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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 13, 2021

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IDF veteran Itzik Saidyan, who set himself alight outside a Defense Ministry office on April 12, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Defense Minister Benny Gantz orders probe

PTSD-afflicted IDF veteran sets himself alight, suffers serious burns

By Judah Ari Gross

A day before annual Memorial Day eve, Itzik Saidyan, 26, self-immolates at entrance to Defense Ministry office for rehabilitation of injured former soldiers

IDF veteran Itzik Saidyan, who set himself alight outside a Defense Ministry office on April 12, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Defense Ministry vows to do more for veterans after ‘shocking’ self-immolation

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

IDF disabled veteran Itzik Saidyan. (Facebook)

PTSD-afflicted IDF veteran still critical after setting himself alight

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

On Memorial Day, Rivlin tells young generation: Don’t take Israel for granted

By Michael Bachner

Solemn commemorations held nationwide for fallen soldiers, terror victims; president vows to keep fighting for return of missing troops after his term ends

6:10 pm

Iran's vow to enrich uranium to 60% 'not a significant threat' -- analyst
6:09 pm

White House committed to Iran talks despite 'provocative' uranium enrichment
5:52 pm

WATCH: Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Day ceremony

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

Israel to let tour groups in for 1st time since pandemic began, starting May 23

‘It’s time Israel’s unique advantage as a safe and healthy country starts to assist’ in the recovery of its economy, says tourism minister; PCR and antibody tests required

Fifth grade students at the Alumot Elementary School in Efrat, on February 21, 2021 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Ministers vote to fully reopen schools, scrapping pods, starting Sunday

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the swearing-in ceremony for the 24th Knesset, April 6, 2021. (Knesset spokesperson)

Likud, Blue and White trade blame as further vaccine purchases held up

Elchanan Poupko

Stopping on the road through the Valley of Tears

The debt owed to the young soldiers who gave their lives to defend Jewish life in the land of Israel is both physical and spiritual

Israel’s political stalemate harms national security

The electoral impasse undermines the power of the IDF, the health of Israeli society and the stability of Israel’s newest pacts with Arab countries

Effie Kleinberg

Israel is in a hurry

A Jew is meant to live with the belief that history can unfold and change in a moments notice, even if it takes thousands of years

Sivan Rahav Meir

The revolutions of Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber

The trailblazer, who died last year of COVID-19, launched a life-saving initiative after he himself received a kidney transplant

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

Nuclear spokesman: Blast's crater was so big that I fell in

Natanz blast took out main power and backup, Iranian official acknowledges

‘Technically, enemy’s plan was rather beautiful,’ energy panel head tells state TV; Tehran MPs urge suspension of nuke talks; US officials don’t know if Iran will show in Vienna

FILE: Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of the capital Tehran, on April 9, 2007. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP)

Blast at Natanz was caused by bomb planted near main electric line – Israeli TV

Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, is interviewed from his hospital bed on April 12, 2021, after being injured the day before in a reported fall at the Natanz nuclear facility. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Iran says Natanz was hit by ‘small explosion,’ claims damage quickly repairable

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses a conference in Tehran, Iran, February 23, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran’s Zarif: Israel made ‘a very bad gamble’ with blast at nuclear plant

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian FM says Tehran can now legitimately use any capacity it has at Natanz after ‘terrorist stupidity’; Russia’s Lavrov says Moscow expects nuke deal to be saved

Israeli National Security Council chairman Meir Ben-Shabbat (right), and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. (Flash90, AP)

Amid spiraling tensions, Israel and US to convene strategic group on Iran

Examples of fictitious profiles used by Iranian operatives to lure Israelis (courtesy of Shin Bet).

Iran seeking to lure Israelis abroad, could kidnap or harm them – intel agencies

Institute for National Security Studies chairman Amos Yadlin, a former head of IDF Military Intelligence. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ex-IDF intel chief questions Netanyahu’s authority to order attacks on Iran

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Amos Yadlin says sensitive operations require cabinet approval, suggests PM acting out of domestic political interests

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

Former Israeli national security adviser Yaakov Amidror. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ex-national security adviser warns: ‘Iran has ability to harm us significantly’

Yamina's Naftali Bennett arrives for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his official residence in Jerusalem, on April 13, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett meets with Netanyahu again amid intensive coalition talks

Negotiating teams from Likud and Yamina reportedly record progress in negotiations, though prospect of government still slim

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

New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar at a party event in Moshav Azaria, April 4, 2021. (Flash90)

Likud said to offer to back Sa’ar for president in bid to get Knesset majority

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 12, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu to visiting US defense secretary: We won’t let Iran obtain nukes

Following attack on Iran’s Natanz facility, which has been blamed on Israel, PM says US-Israeli cooperation is ‘crucial’ to combat threats facing both countries

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

Exterior view of the 'Grand Hotel Wien' in Vienna, Austria, on April 9, 2021, where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter)

AnalysisAttack on Natanz plant overshadows renewed US-Iran nuke talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on the night of the Israeli elections, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial

Walla owner told CEO: ‘Give Sara everything, Netanyahu’s killing himself for me’

Former chief of news site recalls Elovitch telling him PM was going ‘above and beyond’ to help the company and ‘we have to find a way to repay him’

Reporter's notebook

Parting the red tape, Israeli tourists wander back into the Sinai

For those willing to put up with the tests, permits and other hassles required to cross the reopened border, an abundance of Egyptian resorts hungry for business await

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel PodcastDaily Briefing Apr. 13 – Return to Sinai: Bureaucratic blunders and beach bliss

A young Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a Clalit vaccination center in Holon, February 4, 2021. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israeli pediatricians back vaccinating under-16s when Pfizer gets go-ahead

By ToI Staff and AFP

The Israeli Air Force aerobatic team flies during a military training session for the upcoming 73rd Independence day, in Jerusalem, on April 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ahead of its 73rd Independence Day, Israel’s population stands at 9.3 million

Latest stats find 73.9% of population are Jews, 21.1% are Arabs, and 5% are members of other groups

Culture Minister Chili Tropper (2rd R, front) and Miri Regev (3rd R, front), pose for a photo with the torch lighters of the Israeli 73th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 12, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Light yearsIndependence Day torch lighters span in age from 18 to 102

Israelis barbeque at Dolfinarium beach park on Israel's 68th Independence Day, May 12, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Independence Day BBQs, disposable plastic harm planet, Green groups warn

In this October 20, 2012, photo, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian officials: No elections without participation of East Jerusalem

By Aaron Boxerman

With Israel unlikely to allow election in city, observers say Abbas hopes to use refusal as an excuse to pull back from vote

Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal at an African National Congress rally in Hamas's honor in Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2015. (AFP Photo/Rodger Bosch/File)

Khaled Mashaal tapped as Hamas’s diaspora director

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian school children chant slogans and raise the victory gesture over a UN flag during a protest at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school, financed by US aid, in the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron in the West Bank on September 5, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER)

Biden administration says UNRWA commits to ‘zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitism

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen (L) meets with Sudanese Defense Minister Yassin Ibrahim in Khartoum on January 25, 2021 (Courtesy)

Talks underway for Sudanese security delegation to visit Israel – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Planned trip would come amid normalization drive after ministers in Khartoum voted to annul Israel boycott law

UAE Ambassador to Israel Mohamed Mahmoud Al Khajah, right, and Start-Up Nation Central's CEO Eugene Kandel; April 11, 2021 (Eyal Marilu)

Joint Israel-UAE taskforce to study ways to boost tech cooperation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Suha Mansour, who was killed in Tira on April 12, 2021. (courtesy)

Woman, 38, shot dead in her beauty parlor in central city of Tira

Shooter fires volley at Suha Mansour, then flees scene; homicide brings to 26 the number of Arab citizens killed in violent crimes this year

A police officer scuffles with Ofer Cassif, a Jewish member of the predominantly Arab Joint List party, during a demonstration in East Jerusalem on April 9, 2021 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Police officers questioned over beating of Joint List lawmaker

Israeli lab ‘cures’ mice of COVID-style inflammation using yogurt molecules

By Nathan Jeffay

Researchers say probiotics have antibacterial properties, as well as preventing inflammation, could be used as basis for drugs of the future

Illustrative: Kefir grains, used to make the yoghurt drink kefir, above a glass of the drink (ThitareeSarmkasat via iStock by Getty Images)

Nvidia introduces set of new products to tackle growing AI demands

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s Mobileye to supply self-driving systems for delivery truck startup

By AFP and ToI Staff

Memic raises $96 million to commercialize FDA-approved robotic arm

By Shoshanna Solomon

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Screen capture from video of a Torah scroll brought by Labor MK Gilad Kariv to the Western Wall for use in a women's prayer group is held aloft, April, 14, 2021. (Israel Hayom)

Using his immunity, Labor MK delivers Torah for women to read at Western Wall

By Stuart Winer

Isi Leibler works at his office in Jerusalem, Israel on June 12, 2012. (Wikimedia Commonms)

Isi Leibler, leading campaigner for the release of Soviet Jewry, dies at 86

By Stuart Winer and JTA

Jordan River. (Screenshot)

Israel okays Jordanian request for water after several weeks’ delay

An event at the 2019 Jerusalem Writers Festival at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, which was held in person, unlike the 2020 edition, which was online due to the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy Writers Festival)

Book ticketsJerusalem writers festival back to in-person, with online option

By Jessica Steinberg

Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein, a longtime federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. (Cardozo School of Law via JTA)

NY judge killed in hit-and-run during Florida vacation

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks with reporters after a tour of the campus of South Carolina State University on Monday, April 12, 2021, in Orangeburg, S.C. Haley, often mentioned as a possible 2024 GOP presidential contender, said Monday that she would not seek her party's nomination if former President Donald Trump opts to run a second time. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Nikki Haley says she’ll back Trump, give up own bid if he runs in 2024

Screen capture from video of Lebanon's Public Works Minister Michel Najjar. (YouTube)

Lebanon expands its demands in maritime talks, angering Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Tucker Carlson, host of 'Tucker Carlson Tonight,' poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, March 2, 2017 in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Fox defends Tucker Carlson after ADL urges his firing for white supremacist view

New England Patriots' Julian Edelman (#11) holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy after the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game against the Los Angeles Rams, Feb.ruary 3, 2019, in Atlanta. The Patriots won 13-3. Edelman was named the Most Valuable Player. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Patriot’s Julian Edelman, only Jewish Super Bowl MVP, announces retirement

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during a press conference at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2020. (Flash90)

Rivlin sends condolences to Queen Elizabeth over Prince Philip’s death

Actors Michael Aloni and Yuval Scharf in 'The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,' a historical series produced in Israel by Yes Studios. (Courtesy: Nati Levi)

Mandatory viewingTrailer drops for summer TV ‘romantic drama’ of pre-state Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Yehuda Ben-Yishay, shown with wife Myrna, said that memory, attention and reasoning could be relearned or strengthened after a brain injury. (Facebook/Seth Ben-Yishay via JTA)

Yehuda Ben-Yishay, psychologist who pioneered brain trauma treatment, dies at 88

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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