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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 17, 2021

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A passport-style photo published by Iranian state television shows Reza Karimi, 43, whom Tehran says was behind the sabotage at Natanz on April 11 that it has blamed on Israel (video screenshot)

Iran names suspect in Natanz nuclear plant attack, says he fled country

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State TV names wanted man as Reza Karimi, 43; displays Interpol-style ‘red notice’ seeking his arrest, though Interpol has not confirmed the notice is official

US President Joe Biden listens as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden says Iran enriching uranium to 60% not ‘helpful’ to nuke deal talks

By AP and ToI Staff

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

Ex-IAEA official: In theory, Iran could reach weapons-grade enrichment in a week

Israelis barbecue during Israel's 73d Independence Day at Dalton Park in the north, on April 15, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel lifts outdoor mask requirement, fully opens schools Sunday, as COVID ebbs

Mandate for face coverings indoors to remain in place and Health Ministry recommends wearing masks at large outdoor gatherings; fewer than 100 people test positive Friday

In this April 13, 2021 file photo, the body of a person who died of COVID-19 is brought for cremation at the Vasai crematory in Palghar, near Mumbai, India (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million

By AP and ToI Staff

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

7 cases of Indian COVID variant detected in Israel

Greater flamingo at the International Birding and Research Center Eilat. (Noam Weiss, IBRCE)

A key stop on the great bird flyway, Eilat sees steep dive in migrating flocks

Habitat destruction, pesticides, hunting, invasive species, manmade obstacles such as wind turbines and high voltage power lines all take a toll, but reliable research lacking

Palestinians leaving Jerusalem's Old City outside Damascus Gate following noon prayers on Friday, April 16, 2021 (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

In Jerusalem’s Old City, Palestinians celebrate return to a near-normal Ramadan

By Aaron Boxerman

After a traumatic year of shuttered mosques and a deserted al-Aqsa, worshipers and vendors were overjoyed to return to routine, though visitor numbers remained far lower than usual

Nataniel Sagi discusses the bee species he keeps at his sanctuary on Cozumel Island in Mexico, March 2021. (Julie Masis)

'If we lose them, we will lose our native forests'

In Mexico, Israeli expat makes a buzz with refuge for endangered stingless bees

Nataniel Sagi learned that local benign species were on the verge of extinction; he’s opened a conservation sanctuary and rescues colonies from deforestation

Left: US President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House, April 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers at the Yad LeBanim House on the eve of Memorial Day, in Jerusalem, April 13, 2021. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

US warns Israel to stop ‘dangerous, detrimental’ chatter on Natanz attack — TV

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Washington said to convey through several channels that constant unsourced reports confirming details of alleged Israeli sabotage are ’embarrassing’ it during nuclear talks

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabi Ashkenazi talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of Cyprus, Greece, Israel and United Arab of Emirates in city of Paphos, Cyprus, April 16, 2021. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou Pool via AP)

Israel: We’ll do whatever it takes, ‘definitely’ stop Iran from getting bomb

By AP and ToI Staff

Robbe Moshe Dov Ber Beck (L) meets with Iran's then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Leader of extremist anti-Zionist Haredi sect, who met Ahmadinejad, dead at 87

Israeli governance: The tyranny of the minority?

JPPI’s Pluralism Index shows a public open to accommodating differences while its elected leaders wage battles blocking any and all compromise

Avigayil Halpern

For #MeToo transgressors, the only cure is banishment

Meeting with someone accused of sexual misconduct is contrary to Jewish precepts that a transgressor be unwelcome in communal spaces

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition to back Bennett getting mandate as only way to prevent 5th vote — TV

Report says so-called ‘change bloc’ fears return of mandate to Knesset will prevent it from forming government; PM said offering Sa’ar top positions to defect

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

Illustrative: Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, November 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Rocket fired into Israel from Gaza for 2nd night in a row; IDF hits Hamas sites

Projectile sets off warning sirens in pair of border communities, is said to hit open area; no reports of injuries or damage

Illustrative: A Hezbollah supporter chants slogans as he holds his group's flag during a protest against US involvement in Lebanon's affairs, near the US embassy in Aukar, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah said making preparations for Lebanon’s possible collapse

Del. Shane Pendergrass speaks in the Maryland House of Delegates on March 7, 2019, in Annapolis, Maryland. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Maryland’s Shane Pendergrass rebukes rival invoking Holocaust on assembly floor

IDF disabled veteran Itzik Saidyan. (Facebook)

IDF vet with PTSD warned he might hurt himself before self-immolation — report

A day before setting himself alight, Itzik Saidyan is said to have told social worker he couldn’t go on any longer; Defense Ministry says he later told the worker everything was OK

Fireworks thrown by rioters explode on police vehicles in Belfast, April 8, 2021. (Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

As in 1970s, Northern Ireland’s Jews look to weather violence in Belfast

By Olivia Fletcher

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)

Abbas to address J Street confab as group seeks to top DC’s Israel lobby scene

PA president expected to thank Biden for restoring aid while urging further steps, and to express continued support for two-state solution while castigating Israel over settlements

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas alongside Central Elections Commissioner Hana Naser on Friday, January 15, 2021, announcing an election decree (WAFA)

US source to Palestinian paper: Washington will understand election postponement

Palestinian demonstrators wave their national flag at a protest against the eviction of some Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on Friday, April 16, 2021 (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

Hundreds protest evictions, police violence in East Jerusalem

By Aaron Boxerman

Tucker Carlson takes aim at the Anti-Defamation League in a monologue on Fox News, April 12, 2021. (Screenshot/ via JTA)

Why Tucker Carlson, white supremacists have eyes on Israeli immigration policy

Israel’s Jewish majority is at the center of a US controversy as the talk show host accuses the ADL watchdog group of holding a double standard. Does the claim have any merit?

24-year-old aims to be NYC’s first Bukharian City Council member

By Lauren Hakimi

Marjorie Taylor-Green said behind new GOP group to save ‘Anglo-Saxon’ traditions

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Members of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery ride up the Long Walk to Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London, on April 17, 2021 for the funeral of Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (PHIL NOBLE / POOL / AFP)

Queen Elizabeth II buries her ‘strength and stay’ Prince Philip

By Charlotte Durand, Phil HAZLEWOOD and Imran MARASHLI

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi (right) meets with top diplomats from Greece, Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates in Paphos, Cyprus, on April 16, 2021 (Courtesy)

FM lauds new regional cooperation at strategic forum with UAE, Greece, Cyprus

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Items that purportedly belonged to Nazi leader Adolf that have been put up for auction in Australia by JB Military Antiquities. (Screen capture)

Australian watchdog slams ‘perverse’ auction of Hitler’s personal items

In this video grab provided by the SAG Awards, Jimmy Fallon presents the award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series during the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on April 4, 2021. (SAG Awards via AP)

#TwitterFailIsrael’s Foreign Ministry botches Jimmy Fallon’s hashtag game

By JTA and ToI Staff

Steven Spielberg, right, and his wife Kate Capshaw pose for photographers on arrival at the French premiere of the film 'The Post' in Paris, France, January 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Steven Spielberg starts foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

By Gabe Friedman

Then-Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo lights a candle at the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism, after a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

3 resign from Auschwitz council over right-wing Polish politician’s appointment

By Vanessa Gera

Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party and former president, waves to members at the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba's opening session, as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, applauds at the Convention Palace, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Ariel Ley Royero/ACN via AP)

Era ends as Raul Castro steps down as Cuba’s Communist Party chief

By Andrea Rodrguez

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan Pompeo walk to the plane prior to departing from Joint Base Andrews on January 7, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Internal watchdog says Pompeo violated ethics rules with staff errands

By AFP

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