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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 20, 2021

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Screen capture from video of Likud MK Miki Zohar chairing a meeting of the Knesset Arrangements Committee, April 19, 2021. (Knesset Channel)

After defeat in key vote, Likud whip concedes Netanyahu won’t form government

At inaugural session of Arrangements Committee, Miki Zohar says Likud chief will lead right-wing parties into opposition, ‘heads held high’; adjourns panel after losing first vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses supporters at the party's election night event in Jerusalem, early on March 24, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Likud lashes out at Bennett, Smotrich after shock Knesset defeat

By Stuart Winer

Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, April 19, 2021. (Kan)

In blow to Netanyahu, Ra’am gives Lapid’s bloc control of key Knesset panel

By Tal Schneider

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Did a dry, procedural Knesset vote just signal the end of the Netanyahu era?

The PM has failed 4 times to win an election. On Monday, he lost control of a parliamentary committee that may have offered his best chance at an alternate path to cling to power

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives for the Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on April 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Lashing Bennett’s ‘absurd’ ambition, Netanyahu urges direct vote for PM

Ra'am party chief Mansour Abbas speaks with reporters, April 19, 2021 (Tal Schneider/Zman Yisrael)

Ra’am says it could back direct premiership vote, derides far-right ‘incitement’

By Aaron Boxerman

Left: A pro-Netanyahu supporter who verbally attacked Maria Elkin, wife of New Hope MK Ze'ev Elkin, is seen outside their Jerusalem home on April 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

‘Traitor, stinking Russian’: Abused by PM’s backers, Elkin’s wife goes to police

Pro-Netanyahu demonstrators gathered outside New Hope MK Ze’ev Elkin’s Jerusalem home, called Maria Elkin ‘a disgusting gentile’; similar incident occurred last week

In this Feb. 11, 2020, photo, former prime minister Ehud Olmert takes questions from reporters after a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Netanyahu threatens ex-PM Olmert with lawsuit for calling family mentally ill

By AP and ToI Staff

Sara Yael Hirschhorn

Whither Israel education without Israel?

The pandemic-induced travel ban offers a chance to consider whether Israel trips offer not just profound feeling, but deep knowledge

Israel education as a personal journey toward meaning

The pedagogy of ‘Identity Zionism’ offers a richer and more affirmative lens through which to view Israel education

What price democracy in the Palestinian territories?

With Hamas still sworn to Israel’s destruction, Europe must warn the PA it won’t fund a government that includes terrorists

Judith Margolis Friedman

A story of a thousand runs: Why I love my Christian neighbor

We both are focused on family, we both believe in personal responsibility and free will, and we both believe that ultimately our fate is in God’s hands

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 20 – Did you blink? Likud may have lost its coalition chance

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

Former CEO of Walla news website Ilan Yeshua arrives to give testimony in the corruption trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jerusalem District Court, April 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trialWalla CEO told to scrap article on PM son’s non-Jewish girlfriend ‘at any cost’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (right). (Flash90)

AG says ‘currently’ no reason to remove Netanyahu from his role

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Prof. Mohammed Dajani (left) and Yossi Klein Halevi at The Times of Israel's office in Jerusalem, May 2019 (ToI staff)

Behind the Headlines

Join ToI Community to hear Yossi Klein Halevi, Mohammed Dajani agree to disagree

This Thursday, a special Behind the Headlines joint interview of the author of ‘Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor’ and a Palestinian scholar — exclusively for the ToI Community

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

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Iranian enrichment is worrying, but weapons-grade uranium doesn’t a bomb make

Amassing high-grade fissile material is only the first step toward an atomic weapon, and Tehran’s latest violation of the JCPOA does not substantially change the timeline

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

Iran reports progress in nuclear talks; discusses traces of uranium with IAEA

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police officers during a raid in the ultra orthodox Jewish neighobrhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox mob locks cops in building; then suspect flees dressed as woman

By Stuart Winer

3 officers hurt in Mea Shearim as arrest raid — targeting suspects in series of Jerusalem protests — turns violent

An ultranationalist Jewish mob congregates near the Jaffa Street Station of the Jerusalem light-rail on April 19, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Several attacked as Jerusalem mob chants ‘death to Arabs’; 6 arrested

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 teenagers arrested on suspicion of slapping Haredi boys on train

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)

Live updates (closed)

Top Iran official says power restored, enrichment resumes at Natanz nuclear site

By Michael Bachner

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of country’s atomic agency, says main electricity supply connected to the grid after last week’s sabotage blamed on Israel

6:32 pm

Netanyahu meets British minister Gove to discuss vaccine cooperation
6:30 pm

Big hurdles to overcome in Bennett-Lapid coalition talks -- report
6:03 pm

Israel said to urge US to boost UN inspectors' powers in renewed nuclear deal

Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccines arrive at a Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Israel closes long-term COVID-19 vaccine deals with Pfizer and Moderna

Netanyahu says agreements, signed despite ‘political difficulties,’ will ensure ‘no more lockdowns’; bill set to be paid from excess Finance Ministry funds

Illustrative: Arriving passengers walk past a sign in the arrivals area at Heathrow Airport in London, Jan. 26, 2021. (Matt Dunham/AP)

Raising inequity worries, WHO opposes proof of vaccination for travelers

By AFP

A shipment of AstraZenaca coronavirus vaccines, intended for use by Palestinians. (courtesy)

Palestinians receive 72,000 AstraZeneca doses to boost stuttering vaccine drive

By Aaron Boxerman

Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center on Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Sens. Sanders, Warren call for ‘restricting’ US aid to Israel at J Street confab

Progressive lawmakers urge Israel to help vaccinate Palestinians, say foreign assistance shouldn’t be used to advance policies that ‘violate Palestinian rights’

Illustrative: An F-35 fighter jet pilot and crew prepare for a mission at Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, August 5, 2019. (Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury/US Air Force via AP)

Citing Israel’s military edge, top Democrats aim to slow sale of F-35s to UAE

SpotOption's website offered a range of tools and services for binary options companies including payment platforms and risk management. (Screen capture: Spotoption.com)

Binary options fraudSpotOption received taxpayer funds to expand, ToI revealed

SEC charges Israel’s main binary options firm, and its 2 chiefs, with vast fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Complaint says SpotOption and owners Pini Peter and Ran Amiran defrauded US investors out of at least $100 million; firm was at heart of scam banned by Knesset after ToI reporting

Arab Israelis and left wing protesters hold a demonstration against right wing groups taking over houses in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, on April 19, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Cops clash with Jaffa Arabs for 2nd straight night as tensions flare

3 detained, including a minor, at protest in solidarity with mixed city’s Arab residents; comes day after assault on rabbi looking to move yeshiva into Arab area

View of the Shirat Moshe Hesder Yeshiva in Jaffa on April 19, 2021. (Video screenshot: Ynet)

Colleague of assaulted rabbi says Jaffa yeshiva promotes ‘good neighborliness’

Nabil Shaath speaks to reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 1, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas adviser: Palestinian elections ‘very likely’ to be postponed

Nabil Shaath says parliamentary vote scheduled for next month will be pushed off if Israel doesn’t allow ballot boxes in East Jerusalem

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, October 20, 2012. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians say most in East Jerusalem can vote, regardless of Israeli approval

By Aaron Boxerman

President Reuven Rivlin, right, meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the funeral for late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin, PA’s Abbas share Ramadan phone call, discuss ‘regional issues’

By Aaron Boxerman

Sudan officially annuls 63-year Israel boycott law

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Removal of 1958 legislation barring ties with Jewish state approved in joint vote of ruling sovereignty council and cabinet

Sudanese demonstrate in support of their people in Sudan, in south Tel Aviv, on April 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90 /File)

Illustrative: In the 1950s, during the heyday of this Catskills bungalow colony, 10 women shared the single kitchen. (Courtesy Paula Goldberg via JTA)

Interview

Meet the 27-year-old amplifying the sounds of the Borscht Belt

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

More Headlines

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

5 die on roads in 24 hours; woman injured in crash with IDF chief’s motorcade

In this January 13, 2020, photo, Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno arrives at the G5 Sahel summit in Pau, southwestern France (Regis Duvignau/Pool Photo via AP, File)

After 30 years in power, Chad’s president killed while fighting rebels

Participants lay a wreath and flowers in front of a monument dedicated to the underground archives of the Jewish ghetto, during its unveiling ceremony at the site where the Ringelblum Archive was hidden during Nazi occupation during the Second World War, in Warsaw, on April 19, 2021. (Wojtek RADWANSKI/ AFP)

Monument unveiled to remember Warsaw Ghetto’s buried archive of anguish

By Bernard OSSER

In an Oct. 30, 2012, file photo, former Vice President Walter Mondale, a former Minnesota senator, gestures while speaking at a Students for Obama rally at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis. (AP/Jim Mone, File)

ObituaryWalter Mondale, Carter VP who played key role in Israel-Egypt peace, dies at 93

By AP and ToI Staff

Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron attends a press conference on March 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel leaves rate unchanged as nation sees ‘rapid’ economic recovery

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin listens as his defense attorney Eric Nelson gives closing arguments as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill preside on April 19, 2021, in the trial of Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

Minneapolis braces for conclusion of George Floyd trial as it heads to jury

By Robin LEGRAND

An illustrative image of a Microsoft data center (Courtesy)

Microsoft says new Israel cloud data center to start operations in early 2022

By Shoshanna Solomon

A video captures a fight that broke out between several men in South Tel Aviv on April 20, 2021. (Screen capture: Ynet)

Foreign national stabbed and killed in fight in south Tel Aviv

A young woman and member of the Lev Tahor community in the Canadian city of Chatham, Ontario, Nov. 29, 2013. (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star via Getty Images, JTA)

Feds charge extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor with exploiting, kidnapping children

The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands (photo credit: AP/Peter Dejong)

Syria faces sanctions from chemical weapons watchdog, rejects attack claims

The penal colony where a hospital for convicts is located in Vladimir, a city 180 kilometers (110 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, April 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Sergei Fedotov)

Russia moves Navalny to prison hospital after US, EU threaten ‘consequences’

By Jonathan Brown and Max Delany

Products and Hazelnut spreads developed with the Incredo Sugar developed by DouxMatok (Courtesy)

Israeli startup begins selling cocoa spreads in US, touting 50% less sugar

By Shoshanna Solomon

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