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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 16, 2021

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People receive a COVID-19 vaccine, at a sports hall turned into a vaccination center in Hod haSharon, February 2, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Poll: Some 25% of Israelis who haven’t vaccinated have no intention of doing so

Allowed more than one answer on why they haven’t gotten the shot, 41% fear side effects, 30% not sure it’s effective, 27% will vaccinate soon, 10% cite info on social media

7:36 pm

Biden will not host foreign leaders for 'couple' of months, White House says
7:11 pm

Poll: Some 25% of Israelis who haven't vaccinated have no intention of doing so
7:09 pm

Trump sued for Capitol attack under 'Ku Klux Klan Act'

Interview

Haviv Rettig Gur

Soon-to-be first Reform rabbi in Knesset envisions ‘new deal’ with Haredim

Gilad Kariv, who rose through Labor’s ranks while flying his movement’s flag, calls for carrot/stick approach to ultra-Orthodox and thinks his party will again lead the center-left

Rabbi Gilad Kariv takes part in prayers on Israel's independence day at Beit Daniel in Tel Aviv in 2018. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)

Illustrative: View of the Palestinian village Burin, near the Jewish settlement of Har Bracha (Flash90)

Masorti Movement warns JNF move to buy West Bank land may endanger entire fund

People enjoy a park in Ashdod on February 14, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israel media review

The pass is always greener: What the press is saying about needling the shot-shy

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel is hard at work trying to vaccinate the last hardy holdouts against the coronavirus, amid worries that sanctions won’t be legal and incentives won’t work

An employee at a digital task force to counter "fake news" on the Internet works on a computer with a banner that reads in part: "wake up, the vaccination," in the Health Ministry office near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

How Israel plans to operate a COVID ‘green pass,’ and prevent forgeries

An Israeli student receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a Leumit vaccination center in Tel Aviv, on January 23, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Poll: Majority of Israeli parents unsure or will refuse to vaccinate kids

A ward at the Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod for people infected with the coronavirus, March 16, 2020 (Flash90)

Hospital says ‘high probability’ fetus died of virus, in 1st such case in Israel

Fetus infected via mother’s placenta; 25-week-pregnant woman had symptoms, went to hospital after realizing there was no fetal movement

Patients diagnosed positive for COVID-19 who are hospitalized at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital coronavirus ward receive a visit from family members (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

New in Israel: Antibody doses for high-risk COVID cases straight after diagnosis

By Nathan Jeffay

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on February 9, 2021. (Evaristo Sa/AFP)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro seeks emergency use of Israeli anti-COVID nasal spray

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel’s last chance to fix its ultra-Orthodox problem

The country’s great Faustian bargain with Haredi citizens has been a colossal failure. The upcoming election may be the last chance to fix it.

Noah E Abramowitz

Stop saying ’she wears pants.’ Just…stop.

It is absurd to talk about a woman’s wardrobe as if this was a modest conversation – as if we men are slaves to our evil inclination

Data is not destiny

Assimilation numbers alone can not determine our course toward building lives of meaning, purpose and community for the next generation of Jews

Todd L. Pittinsky

Hitler this, Hitler that.

Holocaust analogies for political ’others’ are useless tools of persuasion. It’s time to stop using them and all just call each other wrong

In this March 21, 2006 file photo, comic book creator Stan Lee stands beside some of his drawings in the Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Interview

Stan Lee was not as marvelous as he and Marvel wanted us to think

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Clockwise from left: Social activist and Black History Month panelist Ginna Green; Times of Israel blogger and Black History Month panelist Ed Gaskin; and Rabbi Shais Rishon, also known as MaNishtana. (All photos courtesy)

Behind the headlines

Join the ToI Community to explore Black/Jewish trust and solidarity

In this week’s Behind the Headlines, for ToI Community members, a lively panel conversation with three unique voices on connections between the two US communities

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, talk before a dinner at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)

PM on US ties: Whoever endangers us, on Iran nukes for example, I oppose that

Netanyahu says he’s not troubled by lack of phone call from Biden, touts ‘wonderful ties’ with Democrats; calls graft trial ‘absurd,’ acknowledges speaking with key witness

File: IAEA inspectors at Iran's nuclear power plant in Natanz on January 20, 2014. (IRNA/AFP/Kazem Ghane)

Iran threatens to end some nuclear inspections next week

US President Joe Biden (left) and Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (Collage, AP)

ExplainerBiden faces imminent decision time on future of Iran nuclear deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israelis walk in Jerusalem on February 15, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel to open stores, gyms and culture Sunday in major move toward normalcy

Many activities will only be available to those vaccinated or with negative virus tests; an app and certificates with barcode planned to make sure only the authorized gain access

Israelis exercise on the Tel Aviv beach boardwalk, during a nationwide COVID lockdown, February 3, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel’s gradual reopening, from February 21: What you need to know

Israelis play tennis on an empty road during lockdown, following the government's measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel, April 9, 2020. (AP/ Oded Balilty)

Easing lockdown now is a ‘big mistake,’ one hospital chief warns

By Nathan Jeffay

Left photo: Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the Likud party's election rally in Ramat Gan on February 29, 2020; Right photo: Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, holds a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu says Ben Gvir will be in coalition, but ‘not fit’ to be a minister

Leader of extreme-right Otzma Yehudit party says he won’t be a ‘scarecrow’ in Knesset, wants position of influence to push his plan to encourage Arab emigration

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 14, 2021, in front of a mask-clad bust of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

Poll signals slight drop in support for Netanyahu’s Likud, continued deadlock

Director Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin discusses her work at a film screening in Jerusalem (courtesy)

Attorney general: Labor candidate can’t be banned for ignoring Memorial Day

By Raoul Wootliff

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 16 — Could PA elect a president Marwan Barghouti?

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

Illustrative: Passengers wait for their passports to be processed so they can cross the Rafah border to the Egyptian side, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, November 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas court rules women need guardian’s approval to travel

A demonstrator poses with a Palestinian flag outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, during a rally urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes, in The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

In fact sheet, ICC rejects Israeli claim war crimes probe politically motivated

A photo said to depict illegal missile development for an unnamed Asian country, released February 11, 2020. (Shin Bet)

Suspect in arms sale to Asian country was previously entangled in similar case

By Tal Schneider

Both attempts — which involved munitions that loiter near, search for and then attack their target — expose holes in Israel’s defense export oversight mechanism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Channel 12 News, February 15, 2021. (Screen capture/ Channel 12)

Netanyahu: If final 570,000 over 50 get vaccinated, we’ll be done with COVID

PM also says he’s in talks with Pfizer and Moderna to purchase tens of millions more vaccine doses for the years ahead, and for Pfixer to open R&D facility in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Gantz refuses to meet with Netanyahu on ‘vote-buying’ economic aid package

A man receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during an event to encourage the vaccination of young Israelis at a vaccination center in Holon, Feb. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

With vaccination rates rising again, Israel set to pass 4 million first doses

Church bells toll at Nieuwlande, the Netherlands on January 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

Analysis

This Dutch village is finally ready to tell its unique Holocaust rescue story

One of just two towns honored by Yad Vashem, Nieuwlande was populated by pious residents who were averse to praise for their collective heroism

Neo-Nazis giving the Hitler salute at an event near a cemetery in Madrid, Spain on Feb. 13, 2021 (Lamarea.com via JTA)

Calls for probe into Spanish neo-Nazi event featuring ‘the Jew is guilty’ speech

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The website of the social media platform Parler is displayed in Berlin, January 10, 2021. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

Right-wing social media haven Parler announces relaunch

Ministers sign off on pricey purchase of F-35s, refuelers and bombs

By Judah Ari Gross

But approval for new transport helicopters to replace aging fleet and additional fighter jets put off until later

In this photo released February 16, 2021, by the Iranian army, a Russian warship enters Iranian waters for a joint naval exercise with the Iranian navy and Iran's Revolutionary Guard navy. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran and Russia begin joint naval drill in Indian Ocean

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Passengers queue to get on buses in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Nov. 6, 2020. (AP/Mulugeta Ayene)

Ethiopia foils Iranian plot to target UAE embassy in Addis Ababa — report

More Headlines

The Western Wall, right, and the gilded Dome of the Rock, among the holiest sites for Jews and Muslims, are covered in snow, Dec. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Jerusalem, northern towns gird for rare snowstorm

Aslan Karatsev celebrates after defeating Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov in their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 16, 2021.(AP Photo/Hamish Blair)

Russian-Israeli reaches Australian Open semifinals in fairytale Grand Slam debut

By AFP and ToI Staff

Moshe Ponte, the chair of the Israel Judo Association meets Iranian dissident Saeid Mollaei at Ben Gurion Airport on February 14, 2021 (Screenshot: Channel 12)

Israelis grapple with massive judo tourney, held with skies still mostly closed

By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer

Masked settlers smash windows and puncture tires of Palestinian vehicles near Shilo on Febaury 16, 2021 (Screenshot: Twitter/Kan)

Palestinian cars vandalized in broad daylight in suspected attack by settlers

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, January 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Dr. Anthony Fauci wins Israel’s prestigious $1m. Dan David Prize for 2021

By Laurie Kellman

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by as masked Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian protesters (unseen) gathering during a demonstration against construction on an Israeli outpost near the Palestinian village of Turmusaya and the settlement of Shilo, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 17, 2019. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/ AFP/ File)

Israelis arrested for alleged terror against Palestinians, security forces

Gideon Sa'ar, head of the New Hope political party, seen during an election campaign tour in Ra'anana, February 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Sa’ar reviews ties with Lincoln Project amid sexual harassment scandal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Men walk past a Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Leopard tank with a "sold" sign on it at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference, known by the acronym IDEX, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 22, 2017 (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Israel won’t participate in UAE arms fair, grounded by COVID travel restrictions

By AP

An illustration of the 3D printed whole muscle cut of beef by Redefine Meat (Courtesy)

Redefine Meat raises $29 million for launch of 3D-printed meat-substitute meals

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israelis sit in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on February 15, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Gantz accuses Netanyahu of ‘vote-buying’ as ministers discuss lockdown exit

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Ambassador Gideon Meir (photo credit: Foreign Ministry)

Veteran diplomat Gideon Meir dies at 74

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Hacker using laptop on abstract binary code map background. (Peshkov/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Palo Alto Networks confirms acquisition of cybersecurity firm Bridgecrew

By Shoshanna Solomon

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