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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 25, 2015

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US President Barack Obama speaks about the possibilities of a two-state solution during a press conference in Washington, March 24, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

Obama: US can’t base policy on ‘dim’ peace hopes under Netanyahu

By Lazar Berman

President says Washington will wait to evaluate support for Jerusalem at UN until after new Israeli coalition formed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts to exit poll figures late on March 17, 2015 in Tel Aviv (photo credit: AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Analysis

After vote, Pyrrhic victories for both Netanyahu and Obama

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The PM’s defense of his Election Day rhetoric doesn’t quite fit the facts, but the US president’s offensive doesn’t exactly match reality either

Democrats unmoved by Israeli entreaties on Iran

Why J Street loves Jim Baker

Israel wraps up mission lobbying against Iran concessions

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Reuven Rivlin in a ceremony tasking Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government, at the president's residence in Jerusalem on March 25, 2015. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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Getting nod to form government, Netanyahu strikes conciliatory tone

By Lazar Berman

Rivlin pans comments about Arab turnout before tasking PM with crafting government

The UN Security Council voting on a resolution on Palestinian statehood on December 30, 2014. The resolution was voted down. (UN/Evan Schneider)

Analysis

Without US cover at UN, Israel could face diplomatic avalanche

By Raphael Ahren

Already violating countless resolutions, Jerusalem has little to fear immediately from a Security Council vote on Palestine. But there would be painful repercussions in the long run

German parliament to vote on Palestine recognition

By Raphael Ahren

Talking with Mom a year after her death

Embarking on a journey to explore her mother’s Christian spirituality and her own Jewish secularism

Donniel Hartman

Israel has spoken and it’s time to speak back

The success of toxic electioneering signifies the advent of a battle over the very soul of the Jewish State

Michael Dickson

Feeling weary about Israel?

An insight from the late Yehuda Avner: The Jewish State was achieved only by jumping into the unknown

US Democrats’ vanishing act on Israel

Those who voted for Obama and care about Israel may have an uncomfortable choice to make

Benjamin Netanyahu in an Election Day message, March 17, 2015, warning that Arab voters were coming out in droves. (screen capture: YouTube)

Netanyahu’s ‘Arab droves’ warning may have been decisive in his victory

TV pollster says surveys showed Likud trailing by 3-4 seats at noon on election day; then PM issued controversial Facebook post

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a session of the Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament) in Berlin on November 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/CLEMENS BILAN)

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German parliament to vote on Palestine recognition

By Raphael Ahren

Far-left opposition party brings proposal; resolution expected to fail, in what Jerusalem could interpret as a victory

Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Joint (Arab) List leader says he understands pain of Holocaust

In TV interview, Ayman Odeh also recalls incidents of being questioned by Shin Bet in his youth; Abbas hosts incoming Arab MKs in Ramallah

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, left, and Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, arrive for a cornerstone-laying ceremony for Hamad, a new residential neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 23, 2012. AP/Mohammed Salem.

Analysis

Qatar trying to broker long-term Israel-Hamas ceasefire

By Avi Issacharoff

Senior envoy has spoken to officials in Gaza and Ramallah about a five-year proposal that would do away with the blockade

Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett celebrates with supporters, March 17, 2015. (Times of Israel/Avi Lewis)

PM said to promise Finance Ministry to Kahlon

By Lazar Berman

Netanyahu meets Liberman, Kulanu leader, but not ultra-Orthodox; Jewish Home demands defense, education, religious affairs portfolios

Eyal Baum, an Israeli man who was killed in the Germanwings plane crash in France, Tuesday, March 25, 2015 (photo credit: @ILNewsFlash)

Family of Israeli plane crash victim grieves, awaits news

By Stuart Winer

Sister of Eyal Baum, confirmed to have been on board Germanwings flight, says media is the only source of information

Menny Naftali, the former caretaker at the Prime Minister's Residence, at the Jerusalem District Labor Court, March 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu drank 3 bottles of bubbly a day, says ex-caretaker

By Stuart Winer

Menny Naftali, who took care of PM’s official residence, alleges the premier’s wife has a ‘crazy’ alcohol habit

Kashrut supervisor Rabbi Shmuel Liberman at the Tiferet Hamatzot factory in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In Ukraine, unique matzah factory puts food on Jewish tables

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative photo of electric grid wiring (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)

A million hacks a day, but Israel’s electric grid survives

By David Shamah

A new educational partnership with Lockheed-Martin aims to train kids in the cyber-security Israel needs

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian arrive in Israel for a short visit, March 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

Pop pilgrimsKimye headed to the Holy Land

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ben & Jerry's haroset-flavored ice cream (Courtesy Ben & Jerry's)

Matzah and Cream?10 Passover ice cream ideas

By Julie Wiener

Indian crested porcupine (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Felagund CC BY-SA 3.0)

Poking aroundPorcupine turns up 1,400-year-old lamp

By Lazar Berman

US Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. (Photo credit: Wikimedia)

US lawmaker sorry for ‘irrelevant’ reference to rival being Orthodox

By JTA

Barack Obama, left, speaking with Benjamin Netanyahu outside the White House on May 20, 2011. (Pete Souza/White House)

Hebrew media reviewFalling planes and plummeting ties

By Joshua Davidovich

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