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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 18, 2021

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In this August 20, 2010, photo, an Iranian security guard walks past a gate of the Bushehr nuclear power plant as its reactor building is seen in background, just outside the city of Bushehr 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Live updates (closed)

European powers, US warn Iran against ending international inspections

Top diplomats urge Tehran to comply with 2015 nuclear deal, condemn uranium enrichment and uranium metal production

7:25 pm

Israeli woman who crossed into Syria made several attempts before -- reports
7:24 pm

European powers, US warn Iran against ending UN nuclear inspections
7:11 pm

NATO to increase Iraq personnel from 500 to 4,000

FILE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to US President Joe Biden on February 17, 2021. (Prime Minister's Office)

After 4 week wait, Biden calls Netanyahu, promises stronger US-Israel alliance

White House: Biden vowed to boost defense ties, stressed need for peace with Palestinians, region; PMO: They discussed building on normalization deals, Iran nuclear threat, COVID

FILE - This Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, shows a part of Arak heavy water nuclear facilities, near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran (Mehdi Marizad/Fars News Agency via AP, File)

European powers, US to meet as Iranian nuclear deadline looms

By Stuart Williams

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech marking the Eid al-Adha holiday, in Tehran, Iran, July 31, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader demands ‘action’ from US as condition for nuke deal

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein during the announcement of the "Green Pass" certification on February 18, 2021 (Health Ministry)

Government launches Green Pass for vaccinated, warns fraudsters will be jailed

Top official promises ‘uncompromising punishment’ for forgeries; businesses and events will be able to open Sunday for those carrying the pass

Sign reads 'The False Passport' as Israelis protest against the COVID-19 vaccine outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands reportedly attempt to obtain easily forged vaccinated certificate

Illustrative: A Sheba staff member receives the second shot of a COVID-19 vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, on January 10, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Report: Dozens of medical staff who refused vaccine catch COVID-19

A kitesurfer at the extreme Storm Riders competition in Haifa, Wednesday, February 17, 2021. (Photo by Uri Magnus/ www.urimagnus.com)

Analysis

Israeli surfers fight for survival in stormy extreme water-sports competition

Israel’s most daring wind and kitesurfers battle 7-meter waves and winds gusting over 80 kph during Storm Rider competition in Haifa

COVID-19 vaccines in Safed on February 14, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)

No side effects seen in dozens of Israeli kids vaccinated due to risk factors

Health Ministry allows inoculation of youngsters with specific conditions as well as child of a severely immunocompromised parent, despite lack of firm clinical data

An Israeli student receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, on January 23, 2021. Currently, vaccines are mostly limited to over-16s, but this is expected to change soon. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Vaccine effectiveness hits 95%, HMO says — same level Pfizer achieved in trials

By Nathan Jeffay

A researcher places drops of coronavirus suspension on sterile surfaces prior to ozone exposure. (Tel Aviv University)

Israeli study: Earth-protecting ozone gas effective at killing coronavirus

By Stuart Winer

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 18 — Fault lines of Israeli coronavirus management

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

In this March 27, 2020 file photo, William Samuels delivers caskets to the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home during the coronavirus pandemic in the Queens borough of New York (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

In this Jan. 21, 2021, photo, 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 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Fauci: Israel ‘way up there’ in vaccination, seeing ‘remarkable’ drop in cases

Ashira Konigsburg

A viable future for Conservative Judaism

Our synagogues and other institutions must embrace transformation in order to survive, and we must start by engaging Jews wherever they are

Donniel Hartman

He finally called

Why did President Biden wait so long before picking up the phone? Doesn’t he love us? Doesn’t he know how important we are to America, to the world?

PHOTO ESSAY: A walk through snow-covered Jerusalem

A magical, late-night walk through snow, from the Old City to Katamon, from border police taking selfies to a guy on a bicycle

Meet the Yemeni-Jewish musician singing soulful Jewish R&B

Canadian singer-songwriter Erez Zobary shatters assumptions about Jewish music and hopes day schools will start teaching non-Ashkenazi history

Professor Wendy Lower and Andrej Umansky conduct a 'Yahad-In Unum' field investigation in Ukraine, 2016 (courtesy)

‘The Ravine’ unpacks rare WWII photo to illuminate massacre of Miropol Jews

By Matt Lebovic

An IDF vehicle drives along the road parallel to the border fence separating the Israeli and Syrian regions of the Golan Heights, July 19, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Israeli jet departs for Moscow to bring back Israeli woman who crossed to Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Government prisoner coordinator Yaron Bloom said on board aircraft, set to bring woman back tonight; earlier, 2 Syrian shepherds freed as prisoner swap made ‘significant’ progress

Nihal Al-Maqt, a Syrian woman held by Israel, as shown in Syrian media on February 17, 2021 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Prisoner swap said snagged: 2 Golan residents refuse to leave Israel for Syria

A UN force drive past Hezbollah flag and a concrete barrier in southern Lebanon on the border with Israel, Aug. 26, 2020 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Gantz: Hezbollah will be ‘fatally wounded’ if Israel drawn into a war in Lebanon

Radio personality Rush Limbaugh takes the stage to introduce US President Donald Trump at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Flaorida, December 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Netanyahu mourns radio host Limbaugh as ‘a great friend of Israel’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Premier sends ‘heartfelt condolences’ to the family of the late conservative personality

ObituaryRush Limbaugh, the conservative firebrand who sharply divided American Jews

US President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 16, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden: White supremacists are ‘the most dangerous people’ in America

View of the snow covered Dome ot the Rock in Jerusalem's Old CIty, as seen from the Mount of Olives, on February 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Photo essay

Snow-covered Jerusalem, north battle day of disruptions on roads and in schools

Some areas of capital see six inches of snow; schools shut in some parts of north, West Bank, with delayed start in Jerusalem; man dies of hypothermia in Kiryat Gat

In this Oct. 28, 1997 photo, Argentina's President Carlos Menem talks to reporters in Buenos Aires. ( AP Photo/Daniel Muzio, File)

Op-ed

The president who crossed Iran: Why Carlos Menem, dead at 90, isn’t old news

Decades ago, Argentina’s president found himself mired in a deadly sequence of interactions with Iran, as the regime pressed relentlessly for the bomb; if only that were history

1,800-year-old sarcophagi rediscovered during construction at Ramat Gan Safari

2 coffins from Roman period found during building work for new wildlife hospital, after they were initially dug up around 25 years ago when parking lot was built

The mummified remains of Egyptian pharaoh Seqenenre Tao II (Courtesy)

3,600 years later, Egypt’s autopsy indicates a pharaoh was ceremonially executed

By AFP

A Palestinian walks past a section of Israel's security barrier covered with campaign posters for the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary election in the West Bank village of A-Ram, in the outskirts of Jerusalem, January 23, 2006. (AP/ Oded Balilty)

As Palestinians plan vote, Jerusalem looms as possible obstacle — or pretext

By Aaron Boxerman

Israel demands ballots only in West Bank and Gaza, but hoped-for capital is a red line for the PA, which could use the issue as an excuse to halt the first PA election in 15 years

Members of Gaza's Central Elections Commission's field team register a local woman to the electoral roll, at the main road of Gaza City, February 10, 2021 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

93% of Palestinians register to vote in election, amid claims of voter tampering

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: Iraqis shop for Eid al-Fitr at the Shorjah market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq shopkeepers start day with generous Mideast tradition of ‘istiftah’

By Qassim Khidir

In this Monday, March 12, 2018 file photo, Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi speaks to delegates at a three-day forum in a resort hotel near Johannesburg, South Africa. Katumbi returned to Congo on Monday May 20, 2019, one of a number of political exiles coming home after a new president took office this year. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe,)

Son of Greek Jewish Holocaust refugee now one of most powerful leaders in Congo

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Moise Katumbi has presidential aspirations, is seen as a reformer in troubled country; while he doesn’t identify as Jewish, he has a ‘warm connection to Judaism and Israel’

A disclaimer is shown on the bottom of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology page on the Facebook app, February 18, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Fury in Australia as Facebook blocks all news outlets in row with government

By AP

PM vows country ‘won’t be intimidated by BigTech’ after social media giant retaliates for legislation that would make it pay for news content

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Illustrative: This June 9, 2014 photo shows a grilled cheese made with Bonne Maman fig preserves in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)

Spread on the internetIs Bonne Maman the anti-Nazi jam?

By Gabe Friedman and PHILISSA CRAMER

A bus in the UK, protected with the Aura Air filters (Courtesy)

As COVID turns indoors toxic, purification startup sells a breath of fresh air

By Jake Epstein

Aslan Karatsev (L) shakes hands with Novak Djokovic (R) at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 18, 2021 (Peter Haskin / Australian Jewish News)

Russian-Israeli’s Grand Slam dream run ends with semis loss to Djokovic

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Samira Zargari (via Twitter)

Husband of Iran’s ski coach bars her from leaving country for championships

By AP

A young couple share a picnic in front of a view of the Tel Aviv skyline, in the Israeli coastal city, on February 15, 2021 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

A decade after social protests, affordable housing remains a dream for many

By Alexandra Vardi

Family members and supporters attend a ceremony in memory of 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli, Solomon Tekah who was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer on in Kiryat Haim, July 10, 2019. (Flash90)

Cop who killed Ethiopian-Israeli teen ruled unfit for public service

Arnon Milchan, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu on March 28, 2005. (Flash90)

Netanyahu made ‘highly irregular’ phone calls to key witness in graft case — TV

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A mask-clad Palestinian woman and a boy wait with luggage at the Rafah border crossing's departure area to travel from the Gaza Strip into Egypt, on February 9, 2021. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Hamas to review edict requiring women to get guardian’s approval for travel

Illustration of the human microbiome. (Design Cells via iStock by Getty Images)

Ferring, Israel’s MyBiotics look to microbiome to treat vaginal infection

By Shoshanna Solomon

Fiverr employees at work in its Tel Aviv offices, August 6, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Propelled by pandemic, Fiverr reports 77% jump in 2020 revenue to $190 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

Noam Bardin (Photo credit: Courtesy Waze)

Waze CEO Noam Bardin explains why he left Google 2 weeks ago

By Shoshanna Solomon

The exterior of the Israel Museum will become an art installation for the Follow the Lights Festival, opening February 21, 2021 (Courtesy I Travel Jerusalem)

Joy rideJerusalem’s iconic locations light up for driving tour

By Jessica Steinberg

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