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What Matters Most On Friday, April 16, 2021

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A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidential office on Saturday, April 10, shows a video conference screen of an engineer inside Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment plant (Iranian Presidency/AFP)

Iran enriches uranium to 60%, a short step from weapons grade levels

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Top nuclear official says centrifuges producing 9 grams an hour, days after attack, blamed on Israel, at Natanz; E3: Iran has no credible civilian need for enrichment at this level

Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s ambassador to the IAEA, arrives at the Grand Hotel Wien where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place, in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

Russia says Iran nuclear talks ‘positive’ despite enrichment, Natanz sabotage

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of a brain (iStock)

Israeli scientists say they’ve paved way to turn off the brain’s ‘hunger switch’

By Nathan Jeffay

Peer-reviewed research at Weizmann Institute is most detailed insight into MC4 hunger-controlling receptor; drugs may now be able to target it precisely, without major side effects

People wearing face masks shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on March 17, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israelis no longer required to wear masks outside starting Sunday, as COVID ebbs

As Independence Day comes to an end, health minister’s announcement of latest milestone in beating back the pandemic gives country another cause to celebrate

Magen David Adom workers outside a nursing home in Jerusalem on October 12, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

16 retirement home residents contract COVID-19, most of them vaccinated

Illustrative -- Israeli students wearing face masks return to a school in Yad Mordechai, March 7, 2021. (Flash90)

Study: 1 in 5 Israeli kids have clinical anxiety symptoms amid pandemic

Logos of 11 of the 36 Palestinian political lists, ahead of the 2021 legislative elections. (Palestinian Media Watch)

Party logos of 11 Palestinian election lists feature maps erasing Israel

PA President Abbas’s Fatah movement also uses an image that appears to display the entire region as Palestine; vote slated for May 22

A picture taken in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 16, 2021, shows an explosion following an airstrike by Israel, after Palestinian terrorists in the enclave fired a rocket into Israeli territory. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel strikes Hamas targets after Gaza rocket fire

By Alexander Fulbright and Judah Ari Gross

Israelis run for cover as air raid sirens sound in the Israeli city of Sderot on March 12, 2014. (AFP/DAVID BUIMOVITCH)

Gaza rocket strikes field in south as Independence Day comes to a close

By Judah Ari Gross

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 are seen inside a freezer in Cali, Colombia, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic on February 19, 2021. (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

Pfizer CEO: 3rd dose of vaccine likely necessary 6-12 months after first 2 doses

After that, predicts Albert Bourla, COVID-19 inoculations will become an annual affair; says bringing down pool of people susceptible to virus crucial to halting pandemic

Illustrative: A nurse inoculates Local 28 Sheet Metal Worker Demetrius Buttelman with the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine during a news conference at the Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, April 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Pool, File)

US opens more distance in worldwide race to vaccinate against COVID

A nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient in the ICU unit at the Charles Nicolle public hospital in Normandy, France, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Europe surpasses 1 million COVID-19 deaths as cases keep climbing

By AP

10 years later

How Israel kept the Arab Spring from becoming the winter of its discontent

Under Netanyahu’s leadership, the Jewish state survived the difficult early years to come out on top as Iran and jihadists are on the defensive

In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo)

Did I want to be a paratrooper? Clearly

I made aliyah in 1975, became a lone soldier hosted by a kibbutz, and I found almost everything about the land seductive at that age

Isaac Herzog and Omer Yankelevitch

Zionism’s new global mission

A young Shalom Corps volunteer from Mexico embodies today’s paradigm shift: Jews can now look beyond survival and invest energy in elevating the entire world

Connecting to the Creator

When a woman is pregnant, she houses and nourishes a new world, a new soul. When she gives birth, she suffers a loss, by definition. I know this too well (Tazria)

When loyalty to the group means bad behavior gets excused

The biblical forbears set a high bar for loyalty without losing clarity of right and wrong. Israel needs to balance that same sense of fairness

Illustrative: A creek and corniche in Ras al Khaimah, illuminated at night (iStock)

ToI investigates

Impersonation nation? Israeli intel firms’ shady methods spotlighted in UAE flap

By Simona Weinglass

Report alleges Israeli private intelligence company impersonated journalists, raising questions about how well the industry is regulated and where it draws ethical red lines

From the blogs

Ephraim Asculai

With Iran, we are at a nuclear crossroads

As Iran nudges its uranium enrichment perilously close to weapons-grade level, an existentially threatened Israel would have to go it alone

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar (right). (Flash90)

Netanyahu urges Sa’ar to ‘come home’; Smotrich says veto on Ra’am non-negotiable

With a third of his time to form a coalition spent, PM says New Hope leader will be ‘welcomed with open arms’ if he joins with Likud

United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni gives a press statement after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox parties fear Netanyahu’s chances, may turn on him — report

Israel Prize recipient Michal Bat-Adam attends the award ceremony in Jerusalem, prior to Israel's 73 Independence Day, on April 11, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel Prize granted to 8 recipients in ceremony marred by political controversy

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu’s reputation for reneging on promises hobbles coalition talks

Negotiations are stuck as the PM grapples with a trust deficit — even among his closest allies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem, prior to Israel's 73rd Independence Day, on April 11, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Palestinians take part in the first Friday prayers of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 16, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

70,000 Muslim worshipers flock to Jerusalem for 1st Friday prayers of Ramadan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prayers held peacefully, despite police fears of violence after 3 consecutive nights of rioting; gathering at site is the largest since start of pandemic

Israeli police clash with Palestinians outside the Damascus Gate to Jerusalem's Old City, April 15, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Cop hurt in East Jerusalem clashes during Ramadan

In the video posted on TikTok, a suspect from East Jerusalem is seen slapping two ultra-Orthodox Jews on the light rail in the city, on April 15, 2021. (video screenshot)

East Jerusalem man nabbed for slapping ultra-Orthodox boys on train, filming it

ExhibitionBefore Instagram, cameras were artists' weapons of choice

How mid-century Jewish immigrants changed the US magazine industry forever

By Cathryn J. Prince

NY Jewish Museum’s exhibit ‘Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine’ shows the work of exiled artists who influenced publications like Harper’s, Vogue and Vanity Fair

Brothers Salah Abu Hussein (L) and Shafa Abu Hussein (R) were shot dead in Tulkarem on April 16, 2021. (courtesy)

Arab Israeli brothers shot to death in Tulkarem, six months after mother killed

Victims of the 31st and 32nd homicide in Arab community this year are identified as Salah and Shafa Abu Hussein

President Reuven Rivlin greets UAE Ambassador to Israel Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah while hosting the foreign diplomatic corps at his residence in Jerusalem for Independence Day, April 15, 2021 (GPO)

With UAE, Morocco at annual diplomat gala, Rivlin hails ‘new spirit of peace’

Jordanian, Egyptian envoys also attend traditional Independence Day event at president’s residence, after avoiding it in past years

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, center, and, US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, left, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, April 15, 2021. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP)

Lebanon demands Israel halt gas search after expanding claims in disputed area

By AFP

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi (R) meets visiting Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides in Jerusalem, February 14, 2021. (Foreign Ministry)

Foreign ministers of Israel, UAE, Greece, Cyprus to meet Friday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shira Isakov (R) and Adi Guzi (L) light a torch during the 73rd anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on April 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After saving neighbor, torch-lighter hopes to help others fight domestic abuse

Adi Guzi, who helped rescue Shira Isakov from being murdered by her husband, says she wants women to know there’s a way out

More Headlines

A picture shows the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital Tripoli on September 28, 2011. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Ancient Libyan synagogue being converted into Islamic center, Jewish group says

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

After veteran’s self-immolation, Gantz forms panel to plan reforms

Illustrative: A Yeshiva University student wears a face mask on the grounds of the university in New York City, March 4, 2020. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images via JTA)

Yeshiva University plans to end in-person Hebrew lessons indefinitely

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the annual Bible Quiz held at the Jerusalem Theatre on Israel's Independence Day, on April 15, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Bible quiz gets it audience back after 2020’s COVID-restricted version

Eight people were shot and killed in a shooting on April 15, 2021 at a Fedex facility in Indianapolis. (Twitter video screenshot)

At least 8 killed in mass shooting at Indianapolis FedEx facility

By AP

Pieter van Oordt, left, with his brother Roger at the Israel Products Center in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, February 19, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

Dutch shop fined for omitting ‘settlement’ from West Bank wine label

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this file photo taken on November 13, 2020 US Vice President Mike Pence delivers an update on "Operation Warp Speed" in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. - US Vice President Mike Pence on January 12, 2021, told House leaders he does not support invoking the 25th Amendment process to remove Donald Trump, all but guaranteeing an imminent impeachment vote against the president. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Mike Pence has pacemaker fitted to deal with ‘slow heart rate’

By AFP

Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, center, speaks alongside William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, center right, and New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, right, during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ghislaine Maxwell seeks to delay trial after new sex trafficking charges added

By Larry Neumeister

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