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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 20, 2021

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

Lapid calls on Netanyahu to debate him: ‘Israel deserves answers’

PM says opposition leader must first declare he’s running for premiership; Sa’ar says he and Bennett must be allowed to take part too

A man walks near an election campaign poster showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on March 18, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel votes on TuesdayFinal TV polls show Netanyahu gaining support and near to majority; rivals slip

Likud MK Nir Barkat takes a selfie with supporters during a campaign stop at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda on March 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With much of country vaccinated, Israeli leaders able to head out to meet voters

British infantrymen advance through the battlefield at El-Alamein in October 1942. (Sgt. Len Chetwyn/No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit/Wikimedia)

New book deciphers forgotten intel war that kept the Nazis from the Holy Land

By Judah Ari Gross

Ozlem Tureci, founder of BioNTech, speaks during an interview in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Scientist behind Pfizer vaccine: mRNA shots for cancer coming ‘in couple years’

By Frank Jordans

BioNTech’s Ozlem Tureci says the know-how behind revolutionary inoculations could soon be used to treat far more than the coronavirus pandemic

Medical staff administer the AstraZeneca vaccine at La Nuvola convention center in Rome, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

European states resume AstraZeneca vaccinations after clot scare

By Vanessa Gera

Illustrative: Members of a humanitarian aid agency disinfect Ibn Sina hospital as prevention against coronavirus in the city of Idlib, Syria, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Damascus hospitals hit full capacity amid COVID spike

By AP

Left: 'British Fascism After the Holocaust,' by Dr. Joe Mulhall (Courtesy); Center: Holocaust denier David Irving (CC-BY-SA 3.0/ Allan Warren); Top right: Holocaust denier and former KKK leader David Duke (AP/Burt Steel); Bottom right: British fascist Oswald Mosley (AP photo/Bead)

InterviewMosley’s followers derided 'concentration camp fairy tales'

Holocaust denial was already taking root in Britain during WWII, says UK author

By Robert Philpot

Dr. Joe Mulhall, author of ‘British Fascism After the Holocaust,’ claims his country’s Nazi sympathizers created the ‘blueprint’ for today’s anti-Semitic historical revisionists

Molly Livingstone

It sucks to be me: Elections, pandemic and Passover

If you think all is right in the world, then don’t read this; just skip along down the street, with singing butterflies and birds that don’t poop, giving elbow high-fives

Jason Fredric Gilbert

A voice from the future: I have risked everything to come back and warn you so that you can affect the space time continuum and restore democracy to Israel

Susannah Schild

PHOTO ESSAY: Three days in the desert

The Heels of Love hike to raise money for the children of Alyn who deal with physical disabilities was especially welcome after a year of the rocky terrain of COVID-19

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

When a group of women who don’t know each other come together with crayons and improv, and then laugh until they cry, we all have reason to hope

Message from Leket Israel

Help put a meal on their Passover table

Over the past year, thousands of Israeli families joined the circle of poverty. You can provide a hot meal for vulnerable Israelis in time for the Passover holiday.

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)

Netanyahu teases costly campaign stunt outside Bennett’s home, but doesn’t show

Yamina chief invites PM to debate after waking up to heavy police presence over the planned event; needless security preparations said to cost hundreds of thousands of shekels

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Israel, January 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Comptroller fumes as Knesset panel delays report on Central Elections Committee

Benjamin Kagan (Courtesy)

Coronavirus crisis

Tech troubles? No problem! US youth help seniors navigate COVID challenges

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav (L) with his father Menahem Meshi-Zahav (R), in an undated photo. (Courtesy: ZAKA spokesperson)

Alleged victim says rabbis stopping sexual abuse complaints against Meshi-Zahav

Man says knowledge of ZAKA founder’s actions was widespread in ultra-Orthodox community, but spiritual leaders continue to warn against ‘informing’ to secular authorities

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

Current aide said to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment

By MARINA VILLENEUVE

A woman wearing a mask to protect against the spread of coronavirus walks in the rain, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey pulls out of landmark global treaty protecting women from violence

By Fulya Ozerkan

US President Joe Biden stumbles while walking up the steps to Air Force One, March 19, 2021 (video screenshot)

Biden stumbles several times while boarding Air Force One

By AFP

The US president recovers, pauses and brushes off his pants before heading up to the top of the airstairs

US President Joe Biden holds onto the hand rail as he stumbles while boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, March 19, 2021. Biden is en route to Georgia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Donald Trump Jr. mocks Biden tumble, accuses him of having dementia

By ToI Staff and AFP

This November 21, 2016 file photo, shows the Mar-a-Lago resort owned by Donald Trump, in Palm Beach, Florida.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club partially closed after COVID outbreak

By Jill Colvin and TERRY SPENCER

Illustrative: A tractor plows a field in Kibbutz Tzora near the city of Beit Shemesh on June 25, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

A year of COVID-19 lockdowns revives Israel’s kibbutz movement

By Linda Gradstein

Performers play folklore music welcoming Persian New Year, or Nowruz, meaning 'New Day,' in northern Tajrish Square, Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

A New Year in Iran, but country’s viral, economic crises remain the same

By Amir Vahdat and Isabel Debre

Citizens have been hit hard by the pandemic, coupled with economic hardship exacerbated by US sanctions

Illustrative: A damaged silo at the Saudi Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea city of Jeddah, November 24, 2020. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

Saudi Arabian oil facility struck in drone attack

By Isabel Debre

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Illustrative: Workers prepare matzah for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover at the 'Yehuda Matzos' plant in Jerusalem on March 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish group shipping 650 pounds of matzah to Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Proud Boy members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right with megaphone, walk toward the US Capitol in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Four Proud Boys leaders charged in coordinated plot to attack US Capitol

By Michael Kunzelman

The Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the UN Human Rights Council (CC BY-SA Henry Mühlpfordt/Wikipedia)

NGO pans UN rights council for criticizing Israel on vaccination of Palestinians

President Joe Biden speaks after meeting with leaders from Georgia's Asian-American and Pacific Islander community, Friday, March 19, 2021, at Emory University in Atlanta, as Vice President Kamala Harris listens. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden, Harris console Asian American community after deadly attack

By Jonathan Lemire, Jeff Amy and Zeke Miller

Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman outside his home on February 11, 2016. (Flash90)

Shin Bet head asked Abbas to scrap Palestinian elections if Hamas runs — report

A view of the Bedouin town of Tel Sheva (CC-BY Avishai Teicher/Wikipedia)

Four-year-old girl killed in south after being hit by car

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

Ukraine to let in vaccinated Israeli pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A screenshot of a virtual Seder for US lawmakers hosted by MAZON, a Jewish hunger relief advocacy group, March 18, 2021. (MAZON)

Record 33 US lawmakers from both parties join seder focused on hunger issues

By JTA

Israeli (blue) and Emirati rugby players greet each other after their first friendly match in Dubai on March 19, 2021. (Karim SAHIB/AFP)

Israel beats UAE as rugby teams hold first friendly match in Dubai

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 released from hospital, a week after appendix removed

Shira Haas, Dov Glickman and Michael Aloni in the third season of 'Shtisel,' which debuted on Netflix on March 25, 2021. (Courtesy/Ohad Romano)

American remake of ultra-Orthodox drama ‘Shtisel’ in the works

By Gabe Friedman

Carola Eisenberg (Screen capture: YouTube)

Carolina Eisenberg, co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights, dies at 103

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