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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 11, 2021

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) claps during a ceremony welcoming passengers on a flight operated by budget airline flydubai to Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, on November 26, 2020. (Emil Salman/Pool/AFP)

PM's wife falling ill not a factor in scrapped trip -- PMO

Netanyahu forced to cancel trip to UAE amid dispute with Jordan

PM had been scheduled for whirlwind Abu Dhabi visit Thursday, but Amman delayed approving flight route amid quarrel over its crown prince’s abandoned Temple Mount tour

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara at a welcoming ceremony for the Brazilian president at Ben Gurion Airport on March 31, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu hospitalized with appendix infection

Jordan's Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at the United Nations headquarters, September 21, 2017. (Frank Franklin II/AP)

Jordan crown prince said to cancel Temple Mount visit over security spat

Yarin Sherf, suspected of raping a 13-year-old girl at a quarantine hotel, seen in an online video (via Facebook)

Prosecutors won’t charge man with rape over sex with girl, 13, at virus hotel

By Stuart Winer

Yarin Sherf indicted on charges of forbidden consensual relations, sexual harassment, making threats and assault; legal officials say relationship was consensual, sparking outcry

Health Ministry Director General Chezy Levy speaks in Jerusalem on February 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry chief says masks won’t be scrapped, kids to be vaccinated soon

Chezy Levy says Israel will begin to inoculate ages 12-15 in May-June; face mask requirement to remain even for the fully vaccinated

An IDF soldier receives a coronavirus vaccine in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF declares: We are first military in the world with herd immunity

By Judah Ari Gross

People at the Mahane Yehuda Market on March 10, 2021 in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Rate of positive COVID tests hits 3-month low; nearly 4 million fully vaccinated

Israeli who biked 66,000 km around world hit by bus, critically hurt, near home

‘Praying for a miracle’: Veteran extreme adventure athlete Roei Sadan, who made stunning recovery from 500-meter fall in 2015, hit while cycling close to kibbutz in northern Israel

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

Israeli doctor: 600 at-risk children got COVID shot without major side effects

A forklift loads medical equipment onto an airplane on March 10, 2021, for an Israeli delegation heading to Equatorial Guinea following a massive explosion in the African country that injured hundreds. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF team lands in Equatorial Guinea to help after deadly munitions blasts

By Judah Ari Gross

From the blogs

The story of us. In a pandemic. In posters.

Tel Aviv’s artful pre-pandemic posters signified a vibrant, edgy cultural scene. The post-pandemic offerings reveal how deeply things have changed

Joshua Washington

BDS hates independent Black voices

Hamas-loving Roger Waters’ call on Stevie Wonder to decline an Israeli honor is racist, condescending and rooted in anti-Semitic lies

Manya Brachear Pashman

The complicated legacy of Dr. Seuss

Instead of the hyper-politicized conversation, let’s talk about the importance of children seeing positives images of themselves

Is Netanyahu really worried about ‘fake conversions’ to Judaism?

Given a history of family ties to Conservative Judaism in the US, perhaps the PM has had some sort of religious epiphany. But not likely.

The stem cell match was supposed to be my gig

Aren’t all younger siblings the victims of the psychological warfare perpetrated by older, wiser family members, if only to get under our skin?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Channel 2 as Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog sits in the studio, March 14, 2015 (Channel 2 News)

Op-ed

Will you shut up, man: Whatever became of TV debates ahead of Israeli elections?

Lapid has challenged Netanyahu to a studio face-off and the PM affects to be considering the idea. But while a debate helped him win in 1996, it may not be his wisest move now

Ran Yaakoby, Israel's ambassador to New Zealand casting his ballot as early voting opened for diplomats in the coming elections, March 10, 2021 (Foreign Ministry)

Israel’s ambassador in New Zealand casts the first vote of the elections

Ran Yaakoby kicks off March 23 elections in Wellington; ballots boxes to be set up in four new diplomatic outposts: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Rabat and Manama

Then-defense minister Naftali Bennett of Yamina, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting of right-wing parties, on March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll forecasts deadlock after election, with blocs split 60-60

By Alexander Fulbright

In this photo from the Jewish Agency, Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (left) and then-Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog (center) greet 119 new immigrants from Ethiopia at Ben Gurion Airport, May 21, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem)

Fearing campaign spectacle, minister cancels ceremony for Ethiopian immigrants

Israeli soldiers of the IDF Givati brigade attend an army exercise in the southern Judean desert, June 6, 2012. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90 /Flie)

Is Israel burying its head in sand as climate change makes Mideast a hot mess?

Drought, sea-level rise and other environmental factors could destabilize the region, but Israel’s defense establishment is not thinking about the new dangers, a new paper warns

Tel Aviv, many other beaches declared safe after oil spill clean up

Rangers want authority to wiretap phones of illegal hunters, wildlife traders

Nasser al-Kidwa in 2012 (photo credit: AP)

Abbas ousts Yasser Arafat’s nephew from Fatah as election race heats up

By Aaron Boxerman

Senior official Nasser al-Qidwa has called for ‘radical change’ in the Palestinian Authority, plans to challenge the main Fatah slate in the upcoming legislative elections

Sinwar wins 2nd term as Hamas Gaza chief after tense election standoff

By Aaron Boxerman

At request of Abbas foe, UAE will send another 40,000 Russian vaccines to Gaza

By Aaron Boxerman

IDF detains 5 Palestinian children suspected of trespassing at West Bank outpost

By Aaron Boxerman

People enjoy dining at restaurants in Tel Aviv following their reopening this week, March 11, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Health officials tell TV situation ‘most hopeful since beginning of pandemic’

Channel 13 told if positive trajectory continues, Israelis will celebrate Passover without limitations; former government czar Gamzu: Coronavirus as a pandemic is behind us

7:47 pm

IDF says rocket sirens in south were a false alarm, Iron Dome triggered
7:28 pm

Zaka founder Yehuda Meshi-Zahav accused of multiple cases of rape, sexual abuse
7:24 pm

Israel says over 50,000 Palestinian workers vaccinated against COVID in first week of drive

People receive COVID-19 vaccine injections in a mobile Magen David station at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on February 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Citing Israel data, Pfizer says vaccine 97% effective against symptomatic COVID

By AFP and ToI Staff

Study by pharmaceutical firms finds inoculation is even better at preventing disease than initially thought; prevention against asymptomatic contagion reaches 94%

Hundreds of mourners gather in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, to observe a funeral for Rabbi Chaim Mertz, a Hasidic Orthodox leader whose death was reportedly tied to the coronavirus.(Peter Gerber via AP)

Study on samples from US Haredi Jews casts new light on first days of COVID-19

Israelis enjoy the beach of Paradis Sweir, a desert resort located on the Red Sea shore, South Sinai, Egypt, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 15, 2016. (Johanna Geron/Flash90)

Passover in Sinai? Government to formulate tourism plan within a week

Illustrative: Israel's Sam Fuld (23) slides back to first safely as Cuba's first baseman William Saavedra prepares to tag in the seventh inning of their second round game of the World Baseball Classic at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, March 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

InterviewRanked 41st pre-World Baseball Classic, Israel finished 6th

After Team Israel’s 2017 Cinderella run, Sam Fuld enchants Philadelphia Phillies

New general manager aims to get his Major League Baseball team out of its decade-long slump

NBA’s Leonard get Shabbat invite from Julian Edelman after apologizing for slur

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: A woman talks on her mobile phone at a bus stop, in Tel Aviv, on August 24, 2012. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90/File)

Likud allegedly using Truecaller app database to target potential voters

By ToI Staff and Tal Schneider

Netanyahu’s party steps up digital campaigning, sending text messages addressed by name or nickname, as defined by users in popular caller ID app; expert says practice illegal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces his wife Sara as he appears before supporters of his Likud party in Tel Aviv early on April 10, 2019, as election results are announced. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Video alleges contract between PM, wife gives her veto over Mossad, IDF chiefs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-Mossad head Yossi Cohen during a toast for the Jewish new year on October 2, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO/File)

For promotion, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pledged loyalty to Netanyahus — report

Israeli Jews and Palestinians talk to each other, during a weekly meeting organized by Ali Abu Awwad, a Palestinian from the West Bank, on July 22, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilders prepare for $250m US government injection

By Jake Epstein

More Headlines

A woman smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes in cancer recovery (SeventyFour via iStock by Getty Images)

Cannabis can prevent major chemotherapy side effect, Israeli study suggests

By Nathan Jeffay

Britain's Prince William watches a child in the playground during a visit with Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, to School21, a school in east London, March 11, 2021. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)

UK royal family ‘very much not racist,’ William says after Meghan interview

By AP

Dawit Tekelaeb, left, and Daniel Gad star in the Israeli Oscar contender 'White Eye.' (Tomer Shushan via JTA)

Israeli short film on African migrants among 10 finalists for Academy Awards

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of a scientist in a lab (anyaivanova; iStock by Getty Images)

Alumni of 8200 unit win tender to boost women in R&D jobs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Drone Guard technology developed by Aerospace Industries (IAI) (Courtesy)

IAI and UAE-based EDGE join forces to develop anti-drone tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

File. An Easyjet Airline flight at Ben Gurion International Airport (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

From our partnerEasyJet compensates woman forced to give up seat for ultra-Orthodox man

By Michael Daventry

Flowers and candles lie in memory of the victim of a right-wing shooting attack in 2019 in front of the kebab shop where killing took place, in Halle, Germany, October 9, 2020. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)

German Jews raise $40k to save Halle kebab shop hit in deadly neo-Nazi attack

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Director Steven Spielberg speaks at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 9, 2020. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA)

Phoning homeSteven Spielberg writing movie based on his own childhood

By Gabe Friedman

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads the vote to approve a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US Congress passes $1.9 trillion COVID relief package

President Reuven Rivlin shakes hands with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on January 22, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Rivlin, IDF chief to visit 3 European countries to discuss Iran threat

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A 94-year-old former SS guard holds his walking stick at the beginning of a trial in Muenster, Germany, November 6, 2018. He is charged with accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp. (Guido Kirchner/dpa via AP)

German court rules former Nazi camp guard, 96, unfit to stand trial

By AFP

Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponovitz Yeshiva seen during a morning prayer at his home in Bnei Brak, February 15, 2021. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Anti-vaxxer attempts to attack top ultra-Orthodox rabbi at his home

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