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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 21, 2020

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Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, left, with his lawyer, Eliot Lauer, leaves federal court in New York following a hearing, Friday, July 22, 2016. (AP/Larry Neumeister)

Ex-navy analyst served 30 years for giving away US secrets

US terminates Jonathan Pollard’s parole, ex-spy free to travel to Israel

Five years after being freed from prison, Pollard says he plans to move to Jewish state to care for ailing wife, thanks Israeli envoy Ron Dermer for assistance in effort

Interview

Israeli duo’s early Alzheimer’s detection test brings cure one step closer

Toronto-based biomedical engineers Eliav Shaked and Roy Kirshon are working on a quick, non-invasive retinal diagnostic for patients decades away from showing symptoms of dementia

RetiSpec COO Roy Kirshon, left, and CEO Eliav Shaked. (Robert Sarner/ Times of Israel)

Laboratory technicians work at the mAbxience biopharmaceutical company on an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and the laboratory AstraZeneca in Garin, Argentina, August 14, 2020. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Netanyahu: Israel to ink deal with AstraZeneca for millions of vaccines

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM says talks in final stages to supply vaccine developed by University of Oxford, which has been shown to cause fewer side effects in elderly; would be Israel’s 3rd deal

Israel’s domestic vaccine expected to be ready for public by summer, report says

Ministers approve lockdowns for northern towns of Nazareth and Isfiya

Netanyahu said to oppose potential law to mandate virus vaccine

Amos Yadlin speaks at an IsraPresse event for the French-speaking community at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem, February 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Iran hackers ‘phished’ researcher by posing as Israel’s ex-intel chief — report

Member of think tank sent email from private address ostensibly connected to former IDF intelligence head Amos Yadlin, is then sent an unpublished report and asked to give analysis

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)

Israel, US planning ‘covert ops’ against Iran as Trump’s term ends, report says

In this photo released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Gen. Esmail Ghaani, newly appointed commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, weeps while praying over the coffin of the force's previous head Gen. Qassem Soleimani at the Tehran University Campus in Tehran, Iran on January 6, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran puts allies on high alert, warns not to provoke US in Trump’s final weeks

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and SAMYA KULLAB

(From R-L) Susan Pompeeo, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and aide Aryeh Lightstone at Ben Gurion Airport, Lod, on November 20, 2020. (State Department/Twitter)

If I forget thee (part II): Closing out trip, Pompeo ‘wheels up from Jerusalem’

US secretary of state tweets photo of himself departing from Ben Gurion Airport, outside Tel Aviv; writes that he is leaving from Jerusalem, Israel’s ‘eternal capital’

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, right, poses for a photo with President Reuven Rivlin, left, during a meeting at the president's official residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (AP Photo/ Sebastian Scheiner)

Rivlin urges Biden to work to ‘build confidence’ between Israelis, Palestinians

Clockwise from left: 'Hedy's War' by Jenny Lecoat (Courtesy); Dorothea Weber and the Jewish woman she saved, Hedwig Bercu (Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations Collection).

Author interview

Novel revives true story of gutsy Jew who survived Nazis to marry German soldier

By Robert Philpot

Shayna Goldberg

’Safe sex’ means more than protection

It takes maturity to realize that physical pleasures do not always leave us feeling good

A father full of surprises

The day I played hooky from school and learned so much more than I would have in the classroom

Gracia Nasi in Antwerp in a scene from 'The Wandering Jewess,' story by Gianluca Piredda and art by Leo Sgarbi. (Courtesy Piredda)

Life of 16th-century heiress, philanthropist and crypto-Jew hits Italian comics

By Giovanni Vigna

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

(From L-R) Opposition chairman Yair Lapid poses for a photo at his office in Tel Aviv 21, 2020; Prime Minister of Sudan Abdalla Hamdok addresses the media during a joint statement with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Germany on February 14, 2020; Las Vegas Sands Corporation Chief Executive and Republican mega donor Sheldon Adelson listens as US President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Florida on December 7, 2019. (Oded Balilty, Michael Sohn, Patrick Semansky/AP)

Fake news

Lapid, Sudan’s PM and a Malibu-home-for-normalization bribe that never happened

Sudanese media picks up report from fake Israeli site, claiming Yesh Atid chair told Knesset that Hamdok agreed to peace in exchange for $5 million home purchased by Adelson

Members of the Wagabunda Scouts troop haul a fallen tree out of the the Jewish cemetery of Nowe Miasto, Poland, November 11, 2020. (Julia Bandurska/ via JTA)

Non-Jewish Polish leader works to clean up country’s forgotten Jewish cemeteries

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: In this photo from August 12, 2017, white supremacist demonstrators clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Analysis

2 years after synagogue attack, Pittsburgh has become hub for white supremacists

The city is now an insidious pilgrimage site for those who revere the shooter who killed 11 worshipers in 2018, and security experts are concerned

Tom Hanks in New York in a December 2019 photo (Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

Tom Hanks joins campaign to turn Pittsburgh synagogue into anti-racism center

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a news conference in the briefing room at the White House in Washington, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Flailing Trump fails to sway Michigan lawmakers as he bids to subvert Biden win

By Zeke Miller, Colleen Long and DAVID EGGERT

After White House meeting, state’s leaders say they’ve not seen any information that would change outcome; critics warn president’s legal offensive will cause long-lasting damage

Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for coronavirus

After recount, Georgia secretary certifies election for Joe Biden

By Kate Brumback

Character buildingTwitter says Biden gets @POTUS handle on inauguration day

By AFP

More Headlines

Child is airlifted to Soroka Medical Center after he was bitten by a crocodile, November 21, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)

4-year-old bitten by crocodile in southern Israel suffers serious arm injury

Israeli firefighters search for people in a flooded parking in Ness Ziona, November 21, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Residents rescued from coastal flooding; 1st snow of season falls on Mt. Hermon

Passengers arrive at Heathrow Airport, September 8, 2020 (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

UK’s virus quarantine rules define Israel, Jerusalem as two different areas

Singer Bob Dylan leans towards the mike at New York's Madison Square Garden Jan. 30, 1974 during one of three appearances with The Band in New York City. Robbie Robertson, left, accompanies Dylan on guitar. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine)

Dylan papers, including musings on anti-Semitism, sell for $495K

By AP

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers his speech during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, southern Germany on November 20, 2020 (Daniel Karmann / POOL / AFP)

German president urges honoring ‘legacy’ of Nuremberg trials on 75th anniversary

By Femke COLBORNE

Sarah Bloom Raskin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Department, is photographed in her office, February 26, 2015. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images via JTA)

Sarah Bloom Raskin, consumer champion, on Biden’s treasury secretary short list

By Gabe Friedman

A chicken burger advertised on the website the The Chicken, a restaurant that serves lab-grown meat in Nes Tziona. (Screen capture via JTA)

Cultured cutlets‘World’s 1st lab-grown meat restaurant’ opens in Tel Aviv suburb

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen speaks with the FOX Business Network in the Fox Washington bureau, Aug. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Janet Yellen, Jewish former Fed chief, on Biden’s treasury secretary short list

By Gabe Friedman

(From L-R) Malka Leifer's attorneys Tal Gabay and Yehuda Fried speak to reporters at the Jerusalem District Court on September 23, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Malka Leifer’s lawyers step down weeks before latest long-shot appeal

Rafiah Kenaneh at the court, hours before he's suspected of stabbing ex-wife Wafa to death, November 16, 2020. (Screen grab/Ynet)

Relatives of woman killed by ex-husband request protection amid revenge fears

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