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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 13, 2021

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Israelis at bars in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on March 12 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Restaurants fully booked as Israelis flock back after year of restrictions

Some places reporting 10-day waiting lists for a spot; credit card use jumps after eateries, cafes reopen

Israelis take part in celebrations marking 71st Independence Day, in Jerusalem on May 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Authorities to allow 800 people at state Independence, Memorial Day ceremonies

A medical worker prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, California, January 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Anti-vaccine social media accounts thrive, with false claims about Israel deaths

By Barbara Ortutay and AMANDA SEITZ

The hospital where at least six people died due to an oxygen shortage, March 13, 2021, Salt, Jordan. (Screen grab/Al Mamlaka television)

Jordan health minister quits as COVID patients die from hospital oxygen shortage

PM reportedly asks Nathir Obeidat to step down after at least 6 patients die at government-run medical center near Amman

In boost to poor countries, WHO grants emergency authorization for J&J vaccine

By AP

Health workers administer doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 inside the convention center known as "La Nuvola", The Cloud, in Rome, Italy, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

WHO insists AstraZeneca vaccine is safe as shot faces new setbacks

By Robin MILLARD

Illustrative: The 207-meters-long container vessel 'IRAN PIROOZI' anchors at the quay of Aker MTW Shipyard in Wismar, northern Germany, after the namegiving ceremony on Friday, Oct. 24, 2003. (AP Photo/ Thomas Haentzschel)

Iran says container ship damaged in ‘terrorist’ attack in Mediterranean

Accusations come a day after US officials tell Wall Street Journal that Israel has hit many ships taking Iran oil, arms to Syria

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets with Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, in Tehran, Iran, March 7, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

White House says indirect diplomacy with Iran underway

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative -- In this photo released Feb. 17, 2021, by the Iranian army, an Iranian naval vessel flying an Iranian flag participates in a joint naval exercise of the Russian navy, the Iranian navy and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy in the Indian Ocean. (Iranian Army via AP)

Crowd attacks Iran coast guard station after patrol shoots dead fuel smuggler

By AP

Adolf Hitler, left (Bundesarchiv Bild); Winston Churchill, right (CC-SA 2.0/ Yousuf Karsh); 'The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi List,' by Sybil Oldfield. (Courtesy)

Interview

Hitler kept secret hit list of 3,000 prominent Brits for after Nazis defeated UK

By Robert Philpot

The Nazareth Iris. (Yuval Sapir)

Reporter's notebook

As irises bloom, the king of Israel’s wildflowers is in the field

A cornucopia of royal, or Oncocyclus, irises, are flowering in a rainbow of colors from northern to southern Israel, one of the few places in the world they can be found

Workers clean up chunks of tar that washed up on Dado Beach in Haifa, March 12, 2021. (Fred Arzoine/Environmental Protection Ministry)

Storm brings more tar to Israel’s Mediterranean coast following major oil spill

Olive ridley turtle nesting on Escobilla Beach, Oaxaca, Mexico. (Claudio Giovenzana www.longwalk.it, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Out of one's shellIn first, olive ridley turtle spotted off Eilat

A member of the Alyan family after an attack allegedly by masked settlers, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, March 13, 2021 (B'Tselem)

Masked settlers beat, throw rocks at Palestinian family in West Bank

Rights group B’Tselem says parents and 8 children were attacked near Mitzpe Yair outpost; parents taken to hospital for treatment

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right Ben Gvir says he’ll only join coalition if Netanyahu’s trial canceled

Ahlam Tamimi recalls her pleasure at early reports of the death toll in the Sbarro bombing (MEMRI screenshot)

Interpol said to drop warrant for Sbarro pizzeria bomber Ahlam Tamimi

Husband of Tamimi, who was convicted of orchestrating 2001 suicide bombing that left 15 dead but later released in prisoner swap, says her name has been removed from wanted list

My life as a Jewish space laser arsonist

The US Republican lawmaker spilled the beans. It’s all true. I got my pilot’s license and learned how to incinerate deciduous forests.

What they do, not who did it

Important take-aways from the sex-abuse charges against ZAKA co-founder, Yehuda Meshi-Zakav

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Jordan in January 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90/ File)

Jordan confirms holding up Netanyahu flight permission due to Temple Mount spat

Amman’s FM Safadi lashes Israel over cancelled visit to Jerusalem holy site by crown prince: ‘We’re extremely unhappy’

An Israeli flag flutters as the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and Jordan's Red Sea resort city of Aqaba are seen in the background, on April 17, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israel to let 700 Jordanians work at Eilat hotels after diplomatic spat

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian Hamas guards stand near an Egyptian watchtower on the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Analysis

Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid

In Jordan and Egypt, quiet qualms that Palestinian elections will boost Hamas

Neither Cairo nor Amman is convinced that the scheduled Palestinian elections will happen. But with Fatah divided, a Hamas win could ripple out in unwanted ways

Illustrative: Palestinians clash with Israeli forces near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel on May 10, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israeli troops nab Gazan infiltrator who was carrying grenades

In this Jan. 11, 2017 file photo, Allen Weisselberg, center, is seen between President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Donald Trump Jr., at a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump showed off photos of naked women at a shiva, hit on mourner — report

2004 incident allegedly occured at home of Trump organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, who could play key role in attempts to prosecute ex-president

A protester carries a Proud Boys banner while other members start to unfurl a large US flag in front of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon, September 7, 2020 (AP/Andrew Selsky).

Interview‘Democracy is not working’: 8-minute interview with a member of the Proud Boys

By Gabe Stutman

National Guard open a gate in the razor wire topped perimeter fence around the Capitol allow another member in at sunrise in Washington, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Security at the CapitolIn wake of US Capitol attack, questions over future of fence, National Guard

By LISA MASCARO

In this Dec. 3, 2012, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is joined by the New York Congressional delegation including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, left, and Sen. Charles Schumer, right, for a news conference at the Capitol in Washington (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Schumer, Gillibrand join call for Cuomo to resign over harassment allegations

By MARINA VILLENEUVE, Steve Peoples and MICHAEL BALSAMO

New York senators issue joint statement calling on governor to step down over multiple accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaking at a vaccination site in New York, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, File)

Cuomo defiant as wave of New York lawmakers call for him to resign

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and Steve Peoples

Max Solomon, dressed for participation in a pre-lent Carnival as president of the the Kleinen Kolner Klub, or Little Cologne Club, pre-1933. (Courtesy Laura Chanin/JTA)

COVID-19 postpones revival of Cologne Jewish Carnival tradition ended by Nazis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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A man and a woman stand with the backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section in Tokyo, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Russian anti-Nazi folk song rejected as substitute Olympic anthem

By Graham Dunbar

Ruling made by panel of judges asked to clarify music allowed during the 2-year doping ban on Russia’s team name, flag, national anthem from Olympics and world championships

Nazi soldiers hold a colorful ceremony in Cologne, Germany, celebrating the reoccupation of the Rhineland, March 8, 1936. (AP)

How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder

By Edward B. Westermann

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Pastor Tupirani da Hora Lores preaches at his church in Rio de Janeiro, June 2020. (Courtesy of Sinagoga Sem Fronteiras via JTA)

Brazilian police raid church whose pastor prayed for another Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dressed in white robes on their way to the synagogue in Uman, Ukraine, on the eve of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) in 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Ukrainian senior academic proposes renaming city of Uman after Nazi collaborator

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Gershon Kranczer is brought to a Brooklyn courthouse for an arraignment hearing after being extradited by Israel, March 11, 2021. (Screen capture: New York Post)

Israel extradites Brooklyn rabbi accused of molesting children

By JTA and Jacob Magid

Ukrainian border guards block the road to Jewish pilgrims on the Belarus-Ukraine border, in Belarus, September 15, 2020. (TUT.by via AP)

Netanyahu speaks to Ukrainian leader, vows to renew Hassidic pilgrimages to Uman

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1989, file photo, San Francisco Giants catcher Terry Kennedy, right, pours sparkling wine over the head of Steve Bedrosian, center, as pitching coach Norm Sherry watches at left following the Giants' victory over the Chicago Cubs to secure the National League pennant in San Francisco (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

ObituaryNorm Sherry, Dodgers player who helped Koufax achieve his potential, dies at 89

Shooting practice for Border Police officers, March 18, 2013. (Nati Shohat/ FLASH90)

Border Police to create two all-female companies for first time — report

Eisenberg's deli (Google Maps street view)

Eisenberg’s deli, a New York City institution since 1929, closes indefinitely

By Gabe Friedman

A woman wearing a protective mask walks past graffiti in Berlin's Mauer Park depicting George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis after a white policeman kneeled on his neck for several minutes. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Minneapolis reaches $27 million settlement with family of George Floyd

By Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti

This file picture shows Dutch Lodewijk Frederik Ottens - called Lou Ottens - the inventor of the cassette tape, posing during a photo session in Eindhoven, on January 23, 2013 (Jerry Lampen / ANP / AFP)

ObituaryDutch inventor of cassette tape, who filled teen bedrooms with music, dies at 94

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 10, 2021 (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkey renews diplomatic contacts with Egypt, says wants ties with other nations

By Burcin Gercek

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