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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 18, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters and hails his general election victory at the Likud party's election headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Netanyahu scores crushing victory in Israeli elections

By ToI Staff and AP

With almost 99% of votes tallied, Likud climbs to 30-24 seat win over Zionist Union in overnight drama; PM promises new coalition with other ‘nationalist parties’; Meretz head may quit over poor showing

Herzog concedes defeat after falling far behind Netanyahu in vote tally

US media focuses on turn to the right in Likud win

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

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

US State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki (screen capture: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

US to reevaluate stance on peace after PM rules out Palestine

By Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

Netanyahu looking to quickly form right-religious government after garnering 30 seats to Zionist Union’s 24

A victorious Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at the party's election headquarters In Tel Aviv. early on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Analysis

King Bibi and his divided people

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Netanyahu defied all predictions and crushed all rivals en route to a spectacular victory. But how will he use his power?

The Israelis have spoken

The election showed that most voters agree with Netanyahu that life itself is more important than quality of life

Nerys Copelovitz

When democracy sucks

The rightwing victory heralds a dark and frightening future — and there is one simple reason it happened

A message for Obama

Israel has spoken: We will choose our destiny and we will defend ourselves

Will we choose well?

Her campaign for ethical living has introduced her to Israelis who elect, daily, to make the country better

Israeli supporters of the Zionist Union party react to exit poll figures outside the party's headquarters on March 17, 2015 in the city of Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS COEX)

Analysis

After electoral trouncing, what future for the Israeli left?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

A lot of lessons can be gleaned from Tuesday’s results. Some of them might be uncomfortable

Left-wing Meretz party head Zahava Gal-onreacts to election exit polls March 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)

Meretz head Gal-on set to resign after poor showing

Moshe Kahlon addresses hundreds of supporters at the Kulanu victory party on Mar. 17, 2015. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Kahlon vows to help the poor, the weak and the ‘other’

By Judah Ari Gross

At Kulanu HQ, party head tells hundreds of excited supporters faction represents hope for disadvantaged

Supporters of the Zionist Union react as the exit polls in the Israeli general elections for the 20th parliament are announced on March 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

At Zionist Union HQ, deflation and forced levity as TV exit polls suggest a tie

By Mitch Ginsburg

‘Everything is open,’ Herzog tells an unconvinced crowd at party headquarters

Likud party supporters react to exit polls while they wait at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv for the announcement of the official results of the Knesset elections on March 17, 2015. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Relief and delight at Likud HQ, as PM declares victory ‘against all odds’

By Raphael Ahren and Haviv Rettig Gur

At party headquarters, skepticism about Netanyahu’s ability to close gap with Zionist Union transforms into jubilation

Yair Lapid and supporters, seen as the exit polls in the Israeli general elections for the 20th parliament are announced on March 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Amir Levy/FLASH90)

Yesh Atid is here to stay, says Lapid

By Jessica Steinberg

Its leader had vowed to ‘do everything to oust Netanyahu’; that likely didn’t happen, but the party is set to snag 12 seats

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett waves to onlookers following elections, March 17, 2015. (photo credit: Avi Lewis/Times of Israel, Jon Weidberg)

Despite poll battering, Jewish Home party defiantly upbeat

Amid 4 seat decline, party official says ‘supporters came to the rescue of others to ensure an overall right-wing win’

A truck with placards bearing the image of Likud party leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drives down a street in the southern city of Sderot (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)

Elections 2015

In southern Israel, rockets divide, not unite, voters

By Ilan Ben Zion

Kibbutzniks on border with Gaza Strip lean leftward in hope for peace, but in Sderot, right-wing parties dominate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the southern city of Ashkelon on election day, March 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

Analysis

With hardened positions, Netanyahu snatches victory from jaws of defeat

By David Horovitz

In the final stretch of the campaign, PM rejected Palestinian statehood and castigated foreign activists for funding Arab votes — bringing right-wing voters ‘home’ to his Likud party

Zionist Camp leader Isaac Herzog speaks at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv, after the exit polls in the Israeli general elections for the 20th parliament were announced on March 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90

As PM declares victory, Herzog hails party’s ‘extraordinary feat’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Volunteers for the Joint (Arab) List stand outside the local headquarters in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, March 17, 2015 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

In Arab city, voters hope to annul ‘second-class citizenship’

By Elhanan Miller

Israel’s Arab citizens may not get ‘all their rights,’ but will at least win some respect if Joint List thrives, says Umm al-Fahm student

Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah to discuss canceling security coordination with Israel on December 14, 2014. Behind him is a view of Jerusalem's Old City (Photo credit: FLASH90)

Analysis

After vote, Palestinians mull ending security cooperation

By Avi Issacharoff and Avi Lewis

PLO leaders to meet to discuss move, which may wait until after formation of a new Israeli coalition

An Israeli Arab woman casts her vote at a polling station in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, in Jerusalem on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Netanyahu accuses foreign governments of mobilizing left

By Lazar Berman

Prime minister walks back controversial statement expressing alarm over high turnout among Israeli Arabs

From left, Ernest Moniz, John Kerry, Mohammad Javad Zarif and Ali Akhbar Salehi meeting in Switzerland in March 2015 (US State Department)

Argentine opposition lawmakers urge caution on Iran deal

By AP

Letter sent to P5+1 negotiators tells world powers not to forget 1990s terrorist attacks on Israeli, Jewish targets

Author Ayelet Tsabari, winner of this year's Sami Rohr prize for fiction. (Elsin Davidi)

‘Exile by choice’ author tells Israel’s story from Canada

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Saudi Arabia's top Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)

Saudi grand mufti calls for demolition of churches

In this courtroom sketch, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center seated, is depicted between defense attorneys while the boat in which he was captured in sits on a trailer for observation during his federal death penalty trial, Monday, March 16, 2015, in Boston. Tsarnaev is charged with conspiring with his brother to place two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line in April 2013, killing three and injuring more than 260 people. (photo credit: AP/Jane Flavell Collins)

Friend says he gave Boston Marathon bomber a handgun

By Denise Lavoie

The board at the Hillel chapter of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania is openly rejecting guidelines on Israel debate adopted by the international umbrella group. (photo credit: Wikicommons/via JTA)

Swarthmore Hillel changes name after ‘threats’ from parent body

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative photo of a nebula. (Photo credit: Pexels)

A 100th birthday gift to theory of relativity arrives after 7 billion years

By David Shamah

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. (photo credit: AP/File)

Meat of the matterIS general looks like shawarma

By Lazar Berman

An American predator drone (photo credit: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Syria claims downed US Predator drone

By AFP

Onondaga County Courthouse, Syracuse, New York (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Joegrimes -- public domain)

Trial begins for Jewish NY doctor accused of killing wife

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces then-communications and welfare minister Moshe Kahlon, during a press conference on January 21, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIt’s Kahlon’s world, and Bibi just lives in it

By Judah Ari Gross

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