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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 2, 2020

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Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (left) is seen with his back to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the Knesset approves a preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve parliament, December 2, 2020 (Danny Shem-Tov / Knesset spokesperson's office)

Knesset advances motion to disband, moving toward 4th elections in 2 years

By Michael Bachner

Opposition motion passes 61-54 after support from Blue and White, but must still pass three more readings before new national vote called

Israeli activists wearing masks of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, December 2, 2020. Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media reviewLooks like they blue it: What the press is saying on December 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a graduation ceremony for new Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim air base near Beersheba, June 25, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/Pool/AFP)

Op-Ed

Gantz claims Netanyahu duped the Israeli public. That’s not what happened at all

Now backing new elections, the Blue and White leader asserts ‘It’s not me Netanyahu duped; he duped all the citizens of Israel.’ His formulation is doubly inaccurate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Yossi Cohen at a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, October 15, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Why Mossad’s Yossi Cohen, shadow warrior against Iran, is PM’s chosen successor

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Spy chief widely seen behind killing of Iran’s nuclear weapons chief is a trusted Netanyahu loyalist, and his preferred choice to steer Israel through the coming regional chaos

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Elections are coming, but not so fast — despite Wednesday’s Knesset vote

Netanyahu wants to delay the 4th ballot in two years, the opposition wants to expedite it; the fight over timing is just beginning, and the pro-Netanyahu UTJ controls the clock

Blue and White chief Benny Gantz announces his party will vote to dissolve the Knesset, December 1, 2020. (Elad Malka/Blue and White)

Gantz says party will vote to dissolve Knesset, setting stage for new elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Then-Blue and White party leaders Benny Gantz, right, and Yair Lapid at a faction meeting at the opening of the 22nd Knesset, in Jerusalem on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lapid praises ex-partner Gantz for vowing to back bill to dissolve Knesset

FILE: Palestinians take part in a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, on April 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Israel transfers billions to Ramallah, does not deduct for terror stipends

By Aaron Boxerman

Israel hands over full NIS 3.7 billion in tax revenues it collects on Palestinians’ behalf, despite law requiring withholding amount PA pays security detainees and families

Avidan Freedman

They can’t send us to elections if we refuse to go

With a million unemployed and many more struggling, an election now would be criminally wasteful — and likely return us, battered, to the same deadlock. We need a new way

Hannah Senesh’s last note

The parachuting hero was always writing, even after embarking on the mission from which she never returned, even until her final moments in her prison cell

A medic in a protective suit and mask holds an injection syringe and vaccine. (oshcherban via iStock by Getty Images)

Interview

Expert: 6 vaccine hurdles mean we’re ‘nowhere near’ Israel-wide immunity in 2021

Top epidemiologist says that with inoculations wowing in trials, ‘there’s light at the end of the tunnel — we just don’t know the length of the tunnel’

The first patient enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, May 4, 2020. (Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP, File)

UK becomes 1st country to approve Pfizer vaccine, to be available from next week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to the press on December 2, 2020. (screen capture: Channel 12)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Israel doesn’t need elections, Gantz must ‘slam on the brakes’

Prime minister says it’s not too late to avert early vote; says government must focus on pandemic, not politics

7:20 pm

Lapid skewers Netanyahu over 'record-breaking cynicism'
7:16 pm

Months after recovery, man dies from COVID in possible case of reinfection
6:59 pm

948 new virus cases diagnosed since midnight

Amit Re’em, Jerusalem District Archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, directs archaeologists at the Tower of David Museum. (IAA)

Times of Israel Podcast

LISTEN: Medieval poop chute exposed in renovations at Jerusalem’s Tower of David

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Biden: US will rejoin Iran nuclear deal if Tehran returns to strict compliance

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President-elect says Iran’s terror proxies must be curbed, raises concern of Mideast nuclear arms race; Rouhani rejects his parliament’s ‘harmful’ bill to boost uranium enrichment

Iran’s Rouhani calls bill to boost uranium enrichment ‘harmful’ to diplomacy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Saudi Arabia blasts Iran for accusation it played part in killing of nuke chief

By AFP

Iran denies senior Revolutionary Guards commander killed in drone strike

Healthcare workers take samples from Israelis at a mobile coronavirus testing station in the central city of Lod, on December 1, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

‘This is an emergency’: Top health official warns Israel is at start of 3rd wave

Sharon Alroy-Preis says rising coronavirus infections expected to climb further with easing of restrictions; Health Ministry chief pushes back, says situation not yet urgent

Health care workers take samples at a mobile testing station, in Lod, on December 1, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Active virus cases in Israel pass 11,000 for first time in over a month

Sufganiyot on sale at Gagou de Paris bakery in downtown Jerusalem, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, on November 26, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Deputy health minister says Hanukkah curfew possible to battle rising infections

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

Iranian-Swedish academic will likely be executed by Iran on Wednesday, wife says

Ahmadreza Djalali, accused of spying for Israel, ‘at imminent risk of execution,’ rights group says, as his spouse pleads for international intervention

Screen capture from Iranian state television video, November 25, 2020, showing British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert in Tehran, Iran. (Iranian State Television via AP)

Iranian media claims newly freed Australian-British academic was Israeli agent

A woman walks by a billboard honoring nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the Iranian capital Tehran, on November 30, 2020. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

UN Security Council said disinclined to act over death of Iranian nuke scientist

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi greets Bahraini Industry, Commerce and Tourism Minister Zayed R. Alzayani in Jerusalem on December 2, 2020 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

In Israel, Bahraini minister says peace deal a ‘case study for others to follow’

By Raphael Ahren

Zayed Alzayani says his country eager for direct flights to Tel Aviv; Netanyahu says normalization promises economic benefits ‘unimaginable just a few months ago’

Netanyahu congratulates ‘our new friends’ in the UAE on their National Day

By Raphael Ahren

Officials may declare UAE a ‘red’ zone as flights with Israel begin: report

After flying over Saudi Arabia, 1st Israeli commercial flight lands in Dubai

The Gaudi processor developed by Habana Labs (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli tech gives Intel breakthrough in market dominated by competitor

By Shoshanna Solomon

Amazon Web Services will start using processors developed by Israel-based Habana Labs, acquired by Intel; deal ‘makes a crack’ in cloud training market controlled by Nvidia

A computer using Aidoc's technology reports findings on a CT scan (courtesy of Aidoc)

6 biggest Israeli hospitals use Aidoc software to read CT scans, firm announces

By Shoshanna Solomon

From left, Tiffany Trump, Lara Trump and Eric Trump, senior adviser Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, and Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr., watch as US President Donald Trump speaks at his re-election kickoff rally at the Amway Center, June 18, 2019, in Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump mulling pardons for 3 eldest kids, Kushner, Giuliani and himself – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Most experts believe a self-pardon would be unconstitutional but preemptive pardons not unheard-of; US president’s lawyer denies talks took place on the issue

US Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable discussion on Operation Legend, a federal program to help cities combat violent crime, in St. Louis, October 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Disputing Trump, US attorney general says no widespread election fraud

By MICHAEL BALSAMO

A view of the White House in Washington, Nov. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US probing potential bribery, lobbying scheme for White House pardon

More Headlines

The scene of a suspected hit-and-run by a bus near Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, December 2, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Palestinian bus hits 7 Palestinian workers in Bethlehem, killing 2; driver flees

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a face mask in line with public health restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, stands inside the courtroom as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Court orders prosecution to give Netanyahu lawyers more files in graft cases

Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz (R) and party member Tamar Zandberg at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Left-wing Meretz said to reject becoming Jewish-Arab party

A man holds a poster with Arabic that reads, 'We will not give up, we will not sell out, we will not agree on normalization,' as others chant slogans to protest Sudanese President of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan's contentious decision to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a move toward normalizing relations, in Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Israel-Sudan normalization at risk over US terror lawsuits law — report

Screen capture from video of a car, center, as it hits anti-government protesters during a rally in Tel Aviv, October 1, 2020. (Twitter)

Case closed against driver suspected of ramming anti-Netanyahu protesters

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

Nathan Englander (Joshua Meier)

I spy‘Homeland’ creators adapt Israel-set Englander novel into TV show

By Curt Schleier

Hans Zimmer at the European premiere of "The Lion King" in London, July 14, 2019. (David M. Benett/Wire Image/Getty Images)

Miracle maestroIsrael Philharmonic streaming Hans Zimmer pre-Hanukkah event

By Gabe Friedman

Police investigate a shooting in the northern town of Reineh, December 2, 2020 (Israel Police)

Man shoots dead 73-year-old mother, brother; 2nd brother in serious condition

Rescuers push an injured person into an ambulance after a car drove into pedestrians in Trier, southwestern Germany, on December 1, 2020.
(Sebastian Schmitz/AFP/lokalo.de)

Baby among five killed as car runs down shoppers in Germany

By Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN

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