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What Matters Most On Monday, April 5, 2021

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Court sketch of Ilan Yeshua in the Jerusalem District Court, April 5, 2021. (Biana Zakutnik)

Ex-CEO of top news site: Skewed coverage of Netanyahu was part of quid pro quo

By Judah Ari Gross

Ilan Yeshua details orders to fire top editor, bury negative stories, smear rivals, all coming from PM’s aides; says Walla owners made clear their business interests were at stake

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Jerusalem District Court for the evidentiary stage of his corruption trial, April 5, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

On defendant’s bench, Netanyahu accused of ‘severe governmental corruption’

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

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)

Political fate in balance, Netanyahu in court at start of trial’s evidence stage

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits at a hearing in his corruption trial at Jerusalem District Court, April 5, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

President’s consultations with parties end; Netanyahu picks up most nominations

New Hope, Joint List, Ra’am abstain; Likud leader has 52 backers, Lapid has 45 and Bennett has 7; president will task best-positioned candidate with forming government by Wednesday

6:35 pm

With 7 more endorsements than Lapid, Netanyahu well-placed for first try at forming coalition
6:18 pm

Potential kingmaker Ra'am declines to endorse candidate for PM
5:46 pm

Lapid says he made offer to Bennett to be PM first in rotation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the courtroom at Jerusalem District Court on April 5, 2021, during his corruption trial. (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 5 – Split screen: Netanyahu on trial as Rivlin holds court

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

Members of the Likud party meet with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021, as Rivlin began consulting political leaders to decide who to task with trying to form a new government (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meeting parties, Rivlin says he ‘can’t currently see a way to form a coalition’

President hints at ‘value-based considerations’ in choice, says he may not give 2nd person a chance; reprimands Likud’s Ohana for speaking against PM’s trial: ‘I can’t accept it’

President Reuven Rivlin hosts an event for Holocaust survivors ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin meets with party representatives to hear their preferred candidate for PM

A COVID-19 vaccination center in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vaccines shown to protect even those who don’t get them — Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

Just as doctors hoped, COVID shots aren’t just helping the inoculated, but also providing ‘cross-protection’ to the rest, new research finds

Illustrative: Students wearing face masks return to school in Yad Mordechai, on March 7, 2021. (Flash90)

2 million students return to schools, not yet fully reopened

The Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, on April 8, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

65 people diagnosed with COVID after attending mass Bedouin wedding

Human brain development and eating habits (Dr. Miki Ben-Dor)

For 2 million years, humans ate meat and little else — study

Tel Aviv University researchers says Stone Age humans were apex predators, only moved to more plant-based diet 85,000 years ago

Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)

Despite calls for reform, imports of live animals for meat up 51% this quarter

The Al-Quds Declaration on Antisemitism

This one is much better than the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism because, well, the name ’Jerusalem’ is racist. WARNING: SATIRE AHEAD

It’s time to heal Jewish-Arab relations in Israel

MK Mansour Abbas challenged Jewish Israelis to engage with the Arab community, and we must. There are plenty of partners for peace to be found

Fifth elections will be good for the country

If the 4 apparent changes in Israeli society that are apparent from the last election are cultivated between now and the next one, we can expect a healthy outcome, at last

Work-from-home nation

So much of that now empty office space in Israel’s cities could be put to better use… like apartments!

Yamina party leader MK Naftali Bennett attends a Channel 12 news conference in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina nominates party head Bennett to be next PM, though no one else does

By ToI Staff and AP

Right-wing leader opts not to ally himself with either Netanyahu or Lapid at this stage, appearing to deepen parliamentary deadlock

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid during a ceremony at Netiv Ha'avot, at the West Bank's Elazar settlement, on July 23, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Lapid, Bennett said to reach breakthrough on rotation deal for joint government

By Raoul Wootliff

File: Alon Davidi, mayor of the southern city of Sderot, attends a press conference in Jerusalem, March 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Yamina No. 3 Alon Davidi quits incoming Knesset before being sworn in

By Raoul Wootliff

Ra'am party leader Mahmoud Abbas (David Cohen / Flash90); The charter of the Southern Islamic Movement

Document

Ra’am’s guiding charter backs Palestinian right of return, calls Zionism racist

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, walking in a hospital, on May 21, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter)

PA President Abbas heads to Germany for ‘routine’ medical treatment

By Aaron Boxerman

No official comment from Ramallah as to leader’s condition, but it would not be the first time Abbas has gone to Germany for a checkup

PA President Mahmoud Abbas attends a leadership meeting at his headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 3, 2020. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool Photo via AP)

36 Palestinian lists approved to run in May legislative elections

By AFP and ToI Staff

A protester holds symbolic scales of justice outside the District Court in Jerusalem, as Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

No justice minister, no peace (and forget about pardons or proposed laws)

By Tal Schneider

In Israel, only the justice minister can okay extraditions, allow people out of jail early or approve government legislation. It’s been nearly a week since Israel has had one

Illustrative: Israelis march in protest against then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the entrance to Jerusalem, on January 30, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

High Court: Protest limits during 2nd lockdown were unlawful, all fines annulled

Jordan's then Crown Prince Hamzah, left, with his mother Queen Noor, right, during his wedding ceremony in Amman, Jordan, May 27, 2004. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Defiant Jordanian prince vows he won’t obey house arrest restrictions

By AFP

Hamzah, accused of plotting against his half-brother the king, says he’ll refuse to abide by orders confining him to palace and barring communicating with others

ProfileWho is Jordan’s ex-crown prince Hamzah, accused of destabilizing kingdom?

By AFP

Israeli offered to send jet to evacuate detained Jordan prince’s family: reports

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jordan: King’s half-brother was part of ‘malicious plot’ threatening security

By AP

Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles invested in remote learning technology during the pandemic. In the fall, students located in Arizona will begin to attend Shalhevet classes via video. (Courtesy/Tushar Dwivedi via JTA)

Students in Arizona, teachers in LA: Jewish high school plans post-COVID future

The 45 entrepreneurs of the second cycle of Starting Up Together at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation on February 28, 2019 (Roei Hirsch)

A decade post-Arab Spring, Startup Nation program aims to build ‘Startup Region’

By Jake Epstein

60 young participants from across the Mideast and North Africa are working in Starting Up Together, an online hub, to develop ideas that can have an social impact

Participants in the 2021 Techstars accelerator program, April 4, 2021 (Yoni Wolf)

Techstars kicks off new startup cohort for accelerator program

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

People walk by a homeless man sleeping on the street, near cafes in the center of Jerusalem. November 10, 2013. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90/File)

12-year-old boy suspected of murdering homeless man

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Girl dies as dune buggy overturns; pedestrian killed in Jerusalem 7-car pileup

An air traffic controller directs an Oron spy aircraft down a runway at the Nevatim air base in southern Israel on April 4, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF receives new spy plane it says will help gather intel in Iran, Yemen, Iraq

By Judah Ari Gross

On Feb. 26, 2021 Secretary Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Pool, File)

Ahead of Israeli Holocaust remembrance, Blinken speaks of duty to stop evil

By Stuart Winer

An elderly couple walk in a public park in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, April 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli scientist looks to genes to predict healthy aging

A woman wearing a face mask attends Easter Sunday Mass led by Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Singing hymns through masks: World’s Christians mark another pandemic Easter

By Frances D'Emilio

Zebulon Simantov reads a prayer book before celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 18, 2009. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images/File via JTA)

Afghanistan’s last known Jew is leaving for Israel

By Gabe Friedman

Egypt's first female ship's captain, Marwa Elselehdar. (Instagram Photo/@marwa.elselehdar)

Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was falsely blamed for Suez crisis

An IDF soldier at a temporary checkpoint in Jerusalem to check that Israelis are not violating restrictions meant to contain the coronavirus, April 2, 2020. (Nati Shohat//Flash90)

IDF troops allowed to go maskless outdoors in new pilot program

By Judah Ari Gross

Rabbi Robert Marx in video for the 50th anniversary of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs on June 16, 2014. (Screen capture:
JCUA Chicago/ Youtube)

Rabbi Robert Marx, pioneering Chicago civil rights activist, dies at 93

By Gabe Friedman

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