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What Matters Most On Monday, November 9, 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)

Says president-elect will also push two-state solution

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

Amos Hochstein tells Israeli TV rejoining the agreement is a top priority for the US-president elect; report says Trump planning flurry of sanctions to make move harder

AnalysisFor Biden, reentering the Iran deal will not be an easy task

By Judah Ari Gross

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, right, offers his condolences to Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz upon the death of on his brother Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, at Prince Sultan palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Saudi rulers congratulate Biden a day after US election win

By AFP

Weapons and other contraband that was found in the possession of a Palestinian teenager suspected of working on behalf of the Hamas terror group in a photograph released by the Shin Bet security service on November 9, 2020.

Shin Bet: Hamas recruiting teens to carry out terror attacks, kidnappings

By Judah Ari Gross

Security service arrests two suspects who were allegedly contacted by the Gaza-based terror group and instructed to gather intel, carry out shootings

Amid cash crunch, UNRWA says it will cut salaries if it doesn’t raise $70m

By AP and ToI Staff

Islamic State attack near Baghdad kills 11

By AFP

Iraqi pro-Iran groups emboldened by Biden win, alarming officials in Baghdad

By AFP

From the blogs

Ellen Bachner Greenberg

The last bar mitzvah before Kristallnacht

The rabbi’s ominous sermon on my father’s big day carried him through the pogrom, the camps, and then liberation: ’It doesn’t become daytime before it literally becomes night’

Interview

75 years after fall of Third Reich, Hitler conspiracy theories even more viral

Historian Richard Evans’ new book ‘The Hitler Conspiracies’ details the revival and unparalleled propagation of falsehoods about Nazi Germany — and the dangers this poses today

Photos of Hitler CC-SA-3.0/Budesarchiv Bild. (Collage by The Times of Israel)

A security guard stands at attention after lowering the Swedish flag to half-staff on the roof of the Swedish parliament the Riksdag, in Stockholm, Sweden, January 1 2005. (AP Photo/Pressens Bild, Jack Mikrut)

Sweden grapples with ‘guilty conscience’ over ignored Holocaust tip-off

By Johannes LEDEL

Rene de Reuver, speaking on behalf of the General Synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, reads a statement at the Rav Aron Schuster Synagogue in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch Protestant Church acknowledges failing Jews in World War II

Mask-clad Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with a coronavirus swab sampling booth technician during the inauguration of a COVID-19 coronavirus rapid testing center at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod on November 9, 2020. (ATEF SAFADI / POOL / AFP)

Israel opens virus testing center at Ben Gurion Airport

By AFP

Travelers can now give samples on-site, with option for express or slower testing; Netanyahu inaugurates lab but declines test: ‘I gave at the office’

Israeli police officers try to contain a crowd of yeshiva students during the funeral of late Rabbi David Feinstein on November 9, 2020, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Flouting rules, thousands attend Jerusalem funeral for US Rabbi Dovid Feinstein

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a new coronavirus testing station at Ben Gurion Airport on November 9, 2020. (Haim Zach/GPO

Netanyahu warns lockdown exit will be halted as infection rate levels off

This May 4, 2020, photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine shows the first patient enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore (Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

Pfizer says early data signals its COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective

Trump: ‘Great news’; analysis from independent data monitoring board looks at 94 infections so far in study of nearly 44,000 people; firm says no participants became severely ill

Pfizer Inc. headquarters is seen in New York City, July 22, 2020. (Jeenah Moon / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Global markets rocket higher as Pfizer touts vaccine effectiveness

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris depart after the former delivered remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 4, 2020, a day after US Election Day. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden names coronavirus advisory board, including whistleblower fired by Trump

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

We have lost our greatest teacher

Jonathan Sacks was a teacher who sought to frame the common ground between Judaism and other religions and to export Jewish values in the service of humanity

The puzzle of Rabin, Oslo and the settlements

The late PM cut settlement in ’92, but he held the door open for what became a massive increase in Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria

Rescuing the fading memory of Kristallnacht

With few eyewitnesses left to testify, and with widespread Holocaust denial, the legacy of the Shoah is in real danger of being forgotten

The ICRC’s ill-advised position on Ariel University

The Red Cross committee’s withdrawal of sponsorship from a law conference featuring a speaker from the West Bank belies its neutrality

Excavation director Yevgeny Aharonovich stands next to an unused Second Temple-era olive press at the ancient settlement of Kafr Murr, today a neighborhood of Beit El, November 3, 2020. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)

Reporter's notebook

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Beit El settlement expansion threatens to bury Jewish Second Temple heritage

As apartment towers rise in West Bank town, remains of Jewish village conquered by Romans fight the elements — and population boom — for a chance at preservation in planned park

Jar and gold coins discovered near Jerusalem's Western Wall (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Cache of gold coins from Islamic period discovered at Western Wall dig

Analysis

Annexation, Iran sanctions, weapons? What Israel may ask of Trump as he leaves

Obama allowed a UN Security Council resolution slamming settlements to pass when he was a lame duck; by contrast, Jerusalem is hoping for farewell gifts from the outgoing president

Then-US president Donald Trump, right, looks over to then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020, at which Trump unveiled his 'Peace to Prosperity' vision for an Israeli-Palestinian accord. (AP/Susan Walsh)

The Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meets to discuss a proposed arms sale by the United States to the United Arab Emirates on November 9, 2020. (Danny Shem-Tov/Knesset Spokesperson)

Opposition lawmakers blast Netanyahu over planned F-35 sale to UAE

By Judah Ari Gross

President Reuven Rivlin, left, with then-US Vice President Joe Biden at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin invites ‘longstanding friend of Israel’ Biden to visit Jerusalem

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Obama blew his Mideast hopes on his first trip. Will Biden chart a wiser course?

The new president will seek to repudiate his predecessor. But Obama showed that an administration cannot achieve its goals armed only with the knowledge of what it is not

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, watches then-US president Barack Obama, center, at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on January 4, 2017 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh/File)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on October 18, 2019. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Pompeo expected in Israel amid bid to hike Iran sanctions before Biden takeover

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv on February 27, 2019. (Flash90)

Likud minister urges ‘dialogue,’ so Biden won’t rejoin Iran deal without changes

Elliot Abrams, special representative for Iran and Venezuela at the State Department, attends a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on US Policy in the Middle East, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Live updates (closed)

US envoy for Iran says Trump plans steady sanctions increase in coming weeks

Elliott Abrams predicts Biden will have difficulty reentering nuclear deal, stresses efforts to hit Tehran with more sanctions have ‘nothing to do with the elections’

7:28 pm

Esper's firing won't affect deal reaffirming commitment to Israel's military edge -- Gantz spokesperson
7:22 pm

3 Israelis reportedly sick after returning from Denmark, are tested for mink mutation
7:14 pm

Ivanka said urging Trump to concede race, eyeing future White House run

Wally the llama, source of llama antibodies for COVID-19. (courtesy of Dina Schneidman-Duhovny)

Wally the llama’s antibodies, analyzed in J’lem, may help millions through COVID

By Nathan Jeffay

‘They are highly potent,’ says Israeli researcher who scrutinized the Massachusetts llama’s ‘nanobodies’ to pave the way for an inhaler intended to help patients fight virus

Tomer Hertz (right) supervising a clinical trial for the new pooling method for coronavirus test labs (Dani Machlis/Ben Gurion University)

Israeli lab uses math hack to roll out speedy one-stage pooled virus test

By Nathan Jeffay

Minks look out of a cage at a fur farm in the village of Litusovo, northeast of Minsk, Belarus, December 6, 2012. (AP/Sergei Grits)

Israel adds tests for arrivals from Denmark amid mink virus mutation concerns

By ToI Staff and AFP

More Headlines

Former US president George W. Bush speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California on March 1, 2017. (Mark Ralston/AFP)

George Bush congratulates Biden, urges Americans to ‘come together’

By AFP

This May 5, 2019, file photo shows Alex Trebek gestures while presenting an award at the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif. Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. Trebek died at home with family and friends surrounding him, “Jeopardy!” studio Sony said in a statement. Trebek presided over the beloved quiz show for more than 30 years. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

7 especially Jewish ‘Jeopardy!’ moments from Alex Trebek’s 36 years as host

By PHILISSA CRAMER

US President Donald Trump plays a round of golf, at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling Virginia, November 8, 2020. (Steve Helber/AP)

As Trump plays golf, family reportedly divided over conceding election defeat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

Children play as voters wait in line to cast their ballots at Waldens Ridge Emergency Services building on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Walden, Tennessee. (AP/Ben Margot)

High-stakes Trump-Biden contest could smash US turnout records

By Nicholas Riccardi

Israeli secular protesters shout slogans in Jerusalem on August 12, 2017, during a demonstration of ultra-Orthodox Jews against businesses that operate on Saturdays in the city. The slogan, which rhymes in Hebrew, says, 'We're not against the Sabbath, we're against religious pressure.' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Ire as Jerusalem tries to regulate religious character of neighborhood councils

People stand next to LED candles placed by activists from the "Darkenu" movement in memory of Israel's coronavirus victims, near the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem on November 8, 2020. The poster says the number of dead has reached the level of those killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and calls for a commission of inquiry. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Minister contracts virus amid warnings that infection rates may rebound

In this Oct. 27, 2010 file photo, a Boeing 737 being delivered to FlyDubai is seen in Seattle (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

UAE budget flight touches down in Israel for first time

A police officer with mask standing behind a barrier in downtown Vienna, Austria, October 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austrian police raid suspects in Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood terror probe

By Jastinder KHERA

An Israeli smokes a marijuana joint in Jerusalem on April 20, 2017 during a rally at the Rose garden, to celebrate 420 and to express their defiance of current laws. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Government committee said set to recommend full cannabis legalization

OutSense's IoT device transforms toilet bowls into smart systems that can warn of ailments (Courtesy)

Startup’s ‘smart toilet bowl’ scans poop and urine for medical insights

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Nasdaq building in Times Square in New York. (littleny, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli ad-tech firm IronSource plans Nasdaq IPO – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

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