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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 12, 2020

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Illustrative: Multinational peacekeepers participate in a casualty evacuation training exercise during their nine-month rotation in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, January 22, 2016. (Sgt. William Tanner, 2d Cavalry Regiment, US military)

Wounded serviceman evacuated to Israel for treatment

7 peacekeepers dead, including 5 Americans, in Sinai helicopter crash

By AFP and ToI Staff

Multinational Force and Observers aircraft goes down in the peninsula; Gantz says servicemen died ‘bravely protecting the stability, security, and peace of our region’

The home of Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu Al-Ata after it was hit in an Israeli strike in Gaza City on November 12, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Israel warns Gaza terrorists against attacks on tense anniversary – report

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

The Sa'ar 6-class corvette INS Magen is handed over to the Israeli Navy in a ceremony in Germany on November 11, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Navy takes helm of first new warship from Germany to guard gas rigs

By Judah Ari Gross

A gym during the pandemic (Drazen Zigic via iStock by Getty Images)

Huge US study pinpoints top virus hubs: All the venues Israel plans to open next

By Nathan Jeffay

Researchers say 8 out of 10 transmissions happen in crowded indoor spots, singling out gyms and restaurants, which are slated to open soon under Israel’s lockdown exit plan

Empty sun loungers on a beach near the Dead Sea hotel complex, on July 10, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Eilat, Dead Sea to become ‘tourist islands’ after Knesset green lights plan

Outgoing coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu speaks at his handover ceremony, November 12, 2020 (Screen grab/GPO)

Ending his tenure, virus czar says politicians hamstrung his efforts

Illustrative: Empty vaccine bottles lie on a tray inside a small clinic in Gampela village on the outskirts of Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, Saturday Oct. 10, 2020.(AP/Sam Mednick)

Israel ‘days away’ from COVID vaccine deal with Pfizer, Netanyahu says

Prime minister holds second round of talks with pharma firm’s CEO, but health minister warns actual delivery of any doses will take months in best-case scenario

In this Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Albert Bourla, chief executive officer of Pfizer, prepares to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Netanyahu bullish on deal for Pfizer vaccine after talks with CEO

A technician collects nasal swab samples for COVID-19 at the new coronavirus lab, at Ben-Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv on November 9, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

New daily virus cases continues to climb, death toll reaches 2,700

(L-R, rear) US senior presidential advisor Jared Kushner, US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien clap for US President Donald Trump after he announced an agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to normalize diplomatic ties, at the White House, August 13, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Analysis

What Trump has in store for Israel, Middle East during final 70 days in office

Current, ex-administration officials acknowledge that additional normalization deals unlikely with White House out of leverage, but it plans to act on Iran front until final day

US President-elect Joe Biden, joined by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, speaks at The Queen theater, November 9, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden’s impact on normalization push with Israel is key for economy, expert says

By Shoshanna Solomon

US Vice President Joseph Biden gestures as he speaks at Tel Aviv University, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Op-ed

Message to US President-elect Biden: On Israel and the region, first, do no harm

Iran and the Palestinians are relishing his arrival, anticipating a return to Obama-era thinking and policies. Let’s hope they’re mistaken

US President-elect Joe Biden stands with his hand over his heart, after placing a wreath at the Philadelphia Korean War Memorial at Penn's Landing, on Veterans Day, November 11, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden seeks to get up to speed on intel as Trump blocks access to briefings

By Deb Riechmann

Outgoing Ebola czar Ron Klain listens as President Barack Obama speaks about the Ebola outbreak response by the US in West Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex in Washington. Obama plans to withdraw most US military troops fighting Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden taps longtime adviser Ron Klain as White House chief of staff

By Alexandra Jaffe

Clockwise from top: Article co-authors Dahlia Soussan, Madeline Canfield, and Lilah Peck. (All photos courtesy)

#GamAni

Teens push for end to ‘toxic’ culture of sexuality in US Jewish youth groups

By Cathryn J. Prince

Prince Charles on Lord Sacks: I have lost a trusted guide, teacher and friend

Writing exclusively for UK’s Jewish News, heir to British throne pays tribute to late chief rabbi as ‘source of wisdom, sanity, moral conviction in bewildering and confusing times’

Rabbi, is it OK for me be part of a human vaccine trial?

As long as you know the scientific protocols protecting trial participants are in place, the question is how could you not participate?!

Jonathan Goldstein

Lessons from our victory over Corbyn’s anti-Semitic leadership

The investigation and ouster of the UK Labour party head offers a case study for responding to far-left extremism worldwide

Yes, Virginia, the Patriarchs really did ride on camels

The New York Times was wrong: Archaeological data about the camel actually affirms the accuracy and antiquity of the Genesis accounts.

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Analysis

For Netanyahu, a vengeful lame duck trumps a (likely) benign Biden

PM has yet to properly congratulate president-elect on winning the US election, mindful of what departing presidents with a grudge can do to Israel on their way out

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on the phone during a weekly cabinet meeting held on the Golan Heights, April 17, 2016. (Moav Vardi)

PM’s office mum on plans to call Biden as other world leaders hold talks

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: Border Police officers and an IDF soldier at a temporary checkpoint in Jerusalem on April 14, 2020, ahead of the start of a nationwide closure for the Passover holiday. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

As infection rises among Arab Israelis, Defense Ministry bans entry to PA areas

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli health officials have blamed Arab Israelis entering Palestinian Authority areas for spread of contagion; nearly 40% of active infections in Israel now in Arab sector

Israeli Lotem Benbenishti, 28, poses as she works on her new job collecting trash on the beach at the Peleg Nature reserve in the Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya on October 21, 2020. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Amid pandemic, some Israelis find solace in forced career changes

By Jonah Mandel

Niv Nissim (left) and John Benjamin Hickey in Eytan Fox's new film, 'Sublet,' the opening film of the rescheduled digital Jerusalem Film Festival, opening December 10, 2020 (Courtesy Daniel Miller)

Screen timeReeling from virus, Jerusalem Film Fest to go online

By Jessica Steinberg

Chief Justice Esther Hayut, hearing petitions against the position of alternate prime minister at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Court gives gov’t 21 days to defend legislation at core of power-sharing deal

Justices to expand panel from 3 to 9 as they question legality of changes to Basic Laws that serve as bedrock of agreement between Likud and Blue and White

7:41 pm

Shaked: Coalition-backing legislation was wrong, but court must not intervene
7:10 pm

Saudi crown prince vows to strike extremists with 'iron fist' after bombing
7:08 pm

Joint List MK doesn't rule out protecting Netanyahu from trial if Arabs benefit

The flags of the US, United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain are screened on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, on September 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: More Saudis think Israel, rather than Iran, is region’s biggest threat

By Raphael Ahren

Survey also finds half of Bahrainis and third of Emiratis don’t think Jewish State has right to exist, suggesting Israelis’ affinity for Gulf states is not entirely reciprocated

Displaced Syrians are pictured on November 1, 2020, at the UNESCO-listed site of Baqirha not far from the Turkish border, in a region of northwest Syria filled with abandoned Roman and Byzantine settlements (Abdulaziz ketaz / AFP)

With nowhere else to go, Syrian refugees pitch camp on ruins of ancient temple

By Abdelaziz Ketaz

In this Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018 photo, Syrian soldiers who lost their legs while fighting in Syria's war, wheel past a poster showing Syrian President Bashar Assad, after a physical therapy session at the Ahmad Hamish Martyr hospital, in Damascus, Syria. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Ruined Syria marks 50 years under Assad family rule

Illustrative: Iran's alleged atomic warehouse in Turquzabad, Tehran. (YouTube screenshot)

UN rejects Iran’s explanations for nuclear material at site flagged by Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Atomic watchdog says Islamic Republic’s explanations are ‘not credible,’ demands answers on activity at Tehran warehouse dating back to early 2000s

Illustrative: An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency inspector cuts the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium enrichment at the Natanz facility, some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, January 20, 2014. (AP/IRNA, Kazem Ghane)

UN watchdog: Iran storing 12 times more enriched uranium than nuke deal allows

Saudi King Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 26, 2020. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi king says Iran is top concern, reaffirms support for Palestinian state

Illustrative: A woman cooking and sharing the sight via cellphone. Israeli scientists say people will soon be able to share smells. (Andrii Lysenko via iStock by Getty Images)

Digitizing odors: Israelis whiff the future with ‘smellophone’ tech breakthrough

By Nathan Jeffay

Weizmann Institute team says it has created a molecular ‘smell map’ that can be used to recreate almost any scent on earth, potentially sending what you sniff around the globe

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) talks with attorneys Micha Fettman (L) and Amit Hadad (R) inside the courtroom as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020 (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu attorneys ask to alter indictment, possibly delaying trial

The scene where a 21-year-old man allegedly murdered his grandfather who tried to stop him killing a cat in the city of Rosh Ha'ayin, 16 October 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet)

Man charged with slaying grandfather for trying to stop him from killing a cat

From left, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Gantz's military secretary Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolf, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, IDF Manpower Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz, former IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz and President of the Military Court of Appeals Maj. Gen. Doron Piles meet in Gantz's office in the military's Tel Aviv headquarters on November 11, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz okays recognition of southern Lebanon occupation as official IDF campaign

By Judah Ari Gross

Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan (second from R) with a group of Emirati businessmen in Dubai on November 10, 2020. (Samaria Regional Council)

Israeli settler delegation in Dubai to talk business cooperation with Emiratis

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers break social distancing rules in a dining room in the military's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv on November 9, 2020. (Screen capture: Courtesy)

Soldiers seen flouting social distancing rules at IDF headquarters

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative image of a firefighter, emergency first responder (FXQuadro; iStock by Getty Images)

US emergency responders to use Carbyne tech for crucial real-time data

By Shoshanna Solomon

An inter-parliamentary task force to combat online anti-Semitism convenes its first session over Zoom on November 10, 2020. (Screen capture/Zoom)

International lawmakers to push social media giants on online anti-Semitism

A member of the Proud Boys, right, stands in front of a counter protester as members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators rally on September 26, 2020, in Portland. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Not Nazi enough: Proud Boys leader wants group to fully embrace white supremacy

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference on November 11, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Georgia to conduct hand recount of presidential vote

By Kate Brumback

Illustrative: Police officers of Germany's Federal Police patrol a popular shopping street in Berlin, October 24, 2020. (STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)

German court upholds expulsion of police cadet who used Nazi terminology

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner and their children Arabella and Joseph watch as President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Tuesday, September 22, 2020, in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Were Ivanka, Jared forced to pull kids from DC Jewish school over virus protest?

Ezra Cohen-Watnick (US Department of Defense)

Official who backed fake Obama wiretapping theory promoted to key Pentagon post

By Gabe Friedman

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