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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward in Jerusalem on January 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli COVID variant found, has infected hundreds, doesn’t challenge vaccines

By Nathan Jeffay

Local variant has spread across a large stretch of country, but is thought unlikely to affect vaccine effectiveness or make virus more contagious or dangerous

Israelis wear protective face masks as they walk in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Cops said instructed not to enforce mask-wearing outdoors

Illustrative: A pregnant woman at a hospital. (iStock via Getty Images)

Pregnant mother and unborn baby die after contracting COVID-19

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas at the party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021. (Flash90)

‘He’ll renege’: Gantz meets Abbas, urges him to not back Netanyahu coalition

Blue and White leader, who partnered Netanyahu in short-lived unity government, warns Ra’am leader and Naftali Bennett that the PM just wants to use them, won’t keep promises

Naftali Bennett, head of Yamina party, arrives a polling station to cast his ballots during the Israeli legislative elections in Raanana on March 23, 2021. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Bennett demands PM role, as majority of Joint List expected to recommend Lapid

Left to right: Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Yamina party chief Naftali Bennett; and New Hope party head Gideon Sa'ar (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar could agree to government in which Lapid, Bennett rotate as PM — report

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File: Yair Lapid (R) seen with Naftali Bennett at the Knesset in March 2013. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Israel media reviewThe bloc-less monster: What the media is saying about infighting and outflanking

By Joshua Davidovich

Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma. (Bahrain Foreign Ministry)

Bahrain appoints ambassador to Israel following 2020 Abraham Accords

Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma named as envoy; Israel says arrangements to be made ‘in the coming weeks,’ though embassy location remains unclear

A medic prepares a vaccine at Meuhedet COVID-19 vaccination center in Kfar Habad, central Israel, on February 16, 2021. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu emerges after week-long silence to push Gantz on vaccine budget delay

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime minister joins health officials warning that Israel could lose its place in line if government doesn’t shell out the money to pharma companies fast

6:17 pm

In return to pre-Trump norm, State Dept report refers to 'occupied' territories
5:10 pm

Gantz to Netanyahu: You'll get vaccines when I get a justice minister
4:56 pm

Netanyahu makes rare appearance to warn of future vaccine shortage

Passengers seen at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel warns citizens they could be targeted by Iran, as outbound tourism renews

NSC advises caution following bombing at New Delhi embassy, names recent Gulf partners UAE and Bahrain among countries risky for Israelis

View of the empty Taba border crossing between Israeli and Egypt, as it seen from the southern Israeli city of Eilat, January 28, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel’s border crossing to Egypt reopens for first time since COVID-19 outbreak

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Iranian technician walks through the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2007. (Vahid Salemi/ AP/ File)

Iran rejects halting enriching uranium to 20% in return for some sanction relief

Top row (L-R) Osnat Mark, Ayoub Kara, Gabi Ashkenazi, Avi Nissenkorn; 2nd row (L-R) Miki Haimovich, Assaf Zamir, Omer Yankelevich, Tehila Friedman; 3rd row (L-R) Moshe Ya'alon, Ofer Shelah, Gadeer Mreeh, Tzvi Hauser; Bottom row (L-R) Amir Peretz, Itzhik Shmuli, Yitzhak Cohen, Iman Khatib-Yasin

Out with the old

Renegades, rabble-rousers, TV anchors, army chiefs: The MKs who won’t be back

Dozens depart in latest election’s political culling — from longest-serving lawmaker to some of the briefest, as well as 3 women of 3 faiths who each made history in their own way

Leader of the Religious Zionism party Bezalel Smotrich, on election night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Religious Zionism’s Smotrich says he’ll back Netanyahu as PM

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Anna Kozminska, a Polish woman believed to the be oldest living person recognized by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Kozminska died in March 2021 at age 101 (Polish Institute of National Remembrance)

Oldest surviving ‘Righteous Among Nations,’ who saved Jewish boy, dies age 101

Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 20, 2020. (Marcin Kozlowski/March of the Living)

Uproar in Poland over New Yorker article on efforts to stifle Holocaust studies

By Vanessa Gera

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.

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Elect, defect, repeat: Could turncoat MKs turn the tide and unjam the Knesset?

Each camp is tantalizingly close to outright victory. Each needs only a tiny handful of rebels from the other side. But they won’t be easy to find

A Likud supporter in front of a video of Benjamin Netanyahu at a party event in Jerusalem on March 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Stagnant or startling? The election by the numbers

If the Arabs had voted this time in the same numbers as in 2020, the Knesset margin would have been 66 to 54 in favor of the Change Camp

Haviva Ner-David

Let’s not forget we were strangers in Egypt

These joyful mikveh immersion celebrations show what’s possible when a sincere desire to be Jewish is welcomed with open arms

Then US Vice President Joe Biden on his way to speak to the press at the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool)

Analysis

Israel’s political instability hampering tighter cooperation with US — experts

More than the potential election of a leader Biden is politically at odds with, it’s the continued uncertainty that stymies the US president’s ability to expand ties, analysts say

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

Probe launched into megaship’s grounding, as Suez Canal backlog starts to clear

When the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal it halted billions of dollars a day in maritime commerce; over 300 vessels now waiting for permission to continue sailing

In this photo released by Suez Canal Authority, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship is accompanied by Suez Canal tugboats as it moves in the Suez Canal, Egypt, March 29, 2021. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

Jubilation in Egypt as Ever Given refloated, Suez Canal reopens to traffic

By AFP

The Panama-flagged MV Ever Given container ship, lodged sideways impeding traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal waterway, on March 29, 2021, before being freed later that day. (Ahmed HASAN / AFP)

While giant ship was stuck in Suez Canal, nearby village thrust into limelight

Palestinian Health worker takes samples for coronavirus at a health center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 16, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Report: Thousands in Gaza to get vaccine to be able to cross Israel to West Bank

By ToI Staff and AFP

Newspaper says international campaign funded by Qatar aims to inoculate 7,000 Gaza merchants who, prior to pandemic, were allowed to travel to West Bank; Israel said to be on board

Chinese Ambassador Guo Wei (L) speaks with Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila during the unloading of a shipment of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on March 29, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

Palestinian Authority receives 100,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine

By Aaron Boxerman

A medical worker of UNRWA gives a shot of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at UNRWA's clinic in the Rafah, in the southern Gaza, on March 3, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza enters second coronavirus wave, with 25% of tests coming back positive

By Aaron Boxerman

People walk on Jaffa street in downtown Jerusalem on March 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Overruling cabinet, Knesset decides to let Shin Bet COVID tracking expire

Committee head says that with virus spread ebbing, program’s contribution is ‘negligible,’ but open to renewing it if data changes

An Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on March 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry criticizes vaccine budget delay; Pfizer said miffed as well

Syringes filled with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop up site in the Queens borough of New York, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Pfizer and Moderna vaccines 90% effective in preventing COVID, US finds

By AP and ToI Staff

People clean tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean sea in Gador nature reserve near Hadera, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

21 years late, Environment Ministry issues draft bill on oil spill preparedness

Detailed memorandum, which spells out responsibilities of all bodies involved as well as fines for non-compliance, open for public comment until April 28

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Microsoft's campus in Herzliya, Israel, inaugurated in Nov. 2020 (Amit Geron)

Microsoft reportedly seeking to invest over $1 billion in Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Film director Woody Allen attends a press conference at La Scala opera house, in Milan, Italy, on July 2, 2019. (Luca Bruno/AP)

CBS condemns itself for giving Woody Allen ‘legitimacy’ in interview

By ToI Staff and Agencies

BioNTech, Pfizer’s vaccine partner, increases output goal to 2.5 billion doses

By AFP

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2021, file phot, former Vice President Mike Pence speaks after arriving back in his hometown of Columbus, Ind., as his wife Karen watches. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Pence lays groundwork for 2024 run after defying Trump over 2020 election

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

Women wear face mask as they waiting at the registration station of the Central Elections Commission to register their names to the electoral roll, at Gaza City, February 10, 2021. (Adel Hana/AP)

Hamas submits slate for planned Palestinian election

By AFP

Then-US president Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, North Carolina, July 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Mr (always) right‘Miss me yet?’: At wedding toast, Trump talks about himself

By AFP

Audrey Strauss, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US prosecutors add sex trafficking charges to Ghislaine Maxwell indictment

By Larry Neumeister

A car passes under a Lebanese flag with a picture of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon, August 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

US offers $10 million reward for info on Hezbollah operative

This file photo released July 19, 2020, on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma voting at a polling station in the parliamentary elections, in Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Presidency via AP)

Assad and wife recover from COVID-19, as Syria sees spike in cases

By Bassam Mroue

In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, accompanied by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin speaks as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Monday, March 29, 2021, in the trial of Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

Jurors shown video of George Floyd’s death as ex-cop goes on trial

By Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti

In this November 6, 2012, file photo, Sarah Obama, step-grandmother to then US President Barack Obama, speaks to the media in the garden of her home in the village of Kogelo, western Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Barack Obama’s step-grandmother, Mama Sarah, dies; was at least 99

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