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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 7, 2021

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A municipal worker cleans swastikas spray painted on columns of the Rivoli Street in central Paris, on October 11, 2020. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)

Pandemic fueled anti-Semitism, with vaccine firm heads likened to Nazis – study

By Agencies and ToI Staff

On Holocaust Remembrance Day eve, TAU researchers say that while lockdowns led to drop in physical attacks, conspiracies flourished online about outbreak being Israeli, Jewish plot

Holocaust survivor Motti Liber, 88, receives care from a volunteer on the premises of the Yad Ezer L'Haver foundation, which supports survivors of the Holocaust by providing them food as well as medical and psychological assistance, in Haifa on January 24, 2021. (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Over half of Israel’s Holocaust survivors require food handouts — survey

Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish men walk through a Brooklyn neighborhood on September 29, 2020 in New York. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Orthodox Jewish couple alleges New York City housing discrimination

By Larry Neumeister

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a ceremony marking 10 years since the first Iron Dome interception at a missile battery in central Israel on April 7, 2021. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Quizzed on Iran ship blast, Gantz says Israel acts ‘wherever there’s a need’

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister refuses to comment on specific case; remarks come after US official attributes mine attack on alleged Revolutionary Guard ship directly to Israeli naval commandos

A suspicious boat off the stern of the Iranian ship 'Saviz' in the Red Sea in 2018. (Al Arabiya video screenshot/File)

Israeli forces carried out strike on Iran spy ship in Red Sea, NY Times reports

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The Iranian ship 'Saviz' in the Red Sea, in 2018. (Al Arabiya video screenshot)

Iran: Ship attacked in Red Sea in hit attributed to Israel was damaged by blast

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Interview'I felt like the granddaughter that they couldn’t have'

Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘The Light of Days,’ author Judy Batalion tells the extraordinary tale of myriad brave females who took leading roles in clandestine, armed struggle in ghettos and forests

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 7, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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Netanyahu says won’t be bound by ‘Iran deal that threatens us with annihilation’

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, PM also rails against the ICC, formed in the image of Nuremberg courts but now ‘defending those who trample on human rights’

11:58 am

High Court issues ruling likely denying BDS-backing prof Israel Prize this year
6:32 pm

Biden affirms backing for two-state solution in Mideast
6:29 pm

US restores aid to UNRWA with $150 million in funds; Israel 'disappointed'

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing Apr. 7 – Rivlin taps Netanyahu for another Catch-22 coalition

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Elderly Nazis and ‘misplaced sympathy syndrome’

Don’t worry about the frail old men who are finally being tried for crimes they committed when they weren’t frail or old; it’s their victims who need your compassion

The families that were torn apart

Despite the uncertainties and privations of war, parents, children, and extended family members hoped and prayed for a better tomorrow

The working definition of anti-Semitism needs no rewrite

The definition does not curb speech or equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, it offers guidelines to help understand where speech crosses a line

The half-baked hazards of simplifying the Holocaust

Efforts to ’confront’ the Shoah have led to junk science, distortions, and erasure of the historical record. And no, my father didn’t have ’survivor syndrome’

Ilan Yeshua at the Jerusalem District Court for a court hearing in the corruption case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Netanyahu trial

PM’s aides had veto over top roles at Walla, Yeshua says in 3rd day of testimony

By Michael Bachner

As graft trial continues in Jerusalem, news site’s ex-CEO says he was warned negative coverage of Netanyahu would hurt Bezeq, claiming implication of quid pro quo deal was ‘clear’

Ilan Yeshua arrives at the Jerusalem District Court in Jerusalem for a hearing in the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Netanyahu trialOn day 2 of testimony, Yeshua describes effort to hide PM’s alleged quid pro quo

By Raoul Wootliff

Joint List MK Sami Abu Shehadeh during the swearing-in ceremony of the 24th Knesset in Jerusalem, April 6, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Joint List MKs spark outcry in Knesset ceremony with oath to fight ‘occupation’

During swearing-in process, Arab lawmakers substitute traditional commitment to serve Israel and the Knesset with pledges to fight ‘apartheid,’ ‘racism’

President Reuven Rivlin at the swearing-in of the 24th Knesset, on April 6, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

At 24th Knesset’s swearing-in, Rivlin pleads with lawmakers to end deadlock

Hundreds of people demonstrate during a swearing-in ceremony of the new Knesset in Jerusalem on April 6, 2021, against a group of newly elected lawmakers who oppose gay rights (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

As anti-gay MKs sworn in, activists fear ‘step backwards’ on LGBT rights

By Nir Kafri and Alexandra Vardi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with fellow MKs during the swearing-in ceremony of the 24th Knesset, April 6, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Netanyahu to meet Bennett Thursday, vows to seek end to ‘cycle of elections’

By Alexander Fulbright

Officially tasked with forming government, Likud leader reportedly trying to enlist ‘defectors;’ also said considering coalition backed from outside by both Smotrich, Ra’am’s Abbas

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid at the Channel 12 "Influencers Conference" in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Lapid urges ‘leap of faith’ to build ‘national consensus government’

Steven M. Cohen speaks at the Stanford University humanities center in 2016. (YouTube screenshot)

MeToo in the Jewish world'The discussions are moot if he hasn't repented'

Female Jewish scholars slam closed-door Zoom meetings with disgraced sociologist

By Cathryn J. Prince

US academic Steven M. Cohen was accused of sexual misconduct in 2018; the recent discussions on contemporary Jewish topics are being called an attempt at undeserved rehabilitation

Healthcare workers take on a stretcher a patient suspected of having COVID-19 from an ambulance, at the HRAN public hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, March 23, 2021 (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

1 in 3 of COVID survivors suffer long-term mental, neurological problems – study

By Patrick Galey

Largest study so far on long COVID’s toll shows higher incidence of anxiety, hemorrhages and strokes within 6 months of recovery

A doctor prepares to administer the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in London, January 7, 2021. (Kirsty O'Connor/POOL/AFP)

AstraZeneca UK vaccine trial in children paused as clot link probed

By AFP

US President Joe Biden visits a vaccination site at Virginia Theological Seminary, April 6, 2021, in Alexandria, Virginia (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says all adult Americans to be eligible for vaccine by April 19

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Alexandra Jaffe

Gal Gadot arrives at the Oscars on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Joss Whedon reportedly threatened Gal Gadot’s career on set of ‘Justice League’

Writer-director said to have told Israeli star to ‘shut up and say the lines’ during tense filming of 2017 superhero movie

Actress Helen Mirren talks to media during a news conference during the 70th International Film Festival Berlin, Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Helen Mirren to play Golda Meir in upcoming movie ‘Golda’

By Gabe Friedman

Amin Israil (bottom), the grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan and whose family later converted to Islam, his daughter Salma (L), and Yosar Basha (R), another Sudanese woman descended of Jewish origins, pose for a photo together at Israil's home during an interview with AFP in Wad Madani, the capital of Sudan's east-central al-Jazirah state, on February 11, 2021. - The Jewish community in Sudan was one of the smallest in the Middle East, but it, like those of other Arab states, dwindled in the latter half of the 20th century, as tensions surrounding the 1948 creation of Israel permeated the region. Like elsewhere in the Arab world, Sudanese Jews bore the brunt of growing anti-Israel sentiment amid conflict with the Jewish state. Decades later, their descendants see a recent rapprochement between their country and Israel as an opportunity to connect with their origins. (Photo by Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)

With normalization, Sudanese who descended from Jews hope to connect with Israel

Jewish community is long gone, but some citizens hope rapprochement will be sealed with approval of transitional legislature so they can get back in touch with their Jewish roots

Sudanese ministers vote to annul Israel boycott law amid normalization drive

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside of Bushehr, Iran, January 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno, File)

US, Iran report progress in ‘constructive’ first talks on rescuing nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Washington and Tehran open indirect discussions on 2015 accord; both sides, and European mediators, issue cautious praise of initial efforts; Iran still insists on sanctions relief

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin listens as his Indian counterpart reads out a press statement in New Delhi, India, March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

US defense chief Lloyd Austin to visit Israel next week — report

Abbas Araghchi, political deputy at the Iranian foreign ministry, arrives at the Grand Hotel in Vienna on April 6, 2021, where diplomats of the EU, China, Russia and Iran will hold nuclear talks. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Talks on Iran deal begin in Vienna, as world powers seek to bring US back in

In this photo taken on February 2, 2020, a child stands next to a sack of flour as people come to receive food aid from a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) distribution center in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

White House again quietly boosts aid to Palestinians; some in Congress cry foul

Biden administration announces tens of millions in aid to Palestinians for third time in two weeks; some Republicans preparing to challenge move

Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against former US president Donald Trump, Dec. 17, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Alcee Hastings, Black congressman who led advocacy on Jewish issues, dies at 84

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Israelis enjoy the beach on a hot spring day, in Tel Aviv, April 6, 2021.(Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ministers expected to lift more restrictions as virus rates continue to slide

Joint List party member MK Hanin Zoabi in the Knesset plenum on July 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Firebrand former MK Hanin Zoabi to be charged with fraud over party finances

(L-R) Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller, planning the investigation of the bomb assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Munich, 1939. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R98680/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA 3.0)

New records reveal Hitler’s Austrian SS chief escaped punishment with US backing

Two dead dolphins found on Israel's Mediterranean coast await autopsy at the Morris Kahn Center for Marine Research, April 6, 2021. (Dr Aviad Sheinin)

Two dead dolphins, dead turtle wash up on Israeli shores

Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at the Birthright Israel gala event in Jerusalem, June 27, 2018. (Courtesy Birthright Israel/Oren Ben Hakun)

Miriam Adelson becomes richest Israeli as COVID year boosts world’s billionaires

Yale University campus (CC BY-Poldavo/Flickr)

KvellingYale to offer beginner Yiddish courses to fulfill language requirements

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, is interviewed by Michael Miller, head of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, April 1, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez meets with top NYC Jewish group for 1st time in office

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A Jewish family is temporarily kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Spirit Airlines temporarily kicks Jewish family off plane over toddler’s mask

By Gabe Friedman

Intel Corp. unveils its highest-performing data-center processor, Ice Lake Server, sired in Israel (Intel Corp)

Intel unveils highest performing data-center processors, made with Israel team

By Shoshanna Solomon

Left to right: Dima Kagan, Eugene Geht, and Amit Israel, founders of Cyberfish (Courtesy)

US firm Cofense to buy Israel’s Cyberfish to better detect and avert phishing

By Shoshanna Solomon

Innoviz shares start trading on Nasdaq on April 6, 2021, after its merger with a SPAC was completed. (Courtesy)

Innoviz shares surge on Nasdaq in first trading day after SPAC merger

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Qualitest team in Petah Tikva, February 2020 (Courtesy)

Qualitest buys Israel-based Comply to gain edge in pharma software testing

By Shoshanna Solomon

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