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Illustrative: US Air Force F-35A Lightning II’s at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, on November 16, 2019. (Joshua Williams/US Department of Defense)

Pompeo announces $23b sale of F-35s, other arms to UAE, links it to Israel peace

State Department formally notifies Congress of intention to sell 50 stealth fighters and other advanced military gear to Abu Dhabi, says it won’t affect Israel’s military edge

An Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter jet performs during an air show over Tel Aviv on May 9, 2019, as Israel marks its 71st Independence Day. (Jack Guez/AFP)

UAE diplomat: Talks with US on F-35s began after normalization deal was signed

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

This combination of pictures created on October 23, 2020, shows an Israeli flag during a rally in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on September 19, 2020; and a Sudanese flag during a gathering east of the capital Khartoum on June 3, 2020. (JACK GUEZ and ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)

Israel to send first official delegation to Sudan next week — report

By ToI Staff

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Biden can do well in the Mideast, if only because so little is expected of him

Under both Obama and Trump, America seemed capricious and unable to keep its commitments; few are now willing to risk relying on its short attention span

Then-presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, July 14, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Controversial Trump loyalists elevated at Pentagon after defense chief’s firing

By Lolita C. Baldor

AnalysisAfter cozy Trump ties, ‘pariah’ Saudi Arabia faces reckoning with Biden

By Anuj Chopra

Pompeo confirms Israel trip, vows ‘smooth transition’… to second Trump term

By AFP

Children from the religious community of Hispin in the Golan volunteering at the excavation, pointing to the engraved figures dating to circa 11th century BCE, at a fort which could be the earliest evidence of the biblical 'Geshurites.' (Yaniv Berman, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

King David-era fort found in Golan, may be 1st evidence of Bible’s ‘Geshurites’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

People wearing face masks take cover from the rain on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem, on November 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Third stage? Try a third wave: What the press is saying on November 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Infection trends herald a third wave and third lockdown to some, while others push to open more and Israel’s vaccine gamble raises questions; at least we have the US figured out

Russia says its COVID-19 vaccine is 92% effective

By Stuart Winer

Israel said concerned it’s not near front of line for Pfizer vaccine

By ToI Staff

US hits record COVID hospitalizations, passes 1 million cases already this month

By Agencies

The southeastern view of the planned railway station development project in Jerusalem (Courtesy Jerusalem municipality)

Soho, Jerusalem: Huge plan puts old train station on track to be new city center

By Jessica Steinberg

High school students take a matriculation examination in Yehud, July 8, 2020 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Education Ministry announces plan to return grades 5-6, 11-12 to the classroom

By ToI Staff

Proposal, subject to ministerial approval, would see 5th and 6th graders in school at least 3 days a week, 11th and 12th graders at least twice a week

Second lawmaker this week announces he contracted coronavirus

By ToI Staff

Former top health official warns government mistakes leading to third virus wave

By ToI Staff

IKEA delays reopening stores amid threats of fines, police closure order

By ToI Staff

Top Ops

Russell F. Robinson

Every day is Veterans Day

On Ammunition Hill, you can pause to reflect on just how many Jewish soldiers fought in other countries’ armed forces to protect freedom. Or honor them at home, all over the world

Yosef Blau

The ethical cost of Jewish communal support for Donald Trump

Orthodox Jews can defend their support of Trump in several ways, but they risk losing themselves if they commit to this kind of problematic personality for the long run

Behind the headlines

Join ToI Community to meet the MK calling out social media for its anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff

In this week’s Behind the Headlines, exclusively for ToI Community, MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh on fighting online hate and representing the Knesset at the International Criminal Court

In this Dec. 5, 1931 photo, Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, is saluted as he leaves the party's Munich headquarters (AP Photo, File)

Interview

Dynamite German film charts the banality of always looking for meaning in Hitler

By Jordan Hoffman

Analysis

Aliza Lavie

After the vaccine

COVID-19 has brutally exposed the existing rifts in Israeli society: We need to learn to appreciate each other again; we need to find our common language

In this photo taken on October 21, 2016, Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror leader Baha Abu al-Ata attends a rally in Gaza City. (STR/AFP)

IDF on alert for attack on 1st anniversary of killing Islamic Jihad leader

By Judah Ari Gross

Military deploys additional Iron Dome batteries to south, flights diverted away from Gaza amid concerns Palestinian terror group may attack

Hundreds attend Erekat’s West Bank funeral as Palestinians mourn loss of ‘icon’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

War of the maps: Lebanon and Israel battle over sea border in new round of talks

By AFP

Military says it downed Hezbollah drone that entered Israeli airspace

By Alexander Fulbright

Vials of a potential coronavirus vaccine are seen on an assembly line, in a photograph released by the Israel Institute for Biological Research, on October 25, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu speaks to Pfizer CEO, says believes sides will reach deal on vaccine

By ToI Staff

Reports indicate sides close to agreeing on deal to supply doses for 3 million people; company this week announced data showing vaccine is 90% effective

Benny Gantz, center, and Benjamin Netanyahu, right, at the Knesset on November 10, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset spokesperson)

With large majority, Knesset approves normalization agreement with Bahrain

By Raphael Ahren

Sixty-two MKs vote in favor and 14 — all from Joint List — against establishment of diplomatic ties with tiny Gulf nation; deal soon to be ratified by cabinet

Bahraini foreign minister planning visit, Israel announces

By Raphael Ahren

Israel offers Bahrain condolences on death of long-serving prime minister

By ToI Staff and AFP

German FM: Biden’s election an opportunity for US to rejoin Iran deal

By Frank Jordans

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, November 10, 2020, (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden calls Trump’s refusal to concede election ‘an embarrassment’

By Agencies

With the US president repeating unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, president-elect fights to confront nation’s crises — and growing Republican resistance

US states say election went smoothly, despite Trump’s claims of fraud

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and JULIE CARR SMYTH

Democrats hold on to US House majority, but with potentially narrow margin

By Alan Fram

Trump campaign seeks hand recount in Georgia, and could get it

By Jeff Amy and Kate Brumback

Times of Israel's Culture and Lifestyle editor Jessica Steinberg joins the ToI Podcast to speak about Thanksgiving in Israel. (Daniel Laufer)

Times of Israel Podcast

LISTEN: Talking turkey with Jerusalem’s ‘Ms. Thanksgiving’

By ToI Staff

ToI’s Culture editor and children’s book author Jessica Steinberg speaks about baking pumpkin pies for breast cancer org Sharsheret and celebrating in Israel

More Headlines

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 that Apple says 'delivers game-changing performance' and the 'longest battery life ever on a Mac' (Apple)

Israel R&D team said likely behind Apple’s ‘revolutionary’ chip for laptops

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President-elect Joe Biden gestures to supporters in Wilmington, Delaware, November 7, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Nearly 80% of Americans say Biden won, but only half of Republicans

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Saudi police close a street leading to a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah where a bomb struck a World War I commemoration attended by European diplomats on November 11, 2020 leaving several people wounded amid Muslim anger over French cartoons. (AFP)

Foreign envoys attacked in bombing at Saudi cemetery during WWI memorial

By Angela Charlton and Aya Batrawy

US Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, August 24, 2016. (Kayhan Ozer, Presidential Press Service Pool via AP)

Turkey’s Erdogan belatedly joins leaders congratulating Biden, urges closer ties

By AFP and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the alternate prime minister, visits the Jerusalem Municipality on November 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Blue and White MKs threatening to split off if Gantz bows to Netanyahu on budget

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends an event at the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG asks High Court to intervene if Netanyahu breaks conflict of interest rules

By ToI Staff

New York Senator Chuck Schumer speaks at a news conference outside an early voting site in New York, Oct. 27, 2020 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US man arrested for threats against FBI and Schumer the ‘Jew senator’

By ToI Staff

Barbara Brix shows two pictures of her father Peter Kroeger who was part of the 'Einsatzgruppen' Nazi task forces, Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads responsible for mass killings, dated 1938 (L) and 1948, in her home in Hamburg, northern Germany, on June 11, 2020 (Marion PAYET / AFP)

‘I didn’t ask questions’: Woman lifts veil on father’s Nazi death squad secret

By Mathieu FOULKES

Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate, speaks during a rally on November 3, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool)

Georgia Senate candidate rejects anti-Israel allegations as 2018 sermon surfaces

By Jacob Magid

A cemetery worker prepares new graves at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery on the outskirts of the Iranian capital, Tehran, Iran, Nov. 1, 2020 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

In Iran, a massive cemetery struggles to keep up with surging virus death toll

By Mohammad Nasiri

A voter is assisted by a volunteer to put on a plastic glove before entering a polling station in Jordan's capital Amman on November 10, 2020. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Jordan votes in election shadowed by pandemic, collapsing economy

By AFP

Illustrative: Israeli startup CanBreed has used gene editing technology make the cannabis plant resistant to powdery mildew, a fungus that can be deadly for the plant (Courtesy).

Israeli startup says it has edited cannabis plant gene to resist fungus

By Shoshanna Solomon

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