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What Matters Most On Friday, March 22, 2013

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President Barack Obama pauses after laying a wreath during his visit to the Hall of Remembrance at the Vad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Friday, March 22, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

LIVEBLOG (now closed): Obama's last day in Israel

With farewell embrace to Netanyahu, Obama ends Israel visit

By Matti Friedman and ToI Staff

US president completes his visit to the Holy Land, leaving Israel with plenty to think about

Weather plays havoc with final hours of Obama visit

By Matti Friedman

In ‘seminal moment,’ Obama meets, reminisces and jokes with Yitzhak Rabin’s family

By Yoel Goldman

Obama ends historic Israel trip with symbolic stops

US President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AnalysisOp-ed

Obama stirs young Israelis with the passionate speech of a left-wing Zionist

By David Horovitz

The core premise of the president’s address was that if Israel only pushes harder for reconciliation, regional hostility will gradually melt. Israelis are thoroughly divided on that, and he was at rhetorical best in trying to move them

Obama urges young Israelis to build trust with neighbors, push for peace

From Obama, an embrace and a push in Jerusalem speech

By Matti Friedman

Full text of Obama’s speech in Jerusalem

Israelis meet the friend they’ve always had

Barack Obama has a longstanding emotional connection to Israel and deep sympathy for the dilemmas its citizens face

Diesel: not just bad for Obama’s limo

Switching to another oil-based fuel will not clear the air and Health Minister Yael German is among the few who know it

File: Israelis vacation at a Sinai beach resort in 2006. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli tourist kidnapped in Sinai contacts family

Arab Israeli says he was nabbed with two girlfriends by Bedouin in Sinai; Arab MK says attackers did not specifically target Israelis

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to a crowd after a speech in Tehran. (AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Iran’s supreme leader threatens to raze Tel Aviv, Haifa

By ToI Staff and AP

In nuclear dispute, Ayatollah Khamenei warns ‘Zionist regime’ against an attack

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90/File)

Olmert says Netanyahu unworthy of leading country

By Philip Podolsky

In interview, former PM slams current PM’s handling of Iran issue; predicts coalition government will fall apart

An ultra-Orthodox man within the heavily fortified space of Rachel's Tomb (Sege Attal/Flash 90)

On Obama’s path to Bethlehem, a harshly fortified shrine

By Mitch Ginsburg

Acre Mayor Shimon Lankri (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Acre mayor ‘out of danger,’ lucky to be alive

By Philip Podolsky

Political leaders visit Shimon Lankri, who was shot in the chest in assassination attempt

Intel programmer Sa'id Haruf (facing front) flanked by (left to right) Ola Zahar, head of Maantech, which promotes Arab participation in the Israeli tech industry; late former President Shimon Peres; Boaz Maoz, CEO Cisco Israel; former US President Barack Obama; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The meeting took place in March 2013, during a visit by Obama to Israel. (Courtesy of the President's Office)

US president meets Intel’s wannabe future head — an Israeli Arab, 26

By David Shamah

On his Israel Museum visit, Obama impressed not only with the technology, but also with a program to help Arabs get hi-tech jobs

Rabbi Herschel Schachter conducts services for Holocaust survivors on the Jewish festival of Shavuot, in the Buchenwald concentration camp, May 16, 1945. (Wikimedia Commons)

First rabbi to enter liberated Buchenwald dies

Herschel Schachter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents, was 95

Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti -- a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad -- was killed in a suicide bombing in the Eman Mosque, in the Mazraa district of Damascus, Syria, on Thursday (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Assad regime declares day of mourning for slain cleric

By AP and ToI Staff

Top Sunni preacher killed in suicide attack on Damascus mosque; 41 others dead, more than 84 injured

Top five

The tastes of Passover: chewy meringues, almond flavors and pistachio fillings

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Portuguese front man Christiano Ronaldo, at the Ramat Gan national stadium, Friday, March 22, 2013 (image capture: Channel 1)

Israel ties Portugal 3:3 in World Cup soccer

By Adiv Sterman

Outside the International Convention Center in Jerusalem (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Reporter's NotebookCarrots, and sticks, at Obama’s Jerusalem speech

By Raphael Ahren

In advance of a January court hearing in the case, a hashtag translating to #IfIWereANazi was briefly one of the top five trending topics on French Twitter. (Screenshot)

$50 million Twitter lawsuit over anti-Semitic posts

Spider-Man is helping to preserve the holiday atmosphere in a heavily Jewish part of Brooklyn. (YouTube screenshot)

Spider-Mensch‘Spider-Man’ will ‘pass over’ Brooklyn

Frazzled cooks no longer need to strain themselves mixing salt into water. (Facebook)

Seriously?Pre-salted water for your seder

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (photo credit: Ilia Yefimovich/Flash90)

Police wrap up investigation of alleged child-beating judge

By Asher Zeiger and Stuart Winer

US President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after addressing Israeli students at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 21, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Love for the magical Mr. Obama

By Ilan Ben Zion

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