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What Matters Most On Monday, March 22, 2021

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Sheets of newly printed ballots seen at a printer in the Karnei Shomron settlement in the West Bank on March 9, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel votes

Here we go again: ToI’s guide to the 37 parties still seeking your vote

From Netanyahu apparatchiks to those dead-set on ousting him, plus anti-vaxxers and cult wives, everything you need to know about the factions running in Tuesday’s election

The Central Elections Committee counts ballots from soldiers and absentee voters at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Passover, COVID restrictions could see clear election results delayed by days

Illustrative -- Police officer on January 11, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

20,000 cops to be deployed to secure Tuesday’s election

Op-ed

A mandate to remake Israeli democracy: Why this Netanyahu win would be different

The only coalition he could possibly build would be the most hawkish in our history, committed to limiting the authority of Israel’s courts, bolstering the power of its politicians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to a hearing in his corruption trial at the Jerusalem District Court, Feb. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Reuven Castro, Pool)

Deri says he won’t support Knesset efforts to cancel Netanyahu trial

Labor leader called a ‘lesbian’ by Netanyahu supporters during Tel Aviv tour

Shas leader defends absence of female candidates: ‘It isn’t their natural place’

The Knesset, on August 13, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Security services said drilling for scenario of Knesset being stormed after vote

By Michael Bachner

Police, Shin Bet and prosecution to set up situation room at parliament, seeking to prevent scenes similar to those seen at US Capitol

7:01 pm

Almost 20,000 Palestinians have received COVID-19 vaccine
6:59 pm

Security services said drilling for scenario in which Knesset is stormed after election
6:35 pm

No mass entertainment shows to be allowed on Independence Day -- reports

A campaign poster of Likud's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 21, 2021. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Times of Israel Podcast

Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 22 – What you need to know on eve of 4th election

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

Illustrative. An anti-Netanyahu protest encampment outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Protest encampment outside Netanyahu’s residence dismantled before elections

Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata in an undated photo. (Natan Weil/Government Press Office)

Ethiopia-born minister on immigration amid COVID: ‘Even in wars, we didn’t stop’

Palestinian workers at the Palphot printing press factory in the northern West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron organize ballots in preparation for Israel's upcoming election, March 9, 2021. (Flash90)

Settlement factory’s Palestinian workers print Israel’s election ballots

They can’t vote, but Palphot employees play key election role; factory owner says staff unmoved by political undertones; worker says doesn’t have luxury to pick and choose jobs

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

Lapid downplays Bennett’s pledge not to join his government: ‘We will see’

By Raoul Wootliff

Naftali Bennett holds up a signed pledge not to serve in a government under Yair Lapid, on March 21, 2021 (Screen grab/Channel 20)

Bennett signs pledge not to join government with Lapid as prime minister

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.

Gilly Regev, an Israeli-raised scientist who co-founded the company SaNOtize, uses the new nasal spray she developed (Screen grab)

Inventor: Could've prevented much of world’s COVID infection

‘Life-saving’ nose spray that kills 99.9% of viruses begins production in Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

Health Ministry-approved labeling says antiviral is effective within 2 minutes; can save many lives in countries without access to vaccines, says inventor

9,000 pass through Ben Gurion, mostly departures, as travel rules eased

Virus czar: 4th wave of infection unlikely, mask mandate to continue

Positive test rate for virus drops to lowest level since November

Footage of an assault of a pregnant Jewish woman in Stamford Hill, London on March 18, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

London police probe assault, attempted suffocation of pregnant Jewish woman

Footage shows assailant following victim and pulling a bag over her head from behind before delivering blows; woman lightly injured; no arrest made

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Picturing the plight of agunot

How can we explain that Judaism lets men withhold divorce as a kind of weapon, a means of extortion? How long will we tolerate this stain on our religion?

Elections 2021: What change for Israel?

The country’s circumstances are different this time around, but will the outcome be?

A lion eats a bunny at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo in March 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Meat and greet

Jerusalem zoo tries damage control after kids see lion eat bunny

Wildlife park explains big cats are usually fed dead animals behind closed doors but in this case, the lion dragged its food out into public view in front of visiting families

Left: Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2021 (Miriam Alster/Pool via AP); Right: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a virtual G-20 summit held over video conferencing, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 22, 2020. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Former top Saudi adviser: No Israel normalization before Palestinian statehood

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Editorial by Nawaf Obaid seen as open message to Israel; ex-official says Saudi public won’t currently accept an agreement, countering signals from Netanyahu that deal is emerging

US soldiers participate in a joint drill with Jordan on April 26, 2018, in a training area near the town of Zarqa, east of Jordan's capital of Amman. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan publicizes defense deal that allows US forces free entry into kingdom

By AFP

Palestinian Authority employees sign in West Bank Palestinians to be vaccinated against the coronavirus on March 21, 2021 (WAFA)

Palestinian Authority begins West Bank coronavirus vaccine campaign

By Aaron Boxerman

So far, enough shots have arrived in Ramallah to inoculate about 1% of the West Bank’s Palestinian population

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

In trial, AstraZeneca 100% effective against severe cases, no raised clot risk

French police officers ride among Parisian bikers on the banks of the Seine river in Paris, March 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

EU commissioner says Europe could achieve herd immunity by July

By AFP

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki at a press conference on September 22, 2020. (WAFA)

Israel cancels PA foreign minister’s travel documents after visit to ICC

By Aaron Boxerman

Riyad Al-Maliki’s delegation questioned upon return from The Hague; PA Foreign Ministry charges move is retaliation for war crimes probe

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi at a graduation ceremony of naval officers of the Israeli Navy in Haifa Naval Base, northern Israel on March 4, 2020. (Flash90)

IDF chief condemns ICC probe, implies judges unfamiliar with terror tactics

Screen capture from video of a rocket that launched three Israeli nanosatellites from Kazahkstan, March 22, 2021. (Twitter)

3 Israeli nanosatellites blast into space to test new method for rescue beacons

By Nathan Jeffay and ToI Staff

Trio of shoebox-sized, fuel-sipping spacecraft aim to provide emergency location services usually supplied by much larger satellites

Drones flying near the city of Hadera on March 17, 2021, in a pilot run by the Israel Innovation Authority with partners and startups to create a network of drone deliveries in Israel (Courtesy)

Israel launches 2-year pilot, preparing the sky for network of delivery drones

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of an elbow-bump (Picturesque Japan; iStock by Getty Images)

First investments by VC funds in Israeli tech soar to 7-year high in 2020

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Lay cantor Gary Levine sings at home in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Levine)

US synagogues don’t rush to reopen, even as vaccines make gatherings safer

A District of Columbia Fire Boat checks buoys in the waterway next to Fort McNair, seen in background in Washington. March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Iran threatens Washington army base, top US general — intelligence officials

By JAMES LaPORTA

NSA said to have intercepted Revolutionary Guard chatter on mounting ‘USS Cole-style attacks’ against Fort McNair, a reference to deadly 2000 suicide attack in Yemeni port of Aden

Sons of slain Iranian nuclear scientist describe gunfire attack on unarmored car

Iran’s Khamenei insists on US sanctions relief before return to nuclear deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran holding UK-Iranian man in ‘prolonged solitary confinement’ — rights group

By AFP

Nathan Salsburg in a barn on his property, which also functions as his office. (Joan Shelley/ via JTA)

Folk guitarist makes experimental soundscapes from old Jewish phonograph records

By Daniel Bromfield

More Headlines

Prominent Egyptian feminist Nawal Saadawi, July 2, 1985. (AP Photo/Paola Crociani, File)

Egyptian feminist icon and author Nawal el-Saadawi dies at 89

By AP

Efi Nave in Magistrate's Court in Lod, on April 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Prosecutors won’t charge ex-head of Israel Bar Association over sex scandal

This aerial photograph, taken on February 10, 2021, shows the oil storage containers of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) in the mountains near Israel's Red Sea port city of Eilat. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

Green organizations call on John Kerry to stop trans-Israel Gulf oil deal

Charles Barkley speaks at the podium prior to his sculpture being unveiled at the Philadelphia 76ers training facility in Camden, New Jersey, Sept. 13, 2019. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images via JTA)

HoopahCharles Barkley ‘had a blast’ doing hora at daughter’s wedding

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his son Yair at a pre-election event in Tel Aviv on January 6, 2013.
Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Public database shows Netanyahu, son have stocks in Disney and EA

By Tal Schneider

The SCADAfence team, March 2021 (Courtesy)

Cybersecurity startup SCADAfence raises $12 million to boost growth

By Shoshanna Solomon

Australia's Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton addresses Parliament House in Canberra, July 24, 2019. (Rod McGuirk/AP)

Australia lists neo-Nazi Sonnenkrieg Division as terrorist group

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)

Manslaughter charge for teen in attack on Arab driver who then fatally hit man

Illustrative: A United Nations peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) convoy patrols next to Naqoura, in Lebanon near its border with Israel, October 13, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

3 Sudanese migrants detained, returned to Lebanon after trying to cross border

This image released shows Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." (Amazon Studios)

Improvised ‘Borat’ sequel wins top honors at Writers Guild Awards

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, January 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Banned from Twitter, Trump plans return to social media with ‘his own platform’

By AFP

Doug Emhoff, husband of Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, speaks during a car rally at East High School, late Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Denver. Motorists took part in the rally to urge people to get out and vote in the upcoming election. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Pride of plateKamala Harris’s husband to speak at LGBT Seder

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