Lapid to PM: Debate me tonight * Revealed: UK, Polish intel geniuses kept the Nazis from Holy Land * Vaccines for cancer ’in couple of years’ * UK’s WW2 Holocaust deniers

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, March 20, 2021 Presented by Leket Israel [Lapid calls on Netanyahu to debate him Saturday night: ‘Israel deserves answers’]( By [TOI staff]( [PM said considering last-minute challenge, as opposition leader says public should know what government PM hopes to form]( [Israel votes on Tuesday / Final TV polls show Netanyahu gaining support and near to majority; rivals slip]( By [TOI staff]( [With much of country vaccinated, Israeli leaders able to head out to meet voters]( By [Ben Simon]( [New book deciphers forgotten intel war that kept the Nazis from the Holy Land]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [American-Israeli author Gershom Gorenberg’s deeply researched tome serves as a corrective, bringing long-overlooked history of the North Africa campaign in World War II to the fore]( [Scientist behind Pfizer vaccine: mRNA shots for cancer coming ‘in couple years’]( By [Frank Jordans]( [BioNTech’s Ozlem Tureci says the know-how behind revolutionary inoculations could soon be used to treat far more than the coronavirus pandemic]( [European states resume AstraZeneca vaccinations after clot scare]( By [Vanessa Gera]( [Damascus hospitals hit full capacity amid COVID spike]( By [AP]( Interview [Holocaust denial was already taking root in Britain during WWII, says UK author]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Dr. Joe Mulhall, author of ‘British Fascism After the Holocaust,’ claims his country’s Nazi sympathizers created the ‘blueprint’ for today’s anti-Semitic historical revisionists]( Top Ops [Molly Livingstone]( [It sucks to be me: Elections, pandemic and Passover]( [If you think all is right in the world, then don’t read this; just skip along down the street, with singing butterflies and birds that don’t poop, giving elbow high-fives]( [Jason Fredric Gilbert]( [BiBi Day]( [A voice from the future: I have risked everything to come back and warn you so that you can affect the space time continuum and restore democracy to Israel]( [Susannah Schild]( [PHOTO ESSAY: Three days in the desert]( [The Heels of Love hike to raise money for the children of Alyn who deal with physical disabilities was especially welcome after a year of the rocky terrain of COVID-19]( [Bazy Swirsky Rubin]( [Diving back in]( [When a group of women who don’t know each other come together with crayons and improv, and then laugh until they cry, we all have reason to hope]( Message from Leket Israel [Help put a meal on their Passover table]( [Over the past year, thousands of Israeli families joined the circle of poverty. 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