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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 17, 2013

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Students from a Haifa junior high school who created the Robo-waiter (Photo credit: Courtesy Technion)

Obama to get first-hand look at Start-Up Nation’s innovations

By David Shamah

Netanyahu to show his guest remarkable examples of Israel’s high-tech prowess, and introduce some young pioneers

Obama congratulates Netanyahu on new government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and incoming Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon overlook the Old City of Jerusalem last year. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Musical Cabinet chairs

Ya’alon given defense portfolio and Sa’ar named interior minister

Erdan also gets big promotion as Netanyahu hands out ministerial posts; Shalom, unhappy with his intended role, meets with PM; disappointment among party’s young guard

New defense minister to keep Gantz on for another year

By Stuart Winer

‘Yesh Atid, Jewish Home will maintain partnership’

Netanyahu to Peres: My new coalition will bring ‘good news’ for Israel

Eliyahu Kamisher

What I learned in Syria: Jews must support the opposition

With Islamic extremism co-opting the rebellion, Jews and Israelis should support those fighting for a secular democracy

A chance to tear down the ghetto walls

A government without the ultra-Orthodox paves the way to correcting a grave historic injustice

A mourner, a comforter, a lesson re-learned

The best hope for Diaspora Jewish life lies in the communal interdependence of helping and being helped

Sir Richard Dearlove (left) and Efraim Halevy address the Zionist Federation event in London (photo credit: Courtesy Zionist Federation)

Iran is ‘dead scared of Israel,’ says ex-Mossad chief

Islamist regime ‘won’t make it’ to the bomb, Efraim Halevy tells UK Zionist Federation; former MI6 head compares Iran to ‘dangerous adolescent’

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Pope breaks with tradition on first Sunday in office

Francis pops out to meet worshipers, delivers informal remarks, shakes hands, kisses babies

The triple handshake: prime minister Menachem Begin, president Jimmy Carter, and president Anwar Sadat after signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty in March 1979. (GPO/Tal Shabtai)

Minutes reveal bitter Begin-Carter clashes over Egypt peace

By Stuart Winer

Asked to okay last-minute changes, Israeli PM said no to Egyptian presence in Gaza, and insisted he wouldn’t be pressured into signing the landmark treaty

Former Kadima MK Marina Solodkin, who died in Latvia on Saturday, poses for a photo outside the Knesset building in 2010. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Former MK Marina Solodkin dies of stroke at 60

Netanyahu laments death of ‘upright public representative whose ear was always attuned to the problems of Israel’s citizens’

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a ceremony commemorating the birth of Prophet Mohammed, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 24, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

From the web

Abbas: No need for intifada, Palestine can achieve goals peacefully

Hamas is no longer interested in armed resistance, Palestinian Authority president tells Russia Today

Udi Shani speaks at the Herzliya Conference Monday (Photo credit: Courtesy Herzliya Conference)

‘Facebook, Twitter are the true leaders of the Arab Spring’

By David Shamah

Due to social media, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are no longer countries in the conventional sense, says top defense official

Ireland's Jewish community is confronting troubling demographic trends, but its demise has been predicted before. (Vimeo screenshot)

St. Patrick's Day

Irish Jews face uncertain future (as usual)

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Barbra Streisand to play two more gigs in Israel

Singer/actress to perform twice in Tel Aviv, as well as at an event marking Peres’s 90th birthday

Dan Cohen (photo credit: Channel 2)

Lima extradites Israeli judge facing bribery charges

Dan Cohen, who fled to Peru after being indicted for taking bribes as director at Israel Electric Corp., arrested at airport

Israel's top athletes, from left: Aleksander Averbukh (pole vault), Neta Rivkin (rhythmic gymastics), and Itai Chammah (swimming). All three have represented Israel at the Olympics and are partaking in the Maccabiah Games this summer. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

History in the making at the 19th Maccabiah Games

By Michal Shmulovich

More Headlines

Giorgos Katidis salutes (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Greek soccer player in hot water over Nazi salute

World War II veterans march in commemoration of Latvia's Waffen SS in Riga, Latvia, Saturday, March 17, 2013 (photo credit: rt.com screenshot)

Latvians commemorate Waffen SS divisions

Mohammed Rashed, center, convicted of the 1982 Pan Am jetliner bombing, listens to his unidentified PLO interpreter, left, during his appeals court hearing in Athens, Greece in December 1991 (photo credit: AP/Aris Saris, File)

Palestinian airline bomber to be released from US prison

By Eric Tucker and Randy Herschaft

Demonstrators chant slogans during a march to mark the second anniversary of the revolt against the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad, in Paris, Saturday, March 16, 2013 (photo credit: Thibault Camus/AP)

Arabic media reviewLebanese media fear Syrian intervention

By Elhanan Miller

Marina Solodkin visiting residents of Beit Yehonatan in October 2010. Solodkin passed away on Saturday at the age of 61 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewA-governing we will go!

By Yossi Nachemi

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