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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 21, 2021

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-minister of finance Yair Lapid attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2014. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90)

Most party leaders give final set of TV interviews

Netanyahu dodges Lapid debate call; vows he won’t try to halt his trial, fire AG

PM says opposition leader should first declare candidacy for premiership; ‘He’s scared,’ retorts Yesh Atid head

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Likud MK Yariv Levin during a faction meeting at the Knesset on December 9, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud MK says election czar ‘biased,’ but denies Trump-like plan to dispute vote

United Torah Judaism's Moshe Gafni attends a conference in Jerusalem, March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi party leader: If Netanyahu lacks majority, ‘we’ll weigh’ our options

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

Burning the hametz on Balfour Street

Saturday night’s massive protest revealed how deeply secular Israeli identity is infused with Jewish values; how Zionism’s cultural vision has triumphed

Protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, near the his official residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2021, a few days befire the Israeli general elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/Flash90)

Highest turnout in months at final pre-election protest against Netanyahu

By Aaron Boxerman

Organizers reflect on previous nine months of rallies: ‘We were able to make a huge protest [movement], but without any means of channeling it’

Israeli police officers and the municipality remove a statue of an anti-Netanyahu demonstrator outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem March 21, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem cops remove iconic protest statue with demonstrators chained to base

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes his cabinet to inaugurate a new town named after then-US president Donald Trump in a gesture of appreciation for the US leader's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights on June 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

What sort of ‘victory’ would await a victorious Netanyahu?

The premier has focused obsessively on weakening his rival Bennett – and for good reason. Even if he hands Netanyahu his victory, the Yamina head will exact a painfully high price

Members of the Blue and White party meet with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 22, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin to wait for final election results before meeting party heads

The large vaccination center in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

With most adults vaccinated, Israel’s large inoculation centers start to close

As pace slows, Tel Aviv shuts major sites; focus shifts to smaller communities as health providers run mobile units in various places with low rates of vaccination

Medical technicians test passengers for the coronavirus at Ben Gurion International Airport, on March 8, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Up to 8,000 Israelis a day can fly in and out via Ben Gurion as limits lapse

An Israeli medic waits during an event to encourage the vaccination of young Israelis at a vaccination center in Holon, Feb. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

In precedent, court rules school can bar unvaccinated, untested worker

By Michael Bachner

We have been strangers everywhere that we have been. We have tried, and failed, and fled, and found refuge, and fled again. And then the sea of exile split for a second time

Raising Asian Jewish kids in the US has never been scarier

As a mother, I wondered how to keep my children safe – and how to educate them about a society where people are victimized for race and/or religion

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.

Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, left, geatures as he meets Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 10, 2011.The talks in Moscow are expected to focus on missile defense cooperation and Russia's efforts to join the World Trade Organization. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Campaign posters prior to the upcoming Israeli general elections, in Tel Aviv, on March 18, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

2 days to election, top pollster says 15 Knesset seats up for grabs

Many Israelis are still undecided on their vote, says Camil Fuchs, and one-third say they could change their mind

7:29 pm

3 arrested after crossing into Israel from Lebanon
7:02 pm

US administers 3 million vaccines for 2nd consecutive day
7:01 pm

2 said lightly hurt in brawl during United Torah Judaism rally

Medical staff and patients wear masks and wave Israeli flags as an Israeli Air Force aerobatic team flies in formation over the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, in the northern city of Hadera, April 29, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Israel climbs to 12th spot in pandemic-focused World Happiness Report

By ToI Staff and AP

Finland tops UN’s annual survey for fourth successive year; Canada is 14th, the UK 17th, and the US 19th

Illustrative: A pro-Israel demonstrator waves flags toward the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Poll: Americans’ support for Israel high; approval for PA and Palestinians rises

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Passover books 'Baby Moses in a Basket,' 'The Great Passover Escape,' 'Matzah Craze,' and 'The Passover Guest.' (Kar-Ben Books; Candlewick; Holiday House Publishing/ via JTA)

Passover 2021

Lions read haggadahs, magical guests appear in new Passover kids’ books

By Penny Schwartz

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas receives his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine, March 20, 2021. (Screenshot/WAFA)

Abbas receives first vaccine dose as Palestinian inoculation drive set to begin

Vaccination campaign for Palestinian public begins Sunday with 61,440 shots donated through international COVAX program

A health worker pauses in the ICU unit for COVID-19 patients at the Hospital das Clinicas in Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jefferson Bernardes)

New virus lockdowns in Europe, overseas fans banned from Tokyo Olympics

By AFP

Itay Garmy says reforming the European Union is 'the only way to save the Europe we inherited from the previous generation. (Courtesy of Garmy/via JTA. Photo of The Hague's Binnenhof with the Hofvijver CC BY-SA 4.0/ CEphoto, Uwe Aranas)

27-year-old Israeli-Dutch Jew leads new progressive party into Dutch parliament

By Cnaan Liphshiz

On March 19, 2021, flowers, candles and signs are displayed at a makeshift memorial in Atlanta. A deadly rampage at three Georgia massage businesses, where the employees were mostly of Asian descent, has prompted Asian American women to openly share stories of being sexually harassed or demeaned based on their race. (AP Photo/Candice Choi, File)

‘We are what America looks like’: Hundreds rally to denounce Georgia shooting

By Kate Brumback

Demonstrators across the US protest hate after a man shot to death 6 women of Asian descent; police investigate if attack can be classified as hate crime

US National Guard soldiers open a gate of the razor wire-topped perimeter fence around the Capitol building in Washington, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Toxic mood pervades US Capitol amid fallout from riot, pandemic

By LISA MASCARO

More Headlines

Illustrative: A construction site in central Israel, on August 06, 2020. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Teen construction worker, 15, seriously hurt on site; ministry opens probe

Illustrative: President Reuven Rivlin (R) hosts the new special UN coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on March 21, 2021. (Mark Neyman, GPO)

Rivlin hosts new UN envoy for Middle East peace process

The city of Tel Aviv's newest sanitation truck will receive a new Hebrew name in a contest taking place through March 23, 2021 (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

Refuse to losePublic asked to find a name for Tel Aviv’s new garbage truck

By Jessica Steinberg

A man stands amid the debris at the entrance of a field hospital in the the village of Atareb in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on March 21, 2021, after it was reportedly targeted by regime shelling. (AAREF WATAD / AFP)

Child among 5 said killed in regime attack on hospital in rebel area of Syria

By AP

Screen capture from video of Israeli computational complexity theory researcher Avi Wigderson as he talks about being awarded the Abel Prize in 2021. (YouTube)

Israeli, Hungarian, awarded ‘math Nobel’ for computer security achievements

By AFP and ToI Staff

Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi adresses the North Miami Islamic Center in a Friday sermon on March 12, 2021 (screenshot: MEMRI)

Miami imam slams normalization with ‘descendants of pigs and apes’

Aslan Karatsev celebrates after defeating Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov in their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 16, 2021.(AP Photo/Hamish Blair)

Russian-Israeli tennis player Aslan Karatsev wins Dubai open, his first title

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Violence in the Saravan border area of Sistan-Baluchistan Province, Iran, February 2021. (YouTube)

Iran blames deadly bomb attack near Pakistan border on ‘terrorist group’ enemies

The deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island in the Arabian Sea, March 19, 2021. (US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ethan Jaymes Morrow, via AP)

Amid Iran tensions, US, Belgium, France and Japan hold Mideast naval exercise

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A taxi that crashed into a Tel Aviv restaurant, March 20, 2021. (Screenshot)

Out of control taxi smashes into Tel Aviv restaurant, injuring 5

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