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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 15, 2020

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An interceptor missile is fired at a target simulating an incoming threat in December 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Israel stages major air defense drill, proving it can shoot down cruise missiles

By Judah Ari Gross

Declaring a world first, Defense Ministry pits all three tiers of its system against various threats, demonstrating a ‘capability that currently only Israel has’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Mossad head Yossi Cohen during a toast for the Jewish New Year on October 2, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad head as spy agency’s next chief; doesn’t tell Gantz

Blue and White MK Eitan Ginzburg attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on August 13, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz selects replacement to chair powerful Knesset defense panel

Malka Leifer, a teacher wanted in Australia for child sex abuse, seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on July 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court rules Malka Leifer can be extradited to Australia

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Justice minister says he won’t delay signing order releasing former school principal to Victorian authorities to face charges of sexually abusing students

Ghislaine Maxwell at the WIE Symposium in New York City, on September 20, 2013. (Laura Cavanaugh/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP)

Ghislaine Maxwell seeks $28.5 million bail in Epstein case

By Larry Neumeister

Lynette Nusbacher

Drunkards, queers and hen-pecked husbands: The embitterment of John le Carré

Fundamental to his novels was that even when one side was right and the other was wrong, both sides’ methods were comparable

The road to happiness: How we established ties with Bhutan

Our clandestine visits laid the ground for agreements on agriculture, health and water, as well as the chance to improve voting patterns in the UN

Dagan Bakun-Mazor

When the earth moves under our feet, will we be ready?

A potentially devastating earthquake will hit Israel, that is certain. Now is the time to invest more resources in qualifying future engineers

In this crisis, a golden chance to reimagine education

The success of a handful of teachers and students during the pandemic points the way forward to schooling that aligns with tomorrow’s needs

The Foreign Ministry honors Israeli diplomats who secretly served in Arab Gulf states, December 2020 (courtesy MFA)

After years undercover, diplomats who built Gulf ties inch out of the shadows

By Raphael Ahren

Serving under false identities in Arab states to promote bilateral relations, envoys given go-ahead to reveal some of their stories, not names, as relations come into the open

(From L-R) East End Temple Rabbi Joshua Stanton, Israel New York Acting Consul General Israel Nitzan, JCRC-NY CEO Michael Miller, UAE New York Consul General Abdalla Shaheen, Cordoba House executive director Naz Ahmed Georga and Manhattan Borough president Gayle Brewer light Hanukkah candles in Manhattan on December 14, 2020. (Shahar Azran)

Israeli, UAE envoys to NY light Hanukkah candles against backdrop of deals

Delegation members from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain participate in the candle lighting ceremony for the 5th night of Hanukkah at the Western Wall Plaza, December 14, 2020. (The Western Wall Heritage Foundation)

UAE, Bahrain delegations take part in Western Wall Hanukkah lighting ceremony

Then-Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar poses for a picture at his office at the Knesset on November 27, 2019. Outgoing Housing Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton, who has joined Sa'ar's New Hope party, speaks at a ceremony marking her replacement in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Yonatan Sindel, Olivier Fitoussi Flash90)

Rebel Likud MK announces she’s joining Gideon Sa’ar’s new party

Yifat Shasha-Biton, who has earned popular acclaim for her opposition to the government’s coronavirus response, becomes the 3rd serving lawmaker to join New Hope

Then-Blue and White party members MKs Yoaz Hendel, Zvi Hauser seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Gantz fires Derech Eretz MKs from their government posts

The Assaf Harofeh hospital (CC BY-SA, Wikipedia)

Man shoots and kills his terminally ill wife in hospital, then takes own life

Patient lying in adjacent room lightly injured after bullet breaches wall and grazes his leg

A technician collects a swab sample from a woman at the coronavirus lab at Ben Gurion on December 14, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel records more than 2,200 daily cases as it barrels toward new restrictions

Virus czar says government ‘trying to prevent a full lockdown,’ after Monday sees highest number of new confirmed carriers in 2 months

Israel media reviewA shot in every pot: What the press is saying on December 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Health minister warns more restrictions coming as virus cases soar

Nurse at New York Jewish hospital receives first COVID vaccine in US

By AFP

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine lab technician processing blood samples from study participants who volunteered to take part in testing the National Institutes of Health-funded Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Miami, September 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez, File)

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shows ‘no specific safety concerns’ — US regulator

By Agencies and TOI staff

FDA confirms efficacy of over 94% and safety of shots, which could be approved by week’s end; company to supply enough doses for 3 million Israelis

Start of Israel’s vaccine drive moved up to December 23, HMOs told

Health Ministry fails to sway ultra-Orthodox rabbis to back vaccination drive

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Israeli vaccine clears first stage as no major side effects reported

By Judah Ari Gross

Interview

Trump’s Iran envoy: It’s a mistake to believe Iranian officials are replaceable

NEW YORK -- A common criticism of assassinations such as the one that took out Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last month is that those targeted are simply replaced while the regional conflict escalates. In the case of Iran, though, US President Donald Trump's special representative for the Islamic Republic does not believe that conventional... Continue Reading

Elliot Abrams, the US special envoy for Iran and Venezuela, speaks to reporters at the US embassy in Lisbon on April 9, 2019. (AP/Armando Franca)

Rouhani claims Israel killed nuke scientist ‘to wage instability and war’

By AP and TOI staff

Global outcry grows over Iran’s ‘barbaric’ execution of journalist

By Stuart Williams

US formally blames Iran in abduction, presumed death of ex-FBI agent

Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi speaks to the press after a meeting with his French counterpart at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on December 14, 2020. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP)

Tunisian PM: Normalization with Israel ‘not on the agenda’

By AFP

Hichem Mechichi says he respects Morocco’s decision to recognize the Jewish state but Tunis won’t follow suit

People enjoy drinking alcoholic beverages at a restaurant overlooking the Marina district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 23, 2019 (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

NY-based rabbi seeks to bring US Jews to visit the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia

By Raphael Ahren

A protester against the normalization deal between Morocco and Israel gestures, in Rabat, Morocco, December 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Moroccan police disperse protest against normalization deal with Israel

By AP and TOI staff

People wearing face masks on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem, on December 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Virus restrictions said likely to be reimposed next week, last for 5 weeks

By Michael Bachner

Health Ministry sources quoted saying closure of commercial sector to be longer than expected since many schools will be open; events may be allowed for those with antibodies

7:36 pm

Biden picks ex-rival Buttigieg as transport secretary: US media
7:34 pm

Top ultra-Orthodox rabbis set to order community to vaccinate against COVID-19
7:25 pm

Biden says he'll receive coronavirus vaccination publicly soon

The FSO Safer in an undated photo. (Courtesy: Safer Exploration and Production Operations)

As laden tanker decays off Yemen, experts warn oil spill will ravage Red Sea

Scholars from Israel and elsewhere issue stark plea for international community to remove 1 million barrels from ship stuck for five years, or face devastation of vital ecosystem

Israelis take part at a protest march to demand immediate action on climate change in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Minister announces climate bill, calls on finance sector to invest in green

Hotels along the beach in the resort city of Eilat, October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90)

Minor earthquake hits near Eilat; no damage or injuries

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (4th L) takes part in a rally as Palestinians call for a 'Day of Rage' to protest Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, in Gaza City on July 1, 2020 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israel offered to release murderers in talks on Hamas prisoner swap – report

By Aaron Boxerman and Judah Ari Gross

Senior official in terror group tells Lebanese paper Jerusalem was prepared to release ‘hundreds of Palestinians’ in exchange for captive civilians, soldiers’ remains held in Gaza

Abbas visits Qatar in bid for support to persuade Hamas to agree to elections

Norwegian diplomat tapped as UN’s new Middle East peace envoy

By Raphael Ahren

Furious, Knesset panel head confirms Israel in talks with Hamas on prisoner swap

By Judah Ari Gross

A member of Iowa's Electoral College signs the Certificate of Vote of Electors for the State of Iowa, December 14, 2020, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Biden says ‘democracy prevailed’ as US Electoral College affirms his victory

By Mark Sherman

Six battleground states that Biden won and Trump contested give their votes to president-elect; Pence to preside over January 6 joint session of Congress to tally votes

Conceding election result, leading Republicans call Biden president-elect

By LISA MASCARO

Michigan congressman quits GOP over fellow members’ bid to overturn election

By DAVID EGGERT

Jeffrey Rosen is Trump’s new Talmud-quoting acting attorney general

More Headlines

Commuters wear face masks as they ride a public bus in the southern city of Ashkelon, March 29, 2020 (Flash90)

Israelis, tourists can now pay for public transportation with all-in-one app

By Shoshanna Solomon

Salman Amar, the former mayor of Julis, is seen at the Haifa District Court on July 28, 2020. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Ex-mayor of Druze town hit with 20-year sentence for murder caught on video

Illustrative: Amazon packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon warehouse facility in Goodyear, Arizona, December 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Amazon said weighing shipping goods to Israel from UAE

MediWound's team in Tel Aviv at a signing ceremony with UAE conglomerate Ghassan Aboud Group for commercialization of its NexoBrid treatment for severe burns, December 14, 2020 (Mediwound).

MediWound signs UAE marketing deal for pineapple-based gel for burns

By Shoshanna Solomon

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated from a patient, in a laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Coronaviruses, including the newest one, are named for the spikes that cover their outer surface like a crown, or corona in Latin. Using those club-shaped spikes, the virus latches on to the outer wall of a human cell, invades it and replicates, creating viruses to hijack more cells. (NIAID/NIH via AP)

‘Long COVID’ may be caused by body attacking itself, not the virus – study

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference at the Ministry of Health in Jerusalem on December 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu enters quarantine for 3rd time; set to be 1st to vaccinate Sat. night

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron, speaking at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society organized by the Israel Democracy Institute, December 17, 2019 (Michal Fattal)

Bank of Israel to continue buying forex in 2021 to stem shekel rise, chief says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Smokey Robinson attends the screening for "The Apollo" during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival at the Apollo Theater on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

MiraclesSmokey Robinson goes viral for mispronouncing Hanukkah as ‘Chanooka’

By Gabe Friedman

Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks to the media on the coronavirus, outside the Finsbury Park Jobcentre, in north London, March 15, 2020. (Hollie Adams/PA via AP)

Spoof site set up after Corbyn apparently fails to register domain for new group

An artwork by Tunni Kraus Kinot, featured at Musrara Mix, the Jerusalem-based art festival taking place online, December 15-17, 2020 (Courtesy Musrara Mix)

Magical mixtureAnnual Musrara Mix art and musical festival goes online

By Jessica Steinberg

Offices of Discount and Hapoalim banks in the center of Tel Aviv (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

Bank of Israel announces major easing of mortgage policy restrictions

A rendering of the new Holocaust memorial in Rio de Janeiro. (Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust/Deputy Gerson Bergher via JTA)

Rio de Janeiro inaugurates new Holocaust memorial with 72-foot tower

By Marcus M. Gilban

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