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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 12, 2020

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A Moroccan Jewish woman (R) fills bags with pastries to serve customers at the kosher bakery 'Madame Fhal' in the western Moroccan port city of Casablanca, on December 11, 2020. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

'It was a kind of forbidden love; now it's formalized'

‘Our whole community is in joy’: Morocco’s Jews toast normalization with Israel

By Kaouthar Oudrhiri

Moroccan Jews, and Muslims, celebrate agreement that provides for full ties, including liaison offices and direct flights

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meets with US presidential adviser Jared Kushner in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 1, 2020. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi Arabia said to have played role in Israel-Morocco normalization agreement

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a press conference in Moscow, Russia, on August 3, 2012. (AP/Misha Japaridze)

Iran: Morocco deal with Israel betrays Palestinians; Oman: It could boost peace

An Israeli nurse seen during a simulated vaccination against the COVID-19 virus, at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After FDA approval, virus czar urges all Israelis to get COVID vaccine

Nachman Ash says immunization ‘is our chance to get out of this pandemic’; daily infection numbers at over 1,800 for third consecutive day

Palestinian security forces block the main northern entrance to enforce curfew amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the West Bank town of Hebron, on December 11, 2020 (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Palestinian Authority expects 4 million doses of Russian vaccine in coming weeks

By Aaron Boxerman

A nurse prepares a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London, UK, December 8, 2020. (Frank Augstein/AP)

US approves emergency use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in bid to end pandemic

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A US military MQ-9B Reaper drone at a US Army testing site, Yuma, Arizona, on November 7, 2019. (US Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Colton Brownlee)

White House notifies Congress of planned $1b weapons sale to Morocco

Potential deal includes four MQ-9B drones, precision-guided munitions, Reuters reports; notice comes day after US-brokered normalization deal between Jerusalem, Rabat

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., hugs US President Donald Trump as he arrives at Tulsa International Airport on June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Okla. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Report: Trump spat with top Republican created opening for Israel-Morocco deal

Pro-independence Polisario Front rebel soldiers pray in the Western Sahara village of Tifariti as they commemorate the 35th anniversary of the RASD (Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic), Feb. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

Morocco savors US recognition of Western Sahara in Israel normalization deal

A view of the Ayalon Valley, believed to be the site of ancient battles between the Maccabees and Greeks. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Relics of a rebellion: A Hannukah visit to the home of the Maccabees

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

I knew Hanukkah was about defeating the Greeks. Then I moved to Athens.

It’s all a bit awkward for local Jews, and their renditions of Maoz Tzur and holiday prayers use a fascinating workaround

What if you were paid to get the COVID-19 vaccine?

Incentivizing compliance could have a negative impact on those who view being tested for the coronavirus as an act of civic responsibility

Celebrity chef Pati Jinich in the kitchen at a pecan hacienda, or farm, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (Courtesy Jinich)

Latke recipe inside

TV chef brings Mexican latkes and jalapeno matzah ball soup north of border

By Rich Tenorio

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden, in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Analysis

Biden hopes to deprioritize Israel-Palestinian conflict but might not be able to

Analysts say issue likely to find its way onto international stage, even though president-elect would prefer to sideline it in order to focus on Iran nuclear deal reentry

Simcha Goldin, father of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body is held by Hamas, speaks at a protest calling on the government to return the bodies of his son and fellow late Israeli soldier Oron Shaul outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel said to have given Hamas offer of captives for COVID help deal

Military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an assassinated top nuclear scientist, during his funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, November 30, 2020. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Analysis

Iran’s options to hit Israel for nuke chief’s killing reach far beyond Hezbollah

By Avi Issacharoff

The Lebanese terror group may be keen to stay out of the fight, but precision rocket tech is reaching Gaza, and accurate cruise missiles are within the grasp of groups in Iraq

Journalist Ruhollah Zam speaks during his trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran on June 2, 2020. (Ali Shirband/Mizan News Agency via AP)

Iran executes journalist whose work inspired 2017 anti-government protests

By AFP

As part of the Paris avant-garde of the 1920s, Suzanne Malherbe, left, and Lucy Schwob created subversive, gender-bending art under the pseudonyms Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun. (Jersey Heritage Collections/ via New York Jewish Week)

Author interview

Lesbian French couple who fought Nazis with their art slowly gain recognition

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Lili Pohlmann and, right, with her mother in 1954. (Courtesy/ via Jewish News)

Analysis

Francine Wolfisz

Faces, testimonies of 101 UK survivors of Nazi atrocities captured in new book

‘Portraits for Posterity: Photographs of Holocaust Survivors in Great Britain’ started as a single photo op before growing into an exhibit and then book

Wojciech Rychlewicz is seen an archive picture. (Courtesy of Israel Hayom via JTA)

Polish diplomat in Istanbul rescued hundreds of Jews in Holocaust — report

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Man topples the Hanukkah menorah in downtown Kyiv, December 10, 2020 (Screen grab/Twitter)

‘Jews to the grave’: Man shouts anti-Semitic slogan as he topples Kyiv menorah

Ukrainian Jewish community said to ask police to investigate incident as hate crime; man said to have returned the next day to repeat the act, but found menorah welded to ground

The group that erected the Anne Frank memorial in Boise, Idaho, posted pictures showing that it had been vandalized. (Facebook via JTA)

Anne Frank memorial in Idaho vandalized with swastika stickers

Andrew Anglin runs the anti-Semitic Daily Stormer website. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

US neo-Nazi website founder accused of ignoring $14m award to Jewish plaintiff

By Michael Kunzelman

Trump supporters demonstrate at the US Supreme Court in Washington, December 11, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US Supreme Court dismisses Texas-led lawsuit seeking to overturn election

By NOMAAN MERCHANT, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Mark Sherman

Decision effectively ends Trump’s attempt to reverse election result through court system; electoral college meets Monday to formally elect Biden

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo talks to reporters in Albany at a daily news conference about the coronavirus crisis, March 29, 2020. (Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo via JTA)

New York’s Cuomo among contenders for Biden attorney general pick, source says

US President-elect Joe Biden announces his choice for several positions in his administration during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama reunion? Biden fills Cabinet with former White House leaders

By AAMER MADHANI

A statue of an anti-Netanyahu demonstrator is installed in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, December 10, 2020 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Statue of anti-Netanyahu protestor based on iconic image moved to Tel Aviv

Sculpture installed in Rabin Square with permission from municipality after it was taken down in Jerusalem when city hall said it was erected without a permit

Benny Gantz, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset during a vote for the parliament to dissolve itself, on December 2, 2020. (Danny Shem Tov/ Knesset Spokesperson)

Gantz warns Netanyahu he won’t be prime minister again after 4th election

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A coffee table turned defensive weapon is now a menorah stand, recalling the attack on a rabbi's home in Monsey, N.Y., last Hanukkah. (Rabbi Yisroel Kahan via JTA)

Table used to block Monsey stabber in 2019 attack turned into menorah stand

This March 21, 2018 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Chemical weapons watchdog criticizes Syria for failing to declare facility

By Edith M. Lederer

Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Montreal. (Screen capture/Global News)

Jewish nursing home in Montreal will be Quebec’s 1st to receive COVID-19 vaccine

By David Lazarus

Fight erupts on a flight to Israel from the Seychelles, December 6, 2020 (Screen grab)

Fight over mask-wearing breaks out on flight from Seychelles to Israel

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse during jury deliberations in his rape trial in New York, February 24, 2020. (John Minchillo/AP)

Convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein granted another delay in extradition

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

The Antwerp Central Synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium. (Wikimedia Public Domain)

Belgian court reverses virus ban on houses of worship, following Jewish petition

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Scene outside an apartment where a woman was stabbed to death in Rehovot, December 11, 2020 (Screen grab/Channel 13)

51-year-old woman stabbed to death in Rehovot; son arrested

Deni Avdija speaks to the media after NBA's Washington Wizards picked him in the NBA draft 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A jump aheadWashington Wizards launch Hebrew Twitter page for Avdija fans

Illustrative: A police patrol car in Jerusalem, September 20, 2017. (Times of Israel/Stuart Winer)

Man killed, 2 injured in shooting in central town of Kafr Qasim

Undated file photo shows a volunteer receiving the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, in Oxford, England. (John Cairns/University of Oxford via AP, File)

AstraZeneca to trial combination of own vaccine, together with Russia’s shot

By Anastasia CLARK

In this September 30, 2020, file photo, tables are spaced allowing for proper social distancing as customers enjoy lunch indoors at Katz's Delicatessen in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer, File)

Cuomo reinstates ban on NYC indoor dining in effort to gain control of virus

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and Deepti Hajela

Undated file photo shows a volunteer receiving the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, in Oxford, England. (John Cairns/University of Oxford via AP, File)

They got the placebo — should they be next in line for vaccine?

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