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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 1, 2020

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File: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, welcomes Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi, for a meeting in Tehran, Iran, August 26, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran MPs advance bill to stop UN nuclear inspections, step up enrichment

By AP and ToI Staff

Proposal, days after top nuclear scientist was assassinated, requires several more votes to become law; lawmakers chant ‘Death to Israel’ during session

Israeli missions told to beef up security amid fears of blowback after Iran hit

Iran accuses exiled dissident group of helping Israel kill top nuclear scientist

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander reported killed in drone strike

Ira Tolchin Immergluck, November 2020. (self portrait, courtesy)

First PersonWarning! Spoilers ahead

My own Queen’s Gambit, back in the USSR

By Ira Tolchin Immergluck

Netflix’s hit took me back to my childhood, playing competitive chess in Russia. But unlike the TV fairytale, girls don’t compete with world champions. They get shunted to piano…

Students of Iran's Basij paramilitary force burn posters depicting US President Donald Trump (top) and President-elect Joe Biden, during a rally in front of the foreign ministry in Tehran, on November 28, 2020, to protest the killing of prominent nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh a day earlier near the capital. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Analysis

Killing scientist batters, but doesn’t shatter, Biden plans to reenter nuke deal

Fakhrizadeh assassination adds to Tehran’s growing list of grievances and could prompt it to retaliate; still, it doesn’t diminish Iran’s desire to return to a sanction-ending deal

US President-elect Joe Biden, joined by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, speaks at The Queen theater, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden starts receiving top secret President’s Daily Brief

By Deb Riechmann and Zeke Miller

Supporters of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah salute as they stand behind motorcycles carrying the Shiite movement's flags in the southern Lebanese district of Marjayoun on the border with Israel, May 25, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Slovenia declares all of Hezbollah a ‘criminal and terrorist organization’

By Raphael Ahren

People wearing a face mask walk in the Jerusalem city center on November 29, 2020, as Israel steps out of its coronavirus lockdown and rolls back restrictions. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel sees 1,227 new virus cases in day, highest since mid-October

Total active infections also at highest point in more than a month; deputy health minister predicts number will rise further

(Some) museums to reopen Tuesday in post-lockdown pilot

By Jessica Steinberg

Ministers rein in mall crowding as active virus cases hit highest level in month

‘Bethlehem is dead’: Pandemic robs West Bank city of Christmas cheer

By AP

Yahya Sinwar, the top Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, May 1, 2017. (Adel Hana/AP)

Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, tests positive for COVID-19

By Aaron Boxerman

Terror chief’s diagnosis comes amid massive spike in cases in Strip, with 9,627 active coronavirus infections recorded Tuesday; 32% of tests come back positive

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

Video appears to show Palestinian shot dead after alleged ramming incident ended

By Aaron Boxerman

A suspected balloon-borne explosive device apparently launched from the Gaza Strip found in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, December 1, 2020. (Hof Ashkelon Regional Council)

Suspected balloon-borne explosive found in southern Israel near Gaza

By Alexander Fulbright

Charles Bronfman and Irina Nevzlin

We’ve established a new alliance for the Jewish people

OPINION: ‘Enter,’ our new initiative, aims to ensure that Jews in Israel and the Diaspora continue as a dynamic, diverse, global community that is united, secure, and inclusive

Michael Laitman

The fountain of eternal youth? No thanks

People age; it happens naturally. The question is whether we as a society understand how much we need senior citizens

November 29, 2020, the day the Labor Party died

The party must ditch its current chairman who is leading it into oblivion and find a new chair who will be able to bring center-left voters back home

Kenneth Jacobson

Stoking Palestinian delusions of a zero-sum victory

’67 made clear that pragmatic compromise was the best option. Instead, so-called friends like the UN have fanned false hopes of defeating Israel

Vials of a potential coronavirus vaccine are seen on an assembly line in a photograph released by Israel's Institute for Biological Research on October 25, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine being delayed by red tape, bio institute head laments

Shmuel Shapira of Defense Ministry’s Institute for Biological Research says shot will only be publicly available in summer, admits ‘very minor’ side effects detected in 1st trials

Pfizer, BioNTech ask Europe to approve coronavirus vaccine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Self-employed, small business owners and activists participate in a rally calling for financial support from the government in Tel Aviv, May 2, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

OECD sees Israel economy grow 2.3% in 2021, below global average

By Shoshanna Solomon

Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz, right, and Yair Lapid, left, share a laugh during a faction meeting at the Knesset on October 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Lapid praises ex-partner Gantz, says Netanyahu cannot manage coronavirus crisis

By Joshua Davidovich

Opposition head urges creation of slim, stable government following early elections; whip accuses Blue and White of hitting ‘new low,’ following speech

7:33 pm

Head of US fight against Islamic State quits
7:28 pm

UAE coronavirus infection spike may dampen travel plans
7:06 pm

Lapid praises Gantz for decision to support Knesset break-up

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, during a visit at the coronavirus national enforcement administration in Tel Aviv, December 01, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

As coalition edges further toward collapse, Netanyahu pleads for ‘unity’

By Michael Bachner

But Likud minister says Gantz ‘unworthy’ of being PM; talks between coalition parties continue ahead of preliminary reading Wed. of bill dissolving Knesset, compromise unlikely

Economy Minister Amir Peretz in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor party will back vote for new elections, ending government ‘paralysis’

Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich in her office in Jerusalem, on November 26, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Blue and White MKs turn on party minister over her support for illegal outposts

By Stuart Winer

Counting ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, March 18, 2015. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel media review

If not now, when? What the press is saying on December 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Early elections are imminent with Gantz reportedly possibly almost ready to vote in favor of dissolving the Knesset, except maybe they’ll wait a while; ditto for lockdown No. 3

Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn seen at the Knesset, October 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister to seek confirmation of state prosecutor despite sexist remarks

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli Minister of Tourism Orit Farkash-Hacohen welcomes Bahraini delegation of key stakeholders in the tourism industry, led by Minister of Economy and Tourism Zayed bin Rashid Al Zayani, at Ben Gurion Airport on December 1, 2020 (Courtesy)

Second Bahraini minister in two weeks arrives in Israel to expand trade ties

By Raphael Ahren

During three-day visit, Manama’s Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Zayed R. Alzayani set to meet Netanyahu, Ashkenazi and three other cabinet members

Illustrative: An Israir flight taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, September 3, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Saudis okay Israeli use of airspace on way to UAE, hours before maiden flight

Members of Iranian forces pray around the coffin of slain nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during the burial ceremony at Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in northern Tehran, on November 30, 2020. (HAMED MALEKPOUR / TASNIM NEWS / AFP)

Bahrain joins Gulf allies in condemning killing of Iran nuclear scientist

By ToI Staff and Agencies

View of the northern Israeli town of Carmiel. March 2, 2016. (FLASH90)

‘Carmiel is a Jewish city,’ court tells Arab students seeking transportation

By Aaron Boxerman

Judge dismisses lawsuit for Arab-language school in city that has seen thousands of Arab citizens move in, citing controversial 2018 law that promotes protecting Jewish settlement

Children chat during a Black Pete event in Amsterdam, November 16, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

Amsterdam’s Jewish museum wades into Dutch blackface controversy in new exhibit

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

A square is blocked by the police in Trier, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 after a suspected vehicular homicide. (Harald Tittel/dpa via AP)

At least 2 killed after car rams pedestrians in German city

By AFP

Odelia Fitoussi at the UN headquarter in New York (courtesy Israeli Mission to the UN)

Israeli with muscular dystrophy elected to UN committee for disability rights

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Police during a raid in northern Germany, January 30, 2019. (Bodo Marks/dpa via AP)

Germany bans armed neo-Nazi group, seizes weapons

By AFP

Illustrative: Investigators work at a crime scene Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, in Lakewood, N.J.(AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Dead pig found outside home of New Jersey rabbi

A computer programmer hacking a secure system. (releon8211 via iStock)

Home hackIsraeli government spends millions to hack itself

NewRocket says it is developing a new generation of space engines (Courtesy)

Startup unveils ‘new generation’ rocket engines with ‘PowerGel’ fuel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of a doctor comforting a patient with Alzheimer's Disease. (Chinnapong, iStock by Getty Images)

In potential ‘gamechanger,’ blood test may accurately predict Alzheimer’s

By AFP

Illustrative. A hacker breaking into a computer. (gorodenkoff via iStockPhoto)

Hackers breach Israeli insurance company, steal client data

By Stuart Winer

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen appears for an interview with FOX Business Network in the Fox Washington bureau, in Washington, August 14, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Biden names Janet Yellen, former Fed chief, as Treasury secretary

Eliezer Rompler, of the Lev Tahor cult, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a court hearing on May 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hasidic cult member accused of child abuse flees Israel mid-trial

Then-Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel waves as he arrives at a news conference outside of the south air traffic control tower at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, April 22, 2019. (Kiichiro Sato/AP)

Biden weighs appointing Rahm Emanuel as transportation secretary

By AP and ToI Staff

Stephen P. Morgan, right, and his attorney Richard Brown, listen to judge Mary-Margaret Burgdorff in Middletown Superior Court in Middletown, Connecticut, May 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham, Pool, File)

US killer of Jewish college student sues state hospital where he’s confined

By AP

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