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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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A combination image showing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL) and Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas March 23, 2021. (Flash90)

'They're anti-Zionists,' PM said dismissively before vote

Netanyahu said he won’t serve with Ra’am, but he may need to, to stay in power

By Aaron Boxerman

Latest electoral math shows conservative Islamist party essential to either coalition; PM would need to walk back previous statements and strongarm his right-wing partners

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas at the Islamist party's campaign headquarters in the northern city of Tamra on March 23, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Updated election tally pushes Ra’am into Knesset, remaking blocs

By Raoul Wootliff

Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh speaks at party headquarters, in the city of Shfar'am, on elections night, on March 23, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90

Joint List projected to win nine seats despite infighting, Arab voter apathy

By Aaron Boxerman

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

Live updates (closed)

As votes tallied, coalition math confounded by aversion to extremists, Islamists

By Alexander Fulbright, Michael Bachner and Joshua Davidovich

Ra’am says it won’t sit with Itamar Ben Gvir, who says he won’t join a coalition with Ra’am anyway, as rightists squabble and Netanyahu takes fire for reliance on zealots

11:24 pm

Brazil becomes second country to pass 300,000 COVID deaths
11:11 pm

US Senate confirms transgender Jewish doctor as assistant health secretary
10:45 pm

Germany moves to ease citizenship for Nazi victims' descendants

Noam party chairman Avi Maoz. (Noam Party)

The new ‘normal’? Far-right, anti-LGBT candidate set to enter Knesset

Religious Zionism activists celebrate upon watching exit polls at the party's Modi'in headquarters, on March 23, 2021. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Religious Zionism HQ erupts in joy as exit polls indicate strong showing

Indecisive exit pollsUpdated exit polls show no clear election winner, but Otzma Yehudit can rejoice

By David Horovitz

A ballot station in the Knesset elections, March 23, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Israel media review

Israel pleads the fifth: What the press is saying after another indecisive vote

By Joshua Davidovich

As ballots are counted, pundits are laying out various scenarios based on math that will likely change and may not matter anyway, with many already gearing up for round 5

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

In referendum election on Netanyahu’s achievements, victory again eludes him

PM dramatically beat back the threat from rightist rebels. Yet nothing he did — not even vaccines and peace agreements — could deliver a clear win at the ballot box

Likud supporters at Likud party headquarters in Jerusalem on elections night, March 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Voting slips for Knesset elections on March 23, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Several parties assert election irregularities, with voting in full swing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's supporters wave Likud party flags after first exit poll results for the Israeli elections at his party's headquarters in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu claims giant victory; updated polls show majority slipping from reach

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife Sara at a Likud post-election gathering early on March 24, 2021, after the end of voting in the fourth national election in two years. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Netanyahu urges rivals to join him in coalition, warning 5th elections otherwise

By David Horovitz

After yet another apparent election deadlock, PM stops short of declaring victory, pleads with opponents to partner with him — a year after he persuaded Gantz to do so

Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid speaks at party headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 24, 2021, after the release of exit polls for the Knesset elections. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Lapid vows to ‘do everything to create a sane government’

Naftali Bennett, head of the Yamina party seen with Yamina supporters at the party headquarters in Petah Tikva, on election night, on March 23, 2021. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Potential kingmaker Bennett leaves options open, calls for national healing

By Raoul Wootliff

The Daily Briefing

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Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 24 – What we know the day after the big election

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

Labor head Merav Michaeli celebrates with supporters in Tel Aviv on March 23, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

What electoral threshold? Blue and White, Labor, Meretz beat gloomy forecasts

With 80% of vote counted, anti-Netanyahu bloc satellite parties seen receiving between 6 and 8 seats, after many pollsters wondered whether they would make it into Knesset at all

New Hope party leader Gideon Sa'ar and party members at the New Hope party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on election night, on March 23, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Despite poor showing, Sa’ar still vowing not to join government under Netanyahu

Campaign posters being printed of New Hope party leader Gideon Sa'ar ahead of the Israeli elections, on February 25, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Sa’ar slides, Gantz surprises, Ben Gvir celebrates: Exit poll winners and losers

'Shtisel' director Alon Zingman, left (photo by Vered Adir) and producer Dikla Barkai, right (photo by Goni Riskin)

Behind the Headlines

Join ToI Community to meet the producer-director duo behind hit series ‘Shtisel’

In this week’s Behind the Headlines, exclusively for ToI Community members, Dikla Barkai and Alon Zingman get candid ahead of Thursday’s global premier of Season 3 on Netflix

From My Jewish Learning

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Stacy Schusterman

Jews need to support full legal protections for LGBTQ in every state

Parts of America can still discriminate based on sexual orientation. Backing the congressional Equality Act bill is now a Jewish, ethical imperative

Elchanan Poupko

Passover seder in the frozen forest of Radin

The seder is designed to show that the inglorious beginnings of the Jewish people are even more central to the story than our actual redemption

A resurgent Nazism targeting Jews and homosexuals

National Socialism is making a terrifying, sometimes deadly, global comeback, with surges in Britain, Scandinavia, the US, Australia and elsewhere

Ronald S. Lauder

Solving the water crisis is a job for philanthropy

Unburdened by politicians’ need to show fast results, private donors are uniquely positioned to focus on solving long-term problems like water

On Good Deeds Day on March 16, 2021, four ADI residents became the world’s first wheelchair users to train in an advanced flight simulator, each enjoying 60-minute flight instruction simulations with the guidance of an El Al pilot (Liat Mandel)

Piloting El Al simulator, four people with disabilities touch the sky

By Jake Epstein

On ‘Good Deeds Day,’ residents of ADI, which provides residential and rehabilitative care, become first pilots in a wheelchair to fly an El Al Boeing 737 flight simulator

View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018.
(Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Investors yawn at election stalemate as focus stays on pandemic, global markets

By Shoshanna Solomon

‘People have gotten used to the fact that this is how it is here, and believe that in the end things will work out,’ says capital markets strategist at Bank Leumi

Illustrative: An empty hotel beach near Athens, March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Cyprus to allow Israelis in starting April 1; Greece lifts cap on visitors

Vaccinated travelers will be able to freely enter countries, though Greece will require negative test; Israel’s tourism industry quick to arrange flights and deals

97-year-old Hungarian doctor Istvan Kormendi speaks on phone in his doctor's office at his home in Budapest on March 22, 2021. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP)

In Hungary, 97-year-old Holocaust survivor doctor still receiving patients

By Peter Murphy and Balazs WIZNER

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, February 26, 2020. (Roman Pilipey/Pool Photo via AP)

China floats Mideast initiative, offers to host Israeli, Palestinian officials

By Aaron Boxerman

Beijing FM announces five-point plan to boost its involvement in peacemaking and realize ‘regional peace and stability in the Middle East’

Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he votes at a polling station in Jerusalem on March 23, 2021, in the fourth national election in two years. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Rocket fired at Beersheba on election day, shortly after PM makes campaign stop

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Police and medics on the scene of a suspected murder in the city of Nesher (Screen capture: Channel 12 news)

71-year-old lawyer stabbed to death in front of his wife

In this May 8, 2008 file photo Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist from New Jersey, takes a look at name registers at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, central Germany. Germany’s International Center on Nazi Persecution has uploaded some 850,000 documents with information on ten million people collected after the end of World War II in the American occupied zone of Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Archives uncover forgotten names of Auschwitz inmates

By Bernard OSSER

The Orca Security team, March 2021 (Orca Security)

Orca Security raises $210 million, becomes ‘unicorn’ with $1.2 billion valuation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Director of the Institute of Biological Research, Prof. Shmuel Shapira, at the laboratory in Ness Ziona on August 6, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Report: Leader of embattled homegrown Israeli vaccine effort to step down

The Ever Given turned sideways and blocked the Suez Canal on March 24, 2021 (Julianne Cona/ Instagram)

Massive cargo ship blocks traffic after getting jammed sideways in Suez Canal

By Jon Gambrell

Police at the scene of a deadly fight in Netivot on March 23, 2021 (Israel Police)

28-year-old stabbed to death in southern Israel, allegedly by cousin

George Segal, pictured in 2010 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP)

‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ star George Segal dies at 87

By ANDREW DALTON

Police work on the scene outside of a King Soopers grocery store where authorities say multiple people were killed in a shooting, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado. (AP/Joe Mahoney)

Colorado supermarket shooter identified, gun bought just 6 days prior

By Patty Nieberg and Thomas Peipert

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (Flash90, Said Khatib/AFP)

Poll: Neither Fatah nor Hamas would win majority in coming election

UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard answers questions on a report of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on June 19, 2019, in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

UN Khashoggi investigator says Saudi official appeared to threaten her life

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