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What Matters Most On Friday, April 9, 2021

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, third from left, poses with the Duke of Edinburgh, left, Queen Elizabeth II, right, Israeli President Ezer Weizman and his wife Reuma at a State Banquet in their honor at Buckingham Palace, London, in this February 25, 1997 file photo. (AP Photo/John Stillwell/pool)

‘Much missed:’ Israeli leaders, UK chief rabbi mourn death of Prince Philip

Netanyahu hails Duke of Edinburgh as ‘consummate public servant’; Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis remembers royal’s ‘affection for’ Jewish community, notes his mother’s burial in Israel

In this file photo taken on July 17, 2002, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh chat while seated during a musical performance in the Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, during her Golden Jubilee visit to Suffolk, east of England. (Fiona HANSON / POOL / AFP)

UK’s Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, dies at 99

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Taglit-Birthright participants visit at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 18, 2014. (Flash90/File)

Health Ministry weighing permits to allow tourist groups back into Israel

Unnamed official notes political sensitivities surrounding recognition of vaccination passes from nations using shots not approved by Israel, such as UAE’s use of Chinese doses

Israelis at a cafe in Tel Aviv, on April 07, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel will fully reopen in a month if no new rise in contagion, virus czar says

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

Israel’s Health Ministry: US, France pose ‘very high’ risk for virus mutations

Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia and RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum visit the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Birmingham, Alabama, after meeting with workers and organizers involved in the facility's unionization effort, March 5, 2021. (Megan Varner/Getty Images/JTA)

Interview'Workers are dehumanized and mistreated'

Meet the longtime Jewish labor activist going up against Amazon in Alabama

By Andrew Lapin

Stuart Appelbaum speaks about his Jewish roots and what the fight against the mammoth online retailer has changed in the American labor movement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett (L) at the Knesset on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media review

Brotation speculation: What the press says about the bizarre coalition bazaar

By Joshua Davidovich

The number of ideas for various parties to find a way to build a coalition are more numerous than stars in the sky, but few think any of them are truly realistic

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett arrives for coalition talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the PM's official residence in Jerusalem, on April 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Bennett to meet again after ‘positive’ talks at PM’s residence

Joint List MK Ofer Cassif during the swearing-in ceremony of the 24th Knesset in Jerusalem, April 6, 2021. (Screenshot: Knesset Channel)

Joint List MKs face sanctions over Knesset ceremony oath to fight ‘occupation’

Promoted Content

Israeli startup’s precision robots poised to transform brain surgery

Prof. Moshe Shoham, founder of Mazor Robotics, acquired for $1.64 billion, will speak about his new company Tamar Robotics on Monday, April 12

The newly discovered 'lost city' near Luxor in Egypt (Courtesy/ Zahi Hawass Center For Egyptology)

Whole neighborhoods uncovered; 'tombs with treasures' sought

Egypt says it has uncovered a vast, untouched, 3,000 year-old ‘lost golden city’

By AFP

Archeologists hail unearthing near Luxor of ‘largest ancient city,’ call it the most important discovery since tomb of Tutankhamun and a window into the ancient world

Replica of a horse painting from a cave in Lascaux (CC via Wikipedia)

Stoned AgeIsraeli study: Prehistoric cave painters may have been hallucinating

Is Holocaust art possible? A murderous shade of blue is one painter’s answer

By Jessica Steinberg

Yishai Jusidman’s ‘Prussian Blue’ series, being exhibited in Israel for the first time, utilizes a color found both in innocent pigments and the Zyklon B gas used by the Nazis

‘Not too late to show gratitude’: Group offers new home to WWII rescuers of Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March of the Living honors medical workers leading COVID fight

By AP and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a cermony in Sha’ar Hagai, marking 80 years since the formation of the Palmach, on April 9, 2021. (Ministry of Defense)

Israel submits formal response to ICC as Gantz slams ‘blind and unjust’ decision

Defense minister says he believes ‘truth will come to light,’ a day after the Jewish state decided to officially reject war crimes probe in a letter to Hague-based court

Demonstrators carry banners outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, rear, urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for alleged war crimes, The Hague on November 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

Israel to tell ICC: You don’t have authority to investigate us

Fast-track spirituality

Were Aaron’s sons trying to replicate a fiery, passionate, undisciplined, ecstatic encounter with the Divine that was the province of the prophets? (Shemini)

Yohanan Plesner

Knesset swearing-in ceremonies should be celebratory. This one wasn’t

The lack of any reason to celebrate was symbolized by the proceedings at the Jerusalem District Court, where the prime minister was charged with serious criminal offenses

Illustrative: The High Court of Justice convenes for a hearing on the Regulation Law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on June 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rules minister can temporary block Israel Prize for leftist math prof

By ToI Staff and AP

Ruling means Oded Goldreich, who has been accused of supporting boycotts of Israel, will not receive the award at next week’s ceremony

Israeli visit graves of fallen Israeli soldiers, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery on April 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

43 soldiers and civilians killed since last Memorial Day, taking total to 23,928

By Emanuel Fabian

Police forces operate in the northern town of Kamanneh following a suspected hate crime, on April 9, 2021. (Israel Police Spokesperson)

‘End assimilation’: Dozens of cars vandalized, wall graffitied in Arab town

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Shin Bet security service head Nadav Argaman at the 8th International UVID Conference at the Avenue Convention Center in Airport City, on November 7, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu extends Shin Bet head’s tenure by 4 months amid clash with Gantz

Argaman will stay on at security agency past May 2021, as defense minister says he refuses to allow PM to appoint national security adviser as successor

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends an event at the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Mandelblit warns lack of justice minister has ‘far-reaching’ consequences

Iranian Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi (Screen capture: YouTube)

Iranian military vows response to attack on ship in Red Sea

Armed forces spokesman says Iran probing who was behind the blast that struck alleged IRGC vessel; US official told NY Times that Israel did it

In this file photo taken on March 20, 2021 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin addresses a joint media briefing held in New Delhi. - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to Israel, Germany, Britain and the NATO headquarters in Belgium in the coming week for talks with government and military leaders, the Pentagon announced April 8, 2021. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)

Amid Iran tensions, US defense chief to visit Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Jordanian security forces stand on guard as protesters wave Jordanian flags and chant slogans during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Analysis

Jordan ‘coup’ no danger to Israel, but simmering discontent with king may be

Behind the palace intrigue between Abdullah and his half-brother are real frustrations among Jordanians toward a regime that Jerusalem sees as a key security bulwark

Diana Moukalled, a Lebanese journalist who closely follows social media checks the Clubhouse application, at her office in Beirut, Lebanon, April 7, 2021 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Loud debates, taboo topics, fun banter: Arab world finds outlet in Clubhouse

By Sarah El Deeb

Mahmoud Ezzat, a top Muslim Brotherhood leader, left, and Mohammed Badie, leader of Muslim Brotherhood leave a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, on May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Egypt jails top Muslim Brotherhood leader for life on murder, terror charges

By AFP

Meyers Leonard, center, distributes Passover dinners to Holocaust survivors and Jewish seniors in the Miami area with the help of Rabbi Pinny Andrusier, second from right. (Chabad of Southwest Broward via JTA)

Miami’s Jewish community embraces NBA player after apology for anti-Semitic slur

By CALEB A. GUEDES-REED

Community members give Meyers Leonard an opportunity for ‘teshuvah,’ or repentance, as he seeks to rehabilitate image following scandal that threatens to derail his career

Deni Avdija writes ‘remember’ in Hebrew on shoes to commemorate Holocaust

By JTA and ToI Staff

Collage of a number of Matnat Chaim's kidney donors. (Screenshot: Channel 13)

Israeli kidney donation nonprofit hits ‘world record-breaking’ 1,000 transplants

Matnat Chaim, which mainly facilitates altruistic living donor transplants between non-relatives, helps with 200 cases over past year since death of co-founder from COVID-19

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten speaks about education, January 9, 2017, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Interview'American Jews are now part of the ownership class'

US teachers union head Randi Weingarten has a vision to get kids back to school

By Laura Adkins

Firebrand leader has strong words for Jews who say unions are the obstacle as she attempts to get her group’s 1.7 million members into classrooms

Government eases virus restrictions at schools, ends capsules for 4th graders

More Headlines

Elliot Resnick, the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Press, among the Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Editor of Orthodox NY weekly Jewish Press identified as January 6 Capitol rioter

Former US President Donald Trump, right, greets Representative Lee Zeldin, center, and his wife Diana Zeldin, left, after arriving at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, New York, August 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jewish pro-Trump Republican Lee Zeldin announces run for New York governor

By Gabe Friedman

Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich holds a Torah scroll during the opening ceremony of the Babyn Yar synagogue in Kyiv, April 7, 2021. (Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center)

Collapsible synagogue opens in Ukraine’s Babyn Yar, site of Nazi mass grave

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a Holocaust memorial event in the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 8, 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Tibi walks out of Knesset Holocaust memorial event to protest ‘racist’ Ben Gvir

Maryland Del. Daniel Cox, sporting a mask with a Nuremberg trials theme, explains why he is voting against a law that would allow children to consent to mental health care, during a vote in Annapolis, April 8, 2021. (Maryland General Assembly video screenshot)

On Holocaust Remembrance Day GOP delegate likens mental health bill to Nazi laws

Illustrative image: A staff member at a Meuhedet COVID-19 vaccination center in Kfar Habad, central Israel, on February 16, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel’s secrecy on vaccines is causing supply uncertainty, says state adviser

By Nathan Jeffay

In this Wednesday, March 17, 2021 file photo, morning fog blankets a cemetery in West Virginia. The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic — the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according to preliminary government data. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Defying pandemic fears, US suicide numbers dropped sharply last year

Illustrative: A picture taken from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus shows a view of the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad on February 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

KKL-JNF said set to okay purchase of West Bank land for isolated settlements

US President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden issues orders in bid to combat US gun violence ‘epidemic’

By Sebastian Smith

Debra Barnes's friend Karen posted a photo of the yellow candles online -- without knowing one of them (left) was in memory of Debra's aunt. (Courtesy Jewish News)

From our partner1 in 6 million chance: Writer’s shock as friend gets aunt’s Shoah candle

By JOSH SALISBURY

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Malka Leifer appears in Australia court for hearing on child sex abuse charges

By AFP

Ali Adkidak, suspected in the robbery and the assault of Israeli chef Shalom Kadosh, arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on March 28, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Suspect charged in robbery, serious injury of world-famous chef Shalom Kadosh

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