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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 26, 2015

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Yemenis stand at the site of a Saudi airstrike against Houthi rebels near Sanaa Airport on March 26, 2015, which killed at least 13 people. (photo credit: AFP/Mohammed Huwais)

Analysis

As US lets Yemen fall, Israeli ire pales next to Arab fury

By Avi Issacharoff

Jerusalem is worried by the Iran-backed Houthi takeover of Aden, but Saudi Arabia is burning with anger, and not at Tehran

Yemen rebels threaten revenge on ‘Zionist’ Saudis after airstrikes

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Jordan joins anti-Houthi operation in Yemen

By AP

Iran condemns Saudi strikes in Yemen as ‘dangerous step’

By AFP

Rescue workers work on debris at the plane crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, after a Germanwings jetliner crashed Tuesday in the French Alps. (photo credit: AP/Laurent Cipriani)

Prosecutor: Co-pilot seemed to want to crash German jet

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Investigator says Andreas Lubitz, who flew doomed airliner that smashed into Alps, killing 150, ‘not known’ to have ties to terrorism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin on March 25, 2015, in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu tasked to form coalition, offers ‘hand in peace’ to Palestinians

By Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

PM promises to preserve US ties, but vows to keep trying to thwart Iran deal; says real peace depends on strong, unified Israel

AnalysisParties focus on key causes, not just posts, as talks kick off

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Kahlon cancels coalition talks with Likud amid jostling for posts

By Lazar Berman and Itamar Sharon

Rivlin chides Netanyahu ahead of tasking him to build coalition

By Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds as Maria Altmann and Ryan Reynolds as her lawyer Randol Schoenberg in 'Woman in Gold.' (Courtesy: The Weinstein Company)

As ‘Woman in Gold’ premieres, meet the man who battled for the Klimt

By Jordan Hoffman

The real-life lawyer behind the gripping restitution of the ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I’ says he still gets emotional in the painting’s presence

Avi Issacharoff

Why did Bibi win? Because he speaks fluent Mizrahi

Op-Ed: If the left wants to return to power, it needs to field a Sephardi candidate with an aura of security and a knife between his teeth, who also wants peace and believes in it

Am I a sucker for moving to Israel?

Does anyone honestly believe that her daughter enlisted in the IDF to defend lawbreaking “yeshiva punks?”

Hearing is not believing

Next time a politician makes an impromptu gaffe, ask yourself some long hard questions before you yell gotcha

Deborah Dickson

Pesach days out: The Guide

Attractions, events and tips for successful outings in Israel during the holiday week

Yemeni Houthi rebels and members of the security forces loyal to the Shiite movement inspect the damage at the scene of a Saudi airstrike targeting the group, which controls Sanaa near the airport in the Yemeni capital, on March 26, 2015. (photo credit: Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Egypt said set to join Saudis in Yemen ground offensive

By Jonathan Beck

3-5 Egyptian troop carriers stationed off Yemen’s coasts; Cairo says naval and air forces already participating in coalition campaign

Gunmen from Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades, squat in a tunnel used for ferrying rockets and mortars back and forth in preparation for the next conflict with Israel, as they take part in military training in the south of the Gaza Strip on March 3, 2015. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Analysis

Hamas digs new terror tunnels up to, but not across, border

By Avi Issacharoff

Terror group reconstructing underground network with improvised materials, but is avoiding escalation, security sources say

Members of the public take pictures and shout "Thank you, Mr Lee!" as the coffin of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew leaves Istana, or Presidential Palace on a ceremonial gun carriage to lie in state at parliament, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 in Singapore (photo credit: AP/Joseph Nair)

Rivlin flies to funeral of Singapore’s first PM

Lee Kuan Yew, who governed Asian country for three decades, cultivated strong military cooperation with Israel

Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi, center, director of “Muhammad, Messenger of God” movie. conducts a scene of the movie, in Allahyar village 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. In Islam, portraying the Prophet Muhammad has long been taboo for many. In the new 190-minute film, the story focuses on Muhammad’s childhood, never showing his face. The movie instead focuses on others to tell his story. (photo credit: AP Photo/Nourtaban Film Industry, Mohammad Foghani)

Iran’s Muhammad film slammed for showing back of prophet’s head

By Nasser Karimi

Multi-million dollar, 190-minute ‘Muhammad, Messenger of God’ facing calls for ban in some countries; Khamenei is backing production for now

In footage captured by al-Mayadeen, Hamas Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades fighters are seen preparing rockets to launch against Israel in a tunnel underneath the Gaza Strip, August 2014. (screen capture, YouTube)

Amnesty says Gaza groups committed war crimes

By AP

NGO cites indiscriminate fire and use of civilians for cover during fighting; Israel was charged with crimes in previous report

A mock-up of the project shows cable cars running over the Hinnom Valley to the Old City (photo credit: Channel 10)

French firm pulls out of Jerusalem cable car project

By AFP

Suez Environnement says decision was made to ‘avoid any political interpretation’

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) on March 18, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / POOL / BRIAN SNYDER)

US, Iran sit down as nuke talks hit crunch time

By AP

Kerry presses counterpart Zarif as sides look to wrap up framework deal before Tuesday deadline

Tagel, Liron and Tair Haim from the set of their first single, 'Habib Galbi' (photo credit: Luke Brossette Photography)

The hip-hop groove of the Yemenite tune

By Jessica Steinberg

Director Angelina Jolie poses for photographers during a photo call for her film 'Unbroken' in Berlin, Germany in November 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Jolie goes under knife to head off cancer linked to ‘Jewish’ gene mutation

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Study shows women with BRCA1, BRCA2 mutations who undergo prophylactic operation see mortality rates drop 77%

Illustrative: El Greco's painting 'Portrait of a Gentleman,' returned to the heirs of its original owner after being looted by Nazis during WWII, March 2015. (Commission for Looted Art in Europe)

El Greco painting looted by Nazis returns to heirs

By Stuart Winer and AP

‘Portrait of a Gentleman’ was seized by the Gestapo after collector Julius Priester fled his home in 1938

Then-US president Barack Obama (right), accompanied by then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, September 12, 2012. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Hillary embracing Obama, quiet on Israel, ahead of likely 2016 campaign

By Julie Pace and Ken Thomas

Clinton hasn’t commented on strife between president and Netanyahu, and backed White House over criticism of Republican senators who wrote to Tehran

Ruth Porat, who will join Google as its chief financial officer, with the former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, left, and former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank at a panel discussion at the Brookings Institution in Washington, March 2, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/JTA)

New Google CFO Ruth Porat’s family a mirror of American Jewry

By Anthony Weiss

Physicist father Dan Porat, who saw Hitler enter Austria, fought in Israel’s War of Independence, but moved the family abroad in fear of their safety

Pita bread, not kosher for Passover. (Shutterstock/JTA)

Use up your flour before Passover with homemade pita

By Dahlia Abraham-Klein

More Headlines

A rendering of the Isrotel hotel and apartment complex. (photo credit: courtesy)

Jerusalem of goldCapital’s priciest apartment snagged

By Lazar Berman

Omri Casspi crashes into a young spectator, March 22, 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Slam dunkCasspi comforts crushed young fan

Saturn and its moon Titan. (photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)

Put a ring on itIsraeli scientists time Saturn’s day

By AFP

Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer presents his credentials to President Barack Obama at the White House, December 4, 2013. (photo credit: Twitter/Amb. Ron Dermer)

Zionist Union MK calls on Netanyahu to fire envoy to US

By Daniel Bernstein

Illustrative: Footage from one of Anonymous's OpIsrael cyberattack campaign videos. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Anti-Israel hackers promise ‘electronic Holocaust’

By David Shamah

Eric Fingerhut, president of Hillel (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Hillel chief agrees to meet with J Street students

By JTA

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah speaks during a press conference in Gaza City on March 25, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

PA head Hamdallah pleads for unity in rare Gaza trip

By AFP

A young TOM participant shows off his Raptor Hand (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Makers use 3D printers to create a kinder, gentler future

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as he is formally given the task to form the next government, at the president's residence in Jerusalem on March 25, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Hebrew media reviewMaking it official

By Marissa Newman

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