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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 25, 2021

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Religious Zionism head MK Bezalel Smotrich in Modiin, March 23, 2021 (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Left-wing politicians say coalition with Bennett an option

‘Not on my watch’: Smotrich rules out cooperation with Islamist Ra’am party

Religious Zionism head calls on Bennett and Sa’ar to ‘enter a right-wing government,’ further narrows Netanyahu’s already slim prospects for building a majority coalition

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas, center, at a post-election event in Tamra on March 23, 2021. (Flash90)

Ra’am officials, far-right Ben Gvir rule out joining forces in a coalition

By Aaron Boxerman

MK Waleed Taha (L) and Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas and party members at the Ra'am headquarters in Tamra, March 23, 2021, at the end of voting on election day. (Flash90)

Netanyahu said not ruling out ‘parliamentary cooperation’ with Ra’am

Party leaders in Israel's March 23, 2021 elections. Top row left to right: Itamar Ben Gvir (Otzma Yehudit, part of the Religious Zionism party); Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism); Naftali Bennett (Yamina); Aryeh Deri (Shas); Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism). Middle row left to right: Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu); Gideon Sa'ar (New Hope); Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud); Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid); Merav Michaeli (Labor). Bottom row left to right: Benny Gantz (Blue and White); Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz); Ayman Odeh (Joint List); Mansour Abbas (Ra'am); Yaron Zelekha (New Economy party). (All photos: Flash90)

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Final election results confirm deadlock, offering no clear path to coalition

By Joshua Davidovich and Michael Bachner

Central Elections Committee delivers result, which means neither Netanyahu nor his rivals have straightforward Knesset majority and possibly heralds 5th vote in 2.5 years

7:35 pm

New Hope's No. 2 vows not to form government propped up by Joint List
7:14 pm

Liberal US groups condemn entry in Knesset of Kahanist, anti-LGBT candidates
7:07 pm

AJC condemns both Religious Zionism and 'parties on opposite end of spectrum'

Electoral workers count ballots in Israel's general elections in Jerusalem on March 25, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)

With 95% of ballots tallied, vote count fails to break deadlock

United Torah Judaism angry at Netanyahu for sending its voters to Smotrich

With most votes counted, Likud holds lead in south, Lapid ahead in Tel Aviv

Arab vote for Likud barely budges despite Netanyahu’s overtures

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on February 8, 2021. Netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust in three cases and bribery in one of them. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

High Court bars Netanyahu from appointing top law enforcement, justice officials

Judges say PM must abide by attorney general’s opinion barring him from involvement in filling roles that may have bearing on his criminal cases; ruling doesn’t apply to ally Ohana

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Lieberman speaks at the party headquarters in Modiin on election night, March 23, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

With 5th election possible, anti-Netanyahu bloc mulls law banning him from race

Cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman attends a ceremony at the Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, August 31, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Watchdog demands cabinet secretary be suspended for picture of him voting Likud

Head of the far-right Religious Zionism party MK Bezalel Smotrich and party member Itamar Ben Gvir with supporters at the party headquarters in Modi'in, on election night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

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Itamar Ben Gvir of the far-right Otzma Yehudit faction speaks at the Religious Zionism party headquarters in Modi'in, on elections night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

US Democratic pro-Israel group ‘appalled’ by Kahanist faction’s entry to Knesset

DMFI says views of Religious Zionism’s Itamar Ben Gvir antithetical to Israel’s founding principles; AIPAC says it’ll continue policy of boycotting such MKs

Itamar Ben Gvir of the far-right Otzma Yehudit faction speaks at the Religious Zionism party headquarters in Modi'in, on elections night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Gulf officials said to warn Israel far-right candidates could damage ties

Rabbi Gilad Kariv takes part in prayers on Israel's independence day at Beit Daniel in Tel Aviv in 2018. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)

‘Reform values have made it into Knesset’: Labor’s Rabbi Kariv on becoming an MK

Religious Zionism party chairman Bezalel Smotrich (L) and candidate Itamar Ben Gvir celebrate at the party headquarters in Modi'in on election night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Inside story

Entering Knesset, far-rightists want to legalize outposts, fight ‘LGBT agenda’

Religious Zionism will be most extreme party in parliament in decades, with lawmakers who back expelling ‘disloyal’ Arabs and vow to ‘put the Torah first’

Rabbi Zvi Tau in 2018. (Screenshot)

Rabbi behind anti-LGBT party says right and left both ‘tainted’ with ‘perverts’

An empty seat at the seder for Amit

The grandson of Libyan immigrants was an only child who insisted on serving in an IDF combat unit after a visit to Auschwitz changed his life

Leaving my m’tzarim — narrow and twisted places

I blamed a friend for a painful ski accident. This Passover, I’m finding freedom in forgiveness

This year our seder is about… Pesach!

No orange on the seder plate, no talk of intersectionality. Just charoset and maror, and 4 cups of wine because Jews, yes Jews, were slaves in Egypt

Sharon Nazarian

Zoombombs and swastikas: 3 steps Switzerland can take before it gets worse

With anti-Jewish incidents already on the rise, there’s no need to wait for someone to get hurt. Step one is providing security

Illustrative image: Pills. Israel's Oramed Pharmaceuticals and India-based Premas Biotech are working on a vaccine pill to inoculate against COVID-19 (schlosann via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli-made oral COVID vaccine found to generate antibodies in pigs

By Nathan Jeffay

Jerusalem-based scientist expects approval for humans within 6 months, says advance could simplify vaccination drives and even allow home vaccination using pills sent by mail

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Holocaust survivor Yaffa Balaban, 95, at her apartment in Beit Tovei Hair retirement residence in Jerusalem on January 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Germany funds plan to help Holocaust survivors around world access vaccines

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: Students receive COVID-19 vaccine injections, at Amal high school in the southern city of Beersheba, March 17, 2021. (Flash90)

With most Israelis now fully vaccinated, virus spread continues sharp drop-off

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

'Expel or kill' and a Star of David graffitied on a vehicle in Kfar Qasim, March 25, 2020 (Israel Police)

‘Expel or kill’: Dozens of cars vandalized in Arab Israeli town

Meretz head assails Netanyahu over hate attack in Kafr Qasim, says ‘sick racism’ backed by his far-right political partners

The Israeli military demolishes the rebuilt home of a Palestinian terrorist in the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah on October 24, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops shoot, seriously wound Palestinian in counterterrorism operation

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

Israel lashes UN Human Rights Council over ‘obsessive and biased’ resolutions

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi thanks states that did ‘not lend a hand to this circus’; four motions condemning Israel adopted with support from European powers

Illustrative: Delegates arrive at the assembly hall of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

European powers back anti-Israel resolution at UN Human Rights Council

El Al planes parked at Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel, on August 03, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

El Al posts massive half-a-billion-dollar loss in 2020 amid pandemic

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s flagship airline loses $531 million for year, vs loss of $59.6 million in 2019; revenues from operations plunge 71%; new management setting out multi-year strategy plan

The departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on August 16, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Envoy says Israel in talks with US over entry into visa waiver program

Taking a tour in Tel Aviv's Sarona complex, one of many being offered in the city over the Passover 2021 holiday (Courtesy Riki Rahman)

With an exodus from COVID rules underway, this Passover offers events galore

By Jessica Steinberg

Before, during and after the Seder, Israelis can celebrate the festival with concerts, workshops, games and tours, now that most pandemic restrictions have been lifted

Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical team cheer as an Israeli air-force acrobatic team flies over the hospital in Jerusalem on Israel's 72nd Independence Day on April 29, 2020, (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel to allow large Independence Day celebrations for the vaccinated

Clockwise from top left: Rebecca Kuss, Melody Muhlrad, Yoshi Silverstein, Hanah Bloom (Kuss: Emily Berge-Thielmann; Muhlrad: Courtesy of Muhlrad; Silverstein: Courtesy of Silverstein; Bloom: Courtesy of Bloom/ all via JTA)

Asian-American Jews react to Atlanta spa murders, rising anti-Asian hate crimes

By Asaf Shalev and Andrew Lapin

George Segal in a 1965 publicity shot. (Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images via JTA)

George Segal, vanguard of 1960s wave of young Jewish actors, dies at 87

Hollywood star refused to change his name, alter appearance for early roles, paving way for Jewish actors including Dustin Hoffman, Elliott Gould

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Former Yisrael Beytneu MK Faina Kirschenbaum seen at the Tel Aviv District Court, March 25, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former senior Yisrael Beytenu lawmaker convicted of bribery

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi speaks during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 11, 2021, on climate change. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

GOP senator tells Schumer: The Sabbath is on Sunday

In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, a boat navigates in front of a cargo ship, Ever Given, on March 24, 2021, after it become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

150 boat pileup: Massive cargo ship stuck in Suez Canal imperils global shipping

By Jon Gambrell and Samy Magdy

Tzipi Livni speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Joint statementLivni joins medical cannabis firm as strategic adviser

An illutrative image of a woman's eye (eternalcreative; iStock by Getty Images)

Startup developing ‘world’s first’ synthetic cornea raises $25 million

By Jake Epstein

A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Clocks in Israel sprung forward overnight with start of daylight saving

Former head coach of Duxbury High School's football team Dave Maimaron (video screenshot)

US high school fires football coach after anti-Semitic play calls

By AP

US newspaper fires photographer over ‘total JAP’ caption of Jewish nurse

By Gabe Friedman

Noam Bardin discussing his new venture Paygo (YouTube screenshot)

Waze founder teams up with Dan Rather to make paywalled content more accessible

By Shoshanna Solomon

Eli Bar Zakai, the driver accused of causing the death of Ayalon Shalev-Amsalem, at Tel Aviv District Court on July 21, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Supreme Court upholds conviction for vodka-soaked driver who killed teen

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of a man holding a Nazi-era German passport that belonged to his grandparent, October 5, 2016. (Frank Augstein/AP)

Germany moves to ease citizenship for Nazi victims’ descendants

By AFP

Rachel Levine, nominated to be an assistant secretary at the US Department of Health and Human Services, testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 25, 2021. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP, File)

US Senate confirms transgender Jewish doctor as assistant health secretary

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