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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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US President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres are greeted by children outside the President's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (photo credit: Amit Shabi/Flash90)

LIVEBLOG (now closed): Obama in Jerusalem

Netanyahu backs two states for two peoples; Obama keeps ‘all options open’ on Iran

Obama, on his first visit as president, has been meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Earlier, he had warm words for Israel at an all-smiles airport welcoming ceremony, and then met with, was serenaded with, and planted a tree with President Peres

Obama’s Israel visit sparks letter-writing blitz in Congress

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Barack Obama’s timetable in Israel

By Aaron Kalman

Israeli bus firebombed on road Obama set to travel

By Aaron Kalman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets President Barack Obama at Ben-Gurion Airport during Obama's visit to Israel in 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

LIVEBLOG (now closed): Obama arrives in Israel

Obama, on first presidential visit: US and Israel ‘stand together’

Barack Obama has been welcomed to Israel on his first visit as president. Netanyahu thanked him in the name of all Israelis for his steadfast support of the Jewish homeland. The president tried some Hebrew, and had some advice from Michelle for Yair Lapid. Now he’s moved on to the capital.

When the UN’s walls talk, they’re pro-Palestinian

A tour of the United Nations emphasizes the Palestinian narrative and minimizes the Holocaust

Steven Moskowitz

Mr. President, visit Hebron

Obama must affirm Jews’ deep ties to Biblical Israel, then tell them that for the sake of peace they can’t keep it all

Shayna Zamkanei

Real matzah: not square, not crispy

Soft matzah was good enough for the sages, so why are we stuck with the crumby kind for eight days?

The annexationist who now heads the Foreign Ministry

By Raphael Ahren

Ze’ev Elkin believes Israel should extend sovereignty throughout the West Bank. So why, Israeli diplomats wonder, did Netanyahu appoint him Deputy FM, with no minister above him?

Steinitz admits new ministry post ‘cobbled together’

By Gavriel Fiske

Hagel calls to congratulate Ya’alon on appointment

By Asher Zeiger

Jewish Home-Yesh Atid deal would allow same-sex marriage

By Aaron Kalman and ToI Staff

Israeli delegates line up to greet US President Barack Obama on Wednesday, March 20 (photo credit: Matti Friedman/Times of Israel)

Suits, flags, and colorful hats: Obama comes to Israel

By Matti Friedman

Hordes of reporters were on hand to watch the US president arrive on his first official visit to Israel

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Hagel calls to congratulate Ya’alon on appointment

By Asher Zeiger

US defense secretary plans to visit region in April

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets then-senator and current Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem, June 2010. (Photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Kerry expected to revive 2002 Saudi peace initiative

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

President Obama seeks to contain, not solve issues; but secretary of state may try to resurrect Israeli-Palestinian talks

US President Barack Obama waves as he arrives at Ben Gurion Airport on March 20 2013. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO / FLASH90)

Photo essay

Obama is fifth serving president to visit Israel

Bill Clinton came a record four times, George W. Bush twice, Carter and Nixon once each

President Richard Nixon arrives in Israel, June 17, 1974 -- the first serving president to visit. (photo credit: GPO)

Nixon mocked Democrats for Jerusalem position

Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the opening of the UN Alliance of Civilizations Global Forum (photo credit: screenshot webtv.un.org)

Turkish PM says Zionism comments misinterpreted

By Gavriel Fiske

Erdogan claims February comments were not anti-Semitic but rather a criticism of Israel’s policies

Gilad Shalit with his father, Noam, on the day of his release from captivity (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Gilad Shalit in letter to Obama: ‘Free Pollard’

By Aaron Kalman and AP

Moses call to ‘Let my people go’ echoes in every Jew, writes former Hamas captive; Pollard’s wife addresses hundreds in protest outside Peres’s residence; US Jewish leaders also issue plea

Jan Aronson's front cover art for The Bronfman Haggadah (Courtesy The Bronfman Haggadah)

Haggadah tales

The Haggadah according to the Bronfmans

By Jessica Steinberg

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Practice makes perfect. An IDF officer rehearses at Ben Gurion Airport for the arrival of US President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to land on Wednesday a little after noon (photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Hebrew media reviewObama, where art thou?

By Yossi Nachemi

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian victims who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village according to SANA, receive serum treatments, at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday March 19, 2013 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Arabic media reviewObama in Jerusalem and chemical weapons in Aleppo

By Elhanan Miller

Graffiti reading "death to Jews" spray painted on a house in Jaffa, Tuesday, March 20 (photo credit: courtesy Israel Police)

Swastikas found painted on Jaffa homes

By Aaron Kalman

A man walks towards the graves of Nachman and Raizy Glauber, at the Satmar Cemetery 2 in Kiryas Joel, New York. (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

Manslaughter charge added in NY hit-and-run case

The Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

IDF medics treat four wounded Syrians

By Gavriel Fiske

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