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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 17, 2015

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An Arab Israeli woman casts her vote at a polling station in Haifa, on March 17, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Elections 2015

Netanyahu or Herzog? Israelis vote in election too close, complex to call

By Lazar Berman

Likud leader vows no Palestinian state, Livni gives up rotation deal as parties vie for last-minute support in tight race

Elections 2015Livni: I did ‘what’s right’ in order to bring down Netanyahu

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu: No Palestinian state on my watch

By ToI Staff and AFP

Elections 2015Politicians vote early, plug selves often

By Marissa Newman and Jonathan Beck

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails victory in a speech at Likud campaign headquarters early in the morning of March 18, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu hails ‘a great victory for our people,’ though Herzog in no hurry to concede

By Jonathan Beck and Haviv Rettig Gur

PM promises to build ‘national camp’ coalition as quickly as possible; Zionist Union not admitting defeat; TV exit polls show Likud well-placed to build coalition; 71.8% turnout highest since 1999

Moshe Kahlon, head of the Kulanu party, returns to his hometown of Givat Olga Tuesday Mar. 17, 2015 to accompany his mother to the voting booth. (Photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

In Kahlon’s hometown, possible kingmaker is feted as royalty

By Judah Ari Gross

Kulanu leader accompanies his mother to her Givat Olga polling station surrounded by raucous, cheering rowds

A Palestinian street vendor sells olive oil in front of campaign posters for Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party on March 10, 201, in Givat Zeev, a West Bank settlement north of Jerusalem. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Elections 2015

Now interested in vote, Palestinians divided over whom to root for

By Avi Issacharoff

Hamas wants Netanyahu to stay, some in the PA want a Herzog win, and the Arab media can’t get enough of the tight race

Elections 2015How voter turnout could sway Israel’s election

Five things to know about the Israeli elections

By JTA and ToI Staff

Fatah official urges Israeli Arabs to vote for Joint List

By Elhanan Miller

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Guess who I’m voting for

In which her political proclivities are revealed

Avidan Freedman

An election day serenity prayer

The great gift God offers to a nation of slaves is not actually freedom

What would Moses do? Vote!

A political structure for governance, however imperfect, is a Biblical imperative

Gabriel T. Erbs and Amna Farooqi

Hillel, we’re your partners not your tools

By opting out of a J Street conference, Eric Fingerhut missed more than a chance to thank anti-BDS activists

The Times of Israel's Sarah Tuttle-Singer speaks to Israelis on the upcoming elections, March 12, 2015 (screen capture)

WATCH: ‘So, who are you voting for?’

By Ricky Ben-David and Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The Times of Israel’s Sarah Tuttle-Singer asks English-speaking Israelis what’s on their mind on the eve of the election

Ze'ev Elkin. (Flash90)

Elections 2015

Likud MK’s grandfather dies at ballot booth

By Marissa Newman

90-year-old relative of Ze’ev Elkin collapses after casting vote in Jerusalem

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, left, leaves the hotel following a bilateral meeting with US negotiators, among them US Secretary of State John Kerry, at a round of nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Iran nuclear chief says main issues resolved in talks

By Bradley Klapper and George Jahn

Ali Akhbar Salehi offers optimistic assessment of negotiations, says he hopes sides reach deal by deadline

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat prior to departure from his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 29, 2004. (photo credit: AP/Palestinian Authority/Hussein Hussein)

French experts rule out foul play in Arafat’s death

By AFP

Prosecutor says polonium samples found in grave ‘are of an environmental nature’

Fernando Gentilini, the European Union's designated Middle East peace envoy (photo credit: CC BY ResoluteSupportMedia/Flickr)

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EU to name new special envoy to Mideast peace process

By Raphael Ahren

Italian-born Fernando Gentilini has no background in Israeli-Palestinian talks, but seen as expert in conflict resolution

Illustrative: A Hamas gunman holding an alleged 'collaborator' in Gaza, moments before the suspect is shot to death, on August 22, 2014. (screenshot: YouTube)

Gazan gets 15 years’ hard labor for ‘spying’ for Israel

By AFP

Man, 53, found guilty of collaborating with the Jewish state since 1988, handing over sensitive information

In this March 12, 2015 photo, Rabbi Denise Eger poses at Congregation Kol Ami, a Reform synagogue with gay and lesbian outreach programs, in West Hollywood, Calif. (photo credit: AP Photo/Nick Ut)

US Reform movement to install first openly lesbian leader

Denise Eger to be appointed president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)

McGill students reject Israel divestment motion

By JTA

Montreal students vote down measure 276-212

An illustrative photo of IDF Military Police, November 17, 2014 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

In Israel’s citizen army, a steep rise in sex crimes

By Mitch Ginsburg

Number of indictments for sex-related offenses has nearly doubled over the past 2 years, IDF’s chief prosecutor says

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog in the Knesset, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Elections 2015

‘Election Compass’ users score Herzog above Netanyahu, scholar says

By Raphael Ahren

Dutch director of website says data also show PM seen as less likable than challenger, yet elections far from a done deal

Sir Mark Walport (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Politics won’t dampen ties with Israel, UK’s top scientist says

By David Shamah

His country does not boycott Israeli institutions or universities, at least in ‘Israel proper,’ maintains British Chief Scientist Sir Mark Walport

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An elephant 'votes' in the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo's election to find the King of the Animal Kingdom, March 17, 2015. (photo credit: Shai Ben Ami/Jerusalem Biblical Zoo)

Political animalsElection gets wild at Jerusalem zoo

By Stuart Winer and Mitch Ginsburg

Chuck Norris calls on Israelis to reelect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in up coming national elections, March 16, 2015. (screen capture: chucknorris)

Bibi backersChuck Norris says vote Netanyahu

By Stuart Winer

A page from the Talmud, the Oral law of Judaism, August 19, 2007. (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)

What would Rashi do?Spoof Talmud page analyzes election

By Hillel Kuttler

Participants at an Aliyah Mega Event in New York on March 15, 2015. (photo credit: Courtesy Nefesh B'Nefesh)

Over 1,200 attend NY event promoting aliyah

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, in Cannes in 2011. (Shutterstock)

Beauty contestBar Refaeli wants to judge you

By Gabe Friedman

The Zionist Union Tzipi Livni in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2015. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewElections are here and the gloves are off

By Ilan Ben Zion

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