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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 2, 2021

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Haviv Rettig Gur

Conversion ruling ends decades of official shunning of Reform, Conservative

Few converts are likely to be affected by the High Court’s decision, but the court itself may face renewed calls on the right to weaken its powers

Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 2, 2016. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)

In this Nov. 2, 2016 photo, the heads of the Jewish Reform and Conservative movements carry Torah scrolls as they march to the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City. Israel's High Court of Justice on Monday, March 1, 2021, ruled that people who convert to Judaism through the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel are to be considered Jewish and entitled to become citizens, breaking the Orthodox monopoly on conversions in the Jewish state. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

High Court recognizes Reform, Conservative conversions carried out in Israel

Op-edCourt ruling for non-Orthodox conversions sets up battle at the heart of Judaism

By David Horovitz

Rabbi Yitzhak Pindrus arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem about his disqualification from running for mayor in Elad in the upcoming elections, October 22, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox MK: Women who convert to Judaism through IDF are ‘shiksas’

Yitzhak Pindrus of UTJ party sparks outcry after declaring soldiers who convert during service aren’t Jewish and families of those who marry them should go into mourning

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the Union for Reform Judaism president, speaking at the movement's biennial conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7, 2015. (URJ/via JTA)

‘Long time coming’: Reform, Conservative Jews hail Israel conversion ruling

Illustrative: A luxury mikveh (ritual bath) for women, in the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut on August 25, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

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Ultra-Orthodox Hayat brothers practice Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music, in the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. (Nati Shohat /FLASH90)

Israel media reviewPreaching to the converted: What the press is saying about an unorthodox ruling

By Joshua Davidovich

The flags of the US, United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain seen on the side of a road in the city of Netanya, September 14, 2020 (Flash90)

ToI investigates

Trump’s $3 billion Abraham Fund may be tapped out before staking a dime

By Tal Schneider

Future of opaque initiative meant to back Arab-Israel normalization unclear after political appointee heading it quits and Biden administration appears set to shut spigot

(From L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman. (AP/collage)

US says it wants to push Israel-Saudi pact, but only if Riyadh honors its values

In this October 2, 2019, photo, a Turkish police officer walks past a picture of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Rights group accuses Bin Salman of crimes against humanity over Khashoggi murder

By David Rising

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The mental rollercoaster of being a student shut out of Israel

We understand we’re not citizens, and hence not the country’s top priority for entry, but we’re also not just tourists. It’s affecting our mental health

Bibi-ism and Kahanism in Israel’s elections

A new coalition of far-right parties means Netanyahu may form the most anti-democratic, illiberal, extremist coalition Israel has ever known

Nathaniel Helfgot

The real problem with anti-Zionism

It’s not necessarily anti-Semitism, it’s the notion that Jews are not entitled to self-determination in any part of their ancestral homeland

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

US aid restored by Biden won’t go to Palestinian terrorists? Wishful thinking

The new president resumed funding after the PA said it would keep US money out of terrorists’ hands. We’ve heard that promise before.

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton visits the coronavirus ward at Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed on December 3, 2020. (David Cohen/ Flash90)

Netanyahu accused of sexism, racism for deriding New Hope’s Shasha-Biton

‘The paka-paka and the Shasha-Shasha’: With mocking nickname, PM appears to blame rival party’s No. 2 for Israel’s coronavirus deaths

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit at a Covid-19 vaccination center in Zarzir, northern Israel, February 9, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s TV appearance nixed over violation of election rules

Ben Gurion Airport stands nearly empty, Jan. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Ministers to debate plan to reopen airport ahead of elections

Netanyahu creates interministerial task force to hammer out proposal to gradually ease restrictions on international travel, following 5-week shutdown of Ben Gurion Airport

In this June 20, 2016 file photo, the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Empress of the Seas heads out of Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Royal Caribbean to launch cruise from Israel for ‘fully vaccinated’ only

An Israeli man receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a mobile Magen David Adom vaccination station at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on February 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel to begin vaccinating recovered COVID patients

Chezy Levy, director-general of the Health Ministry, speaks during a press conference about the coronavirus on September 17, 2020. (Flash90)

Top health official: Election fever driving government’s pandemic decisions

Despite successful vaccination campaign, Chezy Levy says fourth lockdown possible if virus cases continue to rise

People walk on Jaffa Street, in downtown Jerusalem on March 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers vote to reopen grades 7-10 and ease other restrictions from Sunday

The UAE's first ambassador to Israel, Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah, presents his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem, on March 1, 2021. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

‘A shared mission’: Israel officially receives first-ever UAE ambassador

By ToI Staff and AFP

Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah visits Jerusalem, meets with President Rivlin and FM Ashkenazi; is set to sit down with Netanyahu and scout out site for embassy

Albin Kurti leader of Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in capital Pristina, Kosovo on February 14, 2021. (Visar Kryeziu/AP)

Amid resistance from Turkey, Kosovo embassy may not be in Jerusalem

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI

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)

Live updates (closed)

Half of public unhappy with PM handling of virus; most don’t trust health rules

TV poll shows 48% unsatisfied with Netanyahu’s performance during ongoing crisis while just 28% satisfied; 62% don’t have faith in government’s health guidelines, while 28% do

7:59 pm

Family of man run over by man fleeing anti-Arab mob says they don't blame driver
7:33 pm

Macron asks Iran for 'clear gestures' on nuclear inspections
7:32 pm

Channel 12 poll has Meretz under threshold; Channel 13 has party squeaking in

A Israeli woman receives a vaccination in Jerusalem, on February 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From Israel with hope: Best data yet suggests vaccines will empty COVID wards

By Nathan Jeffay

Of first 1.82 million immunized, only 0.07% became virus positive, 122 were hospitalized, 23 died. If everyone had shots, we’d only need a ‘few dozen’ virus beds, says top MD

A technician collects nasal swab samples for COVID-19 at the coronavirus lab, at the Ben-Gurion International Airport on February 28, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Data shows coronavirus pushed Israel’s 2020 death rate up by as much as 10%

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Palestinian medics unpack Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and supplies that are designated for front-line medical workers, at the health ministry, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, February 3, 2021. The Palestinian Authority has administered its first known coronavirus vaccinations after receiving several thousands of doses of the Moderna vaccine from Israel. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

AG: Ministers should have say in transfers of vaccines to other countries

Shira Haas arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Zookeeper's Wife' at The ArcLight Hollywood on March 27, 2017. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Strong female lead

Shira Haas to play Golda Meir in American TV series

By Gabe Friedman

‘Lioness,’ a Barbra Streisand-produced series, will follow Meir from birth in Kiev, her youth in Milwaukee, to becoming Israel’s first and only woman prime minister

Seth Rogen arrives at the premiere of "Good Boys" on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Pot and potterySeth Rogen, who ‘really loves weed,’ brings cannabis company to US

Gal Gadot attends the premiere of 'I Am the Night' on January 24, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Wonderful newsGal Gadot confirms she’s pregnant with third child

Former US president Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in the Hyatt Regency on February 28, 2021, in Orlando, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

CPAC denies stage was intentionally shaped like Nazi symbol

‘Stage design conspiracies are outrageous,’ head of group that organizes conference says after social media users note resemblance to Odal Rune; host hotel calls symbol ‘abhorrent’

A view from the Ferris State campus in 2010. (Michael Barera/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Michigan professor fired over anti-Semitic, racist social media posts

By Gabe Friedman

Screen capture from video of a demonstration of the UK-based far-right National Action group, of which Sonnenkrieg Division is a splinter. (YouTube)

For the first time, Australia puts a far-right group on terror list

By AFP

More Headlines

Former Mexican ambassador to UNESCO Andres Roemer. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Calls mount to take name of Mexican diplomat accused of rape off Israeli street

Prominent Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar greets speaks to reporters in her hometown, the West Bank city of Ramallah, following her release from an Israeli jail on June 3, 2016. (Abbas Momani/AFP/File)

Israel sentences senior PFLP member to two years in prison

By Aaron Boxerman

A sign that reads, "Danger, polluted sea" is placed on Haifa beach, northern Israel, next to bags full of tar collected by volunteers following an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, February 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel rules out 12 of 35 vessels suspected in oil spill

Israeli soldiers patrol a road in Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon, March 31, 1996. (AP Photo/Yaron Kaminsky/File)

Ministers approve medal for troops who fought in southern Lebanon

Krembo Wings provides weekly social activities for hundreds of young people with special needs. (Screenshot/ YouTube)

How Israeli tech shares some of its wealth by donating options

By Shoshanna Solomon

A copy of the book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," by Dr. Seuss, March 1, 2021, in Walpole, Massachusetts (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

6 Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published over racist images

Uzbekistan's Bekmurod Oltiboev, in white, competes against Iran's Javad Mahjoub during their men's +100 kg judo bronze medal match at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 31, 2018. (AP/Dita Alangkara)

Top sports court overturns Iran’s judo ban issued over refusal to face Israelis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli Arabs protest against violence, organised crime and recent killings among their communities, in the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm, February 5, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Government okays NIS 150 million plan to fight crime in Arab communities

By Aaron Boxerman

Frontier Airlines is facing accusations of anti-Semitism after videos circulated online on February 28, 2021 of the airline kicking a Hasidic family off the flight because a toddler was not wearing a mask (Screenshot/Twitter)

Frontier accused of kicking Hasidic family off flight due to unmasked toddler

Westminster Bridge at sunset, London, UK (IakovKalinin; iStock by Getty Images)

UK’s Stagecoach to use Israeli software to optimize bus schedules

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israelis wear protective facemasks as they sit in a cafe in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Wix buys Miami’s SpeedETab to boost offering of online presence for restaurants

By Shoshanna Solomon

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on February 25, 2021, examining wages at large profitable corporations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Sanders lauds Israeli health officials for pushing to vaccinate Palestinians

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