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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 23, 2013

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President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the grave of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at Mount Herzl on March 22, 2013 in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

Obama in Israel: The defining words and pictures

By David Horovitz and ToI Staff

Key images and events from a whirlwind presidential exercise in rehabilitation and inspiration

File: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, with US President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting in 2011. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Israel, Turkey to normalize ties, after PM apologizes for flotilla deaths

By Ron Friedman and AP

In dramatic phone call, Erdogan accepts Netanyahu’s apology over loss of life in the Mavi Marmara raid; Obama brokers reconciliation minutes before leaving Israel

Turkish envoy to US tweets of friendship with Israel

By Yoel Goldman and Adiv Sterman

Liberman calls Turkey apology a ‘serious mistake’

By Adiv Sterman

Hamas files complaint with Cairo over fishing ban

By Ilan Ben Zion

Big Brother, don’t tread on my running shoes!

The Health Ministry’s decision to cancel the Tel Aviv full marathon was an ill-informed overreach of powers

Alan Weinkrantz

The Startup Nation needs a Ministry of Humanity

Israel’s trade and industry ministry needs a bold re-branding to reflect the country’s role as a global player in innovation

Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, and Danny DeVito in "Twins" (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Anything you can do

Bibi and Barack: Twinsies

By Yoel Goldman

A YouTube video pokes fun at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for taking the initiative when he saw a photo op

US President Barack Obama tours the Treasury in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, Saturday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama heads back home after ‘amazing’ Petra tour

US president, who is expected to reach Washington later Saturday, says popular Jordanian tourist attraction is ‘spectacular’

Fighters from the Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, or Nusra Front, during training (Wikicommons/File)

CIA aiding Syrian rebels, officials say

By Yoel Goldman

Report claims US trying to boost secular opposition forces out of fear for what may come after Assad

Matzah, eat with care. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon / Flash 90)

Kosher chefs offer tips for learning to love matza

US President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a joint press conference in Ramallah in March 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90).

US unblocks $500 million in aid to Palestinians

By Yoel Goldman

State Dept. announces move on the heels of Obama’s visit to Israel, West Bank; US president asks Abbas to avoid ICC, says report

Illustrative photo of the former West Bank outpost of Amona. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

UN rights body criticizes Israel over settlements

President Shimon Peres meets with U.S. President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry at Peres' residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. Obama is on an official state visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flah90)

Analysis

Obama assigns Kerry to prod sides back to the path of peace

By Raphael Ahren

The president’s approach has two stages: First get younger Israelis and Palestinians excited about peace again, then have them push their leaders or assume leadership positions themselves

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

Obama’s Israel visit wins over Jews at home

By Haviv Rettig Gur

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, right, and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI pray together in Castel Gandolfo Saturday. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)

‘We are brothers,’ Francis tells Benedict

By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia

In gardens south of Rome, the two popes embrace warmly, pray side-by-side as new pope refuses to pray alone at front of chapel

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From the web‘Homeland’ in the Holy Land

US President Barack Obama walks with Jordan's King Abdullah II to participate in an official arrival ceremony at the Al-Hummar Palace on Friday, March 22, 2013, in Amman, Jordan. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama offers additional $200 million to aid Jordan

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/World Economic Forum)

Lebanon’s Suleiman accepts PM’s resignation

Egyptian anti-riot soldiers stand guard in front of a destroyed banner of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 22, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Clashes outside Muslim Brotherhood offices leave over 100 injured

Amir Omar Hassan (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Egyptian official: Kidnapped Israeli will soon be released

Bardo Palace, the meeting place of Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (photo credit: public domain)

Tunisia mulling parliament spots for Jews, other minorities

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