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What Matters Most On Monday, November 16, 2020

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Illustration of the space shuttle that will carry Eytan Stibbe (Axiom Space)

Israel to send its second-ever astronaut into space

By Nathan Jeffay

Eytan Stibbe to head to International Space Station late next year; announcement made in presence of son of 1st Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in 2003 Columbia mission

A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule is seen during a time exposure as it lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Four astronauts are beginning a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

US resumes regular crew flights to space station with successful SpaceX launch

Exclusive

Ethiopia conflict claims 1st Jewish victim; he’d waited 24 years for Israel move

Girmew Gete, 36, who was shot dead in the Amara-Tigray border area, is survived by partner and 4-year-old daughter; his 84-year-old grandmother is mostly alone in Kiryat Gat

Some of the books written about the Ethiopian Israeli experience by Naomi Shmuel, who will speak at the Beit Avi Chai digital Sigd celebration on November 16, 2020. (courtesy, Naomi Shmuel)

Digital SigdEthiopian Sigd holiday marked with online events at Beit Avi Chai

By Jessica Steinberg

Honoree Christiane Amanpour attends Variety's Power of Women: New York presented by Lifetime at Cipriani 42nd Street on Friday, April 5, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Israel calls on CNN’s Amanpour to apologize for comparing Trump to Nazis

By Raphael Ahren

Anchor’s ‘false equivalence’ between a sitting US president and Kristallnacht pogrom belittles the immense tragedy of the Holocaust, Diaspora Affairs Minister Yankelevich charges

US President Donald Trump, left, gesturing while playing golf at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, November 15, 2020. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

As Trump again claims he won election, Twitter points out that he didn’t

By ToI Staff and AFP

Women with bright pink hats and signs begin to gather early and are set to make their voices heard on the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Women were crucial to Biden’s win, even as gender voting gap held steady

By Jocelyn Noveck

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the annual Board of Governors' meeting in Jerusalem, October 28, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel media review

The seven-hour itch: What the press is saying on November 16

By Joshua Davidovich

A long meeting on the virus lockdown exit with no results has everybody fuming and sniping at each other, and that only scratches the surface of the frustration in the air

Facing steep opposition, Netanyahu scraps plan for nationwide curfew

Ministers to meet again on virus restrictions as cases appear to trend upward

Fines for ultra-Orthodox schools that violated lockdown canceled – report

Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber at a meeting of the Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee on December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Deputy AG likens Netanyahu’s attacks on judiciary to Protocols of Elders of Zion

By Michael Bachner

Dina Zilber launches scathing broadside against ‘fake leader,’ says PM’s constant claims the cases against him are a witchhunt echo notorious anti-Semitic conspiracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney Amit Hadad arrives to District Court in Jerusalem for a court hearing as part of the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on November 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judge rejects one bid to delay Netanyahu corruption trial hearing

EU representative to the Palestinians Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff surrounded by Israeli activists during a visit at the controversial Givat Hamatos neighborhood in East Jerusalem, November 16, 2020 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Right-wing activists chase EU envoy from site of planned East Jerusalem project

By Raphael Ahren

Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff leads delegation of 13 European diplomats to Givat Hamatos to slam ‘de facto annexation attempt,’ protesters denounce them as anti-Semites, chase them off

The settlement of Yitzhar, in the West Bank on October 31, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

State to pay NIS 400,000 compensation to yeshiva seized by military in West Bank

A worker for the Magen David Adom emergency service replaces his mask after spitting on pictures of Jesus and Mary in a residential building in Jaffa, November 15, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)

MDA Medic suspended after spitting on Jesus image during virus testing in Jaffa

My fellow Jewish Republicans, don’t give up

The next 4 years will be tough for conservatives, but we can still advance pro-Israel policies under Biden. Here’s how

Coronavirus has redefined security

As with gender inequities in war, the pandemic has differential impact across society. Luckily, we have a blueprint for inclusive, fair crisis management

The pool and beach at the Atlantis Hotel with the skyline of the Dubai Marina visible in the distance in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Netanyahu said concerned Israeli tourists will misbehave in UAE

Ahead of launch of direct flights, government reportedly highlights need for code of conduct for travelers planning to visit Gulf nation, citing cultural differences

Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani delivers a statement upon the arrival of a US-Israeli delegation in the Bahrain International Airport on October 18, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Bahrain ministers said making first official visit to Israel for three-way talks

An Etihad Airways plane carrying a delegation from the United Arab Emirates on a first official visit lands at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

UAE’s Etihad formally announces launch of daily direct flights to Israel in 2021

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia leaves the podium as Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom, is seen at rear at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Aug. 17, 2010 (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Interview

87-year-old activist rabbi: Shifting world is perfect place to practice balance

By Melanie Lidman

Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani speaks during the opening session of the Doha Forum in the Qatari capital on December 14, 2019. (Mustafa Abumunes / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Qatar FM: Gulf states’ deals with Israel hurt unity on Palestine, but up to them

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani says it would be ‘better to have a united front to put the interests of the Palestinians’ first

7:27 pm

UN General Assembly president assails Security Council
7:03 pm

Qatari FM: Gulf normalization with Israel hurts unity, but it is their decision
6:42 pm

Mandelblit: State must explain failure to appoint Justice Ministry director

A subject receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine by Moderna for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, March 16, 2020. (AP/Ted S. Warren, File)

Moderna says its coronavirus vaccine appears to be 94.5% effective

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Independent monitors from trial say all severe COVID-19 cases were among placebo recipients; Israel, which has made deal with company to purchase shots, welcomes development

Health chief says only 100,000 to get vaccine in 1st quarter of 2021; PM fumes

By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer

Israel will reportedly pay much more than US, EU for Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israel’s economy surges 38% in third quarter, after exit from first lockdown

By Shoshanna Solomon

Lightning above buildings during a thunderstorm in Gaza City, on November 15, 2020. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Perfect storm: Israel, Hamas again conveniently blame rocket fire on the weather

For the third time in two years, thunderstorms said to launch pre-armed projectiles at central Israel, providing Jerusalem and Gaza terror groups with an excuse to avoid escalation

Lebanese soldiers and UNIFIL peacekeepers watch from the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh, as IDF Merkava tanks take part in routine maneuvers near the border demarcation line, near Kibbutz Misgav Am, on June 2, 2020. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

IDF troops fire warning shots as suspects approach Lebanon border

Sisters Natalie and Louisa Clein on the steps of the house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where their grandmother lived when she was in the Resistance during World War II. They visited for the BBC One program 'My Family, The Holocaust and Me,' by Robert Rinder. (Wall to Wall Media/ Mike Robinson)

Interview

BBC traces ‘unimaginable trauma’ of Holocaust inherited by children of survivors

By Francine Wolfisz

More Headlines

People wait for a train in the foreground as members of a police forensics team take part in an investigation next to a Thalys train on the platform at Arras train station, northern France, August 22, 2015. (Virginia Mayo/AP)

Trial starts over foiled Paris train attack that inspired Clint Eastwood movie

By Marie DHUMIERES

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, in Damascus, Syria, June 23, 2020 (SANA via AP)

Longtime Syrian foreign minister Moallem, unswerving Assad loyalist, dies at 79

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, April 17, 2016. (Flash90/Effi Sharir)

Katz snipNetanyahu edits finance minister out of tweet on strong economy

Cars line up at a COVID-19 testing site at Tropical Park, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

With more than 1 million cases in a week, virus spreading faster than ever in US

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE

Self-employed Israelis protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, calling for financial support from the Israeli government in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, on July 11, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Employment Service warns of ‘chronic unemployment’ as layoff rate surges

By Shoshanna Solomon

The head of Sudan's sovereign council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, seated center-left, President of South Sudan Salva Kiir, seated center, and President of Chad Idriss Deby, seated center-right, attend a ceremony to sign a peace deal between Sudan's transitional authorities and a rebel alliance, in Juba, South Sudan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Sudan's transitional authorities and a rebel alliance on Saturday signed the peace deal initialed in August that aims to put an end to the country's decades-long civil wars, in a televised ceremony in Juba, South Sudan marking the agreement. (AP Photo/Maura Ajak)

Sudan takes first steps toward implementing peace deal to end civil war

Illustrative image of the American and Israeli flags. (3dmitry; iStock by Getty Images)

20 agriculture projects of US-Israel fund added $3 billion to economies – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Leading challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi speaks to the media after casting his vote with his wife Zahra Rahnavard, right, in the Iranian presidential elections at the Ershad mosque, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, June 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Iran says detained opposition leader, wife tested positive for coronavirus

By AP

Screen capture from video of Ugur Sahin, CEO of German firm BioNTech, which is working with US-based Pfizer on a coronavirus vaccine. (YouTube)

Scientist behind frontrunner vaccine hopes for return to ‘normal’ by next year

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video allegedly showing passersby trying to push a man away from a woman, reportedly his ex-wife, after he stabbed her in the northern city of Arraba, November 16, 2020. (Ynet news)

Police suspect man crashed into ex-wife’s car — then fatally stabbed her

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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