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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 1, 2021

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No, really: Divided Israel awaits Islamic MK’s speech to set its political fate

After yet another election deadlock, as taboos and promises are broken, the Jewish state eyes the leader of a small Muslim party who may determine the nature of its next government

Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamist Ra'am party, prays in the northern town of Maghar on March 26, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

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

As sides court him, Ra’am chief says won’t compromise on national, civil rights

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)

Poll: 62% of voters who backed Netanyahu’s rivals want Bennett to form coalition

Rami Aman, a Palestinian Gazan peace activist, during an interview on the roof of his family house in Gaza City, February 10, 2021. (Adel Hana/AP)

After call with Israelis, Gaza activist tortured by Hamas, forced to divorce

Peace activist Rami Aman says he was arrested, subjected to painful physical abuse; his spouse, the daughter of terror group official, was spirited away to Egypt

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas speaks during a press conference in Nazareth, April 1, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ra’am chief calls for Jewish-Arab cooperation, doesn’t rule out any Knesset bloc

By Michael Bachner

‘More unites us than separates us,’ Islamist leader Mansour Abbas says in widely anticipated address; adds he isn’t ‘blinded’ by kingmaker status, doesn’t say whom he’ll back as PM

6:29 pm

Labor leader calls on Mansour Abbas to go with anti-Netanyahu bloc
6:15 pm

Israel to stop security coordination with Palestinians if Hamas wins election -- military liaison
6:11 pm

Top Haredi rabbi says Arabs are better political partners than the left

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the interim justice minister, arrives at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Judiciary facing disarray as Netanyahu prevents appointment of justice minister

By Raoul Wootliff

Benny Gantz’s term as interim minister expires at midnight amid a government fight over a permanent replacement, just days before evidentiary stage begins in PM’s corruption trial

Head of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz, right, and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid speak to supporters in Tel Aviv, on February 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Gantz seeks Netanyahu’s suspension as PM for failing to appoint justice minister

In this file photo taken on August 25, 2006, Egyptians wave their national flag from a balcony as they bid farewell to the Ramses II colossal statue at Talat Harb Square, as it's moved from the polluted capital city Cairo to a spot near the Pyramids in Giza, closer to its original site (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Mummy march

Egypt set for pharaohs’ parade as remains taken to new location

By Emmanuel Parisse

18 kings and 4 queens will travel in order, oldest first, each aboard a separate float as they are moved for display at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization

Grammy-winning performer Joanie Leeds in New York City (courtesy)

Interview

Meet Joanie Leeds, kids’ bday star turned Grammy-winning, girl-power sensation

By Matt Lebovic

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)

Netanyahu set to appear in court Monday after prosecution insists

PM’s attorneys say he’ll be on hand when evidentiary phase of corruption trial starts, but shouldn’t have to be present for first witness’s testimony

Yair Netanyahu, son of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on March 10, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

PM’s son intimates Channel 12 second only to Nazi propaganda in ‘damage to Jews’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on February 8, 2021. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

Netanyahu lawyers ask court to excuse PM from attending trial hearings next week

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing April 1 – Israeli political deadlock brings diplomatic challenges

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

Likud ministers Yariv Levin (R) and Miri Regev arrive for a meeting with Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MKs turn on Rivlin, claim he’s abusing his powers in bid to oust Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Joint List's Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi give a statement after their meeting with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2021. (Screen grab)

Joint List’s Odeh and Tibi meet with Lapid, say they could back him for PM

Arab faction leaders and Yesh Atid chief discuss controversial nation-state law, violence in Arab towns; meeting comes as head of rival Ra’am set to give primetime address

Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference, March 31, 2021. (Channel 13 News)

Netanyahu to Bennett, Sa’ar: ‘Come home’ to right-wing coalition led by Likud

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Rabbi Chaim Druckman, right and MK Naftali Bennett attend the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party, February 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Top religious Zionist rabbi evasive on prospect of coalition backed by Islamists

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, December 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Pfizer: Vaccine 91% effective after 6 months, protects against S. Africa strain

By AFP and ToI Staff

Updated data shows that coronavirus immunization poses no serious safety concerns

Vials of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine arrive at a Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel ready to vaccinate adolescents as soon as FDA approves

By Stuart Winer

Vials of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a fridge at the local vaccine center in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany, March 22, 2021. (Matthias Schrader/AP)

Despite rare blood clot fears, EU backs continued use of AstraZeneca vaccine

By Frank Jordans

Daniel Staetsky

An ode to matza

When I was a child in the USSR, nobody knew why we ate this unusual burnt thing, or even that it was instead of bread, but it was tangible and through it, we ’kept’ Passover

Carol Silver Elliott

Mourning the person who is here, but no longer the same

My mother-in-law used to memorize license plate numbers just to keep her brain engaged. Now she doesn’t know me

US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, March 30, 2021. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Biden quietly giving Palestinians $75 million to help regain ‘trust’ after Trump

After announcing $15m aid to fight COVID, State Department, with no public announcement, notifies Congress of further funds, apparently to encourage PA to return to peace table

A Palestinian carries a box of vegetable oil as he walks past bags of flour on a truck donated by USAID, or the United States Agency for International Development, at a depot in the West Bank village of Anin near Jenin, June 4, 2008 (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

US gov’t watchdog: Aid agency did not properly vet Palestinians for terror ties

By JTA and AP

View of the Jewish settlement of Eli, in the West Bank, on January 17, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

State Dept. confirms US views Israel’s control over West Bank as ‘occupation’

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Nasser al-Kidwa arrives at the Central Elections Committee in Ramallah to present a list of candidates for the Palestinian legislative elections in May (Screenshot: Al-Jazeera)

In major challenge to Abbas, Barghouti, Arafat nephew form joint slate for vote

By Aaron Boxerman

Shakeup could severely weaken Fatah and help its rivals in Hamas terror group, raises chances election will be nixed; former PA prime minister Fayyad registers his own list

(L) Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman (Miriam Alster/Flash90) and (R) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Alaa Badarneh/Pool Photo via AP)

Abbas said to tell Shin Bet head he won’t call off elections: ‘You built Hamas’

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda waits for former Congo vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to enter the court room of the International Criminal Court to stand trial with Aime Kilolo Musamba, Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, Fidele Babala Wandu and Narcisse Arido, on charges including corruptly influencing witnesses by giving them money and instructions to provide false testimony, and presenting false evidence, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015. (AP/Peter Dejong/File)

US said set to remove sanctions from ICC chief prosecutor, imposed under Trump

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Idit Kischinovsky, one of 48 artists who participated in Jerusalem gallery Kol HaOt's Creative Quarantine project, launched in January 2021, during Israel's third lockdown (Courtesy Yaal Herman, yaalherman.com)

Confined to ‘creative quarantine,’ artists transform rabbinic wisdom into art

By Jessica Steinberg

Virus czar: No point in people wearing masks outside alone

Ash says officials to discuss matter after Passover, adds that talks underway to expand normal classroom instruction for 11th-, 12th-graders

A street in Tel Aviv during the Passover holiday, March 30, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

A Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Vaccination stagnation: Only about 6,000 Israelis a day now getting first shots

By Nathan Jeffay

Israelis enjoy the day in Wolfson Park, outside of Tel Aviv, during the Jewish holiday of Passover, March 31, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Active COVID-19 cases drop to lowest level since June 2020

Amit Re'em of the Israel Antiquities Authority examines crosses engraved into a wall at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (video screenshot)

Israeli researchers claim to solve mystery of engraved crosses at Holy Sepulchre

Archaeologists have long wondered at the source of thousands of etchings on walls of ancient Old City church; imaging technology may provide answers

Part of an item seized by Turkish police on March 26, 2021. (Turkish police)

Police in Turkey claim to find, seize 2,000-year-old Torah scroll

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A pro-Trump mob gathers inside the Senate chamber in the U.S. Capitol after groups stormed the building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Some Capitol riot suspects apologize, as consequences of their actions sink in

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and Michael Tarm

For many, ramifications of assault on democratic institutions include potential job losses, financial ruin and possible time behind bars

A statement of facts document presented to the United States District Court in the case against Garret Miller is photographed on Monday, March 29, 2021 (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Capitol rioter who allegedly tweeted ‘Assassinate AOC’ awaits charges

By Michael Kunzelman

Raymond Duda, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, speaks as he stands next to a poster that was mailed earlier in the year to the home of Chris Ingalls, an investigative reporter with KING-TV in Seattle, Feb. 26, 2020, during a news conference in Seattle (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

US judge: Transgender ex-neo-Nazi suffered enough, won’t be jailed for threats

By Gene Johnson

More Headlines

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, pose for a picture after signing an agreement in the capital Tehran, on March 27, 2021. Iran and China signed what state television called a "25-year strategic cooperation pact" on today as the US rivals move closer together. (AFP)

Despite huge Iran-China deal, US insists Beijing shares aim to curb nuke program

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Joel Greenberg, bearing his tax collector badge and a sidearm, appears in a TV news report about his legal troubles in Seminole County, Florida, Jan. 25, 2021. (YouTube via JTA)

The guy who tarred Matt Gaetz: Joel Greenberg, accused of child sex trafficking

From right: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand hold a banner at the march against anti-Semitism in New York City, Jan. 5, 2020. (John Lamparski/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

1/4 of US Jews personally experienced anti-Semitism since 2016 — ADL

Moldova's midfielder Vadim Rata and Israel's defender Eitan Tibi vie for the ball during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification football match Moldova v Israel at Zimbru stadium in Chisinau on March 31, 2021. (Bogdan TUDOR / AFP)

Israel scores 4-1 win over Moldova in soccer World Cup qualifier

Illustrative image of cancer cells (Design Cells; iStock by Getty Images)

Immuno-oncology startup KAHR to work with Philadelphia university on new drugs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A man in a mask and protective gear stands near a banner depicting a Holocaust-era yellow Star of David, in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Some US, UK conservatives liken vaccine passports to Holocaust yellow star

Alison Chabloz. (Screen capture: YouTube)

From our partnerHolocaust denier jailed in UK for barrage of online anti-Semitic abuse

The website of the Nordic Resistance Movement features a picture of dolls hanged outside the synagogue of Norrkoping, Sweden, March 28, 2021. (NRM via JTA)

Baby dolls splashed with red paint strung outside Swedish synagogue

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, right, unveils a sign that will be placed at the Kosovo embassy Jerusalem when it opens in the future, Jerusalem, February 1, 2021. (Courtesy)

Kosovo FM says country’s embassy staying in Jerusalem: ‘It’s a done deal’

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI

Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959 (US Department of Justice)

Germany closes case against ex-Nazi guard, 95, citing lack of evidence

By AFP

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