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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Monday, May 18, 2009. (photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

AnalysisOp-ed

Obama, Netanyahu and an alarming absence of trust

By David Horovitz

Netanyahu is unwilling to entrust naive Obama with the future of Israel. And Obama can’t be sure Netanyahu, the irresponsible settlement-builder, won’t act irresponsibly on Iran. If this visit can change all that, it will truly be historic

Netanyahu’s tiny gift to Obama: A marvel of Israeli nanotech

By David Shamah

Poll: Most Israeli Jews don’t trust Obama to safeguard country’s interests

By Michal Shmulovich

PM says new government will pursue deal with Palestinians

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

A soldier fires a smoke grenade at a demonstration at Birzeit University, February 15 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/ Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

In the West Bank as Obama visits, a subtle escalation of violence

By Mitch Ginsburg

A Bethlehem-region tour with the IDF underlines the complex challenges of keeping the peace

Illustrative: Settlers at the West Bank outpost of Oz Zion on December 30, 2012, following evacuation by security forces. (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel dismantles structures in illegal outposts

By Asher Zeiger

Levine’s flawed case against Israel

Anti-Semitic or not, the New York Times blogger’s claim that a Jewish state is antidemocratic doesn’t hold water

Dear Finance Minister Lapid

Cut the deficit wisely, pamper the high-tech sector and take Israel’s show on the road

The marathon blame game

Tel Aviv officials did nothing wrong except caving in to pressure to cancel. The fact is long distance running is dangerous

Benjamin Netanyahu seen with Shas's Eli Yishai (back right) and United Torah Judaism's Yaakov Litzman (foreground) in the Knesset on March 18, 2013. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Excluded and threatened, ultra-Orthodox MKs turn bitter

By Raphael Ahren

Branding the new coalition shameful, evil and un-Jewish, Shas and United Torah Judaism quickly get the hang of feisty opposition politics

Likud MK Rivlin joins opposition’s ’emergency meeting’

By Asher Zeiger

Ministries celebrate changing of the guard

By Asher Zeiger

Work together or perish, Netanyahu tells new-born Cabinet

New Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon and his predecessor Ehud Barak shake hands with commanders at the ceremony in which Ya'alon replaced Barak. (photo credit: Flash 90).

Ministries celebrate changing of the guard

By Asher Zeiger

Members of Netanyahu’s outgoing Cabinet welcome their replacements in a series of ceremonies

King Abdullah II of Jordan at the 2013 World Economic Forum (photo credit: CC BY World Economic Forum/Wikipedia)

Jordan’s Abdullah: Israel must choose — ‘apartheid or democracy’

By Gavriel Fiske

King lauds ‘very strong’ relationship with Netanyahu, but says time may have already run out on the two-state solution

The Restobar Cafe in Jerusalem (photo credit: image capture Google Street Views)

Dozens protest closure of Jerusalem secular café

By Ron Friedman

New owner of landmark Restobar, across from the PM’s house, insists on Kashrut and no Shabbat opening

A man drives his car over a poster of US President Barack Obama in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Monday, March 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinians vandalize Obama banner with swastikas

US president’s image also pummeled with shoes in Bethlehem protest, two days ahead of much-touted visit to region

Atsuko Tanaka questions the "modesty" of paying $450 to look good in a wig. (Illustrative photo: YouTube screenshot)

Wigging out

Orthodox flock to Japanese stylist

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Holy sheitel! Observant Jewish women happily pay a minimum of $450 to have a New York guru perfect their fake hair

Students at the University of Toronto during 'Israeli Apartheid Week,' 2012 (photo credit: CC-BY monad68/flickr)

Abroad and in Israel, ‘Apartheid Week’ politics hit campuses

By Aaron Kalman

With varying degrees of success, pro-Israel activists fight annual demonstrations that portray the Jewish state as a hotbed of racism

iOnRoad screen on an iPhone (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel’s iOnRoad wins top new mobile app prize

By David Shamah

Qualcomm grants Israeli-created safety road app a total of $250,000 in venture capital, after it beat out apps from around the world

Yonatan Razel at the piano, his instrument of choice (Ohad Romano)

A classical twist on spiritual, religious song

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Ministers in Israel's 33rd government pose with President Peres, March 18, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMeet the new boss, same as the old boss

By Ilan Ben Zion

Head of the Syrian National Coalition Moaz al-Khatib speaks during a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, March 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewLebanon quivers as Assad’s end looms

By Elhanan Miller

MK Stav Shaffir ‎(5th frpm right) applauds as she participates in a Reform Jewish wedding ceremony in which Lin Dror and Alon Marcus (4th and 5th from left) marry in front of the Knesset on Monday in protest of the Orthodox Rabbinate's monopoly on marriage licensing and the lack of civil marriages in Israel. (photo credit: Flash 90)

Wedding near Knesset highlights plight of non-Orthodox nuptials

By Stuart Winer

Trying on a yarmulke at Kippa Man on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, December 7, 2006. (photo credit: Daniel Fleisch/Flash90)

ThwackSpider-Man, Batman beat Kippa Man

By Gavriel Fiske

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