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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 25, 2015

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US National Security Adviser Susan Rice during an interview with Charlie Rose on the Public Broadcasting Service, February 24, 2015. (screen capture/YouTube/Charlie Rose)

Top Obama aide: Netanyahu’s speech damaging ‘fabric’ of ties

By Stuart Winer

National security adviser Susan Rice says relationship between the two countries has become ‘infused with politics’

Top Netanyahu adviser reportedly against Congress speech

By Stuart Winer

Netanyahu declines invite to speak to Senate Democrats

By Donna Cassata

Kerry: Critics of emerging nuclear deal are uninformed

By AFP and ToI Staff

Postcards made by an Israeli artist reading 'Nausea 2015,' a play on the Hebrew word for 'elections,' and featuring composite portraits of the various party leaders, can be seen in Tel Aviv, February 5, 2015 (photo credit: Danielle Shitrit/FLASH90)

Analysis

An election full of sound and fury

By Haviv Rettig Gur

As ideological differences between Israeli parties are eroded, politicians revisit age-old culture wars to rally voters

High Court lifts ban on Liberman’s Charlie Hebdo stunt

By Stuart Winer

Elections 2015Netanyahu, Herzog won’t join televised election debate

Isaac Herzog, the unimposing underdog battling to oust Netanyahu

Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, July 29, 2014 (Ron Sachs)

Live updates (closed)

UN condemns West Bank mosque attack

By Lazar Berman

Top US envoy says PM was wrong on Iraq, and on interim Iran agreement; Arab envoys reportedly refuse invite to Congressional address

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Do angels even EAT hamantaschen cookies?

When those first Purim baskets arrived after a long winter, all she could offer in return was a smile

Obama should send high-level rep to AIPAC

The conference is an opportunity for the US Administration to show it cares about Israel and American Jews

No Jews ever lived here

A scene in the Polish film Ida is a reminder of what was lost and of how Poles have yet to own up to the past

Illustrative photo of IAF F-15I fighter jets being refueled by a Boeing 707, during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli pilots at the Hatzerim air force base in the Negev desert, on Thursday, June 28, 2012 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Saudis ‘would let Israeli jets use their air space to attack Iran’

Kingdom merely wants ‘some sign of progress’ on Palestinian issue, according to unnamed senior European source in TV report

John Kerry, far left, speaking to US lawmakers in Washington on February 24, 2015. (photo credit: US State Department)

Tensions keeping US from assuring Israel’s security in nuke deal — report

By Lazar Berman and AP

Kerry says Netanyahu wants interim Iran agreement extended; opposition group claims Tehran has secret nuclear facility

Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, shows satellite photos of an alleged secret Iranian nuclear facility during a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, February 24, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI)

Iran opposition unveils ‘secret’ Tehran nuclear site

By AFP

Dissidents claim Lavizan-3 facility is a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and interim nuke deal with West

Palestinians take a boat through flooded streets in Gaza City, December 17, 2013 (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

False ‘Israel drowns Gaza’ claims sweep internet

By Lazar Berman

Residents of Strip forced from homes after winter storm, and Jerusalem is blamed for opening invisible dams

US President Barack Obama (right) greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during their bilateral meeting at UN headquarters, September 24, 2013. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Americans favor ‘Palestine,’ but slightly less than before

By JTA

Democrats back Palestinian state 52-29%, Republicans oppose it 48-33%

Illustrative: A Palestinian activist places a sign to boycott Israeli products at a supermarket in Bethlehem, West Bank, February 11, 2015 (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Reporter's notebook

Despite ban, Israeli products still abound on Ramallah store shelves

By Elhanan Miller

‘If the PA wants to boycott Israel, it should stop security coordination, not tell people to stop buying sour cream,’ says Palestinian vendor

A Palestinian man walks by a store that stacks Israeli snacks in Bethlehem, on February 11, 2015. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Palestinians kick off boycott of Israeli products

By Lazar Berman

The town of New Square, an all-Hasidic village in Rockland County (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

In Rockland, non-Orthodox struggle to rebrand Judaism

By Uriel Heilman

Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, US president Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House as they sign the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, March 26, 1979. (AP/Bob Daugherty)

Interview

How Jimmy Carter vetoed the first Israeli envoy requested by Sadat

By Elhanan Miller

Ties with peripheral countries in the Middle East enabled Israel to make peace with Egypt, claims x-Mossad man Yossi Alpher in new book

An Arrow missile fired during a test launch in February 2013. (photo credit: CC BY-US Missile Defense Agency, Flickr)

Defense Ministry admits September missile test failed

High profile Arrow 2 interceptor trial missed its target; experts say problem now fixed

Kosher baker Paula Shoyer folding chocolate onto her Passover florentine bars (Courtesy Paula Shoyer)

Green tea hamantaschen and other updated treats

By Jessica Steinberg

Cookbook writer Paula Shoyer holds a pluralistic, contemporary appeal for her legions of kosher home chefs

Miriam Sternoff and O'Neal McKnight are planning a wedding in Lifetime Network's reality series, 'Kosher Soul.' (Courtesy Lifetime Network)

Reality TV show follows black-Jewish couple to the chuppah

By Jordan Hoffman

More Headlines

The Islamic State released a video on Feb. 22, 2015 showing the 'Farouq Institue for (Jihadi) Cubs,' a training camp for the next generation of the IS. (Screen capture)

Holy color warAt IS camp, kids behead blonde dolls

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian Imam Ibrahim Abu Luha shows the damage at a mosque that was torched overnight in the West Bank village of al-Jaba, southwest of Bethlehem, February 25, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/MUSA AL-SHAER)

Mosque torched near Bethlehem in apparent hate crime

By Stuart Winer

Illustration. Someday THC-infused cookies like these may have an OU kosher symbol on them as rabbis begin discussions with edible medical cannabis companies. (Photo credit: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0/Prensa 420)

Certified stashAre these pot cookies kosher?

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel Electric Company workers build a new electric line (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)

Israel cuts power to West Bank cities for second time

By Tamar Pileggi

Yarden Gerbi celebrates her victory over Abe Kana from Japan in the semifinal of the World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, August 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Silvia Izquierdo)

Israeli judoka tops world rankings

(R to L) Erez Yerushalmi, CEO and Founder of Sling, Steve Flinter, Vice President, Startup and Acceleration at MasterCard Labs, Stephane Wyper, Global Lead of MaterCard Start Path, Guy Gaash, CEO and Founder of Shopnfly (Photo credit: Sivan Parag)

2 Israeli start-ups vie for MasterCard accelerator slot

By David Shamah

Matzpen commander Col. Avner Ziv (R) receives an award on behalf of his unit from former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, January 15, 2015 (Photo credit: Courtesy)

IDF winning the war with big data

By David Shamah

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Villa Taverna in Rome, December 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Evan Vucci)

Hebrew media reviewOn Iran, US-Israel beef stews

By Joshua Davidovich

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