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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 18, 2020

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FM Ashkenazi, right, welcomes Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November 18, 2020 (Miri Shimonovich/MFA)

As Bahrain FM visits Israel, countries agree to open embassies by year’s end

By Raphael Ahren

Gulf kingdom’s Foreign Minister Al-Zayani compares his ‘historic’ one-day trip to Jerusalem with Anwar Sadat’s breakthrough visit to Israel in 1977

FM Ashkenazi, left, welcomes Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani to Israel, November 18, 2020 (Miri Shimonovich/MFA)

Bahrain FM lands in Israel for first-ever ministerial visit from Gulf nation

By Raphael Ahren

Then US President Barack Obama listens as Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak makes a statement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, September 1, 2010. (Charles Dharapak/AP)

In memoir, Obama defends coaxing regime change in Egypt but not in Bahrain

By AFP

A man rides in a mock submarine during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, on October 14, 2020. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Live updates (closed)

TV: Gantz appears set to form a panel to investigate submarine affair

Defense minister responds that matter is being considered, but no decision made; Likud: An attempt to scrounge up votes as Blue and White collapses in polls

7:23 pm

Dahlan pans decision to resume security ties, says PA gave up 'negotiation card'
7:13 pm

Netanyahu said to appeal to Trump to okay thousands of homes beyond green line
6:56 pm

Gantz: No decision made on sub probe; Likud says its an attempt to scrounge up votes

Syrian air defenses respond to alleged Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

IDF says it bombed barracks of top Iranian officers in Syria to ‘send message’

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says Iranian command base near Damascus airport also among targets hit overnight in response to attempted border attack; army goes on high alert for possible retaliation

Syrian Air defenses respond to alleged Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

IDF launches airstrikes against Iranian Quds Force in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

PA President Mahmoud Abbas heads a leadership meeting at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 19, 2020. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool via AP)

Palestinians announce renewal of ties with Israel as annexation fears fade

By Aaron Boxerman

Six months after ending relations with Jerusalem in protest over now-ditched sovereignty plan — and encouraged by Biden victory — Ramallah declares return to the status quo ante

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan step off a plane at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Nov. 18, 2020 (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Pompeo lands in Israel; set to make unprecedented visit to West Bank settlement

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi (right), receives King Abdullah of Jordan at the Presidential Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates March 13, 2016. (Crown Prince Court Abu Dhabi via AP)

Jordanian king heads to UAE for trilateral summit with Emirati, Bahraini leaders

By Aaron Boxerman

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)

Netanyahu calls ‘President-elect Biden,’ who backs ‘Jewish, democratic Israel’

By Raphael Ahren and Jacob Magid

PM and Rivlin finally speak with Trump’s successor, acknowledge his win; PM and Biden agree to meet soon; Biden pledges ‘steadfast support for Israel’s security’

Joe Biden pauses while speaking to supporters in front of an Arizona state flag, at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America's training center, on October 8, 2020, in Phoenix. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Israel media reviewBiden of the Levant: What the press is saying on November 18

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, tours the Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank on November 19, 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu facing pressure to okay West Bank outposts before Trump leaves office

By Raoul Wootliff

A lift truck carries a cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride gas for the purpose of injecting the gas into centrifuges in Iran's Fordo nuclear facility, November 6, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

UN watchdog: Breaching deal, Iran pumping uranium gas into advanced centrifuges

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IAEA says Tehran is using advanced technology at underground Natatz plant prohibited by 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers

Saudi Arabia's Adel al-Jubeir speaks to the media during a press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, January 10, 2020. (AP/Petr David Josek)

Saudi minister says nuclear weapons ‘an option’ for kingdom if Iran gets them

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a news conference with Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in Caracas, Venezuela, November 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Iranian foreign minister: ‘Ready to discuss’ how Biden can rejoin nuclear deal

Audrey N. Glickman

Garlic, chicken soup, and common sense

I’m a Jewish mother. I think chicken soup cures all ills. But rapid testing, N-95 masks, contact tracing, and distancing do an even better job against COVID-19

Waste and want: Dumpsters overflow with the food poor Israelis can’t afford

If schoolkids learn that dumping food is wrong, they’ll bring that message home, discipline their families gently, and reform the country naturally, from within

When scholars die

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was first and foremost a servant leader. With his death, the world lost a prophetic and courageous voice— and I lost my rabbi

Rachel Klausner

Israel, you promised to save the last 9K Ethiopian Jews. There is no time left.

With the country on the brink of civil war and reports of civilian massacres, the community’s left behind remnant is in a shambles

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Despite soaring poll numbers, Bennett appears unlikely to unseat Netanyahu

As talk of elections ramps up, Yamina leader’s growing popularity is drawing attention. But is he a real contender for the throne, or just a way to express frustration with the PM?

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Then-US president Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk to a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

As Bennett rises in polls, Netanyahu attacks: ‘Don’t know if he’s left or right’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and then-Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman, at the first meeting of the 35th Government, in the Knesset on May 17, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

A year before Gantz is set to succeed Netanyahu, both express doubt it’ll happen

Demonstrators outside the Caesarea home of the family of fallen IDF pilot Capt. Tom Farkash, November 17, 2020 (Screen grab)

Outrage after Netanyahu supporters hurl insults at family of fallen IDF soldier

‘The fact you lost a son doesn’t give you the right,’ shouts protester outside home of family of pilot killed in 2006, who are neighbors to PM and hosted demonstrators against him

Illustrative: Police at a march in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 6, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Police said to infiltrate WhatsApp groups used to coordinate anti-PM protests

Screen capture from video of Yair Netanyahu, right, during an interview with the Galei Israel radio station. (Twitter)

Netanyahu’s son compares Israeli kibbutz movement to Nazi Germany

By JTA and ToI Staff

People wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport on March 10, 2020 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Family members of new immigrants to be allowed to visit Israel despite entry ban

By Raoul Wootliff

MKs reach compromise with Interior Ministry to allow entry to close relatives of those in country for less than 4 years; quarantine rules to apply; takes effect in 4 weeks

Illustrative: Syringes labeled as containing COVID-19 vaccinations in Jerusalem, November 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Most Israelis say they won’t be first to try a coronavirus vaccine

By Stuart Winer

The governor of Region Lombardy, the coronavirus worst-hit region of Italy, Attilio Fontana wears a face mask as he walks in Milan, Italy, April 5, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Research suggests coronavirus spread in Italy as early as September 2019

Ivanka Trump arrives in Cleveland ahead of the first presidential debate, Sept. 29, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Former best friend scorches Ivanka Trump in Vanity Fair; Jewy details abound

By Gabe Friedman

Journalist Lysandra Ohrstrom says US president’s daughter was bothered by Arabic necklace she wore that ‘screams terrorist’

Supporters of US President Donald Trump rally at the Supreme Court in Washington, November 14, 2020. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

How did US Jews vote? Polls offer imperfect take, though big picture is clear

By Ron Kampeas and Gabe Friedman

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with then US President Barack Obama in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sept. 5, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Obama the writer deploys pen on other world leaders in new memoir

By AFP

Local shop owners open their stands at the Carmel Market in protest against the ongoing closure of the market, Tel Aviv, November 17, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As virus cases rise, market stall owners rage they aren’t allowed to open

Some open illegally in protest, saying they need to feed their families; 815 new virus cases reported as testing levels increase

Border cop indicted for assaulting bystander during Mea Shearim clashes

Clashes in Bnei Brak as police shut down synagogue that violated virus rules

Israelis flood reopened strip malls, leading officials to fear fresh virus surge

'Isresilience' co-authors Dr. Naomi L. Baum and Michael Dickson (Courtesy)

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LISTEN: How Israelis mastered the art of resilience to thrive against all odds

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of Britain's Labour Party, leaves his home in north London on November 18, 2020. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

After readmitting Corbyn, UK’s Labour denies him parliamentary membership

By Jitendra Joshi

Though disciplinary panel revoked Corbyn’s suspension, party chief Starmer says ex-leader undermined Labour’s stature with botched handling of anti-Semitism complaints

File: UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives at the count center in Islington, north London, on December 13, 2019. (ISABEL INFANTES/AFP)

UK Labour readmits Corbyn after 19-day suspension, reviving anti-Semitism row

Three of the main characters in Inbar Horesh's new short film, 'Birth Right,' about questions of identity in Israel (Courtesy Inbar Horesh)

Young Russians play out their ‘Birth Right’ in Israeli short film

By Jessica Steinberg

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The first patient enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, May 4, 2020. (Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP, File)

Pfizer to seek FDA okay within days as trial results show vaccine 95% effective

By AP and ToI Staff

The remains of US soldiers killed in a helicopter crash on a Sinai peacekeeping mission arrive back in the United States, November 17, 2020 (Screen grab)

US Army identifies 5 killed in Sinai chopper crash, including expectant father

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Apple reportedly leases massive office space under development in Haifa

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen capture from undated video released by the state-owned Ethiopian News Agency on November 16, 2020 shows Ethiopian military personnel sitting on an armored personnel carrier next to a national flag, on a road in an area near the border of the Tigray and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. (Ethiopian News Agency via AP)

Nine Israelis rescued from Ethiopian war zone in ‘complex’ operation

By Stuart Winer and AP

An electric Renault vehicle charges in Ramat Hasharon, Israel. February, 7 2010. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90/Maariv Out)

Ministry unveils program to make Israeli economy more energy efficient

Shas Member of the Knesset Yitzhak Cohen attends a faction meeting at the home of the Torah Sages Council president, Rabbi Shalom Cohen, in Jerusalem, on October 31, 2016 (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

With Litzman back in government, Shas’s Cohen resigns as minister in Treasury

Security forces inspect the scene of the rocket attack at the gate of al-Zawra public park in Baghdad, Iraq, November 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Rockets fall near US embassy in Baghdad, killing child

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Civil Service chief urges AG to take action against deputy for panning Netanyahu

By Michael Bachner

People shop for groceries at the Rami Levy supermarket in Modi'in, on September 24, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

4 years late, rules approved to enable fines for free plastic bag giveaways

Illustrative image of how technology and innovation can disrupt, change, whole industries (EtiAmmos; iStock by Getty Images)

9 Israeli companies among 100 tech ’emerging market challengers’

By Shoshanna Solomon

The electric scooters of UAE-based Fenix (Courtesy)

Israeli VC fund Maniv Mobility invests in Abu Dhabi electric scooter startup

By Shoshanna Solomon

A screen shot of the private CoronaCrush Facebook group that was founded in March 2020 and currently numbers 17,700 members (Courtesy CoronaCrush screen grab)

Safe loveJewish singles over 60 sought for Zoom speed dates

By Jessica Steinberg

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