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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 5, 2020

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The Gush Etzion winery in the West Bank, July 18, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

In backtrack, Bahrain won’t import settlement and Golan goods as made in Israel

By TOI staff and Raphael Ahren

Bahrain foreign minister says he spoke with Palestinian counterpart and clarified position after trade minister said Manama wouldn’t make distinction

In this December 4, 2020 file photo, a general view of the Pfizer manufacturing plant in Puurs, Belgium. (AP/Olivier Matthys)

Bahrain becomes second country to grant approval for use of Pfizer vaccine

By Jon Gambrell

A combination image shows then-Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (L) during a press conference in the capital Riyadh on April 25, 2016; and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani (R) attending the 136th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Riyadh on December 10, 2015. (AFP/Fayez Nureldine)

Saudi Arabia says end to years-long boycott of Qatar is ‘in reach’

By Jon Gambrell

Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. (Agencies)

‘Israel has tape of slain Iran nuke chief talking about building five warheads’

Report says ex-PM Olmert played top-secret recording of Fakhrizadeh for President Bush in decisive 2008 meeting that boosted US-Israel cooperation against Iran’s nuclear program

Fakhrizadeh’s sons say he was shot 4-5 times, warned against travel before hit

Iran tells atomic watchdog it’s adding more centrifuges at underground site

By TOI staff and Agencies

Mossad expert, ex-spies outline planning, challenges of targeted killings

Jonathan Rothberg aboard his superyacht Gene Machine with his home coronavirus test, Detect. (Courtesy)

Interview

On land and sea, US presidential-honored scientist works toward home virus test

By Rich Tenorio

A statue of an anti-Netanyahu demonstrator outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem, December 4, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem removes statue of anti-Netanyahu protestor based on iconic image

Artist Itay Zalait arrested for trying to stop sculpture being taken by municipal workers, is later released; says a person who goes to protests ‘is no less than an Israeli hero’

In this Nov. 27, 2020, file photo, a metal structure sticks out from the ground on the Batca Doamnei hill, outside Piatra Neamt, northern Romania (Robert Iosub/ziarpiatraneamt.ro via AP, File)

Activists tear down mysterious California monolith, replace it with cross

Prisoners from Zion

Visitors ’down under’ face a shockingly strict 14-day quarantine. And then… blissful freedom and a safe, maskless visit with my elderly mum

Georgia on my mind

Given Raphael Warnock’s history of virulently anti-Israel rhetoric, why are Jewish Dems dressing this radical in moderate clothing?

In this July 16, 2009 photo Dr. Cyril Wecht pauses as he records notes during an autopsy in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Author interview

Celebrity US pathologist Cyril Wecht spills his guts in new tell-all memoir

By Hilary Daninhirsch

Palestinians attend the funeral of a 13-year-old Ali Abu Aliya who was reportedly shot dead by Israeli military forces during clashes with stone-throwing Palestinians, in the al-Mughayyir village near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Clashes at funeral of Palestinian youth said shot dead by Israeli forces

By AP and Aaron Boxerman

Family says 13-year-old killed Friday by gunfire at West Bank protest; UN envoy says Israel must investigate ‘unacceptable incident’; IDF says it ‘will be looked into’

Palestinian men assist an injured protester amid clashes with Israeli security forces following a demonstration against the expansion of settlements in the town of Salfit, in the West Bank, on December 4, 2020. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP)

Palestinians say boy, 13, shot and killed by IDF in West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman and TOI staff

The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform seminary and children's detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam via JTA)

Holocaust novel on Dutch rescue of hundreds of Jewish kids slammed for errors

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Critics say book depicting operation to smuggle children out of Amsterdam kindergarten during WWII twists historical record; publisher stands by author

The aftermath of anti-Semitic vandalism at the synagogue of Larissa, Greece, Dec. 3, 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Larissa via JTA)

‘Jesus Wins’ graffitied on Greece synagogue and Holocaust monument

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Gary Oldman plays Herman Mankiewicz in "Mank." (Screenshot/YouTube via JTA)

The real story of ‘Mank,’ the new film on Jewish screenwriter of ‘Citizen Kane’

By Gabe Friedman

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks about jobs at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden officially secures enough electoral votes to become president

By Michael R. Blood and Nicholas Riccardi

California certifies 55 electors for US president-elect, pushing him past 270 needed to enter White House, in new legal milestone for incoming administration

National Economic Council Director Jeff Zients, sitting next to Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz, speaks during the daily briefing in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington on February 9, 2016, to discuss President Barack Obama's fiscal 2017 federal budget. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Bagel czarBiden COVID adviser also owns DC ‘Jew-ish’ deli ‘Call Your Mother’

George W. Bush's representative, former Secretary of State James A. Baker, gestures during a press conference in Tallahassee, Florida, Nov. 22, 2000 (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)

ExplainerUnlike Giuliani, James Baker’s masterful strategies won a contested US election

By richard pildes

(L-R): Then-Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman-Tov during a press conference announcing the new health basket at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on January 3, 2019; former director-general of the Health Ministry Prof. Ronni Gamzu speaks at a Finance Committee meeting on February 11, 2014; outgoing housing minister Yifat Shasha Biton at a ceremony at the Housing Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Noam Revkin/Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Professionals Party’ of technocrats said poised for run in next election

But two of main candidates in yet-to-be formed faction flatly deny unsourced TV report, which claims party would take away seats from Bennett and be willing to sit with Netanyahu

Outgoing Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon meets with IDF Chief of General Staff Gadi Eisenkot in his Tel Aviv office on Sunday, May 22, 2016 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Ya’alon says planning on forming new party with ex-IDF chief Eisenkot as No. 2

Illustrative: Hundreds of mourners gather in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, to observe a funeral for Rabbi Chaim Mertz, a Hasidic Orthodox leader whose death was reportedly tied to the coronavirus. (Peter Gerber via AP)

US Orthodox Jews’ COVID revelation: Protecting religious rights takes a village

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Illustrative: A seismograph detects an earthquake (Petrovich9; iStock by Getty Images)

5.2 magnitude earthquake in western Turkey felt in Israel

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

2 more killings bring yearly violent death toll in Israel’s Arab sector to 101

Terror suspect Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed during the court hearing over a French extradition request at the Oslo District Court on September 25, 2020. (Terje Bendiksby/NTB/AFP)

Suspect in deadly 1982 attack on Paris kosher restaurant extradited from Norway

By AFP

The offices of Shirbit insurance company, December 4, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)

Hackers release more private documents as Israeli insurer refuses to pay ransom

Aftermath of a massive explosion is seen in in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. A Lebanese prosecutor filed charges Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 against current and former customs officials over the massive blast at Beirut’s port in August, including a former customs chief who was reportedly the point man for the militant Hezbollah group at the facility. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, file)

Hezbollah sues for defamation after being linked to Beirut port blast

By TOI staff and Agencies

Daveed Diggs arrives at the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Jan. 19, 2020, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Puppy loveDaveed Diggs releases ‘Puppy for Hanukkah’ song

A junior sniper, assigned to the 1-186th Infantry Battalion, Task Force Guardian, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, provides security for a 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (EAS) C-130J Super Hercules during unloading operations at an unidentified location in Somalia June 28, 2020 (Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano/Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa via AP)

After US troop cuts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump orders pullout from Somalia

By Robert Burns

Timnit Gebru speaks to Wharton Business Daily, January 31, 2020 (Screen grab/YouTube)

Prominent Google researcher says she was fired over work on AI bias

By Matt O'Brien

Illustrative: Iranian protesters gather around a burning car during a demonstration against an increase of gasoline prices, in the capital Tehran, November 16, 2019. (AFP)

Iran court to retry 3 sentenced to death over anti-government protests

By AFP

Medical professionals in full protective equipment work in in the critical care coronavirus unit, which was built in an underground parking garage at Sheba Medical center in Ramat Gan, September 30, 2020, amid a spike in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

From our partnerIsraeli medics fly to northern Italy to help battle virus surge

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