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What Matters Most On Monday, March 29, 2021

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Mansour Abbas (L), head of the conservative Islamic Ra'am party, speaks to a crowd during a political gathering to congratulate him on the party's electoral success, in the northern Israeli village of Maghar on March 26, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Election falloutShas to back Netanyahu, but UTJ reportedly on fence

Kingmaker Ra’am party won’t sit in coalition with far-right, warns Arab broker

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Sha’a Mansour Massarwa says no Arab Israeli party will work with Smotrich or Ben Gvir; Gantz calls for concerted effort to oust Netanyahu; Rivlin to meet party leaders from April 5

Then Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz (right) and Yair Lapid during a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lapid meets with Gantz as he continues to muster support; Yamina lashes out

Leader of the Yesh Atid political party, Yair Lapid, and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party, Avigdor Liberman, lead a joint conference in the Knesset regarding Israel's foreign policy, February 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman indicates he will recommend Lapid form next government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to address supporters after the March 23 elections, at his Likud party's election HQ in Jerusalem, early on Wednesday, March. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Op-ed

David Horovitz and op-ed

The man who divided Israel

Netanyahu had so many advantages this time, but had alienated so many voters. Attracted and repelled, they denied him a clear victory. But only his rivals can force his defeat

The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, is pulled by one of the Suez Canal tugboats, in the Suez Canal, Egypt, March 29, 2021. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

Ever Given finally set free in Suez, with tugboats helped by high tide

By Isabel Debre and Samy Magdy

Giant cargo ship that has been blocking traffic in vital waterway wrenched clear after nearly a week, canal service provider says

Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway is seen March 29, 2021 (AP Photo/Mohamed Elshahed)

Oil prices drop with partial refloating of megaship blocking Suez Canal

By AFP

This picture taken on March 29, 2021 from a nearby tugboat in the Suez Canal shows a view of the Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' (operated by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine) container ship as it begins to move. (AFP)

Massive container ship blocking Suez Canal freed, partially afloat

By Isabel Debre and Samy Magdy

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.

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)

Times of Israel Podcast

Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 29 – With all votes counted, who holds the cards?

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

Illustrative: Israelis wear protective face masks as they shop at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv, on March 1, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Police said to instruct cops not to enforce mask-wearing outdoors

By Michael Bachner

While mandatory mask rule remains in effect, TV report indicates enforcement will be reduced ‘to zero’ as focus shifts to quarantine violations

6:19 pm

90% of US adults will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccine by April 19: White House
6:16 pm

Rivlin could task only 1 candidate with forming coalition, not 2 -- report
6:04 pm

Most Joint List members said set to recommend Lapid as PM

Illustrative. Yemenite Jews arriving at Ben Gurion Airport in 2012. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/File)

Some of Yemen’s last remaining Jews said expelled by Iran-backed Houthis

13 members of three families reportedly transferred to another country, with efforts underway to bring them to Israel; exit said part of deal to free imprisoned Jewish man

Security forces inspect the scene where a man was shot to death by a police officer after the man attempted to stab him, in Haifa, March 29, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Police shoot dead mentally ill Arab man, say he charged at cops with knife

Man’s mother says she called cops to the scene for help; nonprofit reports 6 Arabs have been killed by police inside Israel since the beginning of 2021

This color photograph from 1963 captures then Israeli foreign minister Golda Meir (later prime minister) arriving in Nairobi for an official diplomatic visit with an El Al plane in the background; as posted on Open Sea. (Courtesy)

What is an NFT and why is someone trying to sell one of Golda Meir?

By Shoshanna Solomon

Londoner who found 4 never-published photos of former PM visiting Kenya in 1963 taken by pilot grandfather offers them online via non-fungible tokens where memes go for millions

Our first seder in outer space

When we broach that final frontier, we’re going to need to divest ourselves of the particularism of our Jewish past and bring our ethos to the universe

Susannah Schild

11 incredible kid-friendly trails for Passover

Flowers are in bloom, the land is green and lush, and the children don’t need much more entertainment than the great outdoors

People receive a COVID-19 vaccine injection at a mobile vaccine station on the beach in Tel Aviv, February 20, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Health Ministry chief: Cabinet squabbling endangers vaccine drive

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Chezy Levy says cancellation of government meeting undermines efforts to protect public from new infections; Katz: Budget needed for boosters and potential inoculation of kids

Workers hang a large election campaign poster for Benny Gantz's Blue and White party, showing Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem on March 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet meeting on vaccine contracts canceled as Likud, Blue and White squabble

Illustrative photo of an Israeli family celebrating the Passover holiday in Moshav Yashresh on March 27, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Infections fall further as Israel marks first major holiday after lockdown eased

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, pose for photos at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, March 27, 2021. Iran and China on Saturday signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement addressing economic issues amid crippling US sanctions on Iran, state TV reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Ex-IDF intel head: Iran-China megadeal includes ‘worrying’ military info-sharing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amos Yadlin says China believes it can be more aggressive with Biden; full details of agreement not public, but draft reported last year calls for Beijing, Tehran to exchange intel

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 investigator who declared Soleimani killing unlawful named Amnesty chief

By AP

Violinist Lili Haydn wrote the single 'More Love' as a sign of her appreciation for life. Her album of the same name drops March 26, 2021. (Courtesy)

Interview

Life is a miracle: Eclectic LA musician belts thankful song after COVID struggle

Thousands at Western Wall for traditional Passover priestly blessing ceremony

In stark contrast to last year, when only a symbolic 10 people were permitted to participate, rolled back virus restrictions allow masses to reach Old City site

The JewFro team, from left to right: Trey Owens, Ari Augenbaum and Narine Hovnanian. (Courtesy of JewFro/JTA)

Richmond’s JewFro restaurant was born of the George Floyd protest movement

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Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of US chip maker Nvidia. (Courtesy)

US chip giant Nvidia to recruit 600 engineers in Israel to boost AI prowess

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Israeli Olympic hope Ashram wins 2nd gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics World Cup

Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking, left, and Jan Grabowski, right. (Yad Vashem via AP / courtesy)

‘So many lies’: Auschwitz museum slams New Yorker Holocaust piece on Poland

By Vanessa Gera

Tyre coin uncovered during renewal project, which will be displayed at the Tower of David Museum next year. (Tal Rogovski/ Tower of David Museum)

Rare coin rediscovered during conservation project of Jerusalem museum tower

Romanian Jewish actress Maia Morgenstern speaks in Bucharest, Romania, June 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romania probes death threats against Jewish theater director

By AFP

In this Nov. 15, 2015, file photo, Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. appears in Johnson County District Court in Olathe, Kan. Miller, an avowed anti-Semite who shot three people to death at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites in 2014 is asking the Kansas Supreme Court to overturn his death sentence, saying he should not have been allowed to represent himself at trial. (Joe Ledford/The Kansas City Star via AP, Pool, File)

White supremacist who killed 3 at Kansas Jewish centers appeals death sentence

By MARGARET STAFFORD

Illustrative photo of travelers arriving at Heathrow Airport in London, January 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

UK tourists may be limited to highly vaccinated countries…like Israel – report

The UAE's first ambassador to Israel, Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah in Jerusalem on March 1, 2021. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

New UAE ambassador tweets Passover greetings in Hebrew

Nuns pose for a selfie as they mark Palm Sunday on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

Christians mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Bethlehem as COVID constraints eased

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Cars transporting members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team, investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus, arrive at the closed Huanan Seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province on January 31, 2021. Hector RETAMAL/AFP)

WHO report to say animals probable COVID source, lab leak ‘extremely unlikely’

Scotland's forward Lyndon Dykes (L) is challenged by Israel's defender Eitan Tibi (C, back) during the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier group F football match between Israel and Scotland at Bloomfield stadium in Tel Aviv on March 28, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel, Scotland tie 1-1 in World Cup qualifier in Tel Aviv

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this Nov. 5, 2019, photo, from left, Guila, Macy and Zoya Fakhoury, three of Amer Fakhoury's four daughters, gather in Salem, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Kathy McCormack)

Family of American who was held, tortured in Lebanon builds support for hostages

By KATHY McCORMACK

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