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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 20, 2021

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Illustrative: A woman holds a dead sea turtle covered in tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea at the Gador nature reserve near Hadera, northern Israel, February 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

'Israel's worst environmental disaster in a decade'

Huge tar spill along coast; several taken ill as thousands try to clean beaches

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Dozens of tons of tar said spilled at sea; Nature and Parks Authority urges public without protective gear to stay away; 100 miles of coast affected; widespread death of wildlife

Danny Morick, marine veterinarian, and Aviad Scheinin take samples from a 17-meter dead fin whale washed up on a beach in Nitzanim Reserve, Feb. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Tar spill that may have killed whale is a major hazard — environment minister

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Workers unload a shipment of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

In exchange for captive, Israel said to buy $1m of Russian COVID doses for Syria

A Palestinian health workers stores the first arriving shipment of doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in a preservation refrigerator in Gaza City on February 17, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Russia registers third COVID-19 vaccine

By AFP

The Israeli woman who crossed into Syria and was returned in a deal brokered by Russia, in a photo shown by Channel 12 on February 20, 2021. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Woman brought back from Syria undergoing Shin Bet debriefing

People wearing face masks take cover from the rain as they shop for groceries at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel reopens stores, malls, gyms Sunday in major easing of COVID restrictions

‘Green Pass’ will allow vaccinated and recovered access to sport and culture events; health minister said to warn he will shut economy down again if Israelis flout new system

An illustration by Nasus Pharma, makers of the Taffix spray, showing the novel coronavirus entering the nasal cavity. (Screenshot)

Study: Israeli-made anti-COVID nasal spray reduced infection at mass gathering

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 are seen inside a freezer in Cali, Colombia, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic on February 19, 2021. (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

Over 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo, a technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Inspectors found suspicious uranium particles at Iranian nuclear sites — report

IAEA visited the 2 locations last summer after Iran tried for months to block it, Reuters reports; finding could complicate US return to negotiations with Tehran

US President Joe Biden speaks virtually to the Munich Security Conference in Germany, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

In major speech, Biden indicates US ready to reengage with Iran on nuke deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, center left, speaks with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, before a meeting in Tehran, Iran, August 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran to host UN nuclear watchdog chief ahead of sanctions deadline

By AFP and ToI Staff

Take the mask off!

For Purim this year, I’d like to dress up as myself in the ’before:’ before masks and distancing and limited Jewish community events. Before COVID-19.

The strangest thing ever about the Israeli government

Never mind the new election – if no new coalition is formed, Gantz will replace Netanyahu as premier on November 17, 2021

A photo composite showing Omer Barlev, left, and Yair Golan. (Flash90)

Arguing in favor of Iran deal, 2 ex-officers refuse to fall in behind Netanyahu

By Tal Schneider

Breaking ranks with most MKs, Omer Barlev and Yair Golan, two of the top security experts in politics, say the JCPOA was good for Israel, even if everyone else refuses to say so

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to a Covid-19 vaccination center in Sderot, southern Israel, January 27, 2021. (Liron Moldovan/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu: US return to ‘old deal’ will pave Iran’s path to nuclear arsenal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, southern Israel, in 2016. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel reportedly expands Dimona nuclear complex

In Amsterdam's Jodenbuurt, Jewish men are rounded up and arrested by German soldiers in February 1941. (Public domain)

Holocaust history

3-day Dutch strike against Nazis finds new resonance through Black Lives Matter

By Matt Lebovic

Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959 (US Department of Justice)

US deports 95-year-old ex-Nazi concentration camp guard to Germany

Friedrich Karl Berger, who was living in Tennessee, served as an armed guard at Neuengamme Concentration Camp in 1945; Germany unlikely to try him, citing insufficient evidence

President of the Laws Commision at the French National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet holds a paper flower offered by a man at the 'Centre de Retention Administrative' (CRA), a migrant detention center in Vincennes, eastern Paris, on September 18, 2019. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Hate mail to French-Jewish lawmaker tells her to ‘prepare for the camps’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

90-year-old Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre attends a debate at the Senate prior to a confidence vote, Rome, January 19, 2021. (Yara Nardi/pool photo via AP, file)

Italian Holocaust survivor’s plug for vaccine sparks online anti-Semitic abuse

By AP

A medic administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to a fellow medic during a campaign to vaccinate front-line medical workers, at the health ministry, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Feb. 3, 2021. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

PA says Jerusalem to vaccinate 100k Palestinian workers; Israel: No decision yet

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Clashing claims come after Israeli officials travel covertly to Ramallah, meet Palestinian counterparts to discuss cooperation on pandemic

Ismail Haniyeh gestures to supporters during a visit to the Ein el-Hilweh camp, Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, near the southern coastal city of Sidon on September 6, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Hamas begins secret leadership election as Mashaal said eyeing comeback

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: Israeli supporters of the two Jewish suspected in the arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, demonstrate outside of a Lod court, on June 19, 2018. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Poll shows large swaths of Israeli youth hate Arabs, back revoking citizenship

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits the Israel-Lebanon border on November 17, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Gantz: If I lose my Knesset seat, Netanyahu will turn Israel into a monarchy

Blue and White leader warns PM will immediately fire the AG and all his party’s ministers if it fails to make it back into parliament next month

At the site of the Ziklag dig with Saar Ganor. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Tour ‘King David’s onetime home,’ the 10th century BCE biblical city of Ziklag

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Winning silver in Tel Aviv, Iranian judoka ‘will never forget Israeli kindness’

After fleeing his country, Saeid Mollaei, who now competes for Mongolia, makes historic achievement for an Iranian in Israel; Israeli Tohar Butbul wins bronze

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 28. 2020. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Analysis

Barbara Ortutay and TALI ARBEL

Facebook makes a power play in Australia – and may regret it

Governments increasingly worried by global control of Zuckerberg’s social media platform, and his willingness to use it; its move to block news in Australia may spark regulation

An Australian Broadcasting Corporation page on Facebook is displayed without posts in Sydney, Feb. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Australia and Facebook hold high-stakes talks over social media giant’s news ban

By AFP

Mark Robinson (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Outrage in North Carolina over lieutenant governor’s past remarks about Jews

Republican lawmaker Mark Robinson says he will not apologize for comments disparaging Jewish people made before he was elected

Gabe Plotkin testifies to the House's financial services committee online, Feb. 19, 2021. (US House Committee of Financial Services)

Hedge funder who tried to short GameStop says he received anti-Semitic messages

By Gabe Friedman

Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

FBI arrests Capitol rioter who said Jews and Israel control other governments

The lost Torah scroll of Dordrecht, the Netherlands, was kept in good condition by a family. (Courtesy/NIG via JTA)

Torah returned to Dutch Jewish community 80 years after it was hidden from Nazis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Family in city of Dordrecht kept scroll for years without knowing its origin; local historian heard of it by chance and informed Jewish organization

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Judge Howie Mandel attends the 'America's Got Talent' pre-show red-carpet arrivals at Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, in New York. (photo credit: AP/Evan Agostini/Invision)

Festive hopeHowie Mandel, Bob Saget, other celebrities to read Purim story for charity

By Gabe Friedman

This Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover lowered towards the surface of Mars during its powered descent. (NASA via AP)

NASA’s Perseverance rover beams back spectacular new images from Mars descent

This undated image taken from video in an unknown location shows Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum speaking into a mobile phone camera. (#FreeLatifa campaign – Tiina Jauhiainen/David Haigh via AP)

Dubai’s royal family insists princess ‘at home’ after UN demands proof of life

By Robin MILLARD

Illustrative: A man wears a kippah at a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Attacker who beat up Jewish man in front of German synagogue will not go to jail

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Far-right politician Volen Siderov lifts his arm at a political rally in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 11, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier, European tribunal rules

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Violent protesters, loyal to US President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP/ John Minchillo)

US authorities charge 6 more people linked to Oath Keepers over Capitol attack

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

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