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What Matters Most On Monday, April 12, 2021

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President Hassan Rouhani, second right, is shown new centrifuges and listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Massive blast said to totally destroy power to centrifuges

Iran blames Israel for Natanz attack, vows to ‘take revenge on the Zionists’

Nuclear official claims enrichment ongoing; Tehran claims person behind attack identified; FM Zarif says damage to centrifuges will lead to installation of more advanced versions

In this June 6, 2018, frame grab from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, three versions of domestically built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from Natanz, an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, in Iran. (IRIB via AP)

Natanz incident said to cause huge damage, set back Iran’s program by 9 months

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

President Hassan Rouhani, second right, is shown new centrifuges and listens to head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, while visiting an exhibition of Iran's new nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Ex-IDF intel chief after Natanz incident: Maximum pressure on Iran hasn’t worked

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, speaks with media while visiting the Natanz enrichment facility, in central Iran, November 4, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Intel officials say Mossad behind Natanz power cut; Iran calls it ‘terrorism’

By Judah Ari Gross

Alleged Israeli cyberattack said to strike serious blow to Iranian atomic program; security cabinet to meet next week to discuss recent exchanges with Tehran

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Ex-Mossad head: Political leaders want Iran sabotage attributed to Israel

A child wearing a face mask at the Kramim school in Jerusalem on November 1, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Health Ministry backs full reopening of schools, without pods

Ministers to meet on plan, which would only require students, teachers directly exposed to coronavirus carriers to get tested

6:33 pm

TV: Bomb at Natanz went off at 4 a.m., knocking out power
6:23 pm

Regeneron says antibody injection drastically reduced COVID-19 symptoms
5:53 pm

Israeli TV report: Advanced centrifuges damaged in Natanz blast

Defense Minister Benny Gantz stands in front of an F-35 fighter jet at the Nevatim air base on April 12, 2021. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Amid leaks, Gantz orders probe into ‘chatter’ on alleged Israeli strikes on Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister requests attorney general look into intelligence officials quoted by Israeli, foreign press on strike at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, fist-bumps US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel on April 12, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz: A future Iran nuclear deal can’t have ‘expiration dates’

By Judah Ari Gross

File: Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

After Natanz incident, EU warns against attempts to ‘undermine’ nuclear talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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Daily Briefing Apr. 12 – The latest twist in the plot of a real-life ‘Tehran’

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

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on April 6, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett says Likud can count on his party to back a right-wing government

But Yamina leader warns he will do everything to prevent fifth elections, leaving open option of joining anti-Netanyahu bloc if PM fails to set up a coalition

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

Report: Netanyahu gives up hope of Smotrich joining a Ra’am-backed coalition

Likud MK Miki Zohar seen at the Knesset, October 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu taps Likud fixer Miki Zohar to head key Knesset steering panel

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas gives a speech in the northern city of Nazareth, on April 1, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Courted by Likud, Ra’am adamant it will not back away from anti-Zionist charter

By Tal Schneider and Aaron Boxerman

Islamist party official says Netanyahu and Abbas have not spoken since election, calls reported overture for fresh Abbas speech to soften up Religious Zionism ‘very strange’

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

Analysis

After Saviz strike, Israel may be in dire straits trying to battle Iran at sea

Jerusalem appears to be wading deeper into a water fight with Tehran in the Red Sea, while remaining vulnerable in the Persian Gulf, with no guarantees the US will dive in to help

Iranian ship the Saviz in the Red Sea on April 11, 2021. (ImageSat International)

Satellite photo shows Iranian ship hasn’t moved since alleged Israeli hit

Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri in 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran demands South Korea release billions in funds frozen under US sanctions

By AFP

Molly Bernstein

Vaccines won’t be enough

In every community I visit with IsraAID, from Africa to Puerto Rico, I see the networks that bring people together. We need them for our global vaccination efforts to succeed

Calling any Jewish woman a ‘JAP’ is offensive — but not for the reason you think

It’s not just a word — it’s a searing symbol of hate. I have tried to gain the attention of Jews online to warn them of this slur, but to no avail

Former CEO of Walla news website Ilan Yeshua arrives for his testimony in the case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the District Court in Jerusalem, April 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At trial, Yeshua says Netanyahu was allowed to edit own interview to his liking

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the first session of the evidentiary stage of his trial at Jerusalem District Court on April 5, 2021.(Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

High Court accepts Netanyahu defense team’s request for more trial materials

Prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh arrives at court in Jerusalem for a hearing in the case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Prosecutor in Netanyahu case planned to quit to become a judge, but backtracked

Joint List MK files complaint after police beat him at protest

Ofer Cassif says violence against him was a symptom, a violation of the sovereignty and dignity of the Knesset

Joint List MK Ofer Cassif who was allegedly attacked by Israeli police officers during a protest, arrives to file a complaint at the Police Internal Investigations Department, in Jerusalem on April 11, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Full speech

Prince Philip: ‘My mother never mentioned’ that she saved 3 Jews from the Nazis

In poignant 1994 address at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, honoring his mother as Righteous Among The Nations, Duke of Edinburgh bewailed ‘man’s capacity for inhumanity’

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)

Queen Elizabeth says Prince Philip’s death has left ‘a huge void’ in her life

By Callum PATON

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wears a mask upon his arriving to head the Palestinian leadership meeting at his headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, Pool)

Outgoing IDF liaison: PA’s Abbas a partner, we should have behaved differently

COGAT head Kamil Abu Rukun says Palestinian leader has proved he is against violence; was concerned annexation could have led to change in Palestinian Authority’s situation

Illustrative: IDF soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel to close West Bank, Gaza crossings for Memorial Day, Independence Day

By Judah Ari Gross

Izz al-Din Nidal al-Batsh, 14, who was allegedly struck by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces, in St. John's Hospital of the Eye in Jerusalem (screenshot)

Palestinian bystander, 14, loses eye from rubber bullet allegedly fired by IDF

By Aaron Boxerman

Izz al-Din, 14, was in a vegetable shop Friday when Israeli soldiers used rubber bullets against protesters nearby; IDF neither confirms nor denies Israeli fire led to injury

JNF chairman Danny Atar at lookout point, during a visit in the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion, in the West Bank on December 20, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

KKL-JNF leadership approves purchase of West Bank land for isolated settlements

Screen capture from video of Sumaya Mansour speaking with official Palestinian TV. (Twitter)

Witnesses back woman against IDF claim husband shot dead to prevent car-ramming

A view of the University of Iowa campus (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

The debate over Judaism and Zionism that roiled, then unified University of Iowa

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Security forces inspect the scene where a man died in a car explosion in Holon, on April 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Bombed cars, shooting leave two dead, one injured in suspected gangland violence

By Stuart Winer

Theater director Michal Bat-Adam protests Education Minister Yoav Gallant while accepting the Israel Prize, April 11, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

In acceptance speech, Israel Prize winner protests blocking professor’s award

The Carlton Tavern seen before it was demolished in 2015 (CC BY-SA Oxyman/Wikimedia commons)

Historic London pub to reopen six years after being bulldozed by Israeli company

By ToI Staff and AP

Students take part in a lesson in their makeshift outdoor classroom in the coastal city of Ashkelon, February 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Ministers set to discuss further easing of restrictions on education system

Illustrative. A pile of $100 bills. (choness, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech firms raise record $5.4 billion in first quarter of year

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Israeli pediatricians plan to issue call for parents to vaccinate under-16s

By ToI Staff and AFP

Farah Nabulsi accepts the British Short Film BAFTA award for her film, The Present, on April 10, 2021. (Screen capture: BAFTA/ Youtube)

British-Palestinian filmmaker wins BAFTA award for short film on West Bank life

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Then-US president Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, January 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump goes after Pence, McConnell in speech to party donors

By Steve Peoples

NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, (Yang for New York)

Courting Orthodox Jews, New York mayoral candidate Yang visits Brooklyn

This undated file photo provided by the Alexandria Sheriff's Office shows John Cameron Denton, founder and former leader of a neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division. Federal prosecutors in Virginia are seeking a five-year prison sentence for Denton, who pleaded guilty to conspiring with other far-right extremists to threaten dozens of targets, including a predominantly African American church, a sitting U.S. Cabinet member and journalists. U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady is scheduled to sentence Denton on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

US prosecutors seek 5-year term for ex-leader of neo-Nazi group

By AP

Illustrative. Computer processors. Conventional computers process information, or bits, each of which can be either a zero or a one, in the binary language of computing. Quantum bits, however, used by quantum computers, can be both a zero and one simultaneously. (Rost-9D; iStock by Getty Images)

Amazon Web Services, Hebrew U join forces in quantum computing research

By Shoshanna Solomon

A picture taken on February 3, 2018, shows Syrian men standing at the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo. (AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR)

Syrian regime accused of using chemical weapons in 2018 attack

By AFP

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