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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 3, 2021

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Then-chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda at the opening of the court's judicial year with a Special Session at the seat of the court in The Hague, January 23, 2020. (courtesy ICC)

Netanyahu calls probe anti-Semitic; PA, Hamas welcome it

ICC announces investigation into Israeli, Palestinian war crimes

By Lazar Berman

Chief Prosecutor Bensouda promises to investigate ‘impartially and objectively’; her look back starts from the day after 3 Israeli teens were murdered in West Bank in 2014

Defense Minister Benny Gantz during a visit in the Druze village of Julis, northern Israel, February 23, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Gantz says hundreds of Israelis, himself included, could be in ICC’s crosshairs

In this handout photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, November 11, 2020. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)

Palestinian member of UK Labour party protests hiring of IDF veteran

Screen capture from a campaign video released by the United Torah Judaism party. (YouTube)

Haredi party likens Reform and Conservative converts to dogs with kippot

United Torah Judaism campaign clip suggests High Court, which recently recognized non-Orthodox conversions, would also accept canines as members of the tribe

Moshe Nissim arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Orthodox rabbis today 100 times more stringent than Maimonides — ex-minister

Former justice minister Moshe Nissim presents a conversion bill he helped draft, Jerusalem, June 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Ex-minister who proposed conversion reform says Knesset forced High Court’s hand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel walk on Ashdod beach on February 21, 2021, after an offshore oil spill caused damage along Israel's Mediterranean coast (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Israel says it has identified ship that caused massive oil leak in Mediterranean

Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel tweets that Israel has ‘laid its hands’ on the vessel responsible for tar polluting country’s coastline, doesn’t name ship

A fresh ball of tar on the beach at the Gador Nature Reserve in northern Israel, March 2, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

As tar keeps coming, Environment and Finance ministries spar over funds

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Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward, on February 01, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

No vaccine? No patients! Hospital relegates unvaccinated staff to paper pushing

By Nathan Jeffay

The Health Ministry has called for non-inoculated staff to be kept away from highest-risk wards; Jerusalem’s Hadassah has gone a step further, barring contact with all patients

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. left, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 11, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Flash90)

Austria, Denmark turn to Israel to make future vaccines, won’t rely on EU

By Samuel Petrequin and Geir Moulson

A medical worker collects samples for coronavirus testing in Safed, on February 8, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Health Ministry says 1st cases of New York coronavirus variant found in Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The almost empty arrival hall at Ben Gurion Airport on February 28, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

3,000 Israelis a day to be allowed to fly home, without need for permit panel ok

Top health official warns opening up airport without proper enforcement of quarantine could lead to arrival of vaccine-resistant variants and ‘catastrophe’

File: Students arrive at school in Ashdod, November 29, 2020 (Flash90)

Education Ministry issues details of plan to return grades 7-10 to classroom

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

The big winner from the court’s conversion decision? Bibi Netanyahu

When the Supreme Court issues a radical ruling three weeks before a critical election, it’s akin to election tampering: their decision will surely swing voters

The Jewish muscleman who likely inspired the creators of Superman

Sigmund Breitbart, who performed feats of strength a hundred years ago, wasn’t just very strong, he was also a very proud Jew…and a very sweet guy

Between us girls (and boys too)

Israel is having a hard time establishing gender parity in government; would quotas for women in key positions expedite the process?

Led by a woman is reason enough

Why is Labor’s Merav Michaeli the only female heading a party? Here are some milestones along the rocky road to women taking hold of their right to be elected

Clockwise from top left: A man outside the mass grave of Jews killed in the Farhud (public domain); center: an undated recent photo of Daniel and Shulamit Sasson; the Diwaniya ghetto, Sasson's grandfather's house (both photos courtesy); Iraqi Jews arriving at Lod Airport in Israel, May 1, 1951 (GPO / BRAUNER TEDDY); a monument in Ramat Gan to Jews slain in the Farhud and in violence in the 1960s (CC-BY-2.5/ Dr. Avishai Teicher)

Interview

85-year-old Israeli testifies to Nazi-inspired pogrom that massacred Iraqi Jewry

By Lynette Hacopian

Illustrative: Police cordon off an area after four people were shot and injured on an open street in central Malmo, in southern Sweden, on June 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / TT News Agency / Johan NILSSON)

Live updates (closed)

At least eight injured in suspected terrorist stabbing in Sweden

Police say assailant shot in leg after attacking pedestrians in city of Vetlanda with ‘sharp weapon’

7:34 pm

Police arrest 2 for selling used COVID vaccine vials overseas
7:06 pm

Cuomo says won't resign over sexual harassment allegations
6:57 pm

Yeshiva University men’s basketball rides 35-game winning streak

Palestinian workers enter Israel through the Mitar checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron, on May 3, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel will start vaccinating Palestinian workers on Sunday

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Immunizations for some 120,000 Palestinians legally employed in Israel will be administered by Israeli healthcare workers at West Bank crossings, industrial zones

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 3, 2020. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool/AFP)

PA admits some of its 1st vaccines went to gov’t officials, soccer stars, Jordan

By Aaron Boxerman

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, right, offers his condolences to Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz upon the death of on his brother Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, at Prince Sultan palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Analysis

As Biden weighs human rights and security in Mideast, some see peril for Israel

Pragmatism is ruling the day for now, but US allies in the region are nervous the new president could over-pressure regimes on need for reform, creating a wedge for Iran to exploit

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel PodcastPODCAST Daily Briefing Mar. 3 – As Biden stirs pot with Saudis, will Israel pay?

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with the UAE's new ambassador to Israel Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah at his Jerusalem office on March 2, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu meets with first UAE envoy: ‘We’re changing the region’

Meretz chief Nitzan Horowitz and supporters of his left-wing party protest against the government's decision to keep schools closed, outside the Education Ministry in Tel Aviv, February 9, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Meretz fails to enter the Knesset in TV poll; Netanyahu still short of majority

A second survey has left-wing party squeezing past minimum electoral threshold if March 23 elections were held today

A laborer sorts election posters bearing the portrait of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Likud party's electoral campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv, on March 2, 2020. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Weeks before election, cabinet okays political rallies for vaccinees

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony in Tel-Hai, northern Israel, February 23, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

High Court upholds decision to nix Netanyahu TV appearance

The Israeli-owned cargo ship, MV Helios Ray, sits docked in port after arriving earlier in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 28, 2021. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

Israeli-owned cargo ship, damaged by explosions blamed on Iran, back at sea

By AP and ToI Staff

MV Helios Ray leaves Dubai port after repairs and heads toward Arabian Sea, according to satellite-tracking data

The Israeli-owned Bahamian-flagged MV Helios Ray cargo ship docked in Dubai's Mina Rashid (Port Rashid) cruise terminal, February 28, 2021. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

Israel urges UN Security Council to censure Iran for blast on Israeli-owned ship

Father Nazeer Dako arranges a Vatican flag to welcome Pope Francis at St. Joseph's Chaldean Church ahead of the Pope's visit, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2021. (Khalid Mohammed/AP)

Pope Francis to meet Iraqi ayatollah in move laden with geopolitical undertones

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and SAMYA KULLAB

Screen capture from video a car damage in a suspected hate crime in the West Bank Palestinian village of Huwara, March 2, 2021. (Channel 12 News)

Cars, homes damaged in West Bank Palestinian village, in suspected hate crime

Stones and paint thrown at property and vehicles in Hawara, south of Nablus; residents, rights group says Israeli settlers to blame; police open investigation

Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi delivers his speech during a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, conference, in Rome, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Jordanian FM pushes for 2-state solution in meeting with Ashkenazi at border

Then-commander of the Judea and Samaria Division Tamir Yadai during an interview on January 6, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

IDF general laments his ‘Stalinesque’ power over settler youths

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

88% of Israelis aged 50+ have been vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19

While serious cases are decreasing, downward trend in infections has halted, prompting officials to call into question further steps to reopen the economy

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

Number of seriously ill COVID patients drops to lowest point since December 30

Passengers arriving in Israel on an emergency flight at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on February 3, 2021 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Panel stops 6-year-old from flying in with family, claims he’s already in Israel

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Yevgenia Bogatov (left) and Lazar Roif during their wedding ceremony at Rambam Medical Center (courtesy of Rambam Medical Center)

Coronavirus unitJoined by pandemic heartache, COVID nurses hold hospital wedding

By Nathan Jeffay

BBC panelists discuss Jews' status as an ethnic minority, March 1, 2021. (Screenshot)

BBC debate on whether Jews are an ethnic minority group sparks outrage

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, chairman of the ZAKA emergency response organization, on February 4, 2010. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Zaka emergency group co-founder awarded Israel Prize for contribution to society

Judo champions Iranian Saeid Mollaei, left, and Israeli Sagi Muki will be featured in an MGM TV series about their friendship. (Courtesy PR)

Going to the matStory of Israeli, Iranian judokas’ friendship on its way to TV

By Jessica Steinberg

Shira Haas, Dov Glickman and Michael Aloni in the third season of 'Shtisel,' which debuted on Netflix on March 25, 2021. (Courtesy/Ohad Romano)

Third season of ‘Shtisel’ arrives on Netflix in late March

By Jessica Steinberg

Ibrahim Hamed, the driver who was accused of running over a man in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, outside the traffic police headquarter after he was released from custody, March 2, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Father of man hit, killed by minibus during protest says he doesn’t blame driver

Close shaveAmazon alters app icon after Hitler mustache comparisons

Illustrative: A bronze statue of the Satanic icon Baphomet, currently residing in a shed outside The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts. (Courtesy)

Devil's ownCyprus Church says ‘satanic’ Eurovision song entry must be yanked

By AP

Noa Gruman, left, in the latest Hellscore video, created by the heavy metal choir during Israel's third coronavirus lockdown (Courtesy Hellscore)

Full metal jamminHeavy metal choir Hellscore sings through COVID hellscape

By Jessica Steinberg

Bar Pinto (R) and Gilad Levi, two red-bearded 29-year-olds and founders of 'Beard for All' ('Ptor Zakan' in Hebrew), a campaign challenging Israeli military rules compelling all male troops to be cleanshaven, in Tel Aviv on February 7, 2021 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Splitting hairsIDF faces battle over bearded soldiers who choose not to shave

By Alexandra Vardi

Illustrative: Traders at the New York Stock Exchange, March 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Fiverr to raise $700 million in New York share sale after value surge

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Hominis Surgical System developed by Memic Innovative Surgery is a robotic surgical device (Courtesy)

Israeli robotic arms get FDA nod for minimally invasive hysterectomies

By Shoshanna Solomon

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