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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 6, 2022

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MK Idit Silman leads a Health Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu congratulates her, calls on others to do the same

Bennett’s government in crisis as whip Silman quits, stripping coalition of majority

Yamina lawmaker says she won’t abet the ‘harming’ of Jewish identity of Israel, insists another coalition can be built without new elections; PM said to find out from news reports

AnalysisBennett’s coalition has lost its majority. Could Netanyahu’s Likud now regain power?

By Tal Schneider

Idit Silman MK (Yamina), head of the Arrangements Committee, leads a Committee meeting at the Knesset, on June 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition welcomes Silman as ministers express hope for coalition’s survival

Workers count votes in Israel's national elections wearing and divided in groups by sheets of plastic masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Live updates (closed)

As coalition teeters, snap polls show gridlock could continue after new election

Surveys on all three major TV networks show Likud gaining seats but lacking a clear path toward building a stable government, following defection of Yamina MK

6:24 pm

US commits to additional $100 million in missiles for Ukraine
6:11 pm

Gantz voices commitment to remaining in faltering coalition
5:47 pm

At right-wing rally, Netanyahu calls on more coalition MKs to defect: 'Come home'

Former coalition whip Idit Silman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing April 6: Political earthquake as MK Silman quits. What happens now?

Political correspondents Tal Schneider and Carrie Keller-Lynn give a 360-degree analysis of coalition whip Idit Silman’s bombshell resignation

Silman’s coalition defection catches her political partners off-guard

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

PM and coalition MKs were not informed before the whip quit the coalition she was entrusted with upholding, imperiling the government

Idit Silman, then-head of the Arrangements Committee, leads a Committee meeting at the Knesset, November 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

MK Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint List, attends a party faction meeting at the Knesset on January 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Joint List chief says party won’t be a ‘lifeline’ for Bennett’s coalition

By Aaron Boxerman

(L) Religious Zionist leader Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a Knesset faction meeting, on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) and (R) Idit Silman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 8, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich alleged to have written Silman’s letter of resignation from coalition

By Tal Schneider

Israeli-Ukrainian Andriy Baklykov, volunteer for fighting batallions operating in north Kyiv. (Courtesy)

With families waiting in Israel, dual citizens are on Ukraine’s frontlines

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

From driving ambulances on the eastern front to aiding fighters in Kyiv, Israeli-Ukrainians, some of them with little training, take part in the country’s defense against Russia

Israel mulling sending protective vests, flak jackets to Ukraine — report

Jerusalem has avoided aligning with either side since Russian troops invaded, though Kyiv has repeatedly asked for defensive military equipment

Workers load packages of Israeli humanitarian aid for Ukraine onto El Al aircraft, at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, on March 1, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (front left) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz meet Jewish immigrants fleeing from war zones in Ukraine, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel’s immigration minister to visit Ukraine to spur aliyah efforts

By Judah Ari Gross

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Cyprus, on April 5, 2022. (Asi Efrati/GPO)

Lapid explicitly accuses Russia of war crimes, a first for a top Israeli official

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Breaking up a government over sandwiches

Just because Israel is a Jewish country doesn’t mean strict Passover observance wins over non-observant people’s right to eat what they want – except when it does

Where’s the apartheid?

In Jerusalem, I was surprised to see a Muslim man praying in Machane Yehuda market. How could Amnesty International accuse Israel of apartheid?

Idit Silman, what are you afraid of?

It’s soft coercion, to be sure, but it is counterproductive; Judaism and the Jewish character of the State of Israel will suffer for it

Why Diaspora Jewish leaders should support the conversion bill in Israel

Empowering local rabbis will actually strengthen the Chief Rabbinate, introduce transparency, and help stem a looming halachic and demographic catastrophe

Illustrative: Rabbi Brant Rosen, founder of the non-Zionist Tzedek Chicago synagogue, speaks at a Black lives matter rally. (IIRON)

First US congregation known to formally take such a stance

Preaching to the margins: Chicago synagogue adopts anti-Zionism as a ‘core value’

Tzedek’s rabbi Brant Rosen says he doesn’t think move will shift mainstream US Jewry, but insists there’s space for a synagogue anchored in belief that Judaism belongs in Diaspora

Dozens of bodies wait to be buried at a cemetery in Bucha, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Killings of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha could bring more sanctions

By Adam Schreck

Evidence of Russian troops’ actions in Kyiv suburb before they withdrew has drawn a global outcry; EU, US take steps against Russian economy

A woman stands next to three bodies in the courtyard of a house in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AnalysisWar crime, crime against humanity, genocide: What’s the difference?

By AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks via remote feed during a meeting of the UN Security Council, on April 5, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Zelensky tells UN Security Council Russia has committed worst atrocities since WWII

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Magen David worker takes a COVID-19 rapid antigen test from Israelis, at a Magen David Adom drive through complex in Jerusalem, on March 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

The wave that never was: Did Israelis’ ‘common sense’ help stop a new COVID spike?

In March, when case numbers rose again, people didn’t wait for rules, but rather started to take more care; experts say this combined with high immunity levels to reduce infection

Illustrative: An elderly woman receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary Maccabi health care center in Rehovot, January 10, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

4th vaccine dose boosts defense against severe COVID in over-60s — Israeli study

Illustrative image (iStock)

Interview

As eating disorders among teens soar in pandemic, YA novel takes on grave issue

By Renee Ghert-Zand

For debut work of fiction about anorexic high school girls, 25-year-old E.J. Schwartz draws on her own recent experience of social media-influenced devastating drive for thinness

Israeli police officers during clashes with protesters at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, April 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

6 arrested during 4th night of clashes between police and Palestinians in Jerusalem

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Police say suspects hurled stones and other items at officers at Damascus Gate, as tensions remain high in capital during Ramadan and after a series of terror attacks

Israel will let West Bank women, kids and some men into Al-Aqsa, despite high alert

By Aaron Boxerman

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives at the Beit El army headquarters in the West Bank, on April 5, 2022. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Bennett says security forces recently foiled more than 15 terrorist attacks

Laszlo Toroczkai, center, head of the Our Homeland Movement, is flanked by police officers during a protest in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, March 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

Interview'To liberals, anyone defending their country is a fascist'

Hungary’s most radical nationalist party since WWII just won 7 seats in parliament

By Yaakov Schwartz

The far-right Our Homeland Movement is now the country’s third-largest party. Budapest chapter president Atilla Nagy speaks to ToI in a candid interview at the local headquarters

Kalush Orchestra, Ukraine's 2022 Eurovision act, film a clip at the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem on April 5, 2022. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)

From Lviv to Jerusalem, Ukraine’s Eurovision act sends message of defiance

Visiting Israel and performing for Ukrainian refugees, members of the Kalush Orchestra, heavily favored to win this year’s international song contest, make their country’s case

Elena Bunina, a Russian-Jew who was CEO of Russia's most popular search engine website, until stepping down and moving to Israel amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Wikimedia Commons/Ilya Vartanian/Yandex Company)

Report: Jewish CEO of ‘Russia’s Google’ leaves country for Israel over war

Eurasian golden oriole specimens from the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University. (TAU)

Study: Birds in Israel may be changing shape in response to global warming

TAU researchers suggest morphological changes enable birds to shed more heat; but they worry that as planet continues to warm, birds may run out of coping mechanisms

'Fan songs are antisemitic, Israeli referees are cursed out'

Germany’s top soccer league aims to tackle its antisemitism problem

By Toby Axelrod

With one survey showing that 66% of German Jewish athletes experience bigotry on the field, a daylong conference offers best practices and a renewed commitment to solving the issue

More Headlines

Eytan Stibbe trains for a study with the Fluidic Telescope Experiment (FLUTE) designed and built by researchers in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion in collaboration with a team of researchers at NASA. (Courtesy of the Technion)

Israel’s second-ever astronaut preparing to finally head to space on Friday

Weapons seized by Israeli security forces during a gun-smuggling attempt along the border with Jordan on April 6, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF, police seize 30 firearms in latest smuggling attempt on Jordan border

By Emanuel Fabian

An F-35 jet maneuvers during a graduation ceremony for pilots who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90/File)

Outgoing air force chief: Israel no longer has full freedom of action over Lebanon

Shlomo Filber, former director general of the Communications Ministry, at a court hearing in the trial against former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem, on April 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State witness Filber recounts ‘unusual’ call from Netanyahu asking on Bezeq dealings

Jordan accused of using NSO’s Pegasus to spy on four human rights activists

By Josef Federman

Iranians visit the spot in the courtyard of Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad on April 6, 2022, where a day earlier a Muslim cleric was killed. (Hadis Faghiri/Fars News/AFP)

Iran to lay to rest cleric stabbed to death by suspected jihadist

By AFP

An Israeli Navy Sa'ar 5 corvette approaches a US Fifth Fleet replenishment tanker in the Red Sea, in an image published by the military on April 5, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

In first, Israeli warships practice refueling from US tanker in the Red Sea

By Emanuel Fabian

Barry Jacobson, seen in this undated photo, was convicted of setting fire to his Massachusetts vacation home in 1983. His conviction was overturned in 2022. (Courtesy New England Anti-Defamation League)

39 years later, US arson conviction overturned due to antisemitism at trial

By Penny Schwartz

FILE - Louis C.K. appears at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, February 28, 2016. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Louis CK’s Grammy award triggers backlash five years after sex scandal

By AFP

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Leading US investment firm General Atlantic opens Tel Aviv office

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