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What Matters Most On Friday, November 27, 2020

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Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an undated photo. (courtesy)

Head of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is assassinated near Tehran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s car bombed and shot at; adviser to Khamenei blames ‘Zionists,’ vows to ‘descend like lightning on killers’; scientist had been called ‘father of Iranian bomb’

People attend the "Free Iran 2018 - the Alternative" event on June 30, 2018 in Villepinte, north of Paris during the Iranian resistance national council (NCRI) annual meeting. (AFP/Zakaria Abdelkafi)

Iranian diplomat goes on trial in Belgium for plot to bomb opposition rally

By Matthieu Demeestere

Saeid Moradi (C), an Iranian suspected of involvement in the February 2012 bomb blasts in Bangkok, and fellow suspect Mohammad Khazaei (2nd-R) appear at a court in Bangkok, August 22, 2013. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP)

Israeli ex-envoy fumes over Thailand’s release of Iranians jailed for bomb plot

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A First Temple-era gold bead discovered in earth from the Temple Mount Sifting Project. (courtesy)

Archaeology

Gold bead, apparently lost on Temple Mount 3,000 years ago, found by 9-year-old

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A cheese platter made with Remilk's milk proteins (Courtesy)

'Relying on animals to make our food no longer sustainable'

Don’t have a cow: Israel’s Remilk serves up dairy products made without animals

By Shoshanna Solomon

Startup says it has pioneered milk proteins ‘chemically identical’ to those in cow-produced milk, for products with the same taste and texture, but no cholesterol or lactose

In this Sept. 27, 2017 photo, a new Amazon Echo is displayed during a program announcing several new Amazon products by the company, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Amazon says investigating anti-Semitic conspiracy theory responses from ‘Alexa’

Probe comes after British MPs express outrage when smart speaker mines partial quotations from websites, cites sources lacking credibility to produce false, anti-Semitic answers

ILLUSTRATIVE -- An image of 'Crypto,' the main character in the video game 'Destroy All Humans!,' appears above people playing video games at the THQ Nordic exhibit, Feb. 27, 2020, at the Pax East conference in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

EU anti-terror chief warns video games used to spread extremism, prepare attacks

By Anne-Laure MONDESERT

People shop at the Ayalon Mall in Ramat Gan after it reopened, November 27, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel media review

Let’s go shopping: What the press is saying on November 27

By Joshua Davidovich

As Israelis hit the malls, early elections may be on hold with Netanyahu doing some browsing of his own for the best deals among partners and rivals, who may not survive the sales

People shop at the Ayalon Mall in Ramat Gan after it reopened, November 27, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israelis flood reopened malls as task force warns of clear rise in virus cases

An Israeli laboratory worker conducts serological tests for coronavirus at the Leumit Health Care Services laboratory in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

New virus czar announces antibody testing program to grant ‘green passports’

Reuven’s gift

The time in the Bible when the fertility charm worked because it wasn’t used (Vayetzei)

Thanksgiving and Black Friday: A dreadful combination!

It almost goes without saying: the first day makes us appreciate what we have, and the next inflames our discontent by pushing us to want what we do not yet have

Celebrating Thanksgiving alone during a pandemic

Of course, we need to be thankful, but during the worst public crisis of our generation, I am giving myself permission to wallow in a little self-pity

What the Middle East can expect from President Biden

The US is likely to re-engage with the Palestinians, take on human rights in the Arab world, and return to the Iran nuclear deal

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, speaks to his father, King Salman, at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, December 9, 2018. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

‘Until King Salman has gone,’ no progress on Israel-Saudi normalization – report

Source tells Israeli TV that cooperation against Iran will increase, but monarch at odds with the crown prince on public ties with Jewish state

President Reuven Rivlin, right, meets with a delegation from the King Hamad Global Center for Peaceful Coexistence, led by Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 26, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin hosts delegation from Bahrain led by member of royal family

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki at a press conference on September 22, 2020. (WAFA)

PA says it conveyed to Biden administration interest in return to peace talks

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki says Ramallah is in indirect contact with incoming Biden team, expresses cautious optimism about US president-elect

Jordanians carry a model of the Dome of the Rock mosque during a demonstration in Amman against new Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount on July 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Jordan warns against changing status of Temple Mt., after Netanyahu’s Saudi trip

Former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, leader of the Umma political party, speaks during a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudan’s former PM Sadiq al-Mahdi, staunch opponent of Israel ties, dies of virus

By AP

A game set of Dreidel Revolution. (Courtesy)

Give it a whirl

Up your Hanukkah game with this new spin on dreidel

By Yaakov Schwartz

MK Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am faction meets with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019, as Rivlin begins consulting political leaders to decide who to task with trying to form a new government after the results of the general election were announced. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Pragmatism or Palestine nationalism? Arab MK forces a choice on his colleagues

The Joint List could dissolve over Mansour Abbas’s willingness to cooperate with the Israeli right. And it’s far from certain that Abbas will be the one Arab voters abandon

Nazareth mayor Ali Salam appears at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, January 30, 2014. (Flash90)

Nazareth mayor announces plan to establish joint Arab-Jewish political party

Benny Gantz, center, and Benjamin Netanyahu, right, at the Knesset on November 10, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset spokesperson)

Blue and White minister: ‘Good chance’ we’ll vote to dissolve Knesset next week

Illustrative: A grandmother passes chocolate to her grandson while keeping distance to reduce COVID-19 risk (kzenon via iStock by Getty Images)

Until vaccine, make 55-plus live separately to save lives, Israeli research says

By Nathan Jeffay

Haifa University study argues that segregating society according to age can prevent COVID deaths, avoid lockdown and get the elderly safely socializing

Medical personnel wearing protective equipment cover the body of a man who died from COVID-19, in the intensive care ward for coronavirus patients at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, November 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Hospital heads said to unanimously agree Israel heading to 3rd wave of virus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visit the Teva Pharmaceuticals logistics center in Shoham, where coronavirus vaccines would be stored in freezers and then distributed, November 26, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Netanyahu says end of virus crisis in sight; tours vaccine freezer storage site

An Israeli tourist shows his passport after he lands in Dubai on the inaugural commercial Flydubai flight from Ben Gurion Airport to Dubai, November 26, 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 12)

200 Israelis land in UAE as flydubai plane returns after inaugural Israel flight

‘A dream come true,’ says one passenger on landing in Dubai; the UAE state-owned budget airline has launched twice-daily Dubai-Tel Aviv flights

DP World and Israeli Agrexco officials at the Fresh Market in Dubai, Nov. 2020 (DP World)

UAE-Israel tourismUAE welcomes Israeli tourists, but can they follow its authoritarian rules?

Elissar Zakaria Khoury, known popularly by her stage name Elissa, in an interview with MTV Lebanon, November 12, 2020. (Screengrab: Memri TV)

Lebanese singer: Border talks prove it’s a lie by officials that Israel is enemy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Haredi Jews from the Hasidic sect of Shomrei Emunim attend the funeral of Rabbi Refael Aharon Roth, 72, who died from the coronavirus, in Bnei Brak, Israel, August 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Analysis

For some ultra-Orthodox Jews, virus forges path to a very different lifestyle

Non-profit Hillel, which helps haredim seeking different life, is usually contacted by around 350 youngsters annually, mostly aged 19-25, but requests doubled as pandemic took hold

Ultra Orthodox Jews praying in the town of Bnei Brak on October 14, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Poll: Most ultra-Orthodox not confident in Netanyahu’s handling of pandemic

Art collector Steeve Nassima and former Tel Aviv Museum of Art director and curator Suzanne Landau prior to the opening of Nassima-Landau, a new Tel Aviv art space that opened November 24, 2020 (Courtesy Meir Cohen)

New TLV art space aims to elevate Israeli art aesthetic

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Flooded streets in the northern city of Nahariya on November 26, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Wettest November since 1994 causes flooding, damage in coastal cities

Barry and Honey Sherman pose for a photo in Toronto, Canada, October 15, 2017. (United Jewish Appeal Federation - Greater Toronto/ Canadian Press via AP)

Canada police identify person of interest in deaths of billionaire Jewish couple

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on January 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MONEY SHARMA)

Netanyahu participates in renewable energy confab hosted by India

One of the plays being shown in Isra-Drama, a three-day showcase of Israeli theater, taking place online due to the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy Isra-Drama)

Live stageIsra-Drama, annual meetup for theater folk, goes live

By Jessica Steinberg

Pop singer Static (center), with music producer Jordi (left) at the recording of 'We Got This,' a song sung by 40 Israeli artists with all proceeds going hospitals and medical staffs fighting the coronavirus (YouTube screengrab)

Live Aid redux‘We Got This’ is rallying cry of new Static song for COVID-19

By Jessica Steinberg

Dan Rosenfield speaks at the World Jewish Relief annual dinner, February 1, 2018 (Screen grab/YouTube)

UK’s Johnson taps Jewish charity head as chief of staff after aide’s stormy exit

By AFP

The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

EU fines Teva for allegedly delaying rollout of cheap sleep disorder drug

By AFP

A policeman walking away from the damaged cockpit of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, with 259 people on board, December 22, 1988. (ROY LETKEY/AFP)

Posthumous appeal against Lockerbie bomber’s conviction ends; judges mull ruling

By AFP and ToI Staff

Michael Horowitz in an undated photo (Courtesy)

ObituaryMichael Horowitz, Israeli prosecutor of Nazi guard Demjanjuk, dies aged 69

By steven gutkin

Palestinian detainee Maher al-Akhras arrives at his home in the West Bank village of Seylat al-Dhahr, south of Jenin city, following his release by Israeli authorities on November 26, 2020. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian security prisoner freed by Israel after ending 103-day hunger-strike

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

Corbyn to start legal action as UK’s Labour denies him parliamentary membership

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Vladimir Spitalnikov on CCTV footage in his apartment after allegedly killing his wife. (Screengrab: Mako)

Beersheba man indicted for killing partner when she tried to end relationship

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