Vaccine spending revealed * Dazzling Dead Sea finds * How plants and veg help humanity * Hitler official ’played role’ in Israel nukes * Protoco ls: Capitol cop suspended

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Presented by the Kveller Haggadah [Israel has spent $788m on vaccines, could double sum — Health Ministry]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Knesset Finance Committee hears previously undisclosed sum, also approves $598 million for other aspects of COVID-19 response]( [Sisters, aged 23 and 31, die of COVID 10 days apart after giving birth]( By [TOI staff]( [Major European nations suspend use of AstraZeneca shot, as WHO says it’s safe]( By [Frank Jordans]( Archaeology [Bible scroll fragments among dazzling artifacts found in Dead Sea Cave of Horror]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Parts of books of Nahum and Zechariah, world’s oldest woven basket, 6,000-year-old mummified child, Bar Kochba Revolt coins among stunning finds from daring Judean Desert rescue op]( [Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 16 – The daring mission to save Dead Sea Scrolls]( By [TOI staff]( Live updates [LIVE: In ‘technological leap,’ Iron Dome tackles multiple complex threats at once]( By [TOI staff]( [Upgraded system capable of simultaneously shooting down ‘multiple unmanned aerial vehicles, missile salvoes and rockets’]( Plant nanobionics [Sue Surkes]( [With light-up plants and email from spinach, lab turns over a new leaf on flora]( [Pioneering so-called plant nanobionics, an MIT research team has found ways to use tiny sensors to hack into the signals plants send and alter the way they act]( [Not a bird, not a plane: Startup hopes to hit skies with ‘eco-friendly’ blimps]( By [Jake Epstein]( [Green Police open criminal probe into state-owned pipeline over benzene leak]( By [Sue Surkes]( Paid post [For a unique Passover, try The Kveller Haggadah]( [It goes deep into Jewish traditions in a kid-friendly way. This haggadah from Jewish parenting site Kveller is a must-read for your seder.]( Top Ops [Shayna Golkow]( [How can this Passover be different from all others – even last year’s?]( [Zoom seders are back. But this time, we are already experts in homemade rituals. We’ve even discovered some benefits to a virtual gathering]( [Wendy Pein]( [This rabbi has seen the future, and it sounds like Clubhouse]( [The live audio social media platform provides a space for young diverse participants to have a new kind of conversation about Judaism]( [Report: Official at heart of Nazis’ racial laws worked to help Israel go nuclear]( By [TOI staff]( [Hans Globke, who wrote notorious guidebook on anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws, later helped prepare secret $5.5b loan for development of Dimona reactor, Times of London reveals]( [France to return Nazi-looted Klimt artwork to rightful Jewish heirs]( By [AP]( Obituary [Yaphet Kotto, Jewish actor who was first Black Bond villain, dies at 81]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Star of ‘Live and Let Die’ who also featured in ‘Alien’ and played Idi Amin in movie about Israel’s Operation Entebbe, said Judaism was a guiding force in his life]( [Obituary / Carl Shapiro, Brandeis benefactor who lost millions to Madoff, dies at 108]( By [Penny Schwartz]( [Obituary / Musical intellectual and Jewish radical Jewlia Eisenberg dies at 50]( By [Asaf Shalev]( [Capitol police officer suspended after Protocols of Zion found at security post]( By [Ben Sales]( [Zach Fisch, chief of staff to Rep. Mondaire Jones, says ‘horrified’ after discovering copy of virulently anti-Semitic book that alleges Jewish cabal controls the world]( [2 men charged in assault of US Capitol officer who died after riot]( By [MICHAEL BALSAMO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER]( [California school curriculum turns into Jewish-Arab battle of narratives]( By [Jocelyn Gecker]( [In pitch to undecided voters, Lapid urges them not to back small parties]( By [TOI staff and Tal Schneider]( [Yesh Atid leader makes exception for Meretz, declines to declare himself a PM candidate; warns Netanyahu will form ‘racist, homophobic’ government if elected]( [Labor joins Meretz in saying it will back Lapid as next prime minister]( By [TOI staff]( [Ra’am said to be leaving door open to cooperation with anti-Netanyahu bloc]( By [TOI staff]( [Female terrorists become Palestinian role models on International Women’s Day]( By [TOI staff]( [Dalal Mughrabi, who killed 38 civilians in 1978, and Fatima Bernawi, who served 10 years for failed Jerusalem bombing, honored in special broadcast on official PA TV]( [Settler head urges vaccinating Palestinians, paid for by tax revenues sent to PA]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Palestinian rivals Fatah, Hamas set to meet in Cairo to discuss elections]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Seeking to buoy support, UTJ and Yisrael Beytenu find common cause in mudfight]( [Ramping up rhetoric in race’s final leg, leaders of the Haredi and secular parties see in each other the perfect nemesis to drive turnout among their supporters]( [Netanyahu, Bennett tussle over prospect of coalition with Lapid]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Netanyahu calls off campaign event in south after threat from Gaza terror group]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( [Top health official: Virus ‘diminishing,’ but new variants a huge concern]( By [TOI staff]( [Restrictions on gatherings to begin to ease next Sunday, as venues given access to rapid tests; former virus czar says ‘reckless exit from lockdowns’ caused many needless deaths]( [UAE, Bahrain, some EU states said set to allow travel for vaccinated Israelis]( By [TOI staff]( [Russia said to press Israel to recognize its Sputnik V vaccine]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [With gas alliance moored to Turkey tensions, Israel tacks toward energy security]( [While the launch of the EastMed gas forum saw some internal spats, deals are coming together to counter Ankara’s bid to horn in on resource; though the tide may be changing]( [Turkey tells Israel, Greece, EU to seek permission for work in east Med waters]( By [AFP]( [Latest ‘Lucky Jew’ figurines in Poland: Candles that promise ‘financial success’]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Good luck charms sold by candle companies depict ultra-Orthodox Jews counting money; some Polish Jews say products reminiscent of Nazi crematoria]( [Austrian study finds 31% are biased against Jews — and that’s an improvement]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Israeli short film ‘White Eye’ focusing on African migrants nominated for Oscar]( By [TOI staff and JTA]( [Director Tomer Shushan’s 20-minute movie, shot in one take and revolving around a stolen bicycle, alleges Israelis are blind to racial bias in the country]( [From ‘Mank’ to an Israeli short film: A Jewish guide to the 2021 Oscars]( By [Emily Burack]( [Few Jewish winners, but many Jewish highlights at the 2021 Grammy Awards]( By [Emily Burack]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Police said to suspect ZAKA officials hushed reports of founder’s alleged crimes]( By [TOI staff]( [Comptroller report says education system ‘not meeting 21st-century standards’]( By [TOI staff]( [Amid plan to seek compensation, UK expert visits Israeli beaches for tar samples]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Don't let my people go / COVID czar: People asked for restrictions to avoid hosting Passover Seder]( By [TOI staff]( [Building bridges / Shalva band sings ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ with Emirati artist]( By [TOI staff]( [PA, Hamas condemn Kosovo for opening embassy in Jerusalem]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Gantz warns Hezbollah not to ‘test’ the power of the IDF]( By [TOI staff]( [Vatican says Church ‘doesn’t have power’ to bless ‘sin’ of same-sex unions]( By [AFP]( [IDF troops shoot two suspected of firebombing West Bank settlement]( By [TOI staff]( [Orthodox Jewish groups welcome $2.75b for private schools in COVID relief bundle]( By [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [Man, 36, stabbed to death in brawl outside Netanya kiosk]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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