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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 22, 2020

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the alternate prime minister, visits the Jerusalem Municipality on November 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Gantz tells party more ‘dramatic’ moves on the way

Television report says Blue and White leader told ministers he intends to use next two weeks to promote moves that will serve his voter base

7:29 pm

Health officials tell TV that Treasury causing delays in vaccine deal
7:12 pm

Report: Gantz tells party more 'dramatic' moves on the way
6:56 pm

Olmert: Pollard should stay in US, his affair continues to cause us damage

Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane lands at at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel ratifies visa exemption agreement with UAE, its first with Arab state

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu hails agreement as boost for reciprocal tourism; misleadingly says Sudan abstained on anti-Israel UN resolution when instead it was absent from vote on Israeli resolution

Iran warns Israel of ‘crushing’ reply to ‘hit and run’ strikes in Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tehran threatens harsh response to any who disrupt its ‘advisers’ in Syria, as war monitor claims 14 pro-Iran fighters killed in fresh strikes attributed to Israel

Illustrative: This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the rubble of a house that according to the Syrian authorities was attacked by an Israeli airstrike, in the Damascus suburbs of Hajira, Syria, Monday, April 27, 2020. (SANA via AP)

US Sen. Chris Coons questions Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, May 15, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Top Democratic senator opposes reentering Iran deal under previous terms

People walk in front of closed shops at Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran's main business and trade hub, Nov. 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As virus surges, Iran shuts businesses, schools in some areas, curtails travel

By Nasser Karimi

Illustrative: An Israeli missile launched from an Iron Dome missile defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, is seen above Gaza City on November 13, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gaza rocket fired at Ashkelon, hitting empty warehouse

By Judah Ari Gross

Attack comes week after rockets fired at central Israel in what the military believes was a malfunction caused by lightning

Gantz threatens Hamas and Gaza residents after exchange of fire

Army probing rogue IDF tank fire on Hamas post after rocket strike

By Judah Ari Gross

Amid rising Gaza tensions, IDF to hold exercise simulating war in the Strip

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu meets Esther Pollard, the wife of US-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, June 29, 2015 (Amos Ben Gershon/PMO, courtesy)

Netanyahu, Rivlin welcome end of Pollard’s parole, await his arrival in Israel

PM thanks envoy to US Ron Dermer for efforts to lift restrictions on ex-Navy analyst who spied for Israel; lawyer says he’ll make aliya when wife’s medical condition allows

Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard and his wife, Esther, enter federal court in New York on April 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Fully free, Pollard to head ‘home’ to Israel when wife’s health allows — lawyer

The diverse Jewish Trump voters puncturing liberals’ assumptions

Jewish communal efforts toward understanding and embracing diversity overlook conservative-leaning Jews from minority groups

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

Pushing boundaries with Eruvin

I wasn’t yet learning Talmud when I campaigned for an eruv in California, but I knew it posed no risk to the local birds – nor to the locals who wanted to keep Jews out

The casts of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave fleeing the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, are seen in what was an elegant villa on the outskirts of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. (Parco Archeologico di Pompei via AP)

Nearly 2,000 years on, bodies of man, slave fleeing volcano found at Pompeii

By Frances D'Emilio

Two men apparently escaped initial eruption of Mount Vesuvius, before dying from blast the next morning; remains found under 2 meters of ash

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits visiting the Tali Bayit Vegan elementary school in Jerusalem, on September 5, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90)

Netanyahu says grades 5-6, 11-12 will return to school as planned

PM says government sticking to schedule amid clamor to reopen all grades in low infection areas; Gantz complains nobody told him about meeting being moved

Figures show virus spreading more rapidly; taskforce flags jump in serious cases

Report: Health Ministry to back full return to schools in low-infection areas

Azrieli keeps malls shut after one-day rebellion, second operator stays open

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

This April 4, 2019, photo shows a part of the collection at the Jewelry Room of Dresden's Green Vault in Dresden, Germany. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP)

Israeli intel firm says it helped solve billion-dollar German jewel heist

By ToI Staff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Defense Minister Benny Gantz during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via AP)

Gantz cut deal with Netanyahu on top appointments, hid it from colleagues — TV

Report says Blue and White officials angry and disappointed over agreement with Likud that won’t include long-stalled approval of new Justice Ministry director

People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on November 21, 2020 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

A few thousand anti-Netanyahu protesters defy wintry weather to hold rallies

Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn seen during a visit at the Jerusalem Municipality on November 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister boycotts cabinet meet over secret postings deal

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Rabbi Art Green. (Hebrew College/ via JTA)

Interview

Rabbi Art Green says the Hasidism that lasts finds sparks of holiness everywhere

Analysis

Francesco FONTEMAGGI

Pompeo’s curious farewell tour marked by abundance of symbolism… and silence

US secretary of state nears end of lengthy trip advancing and highlighting foreign policy moves, particularly on Israel, on behalf of a president who has lost but won’t concede

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes part in a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Golan Heights, near Merom Golan on the border with Syria, on November 19, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Pool/AFP)

This combination of files pictures created on November 4, 2020, shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden after speaking during election night at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware; and US President Donald Trump on election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. (ANGELA WEISS and MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Biden builds an administration as Trump holes up in mostly empty White House

By Jill Colvin, Steve Peoples and Jonathan Lemire

In this Feb. 25, 2020, file photo from left, Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate in Charleston, South Carolina (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Progressives Sanders and Warren may be bridge too far for Biden cabinet

By Steve Peoples

Letty Cottin Pogrebin at the annual Making Trouble/Making History luncheon by the Jewish Women's Archive, March 18, 2012. (CC-SA-2.0/ Joan Roth)

Interview

Pioneering feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin is bracing for womankind’s next battle

By Hannah Dreyfus

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Israeli singer Omer Adam performs live at the annual Kleizmer Festival in the northern Israeli city of Safed, on August 14, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Can't Dubai me loveEgyptian star under fire over photo with Israeli singer in UAE

A demonstrator carries a cross with the inscription "German Constitution Law" during a protest against measures imposed by the German government to limit the spread of the coronavirus, on November 18, 2020 near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

German FM slams anti-mask protesters for ‘making a mockery’ of Nazi victims

By Michelle Fitzpatrick

Bank Hapoalim CEO, Dov Kotler, left, and Arif Amiri, the CEO of Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) on Sept. 8, 2020 (Courtesy)

Israel’s Bank Hapoalim signs accords with Dubai, Abu Dhabi financial hubs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Langsdorff Drive in Ajax, Ontario. (Screen capture: Google Street View)

Campaign convinces Toronto suburb to take Nazi officer’s name off street

Israel's Peter Paltchik reacts after defeating Bulgarian Boris Georgiev during the men's under-100 kilogram weight category quarter final at the European Judo Championship 2020 in Prague, on November 21, 2020. (Michal Cizek/AFP)

Israeli Peter Paltchik wins gold at European Judo Championships

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the leaders of the G20 Leaders' Summit with an introductory video message from his Vahdettin Pavilion, in Istanbul, November 21, 2020. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkey’s Erdogan urges dialogue with EU amid tensions over gas exploration

By AFP

Masterpieces by Renoir, Pissarro, Gauguin and Monet that were borrowed by a South Korean museum from the Israel Museum and recently returned to the Jerusalem institution in November 2020 after a prolonged stay due to the coronavirus (Courtesy Israel Museum)

After loan extended by COVID-19, South Korea returns art masterpieces to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

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

Ari Roth poses in a photo taken prior to the debut of a play at the Mosaic theater in Washington, DC, October 2015. (Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish DC theater maven quits company over ‘exclusively Palestinian’ festival

Transportation Miri Regev and her predecessor Bezalel Smotrich at a ministerial handover ceremony at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu ally blasts Yamina, calls MK ‘racist and homophobic’

Illustrative: An Israel Police car, February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Man shot dead in Ramle in suspected murder

Policemen stand guard outside a detention center from which prisoners had fled earlier in Baabda, east of Lebanon's capital Beirut, on November 21, 2020. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

5 fugitives die in car crash while fleeing after mass jailbreak in Lebanon

By AFP

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