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What Matters Most On Monday, March 15, 2021

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Scott and Ilissa Reich, with their son Eli and their daughter Emelia, at home in New York. (courtesy of the Reich family)

Hope for NY toddler with brain disorder, as Israelis use his DNA in drug search

By Nathan Jeffay

Just in time, Tel Aviv scientists may have found medicines to help Eli Reich, a Jewish 2-year-old who has a rare and currently untreatable disorder that harms brain development

BrainQ hopes to uses AI-based electromagnetic therapy to reduce disability following a stroke (Courtesy)

Study of 25 stroke patients shows BrainQ’s wave therapy can reduce disability

By Shoshanna Solomon

Skyscrapers and NASDAQ building of Times Square on July 29, 2017 in New York, NY (lucky-photographer; iStock by Getty Images)

IronSource reportedly in talks with US fund Thoma Bravo to go public via a SPAC

By Shoshanna Solomon

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav. (courtesy of ZAKA)

Live updates (closed)

Police said to suspect ZAKA officials helped cover up Meshi-Zahav crimes

Meshi-Zahav reportedly was investigated for suspected sex crimes already in the late 1980s; admits only to ‘consenting relations with different women’

7:17 pm

7 rockets target Iraq base housing US troops - security source
6:56 pm

1,377 new cases diagnosed Sunday, Health Ministry says
6:50 pm

France to return Nazi-looted Klimt to rightful Jewish heirs

A man passes a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic that reads, 'Congratulations victory,' on September 30, 2019, while crossing the border into Syria at the newly opened crossing between the Iraqi town of Qaim and Syria's Boukamal, Syria. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Book review

10 years of savagery: How Israel navigated Syria’s demise and troubling rebirth

Israel’s bitter enemy is no more, argue two Israeli authors, but Assad’s reconstructed regime, backed by Russia and Iran, poses new challenges

In this frame grab taken from a video released on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Asma Assad, wife of the Syrian president Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel in Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Presidency via Facebook)

UK police said probing Asma Assad for war crimes, could strip her of citizenship

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A dog smells pieces of tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, on a beach in the Gdor Nature Reserve near Michmoret, Israel, March 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel says tanker suspected of oil spill off coast has Syrian owners

Illustrative image: A burial services employee with the remains of a coronavirus victim on January 28, 2021. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

A year into pandemic, Israel’s COVID death toll surpasses 6,000

Active cases dip below 30,000 for the first time since September as basic reproduction number continues to drop

Customers enjoy dining at restaurants after they were recently reopened, in Tel Aviv on March 7, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As infections drop, virus czar expects Green Pass to be extended beyond 6 months

Illustrative: A worker at the Teva Pharmaceuticals logistics center in Shoham, where coronavirus vaccines are stored, on January 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

Israel to ship COVID vaccines to US for diplomatic staff

Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Et tu? What the press is saying about ‘drinking’ votes and a royal rumble

By Joshua Davidovich

The home stretch before the election has parties turning on potential or former allies as they jostle for position within their blocs; and a grim threshold inspires a look back

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)

Poll: Blocs split 58-58; Ra’am could be tie-breaker

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid at the Channel 12 "Influencers Conference" in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Changing direction, Lapid targets Blue and White, Labor voters

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during his meeting with the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

PM sought to bar Jordan from using Israeli airspace as payback for plane delay

Recognizing massive diplomatic repercussions of move, aviation officials managed to stall until Netanyahu changed his mind, reports say

Minister Of Foreign Affairs Gabi Ashkenazi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on June 10, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to have blocked Ashkenazi trip to open Israeli missions in UAE

Erez Yalon, a disabled Israeli who for nearly a year has dedicated his life to protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, holds a banner as he is joined by other protesters, on March 13, 2021. - (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Visually impaired protester camps out resolutely in hope of end to Netanyahu era

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Yossi Cohen, then the national security adviser, is seen in a committee meeting at the Knesset on December 8, 2015, sitting behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Times of Israel Podcast

Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 15 – Is the Mossad head Netanyahu’s heir apparent?

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Yossi Cohen at a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, October 15, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Mossad chief says no political ties to PM, who vowed to give him cabinet post

Screen capture from video of a clash between Likud party activits and New Hope party Knesset candidate Ofer Berkovitch as he campaigned in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehudah market, March 15, 2021. (Twitter)

Likud activists scuffle with New Hope candidate during Jerusalem campaign tour

Pinchas Goldschmidt

Is Europe becoming a miserable place for Jews to live… again?!

If Europe wants any semblance of religious diversity, it should take the US as a model, and stop the intolerance that is pushing Jews out

Sputnik tweets its way to legitimacy

Forget about Russia’s takeover of Crimea. Moscow seeks to heal the world. Now, be sure to retweet, like and share that message

Lily Renée Phillips. (Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äußeres/CC) and one of her characters, Señorita Rio, who fought Nazis. (Lily Renée Collection/via JTA)

Overlooked Jewish female artist from comics’ golden age escaped real WWII peril

By Karen Chernick

Images recovered from the cellphone of Timothy Hale-Cusanelli and included in a criminal complaint filed by the US Department of Justice show Hale-Cusanelli with a 'Hitler mustache' (Department of Justice)

Hitler-mustache man charged in Capitol riots spoke of ‘killing all the Jews’

By AP

Coworkers tell FBI that Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, employed as a security contractor at a Navy base, was a known Nazi sympathizer who also made derogatory remarks about Black people

Israelis wear protective face masks in Tel Aviv, on March 12, 2021. (Yahav Gamliel/Flash90)

Health Ministry said preparing to end outdoor mask mandate by April

Government also considering expanding international flights; top official says indoor and outdoor gathering size limits could be increased before Passover

Illustrative: A medical worker of the National Health Organisation (EODY) conducts a rapid test for the coronavirus in Athens, Greece, on February 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Businesses set to offer rapid virus tests to the unvaccinated

A file photo taken on March 11, 2021 shows a vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in Paris on March 11, 2021 (JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Ireland, Netherlands latest European countries to suspend AstraZeneca shots

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav. (courtesy of ZAKA)

Police open sex abuse investigation into ZAKA founder

Decision comes 1.5 years after police received tip regarding Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, but chose to investigate who was behind letter rather than probe alleged abuser

A fire is seen on the Iranian Shahr E Kord cargo ship in the Mediterranean on March 10, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Blaming Israel for cargo ship blast, Iran warns it has right to respond

Foreign Ministry spokesperson says geographical location when explosion hit Shahr E Kord and Israeli ‘aggressive behavior’ point to Jerusalem being the culprit

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses a conference in Tehran, Iran, February 23, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Zarif urges US return to nuke deal before onset of Iran’s ‘lame-duck government’

In this photo released Jan. 8, 2021, commanders of Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps walk past missiles during a visit to a new military base in an undisclosed location. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard inaugurates new underground missile facility

Rabbi Mordechai Willig, left, executes the 2015 sale of hametz to John J. Brown, right. (Josh Weinberg/ screenshot from YouTube/ via JTA)

In remembrance

For over 40 years, this ‘Passover goy’ bought millions of dollars of NY’s hametz

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Tiffany Haddish in her 2019 Netflix comedy special, 'Black Mitzvah.' (Courtesy Netflix)

A Grammy MitzvahTiffany Haddish’s ‘Black Mitzvah’ beats out Seinfeld for comedy Grammy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This frame grab from police body cam video provided by the Galveston Police Department, in Galveston, Texas, shows Terry Wright, 65, of Grants Pass, Oregon, arguing with an officer inside a Bank of America branch, in Galveston, March 11, 2021, (Galveston Police Department via AP)

Arrest warrant for Texan who wouldn’t wear mask in bank, likened it to Nazi star

By AP and ToI Staff

A volunteer from the Association for Immediate Help of Holocaust Survivors gives Frieda Kliger flowers for her 100th birthday on March 14th 2021. (Screen capture: Channel 12 News)

Centennial celebrationFriends celebrate storied life of 100-year-old Holocaust survivor

Illustrative: A Kosovo police officer walks across a red carpet prior to a ceremony held digitally, in the capital Pristina, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. Kosovo and Israel formally have established diplomatic ties in a ceremony held digitally due to the pandemic lockdown. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

With diplomatic ties established, Kosovo opens embassy in Jerusalem

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI

Illustrative: A prison in Iran. (CC BY-SA Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)

In latest case against Westerner, Iran charges French tourist with spying

By AP

Police at the scene where a man was injured after being hit by a car in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on February 28, 2021 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

3 charged for attacking driver who then fatally rammed man during Jerusalem riot

A Ukrainian MIG-29 fighter jet is parked at the Vasilkov air base outside outside Kiev, Ukraine, November 23, 2016. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Mig mashTipsy Ukrainian officer crashes car into fighter jet, totals it

Visitors set up inside circles designed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus by encouraging social distancing, at Dolores Park in San Francisco, June 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Top US virus adviser Fauci mulls cutting social distancing to just 1 meter

By AFP and ToI Staff

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