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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 25, 2021

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Bezalel Smotrich arrives for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem (File: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir: I don't want to oust PM but remark is a 'disgrace'

Panning Jerusalem riot response, Smotrich says maybe time to ‘replace’ Netanyahu

Posting video of beating of Israeli by Palestinian mob, Religious Zionism head expresses perplexity at PM’s call for ‘calm on all sides’; Likud: He should show some humility

Central Election Committee workers count ballots at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, after the general elections, on March 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll forecasts 5th elections would yield similar results, continuing deadlock

Eli Rozen describes his beating by a Palestinian mob in Jerusalem from his hospital bed at Hadassah Mt. Scopus Medical Center, April 24, 2021 (video screenshot)

Jerusalem man beaten by Palestinian mob on Friday says city in ‘Third Intifada’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Eli Rozen was walking his dog when dozens of rioters assaulted him with fists, rocks and clubs; he says he’s lucky to be alive; attack one of several on Jewish civilians

Israeli security forces push out Palestinian protesters outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on April 24, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Fresh clashes between Israeli forces, Palestinians in Jerusalem and West Bank

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians holding Hamas movement green flags attend a protest in solidarity with Muslim worshipers in Jerusalem, in Gaza City, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas urges terror groups in Gaza to keep rockets on ‘standby’

By Aaron Boxerman and Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian group calls for ‘our noble resistance in Gaza to keep their fingers on the trigger’; IDF Chief of Staff Kohavi reportedly says neither side seeking escalation

Israeli boys examine the site where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Israel, April 24, 2021 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Schools open along Gaza border after night of relative calm

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Israeli missile launched from an Iron Dome missile defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, is seen above Gaza City on November 13, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Rockets fired from Gaza into Israel as fighting enters second day

By Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

Tal Schneider and Haviv Rettig Gur

Likud mulls a ‘Putin plan’ to keep Netanyahu in charge

To entice Sa’ar into the government, Netanyahu is considering handing the premiership briefly to Bennett or a Likud loyalist, while remaining in the PM’s official residence

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, right, attend a military parade celebrating 73 years since the victory in WWII, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2018. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP)

Protesters chant anti-Israel slogans during a protest in solidarity with fellow Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem, at the main street of Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, April 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing April 25 – What you need to know about the rocket fire from Gaza

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

Israeli security forces push out Palestinian protesters outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on April 24, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

3 Arab workers attacked in Jerusalem as tensions flare in capital

Jewish suspect arrested, found carrying knife; police gird for additional clashes following several days of violence between far-right Jews and Palestinians in the city

6:04 pm

Police gird for more violence in Jerusalem
5:48 pm

3 Arab workers attacked in Jerusalem; Jewish suspect found carrying knife
5:36 pm

Gazans break through security fence, enter buffer zone

An illustration of Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement.)

Protests organized in Israel to pressure French government

#JeSuisSarah: Social media campaign launched demanding justice for Sarah Halimi

Combat Anti-Semitism Movement calls for global protest against ‘unfathomable’ French court ruling that murderer of Jewish woman not criminally responsible because he was high

French police officers block the access next to the police station where a police official was stabbed to death Friday in Rambouillet, south west of Paris, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French officials hold emergency meeting after suspected Islamist terror attack

By Alice Lefebvre and Tiphaine Liboux

Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri delivers a speech during a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, on September 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran army chief threatens to ‘teach Israel a good lesson’ after tanker targeted

Mohammad Bagheri warns of military response, implies Israel behind attack on Iranian vessel off Syria, amid sky-high tensions and talks over renewing nuclear deal

A screenshot of video aired by Syrian state TV on April 24, 2021, shows a fire on a ship off the coast of Banyas, which Syria says was apparently started after the ship was attacked by a drone. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Syrian war monitor claims 3 killed as Iran oil tanker struck by drone

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks before signing the American Rescue Plan, a coronavirus relief package, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House says Israeli delegation will not change US position on Iran deal

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Mossad chief, national security adviser head to DC Monday to lobby against US return to nuke deal; IDF chief backs out and delegation delays trip due to security flare-up

Lithuania’s 80-year denial of its Holocaust role: That’s gaslighting

Ultra-patriots claim my grandfather could not really have wanted to kill Jews; he must have been forced to do so. I believe he had a choice

Direct election may work – but only after Netanyahu goes

A pathway to choosing a clear leader who would have legitimacy and clout could bring clarity to Israel’s fractured political landscape

Baruch Tenembaum

Remembering the victims of the Armenian genocide

I believe Jews and Armenians are brothers and I am befuddled that so many countries, including Israel, find it so difficult to acknowledge history

Antisemitism and four travesties of justice

With violence against Jews being recast by European courts, the words ’Never again’ lose their meaning. Justice must accompany those words

Religious leaders sing at a ceremony remembering the victims of the Armenian Genocide at the Montebello Armenian Genocide Monument in Montebello, California, Saturday, April 24, 2021 (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

After Biden acknowledges Armenian genocide, Israel stops short of doing the same

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jerusalem recognizes ‘terrible suffering’ of Armenians in early 20th century killings by Ottomans, says nations of world must ‘ensure events like this do not again occur’

In this April 15, 2021, file photo, US President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden recognizes Ottoman Empire atrocities against Armenians as ‘genocide’

By AAMER MADHANI, Matthew Lee and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

Composite: (L) Rockets are fired toward the sea during a military drill along a beach off of Gaza City on April 24, 2021, hours after fighting with Israel, (R) Israeli police officers clash with Palestinians outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on April 22, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP / Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

The Jerusalem butterfly effect: What Hamas stands to gain from Gaza rocket fire

The terror group’s controlled escalation in the south sends a clear message to Israel over Jewish extremists’ actions in the capital, while bolstering its credentials internally

FILE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi at a press conference after a security cabinet meeting following the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip, at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 12, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM says to ‘prepare for any scenario’ in Gaza; IDF chief postpones US trip

Palestinians chant slogans as they burn tires during a rally in Gaza City in support of demonstrators in Jerusalem on April 24, 2021 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrate on Gaza border amid unrest

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)

Expert: Last week’s ‘blast’ in central Israel was a solid rocket fuel test

By Judah Ari Gross

American professor bases assessment on satellite images, similar trials in other parts of the world

First responders work the scene of a fire at a hospital in Baghdad on April 24, 2021. (AP Photo)

Fury in Iraq as fire at Baghdad COVID hospital kills at least 82, wounds 110

By Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj

Medical sources say blaze that ripped through Ibn al-Khatib medical center started with explosion caused by ‘a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders’

Mourners take the body of Khudair Ali, a coronavirus patient who died in a hospital fire, during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq on April 25, 2021. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqis blame hospital fire on mismanagement as health minister suspended

By Sarah Benhaida and Ammar Karim

A general view of the exterior of the Apollo Theater in London, Thursday, April 8, 2021, which is preparing to continue its run of the musical 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

After year-long intermission, London’s West End readies for next act

By Jill Lawless

Aslan Karatsev of Russia celebrates a point, during the Serbia Open tennis tournament match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia, in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

In biggest win yet, Russian-Israeli Karatsev defeats tennis world champ Djokovic

By AFP and ToI Staff

Karatsev, who plays for Russia but grew up in Jewish state, knocks the world’s no. 1 player out of the semifinals of the Serbia Open tournament

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In this file photo taken on October 03, 2016 Israeli-US fashion designer Alber Elbaz delivers a speech after he received the title of Officer in the National Order of Merit by French Culture minister at the Culture ministry in Paris on October 3, 2016. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)

Alber Elbaz, top Israeli fashion icon and ex-Lanvin director, dies of COVID

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Death to Bibi!’: Man indicted over series of threatening Facebook posts

Illustrative: Jews and Arabs sharing an Iftar (break-fast) meal together during the month of Ramadan, in the town of Tayibe, June 9, 2016. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

Local authorities cancel Iftar meal amid row over UAE ambassador’s participation

Illustrative: Police officers clash with demonstrators during a protest against then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, April 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police detain 3 people ahead of weekly protest outside Netanyahu residence

Illustrative: Israeli security forces block the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem during a Border Police operation, December 2, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian teen dies after stabbing in East Jerusalem refugee camp

View of the Ministry of Justice on Salah al-Din street in Jerusalem, March 20, 2018. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Government to explain lack of justice minister as emergency court rules expire

Indigenous nurse of the Misak ethnic group Anselmo Tunubala, 49, inoculates an elderly indigenous woman with a Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 in the Guambia indigenous reservation, rural area of Silvia, department of Cauca, Colombia, on April 15, 2021 (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

One billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally

By AFP

Illustrative image of a man wearing a kippah. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Quebec court upholds law banning yarmulkes, other religious symbols in workplace

By David Lazarus

Rudy Giuliani, personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump, looks on during an appearance before the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan, on December 2, 2020 (JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)

Very NiceGuiliani wins two Razzies for infamous ‘Borat’ bedroom scene

By AFP

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