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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 4, 2021

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with MK Miki Zohar during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on December 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu running out of time to muster a majority coalition

In last-ditch gambit, Likud seeks fast-tracked vote on direct election for PM

By Stuart Winer

Longshot move comes hours before premier’s deadline to form a government; parties scramble over who will be tasked next to form coalition, Ra’am says it won’t recommend anyone

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

Last-minute maneuvers as Netanyahu’s mandate to form government set to expire

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid with President Reuven rivlin on July 8, 2020. (Yair Lapid/Facebook)

Rivlin said set to ask Lapid to form coalition, won’t give mandate to Bennett

Left: Head of the Yamina party Naftali Bennett gives a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021; Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Likud blames Bennett after Netanyahu fails to assemble coalition

PM’s party confirms he has returned mandate to president, slams Yamina chief for his ‘refusal to commit to a right-wing government’

9:19 pm

Rivlin: Netanyahu told me before midnight deadline he can't form coalition
9:15 pm

Likud says Netanyahu has returned mandate to form government, lashes out at Bennett
9:00 pm

Netanyahu fails to muster majority coalition as midnight deadline passes

Former CEO of Walla news website Ilan Yeshua arrives for his testimony in the case against Prime Minister Netanyahu who is on trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, at the District Court in Jerusalem, May 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial

Ex-Walla CEO: We removed news about bereaved families because PM didn’t like it

Ilan Yeshua says editors were told to take down stories about families of soldiers killed in 2014 Gaza war; says was made to fawn over Sara Netanyahu as if in ‘Byzantine court’

Police officer Rami Alwan hugs Shmuel Hayut, whom he saved at Meron. Father Avigdor Hayut sites to the left at their home in Bnei Brak, May 3, 2021 (Flash90)

Man to Bedouin cop who rescued son at Meron: You saved my child, saved the world

‘Rami didn’t ask what party I belong to or if I’m Bedouin or Arab. Rami saved us,’ says Avigdor Hayut, whose eldest son Yedidia was killed in disaster

Security officials and rescuers at the scene of a fatal crush during Lag B'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, on April 30, 2021. (AP Photo)

TV: Police document warned of need to ‘widen exit’ where Meron disaster unfolded

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L) and Public Security Minister Minister Amir Ohana at the bonfire lighting celebrations for Lag B'Omer, hours before the tragedy, April 30, 2021 (Israel Police)

Minister said to muzzle police chief’s request for Meron probe commission

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing May 4 – Has Netanyahu pulled the final rabbit from his hat?

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

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then justice minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset, December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In bombshell recordings, Shaked calls Netanyahus ‘tyrants’ with ‘lust for power’

PM ‘must go,’ Yamina’s ex-justice minister says, but a compromise in which he’d serve 2nd in a rotation deal with Bennett is preferable to a ‘ridiculous coalition’ with the left

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett to get boosted security, reportedly after receiving death threats

A video posted on Israeli websites as part of a cyberattack, May 21, 2020 (Screen grab)

A Message from ITC

Israel Tech Challenge to offer security operations training to olim, Masa students

Israel’s high-tech industry suffers a shortage of thousands of cyber experts. ITC.tech plans to fill the huge demand for SOC analysts by training olim, Masa youths and native Israelis

In a photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on May 4, 2021, soldiers are seen in the West Bank as part of the manhunt for suspects in a drive-by shooting attack that left three Israelis wounded, (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian suspects arrested for allegedly aiding Tapuah attacker

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

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

Islamist party chief Abbas condemns terror attack, calls victims ‘innocents’

By Aaron Boxerman

The vehicle (right) suspected of being used in a drive-by shooting attack is found in the village of Aqraba in the northern West Bank on May 3, 2021. (Social media)

Palestinians torch vehicle used in shooting attack as IDF arrives to seize it

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

My Haredi son was at the Mt. Meron disaster

With a Reform rabbi for a mother, our family is very different from those of my son’s peers. Now, I can’t stop thinking about how similar we are

Gary Rosenblatt

What will it take for me to go back to synagogue?

Are we just lazy or fearful of becoming sick? Or have we become dependent on the safety and security of keeping close to home?

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Why Iran poses such a serious threat

US negotiators must treat Teheran’s antisemitism, persecution of minorities, and backing for terrorism as integral issues in any nuclear talks

Israel and the challenge of apartheid

The recent Human Rights Watch report makes it plain: Continued rule over another people against their will undermines Israel’s core interests

Visitors at the site where 45 people were killed in a crush at Mt. Meron, May 2, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Liberman calls on Haredi party leaders to resign

At Knesset memorial, leaders urge comprehensive probe of Meron tragedy

Netanyahu says deadly crush will be thoroughly investigated, but doesn’t mention a state inquiry commission; Deri, breaking silence, also calls for full examination

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at an event at Bar Ilan University, March 4, 2020. (Flash90)

AG: Transitional government can form state inquiry into Meron disaster

Ilustrative: Hadassah Ein Kerem staff members work in the hospital's coronavirus ward, in Jerusalem on February 1, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID-19 cases in Israel drop below 100 for 1st time since July

Announcement comes as Israelis told they cannot travel to India, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Turkey amid fears of virus variants

A funeral worker removes empty coffins that held remains that were later cremated amid the coronavirus pandemic, at La Recoleta cemetery in Santiago, Chile, April 21, 2021. (Esteban Felix/AP)

For first time, Brazilian, Chilean coronavirus variants found in Israel

Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel expected to be on list of countries to be granted unlimited travel to EU

By AP and ToI Staff

From left: Sammi Rotibi as 'Nate' and John Berchtold as 'Isaac' in 'The Forbidden Wish' (Underdog Overkill Productions)

Director interview

Convinced he’s dead, a young man asks a rabbi to recite mourner’s prayer for him

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the swearing-in ceremony for the 24th Knesset, April 6, 2021. (Knesset spokesperson)

Plan to reform care for veterans stalls as Netanyahu, Gantz quarrel over funding

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister accuses PM, finance minister of holding up proposal; they say the Defense Ministry should come up with some of the money

The 'Grand Hotel Wien' where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran were taking place in Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2021. (Lisa Leutner/AP)

Speculation swirls of Iran deal resurrection as diplomatic activity intensifies

US officials play down rumors of progress toward bringing Tehran back into compliance with 2015 pact, but Iranian media claims agreement on prisoner swap at hand

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, right, welcomes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ahead of bilateral talks as part of the G7 foreign ministers meeting near London on May 3, 2021. (Ben Stansall / Pool via AP)

Iran a key topic as US envoy Blinken meets UK counterpart in first trip abroad

Senator Chris Coons of Delaware talks to the journalists during a press briefing in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on May 3, 2021. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

US officials in Gulf to reassure jittery allies over effort to rejoin Iran deal

By Isabel Debre

A woman holds up a sign during the day of rallies around the world protesting the French judicial system's handling of the Sarah Halimi case, April 25, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images/ via JTA)

Explainer

What the Sarah Halimi case and current protests mean for French Jewry

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A man walks carrying a refilled cylinder as family members of COVID-19 patients wait in queue to refill their oxygen cylinders at Mayapuri area in New Delhi, India, May 3, 2021. (Ishant Chauhan/AP)

Israel to fly planeloads of medical aid to virus-wracked India

Shipments will include oxygen generators, ventilators; non-government organizations join effort; deliveries to arrive this week

Natalie Ruiz,19, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a FEMA vaccination center at Miami Dade College, Monday, April 5, 2021, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

US FDA expected to okay Pfizer vaccine for kids aged 12-15 within week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Referee Sapir Berman works during an Israeli Premier League soccer match between Hapoel Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Monday, May 3, 2021. Israeli soccer's first transgender soccer referee took the field Monday for the first time since coming out publicly as a woman last week. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel’s first transgender soccer referee takes the field as a woman

By AP

After coming out last week, Sapir Berman takes charge of Premier League game between Hapoel Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem

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Marchers hold up the symbol of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 28, 2021. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Hundreds in Ukraine attend marches celebrating Nazi SS soldiers

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Efraim Gordon, an Israeli man shot dead in Baltimore on May 2, 2021. (Courtesy)

Israeli man shot dead in Baltimore during visit for family wedding

A suspected explosive device that was apparently flown into southern Israel with a balloon from the Gaza Strip lands in a field in the community of Kfar Aza on May 3, 2021. (Sha'ar Hanegev region)

Suspected balloon-borne bombs from Gaza land in south for first time in months

By Judah Ari Gross

A UNIFIL Navy ship patrols in the Mediterranean Sea next to a base of the UN peacekeeping force, off the southern town of Naqoura, Lebanon, May 4, 2021. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Israel and Lebanon hold maritime border talks, in first since Biden took office

By AP and ToI Staff

This May 17, 2019, photo shows a general view of downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Swiss Embassy staffer dies in fall from Tehran building; Iran police open probe

By AP

Israeli forces take a Palestinian into custody during a protest in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on May 4, 2021 (Jamal Awad/FLASH90)

2 Palestinians arrested, 10 hurt in clashes at East Jerusalem eviction protest

By AFP and ToI Staff

Napoleon's Egypt-Syria campaign (photo credit: Antoine-Jean Gros, Wikimedia Commons)

Two centuries on, Napoleon’s bloody campaign still contentious in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Cars wait to enter Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, September 9, 2014. (Juan Carlos Llorca/AP)

Torah scroll dedicated at major US Army base following synagogue renovation

Sensors attached to tomato plants. (Courtesy)

Mitsubishi joins Israeli investment arm to scout for food, agriculture tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Technion President Professor Uri Sivan, right, and Ziv Belfer, Divisional Vice President of Global Research and Development and General Manager, PTC, sign accord for R&D center; April 26, 2021 (Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson’s Office)

US firm PTC earmarks $5 million for R&D center at the Technion

By Shoshanna Solomon

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