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What Matters Most On Monday, April 19, 2021

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on April 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

In major blow to Netanyahu, rivals win control of key panel, with Ra’am’s help

Blindsiding the right, Islamist party MKs rush into plenum to oppose Likud’s proposal on makeup of Arrangements Committee; Yesh Atid’s version approved

11:37 am

US Embassy acknowledges shortage of consular services in Israel, vows to step them up
6:39 pm

Netanyahu rivals inching closer to clinching coalition -- TV
6:03 pm

Monument unveiled to remember buried Warsaw Ghetto archive

A dermatologist examining a patient for possible skin cancer (AndreyPopov via iStock by Getty Images)

Research published in peer-reviewed journal

Israeli tech said to give precise, knife-free skin cancer diagnosis in seconds

By Nathan Jeffay

Dropping biopsy, pioneering method uses optics to assess lesions; finds all 15 cancer patients in 90-strong sample

Jews marched out of the ghetto during the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt in April and May, 1943. (public domain)

AnniversaryOn April 19, 1943, some 800 Jews took up arms against Nazis

The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt was initially dubbed ‘fake news’ by some US Jews

By Matt Lebovic

New book ‘The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw’ traces the immediate aftermath of Holocaust’s most famous revolt, including the ‘gendering’ of resistance and politicization of its narrative

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting at the Knesset with parties in his right-wing bloc on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

To avert 5th elections, block Lapid, right-wing parties float direct vote for PM

By Raoul Wootliff

Bennett reportedly convinces Netanyahu to back proposal; Likud leader hopes that, with Yamina’s support, legislation will pass Knesset

Report: Likud offers Ben Gvir ministerial post if he agrees to work with Ra’am

Yamina still undecided on joining opposition ahead of vote on key Knesset panel

By Raoul Wootliff

Lapid urges gov’t of ‘Zionists and patriots,’ says he expects to receive mandate

By Tal Schneider and Raoul Wootliff

Cantor and Jewish Community of the Emirates (JCE) Co-founder Alex Peterfreund (right), Chief Rabbi of the UAE Yehuda Sarna (center) and JCE President Ross Kriel hold Torah scrolls at V Hotel Dubai, where the community's Passover services and meals were held, on April 4, 2021 (Miriam Herschlag/TOI)

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A Gulf Air passenger plane , Aug. 5, 2016, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Bahrain national airline to begin direct flights to and from Israel in June

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Israel said worried Biden rushing to reenter nuclear deal, maybe ‘within weeks’

After security cabinet meets on Iran, official says Tehran can ‘smell’ Washington’s desire for an agreement ‘at any cost’

Left: Then-US President-elect Joe Biden on January 14, 2021, in Wilmington, Delaware (AP Photo/Matt Slocum); Right: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, December 9, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

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

Russia says Iran nuclear talks advancing, but some issues will take time

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian deputy commander of the Quds force of the IRGC, Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0)

Iran says Quds Force deputy chief dead of a heart attack

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I saw more people smiling in 15 minutes than I saw in an entire year

With masks now off, I feel gratitude….big enough to contain the misery and the terror and the boredom and the loneliness of this past year

The Year of the Introvert

I have a confession: I don’t know if I’m ready to take my mask off yet. And it’s not because I’m worried about the virus

Uri Pilichowski

McCollum’s bill to Keep Palestinian terrorists free

In America, young murderers are imprisoned. So, why would American lawmakers object to justice in the case of a young Palestinian murderer?

In search of a new normal

Israel is in a period of transition that is fraught with uncertainty. It is also bursting with activity and unusual creativity that just may bode well for change

French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, December 1, 2020. (Benoit Tessier/Pool/AFP)

French president seeks change to law after Jewish woman’s killer spared trial

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Macron says country determined to protect Jewish community, after court rules Sarah Halimi’s murderer not responsible for his actions due to being too high on marijuana at the time

Illustrative: The aftermath of vandalism at the Jewish section of a municipal cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 16, 2021. (Courtesy of Steven Corr, via JTA)

Jewish headstones smashed in Northern Ireland cemetery

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: A Deliveroo driver is seen in traffic in north London, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Robert Stevens, File)

Delivery man who refused service to French Jews deported to his native Algeria

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The ironSource management team in March 2021. (Courtesy)

ironSource, valued at $11b, still ‘scratching surface’ of potential – co-founder

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ad-tech firm has what is said to be the highest valuation of an Israeli firm pre-US share sale, after its merger with Thoma Bravo SPAC

Then-US vice president Joseph Biden, left, walks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 10, 2010. (AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill/File)

In J Street speech, Abbas urges Biden to scrap US law deeming PLO a terror group

PA president calls 1987 Anti-Terrorism Act the main obstacle to developing US-Palestinian ties, hints Ramallah will take own steps to improve relations

Police officers stand guard during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on April 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds of Palestinians clash with police by Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

By Aaron Boxerman

Members of the Palestinian security forces perform checks on the street after a lockdown was ordered in Gaza Strip until April 11, 2021, to curb the spreading of coronavirus. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Gaza sees record 23 deaths from coronavirus, marking pandemic’s deadliest day

By Aaron Boxerman

Two residents of Jaffa filmed beating Rabbi Eliyahu Mali on April 18, 2021. (Courtesy)

Jaffa yeshiva rabbi assaulted after inquiring about apartment; 2 arrested

Netanyahu condemns attack against Eliyahu Mali in Jewish-Arab city; Bennett brands it ‘anti-Semitic’

Clashes between Arab Israeli protesters and police in Jaffa, April 18, 2021. (Screen capture: Ynet)

Clashes break out at Jaffa protests following assault on yeshiva rabbi

Postwar Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb. (Courtesy National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene)

Yiddish Women Playwrights Festival streams free online

NY Yiddish theater festival spotlights previously unheralded women writers

By Jordan Hoffman

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene kicks off a run dedicated to female playwrights with renowned Chava Rosenfarb’s ‘The Bird of the Ghetto,’ running April 19-22

In this image from NASA, NASA's experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity stands on the surface of Mars (NASA via AP)

NASA’s Mars helicopter achieves first powered flight on another planet

Tiny aircraft Ingenuity carries a bit of wing fabric from the the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Wright Flyer

Israeli veterans and disabled IDF soldiers protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv for better financial and medical aid, April 18, 2021.(Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

As protesters block TLV highway for hours, PM vows reform for soldiers with PTSD

Meeting with head of IDF disabled veterans group, Netanyahu admits mental health care services out of date, says ‘terrible injustice’ to be rectified within weeks

Israeli veterans and disabled IDF soldiers protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv for better financial and medical aid, April 18, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Care for vets can be improved despite political impasse – Defense Ministry chief

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein attend the arrival of the DHL freight plane transporting the first batch of Pfizer vaccines landing at Ben Gurion Airport on December 9 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/ POOL)

Israel said close to deal for 18 million vaccine doses, bypassing cabinet vote

Initial agreement, held up by political infighting, would have seen purchase of double the number of shots; NIS 1.5 billion price tag to be paid from excess Finance Ministry funds

Israelis wearing face masks walk in downtown Jerusalem on January 21, 2021, during the third national coronavirus lockdown. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli hospital reports 65% drop in serious asthma cases due to mask-wearing

Israeli students wearing face masks return to school in Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Education Ministry wants to keep schools open through summer

Arnaud Mimran arrives at the Paris courthouse for deliberations in his trial over an alleged carbon tax scam, on July 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND GUAY)

Convicted fraudster Arnaud Mimran indicted in France for two murders

By Simona Weinglass

French investigators charge jailed businessman with murdering his former accomplice in 2010, and his billionaire ex-father-in-law a year later

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Iran President Hassan Rouhani (L) and Saudi Arabia King Salman. (AP)

Iran, Saudi Arabia said holding direct talks to mend regional rift

By ToI Staff and Agencies

View of the Ashalim solar power station in the Negev desert, southern Israel, on August 21, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In run-up to Earth Day, Energy Ministry publishes road map for cutting emissions

A photo aired by Iranian state television shows Reza Karimi in an Interpol-style 'wanted' poster. Tehran says Karimi was behind the sabotage at Natanz on April 11 that it has blamed on Israel (vide screenshot)

Iran said to ask Interpol to arrest Natanz ‘sabotage’ suspect

By AFP and ToI Staff

Air pollution around unrecognized Bedouin villages near Ramat Hovav in the Negev desert, southern Israel, December 28, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)

Environment Ministry unveils climate bill with sweeping powers to cut emissions

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli. (Department of Justice)

Prosecutors: Alleged Capitol rioter, a neo-Nazi sympathizer, a danger to NJ Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Dutch soccer fans chant ‘Hamas, Jews to the gas’ before match against Ajax

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, where the coronavirus is believed to have initially spread, seen January 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Report: Wuhan Huanan market was identified as pandemic risk 5 years before COVID

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Cobra, an Israeli maker of automotive safety devices and door-locking systems, launches its Mobile-Key technology to open cars via an app, no need for keys (Courtesy)

Lost your car keys, again? Israeli app offers smart, ‘key-free’ driving

By Shoshanna Solomon

Paul Singer, seen at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2013. (Wikimedia Commons)

Billionaire Paul Singer to set up tech research institute in Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Israeli boats take part in the Sail Tel-Aviv Yafo sea festival featuring various sea sports, on June 17, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90/ File)

You're in the navy nowBritish forces recruit Israeli yacht for at-sea drill

In this April 22, 1955 file photo, British Admiral Earl Louis Mountbatten sits at his desk in full uniform for the first time at the Admirality in London. (AP Photo, File)

Ireland’s Sinn Fein ‘sorry’ for 1979 IRA murder of UK royal Louis Mountbatten

By AFP

Liverpool's players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Champions League final soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on June 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

European soccer faces dramatic split as 12 top clubs form breakaway Super League

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