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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 19, 2015

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President Barack Obama (photo credit: AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Analysis

After Netanyahu win, Obama takes off the gloves

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

All aspects of relationship up for reevaluation; coming weeks critical as US waits to hear if PM will dial down anti-two-state, anti-Arab rhetoric

US officials: Washington could back UN resolution on Palestine

By Judah Ari Gross

AnalysisInternational pressure to grow after election, but sky won’t fall

By Raphael Ahren

Washington frosty in remarks on Netanyahu’s reelection

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog at the Mount Zion Hotel in Jerusalem on February 24, 2015 (Miriam Alster/ Flash 90)

Analysis

Isaac Herzog, the Levi Eshkol that wasn’t

By Mitch Ginsburg

Why an onslaught from top security brass didn’t thwart Netanyahu, and why even generals can’t help the left win

President Reuven Rivlin casts his vote at a polling station in Jerusalem on March 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rivlin to launch coalition building talks on Sunday

By Stuart Winer and Marissa Newman

Likud laughs off Liberman’s demand for defense portfolio; Zionist Union leader readies his party for opposition

Liberman can forget about Defense Minstry, says Likud ahead of coalition talks

By Stuart Winer and Marissa Newman

Absentee ballots grant Meretz extra seat, Joint List down to 13

All 120 incoming Knesset members

In Copenhagen: Grieving with the enemy

She was at the synagogue ‘peace ring’ and wondered: would expressing sympathy mean betraying her own story?

Why do we sacrifice?

The ancient ritual is long gone, but there is still a need to offer God the animal soul within us (Vayikra)

Laura E. Adkins

The peaceful and the just

Walkouts and noncooperation with anti-Israel speakers will only deepen the chasm between the sides

The IDF invades Aspen

When he hit the slopes with fellow disabled veterans he didn’t get his arm back, and yet…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu interviewed by Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly on Thursday, March 19, 2015. (photo credit: Screen capture, Fox News)

Live updates (closed)

PM hopes Washington won’t back Palestinians at United Nations

By Jonathan Beck

Netanyahu walks back his opposition to Palestinian statehood, but stresses world cannot impose terms on Israelis that endanger their security

Ayman Odeh (center), head of Israel's Joint (Arab) List, reacts at party headquarters in the northern Israeli town of Nazareth as exit polls in the general elections are announced, March 17, 2015 (photo credit: Basel Awidat/Flash90)

For Arab Joint List, a bittersweet tour de force

By Elhanan Miller

Jewish support for Netanyahu was both ‘significant’ and ‘tragic’, says the party’s chairman, Ayman Odeh

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote at a polling station in Jerusalem on March 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Marc israel Sellem/POOL/FLASH90)

What Israel’s next government might look like

By JTA

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

Iran downplays chances of nuclear deal this week

By AFP

Zarif says there are still differences between Tehran and world powers; ‘90% of technical issues’ have been agreed

Images of Hitler and swastikas which were posted on pillars at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Match 18, 2015 (photo credit: Saujs Cape Town, courtesy)

Students distressed by swastikas on South Africa campus

Jewish group slams the images, which were accompanied by photos of Hitler, demands punishment for the offenders

Illustrative: Tunisian security forces secure the area after gunmen attacked Tunis' famed Bardo Museum on March 18, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/ FETHI BELAID)

Parents of Turin chief rabbi survive Tunis terror attack

By JTA

Both managed to escape shooting attack Wednesday that killed 19, including 17 tourists

Hava Karrie, deputy director of the Golda Meir Mount Carmel Leadership Training Center (left) and Knesset Secretary Yardena Meller-Horowitz attend a seminar March 11, 2015 at the United Nations for the 59th Commission on the Statues of Women. (Cathryn J. Prince/The Times of Israel)

Israel’s report to UN on women shows much talk, little progress

By Cathryn J. Prince

Despite initiatives to promote gender equality, Israeli women still face discrimination in nearly every aspect of life

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

Senate loses pro-Israel stalwart with Mikulski’s departure

By Dmitriy Shapiro

In this Polish-American Catholic woman, ‘Jewish Democrats couldn’t design a better elected official,’ says a DC insider

Israeli entrepreneurs work on a new start-up project in Tel Aviv (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Website matches US business students to Israeli jobs

By David Shamah

American MBA candidates seeking summer internships in the start-up nation have a new online resource

Channel 2 exit poll at 10 p.m. on March 17, 2105 gave Zionist Union 27 seats and Likud 28. The final result was Likud 30, Zionist Union 24. (Channel 2 screenshot)

Botched TV exit polls earn vote of no confidence

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

'I’ve always been attracted to the weird in fiction,' Lavie Tidhar tells JTA (Photo credit: Kevin Nixon/SFX Magazine/TeamRock/(JTA)

The Jews vs. The UndeadZombie battle gets a Jewish twist

By Beth Kissileff

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (photo credit: AFP/Ness Kerton)

Wits-kreigAussie PM panned for ‘Goebbels’ jibe

By AFP

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about the new Apple Watch during an Apple event on Monday, March 9, 2015, in San Francisco (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Will Apple put Israel’s medical device industry out of business?

By David Shamah

Hungry Hungry Hippos. Coalition talks may look a lot like this. (photo credit: CC BY David Goehring, Flickr)

Hebrew media review Win in bag, focus turns to hungry hungry politicos

By Joshua Davidovich

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