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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 5, 2015

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Mohammad Javad Zarif in an NBC interview on March 4, 2015 (NBC screenshot)

Zarif: The Netanyahu regime ‘should be annihilated’

Dodging some questions, finessing others in extensive TV interview, Iranian foreign minister says Iran has saved Jews three times in its history and threatens nobody

Kerry makes way to Saudi Arabia in bid to calm Iran jitters

By AP

Nuclear deal with West ‘very close,’ Zarif says

By Daniel Bernstein and AP

Day after PM’s speech, Senate Democratic leader urges delay on Iran sanctions

By AP and ToI Staff

Alberto Nisman gives a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 20, 2009. (AFP/Juan Mabromata)

Live updates (closed)

Alberto Nisman’s family says he was assassinated

By Jonathan Beck

Sandra Arroyo Salgado, ex-wife and mother of Nisman’s two daughters, says ‘he was killed’ after family commissions independent investigation; official inquiry is ongoing

Palestinian nonviolence activist Ali Abu Awwad (right) addresses an Israeli audience at the home of Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger (left) in the settlement of Alon Shvut on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 (photo credit: Elie Leshem/Times of Israel)

In a settler’s living room, a Palestinian reaches out

Ali Abu Awwad, who lost a brother to the conflict, uses nonviolence to challenge the prejudices of his Arab and Jewish neighbors

The Palestinian wonder of the world

A visit to Rawabi, a city under construction near Ramallah, offers a vision of a hopeful and prosperous future

Now that you’re done ruining US-Israel ties

It’s time for Bibi to either deal with an economy in which two salaries don’t suffice or get out of the way

No more villains and victims

If only the grandstanding could end, Britain could lead the way in helping the Palestinians rebuild Gaza

Still from a Fanta TV ad (photo credit: YouTube)

The Coke side of history

Fanta ad ‘forgets’ Germany’s Nazi past

Coca-Cola Company pulls TV commercial which refers to 1940s in Germany as ‘good old days’

Thousands of women from the Women Wage Peace movement demonstrate outside the Israeli parliament, March 4, 2015 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As election nears, women march to put peace on agenda

By Elhanan Miller

Some 3,000 women from across Israel take protest to the Knesset, calling on leaders to make negotiations a priority in the next government

Medical staff examine x-rays of cystic fibrosis patients (Photo: Screenshot)

Israeli firm boasts new cystic fibrosis treatment

By David Shamah

Advanced Inhalation Therapies uses nitric oxide to keep the lungs clear and foreign pathogens out

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by members of Congress prior to addressing a joint session on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, March 3, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

Elections 2015

First poll since Netanyahu’s speech still shows Zionist Union leading

By Adiv Sterman and Ricky Ben-David

Herzog’s party on 24 seats, Likud on 23, but 47% want PM to continue for another term

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by members of Congress prior to addressing a joint session on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, March 3, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

On return from US, Netanyahu hails speech’s ‘resonance’

Congress to be ‘influencing and possibly even deciding’ factor in deal with Iran, PM says, responding to president’s critique

Baruch Marzel, December 24, 2014. (photo credit: Amir Levy/Flash90)

Haredi group decries far-rightist joining with Yishai

By Adiv Sterman and Daniel Bernstein

Ultra-Orthodox activists circulate flyers critical of Baruch Marzel, say late Shas leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef would not approve of merger

Tzipi Livni (center) meets young English-speaking Israeli voters in a Tel Aviv bar. February 17, 2015. (photo credit: Louiz Green)

Zionist Union tries to speak Anglo Israelis’ language

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Herzog, Livni and others attempt to convince English speakers that their party is only viable alternative to Netanyahu

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and a child wearing a costume read the book of Esther at a synagogue in the city of Bnei Brak on March 4, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Photo essay

Nation plays dress-up to celebrate Purim holiday

Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, attends a meeting of Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran, September 17, 2013. (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, File)

Confused Shiite militants take aim at SUNY school system

By Tom Bradysucks and Brony Carblover

Looking to expand influence, Tehran sets sight on New York’s state universities; Rouhani rails against jungle juice at frat party

A Palestinian child fills plastic bottles and jerrycans with drinking water from a public tap at the UNRWA headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah, January 28, 2013 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel to double water delivery to Gaza

By Elhanan Miller

‘We hope Hamas won’t steal the water as it stole the building materials,’ army administrator says

Illustrative photo of a price tag attack, on August 27, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Suspected ‘price tag’ attack reported in West Bank village

Two vehicles torched, building spray painted with Hebrew graffiti; security forces investigating incident

Argentina's then-president Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires on January 30, 2015. (AFP Photo/Alejandro Pagni)

Israel says Argentina responsible for embassy bombing investigation

By JTA

Earlier this week, President Kirchner accused the Jewish state of not working to bring perpetrators of 1992 attack to justice

Five of the runners from Runners without Borders during a recent training session. Organizer Shoshana Ben-David, 18, is the second from right. (photo courtesy: Itay Akirav)

Jewish-Arab running group leaves race out of marathon

By Melanie Lidman

A Jerusalem teenager is spearheading a running club for girls that aims at coexistence via positive body image

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An Egyptian couple at their Islamic State-themed wedding (screen capture: Facebook)

Shotgun weddingEgyptians hold IS-themed wedding

By Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of the United States Congress in the House chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, March 3, 2015. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

How Netanyahu’s speech played in Israel

By JTA

Nazareth structure believed to be Jesus’ boyhood home (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Galilee structure may be Jesus’s boyhood home

A "spocked" $5 bill (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Live long and prosperCanada bank decries ‘spocking’ currency

BBC reporter Jeremy Bowen (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)

BBC reporter under fire for saying Netanyahu ‘played Holocaust card’

Jon Stewart during a taping of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in New York in November 2011. (photo credit: AP/Brad Barket)

Bibi's BoehnerJon Stewart blown away by Netanyahu

Palestinians inspect the destruction of Farouq Mosque after it was hit in an Israeli airstrike, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

UN envoy calls for probe into Gaza civilian deaths

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen on a television monitor in New York City as he delivers a speech to Congress on March 3, 2015. (photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewThe never-ending story of ‘The Speech’

By Judah Ari Gross

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