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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 17, 2020

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press briefing, July 27, 2020 (Gobi Gideon/GPO)

New elections seen as a virtual certainty as Knesset dispersal deadline looms

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Legal officials say coalition must agree on budget by midnight next Tuesday — not Wednesday as previously thought — as sources report no contact between Likud, Blue and White

Gideon Sa'ar visits Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem on December 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar registers new party, says it’ll back settlements and judicial reform

Minister of Defense Benny Gantz visits the Jerusalem Municipality on November 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz said checking which party MKs will abandon him if he caves to Netanyahu

Volunteers sort election posters bearing the portrait of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Likud party's electoral campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Let my people vote (earlier): Israel set for chaotic eve-of-Passover election

A fitting end to the dysfunctional 35th Government? Likud and Blue and White can’t agree on a bill that would ensure ballot-counting doesn’t run into March 29 holiday

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyer Boaz Ben Tzur arrives to Jerusalem District Court on December 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu lawyer says he’s yet to see document showing AG authorized probe of PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

InterviewS&P: ‘Real risk’ for Israel ratings downgrade if instability delays austerity

By Shoshanna Solomon

Detail from photograph of Gal Gadot posing for Moses Pini Siluk as Wonder Woman for Israeli Sheva Leylot magazine years before snagging the role in the film. (Moses Pini Siluk)

Interview

Years before first film, an Israeli artist turned Gal Gadot into Wonder Woman

By Brigit Grant

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during a press conference at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2020. (Flash90)

PM, president and IDF chief to be first in line for vaccines as campaign starts

By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross

President to be vaccinated at Jerusalem hospital, where medical workers will begin to be immunized; PM says he’ll get vaccine Saturday night

Over 2,800 new COVID cases logged for 2nd straight day; 400 in serious condition

92% of Israel’s COVID-19 fatalities had existing chronic diseases — report

Health providers to start vaccinations for high-risk Israelis Monday — reports

Analysis

In struggles for West Sahara and West Bank, thorny parallels may loom for Israel

They are both rugged regions claimed by an indigenous population but ruled by a UN member state in a seemingly neverending struggle. They have both seen periods of violent fighting and are riven by a physical barrier built for security. They are both the subject of countless UN resolutions, international condemnations, and US-brokered peace... Continue Reading

Sahrawi children from Western Sahara sit in their classroom in the Smara refugee camp near Tindouf, south-western Algeria, March 4, 2016. (AP/ Toukik Doudou).

Young girls in Saudi Arabia play basketball. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Saudis remove anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism from textbooks — monitoring group

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Israel’s US envoy urges Biden not to repeat ‘mistakes of the past’ on Iran

By Stuart Winer

Bahrain and Israel can spread the light

For me, this year’s Hanukkah miracle began in my kingdom’s longstanding welcome of Jews and will continue in shared opportunities for the region

Omer Yankelevitch

Our Common Destiny: A new call to action for the Jewish people

A visionary document that forges a collective vision of peoplehood is our roadmap for initiatives that will help shape a shared future

A sunken visitor's center will stand in place of these excavations at the foot of Jerusalem's Tower of David Museum, November 2020 (Ricky Rachman)

Archaeology

Arabic inscription found under Tower of David rewrites ancient citadel’s past

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Justice minister signs off on extradition of accused pedophile Malka Leifer

Israel now has 60 days to put former principal on a plane to face trial for 74 counts of abuse; her lawyers say they will not make a final appeal to stop it

People walk in Jerusalem on December 16, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

Between a shot and a hard pace: What the press is saying on December 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Vaccines are just around the corner, but before we get there, get ready for some more restrictions, or throw a maskless indoor party to celebrate not getting infected

Children, mask-clad due to the COVID-19 pandemic, look out from the window of a vehicle transporting Palestinians about to cross onto the Egyptian side through the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, on November 24, 2020 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

UAE sends aid to Gaza, where 45% of virus tests return positive in past day

By Aaron Boxerman

People wear protective masks at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv, on December 13, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel said to expect enough vaccines for 4 million people by March

Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Knesset on December 1, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

Gantz tells Saudi paper: There’s room for a Palestinian capital in Jerusalem

By Aaron Boxerman

But defense minister stops short of endorsing statehood, saying Palestinians deserve an ‘entity’ and stressing that no part of city will be relinquished to PA

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a Life Is Winning event in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, December 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pence said planning to visit Israel on international tour starting January 6

Civil Administration officers prepare to demolish a home slated for demolition in the Kumi Ori outpost on April 22, 2020. (Courtesy)

Knesset advances legislation to legalize, provide utilities to wildcat outposts

By Aaron Boxerman

Beirut's Magen Avraham synagogue before restoration projects. (Photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0, NYC2TLV/Wikimedia)

Beirut synagogue renovated after port blast, but no Jews likely to pray there

Lebanese TV shows restored Maghen Abraham Synagogue, but expert says the approximately 30 Jews still in the country ‘fear for their fate’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a graduation ceremony for new Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim air base near Beersheba, June 25, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/ Pool/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Likud, Blue and White deny TV report of breakthrough to avert elections

By Michael Bachner

Channel 13 claims deal ensures Gantz will become PM, Nissenkorn will remain justice minister; Netanyahu’s party has opposed both demands

7:22 pm

Top cop nominee accused of okaying use of banned ammunition against settlers
7:06 pm

Yamina says it rejected Likud offer to join government, prevent elections
6:43 pm

US states hit Google with new antitrust lawsuit

A doctor shows medical records to cancer patient in hospital ward (iStock)

Israeli researchers spot new peptides that could point way to slaying cancer

By Nathan Jeffay

Immunotherapy needs peptides to work, but if a patient has too few, anti-cancer drugs will fall short; discovery of new type by Weizmann Institute-led team could solve problem

Julie A. Lockhart (masked), and Jonathan C.K. Williams in 'Exagoge,' 2016. (Taso Papadakis/ Theatre Dybbuk)

Hanukkah 2020

LA theater company revives early 20th century play for dramatized podcast

By Jessica Donath

More Headlines

Illustrative image of a man preparing meat at a kosher slaughterhouse (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

EU court rules authorities can ban kosher and halal slaughter in Belgian region

By AFP and TOI staff

Heavy rains form a temporary lake in the city of Ashkelon, December 17, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter/Shuki Amzaleg)

Major rainstorms lift Sea of Galilee, flood major highways

By Stuart Winer

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa speaks during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, May 21, 2017, in Riyadh. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Bahrain says king has been vaccinated against COVID-19

Katalin Kariko (Courtesy)

Scientist’s mRNA obsession once cost her a job, now it’s key to Covid-19 vaccine

This security camera video footage shows Hayat Boumeddiene, and a male travel companion arriving at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport on Jan. 2, 2015. Boumeddiene, the widow of a gunman who attacked a kosher supermarket and a police officer, killing five people before he died in a raid by security forces, was jailed for 30 years in absentia on December 16, 2020. She is still on the run. (AP Photo/Haberturk Television, File)

Fugitive widow of Charlie Hebdo, kosher supermarket killer sentenced to 30 years

Illustrative: An Israeli woman from the LGBT community demonstrates against gay conversion therapy, in southern Israel, July 14, 2019. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

Jewish figures join over 300 religious leaders urging ‘conversion therapy’ ban

By AFP and TOI staff

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with the family of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in early 2020, and top military leaders, in Tehran, Iran, December 16, 2020. (Official website of the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader appears publicly, dispelling health rumors

By Agencies and TOI staff

Jean-Luc Brunel (Screen capture: YouTube)

France detains ex-associate of Jeffrey Epstein over sex crime accusations

By AFP

Elan Carr, the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism, speaks Monday, April 29, 2019, next to a photo of Lori Kaye, who was killed when a gunman opened fire inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue, during a memorial service for Kaye in Poway, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

US Senate passes bill elevating anti-Semitism monitor to ambassador

Andrew Giuliani (R) and Olympic figure skater Sarah Hughes attend the the world premiere of 'The Other Guys' at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Trump names Rudy Giuliani’s son and 2 other aides to Holocaust Museum Council

'Painting with Houses' ('Bild mit Häusern'), a 1909 painting by Wassily Kandinsky. (Wikimedia Commons/PD-old-75)

Dutch court refuses to return $22m Kandinsky painting to Jewish heirs

By AP

Screen capture from video of TV Host Jimmy Fallon trying gefilte fish for the first time. (YouTube)

Nothing to carp aboutGal Gadot gets Jimmy Fallon to try gefilte fish

By Gabe Friedman

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