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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 7, 2021

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People eat at the Azura restaurant in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021, after Israel reopened restaurants, bars and cafes to vaccinated "green pass" holders (Menaham Kahana / AFP)

Restaurants, event venues, other sites reopen after last-minute cabinet approval

After delays, ministers approve return of many businesses; citizens allowed to return from abroad; studies to resume for grades 7-10 and in universities, colleges

People wearing face masks take cover from rain as they walk on Jaffa Street in the city center of Jerusalem, on March 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus czar says masks outdoors largely unnecessary, enforcement may end

A restaurant in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Restaurants released from lockdown, yet only half expected to reopen

Interview

Lapid: My ambitions can wait; if Netanyahu wins, Israel will enter dark times

‘I’ll do everything needed for a change of government,’ Yesh Atid head says. If PM is reelected, he’ll make Israel an ‘illiberal democracy, somewhere between Hungary and Turkey’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid during an interview at his office (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/File)

Yisrael Beytenu Chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman visits at the Assuta hospital in Ashdod on February 23, 2021 (Flash90)

Liberman says he’ll back head of largest party — other than Netanyahu — for PM

By Raoul Wootliff

Labor party leader Merav Michaeli speaks to Channel 12 News, March 6, 2021 (video screenshot)

Labor chief calls on Gantz to quit race: ‘Doesn’t really stand for anything’

Head of the left wing Meretz party Nitzan Horowitz attends a Channel 12 News conference in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Unmoved by outrage, Meretz leader says the right is responsible for ICC probe

Nitzan Horowitz says it is in Israel’s interest ‘to end the occupation, and anyone who thinks settlement policy can continue without a price is mistaken’

Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on January 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Meretz head sparks uproar by saying ICC probe against Israel legitimate

Protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Herzliya on March 6, 2021 (video screenshot)

Amid latest protests, anti-PM groups say violence against them now ‘routine’

The Israeli woman who crossed into Syria and was returned in a deal brokered by Russia, in a photo shown by Channel 12 on February 20, 2021. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Woman who sparked national drama by crossing into Syria is charged in court

Indictment includes charge of illegally exiting country; woman was returned in a Russia-brokered deal, has reportedly been mentally unwell in the past

I am your future: Today’s teenagers, tomorrow’s women

Girls who have known abuse heal and grow in their self-confidence, and avoid patterns of negative behavior; they learn positive alternatives instead

Shoshana Gottlieb

Those medical dramas with the terrible stereotypes about Orthodox Jews

The outcry is justified: Too many episodes have featured religious Jews refusing medical treatment, essentially trying to martyr themselves

Arthur Finkelstein and Benjamin Netanyahu in March 10, 1999. (Flash 90)

Tippecanoe and Lapid too: US pollsters import American-style campaigns to Israel

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon visit at a restaurant in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. Photo by a Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90

Times of Israel Podcast

Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 7 — Israel returns to ‘normalcy,’ chaotically

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

People wearing masks for protection against the coronavirus leave Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, which reopened on March 7, 2021 for a limited number of passengers. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel opens its doors, largely lifting limits on citizens returning from abroad

Travelers will no longer be required to quarantine at state-run hotels, can stay at home instead; up to 3,000 a day to be allowed in; list of departure points increases

Last minute decision-making said to leave many flights up in the air

Politicians regularly meddled with arrivals committee to help associates — TV

What you need to knowIsrael reopens: All the new rules from March 7

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

Three Gazan fishermen killed in suspected Hamas rocket misfire

By Aaron Boxerman

Group, which often fires rockets toward the Mediterranean Sea in shows of force, says it is investigating the incident; Hamas military wing calls event ‘painful’

Israeli medical teams and security forces and gather at the site where a bomb exploded in a terror attack near the Israeli settlement of Dolev in the West Bank on August 23, 2019, killing a teenage Israeli girl and seriously injuring her father and brother (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

2 years jail for Palestinian who failed to report terror plot which killed teen

Eight-year-old Maram slips on a 3D-printed mask developed by medical charity Doctors Without Bordersthat covers her face and treats her severe burns from a blaze at a Gaza bakery. (Screen capture/AFP)

Gaza girl dons 3D-printed mask to heal face burns caused by bakery blaze

People walk on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on March 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Only 30% of Israelis see Arabs, ultra-Orthodox as integral part of society

ADL survey shows Israelis people feel society is increasingly divided; regard politicians, social and news media, rabbis and religious establishment as top contributors to rifts

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and then-interior minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 25, 2012. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Sa’ar says Netanyahu being ‘extorted’ by ultra-Orthodox on Reform conversions

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the traditional selling of hametz (food containing leavening) of the State of Israel to a non-Jew before the upcoming Passover holiday, on March 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Sephardi chief rabbi disparages Reform Jews: ‘They have nothing’

File: Amir Hatami listens during the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

If Israel attacks, we’ll raze Tel Aviv and Haifa, warns Iranian defense minister

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amir Hatami says ‘Zionist regime out of desperation’ threatens Islamic Republic but knows the consequences; Rouhani urges Europe not to exert pressure over 2015 nuclear deal

In this April 9, 2018 photo, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark 'National Nuclear Day,' in Tehran, Iran. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Irish foreign minister to meet Iran’s Rouhani in Tehran for nuclear deal talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Palestinian worker gets vaccinated by Israeli Magen David Adom staff at the Sha'ar Efraim checkpoint in the West Bank, March 4, 2021 (COGAT)

Live updates (closed)

After delay, COGAT says its vaccine drive for Palestinian workers back on track

Military liaison says employees to be inoculated at checkpoints on Monday and at West Bank industrial zones on Tuesday after budget problems delayed program

7:22 pm

Board to begin search for permanent Capitol Police chief after post-riot resignation
7:11 pm

Ra'am chairman doesn't rule out backing Likud; says he'll wait and see
7:05 pm

UTJ head calls on Netanyahu to open schools in locales with high infection rates

The office of the future, as imagined by Rotem Kenan & Maya Schuldenfrei for Check Point, which rounds the shape of the open space (Courtesy)

With work-from-home here to stay, what will become of the office?

By Shoshanna Solomon

Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 3, 2021, during a 3rd nationawide full lockdown, in an effort to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Less than 3% of serious COVID cases are fully vaccinated, proving effectiveness

Only 175 of the 6,095 coronavirus patients hospitalized in serious or critical condition since the start of Israel’s vaccination campaign have received a second shot

Medical workers evacuate at the coronavirus unit of the Ziv Medical in Safed, on February 4, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Half of serious COVID cases are Arab Israelis, as community’s vaccinations lag

Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, right, listens as Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo speaks with reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, August 30, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Senior Brazil delegation in Israel for talks on Israeli anti-COVID nasal spray

President Reuven Rivlin meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican, September 3, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Pope sends ‘warm greetings’ to Rivlin during flight over Israel to Iraq

Pontiff wishes president and people of Israel ‘harmony and peace’ in recording from Alitalia flight to Israeli air traffic control

Pope Francis, surrounded by shells of destroyed churches, attends a prayer for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square, in Mosul, Iraq, March 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Amid Mosul church ruins, Pope laments ‘barbarous blow’ of extremism in Iraq

By Nicole Winfield and SAMYA KULLAB

More Headlines

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a crime in Holon, on December 21, 2015. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Director of Qalansawe Municipality sprayed with bullets, seriously wounded

An undated file photo provided by the family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual national detained in Iran. (Family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe via AP, File)

After 5 years, Iran frees UK-Iranian woman accused of spying, but sets new trial

By Amir Vahdat and Isabel Debre

Illustrative: A man receives Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Paris on March 6, 2021. (AP/Christophe Ena)

EU said looking to secure millions of AstraZeneca vaccines from US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ukrainian-Israeli-Swiss oligarch Igor Kolomoisky seen in a 2015 video. (screen capture: YouTube/Radio Svoboda)

Controversial Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky banned from US

By AFP

A view of the Chabad synagogue in Chisinau, the Moldavian capital. (Isabelle Ligner/AFP via Getty Images, JTA)

Rabbi in Moldova helps save a life and scores matzah for his community

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, March 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden, Democrats prevail as Senate approves $1.9 trillion virus relief bill

Party-goers enjoy a rave in the Negev on March 5, 2021. (Israel Police)

Police bust illegal outdoor party of some 600 in Negev

Protesters burn tires to close the main road, after the Lebanese pound hit a record low against the dollar on the black market, in Beirut, Lebanon on March 6, 2021. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon’s caretaker PM warns of chaos as nation’s currency plunges

By FAY ABUELGASIM

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