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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 9, 2021

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An illustrative photo of a woman breastfeeding her baby. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Small Israeli study finds virus antibodies in breastmilk of vaccinated mothers

10 lactating women had antibodies in milk after 1st dose, with level rising a week after 2nd; scientists call for inoculation of breastfeeding women to protect their babies

An attendee shows off a "green pass" (proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 coronavirus disease) upon arrival at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on March 5, 2021, before attending a "green pass concert" for the vaccinated, organized by the Tel Aviv municipality. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Full vaccine effect only kicks in 15 days after second dose, Israeli HMO says

By Nathan Jeffay

An Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a Leumit vaccination center in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Of fully vaccinated Israelis, only 0.2% develop COVID-19 symptoms

A member of the nonprofit IsraAID (left) speaks to residents of Eswatini at a hospital in the south African country (courtesy)

COVID-stricken African nation brings in Israelis to prepare its vaccine strategy

By Nathan Jeffay

In first of several anticipated aid missions drawing on Israeli expertise, team from nonprofit IsraAID is in Eswatini formulating immunization rollout plan

Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch, Mississippi, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool)

Israel said renewing vaccine diplomacy, to send extra shots to friendly nations

Ahmad Atwan, a Palestinian from a town near Hebron, receives the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by Magen David Adom during an Israeli campaign to immunize Palestinians who work in Israel (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

After delays, Israel kicks off vaccination drive for 120,000 Palestinian workers

By Aaron Boxerman

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz attends a Channel 12 News conference in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz: ‘Incitement’ by Netanyahu puts attorney general’s life in danger

Blue and White chief says PM may not wish harm to Avichai Mandelblit but he has no control over where things are headed

Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Knesset on December 1, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

Gantz halts appointments, demanding he be tapped as full-time justice minister

In this image made from video, Kylie Moore Gilbert, British-Australian academic detained in Iran, speaks during an interview with broadcaster Sky News Australia, on March 9, 2021. (Sky News Australia via AP)

UK-Australian jailed by Iran as spy for Israel describes ‘psychological torture’

By AP and ToI Staff

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was freed last month from 10-year term on false charges, says she was kept in solitary confinement, boxed into a tiny cell, had suicidal thoughts

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)

IAEA says Iran enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges, in further breach

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian protesters block a road during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in the central city of Shiraz on November 16, 2019. (AFP)

Rights groups say Iran using internet shutdowns to curb protests

By Stuart Williams

Despite everything, God Save The Queen

Musings on the monarchy following the bombshell Meghan-Harry-Oprah interview…and an awkward encounter with the ’Dude’ of Edinburgh

David E. Bernstein

Is non-Orthodox American Judaism doomed?

An event celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg demonstrates just how entrenched progressive politics have become as a stand-in for Judaism

David E. Kaplan

Isaac ‘Daddy’ Ochberg, the ‘man from Africa’ who saved Jewish orphans

A century ago, the South African philanthropist crisscrossed eastern Europe collecting 200 children with little chance of survival without his help

On Benny Gantz and the biblical dimensions of leadership

The Blue and White party chairman derided as ’too nice’ did the right thing: He fell on the proverbial grenade to make sure our country didn’t get hijacked

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Medical workers collect samples for coronavirus testing in the northern Israeli city of Safed on February 8, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Serious cases dip along with transmission rate, indicating outbreak shrinking

688 patients in serious condition; coronavirus czar says potential Passover restrictions dependent on morbidity data in coming days

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

El Al trials rapid COVID testing for passengers prior to flight

Passengers, wearing full protective gear to protect against the spread of coronavirus, push their luggage to a check-in counter at Zaventem international airport in Brussels, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

WHO advises against mandating vaccine for international travel, for now

By AFP and ToI Staff

A bus converted into a polling station ahead of the Knesset elections, in a photo released March 8, 2021. (Chaim Levy/Central Elections Committee)

Israel to bus COVID patients to polling stations, may set up booths at airport

Central Elections Committee budget much higher than normal due to challenges posed by pandemic; official laments shortage of thousands of election day employees

Dasee Berkowitz, center, director of Ayeka's Soulful Parenting program and author of 'Becoming a Soulful Parent' (Courtesy Ayeka)

A parenting book taps into the soulful side of raising a family

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/POOL/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

‘We have to prevent fake conversions,’ PM says when asked about court ruling

Netanyahu avoids commenting directly on decision to legitimize non-Orthodox conversions in Israel, but appears to suggest that it could be exploited by African migrants

7:34 pm

Arrested journalist pleaded with officer: 'This is my job'
7:24 pm

Canada appoints first woman to number two military post
6:59 pm

Likud, Yesh Atid enjoy boost, New Hope plunges to single digits in latest poll

The military's nearly completed Prison 10 complex, built to replace the Israel Defense Forces' existing British Mandate-era prisons. (Israel Defense Forces)

Opening new prison, Military Police seeks criminal reform in IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

Army’s top cop says his unit has undergone significant reforms following the suicide of a soldier being recruited as a police informant

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi and the IDF General Staff hold a meeting to discuss the role of women in the military's upper ranks, in the IDF's Tel Aviv headquarters on March 8, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF to increase number of top female officers by 50% in 5 years, army chief says

By Judah Ari Gross

Grandparents meets with their grandchildren in their home in Ramat Gan, on February 05, 2021. ( Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israel said not planning to follow CDC in relaxing mask rules for vaccinated

By ToI Staff and AP

Issue could become crucial ahead of Passover when families gather for Seder meal; US health body allows family meetings without face covering or social distancing

Magen David Adom workers wear protective clothing outside the coronavirus unit at Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem, on October 19, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hadassah hospital said to furlough 80 workers who haven’t taken COVID shots

By ToI Staff and Nathan Jeffay

Healthcare workers receive a patient suspected of having COVID-19 at the public HRAN Hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, March 8, 2021. (Eraldo Peres/AP)

Pfizer vaccine able to neutralize Brazilian coronavirus strain, study finds

Zooming in to reciting Kaddish, the mourners' prayer, at home. (Photo montage, Gil Be'eri)

US Jews in mourning are finding unexpected comfort in virtual minyans

Zvi Ben-David, who found a 2,500-year-old figurine Oren Shmueli, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Boy finds 2,500-year-old fertility figurine during family hike

Experts say amulet dates from a time with high infant mortality and no fertility treatments, and could have provided hope in the absence of advanced medicine

In this Oct. 18, 2020 photo, a menorah used during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is seen during a visit by an Israeli delegation to the Jewish Community Synagogue of Bahrain, in Manama, Bahrain. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

In parts of the Gulf, amid Israel ties, Jewish life comes out of the shadows

By Ilan Ben Zion

More Headlines

Police and paramedics at the scene where a man died of stab wounds on Hahagana Road in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man stabbed to death on Tel Aviv street, roommate arrested

Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, in an undated screenshot. (Screen capture YouTube)

After Trump eased them, Biden reinstates sanctions on Israeli mining tycoon

By ToI Staff and AFP

MK Pnina Tamano-Shata, pictured on February 4, 2020, in Hadera. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Ethiopian-born MK on Meghan interview: No mother should raise child amid racism

Left to right: Eyal Biram, Ilan Hazam, Norah Alawadi and Ahmed Elmansuri, pose for a photo as part of the first formal visit of the Leaders of Tomorrow initiative in Dubai last November (Courtesy)

In hackathon, hopes of new ties between young Israelis and Arab peers

By Jake Epstein

A Palestinian standing on a ladder tries to toss a Molotov cocktail from over Israel's security barrier during a demonstration against US President Donald Trump's peace proposal, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, on February 7, 2020. (Abbas Momani/ AFP)

IDF troops shoot two Palestinian teens suspected of firebombing cars

By Judah Ari Gross

A portrait of slain teacher Samuel Paty with a black ribbon is displayed Oct. 20, 2020 on the steps of the National Assembly in Paris. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Schoolgirl admits to spreading false claims about beheaded French teacher

By AFP

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Three arrested for suspected gang rape of girl, 16, in north

Screen capture from video of marine biologist Shimrit Perkol-Finkel. (YouTube)

Award-winning marine ecologist killed in Tel Aviv traffic accident

The border fence between Israel and Lebanon with the southern Lebanese village of Blida in the background, from the Israeli kibbutz of Yiftah, on January 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

Lebanese media says army fired at Israeli drone over south Lebanon

The neon hands spelling out the word 'light' in Hebrew and Arabic sign language at the new home of the Mekudeshet cultural organization in Jerusalem, opened during the coronavirus pandemic (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

If I forget theeGroup offers new ways to explore Jerusalem despite pandemic

By Jessica Steinberg

A doctor inspects a donkey at the Safe Haven for Donkeys sanctuary in the town of Rujayb, east of the city of Nablus in the West Bank, on February 25, 2021 (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Charity provides West Bank shelter for unsold and abandoned donkeys

By Hossam Ezzedine

An Israeli couple gets married by Utah County via Zoom (Screencapture/ Washington Post)

From the webIsraelis barred from marrying by rabbis find a solution – Zoom weddings in Utah

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