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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 19, 2020

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A COVID-19 patient hospitalized at the Shaare Zedek hospital Coronavirus ward receives a visit from his two daughters in Jerusalem on December 17, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

TV analyst: COVID could soon be 'like flu with a PR problem'

Israel could be 1st nation to vaccinate its at-risk populations, by end of Jan.

Health minister says first round of vaccinations for high-risk people could be done in two weeks, with drive to then be opened to general population if there are enough doses

An Israeli nurse seen during a vaccination exercise, December 10, 2020 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ahead of vaccine drive, report says health providers don’t have enough doses

A man pays respects near the coffin of his wife who was 75-years-old, during a funeral ceremony under the care of Paris undertaker Franck Vasseur, at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, April 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

COVID-19 nearly three times more deadly than the flu, study finds

By AFP

In this file photo US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves the White House after visiting with family December 11, 2020, in Washington, DC (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Pompeo: Russia ‘pretty clearly’ behind massive US cyberattack

Top US envoy says hack was ‘very significant effort’; Microsoft says roughly 80% of affected customers are in US, with victims also in Israel, UAE, Britain, Canada, Mexico, Spain

This June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Maryland. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

AnalysisHacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’

US President-elect Joe Biden arrives at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, December 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden transition team blasts ‘abrupt halt’ in cooperation from Pentagon

By KEVIN FREKING and Lolita C. Baldor

Left: Jewish-Soviet engineer Anatoliy Davidovich Daron was responsible for the rocket engine that put Sputnik I into space. (Courtesy); Top right: A replica of the Sputnik I satellite in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. (Public domain); Bottom right: This undated picture shows a Russian Vostok rocket on its launcher, the same type which propelled Yuri Gagarin to be the first human in space on April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/File)

USSR engineer made space flight possible despite facing virulent anti-Semitism

Rafi Revach (left) and Nissim Arush, two Israelis from Dimona visiting the Dubai Mall, December 9, 2020 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

All returning travelers will have to quarantine, as Israel closes Dubai loophole

Thousands have flocked to UAE since peace deal, flying with no virus restrictions; move taking effect December 26 also applies to two other green countries, Seychelles and Rwanda

Poll: 63% of Israeli public, 82% of those above age of 65, plan to get vaccine

Global vaccine program has access to 2 billion shots, but not Pfizer or Moderna

By Jamey Keaten

ExplainerIran has route to obtain COVID-19 vaccines despite sanctions

By Jon Gambrell

Farmers market on Wałowa Street in the heart of the Jewish neighborhood before World War II. In the spring of 1941, the street became a main artery of the large Radom ghetto. (Courtesy Chris Webb)

Interview

Historian: Polish society shunned Jewish survivors returning from Nazi camps

By JP O’ Malley

Illustrative: Supporters of the Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami, participate in a rally to denounce the United Arab Emirates-Israeli deal to establish full diplomatic ties between the two countries, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Reported visit of top official to Israel sparks outcry in Pakistan

Pakistani commentators say envoy expressed Islamabad’s desire for closer ties with Jewish state, but warned cooperation would need to be ‘soft’ and ‘slow’ due to local opposition

A nurse gives a volunteer an injection during trials for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in Binghamton, New York, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

US clears Moderna vaccine for emergency use as 2nd shot against coronavirus

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE

FDA endorses new inoculation, with first vials set to arrive in the United States on Monday; Israel has agreement for 6 million doses of vaccine, enough for 3 million people

Benches are taped off as people stroll at the Granbystaden shopping center in Uppsala, Sweden, on December 18, 2020, during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (Henrik MONTGOMERY/AFP)

Sweden reverses course, pushes masks and other restrictions as virus cases rise

Funeral home workers carry the coffin of a woman who died from COVID-19 near Johannesburg, South Africa, July 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Severe COVID variant detected in South Africa, health minister says

By AFP

Tamar Wyschogrod

I volunteered to take minutes – 2020 had other plans

As we made agonizing, life and death decisions for our community, the synagogue Covid committee I chair discovered we were on our own

Kenneth Jacobson

The Moroccan normalization: Another step forward

Even as the peace train is pulling out, changing the regional dynamic perhaps permanently, the Palestinian issue cannot be ignored

Illustrative -- A police officer guards the courtroom at the Paris Hall of Justice, Dec. 16, 2020 in Paris (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

‘F**k the Jews’: French family said attacked after playing Hebrew songs in car

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Perpetrators charged with verbal assault in Paris suburb, after they were said to have screamed anti-Semitic insults, rocked the car back and forth and hurled bottles at it

A Jewish Tunisian rests inside the Ghriba synagogue, one the oldest Jewish monuments built in Africa more than 2,500 years ago, on the resort island of Djerba, south of Tunis, Tunisia, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Amid pillaging and looting, Tunisia struggles to preserve its Jewish heritage

By Najeh Mouelhi-Makni and ToI Staff

Illustrative: UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis gives a speech as he attends a Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at Central Hall Westminster, on January 27, 2015. (AP/Chris Jackson)

UK chief rabbi: Unfathomable mass atrocity perpetrated on China’s Uighur Muslims

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In rare statement on issue not related to communal matters, UK Jewish leader says Beijing crackdown on minority leaves him ‘reflecting upon the deep pain of Jewish persecution’

In this December 3, 2018, file photo, residents line up inside the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center which has previously been revealed by leaked documents to be a forced indoctrination camp at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. (AP/Ng Han Guan, File)

Olympic Committee accused of ignoring human rights for 2022 Beijing Games

By Stephen Wade

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Illustrative: Police at the scene of a crime in Holon, on December 21, 2015. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

3 men from same family killed in pair of shootings in north

In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, terrorists of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP, File)

After review, NYT admits podcast on Islamic State was inaccurate, unreliable

An enigma cipher machine found in the Baltic Sea in front of the archaeological office of German federal state Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig, Germany, December 4, 2020. (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP, File)

Divers stumble upon rare Nazi Enigma machine at bottom of Baltic Sea

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., questions Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, and Jack Dorsey, Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Facebook and Twitter's actions around the closely contested election on Nov. 17, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Bucking pressure, Feinstein, 87, says she isn’t leaving US Senate anytime soon

Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announces charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP/John Minchillo)

US prosecutors question Ghislaine Maxwell’s marriage in push to keep her jailed

By Michael R. Sisak

Rabbi Moshe Gray lights the Dartmouth campus menorah the night after he discovered that it had been shot through with a pellet gun. The menorah can still be lit with fire despite the vandalism. (Courtesy of Gray via JTA)

Dartmouth College menorah shot with pellets, in latest US Hanukkah attack

The Berg brothers, Yaakov, 44 (R) and Yonatan Berg, 39, debate at the Psagot Winery, owned by Yaakov, in the industrial park of Sha'ar Binyamin near the Psagot settlement where they grew up, in the West Bank on December 12, 2020 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Brothers raised in the West Bank share a view, but not a point of view

By Michael Blum

Illustrative: Police at the scene of an accident that killed a child in Moshav Bnei Zion, February 28, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Grandfather accidentally runs over, kills infant grandson

Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)

Pair of bombs kills 3 Egyptian security members in Sinai

By ASHRAF SWEILAM

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a House Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus crisis, July 31, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)

Whole latke loveDr. Fauci prefers latkes to hamantaschen

By Gabe Friedman

Sheffi Paz as she and another activist broke into a preschool in south Tel Aviv, December 15, 2020 (Screen grab)

Anti-migrant activist out on house arrest for asylum seeker daycare break-in

A man walks his dog next to an apartment building owned by Jeffrey Epstein in the 16th district in Paris, August 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Epstein-linked French modeling agent charged with rape of minors

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