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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 21, 2021

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Illustrative image: a Haredi man receives a coronavirus vaccine in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘I’m young, I don’t need it’: Ultra-Orthodox non-vaxxers dig in their heels

By Nathan Jeffay

Amid Israel’s vaccination success, there are still some 800,000 adults refusing to get shots, many of them Haredi, and they seem motivated by fear, not religious rulings

A sold-out crowd at Rishon Lezion's Live Park, at a Daddy Yankee concert on June 26, 2019. (Courtesy Live Nation)

Health Ministry said set to recommend allowing concerts with crowds of 50,000

An AstraZeneca vaccination kit is placed on a table at a vaccination center in Bucharest, Romania, April 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Israel reportedly seeking to cancel deal for AstraZeneca vaccines

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative image: In April 2021, when the requirement to wear masks outdoors was dropped, an Israeli man cut through a huge face mask in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Scientists: Israel proves every developed country can subdue COVID with vaccines

By Nathan Jeffay

Prof. Dan Yamin says hospitals became safe from meltdown once 50% of over-60s were vaccinated, even with highly infectious variants

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets British Cabinet Minister Michael Gove at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 20, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu meets UK minister amid plans to form travel corridor for vaccinated

Coronavirus czar Nachman Ash during a visit to the Jerusalem Municipality on November 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Virus czar rejects Netanyahu’s prediction of another vaccine round in 6 months

By Stuart Winer

Nachman Ash says that while it is expected Israelis will need further shots for protection against COVID, the timeframe is still unclear

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

Netanyahu: Israel readying for new vaccination drive in 6 months, including kids

Analysis

As Iran and the US move cautiously toward a deal, Israel needs a new approach

Ongoing covert actions against Tehran’s nuclear program risk causing a rupture with Biden, while being unlikely to stop a new agreement that both Washington and Tehran want

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)

Illustrative: In this photo released on January 15, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are launched in a drill in Iran. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP)

Israel said resigned to restored Iran deal that won’t address missiles, terror

File: The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi delivers his speech at the opening of the general conference of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, September 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Top Iran official: Power fully restored at Natanz, enrichment renewed

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of country’s atomic agency, claims enrichment at key nuclear site never stopped following blast blamed on Israel

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, January 27, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Rouhani: 60%-70% of issues resolved in Vienna nuclear talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A truck containing cylinder of uranium hexafluoride gas leaves Ahmadi Roshan uranium enrichment facility in Natanz to Fordo nuclear facility for the purpose of injecting the gas into Fordo centrifuges, November 6, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Post-blast security measures at Natanz slowing down enrichment — report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Netanyahu admits Ra’am-backed government not an option, urges direct vote for PM

By Raoul Wootliff

After Islamist party backs opposition in key vote, Netanyahu again pitches special election for premier to resolve political deadlock; TV: Ra’am would likely oppose it, dooming bid

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

Court hands restraining order to Likud activist who harassed Elkin’s wife, kids

Former Walla news CEO Ilan Yeshua arrives to testify at a Jerusalem court on April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s graft trial to pause for 2 weeks as first witness wraps up testimony

Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting, in the Israeli parliament on April 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Interview

Ra’am campaign chief: ‘If we head to fifth elections, we’ll get 20% more votes’

Aaed Kayal, the man behind the Islamist party’s surprising success, has no regrets about breaking with the Joint List, says Ra’am is finally bringing Arab voters hope

Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett gives a statement to the press on April 21, 2021. (Screen capture/Channel 13)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Bennett has cut deal with Lapid to be PM of left-wing gov’t

Yamina chair rips PM for ‘holding country hostage,’ pushing for ‘5th, 6th, 7th election,’ says he won’t let it happen; vows not to sit in unity gov’t that contradicts his values

6:55 pm

Netanyahu incorrectly claims directly elected PM would 'automatically' set up coalition
6:37 pm

Seeking support for direct election for PM, Netanyahu phones Mansour Abbas for 1st time since election
6:25 pm

Netanyahu: Bennett has cut a deal with Lapid to be PM of a left-wing government

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 21 – TOI’s reporting brings alleged fraudsters to justice

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

Chauvin led away in handcuffs

Ex-cop Chauvin convicted of murder, manslaughter in death of George Floyd

By Amy Forliti, STEPHEN GROVES and TAMMY WEBBER

Celebrations outside court as former officer convicted of all charges, could face decades in jail for killing that set off heated debate across US and beyond over racism, policing

US police officer shoots, kills teenage Black girl holding knife

By Farnoush Amiri and Ryan Kryska

Biden hails George Floyd verdict, but says it’s not enough: ‘We can’t stop here’

By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Throughout US, guilty verdict in Floyd’s death brings joy — and wariness

By Aaron Morrison, Gillian Flaccus and Jacquelyn Martin

Devorah Titunik

The Chauvin trial: This Jew’s perspective

I felt tears of relief on my cheeks as the verdict was read. It doesn’t solve the US problems of hate and racism – there’s still a lot of work to do. But it’s a start

A Brit’s desire for salt and vinegar crisps in Israel

Until now, this favorite flavour was the stuff of dreams. Ex-pats like me thought the very whiff of a rumor of the crisps’ arrival was a hoax. I couldn’t be more glad to be wrong!

‘Albert Sabin’ isn’t a household name, like ‘Jonas Salk,’ but maybe it should be

Once you’ve helped eradicate polio, you might as well go for establishing peace in the Middle East – what’s one more challenge?

When Torah hurts

It is a unique pain when your beloved multi-millennial tradition states that who you are is an abomination, a specific sorrow when something you love cannot fully love you back

A 1928 mugshot of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a Jewish American mobster, with significant influence within the Mafia and National Crime Syndicate. (Courtesy Yale University Press)

Interview'He did want to be a good Jew, he just never had the chance'

How Jewish mobster Bugsy Siegel’s gamble on Vegas paid off after his murder

By Rich Tenorio

The movie star-handsome member of the infamous Murder, Inc. envisioned a gambling oasis in the desert, says a new book in Yale’s Jewish Lives series

Sarah Halimi, 66, killed on April 4, 2017, in Paris in what is suspected to be a racially motivated attack by her neighbor. (Courtesy)

Israel blasts French ruling keeping Sarah Halimi’s killer from trial

By Lazar Berman

Calling the murder ‘despicable’, Foreign Ministry says court judgment fails to convey attitude of zero tolerance toward anti-Semitism

Israeli, UAE fighter jets fly together in large international exercise in Greece

By Judah Ari Gross

Air forces from eight countries take part in the drill, simulating airstrikes, dogfights and rescues over unfamiliar terrain

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (C) touring the Lebanese border area with senior IDF commanders, April 20, 2021. (Ariel Hermony/Defense Ministry)

Gantz warns Hezbollah of ‘heavy consequences’ if it threatens Israel

An explosion is seen at a rocket factory in central Israel in which the manufacturer says was a 'controlled test' on April 20, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Big blast at rocket factory jolts central Israel in ‘controlled test’

By Judah Ari Gross

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

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

Illustrative: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood waves his hand from a defendants cage in a courtroom in Torah prison, southern Cairo, Egypt, August 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia top 2020 global executioners list

By Isabel Debre

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

Camp Modin in Maine was one of the few Jewish camps to open last year. It plans to follow the same playbook this year. (Courtesy of Howard Salzberg/ via JTA)

Needed now more than ever, what US Jewish summer camp will look like this year

More Headlines

Jim Steinman (Courtesy/ jimsteinman.com)

ObituaryJim Steinman, ‘Bat out of Hell’ composer, dies at 73

By Mesfin Fekadu

Naomi Wolf appears on Fox News, April 19, 2021. (Screenshot)

Conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf: Fauci ‘doesn’t work for us,’ got $1m from Israel

Israeli startup AnyVision uses artificial intelligence to recognize faces, bodies and objects for security and other purposes. (YouTube screenshot)

US firms said using Israeli tech for controversial facial recognition

Four Star General and head of the Republican Guard in Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno (C), 37, son of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, is seen at a polling station in N'djamena, April 11, 2021. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

Deby’s son named Chad president; Israel said confident ties won’t be harmed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

ObituaryWalter Mondale was a liberal icon who championed Israel

An aerial view of sharks swimming in the shallow Mediterranean Sea water off the Israeli coastal town of Hadera, north of Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Stay awayWarm waters draw endangered sharks to Israel’s Mediterranean shallows

By AFP

Screen capture from video of Devorah Halberstam, a Hasidic woman whose son Ari was killed in a terrorist attack in New York City in 1994, speaking at a news conference in Manhattan announcing a new police task force on identifying hate crimes, April 19, 2021. (YouTube)

NYC police’s panel advising on hate crimes includes Hasidic woman

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, in an undated photo. (AP/Google, Connie Zhou)

Google, AWS win $1.2 billion Israel tender for cloud services

By Shoshanna Solomon

Keren and Isack Kadosh, the pastry chefs and co-owners of Jerusalem bakery Kadosh, which recently switched tokosher supervision with Tzohar and away from the Chief Rabbinate (Courtesy Kadosh)

Jerusalem’s Kadosh bakery drops Rabbinate kosher stamp for private alternative

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative image of hacking, hackers, ransomware and a cybersecurity attack. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

How safe is your web host? Israel’s cybersecurity watchdog plans rating system

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ambulances carrying COVID-19 patients queue up waiting for their turn to be attended at a dedicated COVID-19 government hospital in Ahmedabad, India, April 17, 2021. (Ajit Solanki/AP)

Swamped by wave of coronavirus cases, India’s health system buckles

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and NEHA MEHROTRA

Chelsea fans protest outside Stamford Bridge stadium in London, against Chelsea's decision to be included amongst the clubs attempting to form a new European Super League, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Breakaway soccer Super League collapses after 6 English clubs forced to withdraw

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