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What Matters Most On Monday, December 7, 2020

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Health Ministry said aiming to vaccinate 2 million Israelis in six-week drive

Officials ask HMOs to put together plan to administer jabs as soon as enough vaccines are available

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visit the Teva Pharmaceuticals' logistics center in Shoham, where coronavirus vaccines are set to be stored and distributed, November 26, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Health minister warns of 3rd lockdown amid grim projections, but no decision yet

Hospital medical staff wearing protective clothes move patients to a coronavirus ward at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

As restrictions loom, taskforce says daily COVID caseload has doubled in 2 weeks

Illustrative: An NHS pharmacy technician at the Royal Free Hospital, simulates the preparation of the Pfizer vaccine to support staff training ahead of the rollout, in London, December 4, 2020. (Yui Mok/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel to get first batch of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines on Thursday — reports

By Itamar Sharon

Some 100,000 doses said set to arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, alongside company representatives, as pilot for transit and storage of larger amounts

7:17 pm

Justice official says nation-state law should not be used to harm rights
7:15 pm

Coronavirus cabinet approves nighttime curfew starting this Wednesday
6:43 pm

First Pfizer coronavirus vaccines to arrive in Israel on Thursday -- reports

In this November 24, 2018, photo, Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Analysis

Good prince, bad prince: Why Israelis shouldn’t be shocked by Saudi royal’s rant

Turki bin Faisal often looked like the public face of Riyadh’s covert rapprochement with Jerusalem; then he launched a harangue against normalization

Jewish-Lithuanian partisan group The Avengers on their return to Vilna at the time of the Red Army's liberation of the city, July 1944. (Wiener Holocaust Library Collections)

On show

Modern Maccabees: UK exhibit highlights Jews’ overlooked resistance to the Nazis

By Robert Philpot

Bishara A. Bahbah

Palestinians don’t need Biden to make peace – they need courage

Enough of blaming the world: The PA must step up and ink a plan too compelling for the United States and Israel to ignore

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Seal of Respect: Because that Orthodox extremism isn’t going to fight itself

Calling all businesses, institutions, and publications that don’t erase women to unite and forge a counter market force against those that do

The road to Arab-Israeli peace should go through Muscat

If Israel truly wants to become an integrated part of the Middle East, it needs to look past obvious military alliances and reach beyond the Saudi orbit… to Oman

What does it mean to be pro-Israel?

When peace is the yardstick, the diplomatic breakthroughs and Trump initiatives fail the test of true friendship

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man covers his eyes with a face mask in Jerusalem, November 18, 2020. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Israel media review

Tightened this ain’t: What the press is saying on December 7

By Joshua Davidovich

The media reports on the government’s plans to close everything down, or some things down, or someone down. If they keep throwing out ideas, one of them will be correct eventually

Screen capture from video of Rochelle Walensky, chief of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital. (YouTube)

Biden to tap Jewish doctor as Centers for Disease Control chief

By AFP and TOI staff

In this Nov. 19, 2020, photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Rudy Giuliani hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19

By AAMER MADHANI

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech marking the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Reports of Khamenei’s death greatly exaggerated, Iranian official says

By TOI staff and AFP

Supreme leader is ‘in good health and is busy’ with his schedule, publisher tweets after London-based journalist claimed duties were transferred to Khamenei’s son

A woman walk by a billboard in honour of slain nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the Iranian capital Tehran, on November 30, 2020. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)

Gun that killed Iran’s nuke scientist used ‘artificial intelligence,’ IRGC says

By AFP and TOI staff

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

Europeans slam Iran plan to boost enrichment, warn it not to boot UN inspectors

By Agencies and TOI staff

An Israeli man walks past Emirati staff after passport control upon arrival from Tel Aviv to the Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates, on November 26, 2020. (Karim Sahib/AFP)

Hundreds of Israelis briefly denied entry to UAE after landing in Dubai

Passengers told issue due to change in visa regulations late Sunday; Israelis eventually allowed in after intervention by senior Foreign Ministry officials

Representatives from the Jerusalem-based Heritage Center for Middle East and North Africa Jewry and the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum in Dubai after signing an MOU on cooperation, December 6, 2020 (courtesy Heritage Center)

Dubai museum, Jerusalem heritage center ink ‘people-to-people’ partnership

By Raphael Ahren

A man reads a copy of UAE-based The National newspaper, with a headline about the UAE-Israel agreement and Israel's suspension of annexation moves, near the Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure and building in the world, in Dubai on August 14, 2020. (Photo by Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

Analysis10 years on from Arab Spring, Gulf monarchies fill Middle East power vacuum

By Aziz El Massassi

'I am Anne Frank' illustration by Christopher Eliopoulos

Author interview

‘I am Anne Frank’ demystifies hero to make Holocaust accessible to young readers

By Matt Lebovic

Illustrative image of bitcoins (Courtesy BitsofGold)

Hackers appear to begin selling data they stole from Shirbit insurance firm

After ransom deadline passes, account for group identifying as Black Shadow reportedly receives bitcoin payment of $104,000

From our blogsThe rise and upcoming fall of ransomware

View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Israel’s first fossil fuel-free stock index aims to put investors in the green

Environmental groups hope new index excluding oil and gas firms from TA-125 will help wean institutional investors off industries driving harmful climate change

Israeli produce marked as such in the supermarket chain Shufersal. December 2, 2020 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Stores start marking Israeli produce, as survey says buyers prefer locally grown

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyers, Boaz Ben Tzur (right) and Amit Hadad (second right), at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing on December 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial may face fresh delay as judges hint indictment must be revised

By Michael Bachner and TOI staff

Illustrative: Parliament members vote on a bill to dissolve the parliament, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 11, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Public sector wage cut left off cabinet agenda, delaying its approval

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Transportation Minister Miri Regev, who lowered her face mask to speak, during a press conference at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem on July 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Committee appoints 61 new judges, despite 3 coalition MKs boycotting meeting

By Michael Bachner

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) escorts his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sissi (C) out of the Elysee presidential Palace on December 7, 2020, in Paris, after a meeting as part of el-Sissi's three-day state visit to France. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

Egypt’s el-Sissi pays state visit to France, angering human rights activists

By AP

Haifa District Prosecutor Amit Aisman. (Justice Ministry)

Incoming state prosecutor apologizes for his sexist remarks, promises action

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, December 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope plans pilgrimage visit to Iraq area of Abraham’s birthplace

By Frances D'Emilio

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II visits the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, England, October 15, 2020. (Ben Stansall/ Pool via AP)

With world watching, Britain gets ready for mass coronavirus vaccinations

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, left, with Likud party member and Foreign Minister Israel Katz at the President's Residence in Jerusalem as President Reuven Rivlin hosts over 40 world leaders as part of the World Holocaust Forum, on January 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz, Katz meeting on budget, aimed to avert elections, ends without results

Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks escorts Prince Charles at his farewell dinner. (John Rifkin/ courtesy)

From our partnerPrince Charles leads Lord Sacks memorial: I’ll miss him more than words can say

From left, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, with Rabbi Abraham Shemtov and National Economic Director Gary Cohn, struggles in the wind to light the Menorah during the annual National Menorah Lighting, in celebration of Hanukkah, on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Jared Kushner’s DC rabbi offers spiritual home to both sides of political aisle

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