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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 28, 2021

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Yair Lapid (L) and Mansour Abbas (R) (Flash90)

Yesh Atid leader reportedly set to meet with Joint List

Lapid and Abbas hold talks on forming government, say will continue discussions

Ra’am leader said to demand voting freedom on LGBT matters, freeze on nation-state and Kaminitz laws, Bedouin village recognition, plan to eradicate crime in Arab communities

Likud MK Ayoub Kara, right, meets with Ra'am chief Mansour Abbas in the northern town of Maghar on March 27, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

With Netanyahu lacking majority, Likud MK gives Islamist Ra’am a kosher stamp

Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa (courtesy)

Holocaust film33,771 Jews murdered during killing spree in September 1941

Using rare archival films, Ukrainian director forces viewers to face Babyn Yar

By Matt Lebovic

Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa grew up in ignorance close to site of Holocaust massacre. Now he’s creating 24 short films about the history — and its erasure — at the notorious ravine

Likud MK Shlomo Karhi at the Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Likud MK tasked with overseeing polling stations says there was no voter fraud

Shlomo Karhi rejects blame for poor showing by Netanyahu’s party, touts moves to boost election security and says he recommended PM form team to ‘go over all the protocols’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses supporters at the party's election night event in Jerusalem, early on March 24, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Netanyahu reportedly delaying approval of Jordanian request for water

This picture taken late on March 27, 2021 shows a view of tugboats by the Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' container ship, which has been wedged diagonally across the span of the canal about six kilometers north of the Suez Canal's entrance by the Red Sea port city of Suez since March 23, blocking the waterway in both directions. (Ahmed HASAN / AFP)

Egypt can’t say when Suez will open as ship remains wedged; tugs, crane en route

Since blockage began, a maritime traffic jam has grown to more than 320 vessels waiting on both ends of the canal

People and rescuers gather around the rubble of a building that collapsed in the popular area of Gesr Giza, east of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on March 27, 2021 (AFP)

Cairo apartment building collapses; at least 18 killed

Egyptians look for remains of victims around mangled train carriages at the scene of a train accident in Sohag, Egypt, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo)

Egypt buries train crash dead as number of fatalities revised down to 19

By AFP

Someone once threw my dad through a window ‘like a chicken’

Asian Americans like me carry generational trauma and it’s time to break the silence

Claudia Miriam Reed

Why I don’t want Jesus to forgive my (Jewish) sins

The very idea contradicts Judaism’s premise that we are here to change the world

Yedidia Yehuda, right, and a childhood friend walking down the stairs that overlook Krasnaiya Sloboda, August 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Passover 2021

Central Asian Mountain Jews try to preserve centuries-old Passover traditions

By Cnaan Liphshiz

No pickles, no shankbone, no cemetery visits during the holidays for the 1,000-year-old community, once based in Krasnaiya Sloboda on the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains

This picture taken on March 24, 2021 shows a view of a close-up view of a marker on a grave at the Habibiya Jewish cemetery in Iraq's capital Baghdad (Sabah ARAR / AFP)

On Passover 2021, Iraq’s Jewish community dwindles to fewer than five

By Salam Faraj and Sarah Benhaida

A community that once thrived is all but gone; Baghdad’s lone synagogue only opens occasionally and has no rabbis

Israel's Embassy to the UAE holds its first Passover seder, March 27, 2021 (video screenshot)

Not in Egypt anymoreIsraeli Embassy to UAE celebrates first Passover seder

Protesters decry the use of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in the British town of Batley, March 2021. (Twitter screenshot)

Outcry in UK over teacher’s use of Prophet Muhammad cartoon

Instructor in town of Batley suspended, school apologizes, while protesters demand he be fired; student-led petition defending teacher garners thousands of signatures

Hikers near the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater lake (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israelis throng national parks and nature reserves on 1st day of Passover

1,000 celebrate Passover Seder in nature reserve parking lots; sites from north to south fill up with hikers as Israelis enjoy the cool weather

A member of staff pours a drink, at the Dispensary pub in Liverpool, England, Oct 12, 2020 (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Concerns in UK over potential introduction of Israel-style vaccine Green Pass

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Linoy Ashram of Israel performs with the ribbon during the 36th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram wins all-around gold medal in World Cup

Athlete tops podium in Bulgaria after winning European Championship in November, seen as one of Israel’s leading hopes for 2021 Olympics

Patients affected by COVID-19 at a field hospital set up at a sports gym, in Santo Andre, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on March 26, 2021 (Miguel SCHINCARIOL / AFP)

As daily virus deaths near 4,000, worst may lie ahead for Brazil

By David Biller and Mauricio SAVARESE

Country currently accounts for one-quarter of entire world’s daily COVID-19 deaths; expert: ‘The next stage is the health system collapse’

A man wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus walks past a vacant boutique for rent in Paris, March 25, 2021 (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Europe’s recovery hopes take a hit as virus surges

By Daniel Aronssohn and eve szeftel

Aerial view of Santiago in lockdown, on March 27, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic (MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP)

Fresh lockdowns, record deaths: Latest global coronavirus developments

By AFP

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Ali Adkidak, suspected in the robbery and the assault of Israeli chef Shalom Kadosh, arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on March 28, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Suspect arrested for robbery, serious injury of world-famous chef Shalom Kadosh

Anti-coup protesters prepare makeshift bow and arrows to confront police in Thaketa township Yangon, Myanmar, March 27, 2021 (AP Photo)

Global condemnation after at least 90 killed in bloodiest day since Myanmar coup

By AFP

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, center, poses for a photo with audience members after speaking at the West Side Conservative Club, March 26, 2021, in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Pompeo, other Republican 2024 contenders enter Iowa, wary of Trump’s long shadow

By Thomas Beaumont

The scene of an alleged attempting ramming attack in the West Bank, March 28, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Suspect arrested after attempted ramming attack in West Bank, army says

This file photo taken on September 15, 2019, shows an Aramco oil facility near al-Khurj area, just south of the Saudi capital Riyadh. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia unveils campaign to tackle climate change

By AFP

Holocaust survivor and former prisoner of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Johnny (Ephroim) Jablon, left, crosses the gate with the inscription reading "Work sets you free" (Arbeit macht frei) in Oswiecim on January 26, 2020, one day before the 75th anniversary of its liberation. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Genocide education urged after US high school’s anti-Semitic football play calls

By Steve LeBlanc

Khaled Mashaal speaks in Doha, Qatar, August 28, 2014. (AP/Osama Faisal/File)

Ex-chief of Hamas: ‘Bargaining chips’ needed for prisoner swap deal

Sharon Osbourne arrives at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 22, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Sharon Osbourne leaves ‘The Talk’ after inquiry into heated racism discussion

By AP

Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway, is seen on March 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohamed Elshahed)

Suez Canal chief: ‘Technical or human errors’ may have caused ship’s grounding

By Mohamed Abouelenen and Farid Farid

Jeffrey Epstein, on March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

Harvard punishes professor, closes research center over ties to Jeffrey Epstein

By Collin Binkley

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