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What Matters Most On Monday, March 8, 2021

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Prof. Yaakov Nahmias (right) and researcher Aaron Cohen, holding the "human simulator" chip (courtesy of Hebrew University)

Treatment for cancer patients' excess liver fat sent to FDA

Israelis create cancer drug without animal tests, by using human-simulating chip

By Nathan Jeffay

Hebrew University professor says tech that mimics human body can now be used to develop other new treatments, saving time, animals’ lives and money

Illustrative image. (CarmenMurillo; iStock by Getty Images)

International Women's Day

Shoshanna Solomon

Women at Intel Israel use the power of AI to boost other women

‘AI for Women’ project gathers and processes tips from thousands of Israeli women; be ready to fail and get out of your comfort zone, they advise

Illustrative: A woman walking toward a building at the Bnei Brak Business Center on October 23, 2017. Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

International Women's DayTech economies losing a ‘powerful force’ by sidelining women, researchers say

By Shoshanna Solomon

5 million Israelis vaccinated; PM: All adults will be inoculated by next month

Netanyahu, Health Minister Edelstein on hand as 5 millionth dose given to Janet Lavi-Azulay, 34, who is pregnant; premier says kids to get the shots soon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein (second right) during a visit at a Leumit Covid-19 vaccination center in Tel Aviv, with the 5 millionth Israeli who received a vaccination. March 08, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Customers enjoy dining at restaurants after they were recently re-opened, in Tel Aviv on March 07, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Edelstein: We’ll live with COVID for many years, but the worst is behind us

People shop at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv on February 22, 2021, after it reopened following a few weeks of lockdown. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Despite czar’s warning, gov’t officials say no new lockdown before election – TV

A pillbox-style watchtower along the barrier separating Israel from the West Bank outside the Qalandia checkpoint near Jerusalem on July 31, 2007. (Maya Levin / Flash 90 /File)

Analysis: A bold new era

After walling itself in, Israel learns to hazard the jungle beyond

For years, the country tried to protect the ‘villa’ by hunkering behind barriers, physically and mentally; now, it is sallying forth bravely into the region

Customers sit at a cafe in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

Open to whatever: What the press is saying about getting back to business

By Joshua Davidovich

As the lockdown lifts, questions revolve around whether the good times can last, or what it will take to reach normal; and female empowerment takes center stage, at least for a day

The nearly deserted arrivals area of Ben Gurion Airport, March 1, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel to allow some foreign nationals into country

By Stuart Winer

Customers sit at a cafe in Jerusalem after it was reopened following the easing of coronavirus restrictions on March 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

3.7% of COVID tests return positive Sunday, the lowest level since December

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Clockwise from top left: 'The Secret Music at Tordesillas' by Marjorie Sandor; the Calle de la Juderia, or Jewish quarter, in Segovia, Spain; author Marjorie Sandor (all photos courtesy of Sandor); Oud instruments in Cairo (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser).

Interview

Echoes of lost music haunt an Inquisition-era love story between two crypto-Jews

By Yaakov Schwartz

Idit Shafran Gittleman

Gender integration of IDF combat units is a supremely moral issue

The army’s decision on allowing women to join elite combat units goes far beyond military service and into the heart of Israeli social values

No one since Golda: Woman politicians in Israel and beyond

A look at the numbers for International Women’s Day: Just 9% of all cabinet ministers have been women. None were ministers of finance or defense

Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya

How to boost employment of Arab women? Invest in educating Arab men

As women pull ahead of men in obtaining academic degrees, men are feeling threatened and keeping them from realizing their full potential

Not a day to celebrate — a day to work

As long as the bodies of women and girls are objectified and treated as men’s property to control, we need International Women’s Day

Israeli F-15 fighter jets escort an American B-52 bomber through Israeli airspace on March 7, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli jets escort American B-52s during flyby, in show of force to Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Move comes amid tensions between US, Israel, and Tehran, with Iran tied to missile strikes on US bases and an attack on an Israeli-owned ship in Gulf of Oman

Screen capture from video allegedly showing Iranian drone footage of an Israeli-owned cargo ship that suffered damage from a mysterious explosion in the Persian Gulf. (YouTube)

Iranian drone footage shows Israeli ship after explosion damage

By ToI Staff and Agencies

National Security Guard soldiers inspect the site of a blast near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, India, Jan. 30, 2021 (AP Photo/Dinesh Joshi)

India said to blame Iran’s Quds Force for blast outside Israeli embassy

FILE: Hundreds of members from the 'Women Wage Peace' do a flash mob dance at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, during a demonstration calling for peace on International Women’s Day, March 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Times of Israel Podcast

Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 8 – On Int’l Women’s Day, how does Israel stack up?

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

Artist Amit Shimoni's HIPSTORY portraits of famous historical women International Women's Day (Courtesy HIPSTORY)

Yes, iconWomen movers and shakers get moved, shook in artist’s HIPSTORY

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel Police close down an International Women's Day event at the A-Tur Women's Center in East Jerusalem, March 8, 2021 (Courtesy)

Police break up ‘illegal’ East Jerusalem International Women’s Day event

A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine in East Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Arab Israelis fret over lagging vaccination rates as Ramadan approaches

By Aaron Boxerman

Over 30 percent of Arabs over 16 have not gotten a coronavirus shot, leading to fears of fresh spike from holy month get-togethers; fake news curbs turnout among Negev Bedouin

In this photo provided by the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and first lady Asma Assad, center right, speak during a visit to the Producers exhibition, in Damascus, Syria, Nov. 4, 2020 (Syrian Presidency Facebook page via AP)

Syrian dictator Assad and first lady test positive for COVID

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative -- Healthcare workers take test samples in a drive-thru complex at the Golani Interchange, March 4, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Officials stumped by source of NY variant in Israel; 1st cases uncooperative

Prince Harry and Meghan, duke and duchess of Sussex, in conversation with Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast March 7, 2021. (Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP, File)

Meghan says she contemplated suicide; royals fretted over color of baby’s skin

In bombshell Oprah interview, Harry says he feels let down by his father, Prince Charles, who has stopped taking his calls

An arrangement of UK daily newspapers photographed as an illustration in Brighton on March 8, 2021, shows front page headlines reporting on the story of the interview given by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, wife of Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, to Oprah Winfrey, which aired on US broadcaster CBS (Glyn KIRK / AFP)

UK and royal family absorb blow of revealing Harry, Meghan interview

By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Live updates (closed)

IAEA claims Iran enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges in further breach

Nuclear watchdog tells member states that Islamic Republic has started using third cluster of advanced IR-2m centrifuges at underground Natanz plant

7:28 pm

Cities that are 'yellow' for two days can open schools
7:14 pm

Health Ministry said weighing indoor gatherings of 30 people for Passover
7:02 pm

Shas, UTJ sign vote-sharing agreement ahead of election

Nick Goldstein's grandfather Dave, left, and father, Ian, in a photo from earlier days of the family business. (Courtesy of Goldstein Smoked Salmon/ via JTA)

New York lox company booms during pandemic – by selling British smoked salmon

By Amanda Gordon

The view of the Sdeh Efraim Farm outpost from the West Bank village of Ras Karkar on February 11, 2021. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Palestinian woman nabbed in outpost; settlers say she tried to stab woman

By Judah Ari Gross

No injuries reported in the incident; IDF says knife recovered from the scene, which comes a month after an alleged attack at the farm

Illustrative: IDF soldiers conduct raids in the West Bank city of Yatta, near Hebron, on August 3, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Palestinian tries to stab soldier during West Bank raid, is shot, army says

An IDF soldier walks near the border fence with Lebanon, near the northern Israeli city of Metula, on December 24, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Umm al-Fahm man sentenced to five years for helping Hezbollah

By Stuart Winer

More Headlines

Tar found at the Bat Yam beach, following an offshore oil spill which polluted most of the Israeli coastline, March 2, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel declares 17 beaches safe after oil spill; most still off-limits

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am party holds a press conference after a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Renegade Arab MK doesn’t rule out backing Netanyahu for PM after election

(L to R) Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades elbow-bumps Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (mask-clad), during a joint press statement after their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 14, 2021. (Marc Israel SELLEM / POOL / AFP)

Israel inks deal to link electricity grid with Cyprus, Greece via undersea cable

By AFP

Prime Ministher Benjamin Netanyahu pours coffee for Bedouin leaders in southern Israel during a visit with members of the community, March 7, 2021. (video screenshot)

Visiting Bedouin voters, Netanyahu is welcomed — and hit with sharp criticism

A nun in Myanmar pleads with police not to open fire on protesters (Myitkyiana News Journal)

Iconic images emerge from Myanmar as nun blocks police from shooting protesters

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Leader of the Labor Party Merav Michaeli speaks during a photo session at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2021 (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Labor’s Michaeli: ‘We need to replace Netanyahu and Netanyahuism’

By Stephen WEIZMAN

Ari Ben-Menashe. (YouTube screenshot)

Myanmar junta hires Israeli-Canadian lobbyist to explain coup

By ToI Staff and Agencies

French Member of Parliament Olivier Dassault smiles as he arrives as he arrives for an official diner with the French President Francois Hollande and Defense Minister and Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

ObituaryFrench billionaire MP Olivier Dassault killed in helicopter crash

By AFP

Drake poses with his awards at the Billboard Music Awards on May 1, 2019, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Getting schooledDrake raps ‘I should probably go to yeshiva’ on new single

By Gabe Friedman

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, in Jerusalem, on December 24, 2020 (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Ex-manager at PM’s residence sues Sara Netanyahu for mistreating workers

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