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AFP)

1967 vintageSettlement winery unveils ‘Pompeo’ wine in show of appreciation

The scene outside London Central Mosque in Regent's Park, where police have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder, in London, February 20, 2020 (Marc Ward/PA via AP)

Muezzin stabbed in neck at London mosque as hundreds watch; police: not terror

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Students at school in Britain (video screenshot)

From our partnerUK textbook suggests Israel’s creation can be seen as ‘long-term cause of 9/11’

Illustrative: Travelers in the arrival hall of Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Many accused Jewish pedophiles in US flee to Israel — report

Harvey Weinstein leaves a Manhattan courthouse during his rape trial, February 20, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Weinstein jurors focus on Sciorra as deliberations drag on

By AP and ToI Staff

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