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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 8, 2020

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Then US vice president Joe Biden, left, talks with then State Department special envoy for international energy affairs Amos Hochstein at a working lunch during the Caribbean Energy Security Summit, at the State Department in Washington, January 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/File)

Live updates (closed)

Biden will seek to rejoin Iran nuclear deal within months, former aide says

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Amos Hochstein tells Israeli TV that US president-elect backs two-state solution, wants to bring Palestinian issue back into spotlight

7:26 pm

UNRWA head congratulates Biden, hopes US aid will be restored
7:05 pm

Melania Trump: 'Illegal' votes shouldn't be counted
7:04 pm

Pompeo due in Israel on November 18 for talks on Iran -- report

Joe Biden appeals for unity, healing in victory speech after defeating Trump

Delivering address to jubilant crowd after being declared winner of hard-fought contest, president-elect says he will restore respect for America around the world, tackle pandemic

Harris, first Black female VP-elect, looks to past, future in victory speech

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE

AnalysisPresident-elect Biden claims a mandate that will quickly be tested

Harris’s Jewish spouse, to be 1st ‘second gentleman,’ breaks barriers of his own

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds a joint press conference with then-US vice president Joe Biden at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

After hours of silence, Netanyahu congratulates Biden, but doesn’t say what for

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli top leaders among last to comment on outcome of 2020 vote; PM notes ‘long & warm personal relationship for nearly 40 years,’ while also tweeting thanks to Trump

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz in the White House in Washington on January 27, 2020. (Elad Malka)

Gantz first Israeli leader to congratulate Biden, looks to boost defense ties

People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, on November 7, 2020 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Trump’s out and Bibi’s next’: Thousands at weekly protests against Netanyahu

By ToI Staff and AP

Marc Zell, the head of Republicans Overseas Israel, at an event in Jerusalem, October 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

GOP chief in Israel refuses to accept Biden’s win: ‘Waiting for legal process’

Marc Zell repeats Trump’s claims of election fraud, asserts Netanyahu congratulated US president-elect ‘just in case’; former ambassador Shapiro says ‘no chance’ incumbent can win

US President-elect Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff after Biden's address to the nation from the Chase Center November 07, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel media reviewHey Joe, whaddya know: What the press is saying on November 8

By Joshua Davidovich

Marianne Hoenow from Connecticut in the US celebrates the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in front of the Brandenbug Gate next to the United States embassy in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

World leaders congratulate Biden, look to fresh start after Trump

By David Biller and John Leicester

Former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer at Princeton University, February 1, 2011 (AP/Mel Evans)

Former US envoy to Israel predicts Biden will reenter Iran nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

But Daniel Kurtzer anticipates Washington will talk to Jerusalem before rejoining 2015 pact; Iran’s Rouhani urges president-elect to bring US back into agreement

An Iranian man walks past a mural painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran, on November 4, 2020 as the US waits for the results of the presidential election. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran hails end of Trump era, hopes for ‘change’ from new US leader

By AFP

US Vice President Joe Biden listens as President Barack Obama delivers remarks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, July 14, 2015, after an Iran nuclear deal is reached. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

AnalysisReturn of Iran deal? Middle East heads for major US policy revamp under Biden

By Mohamad Ali Harissi

Illustrative: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, set to present the Humanitarian Award to IsraAid's Meira Aboulafia at the TOI Gala in New York City, January 2015. (Blake Ezra/Courtesy)

UK’s former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks passes away at 72

By ToI Staff and JTA

The prolific Jewish thinker, writer, teacher and spiritual leader had announced a cancer diagnosis last month; Israeli, Jewish leaders mourn his death

Former British chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (United Synagogue via JTA)

Prince Charles mourns UK’s Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: ‘He spanned sacred and secular’

InterviewLord Sacks wonders: Why have the Jews ‘forgotten what we’re all about’?

By David Horovitz

Lenny Ben-David

Biden was not to blame for Obama’s 2010 tantrum

A decade-old diplomatic incident highlights the US president-elect’s long and friendly relationship with Israel and its leaders

Studying with Rabbi Sacks

Former Israeli Ambassador to the UK on an intellectual giant who energized thought in the Jewish world and made Jewish ideas a force to be reckoned with in wider society

Could Jordan’s celebrity terrorist finally face justice in the US?

King Abdullah II has tolerated, and even capitalized, on the hatred and extreme violence that Ahlam Tamimi personifies; is he finally leading his people away from all that?

Only tears: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z”l

On the impact of this educator, philosopher, rabbi, teacher, who conversed with world-class leaders and thinkers, yet managed to stir the hearts, souls, and minds of regular folks

People shop on the first day of the reopening of street shops on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on November 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Street shops reopen after long closure, but some businesses succumb to virus

‘The two lockdowns completely finished us,’ says one store owner forced to close down due to pandemic restrictions; those who do reopen say they feel they’ve been let out of jail

Minks look out from their cage at the farm of Henrik Nordgaard Hansen and Ann-Mona Kulsoe Larsen as they have to kill off their herd, which consists of 3,000 mother mink and their cubs on their farm near Naestved, Denmark, on November 6, 2020. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP)

6 countries find coronavirus at mink farms; fears mutation could hinder vaccine

By AFP

Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with then US Vice President Joe Biden in Jerusalem, 2010. (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

Profile

Biden a veteran friend of Israel, settlement critic, may be at odds over Iran

By Raphael Ahren

Then-senator Kamala Harris, left, hosted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Jerusalem office, November 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Profile

‘Radical left?’ Try again. On Israel, VP-elect Harris may be to right of Biden

Jared Kushner in Oval Office of the White House on September 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Jared Kushner said to approach Trump to urge him to concede defeat

By ToI Staff and AP

US president reportedly instructs aides, allies to foment doubt over election results; still, some aides believe he is on the path to begrudgingly accept the outcome

Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrate outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol, Nov. 7, 2020, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania., after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump to become 46th president of the United States. (AP/Julio Cortez)

‘This isn’t over’: Trump backers, some armed, protest ‘fake news’ Biden win

By ANITA SNOW, David Goldman and LISA MARIE PANE

President Donald Trump exits after speaking at a campaign rally in Lake Charles, La., Friday, October 11, 2019. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Links, tweets and maybe 2024? Future uncertain for still-popular Trump

By Shaun Tandon and Sebastian Smith

US Vice President Joe Biden (left) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 9, 2016. (Photo by FLASH90)

Abbas lauds Biden win, said planning to demand return of US Embassy to Tel Aviv

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian official also quoted saying Ramallah ready to resume peace talks, but only from where they were halted under Obama; Israel, meanwhile, fears some setback in US ties

(1st row, from L) President of Iraq Fuad Masum, Yemen's President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi Mansour, President of Lebanon Michel Aoun, President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir, King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Emir of Kuweit Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, Emirati President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al-Saud (2nd row, From R) Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, President of the Algerian Senate Abdelkader Bensalah, Libya's unity government Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Omani Deputy Prime Minister Fahd Bin Mahmud Al-Said, Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, President of the Comoros Azali Assoumani and Qatari Ambassador to Arab leaque Saif Bin Muqaddam Al-Buainain during the 29th Summit of the Arab League at the Ithra center in Dhahran, Eastern Saudi Arabia, on April 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Saudis silent as Arab leaders welcome Biden, though some likely preferred Trump

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli soldiers stand at the scene of what the military says was an attempted stabbing attack outside the al-Fawwar refugee camp in the southern West Bank on November 8, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Palestinian attempts to stab troops near Hebron, is shot

By Judah Ari Gross

A young girl walks past Kenyan daily newspaper with headline "Donald Trump Fired" in the capital Nairobi on November 8, 2020. (Photo by Simon MAINA / AFP)

‘Sleepy Joe wakes up America’: World media reacts to Biden win

By AFP and ToI Staff

International outlets focus on ‘new dawn’ for US politics, the challenges facing the president-elect and Trump’s refusal to concede

Fate of US Senate will be settled in two January runoffs in Georgia

By AFP and ToI Staff

Photo essayAmericans react to Biden’s victory — and Trump’s defeat

By AP

Obama: ‘I could not be prouder’; Hillary Clinton: ‘A new page for America’

By ToI Staff and AP

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Lebanon's then Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil addresses a press conference after a signing ceremony of a diplomatic cooperation agreement in Budapest, Hungary, on November 26, 2019. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP)

Lebanon ex-FM says US told him: Repudiate Hezbollah or face corruption sanctions

By AFP

Israelis gather at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv for a memorial ceremony marking 25 years since the assassination of late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held on November 7, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Thousands attend Rabin memorial rally in Tel Aviv, 25 years after assassination

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett (right) and Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party. (composite image: Flash90)

Report: Gantz, Bennett meet to discuss triggering early elections

Footprints in the sand, taken on a beach on Mahe island, Seychelles, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Seychelles okays quarantine-free travel to and from Israel

The drone developed by Percepto was operated by Skyward, a subsidiary of Verizon (Courtesy)

Israeli drone kept tabs on spread of fire in Washington state

By Shoshanna Solomon

Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh in her office in Tehran, Iran, on November 1, 2008. (AP/Arash Ashourinia)

Iran’s judiciary says jailed rights lawyer given furlough

By AFP

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