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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 26, 2020

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A Jerusalem woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a center run by the Clalit healthcare provider (courtesy of Clalit)

Israel hopes to start vaccinating general public in 7-10 days, top official says

TV report predicts life could return to ‘something like normal’ by end of Feb. because the at-risk population will be vaccinated and threat of overwhelmed health service will pass

Health Ministry chief says Israel aims to vaccinate over 150,000 people per day

Knesset cafeteria worker has COVID, sparks fear parliament’s outbreak spreading

Israelis rush malls, markets in final days before third lockdown begins

Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin, a film director from Fureidis (courtesy)

On bold TV show, Palestinian-Israeli director takes apart her society’s taboos

By Aaron Boxerman

Left: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Nov. 19, 2020; Right: Morocco's King Mohammed VI in Paris, May 2, 2017 (AP Photos/Maya Alleruzzo, Michel Euler)

Netanyahu has ‘friendly’ call with king of Morocco, invites him to visit Israel

In first conversation since normalization announcement, leaders discuss ways to advance deal; king stresses warm ties with Jewish community, unwavering position on Palestinians

The Bat Yam Chiefs play against the Dubai Mighty Camels in the UAE in a hockey match in Dubai on December 19, 2020. (Screenshot/HC Bat Yam Chiefs Facebook page)

Chiefs vs. CamelsBreaking the ice: Israel-UAE hockey match makes history

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Black and white: The Benckiser factory owned by the JAB Holding Company in which 175 forced laborers worked. (Courtesy: Alfred Landecker Foundation); Examples of online anti-Semitism. (Google and Twitter via JTA; public domain and screenshots)

Family firm with Nazi past funds effort to use AI to detect online anti-Semitism

By Matt Lebovic

Ilana Fodiman-Silverman

Echoes of Esther Horgen’s beating heart

The stories from those who knew her made clear that her gift of listening and connecting with people was a part of her constant search for growth

Who’ll give the Knesset millions more in party funding? The Knesset

In a classic conflict of interests, the parties dip into the public coffers before every election, flouting any semblance of fiscal responsibility

Benny Gantz (left) and Gabi Ashkenazi of the Blue and White party arrive to give a joint a statement in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Disarray in Blue and White: TV reports say if Gantz stays on, others will quit

Ashkenazi and Nissenkorn may quit politics, unsourced reports say, though party colleagues want the foreign minister to take over, and the justice minister is mulling move to Labor

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near his home in Caesarea, on December 12, 2020. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Protest leader held as dozens demonstrate against Netanyahu near Caesarea home

Blue and White MK Omer Yankelevich attends a Knesset committee meeting on August 5, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Blue and White official hired private spies to trail party’s Yankelevich: report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands as he leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, after addressing a joint meeting of Congress in a speech opposing the imminent Iran nuclear deal. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Analysis

Normalizing with Israel, Arab states look to gain powerful ally in Washington

Israel has lobbied on behalf of countries willing to establish ties, and others hoping for the same kind of muscle on the Hill are likely taking notice

An Israeli submarine sails during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, April 19, 2018. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

IDF: Our subs sail everywhere; Iran: Our response to any attack will be strong

Army spokesman tells Saudi paper Israel is tracking Iran movements in region, days after Israeli submarine said to cross Suez Canal; Revolutionary Guard says ready for any scenario

Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, which came after terrorists in the Strip fired rockets into Israel, December 26, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

IDF strikes Hamas targets in Gaza in response to rocket fire

Illustrative: An explosion caused by Iron Dome air defense system missiles intercepting rockets fired from Gaza, February 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra/ File)

Two rockets fired from Gaza shot down over southern Israel

A diverted El Al plane over Cyprus on December 25, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

El Al plane diverted during air strike on Syria to avoid anti-aircraft fire

Cyprus air traffic control tells Dreamliner carrying cargo from China to change course as strikes attributed to Israel hit facilities of Iran-backed militias, killing at least 6

Satellite images purporting to show damage to a weapons facility outside Masyaf, Syria, in December 25, 2020 airstrikes attributed to Israel, released by ImageSat International. (ImageSat International)

Satellite images show airstrike damage to weapons facilities in Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Health care workers take test samples in Modi'in, on December 24, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

49 suspected cases of new virus variant said found in samples at one Israeli lab

Preliminary test results at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, including from individuals who haven’t traveled, raise fears of community spread of more transmissible coronavirus strain

Emergency medical technicians wait for a bed to be cleared in an emergency room in Mission Viejo, California, December 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

ExplainerWhy it matters the coronavirus is mutating, and what it means for vaccines

By David Kennedy

A Maccabi Healthcare Services worker handles a test sample at a coronavirus testing site in Modiin, on December 24, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

New daily COVID cases rise above 4,000 Thursday; 6 known cases of mutant variant

In this May 14, 2020 photo, medical staff transfer a patient through a corridor at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, in Blackburn, England, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Hannah McKay/Pool Photo via AP)

UK scientists test drug to stop COVID-19 developing in those exposed to virus

Antibody treatment could be used to reduce deaths in nursing homes if immediately deployed upon discovery of infection; 10 people injected so far upon exposure to pathogen

A Chinese health worker (L) in a protective suit takes a swab from a Dalian resident to test for coronavirus, as the city carries out a mass testing program after new confirmed cases were found, in northeastern China's Liaoning province, on December 23, 2020. (Stringer/AFP)

China touts its ‘extraordinary’ success containing virus ahead of WHO probe

By AFP

A man wearing a mask walks past graffiti depicting a globe in the Orcasitas neighborhood in Madrid, Spain on September 28, 2020. (AP/Manu Fernandez)

A pandemic atlas: How coronavirus took over globe in 2020

By AP

Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, left, and his wife, Chana, started a groundbreaking program for Orthodox women to answer questions of Jewish law. (Courtesy of Nishmat/ via JTA)

Obituary

Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, pioneer of women’s leadership in Orthodoxy, dies

In this file photo taken in Nov. 15, 2006, George Blake, a former British spy and double agent in service of the Soviet Union, seen in Moscow, Russia (AP Photo, File)

Obituary

British-Soviet Cold War double agent George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98

Spy passed names of hundreds of MI6 agents to KGB; escaped London jail with rope ladder; said he hated Nazis ‘because of my background. I was a British subject; I was half-Jewish’

More Headlines

A law enforcement member walks past damage from an explosion in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, December 25, 2020. (AP/Mark Humphrey)

Huge blast hits Nashville after chilling Christmas morning bomb threat

Protesters observe a moment of silence during a demonstration against the police killing of Andre Maurice Hill in the neighborhood where he was shot, in Columbus, Ohio, December 24, 2020. (Stephen Zenner/AFP)

Police killing of unarmed Black man in Ohio ignites fresh outrage in US

By AFP

Police close off an area damaged by an explosion on Christmas morning on December 25, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images/AFP)

Nashville explosion knocks communications offline, briefly stops flights

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Eric Tucker

Illustrative -- A Christmas tree in the northern Israel city of Nazareth on December 13, 2020 (Flash90)

2 Christmas trees torched in suspected arson attack in northern city of Sakhnin

Pope Francis arrives to deliver the Urbi et Orbi Christmas' day blessing inside the blessing hall of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican on December 25, 2020. (Vatican Media via AP)

In Christmas address, Pope calls for needy, vulnerable to get vaccine first

By Frances D'Emilio

Two elderly people wait for Christmas eve dinner at an elderly care home in Pozuelo de Alarcon, outskirts of Madrid on Dec. 24, 2020. Many of the elderly in the residence haven't celebrated Christmas eve with their relatives to prevent the spread of coronavirus (AP/Bernat Armangue)

Photo essayServices move online, people stay home for a low-key, pandemic Christmas

By Elliot Spagat and Frances D'Emilio

The National Christmas Tree glows with lights on the Ellipse near the White House, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, on Christmas Eve in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump golfs in Florida as COVID relief hangs in the balance

Composer Shlomo Gronich will participate in Tel Aviv's 'Culture or Die' festival, January 5-6, 2021 (Courtesy Avihai Levy)

Lockdown entertainmentCulture will never die in Tel Aviv, festival organizers vow

By Jessica Steinberg

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