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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 12, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gestures during an election campaign meeting with his supporters in the city of Netanya on March 11, 2015 (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Analysis

Is Netanyahu about to lose the election?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Its campaign has grown frantic, its activists are moribund. And though it would be wrong to bury the ruling Likud party, its supporters are right to be worried

Elections 2015Peres endorses ‘levelheaded’ Herzog for prime minister

By Marissa Newman

Herzog: Netanyahu thinks ‘people are plotting against him’

By Stuart Winer

Elections 2015Trailing with days to go, Likud frets over possible defeat

By Ilan Ben Zion

US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (L) and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and nuclear negotiator Wendy Sherman (2-R) 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: AFP)

US extends Iran sanctions while noting improved behavior

By JTA

Tehran’s actions pose ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to American security, says Obama

Iran supreme leader: GOP letter a sign of US ‘disintegration’

By Nasser Karimi

Pushing back, Kerry says senators can’t touch Iran nuke deal

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

Netanyahu approval in US drops after Congress speech

Isaac Herzog (left) and Tzipi Livni (right) check out some produce at the Carmel outdoor market in Tel Aviv, on March 12, 2015. (photo credit: Amir Levy/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Unity deal nixed as parties jockey for position ahead of home stretch

By Jonathan Beck

In media blitz, prime minister admits he didn’t do enough to solve housing crisis, refuses to discuss decision to boycott Channel 10, says wife under unprecedented attack

David-Seth Kirshner

A tale of two schools

Compare and contrast how UCLA and Oklahoma U handled racist incidents: one of them was deafeningly silent

Laura Ben-David

I have no other country

At a unique IDF ceremony, ’lone soldiers’ declared their allegiance with some very unexpected words

The spirit of community

Applying the wisdom of Darwin and de Tocqueville to the Golden Calf story to understand that united we stand (Vayakhel)

We might just spend the rest of our lives waiting for the next summer war, the next terror attack

Rinel Saif, (C), wife of Israeli Druze police officer Zidan Saif, seen during a ceremony in his honor in the Jewish orthodox neighborhood of Har Nof, Jerusalem, November 27, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

NY Jews honor Druze cop slain in synagogue attack

By Stuart Winer

Community in Woodmere raises $34,000 for widow of Zidan Saif, who was killed while confronting terrorists in Har Nof

Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox 'Netzah Yehuda' infantry unit seen studying at the Peles military base in the northern Jordan Valley. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Haredi battalion commander: Most recruits not ultra-Orthodox

By Marissa Newman

In leaked internal report, officer also claims ultra-Orthodox soldiers sorted by ethnicity; unnamed military sources reject findings

In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi attends Naval exercises in Alexandria, Egypt, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/MENA, Fady Fars)

Analysis

Angry Egypt feels the squeeze from jihadis, US and Hamas

By Avi Issacharoff

Officials in Cairo nonplussed as Washington stalls shipment of military aid for fight against Islamic State; Sissi present list of demands to Hamas for thaw

A Palestinian farmer picks tomatoes at his farm in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, 08 August 2007. (photo credit: Ahmed Khateib /Flash90)

Gaza tomatoes imported to Israel in first for Hamas

By AP

Jason Isaacs stars as Peter Connelly in the USA Network show 'Dig,' which was partially filmed in Jerusalem (NBC Universal/JTA)

Part-filmed in Israel, TV series ‘Dig’ travels far, but not deep

By Anthony Weiss

Mahmoud Abbas casts his ballot in the last elections to take place in the PA in 2006 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Elections 2015

From annexation to right of return: What the parties say about the Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

Bennett wants Greater Israel, Liberman wants to redraw the borders, Lapid wants a divorce, Kahlon wants a two-state reality. And what does Netanyahu want?

Palestinians take part in a protest demanding the release of their relatives held in Israeli jails, in front of the Red Cross office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 15, 2014. (Photo credit: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

Palestinians eye Israel vote with hope, skepticism

By Sarah Benhaida

General James Cartwright during his military service (photo credit: CC BY Tim Rodenberg, Flickr)

US Stuxnet leak investigation stalls amid Israeli concerns

By JTA and ToI Staff

Inquiry into James Cartwright’s role in releasing information about computer virus hindered by fears of deepening US-Israel rift

For Passover, a clergy couple's vegetarian seder menu
Cantor Jenna Greenberg and Rabbi Josh Ginsberg (Marshall Weiss/Dayton Jewish Observer/JTA)

Clergy couple’s vegetarian menu makes for a guilt-free seder

By Marshall Weiss

Owen Suskind (left) and Gilbert Gottfried on stage in New York at 'The Night of Too Many Stars,' March 7, 2015 (Photo credit: Screenshot)

Reaching autistic kids through the magic of Disney

By David Shamah

Author Ron Suskind tells Israel Brain Technology Conference how he was able to communicate with his son through ‘Aladdin’ parrot

Amos Geva, who lives in Germany, sought to charter an airplane to bring fellow Israelis home to vote on March 17. (Courtesy of Amos Geva/JTA)

For some Israeli expats, distance no barrier to the ballot

By Hillel Kuttler

A cadre of Israeli citizens abroad scramble schedules and scrounge for funds to make it to the voting booth next week

Kulanu party leader Moshe Kahlon walks with party members during a campaign stop at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv, February 4, 2015 (Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)

Why Israelis will vote on the economy, not security

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Amstelveen, The Netherlands (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Dutch mayors condemn ‘Jew stickers’ in Amsterdam suburb

By JTA

Wild elephants in Tanzania. (photo credit: Haim Shohat/FLASH90)

Babar BombsnifferAn elephant solution to landmines

By AP

Illustrative photo of Miami (Shutterstock/JTA)

Man tells Miami Jews he will behead them

By JTA

Yuval Semo as taxi driver Asher Ben Horin on 'Eretz Nehederet' (Courtesy YouTube screengrab)

Stand-up cabbieComic zings politicos with cabman gag

By Jessica Steinberg

Panoramic view of Prague (Photo credit: DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Prague unveils Holocaust memorial

By JTA

Sarah Silverman, December 18, 2014. (photo credit: Nir Shaanani)

Voting is no jokeSarah Silverman gives Meretz a push

By Stuart Winer

InPlay screen shot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli tech gives rowdy soccer fans new online hangout

By David Shamah

Isaac Herzog, leader of Zionist Camp Party, attends an election campaign meeting on January 18, 2015, in Kfar Haim. (Photo credit: Gili Yaari / FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewStump and grind

By Joshua Davidovich

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