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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 4, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of the US Congress at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2015. (photo credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

In blistering speech, PM warns ‘bad’ deal ‘paves path’ to Iranian nukes

By Itamar Sharon and Marissa Newman

Netanyahu evokes upcoming holiday of Purim in accusing Tehran of seeking to annihilate the Jewish people; Congress responds with enthusiastic applause

AnalysisNetanyahu’s devastating, irrevocable indictment of Obama

By David Horovitz

AnalysisAmid the criticism, Netanyahu also signaled some readiness for compromise

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisIf US fails, PM signals Sunni Arab states, we’ll hold the line against Iran

By Haviv Rettig Gur

US President Barack Obama makes a statement to the press after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, soon after Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress, March 3, 2015. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Obama dismisses Netanyahu’s Congress speech as ‘nothing new’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and AFP

Minority leader Pelosi says PM’s Iran deal criticism ‘condescending’ toward Americans’ intelligence, but some Democrats back him

Rebutting Obama, PM says he offered ‘practical alternatives’ to Iran deal

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli center, left slam Netanyahu’s Congress speech

By Jonathan Beck

Iran denounces Netanyahu’s ‘lie-spreading’ Congress speech

By AFP and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and President Barack Obama embrace at a ceremony welcoming the US leader at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Why Obama hates Netanyahu, and vice versa

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The enmity between the two leaders over the Iran deal is at a fever pitch, but it is an older and deeper loathing that will not end no matter how that crisis is resolved

'Dome of Consequence' painting by Elizabeth Roskam (photo credit: Courtesy)

Political carnival under the clouds for Netanyahu’s speech

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

From bagel parties to commemorative paintings, PM’s address brought out power elites and grassroots alike

Leading US newspapers disagree on Netanyahu speech

By Lazar Berman

Netanyahu tells Senate leadership he is ‘moved’ by support

By Lazar Berman

Israelis split on PM’s appearance before Congress

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, seen at Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, as they depart for the United States on Sunday, March 1, 2015. (Photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)

Live updates

Netanyahu says he proposed 2 key changes to emerging Iran deal

By Ricky Ben-David

New post-speech poll gives Zionist Union slight lead over Likud; Kerry heads to Riyadh, vows to not let politics distract from talks; next round set for March 15

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Queen Esther wants a get

After she saved the Jewish people, there was nobody to save her — and that’s still true today

Mobilizing against BDS on US campuses

Even those who don’t care for the present government’s policies need to get together under a single tent

Bibi spoke for me

Netanyahu’s speech connected Jewish history to current events and clarified the significance of the Iranian threat

Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

After uniting Arabs behind him, Ayman Odeh looks to lead opposition

By Elhanan Miller

People stand in front of the Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris on August 11, 1982, two days after the Jewish delicatessen was attacked by terrorists. (AFP / JOEL ROBINE)

Suspects identified in deadly 1982 Paris Jewish deli attack

By AP

Palestinians now living in West Bank, Jordan and Norway were behind machine gun and grenade assault that left six dead

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City as snow falls on February 19, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

UK bans ad for implying Jerusalem’s Old City part of Israel

By AFP

Watchdog says brochure showing panorama of holy area with text that Jewish state ‘has it all’ is misleading

Senate Banking Committee member Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. gives his opening statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, during the committee's hearing on Iran sanctions. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Democrats upset with GOP effort to fast-track Iran bill

By Deb Riechmann

Republicans try to pass legislation allowing Congressional oversight of any nuclear agreement

US Secretary of State John Kerry (second right) walks with members of his delegation ahead of a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for a new round of nuclear negotiations on March 3, 2015, in Montreux, Switzerland. (photo credit: Evan Vucc/AFP)

US vows to ‘confront aggressively’ Iran’s regional expansion

By AFP

Kerry off to Saudi Arabia to reassure Gulf states that Washington won’t turn blind eye to Tehran’s ambitions

General Martin Dempsey testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, on September 16, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Top US general says Iranian hand in Iraq could turn out well

By Robert Burns

Joint Chiefs chairman Martin Dempsey argues that Tehran’s involvement is only a problem ‘if it results in sectarianism’

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri at a press conference in Jerusalem, December 14, 2014. Behind him is a poster of the party's late spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas leader says party wants Netanyahu as PM

By Itamar Sharon

Aryeh Deri says ultra-Orthodox would like premier to remain in power, but only if he is committed to supporting their base

Illustration of a handshake. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)

Israelis find it’s the smell, not the grip, that makes a handshake

By Stuart Winer

Scientists at Weizmann Institute suggest that shaking hands is a way of transferring social chemicals for sniffing

Pope Pius XII in 'Shades of Truth.' (courtesy)

Pius XII film sparks new debate of old controversy

By Rossella Tercatin

Filming a video on a smartphone. (Pexels)

Korean VC, Akamai invest in Israeli data delivery firm Saguna

By David Shamah

SoftBank Ventures Korea Corp is making its 1st foray in Israel, in a firm that brings internet content ‘closer’ to consumers

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'Gaza Man Game' Facebook page (Facebook screenshot/GazaManGame)

Jihad on the goGaza Man game takes aim at IDF

Illustrative: A woman places her vote in a ballot box for the Israeli general elections for the 19th parliament, January 22, 2013, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vote to begin at Israeli missions abroad

The Beit HaMishalot film series, introductory credits. (photo credit: Youtube screen capture/Gil Manor)

Wish upon a showHBO gobbles up Israeli TV drama

Leonard Nimoy at the Phoenix Comicon in 2011. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons/JTA)

A ‘nice, earnest Jewish boy,’ that Mr. Spock

Nepalese rescue workers check the area around a Turkish Airlines aircraft after it slid off the tarmac on landing at Kathmandu's international airport on March 4, 2015. (photo credit: AFP / PRAKASH MATHEMA)

Seven Israelis aboard as plane skids off Nepal runway

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a sheet of his notes while talking about Iran during a speech to the United States Congress on March 3, 2015, in Washington, DC. (photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewAnything but speechless

By Joshua Davidovich

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