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What Matters Most On Friday, March 13, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Elections 2015: Interview

Netanyahu: Herzog and Livni leadership ‘dangerous’ for Israel

By David Horovitz

In Times of Israel interview, PM says his policies ‘essential’ to country’s future, intimates that Obama administration wants to see him gone

Elections 2015Kahlon: Government has failed, should ‘clear the way’

By Itamar Sharon

Elections 2015Final polls show Likud trailing behind Zionist Union

Elections 2015Netanyahu warns of ‘real danger’ he won’t be re-elected

Then-foreign minister Tzipi Livni (left) with Mahmoud Abbas (right), president of the Palestinian Authority, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, September 2008 (photo credit: AP/Keystone/Alessandro della Valle)

Analysis

Hamas and Fatah have clear, opposite interests in Israel’s election outcome

By Avi Issacharoff

Ordinary Palestinians couldn’t care less about the March 17 vote. Not so the rival West Bank and Gaza leaderships

Kerry to meet Palestinian leader, Jordan king in Egypt

By AFP

Report praises Israel’s effort to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza

By JTA

Israel offered to ease Gaza blockade for long-term calm, Hamas says

By Elhanan Miller

Hannah Bentow (third from left), whose February 14 Copenhagen bat mitzvah was interrupted by a shooting attack, celebrates with her family in Jerusalem, March 12, 2015. (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel staff)

Month after Denmark attack, bat mitzvah girl celebrates in Israel

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Canadian and Israeli friends make ‘second chance’ party possible for Hannah Bentow and family

Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu

Include Israeli Arabs in the coalition

For the first time since Rabin, there is an opportunity to break the vicious cycle of exclusion

More than just cottage cheese

The Zionist Union has a better plan for all those billions of shekels that end up funding pork barrel projects

Researcher Moshe Szyf in his lab at McGill University in Montreal. (Courtesy of McGill University/JTA)

Epigenetics explains how ‘Jewish guilt’ may be inherited

By Deborah Kotz

Veteran US diplomat Dennis Ross (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Analysis

Ross: US must decide in advance how to respond if Iran violates deal

By David Horovitz

Ex-Obama adviser sets out criteria for acceptable agreement; says Netanyahu shouldn’t have spoken to Congress but raised ‘legitimate questions’

Senator Bob Corker (left), speaks while flanked by ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, March 11, 2015 (photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Obama warned not to take Iran deal to UN instead of Congress

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

The United Nations Security Council meeting on September 19, 2014. photo credit: US State Department)

Security Council reportedly starting talks on lifting Iran sanctions

By Judah Ari Gross

Officials say major world powers considering a resolution to remove UN sanctions if a nuclear deal goes through

Illustrative image of marathon runners in Jerusalem (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Tens of thousands take part in Jerusalem Marathon

By Itamar Sharon

Groups participating in annual race include coexistence proponents, terror victims and disabled people

Sima Menora, founder of Dror, in memory of her two teenaged daughters who died in a tragic plane crash, at the 2014 Jerusalem Marathon (Courtesy Sima Menora)

Go, Team DrorSima Menora, the marathon mom

By Jessica Steinberg

A policeman stands guard on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January 9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)

Paris’s Hyper Cacher to reopen next week

By AFP and AP

Kosher supermarket where four Jewish hostages were killed in a January terror attack has been renovated and restaffed

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi attending a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Cairo on August 2, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Ho/Egyptian Presidency)

Egypt’s Sissi says country in danger of collapse

President says US has ‘responsibility’ to do more; speaks to Netanyahu ‘a lot’ and understands Israel’s concerns on Iran

Moshe Ya'alon, left, and Amos Yadlin (photo composite: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis

In election contest, two dueling defense doctrines

By Mitch Ginsburg

Moshe Ya’alon and Amos Yadlin, two contenders for defense minister, agree on much — but an ideological chasm divides them

New Likud campaign ad includes footage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking before Congress, March 3, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Elections 2015Likud uses Netanyahu speech to Congress in campaign ad

By JTA and ToI Staff

Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a video from May 12, 2014. (AP Photo/File)

Islamic State hails Boko Haram allegiance, threatens Jews and Christians

By AFP and ToI Staff

In new tape, IS spokesman Adnani announces ‘good news’ of caliphate expansion to West Africa, urges Muslims to join

Ismail Al-Wahwah calls coexistence with Israel 'a delusion,' in a speech on March 3, 2015. (Screen capture, MEMRI TV)

Australian Muslim leader calls Jews ‘evil creatures’

By Judah Ari Gross

Jewish community leaders rail against the spiritual leader Ismail Al-Wahwah for his anti-Semitic rhetoric

Rasmea Yousef Odeh, November 10, 2014. (AP/Carlos Osorio, File)

Palestinian terrorist gets jail for lying on US immigration form

By ToI Staff and AP

Rasmieh Odeh gets 18 months behind bars and will likely be deported for covering up role in deadly 1969 Jerusalem bombing

Freedom Summer speakers, from left to right, Larry Rubin, Ira Grupper and Dorothy Zellner at the February University of Massachusetts, Amherst event. (Courtesy Open Hillel)

Jewish civil rights activists use legacy to promote BDS

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

An Open Hillel Freedom Summer speaking tour on college campuses pits Hillel International guidelines against Jewish heroes’ freedom of speech

More Headlines

Former Russian Jewish Congress head Yevgeny Satanovsky (screen capture: Vestnik Kavkaza/YouTube)

Ex-Russian Jewish leader says Ukraine oligarch should be hanged

By JTA

Leader of the Yachad political party Eli Yishai on his campaign tour, March 08, 2015. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Tomayto, tomahtoYishai learns Ramle is not Ramallah

By Stuart Winer

Nadiv Kehaty with his four children, who are all under the age of 7 (Photo credit: JTA/Courtesy of Charidy.com)

Brooklyn tragedy shines light on charity crowdfunding platform

By Gabe Friedman

Boxing robots in action at the Israel RoboCup championship (Courtesy)

At Bar-Ilan, robots box, play soccer – and maybe soon, drive cars

By David Shamah

San Francisco bus with an ad featuring Adolf Hitler (right) and 1941 Arab leader Hajj Amin al-Husseini, which reads 'Islamic Jew Hatred: It's in the Quran.' (screen capture: KBCW/YouTube)

US city ordered to allow anti-Islam ads featuring Hitler

By AP

US Congressman Chaka Fattah (left) meets with former Israeli president Shimon Peres (center) and Braintech chairman Rafi Gidron on March 11, 2015 (Courtesy)

Israel has the ‘brains’ to solve brain problems, says US congressman

By David Shamah

Journalist Mariana Van Zeller, left, and chef Michael Voltaggio, hosts of Travel Channel's "Breaking Borders," pose in front of an art piece showing a dove in a bulletproof vest by graffiti artist Banksy in Bethlehem. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Travel Channel)

Settler, Palestinian and activist break bread in new TV show

By Frazier Moore

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)

Hebrew media reviewThe final countdown

By Marissa Newman

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