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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 20, 2020

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An EasyJet flight seen taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport, on March 24, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Entry banned to foreigners from UK; returning Israelis sent to quarantine hotels

130 arrivals on 2 flights taken to hotels for isolation, but 30 refuse to go; decision also affects South Africa, Denmark arrivals, as COVID-19 mutations found in all 3 countries

Israeli health officials said worried about new COVID-19 strain found in UK

By TOI staff and Agencies

Britain warns new strain out of control as European nations start to ban flights

By AFP

Dutch government bans flights from UK after finding case of virus mutation

By AFP

An Israeli medical worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center on December 20, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ichilov Hospital celebrates with a mini dance party

Israel kicks off mass coronavirus vaccine drive to stamp out COVID-19 pandemic

Health workers start receiving the shot; president, IDF chief of staff among first to get inoculated; from Monday, Israelis over 60 can get vaccinated

Netanyahu wants Israel shut to all int’l flights, as new COVID-19 strain hits UK

By TOI staff and Agencies

Bnei Brak, Beitar Illit, Elad in top infection tier as cabinet to meet on rules

Health Ministry said pushing to halt commerce as COVID cases rise

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a coronavirus vaccine, from his personal physician Dr. Tzvi Berkovitz, at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, on December 19, 2020, becoming the first Israeli to get the vaccine. (Amir Cohen/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu is 1st Israeli to get COVID vaccine: ‘Start of return to normal life’

‘One small injection for a man, one giant leap for the health of us all,’ PM says after getting the Pfizer shot; adds if public cooperates, Israel could be first to end pandemic

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, 59, gets a coronavirus vaccine at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, December 20, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Minister slams public figures under 60 ‘cutting in line’ to get COVID-19 vaccine

Estelle Bukatman, head of Pharmacy Services at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, holds coronavirus vaccine doses as they arrive in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)Health Ministry director denies there’s a shortage of COVID vaccines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu smiles before receiving a coronavirus vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan from his personal physician, Dr. Tzvi Berkovitz. Netanyahu, 71, followed by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, became the first Israelis to get the vaccine. (AMIR COHEN / POOL / AFP)

Vaccine insights

After PM gets 1st COVID shot, a psychologist’s 10 tips to get nation to follow

Unlike US, Israel has no strong anti-vax movement, so the right campaign will go far in winning hearts and minds, says Prof Golan Shahar, an expert on vaccinations and human psyche

Facebook deletes antivax posts as prosecutors warn against spreading false info

Ziv hospital team members work at the coronavirus ward in the northern Israeli city of Safed, on December 17, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Over 100 doctors sign letter against lockdowns, closing schools

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Crunch time for Gantz, Netanyahu as last-ditch talks held to avoid elections

By Michael Bachner and TOI staff

No deal by Tuesday night means automatic vote; defense minister said to agree to chip away at justice minister’s powers, angering party members; Blue and White denies report

Protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Latest Saturday protests mark 6 months of anti-Netanyahu rallies

We are from the garden

Russian-speaking Jews have yet to find their place in the American Jewish community but don’t give up on them — we need each other

Historic peace is the fruit of the Netanyahu Doctrine

Fueled by President Trump’s Mideast policy, the PM’s tenets of ’peace through strength’ and ’peace (not land) for peace’ are transforming the region

The Shirbit data hack was an attack on national security. Now what?

The ransomware breach that targeted an insurer for government workers is a rude wakeup call for businesses to prioritize digital safety

An opportunity to change the cycle of hate

How the Arab and Muslim world perceives Jews and Israel is being influenced for the better by recent changes to school textbooks

One student told JTA that he witnessed Yeshiva University rabbis tearing down posters advertising an LGBTQ event on campus. (Courtesy of YU student organizers via JTA)

Yeshiva University students face uphill battle on campus in planned LGBTQ event

By Hannah Dreyfus

A Palestinian man is seen with an Israeli soldeir shortly before attacking him with a Molotov cocktail in the northern West Bank, December 19, 2020 (video screenshot)

IDF arrests Palestinian suspect in firebombing of IDF soldier who didn’t respond

Military says suspect taken in for questioning a day after incident in northern West Bank that sparked right-wing anger

Palestinian Authority security forces in balaclavas stand by an armored vehicle at the entrance to Balata camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on December 15, 2020. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

In West Bank refugee camps, Palestinians arm up for post-Abbas power struggle

By AFP and TOI staff

File: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, left, gives a joint statement with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, July 20, 2020. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool via AP)

Amid normalization push, Egypt, Jordan, PA say only 2 states will solve conflict

In this rendering provided by the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, an area of the new museum is seen in New Orleans. (Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience via AP)

From matzo to gumbo: New museum explores Jewish life in US South

By STACEY PLAISANCE

US President Donald Trump listens during a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former football coach Lou Holtz, in the Oval Office of the White House, December 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says massive cyberattack ‘under control,’ plays down Russian role

By AFP

‘Russia Russia Russia is the priority chant when anything happens,’ US president says; makes baseless suggestion voting machines may have also been hacked

Illustrative: A computer expert operates at the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) technical center, at NATO's military headquarters SHAPE in Mons, southwestern Belgium, December 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

NATO checking its computer systems after massive cyberattack against US, others

By AFP

Former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, left, listens to Sidney Powell, both lawyers for US President Donald Trump, during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, November 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump mulls Sidney Powell as special counsel as Flynn proposes martial law

By Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin and Colleen Long

Jew Town signage remains in Kochi. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA)

India’s Jew Town only has a few Jews left, but traditions and landmarks remain

By Christabel Lobo

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Tunisian singer Noomane Chaari performs 'Peace Between Neighbors' (video screenshot)

Neighborly loveIsraeli, Tunisian and Yemenite artists meet in song for peace

Illustrative: Police investigating a shooting in Rosh Haayin, on April 30, 2020. (Flash90)

5 men shot during fight in southern Bedouin town

Lebanese students burn dumpsters while protesting a decision by top universities to adopt a new dollar exchange rate to price tuition in Beirut's Hamra district on December 19, 2020 (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon riot police scuffle with students protesting major tuition hikes

By AFP

Ruchami (Shira Haas), left; Shulem (Dov Glickman), center; and Akiva (Michael Aloni), right, from a scene in the third season of 'Shtisel,' premiering December 20, 2020 on Yes (Courtesy Yes Studio)

What's nu?‘Shtisel’ launches long-awaited third season Sunday night

By Jessica Steinberg

Protesters gather during a demonstration, in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020 (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudanese demand democratic reforms, two years after protests erupted

Likud MK David Bitan at the Knesset on July 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu and Edelstein visit Likud MK in serious condition with COVID-19

Silicon Valley (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0/Coolcaesar)

Tech stars quit Silicon Valley as pandemic ushers in shift to remote work

By Glenn Chapman

This combination of pictures created on December 19, 2020 shows Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci at the White House on April 9, 2020, in Washington, DC and
a man dressed as Santa Claus wearing a red face mask in Libourne, France, on December 10, 2020.(Photos by JIM WATSON and thibaud MORITZ / AFP)

Ho, ho, ho, good to goFauci tells worried kids: I vaccinated Santa, he can come visit

By AFP

Illustrative image of a cup of coffee against the background of roasted coffee beans (Lenti Hill; iStock by Getty Images)

Startup uses blockchain tech to track food products’ journey from farm to store

By Shoshanna Solomon

Armed police officers stand guard before the arrival of Austrian Chancellor Kurz and the president of the European Council to pay respects to the victims of the terrorist attack in Vienna, Austria, November 9, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

2 more arrested in Austria over Vienna terror attack

By AFP

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