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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 28, 2021

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut (C) and Benny Gantz (L), leader of the Blue and White party, attend a memorial ceremony for late president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Gantz appointed justice minister after Netanyahu U-turn; court cancels hearing

By Raoul Wootliff

PM backtracks to end crisis ahead of High Court session on matter, still insists contentious cabinet vote appointing his ally Akunis was legal — despite AG ruling it wasn’t

The High Court of Justice convenes to discuss the vacant justice minister post on April 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court freezes Netanyahu-led appointment of Likud ally as justice minister

Head of the Religious Zionism party Bezalel Smotrich gives a press statement in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, April 4, 2021. (Olivier FItoussi/Flash90)

Smotrich warns of unrest if Mandelblit tries to disqualify Netanyahu as PM

By Raoul Wootliff

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

‘Insane’ cabinet bedlam as Netanyahu tries to wriggle out of unity straitjacket

Desperate to avoid November rotation, Likud unveils a new line of argument at meeting on appointing a justice minister: The unity government restrictions no longer apply to us

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

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly government conference, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Transcript‘It’s an illegal vote!’: Cabinet meeting descends into chaos, fury, defiance

By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff

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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)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas warns Israel will bear responsibility if Palestinian elections postponed

By Alexander Fulbright and Michael Bachner

With Abbas expected to announce delay of planned vote, terror group says that ‘no Palestinian can accept holding elections without Jerusalem’

11:09 am

India COVID infections set new global record; millions vote in local election
8:40 pm

US, European countries reject Syria election results in advance
8:38 pm

EU slams 'manipulation' of vaccine info by China, Russia

From the blogs

My close friend was a covert Christian missionary

I hate that she betrayed my trust and can’t restore it, but what I hate even more is that she destroyed our ability to trust each other

'Change bloc' source: Progress made in talks for unity gov't

Bennett meets Ra’am chief Abbas amid effort to form government without Netanyahu

Right-wing and Islamist parties launch unlikely cooperation, with PM’s deadline expiring in 6 days; Smotrich slams move: ‘A government with Abbas is like a government with Hamas’

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett at a press conference in the Knesset, in Jerusalem on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yossi Cohen, then the national security adviser, is seen in a committee meeting at the Knesset on December 8, 2015, sitting behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

In DC, Israel’s top spy and security wonk face a mission impossible on Iran

Meir Ben-Shabbat and Yossi Cohen are well-regarded in Washington, but their trip is unlikely to prevent the Biden administration from barreling toward deal with Tehran

Iran says nuclear deal talks to ‘speed up’; US dispatching its special envoy

By AFP and ToI Staff

In 1st comment on leaked tape, Zarif backs ‘synergy’ between IRGC, diplomacy

By AFP

US updates Israel on Iran nuclear talks as national security advisers meet in DC

A pregnant woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection at a Clalit vaccination center in Or Yehuda, on Purim, February 25, 2021. (Flash90)

COVID vaccines don’t harm ovaries and neither does virus, Jerusalem doctors find

By Nathan Jeffay

Reassuring women worldwide, Hadassah researchers record no difference in ovary function between those who are immunized and those who are not

Deputy US Secretary of State for Management and Resources Thomas Nides speaks at a USAID conference in June 2012. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Thomas Nides emerges as frontrunner to become US envoy to Israel – report

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

According to Washington Post, Jewish banking official and former deputy secretary of state has edged out others, including Michael Adler, who will likely be ambassador to Belgium

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaking at the annual Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner, February 24, 2020. (CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikicago/Wikipedia)

Jewish group endorses Biden’s pick for appeals judge, tipped for Supreme Court

It’s about language, stupid!

When scholars use jargon, the public cannot understand their insights, as was the case in the recent debate over rehabilitating Steven M. Cohen

As Israel strides toward peace, Germany must get off the sidelines

We need to stop castigating the Jewish state, admit the Oslo process is no longer viable, and embrace structural change in the Middle East

IDF disabled veteran Itzik Saidyan. (Facebook)

Saidyan's condition improves, due to undergo surgery

Internal probe faults Defense Ministry’s treatment of vet who self-immolated

By Judah Ari Gross

Investigative committee on Itzik Saidyan, who suffers from PTSD, finds he was forced to fight grueling bureaucracy for years, received only temporary assistance

Cars torched in the Palestinian village of Beit Iksa near Jerusalem in a suspected "price tag" attack, April 28, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Palestinian cars torched near Jerusalem; graffiti at scene: ‘Jews, let’s win’

Apparent Jewish extremist attack in Beit Iksa comes amid continued tensions in capital and after TikTok videos of Arabs attacking Jews

Illustrative: Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, November 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

After a day of quiet, Gaza terrorists fire 2 mortar shells toward Israel

In this October 20, 2012, photo, 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. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel not seeking to thwart Palestinian election, official tells EU envoys

Customers enjoy dining at restaurants at the Sarona market in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As COVID wanes, Israel’s restaurants are full of customers but low on staff

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Hotel Montefiore in Tel Aviv turned its parking lot into an outdoor dining space during the coronavirus summer season, July 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Israel’s hotels eye foreign tourists and wonder: If we open, will they come?

By Jessica Steinberg

With the rules for noncitizens entering the country about to be significantly loosened, rooms are being readied despite concerns about travel during COVID and lack of staff

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot spring day, April 19, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel plans to reopen to tourists in May, eyes travelers from UAE

Israelis enjoy sitting at restaurants in Tel Aviv, on April 04, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Unvaccinated children can now attend cultural events with a negative virus test

FILE - In this April 24, 2021, file photo, a COVID-19 patient inside a car, receives oxygen provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India. India’s death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 200,000 people as a surge has wept the country in recent weeks, a rise rooted in various so-called super-spreader events that were allowed to happen in the months following the autumn when the country had seemingly brought the pandemic under control. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Oxygen to India: Israeli group dispatching medical aid to COVID-stricken country

By Nathan Jeffay

India is in turmoil, with 350,000 new COVID cases a day and a death toll that just exceeded 200,000; citing ‘shared responsibility’ to overcome virus, IsraAID sending supplies

A man in protective suit digs earth to bury the body of a person who died of COVID-19 in Gauhati, India, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

India’s COVID death toll tops 200,000 as record surge breaks health system

By SHEIKH SAALIQ

One of Nana Warszawski's Project Creatures under construction (Courtesy Project Creatures)

Israeli artists upcycle clothes, trinkets and memories into beloved keepsakes

By Jessica Steinberg

People sit in a restaurant in the Jaffa section of Tel Aviv, on April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Analysis

As tensions boil, Jaffa’s Arab Israelis say gentrification is pushing them out

Historic mixed city has seen vast changes as it turns into a bastion for the ultra-wealthy; some residents accuse the government of trying to get rid of them to make way for Jews

In this undated photo, sculptor Chas Fagan, left, holds a clay model of a bust of Elie Wiesel and watches as stonemason Sean Callahan, right, uses medieval techniques to carve the bust into the walls of the National Cathedral in Washington DC. (National Cathedral/ via JTA)

Elie Wiesel to be first modern Jew honored with bust in US National Cathedral

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For many French Jews, Halimi murder a ‘watershed moment’ of distrust in France

By Cnaan Liphshiz

20,000-strong Paris protest a rare show of raw emotion from local Jewish community over government’s response to antisemitism

People stage a protest organized by Jewish associations, who say justice has not been done for the killing of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, at Trocadero Plaza near Eiffel Tower in Paris, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Members of the support committee of late Sarah Halimi gather to ask justice on Trocadero plaza in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on April 25, 2021. (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

French-Jewish judge resigns to protest high court ruling in Sarah Halimi affair

By Cnaan Liphshiz

From right: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand hold a banner at the march against anti-Semitism in New York City, January 5, 2020. (John Lamparski/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via JTA)

Despite COVID restrictions, antisemitism barely decreased in US in 2020 — ADL

More Headlines

A poster advertises an LGBTQ event at Yeshiva University, Dec. 15, 2020. (Courtesy of Y.U. student organizers via JTA)

LGBTQ students sue Yeshiva University for discrimination

By Simone Somekh

Israeli Premier League soccer referee Sapir Berman, formerly known as Sagi Bermen, at a press conference on April 27, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Sapir Berman comes out as Israeli soccer’s first-ever transgender referee

New York police officers respond to an attack at one of four synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, April 26, 2021. (NYPD via Twitter)

Bronx synagogue vandal strikes Riverdale Jewish Center in latest attack

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Danielle Wolfson climbs the face of Mount Everest. (Screenshot/Ch. 13)

Tel Aviv lawyer on Everest hopes to become first Israeli woman to reach summit

In this photo from December 13, 2018, Israeli soldiers stand guard next to cameras at their new position in front of a Hezbollah flag, near the Lebanese southern border village of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

IDF: Hezbollah drone downed after breaching Israeli airspace

Israeli startup Chunk Foods uses fermentation technology to create alterative protein meat-like products (Courtesy)

Chunk Foods gets $2 million to develop alt-meat whole cuts via fermentation

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Super Pink Moon rises over Jerusalem on April 27, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Photo essayRare pink supermoon lights up the night skies

A fence in Vienna surrounds the statue of Karl Lueger, the antisemitic former mayor of the Austrian capital, October 6, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

Despite lockdowns, antisemitic incidents rise to record levels in Austria

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The medical cannabis inhaler developed by Syqe Medical (Courtesy)

Israeli medical cannabis inhaler gets Canada’s marketing nod

By Shoshanna Solomon

Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the Gestapo and the SS, in the 1930s. (Corbis via Getty Images)

Oregon auction house pulls purported Himmler dagger after Jewish groups complain

Illustrative -- In this photo released Feb. 17, 2021, by the Iranian army, an Iranian naval vessel flying an Iranian flag participates in a joint naval exercise of the Russian navy, the Iranian navy and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy in the Indian Ocean. (Iranian Army via AP)

Pentagon says US Navy fired warning shots at Iran boats in Gulf

By AFP

The Virginia Republican Party State Central Committee votes on a number of measures at a virtual meeting, including a vote on whether to allow a religious exemption for Saturday convention voting, April 22, 2021. (Facebook)

Reversing decision, Virginia Republicans allow Shabbat observers to vote early

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