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Obama visits Israel

Peppy music video wins Hebrew U. students tickets to Obama's speech

WATCH: Shir Ariely and Talia Schein cover Carly Rae Jepsen's hit song "Call Me Maybe," earning tickets to Obama's much-hyped speech Thursday.

By Andrew Esensten | Mar 21, 2013 | 01:13 PM

Carly Rae Jepsen on stage.

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

LIVE BLOG: Obama visits Israel, day two

On the second day of his visit to the Middle East, President Barack Obama traveled to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, after a morning viewing the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum; later in the day, the U.S. president will address students at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.

By Haaretz | Mar 21, 2013 | 12:30 PM | 16

U.S. President Barack Obama participates in the planting of a magnolia tree from the White House

Notes from an Obama-fest reject

Not everyone in Israel were pleased to hear about U.S. President Barack Obama's visit in Israel.

By Roy (Chicky) Arad | Mar 21, 2013 | 11:21 AM

Abbas and Obama

Abbas to tell Obama: Palestinians won’t go to The Hague if Israel refrains from construction in E-1

Abbas expected to assert: 'No one can gain more than the Palestinians from a resumption of negotiations and no one can lose more in their absence.'

By Barak Ravid | Mar 21, 2013 | 11:09 AM | 2

Obama and Netanyahu meet the press

Watching the POTUS on Israeli TV: Each sound bite more cringe-worthy than the last

The forced small talk, the broken English, the funny provincialism - watching the television coverage of the president's visit was pretty embarrassing.

By Assaf Friedman | Mar 21, 2013 | 06:14 AM | 6

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Obama's wake-up speech to Israelis: Don't let your freedom drown in the swamp of occupation

President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem will be clear: Israelis, don’t let your Jewish Athens become a Sparta of eternal war.

By Ari Shavit | Mar 21, 2013 | 05:27 AM | 3

Obama shakes hands with Netanyahu

Obama reassures Israel, while taking a step back from the Middle East

The region is still important to the United States, but less so than it was a decade or two ago; meanwhile, Israel's dependence on the U.S. continues to grow.

By Aluf Benn | Mar 21, 2013 | 05:06 AM | 8

Palestinians protest outside Jerusalem

In Obama’s itinerary, Thursday is 'Palestine Day'

Reports of the evaporation of the 'peace process' were grossly exaggerated, it seems, as Obama’s trip to Ramallah and his speech in Jerusalem may prove.

By Chemi Shalev | Mar 21, 2013 | 03:21 AM | 13

U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their joint news conference

Obama: U.S. will work closely with Israel to prevent nuclear Iran

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold joint press conference in Jerusalem; Netanyahu: Israel committed to two-state solution; Obama says U.S. prefers diplomacy with Iran, but 'all options on the table'; Netanyahu says Israel has right to defend itself.

By Barak Ravid, The Associated Press, Reuters | Mar 20, 2013 | 11:52 PM | 13

Sheet music

Facing the (Passover) music at Yad Vashem

WATCH: Obama to receive musical notes to original Passover melody composed by former chief cantor of Amsterdam, who was killed in Holocaust.

By Judy Maltz | Mar 20, 2013 | 11:07 PM

U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their joint news conference

Full transcript of Obama-Netanyahu joint press conference

U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the PM's Jerusalem residence, give press conference.

By Haaretz | Mar 20, 2013 | 11:00 PM | 3

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during an official welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion

Obama, in key speech, to target Israelis who could make or break a future peace

If there is any reason to believe that Obama charm or electrify his student audience into seeing advantages to renewed peace moves, it will be the fact that many of them have had it up to here with the ideologies that have kept this country polarized for the whole of its brief history.

By Bradley Burston | Mar 20, 2013 | 10:03 PM | 9

U.S. President Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a news conference in Jerusalem, March 2

LIVE BLOG: Barack Obama visits Israel: Day one

U.S. President lands in Israel for the first time since elected in 2008; Palestinians erect camp in E-1 in the West Bank to protest Obama's arrival; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says need for U.S.-Israel alliance 'greater than ever'; Obama is now in Jerusalem.

By Haaretz | Mar 20, 2013 | 09:41 PM | 150

U.S. President Barack Obama poses with Israeli defense personnel as he views an Iron Dome battery

Thawing tension between Obama and Netanyahu is a welcome relief for Israelis

At Ben Gurion International Airport the two leaders show some warmth; Obama throws in a few Hebrew phrases but none on a Palestinian state.

By Barak Ravid | Mar 20, 2013 | 08:28 PM

Obama Peres children

Obama's all-out, guns blazing, no-holds-barred charm offensive on Israel's unsuspecting public

Obama’s speech was so pro-Israeli that even AIPAC maidens blushed. The president didn’t miss a trick, used every PR shtick in the book and invented some ploys of his own.

By Chemi Shalev | Mar 20, 2013 | 08:05 PM | 14

U.S. President Barack Obama, center, and President Shimon Peres are welcomed by Israeli children

Please pressure us, Obama

Maybe it's just a fantasy that Israel will be subject to U.S. pressure and end the occupation, but the alternative is a nightmare.

By Gideon Levy | Mar 20, 2013 | 07:15 PM | 5

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Opinions on Obama's visit

U.S. President Barack Obama walks down the stairs from Air Force One.

Resurrecting Obama's reputation in the Middle East

By Martin Indyk | 01:24 PM | 47

U.S. Senator Kerry looks on as President Obama announces his nomination as Secretary of State.

North Africa, the Obama administration's policy orphan?

By Mohammed Abdouh Kabir, Abdelilah Bouasria | 02:26 PM | 2

U.S. President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn to the Oval Office of the White House

Obama' visit: Embrace the victory of politics over substance

By Daniel Levy | 08:32 AM | 7

Israeli election 2013 - the aftermath

The new education minister, Rabbi Shai Piron. Michal Fattal

Israel's new Education Minister accused of past ethnic discrimination

By Lior Dattel | 04:40 PM | 3

Israel's new government ministers

LIVE BLOG: Introducing Israel's 33rd government coalition

By Jonathan Lis, Barak Ravid | 10:33 PM | 27

Netanyahu in Knesset

What to expect from Israel's new government: news and analysis by Haaretz writers

By Haaretz.com Staff | 05:55 PM

Diplomacy & Defense

Gaza rocket explodes in Sderot.

Gaza rockets slam southern Israel during Obama visit

By Amos Harel, Barak Ravid | 09:50 AM | 38

Protesters at the tent camp erected in E-1 area.

As Obama arrives, Palestinians erect protest camp in E-1 area

By Jack Khoury | 05:55 PM | 20

The Gatekeepers

In a flurry of telegrams, Israeli diplomats respond to 'The Gatekeepers'

By Barak Ravid | 12:26 PM | 15

Middle East

Golan Heights - AP

Syria rebels overrun towns near border with Israel, monitoring group says

By Reuters | 12:44 PM

Medics and other masked people attend to a man at a hospital in Khan al-Assal, Aleppo, Syria.

U.S. ambassador to Syria: No evidence to back reports chemical weapons used

By Eli Ashkenazi, Reuters, The Associated Press | 05:42 PM | 9

IDF soldiers walk in front of wind turbines near Alonei Habashan close to the Israeli-Syrian border.

IDF treats four wounded Syrians found near border with Israel

By Jack Khoury, Eli Ashkenazi | 12:02 PM | 9

National

Ramat Gan mayor Zvi Bar.

Justice Danziger recuses himself in Ramat Gan mayor bribery case

By Revital Hovel | 11:26 AM

Operating room in Ichilov Hospital

Israeli woman dies during routine hernia operation, Health Ministry investigating

By Dan Even | 06:23 AM

A trash separation site ahead of recycling.

Israel pushes settlers and Palestinians to cooperate on recycling

By Zafrir Rinat | 02:30 AM | 3

The Iran Debate

Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran

Poll: 64% of Americans would support U.S. strike to prevent Iran's nuclear program

By Chemi Shalev | 06:28 PM | 21

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi in Tehran, Iran.

Iran will promise UN not to seek nuclear bomb, semi-official agency reports

By The Associated Press | 05:53 PM | 21

Obama

Obama to U.S. Jews: Still room for Iran diplomacy, no point in 'chest beating'

By Chemi Shalev, Barak Ravid | 11:37 PM | 44

World

Omar al-Bashir speaking in Sudan

Sudan's president says he will quit in 2015, after over 20 years in power

By The Associated Press | 04:20 AM

Pope Francis urges 'a poor church and a church for the poor'

By The Associated Press | 02:15 AM | 2

Holocaust survivor searches for long-lost twin on Facebook

By Ofer Aderet | 02:40 AM

Features

eternity

Word of the Day / Lanetzah

By Shoshana Kordova | 10:23 AM

Rabbis Orthodox Jews

This day in Jewish history / The rebbe who met with Freud

By David B. Green | 09:35 AM

Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, center.

David's Harp / Yair Lapid: New politics, or just born yesterday?

By David Rosenberg | 08:54 PM

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