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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 27, 2021

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Tar on the rocks at Achziv beach, February 25, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

After a week of clean-up efforts, tar still ‘everywhere’ on Israel’s beaches

In this November 22, 2020 photo, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a virtual G-20 summit held over video conferencing, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Declassified US report says Saudi crown prince ‘approved’ murder of Khashoggi

By Sebastian Smith

Intel report on journalist’s killing published on Biden’s orders a day after first phone call between president and Saudi King Salman; could complicate ties between US and key ally

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaks during a virtual meeting with Mexican Secretary of Economy Tatiana Clouthier, who is in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 in the Benjamin Franklin room at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Pool)

US bans 76 Saudis over Khashoggi killing, but doesn’t sanction crown prince

By AFP

People hold signs during a protest at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the United States about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Washington, October 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Saudi Arabia ‘completely rejects’ US assessment on Khashoggi murder

By AFP

The Helios Ray, which was sailing from Saudi Arabia to Singapore, arrives at Dubai port after being hit in the Gulf of Oman, February 27, 2021 (MarineTraffic.com screenshot)

Blast-hit Israeli cargo ship anchors in Dubai port for repairs

By AP and ToI Staff

US officials set to inspect vessel owned by Israeli shipping magnate Rami Ungar amid suspicions Iran involved in explosion

Damage is seen in the Israeli-owned ship that hit by an explosion in the Gulf of Oman on February 26, 2021. (Screen capture/Channel 13)

Israel said to believe Iran behind blast on Israeli-owned cargo ship

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People celebrate the holiday of Purim in violation of coronavirus restrictions, at Jaffa's Flea Market in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, February 27, 2021 (video screenshot)

More illegal Purim partying Saturday as hundreds converge on Jaffa Flea Market

Few reports of police enforcement as throngs ignore pleas of health officials and take to the streets to celebrate the costume holiday

People wearing costumes celebrate the jewish holiday of Purim at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on February 26, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel under night curfew again to curb Purim festivities amid fresh virus fears

Dave Davis as Yakov Ronen in 'The Vigil.' (Courtesy of IFC Midnight via JTA)

Not your gramma’s golem: Horror film ‘The Vigil’ stars different Jewish monster

By Gabe Friedman

Staff Sgt. Yonatan Granot, killed by an apparent accidental discharge from another serviceman’s weapon in the Jordan Valley (Courtesy)

Lungs of soldier killed by accidental gunshot transplanted to COVID patient

In first surgery of its kind in Israel, organs of Yonatan Granot, 22, are donated to man in his 60s whose lungs were wrecked by virus

Fritz Berggren appears in a holiday video shared by the US Department of Defense in 2018. (Department of Defense via JTA)

‘Jewish ideas poison people,’ State Department official writes in blog

Fritz Berggren has been working as a mid-level civil servant since 2009; the personal site under his own name spreads white nationalist and anti-Semitic content

University of Bristol lecturer David Miller. (YouTube screenshot)

Nearly 200 scholars back UK lecturer who called Jewish students Israel ‘pawns’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Lowell School Committee member Bob Hoey (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Massachusetts school board member resigns after calling Jew a ‘kike’ on live TV

A volunteer repainting trail markers in the KKL-JNF's US Independence Park (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Stroll among the humble cyclamen on a not-so-humble jaunt in the Judean Hills

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

What the high priest’s garments teach us about wearing a mask

Putting on a mask might feel reflexive now in a way that it would not have for most of us a year ago, but that does not make it easy

Glenn Leibowitz

Purim in Shanghai

How a synagogue that is only allowed to open a few times a year opened my path to Jewish involvement in the Diaspora

People wearing costumes celebrate Purim at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, February 26, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Masks of all kinds: Scenes from a pandemic Purim across the world

By JTA

Police disperse a protest against violence in Arab communities, in Umm al-Fahm on February 26, 2021. (Israel Police)

MK among 35 hurt as cops fire rubber bullets, stun grenades at Arab protest

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Police say they were responding to violent riot, but demonstrators accuse officers of using excessive force; Umm al-Fahm mayor and MK Yousef Jabareen among wounded

US President Joe Biden speaks at a FEMA COVID-19 mass vaccination site at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, Feb. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden says US airstrikes in Syria sent warning to Iran: ‘Be careful’

By Lolita C. Baldor, Robert Burns and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

US president says strike meant to tell Tehran, ‘You can’t act with impunity’; several leading Democratic lawmakers denounce attack, Republicans more supportive

Two US Air Force F-15 Strike Eagles fly over the US Central Command area of responsibility in an undisclosed location, Feb. 10, 2021. (US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Sean Carnes)

‘A bad sign’: Syria, Iran, Russia condemn US strike on Iranian-backed militias

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel and Paul Handley

President Joe Biden pauses to speak with reporters as he walks to Marine One for departure from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, in Washington. Biden is en route to Camp David. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden signals ‘significant changes’ in US-Saudi ties

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz speaks behind plexiglass shields at a press conference at the federal chancellery in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021 (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austrian, Danish leaders to visit Israel for talks on joint vaccine efforts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Sebastian Kurz, Mette Frederiksen to arrive next week for sit-down with Netanyahu on cooperation in procuring, developing inoculations

Relatives stand next to a coffin with the body of a patient who died from the coronavirus at a morgue of the regional hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk, 430 kilometers southwest of the capital, Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 26, 2021. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Global COVID cases on the rise again; Israel sees one of world’s steepest drops

By AFP

East Jerusalem residents receive COVID-19 vaccine injections in a mobile Magen David Station at the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on February 26, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health Ministry: In latest milestone, over 50% Israelis vaccinated with 1st dose

By AFP

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Sacha Baron Cohen arrives at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 5, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Profile

Sacha Baron Cohen: An outrageous comic with a serious point, and 2 Globes nods

The Jewish comedian has received two nominations for Sunday’s awards — for his roles as Kazakh reporter Borat and as a US political activist in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’

A still of Sacha Baron Cohen and actress Maria Bakalova, who plays his daughter, from 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.' (Courtesy Amazon)

InterviewBreakout ‘Borat’ star Maria Bakalova conquers Hollywood

By Jocelyn Noveck

Alex Kohanski began using gender-neutral pronouns on their first day of the Adamah Jewish farming fellowship. (Courtesy of Kohanski)/ via JTA

Transgender Jews in the US find a safe haven in an unexpected place: The farm

More Headlines

Fishing boats in the Gaza City port, June 25, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Hamas naval vessel posing as fishing boat said destroyed off Gaza coast

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

This photo provided by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office shows Richard Holzer, who was arrested, November 1, 2019, in Pueblo, Colorado. Holzer, who is accused of plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue, appeared briefly in court on November 4, 2019. (El Paso County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Man gets nearly 20 years for Colorado synagogue bomb plot

By Patty Nieberg

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters before the House votes to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes $1.9T pandemic bill on near party-line vote

Renu, eldest sister of missing British woman Shamima Begum, holds a picture of her sister while being interviewed by the media in central London, February 22, 2015. (Laura Lean/Pool/AFP)

UK Supreme Court rejects Islamic State bride’s legal bid to return

By Anna MALPAS and Joe JACKSON

The sign post of Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe, following an attack by gunmen in Jangebe, Nigeria on Feb. 25, 2021. (AP/ Ibrahim Mansur)

In latest mass kidnapping, gunmen abduct 317 girls from Nigerian boarding school

In this March 21, 2020, file photo, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern holds up a card showing a new alert system for COVID-19 in Wellington, New Zealand (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

New Zealand’s largest city back in lockdown as COVID lingers

By AFP

The late Shaya Segal speaks to investigators in an undated interview, in footage released February 25, 2021. (Screenshot: Channel 13)

In footage, ex-PM adviser tells cops: ‘Bibi and Sara are people who love gifts’

Former world chess champion, America's Bobby Fischer is pictured in this August 10, 1971 photo at an unknown location in the USA. (AP Photo)

Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rant by chess master Bobby Fischer

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A man gets his COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Natick, Massachusetts, Feb. 24, 2021. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

US advisers endorse single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE

Adam Neumann, co-founder of WeWork, attends the opening bell ceremony at Nasdaq, in New York, January 16, 2018. (AP/Mark Lennihan, File)

SoftBank says deal reached with WeWork founder Adam Neumann, directors

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Man who attacked Jew outside synagogue in Germany sent to psychiatric hospital

By AP

A file photo taken on March 11, 1984 shows French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg smoking during the 7 sur 7 tv show at the Studio Cognacq-Jay in Paris. (PHILIPPE WOJAZER / AFP)

More than 'Je t'aime'30 years later, Serge Gainsbourg still a global influence

By Philippe Grelard and Eric RANDOLPH

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