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What Matters Most On Friday, December 11, 2020

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(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and Moroccan King Mohammed VI (Abir Sultan, Evan Vucci and Moroccan Royal Palace/AP)

King: 'Special ties' with Jews; PM: 'Bright light of peace'

‘Historic’: Israel, Morocco agree on diplomatic ties ‘as soon as possible’

By Jacob Magid and AP

US move to recognize Rabat’s claim over Western Sahara paves way for fourth in series of Trump-brokered normalization accords, will include liaison offices and direct flights

Israel media reviewDown the Rabat hole: What the press is saying on December 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Gantz, Ashkenazi learned of Morocco talks from White House, not Netanyahu

Netanyahu said set to speak with Moroccan king Friday on normalization deal

By TOI staff and Agencies

Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu celebrating the Mimouna, a traditional Jewish-Moroccan holiday that follows the end of passover (Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90)

Analysis

A rich Jewish past, and present: Why Israel’s deal with Morocco is so resonant

Unlike other longtime and fresh peace partners of Israel, Morocco has an ongoing connection to the Jewish people, and many Israelis will be rushing for a direct flight ‘home’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US Ambassador David Friedman at the Western Wall on December 10, 2020, the first night of Hanukkah. Netanyahu hailed the "light" of US President Donald Trump's announcement that Morocco and Israel are to establish full relations, issued hours earlier. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

‘This will be a very warm peace’: Netanyahu hails Israel’s new ties with Morocco

By Raphael Ahren

Members of the Ivgy family celebrate the Jewish Moroccan celebration of Mimouna, in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, April 15, 2020. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

‘We’ve waited so long for today’: Moroccan Israelis fete normalization agreement

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks during a press conference at Airport City, outside Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2020. (Flash90)

Edelstein hails ‘huge’ vaccine news from FDA, as nearly 1,900 more cases found

Infections continue to trend upwards while Israel prepares for major inoculation project later this month

A phial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Belfast, December 8, 2020. (Liam McBurney/Pool via AP)

US advisory panel endorses widespread use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine

By AP and TOI staff

An Israeli nurse shows the media a simulated vaccination as part of the hospital's preparation for the coronavirus vaccinations, at the Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, December 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel said considering restrictions on those who refuse COVID vaccine

Lauren Silverman

When my marriage ended, my Jewish journey began

Turning inward, I found cavernous spaces where my identity once lived and discovered I was one of Herman Wouk’s ’Uncertain’ Jews

Ilana Goldstein Saks

‘His father wept for him’

Jacob jumps to the obvious conclusion when he sees his son’s bloody coat, but what if he’d entertained the possibility that Joseph was yet alive? (Vayeshev)

On same-sex couples in the Orthodox Jewish community

’It is not good for a person to be alone’ – regardless of their sexuality. On coming out, finding a partner, tying the knot, and having children

In this photo released Thursday Sept.23, 2010 by the Royal Palace, Morocco's King Mohammed VI, right, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, Wednesday Sept. 22, 2010 in New York, during the the Millennium Development Goals at UN headquarters. (AP/Royal Palace/HO/Maroccan Royal Palace)

PA silent as Hamas, Islamic Jihad condemn Morocco-Israel ties as ‘betrayal’

By Aaron Boxerman

Gaza’s terrorist rulers slam ‘odious’ normalization as ‘political sin’; King Mohammed calls Palestinian Authority’s Abbas to assure him of Moroccan support for Palestinian cause

UN position on Moroccan sovereignty over Sahara ‘unchanged’ by US recognition

By AFP

Independence movement pans US recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara

By AFP

Disputed Western Sahara in the spotlight after US-brokered Israel-Morocco deal

By AP

In this photo provided by the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), Moroccan King Mohammed VI, center, chats with Jared Kushner, Senior Adviser to President Donald Trump, left, as Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, right looks on before an Iftar meal, the evening meal when Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset, at the King Royal residence in Sale, Morocco, May 28, 2019. (Moroccan Royal Palace, via AP)

Rabat’s just reward? US said mulling investing $3 billion after Israel deal

Report says International Development Finance Corporation mulling huge expenditure in country’s banks and hotels, with US official denying it’s linked to normalization pact

King Hassan II of Morocco, right, confers with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, second from left, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, left , at the Skhirat Royal Palace in Rabat., Morocco, September 14, 1993. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

A look at Israel’s decades-long covert intelligence ties with Morocco

An MQ-9 drone. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Morocco said set to buy advanced drones from US following normalization news

The scene of a fatal crash that killed two children on Route 1, December 11, 2020 (Ynet video screenshot)

Brothers, 5 and 7, killed when car slams into truck on Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road

Victims identified as Yedidya and Elyashiv Jungreis from Beit El, brother with them in car seriously injured; reports indicate vehicle struck truck as it stood parked on roadside

Women celebrate Rosh Chodesh el Banat in Jerusalem, December 2019. (Aliza Lavie/ via JTA)

Analysis

Israelis want to bring back North African Jewry’s feminist Hanukkah tradition

Rosh Chodesh el Benat, or ‘head of the month of daughters,’ falls on the 1st day of the Hebrew month of Tevet and celebrates daughters with lavish parties and gifts

US Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt, center, joined by, from left, Rabbi Abraham Shemtov and Rabbi Levi Shemtov, light the National Hanukkah Menorah on The Ellipse, December 10, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump, Biden and Harris’s Jewish husband wish American Jews a Happy Hanukkah

Lunch with Galileat in the Arab village of Dir Hanna, during the Western Galilee Winter Festival, December 17-19, 2020 Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Eat your way through the kitchens and forests of the Western Galilee

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: People wait to board a train in Brussels to the Belgian coastal resort of Blankenberge, Belgium on August 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Sylvain Plazy)

4 men threaten to blow up Belgian train unless ‘cancer Jews’ get off

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Police launch search for the suspects, who issued the threat after taking over the train’s public address system

Fighters with Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, wave Iraqi flags while mourners and family members prepare to bury the body of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq, during his funeral procession in Najaf, Iraq, January 8, 2020. (Anmar Khalil/AP)

Fears Iran-backed militias in Iraq readying attack to avenge nuke chief – report

By TOI staff and AP

Armed groups said making unspecified ‘preparations’ as tensions in region rise following killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and ahead of anniversary of Soleimani killing

A B-52 heavy bomber, flanked by fighter jets, flies to the Middle East in a tacit threat to Iran on November 21, 2020. (US Air Force/Facebook)

US flies massive bombers in Mideast, again, in message to Iran

By Lolita C. Baldor

A flyer during a protest outside the Iranian embassy in Brussels for Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian academic detained in Tehran for nearly a year and reportedly sentenced to death for espionage, February 13, 2017. (Photo by DIRK WAEM / Belga / AFP)

West faces dilemma over foreigners jailed by Iran in ‘hostage diplomacy’

By Stuart Williams

Emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the site of a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Analysis

Efforts by NY Jews to unify and fight violent anti-Semitism undone by pandemic

Funding cuts, stemmed momentum, and split on virus policies mean community no longer prepared for likely resurgence of now-dormant attacks once life returns to normal, leaders say

Analysis

How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall, decades after Holocaust

In 2015, the 132-year-old venue revived an annual concert 70 years after the Nazis decimated Dutch Jewry, uniting the small community from Orthodox to unaffiliated

Rabbi Shayna Golkow and Ben Zauzmer created VirtualDreidel.com to add a competitive option during the pandemic. (Courtesy Golkow and Zauzmer/ via JTA)

You've got dreidelA game for the times: Virtual Dreidel lets you spin with distant friends

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Hanukkah Goblins is based on Eric Kimmel’s classic children’s book 'Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins.' (Art/Kali Hayes, KH Illustration/ via JTA)

Holiday spiritNew game lets you play Hanukkah goblins and shoot jelly doughnuts

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Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane lands at at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Social distancing fiasco at airport as huge crowd gathers at passport control

Salim Ayyash (Courtesy)

UN court gives Hezbollah killer of Lebanon’s Hariri life in prison, in absentia

US President Donald Trump (L) talks to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) as they arrive for the NATO summit, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, July 11, 2018. (Tatyana ZENKOVICH/AFP)

US set to slap sanctions on Turkey over S-400 deal with Russia — report

By TOI staff and AP

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab speaks to the media outside the Beirut international airport, April 5, 2020. (Anway Amro/AFP)

Hezbollah slams Beirut port charges against Lebanese PM as ‘political targeting’

By Agencies and TOI staff

Beitar Jerusalem soccer supporters sing and wave their flag as players enter the pitch during a team training session in Jerusalem, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, days after the club announced that an Emirati sheikh has purchased a 50% stake in the team (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Dueling rallies by backers, critics of Beitar Jerusalem’s sale to Emirati sheikh

Joseph Safra in 2002 (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Jewish banker Joseph Safra, Brazil’s richest person, dies at 82

By Marcus M. Gilban

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

High Court orders government to install Justice Ministry chief by end of month

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Screen capture from 1993 video showing US President Bill Clinton grabbing Ilana Kattan's hair to stop it from burning after noticing that it had caught fire on the menorah her class had just helped him light at the White House. (Clinton Presidential Library on YouTube via JTA)

A hairy situationWoman recalls Clinton saving her locks from Hanukkah candles

By PHILISSA CRAMER

In this photo released by the police department in Duesseldorf on Thursday December 10, 2020, showing Chief Detective Michael Dietz holding a painting from French artist Yves Tanguy. (Polizei Duesseldorf via AP)

One man's trashPrecious painting lost by Tel Aviv-bound man found in dumpster

By AP

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris speak on September 12, 2020, in Houston, Texas (Robyn Beck / AFP)

Biden and Harris named Time ‘Person of the Year’

By Peter HUTCHISON

Brig. Gen. (res.) Rachel Tevet-Wiesel, who was nominated to serve as the next military ombudsman on December 11, 2020. (Courtesy)

In first, female retired general tapped for next military ombudsman

By Judah Ari Gross

Former US national security adviser Susan Rice takes part in a discussion on global leadership at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, February 19, 2020. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

Biden taps Susan Rice to head White House Domestic Policy Council

By TOI staff and AP

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