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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 27, 2021

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Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz. (Yonatan Sindel, David Cohen/Flash90)

PM forces vote to make a Likud colleague justice minister; AG says it’s illegal

Unclear whether Israel has new justice minister after chaotic cabinet meeting; Netanyahu blocks Gantz from taking post, pushes nomination of ally, defies AG; High Court to convene

View of the Supreme Court as seen from a rooftop in Jerusalem on September 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Court freezes appointment of Akunis as justice minister after cabinet chaos

Justices say PM must explain by tomorrow why selection of his ally should stand despite Mandelblit saying it should not have gone ahead

6:25 pm

Court freezes appointment of Akunis as justice minister after cabinet chaos
6:16 pm

IDF says it downed Hezbollah drone that crossed into Israel
6:13 pm

Bennett rejects report he fears some in party may jump ship if he joins Lapid

From the blogs

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

ADL’s antisemitism audit: A tsunami of hate in 2020

The dark conspiracy chatter of obscure internet communities that inspired the Poway shooter has infected the public conversation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Likud candidate Gideon Sa'ar as he arrives for a Likud faction meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said willing to let Sa’ar be PM first in latest rotation deal proposal

Likud officials reportedly believe New Hope chair may agree to arrangement since he has only promised not to sit ‘under’ the incumbent premier

The Knesset Arrangements Committee meets to approve the breakaway of the Yesh Atid and Telem factions from the centrist Blue and White party, March 29, 2020. (Knesset)

Key panel approves Likud, Yesh Atid proposals to resume Knesset activity

Left to right: Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Yamina party chief Naftali Bennett; and New Hope party head Gideon Sa'ar (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett, Sa’ar stress gaps in unity talks; Lapid insists they’re bridgeable

In this photo from Sept. 26, 2015, US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Facing outcry, Kerry denies he told Iran’s Zarif about Israeli strikes in Syria

Former US secretary of state cites Israeli minister’s 2018 speech mentioning raids, and State Department notes generally that such operations were public knowledge

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses a conference in Tehran, Iran, February 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran nuclear talks resume after Zarif says Russia tried to wreck deal

By David Rising

Chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami speaks at a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, on November 25, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Iran warns Israel that regional ‘mischief’ will be met with great force

Twenty years on

We have worked hard to transcend the loss of a son murdered by terrorists, but the bull’s eye of grief and trauma at the center of everything never goes away

Nitzan Caspi Shilony

Smotrich, chained wives, and the Superman effect

This MK is not the first to step in to save an agunah, and he won’t be the last, but he may be doing more harm than good

Passengers seen at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Health Ministry urges ban on travel to 7 high-risk countries, including India

Ministry recommends requiring vaccinated travelers arriving from COVID hotspots to quarantine, and delaying relaunch of Israel’s tourism program

Illustrative: Taglit-Birthright participants visit at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 18, 2014. (Flash90/File)

Birthright resuming trips to Israel for vaccinated or recovered US Jews from May

People sit outside at a cafe in the town of Pardes Hanna, April 27, 2020 (Screen grab/Walla)

COVID-19 outbreak in Pardes Hanna, where many still refusing to vaccinate

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing Apr. 27: Why the Jewish state still denies the Armenian genocide

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Analysis

Why Israel won’t follow Biden’s lead and recognize Armenian genocide

Turkey is weak diplomatically and economically, and won’t retaliate, but for Israel, strategic interests still trump moral declarations

Israeli activists calling for the government's recognition of the Armenian genocide in front of the Turkish consulate in Jerusalem, April 24, 2012 (courtesy Combat Genocide Association)

Turkish President and leader of Justice and Development (AK) Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during his ruling AK Party's group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT), in Ankara, on April 21, 2021. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Erdogan says Biden’s genocide recognition ‘groundless,’ harms ties with US

By AFP

US soldiers stand guard on the rooftop of the United States embassy, in the background, as members of the Ankara club called Seymen dance in traditional clothes during a protest against a statement made by US President Joe Biden, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Marking shift, US Jewish groups welcome Biden’s designation of Armenian genocide

Israeli tanks are stationed along the Israel-Gaza border, on April 24, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Security cabinet authorizes broad military action if Gaza rocket fire continues

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers check a Palestinian woman as she waits to cross the Qalandiya checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, April 23, 2021. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Human Rights Watch lodges ‘apartheid’ accusation at Israel, which dismisses it

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinians gather and wave a Palestinian flag at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, April 26, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

6 East Jerusalem residents arrested for assaulting cops in Old City

The Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa. (Michael Chazan at the University of Toronto)

Hebrew U team proves earliest evidence of cave dwelling, 1.8 million years ago

By Stuart Winer

Archaeologists examining Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa find more indications humans were active there nearly a million years before accepted estimates

Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir addresses the Knesset plenum on April 26, 2021. (Noam Moscowitz/Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Far-right MK: Meir Kahane suffered ‘character assassination’ by the media

In his first address before Knesset plenum, Itamar Ben Gvir dismisses dozens of charges against him for incitement, calls for major reforms to Israeli legal system

Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a Knesset faction meeting on April 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right party leader: Arabs are citizens of Israel ‘for now at least’

Yair Netanyahu arrives for a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on April 26, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu rages at ‘vile’ leftists, ‘pedophile’ Barak, in libel testimony

By Raoul Wootliff

A healthcare worker prepares the material to test a child for COVID-19, on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Israeli aid team heads to Uruguay, where COVID dream has turned to nightmare

By Nathan Jeffay

The South American country hardly felt the virus last year, but now has the world’s second-highest infection rate and hospitals are under pressure

Tal Zaks (C), Moderna's chief medical officer, receives an honorary doctorate during a ceremony at Bar-Ilan University on April 26, 2021. (Courtesy)

Moderna’s top medical officer awarded honorary doctorate by Bar-Ilan University

Three sperm whale calves. (Amanda Cotton)

Deep thought in deep blue: 5 Israelis in pioneering project to decode whale talk

File: View of Haifa's oil refineries and other industrial areas, on May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Panel recommends closure of Haifa’s Bay’s oil refineries within a decade

Committee under national economic adviser Avi Simhon wants shuttering of Bazan, Kiryat Haim oil storage facility and transfer of Haifa Chemicals to Negev

The Dead Sea Works viewed from an overlook. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Green body petitions court over right to info on Israel’s natural resources

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)

EU to push Israel on Jerusalem voting as Abbas set to delay election – report

Lebanese newspaper says bloc wants time to pressure Jewish state on formally allowing voting in capital, a matter on which Israel has been silent

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 18, 2020. (Flash90)

Abbas expected to delay election, but could pay heavy price – diplomatic source

By Aaron Boxerman

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Aviva Okeson-Haberman on the job as a reporter for KCUR in Kansas City, September 2020. (Brandon Parigo via JTA)

Stray bullet kills 24-year-old Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City

In this Sunday, May 26, 2013 file photo, members of the Black Hebrews community attend the Shavuot harvest festival in their Village of Peace in the town of Dimona, southern Israel. The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, as they call themselves, a community of black Americans who left the United States for Israel, believe they are the lost tribe of Judah, exiled from the Holy Land by the Romans in 70 A.D. According to their teachings, their ancestors wandered across North Africa and eventually settled in West Africa, where they were later captured and sold into slavery in the New World. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

African Hebrews say dozens set to be deported from Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion

A Tunisian Jewish pilgrim lights a candle on the first day of the annual pilgrimage to the Ghriba Synagogue, the oldest Jewish monument built in Africa, on April 26, 2021 in the Mediterranean Tunisian resort island of Djerba. (Photo by FATHI NASRI / AFP)

Only a faithful few make it as Djerba pilgrimage resumes after COVID break

By AFP

The JCC in Palo Alto, California, holds an Israeli Independence Day celebration in Hebrew aimed at the vibrant Israeli community in Silicon Valley on May 9, 2019. (Saul Bromberger/Courtesy JCC Palo Alto)

California now home to 22 Israeli-founded tech unicorns

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israelis protest their financial situation and the government's lack of financial aid, at the Azrieli intersection, in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020 (TomerNeuberg/FLASH90)

Lower-income workers struggling to return to work, Employment Service says

By Shoshanna Solomon

In an April 2, 2021 photo released by the US Navy, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel cuts in front of the US Coast Guard ship USCGC Monomoy in the Persian Gulf. (US Navy via AP)

Amid nuclear deal talks, Iran, US warships in 1st tense Mideast brush in a year

By AP and ToI Staff

Activists hold a banner during a pro-refugee demonstration organized by HIAS outside the US Capitol, September 14, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)

How the US Jewish refugee aid agency is doing after 3 months under Biden

Munir Anabtawi with his sister. (Mossawa Center)

Internal probe said to exonerate officer who killed mentally ill knifeman

Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room — Love Forever, 1966/94, part of the comprehensive exhibit of her work coming to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in November 2021. (Courtesy, Ota Fine Arts)

Infinity of artJapanese artist Yayoi Kusama gets retrospective at TLV Museum

By Jessica Steinberg

File: Seagulls fly over the Red Sea port city of Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 11, 2019 (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Saudi Arabia says it destroyed explosives-laden attack boat targeting port

By Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre

Mandy Patinkin cries during his episode of "Finding Your Roots." (Screen capture: YouTube)

Mandy Patinkin breaks down in tears learning he lost family in Holocaust

By Gabe Friedman

A police officer holds flowers given by residents to be taken down to the police station, where a police official had been stabbed to death on Friday in Rambouillet, south west of Paris, on April 26, 2021. (AP/ Thibault Camus)

1,000 French cops pay tribute to fellow officer killed in apparent terror attack

By Nicolas Garriga

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