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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 6, 2020

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Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal al-Saudi speaking at the IISS Manama Dialogue, December 6, 2020 (screen shot IISS)

Ex-US envoy issues blistering assault at Bahrain conference

Saudi prince: Bully Israel steals land, puts Palestinians in concentration camps

By Raphael Ahren

Turki al-Faisal also says Israel ‘assassinates who it wants to,’ built ‘apartheid wall,’ and denies equal rights to its non-Jewish citizens; FM Ashkenazi slams false accusations

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, right, offers his condolences to Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz upon the death of on his brother Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, at Prince Sultan palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Saudi FM: Biden must consult Gulf states on rejoining Iran nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Author Roald Dahl in 1982, around the time his commentaries against Jews and Israel began to increase. (Public domain)

Roald Dahl’s family quietly apologizes for hurt caused by author’s anti-Semitism

Estate of celebrated writer issues statement of regret for ‘lasting and understandable hurt’ caused by ‘incomprehensible’ comments he made throughout his life

James Jeffrey, special representative for Syria Engagement and special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington on November 14, 2019 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Interview

Ex-Syria envoy felt Trump was unqualified. Now he’s sad to see administration go

James Jeffrey signed a 2016 letter warning Trump would put national security at risk, but after serving under him, longtime diplomat says president’s policies made the region safer

In this September 8, 2018 photo, Shahindokht Molaverdi, a top adviser to Iran’s president on human rights, gives an interview to The Associated Press at her office in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s ex-VP for women, accused of sharing classified info, gets jail sentence

By AFP

Illustrative: A US MH-60 Seahawk helicopter flies over Iranian Revolutionary Guard patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz, December 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Top Mideast US Navy official says ‘uneasy deterrence’ reached with Iran

Closer to 80 than 70, with a history of heart disease, I signed up for the trial

If science shows that the COVID-19 vaccine works, you should take it, for the medical team is fundamentally partnering with God to fix the world

God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts

An arson attack, allegedly by a Jew, on a landmark Jerusalem church highlights the need for meaningful interfaith encounters

A member of an Israeli tech delegation uses his phone in a video call during an evening meeting with Emirati counterparts, in Dubai on October 25, 2020. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

UAE reports rise in cyberattacks since normalization with Israel

Emirati cybersecurity czar says attacks targeting financial sector, but doesn’t elaborate on their nature or source

FM Ashkenazi addressing, via video conference, the IISS Manama Dialogue, December 6, 2020 (screen shot IISS)

FM Ashkenazi: Normalization with UAE, Bahrain an ‘opportunity’ for Palestinians

By AFP and ToI Staff

Start-Up Nation Central CEO Eugene Kandel, left, and Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence of the United Arab Emirates in a virtual conversation on December 2, 2020 (Courtesy)

UAE minister says joint ventures with Israel in AI sector are ‘undeniable need’

By Jake Epstein

People walking in Jerusalem's city center on December 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu threatens more restrictions as new data shows virus spread worsening

By Joshua Davidovich

Preliminary Health Ministry figures show over 4 percent of tests coming back positive; coronavirus cabinet meet ends without decision on closing shops or other possible moves

7:41 pm

Top IRGC general who sent troops to Syria dies of COVID-19
7:40 pm

Iran says satellite-controlled gun with AI took out scientist
7:17 pm

Likud lawmakers boycott judge appointments meeting, demand moratorium

President of Marseille's Jewish community Michel Cohen Tenoudji, left, in his office at the Great Synagogue with a local Muslim leader, October 21, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Interview

Work, history and dialogue keep Jews, Muslims happy together in sunny Marseille

By Yaakov Schwartz

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks to the media outside his home in Rosh Haayin, during a protest by Israelis from the culture and art industry demanding the restarting of performances amid the COVID-19 pandemic, on August 9, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

As elections loom, center-left must contend with its loyalty problem

Right-wing voters are famously faithful to their camp’s leader, giving Netanyahu room to maneuver, compromise, and live to fight another day

Defense Minister Benny Gantz arrives at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 2, 2020. (Alex Kolomiensky/Pool/AFP)

Gantz says he’s ‘done believing Netanyahu,’ insists he’s still best alternative

IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a Knesset committee meeting on August 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Eisenkot said to deny joint election run with Ya’alon: ‘Nothing has been agreed’

Israeli students wearing face masks return to school in Tel Aviv on December 6, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel media review

Tales of a 7th grade nothing: What the press is saying on December 6

By Joshua Davidovich

The last kids are finally allowed back in school, where they’ll perfect their dodgeball and decoupage skills, as a mall battle brews and the center-left gets lost in the rough

Students return to school in Tel aviv on December 6, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel’s school system now open for all students as another lockdown looms

Israelis shop at IKEA after the Swedish furniture chain reopen in defiance of the Health Ministry, on December 6, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

City inspectors clear out IKEA customers as stores defy restrictions and reopen

Anar Ottolenghi receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, November 1, 2020 (Courtesy)

Citing logistics know-how, IDF offers to aid distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

By Judah Ari Gross

Military’s coronavirus task force finds half of cases coming from schools, says people starting to be more honest about their interactions and aiding contact tracers

Israelis at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on December 2, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tel Aviv, Eilat downgraded to ‘yellow’ cities as infection rates rise

Israelis at a street party on Levinsky Street in South Tel Aviv held in apparent violation of coronavirus restrictions, December 4, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Party like it’s 2019: Maskless revelers in Tel Aviv shun social distancing rules

Dror Soffer (Courtesy)

Protester, 82, killed by car at rally is father of Facebook Israel’s CEO

Family members say Dror Soffer would attend protest against Netanyahu weekly; police say his death was an accident

Protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Banish the darkness’: Clashes, arrests as thousands protest PM in Jerusalem

An Israel Hayom headline on election day, March 17, 2015 quotes Benjamin Netanyahu on the people's imperative to choose: 'Right -- or left' (screenshot)

130 calls in 2 years: PM’s phone logs show close ties with Israel Hayom paper

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A Russian medical worker, right, administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia begins vaccinating high-risk workers; world set to follow

A picture taken on December 5, 2020, shows the Christmas tree after a lighting ceremony in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the West Bank, closed to the public due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Photo essayAmid pandemic, Christmas tree-lighting in Bethlehem is a muted, virtual event

Jed Leiber shows photos of his grandfather Saemy Rosenberg's life, Dec. 3, 2020, at Leiber's home in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

US Supreme Court to decide whether disputed Nazi art case stays in America

By Jessica Gresko

Illustrative: An Israeli military jeep patrols along the Jordanian border, May 6, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Unarmed soldiers sent to stop suspected intrusion on Jordanian border

In this Sept. 16, 2009 file photo, actor David Lander arrives at The National Multiple Sclerosis Society's 35th Annual Dinner of Champions in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

David Lander, ‘Squiggy’ on ‘Laverne & Shirley,’ dies at 73

By AP

UNIFIL peacekeepers patrol near the village of Mais el Jabal, along the southern Lebanese border with Israel, August 26, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Mob in southern Lebanon seizes equipment from UN peacekeepers

By AFP

A group of men from the Israeli Arab town of Kafr Qasim pretending to be a delegation from the United Arab Emirates visiting Tel Aviv, December 4, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Not the wheel dealArab Israeli pranksters fool Tel Aviv with fake Emirati delegation

A rendering of JNF-USA's planned "World Zionist Village" in the southern city of Beersheba. (Jewish National Fund-USA)

Jewish National Fund to build ‘World Zionist Village’ in Beersheba

A screenshot from video aired by Hezbollah's al-Manar television channel on December 4, 2020 allegedly shows an Israeli military base, as seen from a drone the Lebanese terror group claimed it flew into Israel undetected. (screenshot)

Hezbollah claims to fly drone into Israel undetected, film border bases

A police officer is seen next to a flooded portion of Route 90 in southern Israel, on December 5, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Weekend rainfall causes flash floods in southern Israel, dozens said rescued

Israeli tycoon Beny Steinmetz seen at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, August 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Israeli diamond tycoon will attend Guinea graft trial in Geneva, says lawyer

By ToI Staff and AP

Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed flashes a victory sign during an extradition hearing at the Oslo District Court on September 25, 2020. (Terje Bendiksby/NTB/AFP)

France charges suspect in deadly 1982 terror attack on Paris Jewish restaurant

By AFP

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