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What Matters Most On Friday, November 20, 2020

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Medical workers draw blood from volunteers participating in a trial of a coronavirus vaccine at the Budenko Main Military Hospital outside Moscow, Russia, July 15, 2020. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Israel’s Hadassah vies to become a regional hub for Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine

By Nathan Jeffay

Jerusalem hospital turns cheerleader for ‘Sputnik V,’ sparking criticism from some experts; former vaccine assessor ‘unhappy’ at hospital potentially profiting off shots

A general view of Pfizer Manufacturing Belgium in Puurs, Belgium, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

After trial success, Pfizer seeks emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine in US

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

A sign is displayed outside Waterloo train station to remind people thy are required to wear face coverings inside the station and whilst travelling on trains during England's second coronavirus lockdown, in London, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Britain yesterday registered 501 daily COVID-19 deaths within 28 days of a positive test and is the fifth country in the world to record more than 50,000 coronavirus-related deaths. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Study finds immunity after virus infection lasts at least 6 months

By AFP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks after a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Golan Heights, near the Israeli-Syrian border, November 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Pompeo during rare Golan Heights visit: ‘This is Israel’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Secretary tours Syrian border with Israeli counterpart, scoffs at US elites and ‘salons of Europe’ who want Assad to control strategic ridge; is briefed on Iran’s influence in area

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pats his head during a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani after their trilateral meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via AP)

Israel media reviewMike drop: What the press is saying on November 20

By Joshua Davidovich

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (L) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (2nd L) during a visit to the Psagot Winery in the West Bank, on November 19, 2020. (State Department/Twitter)

In major shift, Pompeo says US to label settlement products ‘Made in Israel’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens as Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi (off camera) speaks after a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Golan Heights, Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Analysis

Pompeo brought many gifts on farewell tour, but do they have long-term value?

Secretary’s visits to a settlement and the Golan, and his reversal on labeling rules, have symbolic worth, probably won’t change very much, could boost any presidential ambitions

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, center, poses for a photo with Daniel Voiczek, left, general manager and CEO of the Friends of Zion Museum, and Nir Kimhi, the museum founder's representative in Israel, as he arrives for a tour of the Friends of Zion Museum, November 20, 2020, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Pompeo visits museum honoring Christian Zionists as he wraps up Israel trip

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli winemaker Yaakov Berg holds a bottle of his red blend named after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Psagot Winery in the Sha'ar Binyamin industrial park near the Psagot settlement in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem on November 18, 2020. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

For maker of West Bank ‘Pompeo’ wine, emphasizing product’s legitimacy is key

Illustrative: Cancer cells inside the body (wildpixel; iStock by Getty Images)

With new ‘elegant chemo,’ Israeli scientists edit genome to destroy cancer DNA

By Nathan Jeffay

Tel Aviv University team uses ‘microscopic scissors’ to pinpoint and eliminate cancerous cells; results of animal tests just published, trial in humans expected within 2 years

A tunnel that Israel believes was dug by the Hamas terror group from Gaza into southern Israel, which was uncovered on October 22, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Latest tunnel was Hamas’s deepest; it’s not what worries Israel most about Gaza

The IDF regards the Strip as calm for now, but a perpetual potential powder keg, and Southern Command deems most rounds of fighting in past 2.5 years to have been failures

Hussein al-Sheikh, a close confidant of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking on Palestine TV, the official PA channel. (Screenshot: Palestine TV)

Senior Israeli and PA officials meet, agree on transfer of critical tax revenue

By Aaron Boxerman

This picture taken from Gaza City shows lightning flashing over buildings as the flare of a rocket launch is seen nearby during a thunderstorm in Gaza city on November 15, 2020. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

IDF probe said to determine lightning set off weekend Gaza rockets

File: Then-US Vice President Joe Biden, with his wife Jill Biden holding the Biden Family Bible, takes the official oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, surrounded by family, during an official ceremony at the Naval Observatory, January 20, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Kvelling

Meet Joe Biden’s whole big Jewish mishpocha

All three of the president-elect’s kids married into Jewish families — which means he’s the grandfather of some pretty adorable Jewish kids

In this November 10, 2020 photo, US President-elect Joe Biden smiles as he speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Biden turns 78 Friday, as he is set to become oldest US president

By AAMER MADHANI

Georgia Democratic candidates for US Senate Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, right, gesture toward a crowd during a campaign rally on November 15, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Ossoff defends Warnock as ‘beloved’ ally of Georgian Jews amid criticism

By Gabe Friedman

George Soros in a portrait for the film 'Soros.' (Courtesy Vital Pictures)

Film review

‘Soros’ squanders an opportunity with poor picture of controversial billionaire

By Jordan Hoffman

A Bahrain mystery in Jerusalem

An 80-year-old handwritten document on the geopolitical significance of Bahrain recently surfaced at the National Library of Israel. What is it doing here?

Rebekah, unveiled

If Rebekah had just told Isaac the prophecy she’d heard about their twins’ future at their birth, wouldn’t she have spared herself all that subterfuge on Jacob’s behalf? (Toledot)

Volkan Bozkir, President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, is shown on video monitors as he makes closing remarks, September 29, 2020, at UN headquarters. (Loey Felipe/UN Photo via AP)

UN panel votes 163-5 in support of Palestinian statehood, end of occupation

Draft calling for two-state solution passes General Assembly’s Third Committee in large package of annual pro-Palestinian resolutions that Israel argues shows bias against it

People shop at the Ayalon Mall in Ramat Gan after it reopened, November 20, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Several malls reopen, defying restrictions: ‘Behaving nicely doesn’t work’

Managers of shopping centers have complained of discrimination as many other stores and commercial sites have returned to business

Aircraft are seen at London's Heathrow Airport, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

With Israel’s morbidity down, UK no longer requires travelers to isolate

Israelis wearing face masks walk on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem, on November 19, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top health officials warn of possible 3rd lockdown if morbidity rises further

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks to the press about various lawsuits related to the 2020 election, inside the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, November 19, 2020. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

With dye dripping down cheeks, Giuliani pushes conspiracies at bizarre presser

By Michael Mathes

Trump lawyer promulgates baseless claims about US election involving George Soros, dead dictator Hugo Chavez, China, illustrated with reenactment of scene from ‘My Cousin Vinny’

US President-elect Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden blasts Trump’s ‘incredibly damaging messages’ about democratic process

By Jerome Cartillier, Michael Mathes and Shaun Tandon

US President-elect Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Georgia recount affirms Biden win, flipping the state for Democrats

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony in the military's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv on June 18, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief in rare op-ed: Leave fallen troops, their families, out of politics

In piece sent to media outlets, Aviv Kohavi calls partisan treatment of soldiers killed fighting for Israel a ‘red line,’ days after PM’s supporters insulted family of slain pilot

Israelis march during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on November 19, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Anti-Netanyahu protesters rally across Israel; one group says PM is ‘the virus’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

IMF urges Israel government to promptly pass 2021 budget

By Shoshanna Solomon

At left: Israel ‘Srulik’ Segalovitch, now Ira Segalewitz and Regina Puter, now Ruth Brandspiegel, in screenshots from a Zoom reunion, top, and together as teenagers, bottom. (Zoom/ Collection of Ira Segalewitz); Top right: A handkerchief from Ruth that Ira kept, along with his DP camp school memory book. (Photo by Scott Segalewitz); Bottom right: Purim in the Hallein DP camp, 1950. Ira is 3rd from left, Ruth is center. (Collection of Ira Segalewitz)

Analysis

Friends from post-WWII Displaced Persons camp reconnect on Zoom after 69 years

After Ira Segalewitz chanced upon an article with the name of his teenage sweetheart Ruth Brandspiegel, a tearful reunion conjures stories of tribulations and childhood bliss

Chairman of the Afek oil drilling company, Effi Eitam, seen at the Supreme Court during a hearing on oil searching in the Golan Heights, on December 23, 2014, in Jerusalem. (Flash90)

750 scholars push against tapping of far-right ex-minister to head Yad Vashem

Hermann Goering stands in the prisoner's dock at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial in Germany, November 21, 1945. (AP Photo, file)

Nuremberg marks 75 years since trials that established concept of war criminals

By David Rising

US Vice President Joe Biden addresses the 4th National J Street Conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2013. (Ron Sachs/J Street)

Interview

Eyeing simpatico White House, J Street readies to lobby for Iran deal reentry

Gen. Hossein Dehghan, a military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, November 18, 2020. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran presidential candidate: US attack risks ‘full-fledged war’

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Hossein Dehghan warns limited, tactical conflict could escalate into ‘comprehensive crisis’ that world cannot stand; warns Israel’s expanding presence could be ‘strategic mistake’

Emirati businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor (Channel 13 screenshot)

Emirati mogul tells Israeli TV: Hezbollah must disappear from the Earth

A United Nations ship is pictured in the southernmost area of Naqura, by the border with Israel, on October 14, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Israel accuses Lebanon of changing stance in maritime border talks

By AFP

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a a joint statement with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jerusalem, November 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)

Netanyahu undergoes routine colonoscopy, has 2 polyps removed

Flooding on a street in Wada Ara, November 20, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 12 news)

Flooding reported in parts of Israel as brief storm front hits

Boston Celtics forward Enes Kanter (L) and Israel's UN Ambassador Enes Kanter on November 18, 2020. (Israeli UN Mission)

Erdan talks combating anti-Semitism with NBA player, Erdogan critic Enes Kanter

Deni Avdija speaks with ESPN after he was selected by the Washington Wizards in the 2020 NBA Draft, November 18, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Washington Wizards hail pick of Israel’s Avdija in NBA draft as a ‘no brainer’

By Alexander Fulbright

Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, a senior aide to the US ambassador to Israel, speaks from the embassy in Jerusalem to an online conference of Christians United for Israel, April 30, 2020. (YouTube screenshot)

White House to name rabbi with ties to Israeli right to Mideast development post

Finance Minister Israel Katz holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on July 1, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Troubled coalition to okay new accountant general after reprimand from AG

Illustrative: Members of the Orthodox Jewish community wait for school buses to collect them in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, October 8, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

NYC Jewish schools to stay open as public education institutions close

Arabic graffiti drawn on the side of a road reading "my government did this" is seen in front of the cranes at the port of Lebanon's capital Beirut, while in the background are the damaged grain silos opposite the blast site of a colossal explosion, August 9, 2020. (Patrick Baz/AFP)

Months after blast, Beirut begins clearing dangerous port containers

By AFP

Illustrative: A gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula sabotaged by a jihadist group in 2012. (AP/File)

IS claims Egypt-Israel gas pipeline blast that caused fire, but little damage

Armed US soldiers stand guard in the motorcade for President Donald Trump as he makes a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to the troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US general warns Islamic State still a long-term threat in Iraq, Syria

By Robert Burns

San Francisco State University. (Courtesy/J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA)

San Francisco college’s student gov’t passes resolution targeting settlements

By Gabriel Greschler

Ivanka Trump speaks at a campaign event while her father, US President Donald Trump, watches in Kenosha, Wisconsin, November 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

NY probing Trump’s tax write-off for consulting fees paid to Ivanka

By Michael R. Sisak and David B. Caruso

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