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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 4, 2021

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A healthcare worker takes samples at a coronavirus testing station in Jerusalem, on January 28, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Starting Sunday, unvaccinated with negative tests can access all venues

Rapid testing will also launch at locations currently accessible only for Green Pass holders starting two weeks from now, Channel 12 reports

7:15 pm

Another poll shows Meretz failing to enter Knesset
6:54 pm

Iranian FM: Nuclear deal cannot be renegotiated -- period
6:39 pm

Senior health official tells TV Netanyahu's COVID comments 'dangerous'

Benny Gantz (Courtesy)

Interview

Gantz: What does Israel want in its leaders? Integrity or lies and manipulation?

The Blue and White chief complains he’s being blamed for having reasonably expected Netanyahu to act like a decent PM. Now, though, he says he’s learned to trust nobody in politics

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at an event at Bar Ilan University, March 4, 2020. (Flash90)

Attorney general says 6 permanent ministers must be appointed, and fast

In this September 21, 2018 file photo, protesters arrive on a truck with tires to burn near the the fence of Gaza Strip border with Israel during a protest. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Israel livid over ‘anti-Semitic’ ICC war crimes probe; PA and Hamas cheer

Demonstrators carry banners and Palestinian flags outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes in The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

US opposes ICC probe into Israel, Palestinians; weighs maintaining sanctions

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)

ICC announces investigation into Israeli, Palestinian war crimes

By Lazar Berman

A demonstrator poses with a Palestinian flag outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, during a rally urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes, in The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

Western envoys warn ICC its future is at risk over probe of Israel, Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Unnamed diplomats speak of growing concern over court’s alleged politicization; US secretary of state says investigation could undermine efforts for a two-state solution

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at an event at Bar Ilan University, March 4, 2020. (Flash90)

Mandelblit says ICC’s investigation of Israel undermines legitimacy of court

Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel at a press conference regarding an oil spill on Israel's beaches, at the Ministry of Environmental Protection offices in Jerusalem on March 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Environment minister adamant oil spill is Iran terror; defense figures skeptical

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Gila Gamliel insists there’s a ‘direct link’ between Iran and tanker blamed for pollution; before ship was identified, she had said she believed the incident wasn’t deliberate

Soldiers clean tar off the Palmachim beach following an offshore oil spill which drenched most of the Israeli coastline, February 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)`

Blaming Iran, environment minister calls oil spill ‘environmental terrorism’

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel PodcastPODCAST Daily Briefing Mar. 4 – Pirates deploy Iran’s ‘environmental terrorism’?

Part of the Tel Aviv University robot fitted with a locust ear, with the ear visible (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)

Israelis wire locust ear to a robot, pioneering part-animal part-machine tech

By Nathan Jeffay

Many insects see and hear better than any camera or microphone; that’s why a bug-eyed Tel Aviv team is connecting insect parts to circuits and says this’ll be tomorrow’s tech

TytoCare, a telehealth startup that has developed an artificial intelligence based device that enables remote medical examinations (YouTube screenshot)

Telehealth startup TytoCare raises $50 million as COVID pushes doctors online

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli firm Lumenis' Moses technology is considered a 'gamechanger' in the treatment of urinary stones (YouTube Screenshot)

Lumenis sells surgical business to US firm Boston Scientific for $1.1 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

Kenneth S. Stern

How to debate BDS on campus? Jonathan Marks says be reasonable

In his new book on liberal education, the conservative professor argues the importance of inculcating the instinct for thought and reexamination

Yaakov Kermaier

In search of quintessential Israel and a gluten-free chocolate éclair

How many eminent politicians do you know who are so unpretentious that they’ll chat with a random young soldier and mop the floor of their daughter’s bakery?

Were you hidden in Przemysl, Poland, 1942-1944? 75 years later and searching

Wladimir Riszko risked his life to hide 16 Jews, then married one of them and moved to New Zealand. We’re trying to track down all those he rescued

One small step for the court, one large step for converts

This week’s High Court ruling can help heal the Israel-Diaspora rift on conversion – and help dismantle the harmful ultra-Orthodox monopoly

Yaniv Levy, Director of the National Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Michmoret, northern Israel, holds up one of six juvenile turtles being treated following an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, March 2, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

After surviving marine oil spill, young turtles heal with fish, mayo and love

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni arrives at a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on March 3, 2020, a day after the general elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UTJ head says party won’t join a coalition that doesn’t revoke conversion ruling

Referring to outrage over video implying non-Orthodox streams would even recognize dogs as Jewish, Gafni says he’d have made a ‘much worse’ clip featuring foreign workers

File: MK Moshe Gafni speaks at the annual international Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February19, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox party leader disavows colleague’s ‘shiksas’ comment

Theater-goers at the Khan theatre in Jerusalem on February 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘There’s hope’: Culture buffs celebrate return of music, movies and art

By Jessica Steinberg

This picture taken on February 28, 2021 shows a view of the Israeli-owned Bahamian-flagged MV Helios Ray cargo ship docked in Dubai's Mina Rashid (Port Rashid) cruise terminal. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

Analysis

With ‘gray zone’ attack on cargo ship, Iran-Israel tensions enter murky waters

An alleged limpet mine explosion on the MV Helios Ray fits Tehran’s modus operandi, and may prove a challenge for Jerusalem to defend against

Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, arrives for the start of the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021. (Ronald Zak/AP)

Europeans drop plan to condemn Iran at UN nuclear watchdog, opting for diplomacy

By Jastinder KHERA

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

Ex-Mossad deputy head slams Netanyahu’s ‘poor management’ on Iran, pandemic

Khaled (3), Abrar (1) and Lilah (4) Abu Sbeit who died in a fire at their home in Hura, March 4, 2020 (Courtesy)

3 young children die of smoke inhalation while trapped in fire at their home

Family unable to reach Abrar, 1, Khaled, 3, and Lilah, 4, for 10 minutes; official says fires common due to Bedouin town Hura’s ‘refugee camp conditions,’ no formal power supply

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

Serious virus cases drop below 700 for first time this year

Health Ministry employee said to be suspected of helping a vaccine certificate forger; health officials reportedly worried PM’s pandemic decisions being made with eye on elections

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, December 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

2 Israelis detained on suspicion of selling used COVID vaccine vials

A German help worker tests for COVID-19 a French national going to Germany at the German-French border near Saarbrucken, March 2, 2021. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP)

France chides Austria, Denmark for coordinating with Israel on virus vaccines

By AFP

A police officer escorts Lucy Shteyn to court from house arrest at her home in Moscow, Russia on Feb. 15, 2021. (Courtesy of Lucy Shteyn/ via JTA)

Why Russian Jews are divided over the anti-Putin movement

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Members of the Michigan National Guard and the US Capitol Police keep watch as heightened security remains in effect around the Capitol grounds since the Jan. 6 attacks by a mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump, in Washington, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. The US Capitol Police say they have intelligence showing there is a "possible plot" by a militia group to breach the Capitol on Thursday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House cancels Thursday session amid threats of new Capitol ‘breach’

By Michael Mathes

Intelligence intercepts chatter from conspiracy theorists who believe March 4 is the day Trump will return to be inaugurated for a second term

A demonstrator raises his fist during a protest of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, in downtown Los Angeles, May 27, 2020. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP)

US House passes police racial profiling reform, days ahead of Floyd murder trial

By Michael Mathes

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlines the Biden administration's foreign policy priorities during a speech at State Department in Washington on March 3, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool/AFP)

Listing Biden’s foreign policy priorities, Blinken doesn’t include Israel, Iran

By AFP

The Nahal Ein Gev II archeological site
excavations (Leore Grosman/Hebrew University)

Ancient foodies: Study reveals dietary preferences of Jordan Valley early humans

Animal remains from 12,000 years ago found at archaeological site show that despite varied supply, locals stuck mostly to hunting small number of fish, bird species

More Headlines

Nasser al-Qudwa, a member of Fatah's Central Committee and the nephew of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, addresses a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 23, 2019, against a backdrop showing Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque, to comment on a decision by an Israeli court to issue a temporary lien for a plot of land belonging to Arafat in East Jerusalem. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

In blow to Abbas, senior Fatah official to form separate bloc to run in election

By Aaron Boxerman

File: David Mintz poses inside his business, Tofutti, in Cranford, NJ, Aug. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

David Mintz, who invented Tofutti as a dairy substitute for kosher meals, dies

By Gabe Friedman

Screen capture from video showing damage to the vehicle of a Turkish new crew who were attacked in the Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, March 3, 2021. (Israel Police)

Turkish news crew attacked with feces in Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox area

Ibrahim Hamed, the driver accused of running over a man last night in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem arrives to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for a court hearing on March 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

14 arrested over attack on driver who then fatally rammed man at Jerusalem riot

The ribeye cultured meat steak developed by Aleph Farms (Aleph Farms and Technion Israel Institute of Technology)

Israel’s Aleph Farms and meatmaker BRF to bring cultured steak to Brazil

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Jewish man who identified himself as Andrew protests the oppression of China's Uighurs outside the Chinese Embassy in London, January 5, 2020. (David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)

In Britain, Jews lead fight against oppression of China’s Uighur Muslims

By Cnaan Liphshiz

IDF soldiers take part in a large-scale exercise 'Lethal Arrow' simulating war in the north in October 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier’s gun stolen in attack during exercise; IDF chief: ‘Red line crossed’

Coach Elliot Steinmetz instructs his Yeshiva University men's basketball team during its historic 2019-20 season. (YU Athletics)

Yeshiva University men’s basketball team on 35-game winning streak

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Illustrative: A medical team at a coronavirus ward of the Sheba Medical Center, in Ramat Gan, July 27, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Newsweek names Sheba Medical Center among top 10 hospitals in the world

US Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas ahead of an appearance by then-US President Donald Trump; on April 6, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Jewish Republican Lee Zeldin considering run for New York governor

Screencapture from video of Israeli singer Kobi Aflalo. (YouTube)

Star-spangled nightDC Wizards to hold Jewish heritage night featuring Israeli singer

Immigrants from Brazil and Argentina arrive in Israel, March 1, 2021. (Avishag Shar Yashuv/IFCJ via JTA)

South American immigrants arrive in Israel after 40 days in limbo

By Marcus M. Gilban

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