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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 25, 2020

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The victims of the IAF plane crash on November 24, 2020 -- Maj. Itai Zayden (R) and Cpl. Lihu Ben-Bassa (L). (Facebook)

Victims of air force plane crash named: Maj. Itay Zayden, Cpl. Lihu Ben-Bassa

By Judah Ari Gross and Alexander Fulbright

Military investigating what caused fatal accident, the first of its kind since 2008, which claimed the life of 42-year-old reserve officer and 19-year-old cadet

Soldiers inspecting the site of a plane crash in which two Israeli soldiers were killed near the Bedouin city of Rahat on November 24, 2020. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Israel media reviewThe military that knew too little: What the press is saying on November 25

By Joshua Davidovich

Twelve standing stones at the base of Mount Karkom, said by one expert to recall 'altar stones' described in the Bible. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook12 'altar stones'; carvings of worshipers and a striking eye

Ancient rock etchings on remote Negev plateau evoke the Bible, draw new interest

As Mount Karkom attracts increasing visitors, archaeologists try to protect a prehistoric art-filled site that a top researcher claims is Mount Sinai, complete with ‘burning bush’

Officials count vote ballots from the elections at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 4, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

A fourth election within two years is now a certainty

A High Court decision cuts Israel’s long-suffering government off life support, and everyone from left, right and center is readying the campaign

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as then-defense minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri confer, during a meeting of right-wing party leaders at the Knesset following election day, on March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid election buzz, polls give Likud the most seats, with Yamina at its heels

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut (C) arrives for a discussion on a petition against the coronavirus restrictions on demonstrations in Jerusalem, on October 13, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court orders government to explain failure to pass 2020 budget

By Raoul Wootliff

An outpost near the Yitzhar settlement on October 24, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Settlement minister says PM has agreed to move to legalize West Bank outposts

With Trump set to leave office, Tzachi Hanegbi says he has agreed with Netanyahu to present a plan to the cabinet in the coming weeks

7:23 pm

Plane involved in fatal military crash recently experienced engine trouble -- report
7:13 pm

Coronavirus cases worldwide top 60 million -- AFP tally
6:55 pm

TV report details government's vaccination priorities plan

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris introduce their nominees and appointees to key national security and foreign policy posts at The Queen theater, November 24, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

7 things to know about Biden’s latest senior appointments

US president-elect’s nominees include pair of ‘2nd-generation survivors,’ an Iran deal and Gaza ceasefire negotiator, and 2 women trailblazers in diplomacy and national security

Senate staffer Reema Dodin speaks at the Gibran Gala in 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Biden taps Palestinian-American as deputy legislative director

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris introduce their nominees and appointees to key national security and foreign policy posts at The Queen Theater, November 24, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden unveils picks for national security team: ‘America is back’

By AP and ToI Staff

Plague-busters: Israeli team combats swarms of locusts in war-torn Ethiopia

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

To fight the worst Desert Locust threat in 70 years, Start-Up Nation delegation flies in with innovative techniques, utilizing drones and nighttime spraying

Domestic violence is a systemic problem and Israel is no exception

3 significant changes in Israeli society and the legal system would overhaul the way domestic violence and its survivors are treated

Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld

‘Tis the season to celebrate (coronavirus and all)

After nearly a year of coronavirus Jewish holidays, we wanted to share what we’ve learned about how to do festivities at a distance, as we start this winter holiday season

Kenneth Jacobson

The long path to Israeli-Saudi normalization

Considering Saudi importance in the Arab world and the nation’s centrality in standing up for the Palestinians, even the possibility of ties with Israel is a radical shift indeed

Being abused won’t get you a divorce in Israel’s rabbinic court

With domestic violence on the rise, we must set aside the traditional vague calls for empowerment and embark on dismantling the invisible systems that perpetuate violence

My first trip to Israel – when dream became reality

As a Jew, I yearned to come. As a committed citizen of Bahrain, I waited for circumstances to allow such a visit. That time finally arrived.

Police inspect a car used in a suspected attempted car-ramming at the a-Zaim crossing outside Jerusalem on November 25, 2020. (Shlomo Mor)

Palestinian driver shot dead while trying to ram through checkpoint — police

By Judah Ari Gross

Border guard struck and lightly injured by car of East Jerusalem resident caught presenting false papers at West Bank crossing A’zaim, near Jerusalem

Border Police cop injured in alleged car-ramming by settler at extremist outpost

Three Israelis indicted for assaulting Palestinians during olive harvest

By Aaron Boxerman

Defense Ministry rejects Hebron shooter’s appeal for disability status

Illustrative: A woman injecting Insulin (Tuned_In via iStock by Getty Images)

Oral insulin, by Israeli mom-son team, starts final trials to become world’s 1st

By Nathan Jeffay

CEO says pills, which can replace many injections, will help ‘hundreds of millions of diabetics worldwide,’ sending insulin directly to the liver and reducing weight gain

Virus crisis will be over by next year, says ex-COVID-19 czar, citing vaccines

Ronni Gamzu expects massive production in various countries will produce enough immunization units during first half of 2021

Screen capture from video of Israel's former coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu during the Israel Democracy Institute's annual Center for National Security and Democracy conference, held online, November 24, 2020. (Israel Democracy Institue)

Active coronavirus cases surge back over 9,000

PM: Israel may close West Bank crossings to Palestinian areas amid virus surge

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza battered by record surge in virus cases

By Aaron Boxerman

A Syrian anti-aircraft missile explodes in mid-air, lighting up the night sky near Damascus on November 24, 2020. (SANA)

Syria says Israel carries out strikes near Damascus, Golan Heights border

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Alleged attack hits sites connected to Iran and its proxies; Syrian state media reports no casualties, but pro-opposition group says 8 pro-Iranian fighters killed

Iran’s president hopes Biden will unravel Trump’s policies

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran’s parliament demands construction of heavy water reactor

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel demands UN Security Council action against Iranian presence in Syria

Jonathan Pollard with his wife Esther after they cut off his electronic monitor bracelet on November 20, 2020. (Adi Ginzburg/Justice for Jonathan Pollard)

Netanyahu phones Pollard: ‘When are we going to see you here? We’re waiting’

PM urges former spy and his wife to move to Israel, tells them ‘that this nightmare of yours is over,’ days after his parole ends

Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman in court for a lawsuit filed against a journalist, at the Magistrate's Court in Petah Tikva, November 24, 2020. (Flash90)

Liberman: Netanyahu endangering state by keeping security matters to himself

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with his lawyers in the courtroom, as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Witness testimony in Netanyahu corruption trial delayed until February

Illustrative photo of a young girl at home during coronavirus lockdown. (iStock photo/ lakshmiprasad S)

US experts: Ongoing coronavirus health crisis taking toll on kids’ mental health

By Cathryn J. Prince

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio talks during a news conference outside the Mosaic Pre-K Center on the first day of school, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in New York. The city public schools delayed reopening for two weeks.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

De Blasio fines Brooklyn Hasidic synagogue $15,000 for holding mass wedding

Invitations to Williamsburg ceremony were spread by word of mouth, with no posters advertising it on synagogue walls

Thousands attend the wedding of the grandson of Satmar Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum in Brooklyn on November 8, 2020. (Screencapture/YouTubue)

‘Who’s not going to go?’: NY Hasidic Jews continue to hold large weddings

Illustrative: Students participate in outdoor activities at the Denver Jewish Day School, 2020. (Courtesy of Denver Jewish Day School/ via JTA)

Education in COVID eraFor US Jewish schools, Thanksgiving tests adherence to COVID rules, parent trust

More Headlines

Illustrative picture of a child. (Xavier_S, i-Stock photos at Getty Images)

With school out for months, hundreds of thousands of kids face food insecurity

El Al Airlines' Boeing 737s are pictured on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, March 10, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP/ File)

El Al posts ‘heavy loss’ in Q3, faces ‘existential risk,’ CEO warns

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A lonely man sits on a bench in Jerusalem, May 12, 2013. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Government debt collector reports sharp rise in suicide threats amid pandemic

Israeli writer and artist Etgar Keret during an interview with AFP at his home in Tel Aviv on November 5, 2020. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

‘Suddenly, we see more’: Top writer Keret enjoys pandemic-fueled creative surge

By Delphine Matthieussent

From left: Jack Antonoff, Doja Cat and the Haim Sisters. (Photo design by Emily Burack/Getty Images via JTA)

Sisters lead the way2021 Grammy Awards: All the Jewish nominees

By Emily Burack

Ahmadreza Djalali, left, and his family. (Screen capture via YouTube/Amnesty International)

Sweden urges Iran not to execute researcher convicted of spying for Israel

By AFP

Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who also was involved in Jewish outreach, was killed near his Washington, DC, home on July 10, 2016. (Facebook via JTA)

Parents of murdered Jewish DNC staffer settle with Fox News over false claims

King Abdullah II of Jordan, right, meets with US Vice President Joe Biden, at the Husseiniya Palace in Amman, Jordan, March 10, 2016. (AP/Raad Adayleh)

Biden tells Jordan’s king he is eager to ‘support a two-state solution’

The university library at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, March 14, 2012. (Carlos Osorio/AP)

Michigan professor put on leave over racist slurs, blaming Jews for COVID-19

By AP

Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority (Courtesy)

InterviewIsrael innovation chief says work-from-home could challenge tech ecosystem

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am party holds a press conference after a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Arab MK under fire from his party for urging cooperation with Netanyahu

The Sufgayeta Paleta, a new flavor in the all-natural popsicles created by Nomi Zysblat, just in time for Chanukah 2020 (Courtesy Nomi Zysblat)

Stick aroundIntroducing the Sufganyeta, the jelly doughnut popsicle

By Jessica Steinberg

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