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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with army's air force and air defense staff in Tehran, Iran, February 7, 2021 (Official Website of the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei: If we wanted nukes, nobody, including ‘Zionist clown,’ could stop us

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran’s leader also warns it may enrich uranium to 60%, as it steps further away from nuclear deal; top US diplomat says DC willing to reenter pact if Tehran in ‘strict compliance’

This October 26, 2010, photo shows the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour)

Iran announces official start of new restrictions on UN nuclear inspections

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press regarding the Iranian nuclear program, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on September 9, 2019. (Sindel/Flash90)

Former defense officials back US return to Iran deal, urge new long-term pact

An undated photo of British newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell. (AP Photo)

Interview

From wooden shack to global media magnate: The rise and fall of Robert Maxwell

By Robert Philpot

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives a hearing in his corruption case at the Jerusalem District Court, February 8, 2021. (Reuven Kastro/Pool)

Evidence stage of Netanyahu’s trial postponed until after elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Court rejects defense request to cancel indictments; hearings to begin on April 5, less than two weeks after national vote, will be held three times a week

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-internal affairs minister Gideon Sa'ar, in the Knesset, July 9, 2013. (Flash90/ File)

Sa’ar slams Netanyahu over reported Likud outreach to PLO ahead of election

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the first batch of Pfizer vaccines to arrive in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, December 9, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Israel said to trade coronavirus vaccines for diplomatic support

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-host Michael Che on February 20, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Health minister: SNL gag that Israel only vaccinating Jews is ‘anti-Semitic lie’

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

ADL also criticizes joke made by Weekend Update co-host Michael Che that while Jewish state boasts of inoculating half its citizens, only the ‘Jewish half’ got the shot

Israeli medical teams administer the coronavirus vaccine to Palestinians at the Qalandia checkpoint on Feb. 23, 2021 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel starts vaccinating its East Jerusalem residents beyond security barrier

Former Palestinian health minister Jawad al-Tibi receives a shot of the COVID-19 Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, in Gaza City, Febuary 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas launches Gaza Strip’s coronavirus vaccination drive

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An Israeli paramedic from Magen David Adom medical services, administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at an Ikea store in Rishon Lezion, Feb. 22, 2021 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Bill to give info on unvaccinated residents to cities faces final Knesset votes

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Health union warns legislation will undermine trust in municipalities; labor union, businesses said close to deal on banning unvaccinated going in to work

United Hatzalah medics in Nahariya take a Holocaust survivor to the beach, after a trip to a vaccination center. (Courtesy of United Hatzalah)

EMT group pushes to get Holocaust survivors out of the house and vaccinated

By Nathan Jeffay

Jewish ultra-Orthodox young men search for costumes ahead the holiday of Purim in the city center of Jerusalem on February 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus transmission rate rises as ministers set to debate Purim restrictions

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From left: Richie Faulkner from Judas Priest, Scott Keller, Rob Halford from Judas Priest, Laughlin Keller at Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles, November 10, 2016. (Courtesy Rock N' Roll Fantasy Camp)

Documentary film

Cantor’s son makes rocker dreams come true at Rock N’ Roll Fantasy Camp

Michael Che’s SNL joke: Not funny, not factual, definitely hurtful

The vaccine quip was the natural outcome of a sustained campaign of the type of lies that have led to injury and death to Jews in the past

Kenneth Brander

Where is my Religious Zionist party?

I’ll vote for a party of Torah values that fosters unity, shared purpose, honest dialogue, and a common destiny among different types and stripes of Jews

The Minerva Helen crude oil tanker, seen at the oil terminal of Dunkirk, France. (Remi Jouan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Greek tanker suspected in oil spill that polluted Israeli beaches

Kan news says that the Minerva Helen, said to be involved in major oil spill near Copenhagen in 2008, is under investigation; shipping company denies involvement in both incidents

Photographs of tar contamination along Israel's northern beaches, taken from a helicopter by Israel Nature and Parks Authority Director, Shaul Goldstein, on February 22, 2021.

Long battle ahead to rid beaches of tar, senior official says after flyover

A young Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Half of Israel’s population has received at least one vaccine dose

Health Ministry data shows over 4.5 million administered first shot, with 3.1 million fully vaccinated

7:30 pm

Israel, Saudis hold high-level talks on Biden's Iran policies -- report
7:01 pm

Health officials to TV: Airport could remain closed until after Passover
7:00 pm

Ministers approve night curfew over Purim

Vertigo dance troupe is one of first Israeli troupes to schedule a performance of their work 'Shape On Us,' following Israel's third lockdown, at the Jerusalem Theater in March 21, 2021. (Courtesy, Yoel Levy)

Analysis

Jessica Steinberg

After 11-month hiatus, Israeli cultural events come roaring back, cautiously

As Israel looks to emerge from pandemic, theaters, clubs and concert halls start hosting live audiences, as long as they are vaccinated and keep health rules; museums open for all

Illustrative: Fifth-graders return to school in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on February 21, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Mayors push plan to reopen all school grades by March 1; health minister opposed

The empty arrival hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on February 3, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Entry to Israel set to be limited to just 200 citizens a day next week

Judge Merrick Garland, nominee to be Attorney General, is sworn in at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP)

At confirmation, Garland says he’s ‘pretty good judge of what an anti-Semite is’

Attorney general nominee cites immigrant grandparents who fled anti-Semitism and persecution

Judge Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's pick to be attorney general, answers questions from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., as he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AG-nominee Garland vows independence, sharp focus on Capitol riot and extremism

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Eric Tucker and MARY CLARE JALONICK

President Donald Trump speaks during Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump to announce himself as Republican ‘presumptive 2024 nominee’ — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Katarzyna Markusz. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Journalist probed for reporting on Poles’ Holocaust complicity says case closed

Reporter Katarzyna Markusz vows to keep recounting her country’s role in the genocide of European Jews and the ongoing ‘widespread aversion of Poles’ toward Jewish people

On left, an untitled photo of the Lodz Ghetto by Henryk Ross, 1910-1991. On right, one by Ross of a Jewish doctor imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto. (Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts Boston via JTA)

Lodz Ghetto prisoner’s photos depicting brutal life donated to Boston museum

By Penny Schwartz

Tomasz Greniuch, in the center holding papers, makes a gesture that appears to be a Nazi salute at a far-right event in Poland in 2007. (Bartosz Siedlik, courtesy of Gazeta Wyborcza via JTA)

Polish state historian resigns after far-right past revealed

By Vanessa Gera

Screen capture from video of Travis Patron, leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party. (YouTube)

Canada arrests, charges political party’s leader for promoting hatred of Jews

By David Lazarus

Travis Patron, who heads Canadian Nationalist Party, said to have cast Jews as ‘swindlers’ and ‘snakes’ in social media video, called for their removal from country

Illustrative: President Donald Trump speaks during Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US’s CPAC cancels speaker who said Judaism is a ‘complete lie’

Gina Carano attends the LA premiere of "The Mandalorian" at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, November 13, 2019. In a statement Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, Lucasfilm said Carano is no longer a part of “The Mandalorian” cast after many online called for her firing over a social media post that likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the U.S. political climate. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Fired ‘Mandalorian’ star denies comparing way conservatives treated to Holocaust

By Gabe Friedman

A patient (L) is watched by a medical assistant as she spits into a test tube for a COVID-19 saliva test on a roving bus in Saint-Etienne, France, on February 22, 2021. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP)

New COVID cases worldwide down by half since early January — WHO

By ToI Staff and AFP

2.4 million cases were recorded last week, compared to over 5 million the week of January 4; coronavirus deaths also declining globally

From left, President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, bow their heads during a ceremony to honor the 500,000 Americans that died from COVID-19, at the White House, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden mourns 500,000 Americans dead from COVID as he balances grief and hope

By Jonathan Lemire and Josh Boak

In this Jan. 9, 2021, file photo, transporters Miguel Lopez, right, Noe Meza move a body of a COVID-19 patient to a morgue at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

US passes grim milestone of 500,000 COVID deaths, more than toll of 3 wars

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Israelis protest as they mark a memorial and awareness day of the Yemenite Children Affair in Jerusalem on July 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Families of disappeared Yemenite children demand state open secret files

A warning sign of a minefield near the Syrian-Israeli border in the Golan Heights, on March 25, 2019. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF probe clears troops of wrongdoing after Israeli woman walked into Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Amos Oz takes part in the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem on May 3, 2010. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Amos Oz’s daughter on abuse allegations: ‘It was harder to be silent’

PowerBall Workspace, Ness Ziona (Courtesy)

Startup survey shows hybrid office/remote work model set to continue

By Shoshanna Solomon

Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959 (US Department of Justice)

Nazi guard deported from US agrees to be questioned by Germany

By David Rising

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi. (Collage/AP)

Blinken speaks to Ashkenazi, touts Biden support for 2-state solution

Israeli researcher Clinton Bailey shows his collection of audio tape recordings of interviews with members of the Bedouin community at his home in Jerusalem on January 25, 2021. - (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Rare Israeli Bedouin audio archive digitized to boost study of nomadic society

By Jonah Mandel

A rare scroll of the Book of Esther, believed to have been penned in mid-15th century in the Iberian Peninsula. (National Library of Israel)

15th-century Esther scroll, among oldest in world, gifted to National Library

Anis Naccache, a Lebanese pro-Palestinian former terrorist notorious for his role in the 1975 OPEC hostage-taking in Vienna and the attempted assassination near Paris of Iran's former premier, during a demonstration outside the French embassy in the capital Beirut, April 30, 2010. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Former Fatah terrorist who recruited Hezbollah’s Mughniyeh dies of COVID-19

In this photo taken on July 9, 2019 US director Woody Allen holds a press conference in the northern Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian, where he will start shooting his yet-untitled next film. ( ANDER GILLENEA / AFP)

Woody Allen says documentary alleging sexual abuse ‘riddled with falsehoods’

By AFP

Illustrative image of a medical team performing surgery in an operating room. (jacoblund; iStock by Getty Images)

By bringing AI to surgeries, startup hopes to close knowledge gaps

By Jake Epstein

Front pages of Australian newspapers are displayed featuring stories about Facebook in Sydney, Feb. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Facebook to lift Australian news ban after striking deal with government

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