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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 27, 2020

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Israelis, wearing protective masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, shop in the central market of Netanya on December 27, 2020, ahead of a third lockdown. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel enters 3rd lockdown; commercial activity shuts down, schools remain open

Closure begins at 5 p.m. for at least two weeks, though it’ll likely be extended to a month; comes as nearly 300,000 vaccinated against COVID-19

Magen David Adom worker at the coronavirus unit at the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem on November 1, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ahead of lockdown, Jerusalem hospitals near to capacity for COVID-19 patients

An officer stands in front of a vaccination center at Military Intelligence's Gelilot Base north of Tel Aviv in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF to launch vaccination operation in bid to inoculate 6,000 by week’s end

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-internal affairs minister Gideon Sa'ar, in the Knesset, July 9, 2013. (Flash90/ File)

Israeli election briefing

Top strategist: ‘The one thing that could save Netanyahu,’ and 9 other insights

Eyal Arad on who Sa’ar should recruit, why Labor might not be finished… and the fighter jets you don’t see coming

Defense Minister Benny Gantz seen at the Israeli parliament on November 10, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Gantz said to mull over his political future with Blue and White MKs

2020 was the worst year ever

If we have to pretend this year was a ’gift’ for discovering ourselves, how can we grieve together for what we have lost?

Not just cheerleaders: Journalists’ role in covering UAE-Israel normalization

Media on both sides can work together, telling the story warts and all to ensure leaders take public feedback on their actions into account

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

Likud lashes Blue and White for ‘endangering lives’ by loosening school closures

Ruling party says political rival seeking ‘to prolong the lockdown during the election’ with flip-flop to allow grades 5-10 at school

7:44 pm

Techno party at Muslim holy site draws condemnations from Palestinian leadership
7:30 pm

Blue and White defends move to loosen school imitations during lockdown
7:25 pm

Netanyahu reportedly considering recruiting Dermer, Gal Hirsh, and Gilad Sharon to bolster Likud

Israeli students arrive at school in the southern city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020 (Flash90)

Grades 5-10 stay in school as Knesset education panel rejects lockdown closure

Government can appeal committee’s ruling; chair Ram Shefa said to get Gantz’s approval on vote; teachers union threatens strike if not prioritized to get vaccine

A teenager search for cans through a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem on July 13,2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus crisis drives 41% rise in number of at-risk youth seeking help

By Stuart Winer

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton visits the coronavirus ward at Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed on December 3, 2020. (David Cohen/ Flash90)

New Hope’s Shasha-Biton: Lockdown is unnecessary, ‘unequivocally political’

The Galvin family (Courtesy of the Galvin family)

Author interview

In 2020 bestseller, journalist tracks American family plunged into schizophrenia

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A man wearing a face mask near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on December 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Netanyahu giveth, Netanyahu taketh away: What the press is saying on December 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel is going back under lock and key and it seems nobody is happy about the move, though some, like Likud and store owners, try to make the best of a bad situation

Environmental Protection Minister Ze'ev Elkin arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘He’s dangerous’: Ex-Likud MK who joined Sa’ar rules out gov’t with Netanyahu

Demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside his official residence in Jerusalem, on December 26, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands protest PM; police clash with dozens who lit bonfire on Balfour Street

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

A Clalit healthcare worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv on December 22, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel aims to vaccinate 25% of population in a month; 250,000 had shots so far

Netanyahu says he wants pace of inoculations to hit 150,000 a day; another 5,433 virus cases found, day before 3rd lockdown; Health Minister intends to vaccinate teachers this week

Minister orders prisons: Don’t start vaccinating Palestinian inmates yet

Israelis pack malls, parks ahead of 2-week lockdown; hundreds party in Tel Aviv

Israel starts 3rd lockdown Sunday, as it ramps up vaccine distribution

An undated photo made available by the Pompeii Archeological park press office shows the thermopolium in the Pompeii archeological park, near Naples, Italy. (Luigi Spina/Parco Archeologico di Pompei via AP)

‘Fast food’ bar unearthed in Pompeii: What they were eating as Vesuvius erupted

A photo posted to Twitter on December 21, 2020 showed Gary Schlesinger, CEO of ParCare Community Health Network, receiving the coronavirus vaccine. (Twitter via JTA)

NY probes clinics serving ultra-Orthodox community over possible vaccine fraud

State health commissioner says ParCare Community Health Network may have obtained COVID-19 shots ‘fraudulently,’ given doses to members of the public ‘contrary to the state’s plan’

An attendee wears a yarmulke with an image of US President Donald Trump at a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House on December 6, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Republican official believes he caught virus at White House Hanukkah party

By PHILISSA CRAMER

US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, December 23, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

US unemployment benefits lapse for millions as Trump refuses to sign bill

By Alexandra Olson and Jill Colvin

Rabbi Joshua Lief of Temple Shalom in Wheeling, which was West Virginia’s first state capital and home to its oldest Jewish community. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)

For the few Jews in struggling West Virginia, pandemic offers a silver lining

By Larry Luxner

Doses of the Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 27, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann / POOL / AFP)

Inside Story

How BioNTech-Pfizer won the great global coronavirus vaccine race

By Hui Min NEO, Yannick Pasquet, Michelle Fitzpatrick and Yann Schreiber

As the German biotechnology firm worked on a shot to defeat virus, other companies around the country already began organizing the infrastructure needed to deliver it to billions

AstraZeneca: ‘Winning’ vaccine formula is 100% effective against severe COVID-19

By AFP

WHO chief: COVID won’t be last pandemic; ‘short-sighted’ stance dooms our health

By Robin MILLARD

European Union nations kick off mass COVID-19 vaccination programs

By Vanessa Gera

More Headlines

A Palestinian man checks damage caused by an overnight Israeli air strike on Hamas targets in Gaza City, on December 26, 2020, after terrorists in the Palestinian enclave fired rockets toward Israeli territory. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

IDF rejects Hamas claim it hit hospital, cites secondary blasts from arms stash

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, December 14, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran’s Rouhani: US is demanding vaccine payments go through its banks

By AFP

Police officers clash with demonstrators during a protest following the death of Ahuvia Sandak during a police chase, outside the police headquarters in Jerusalem, December 26, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hundreds of protesters, cops clash outside police HQ over settler teen’s death

A member of the Jordanian health ministry's epidemiological investigation team takes a random nasal swab to test for coronavirus, from a man leaving the King Abdullah I mosque following the Friday noon prayers, in the capital Amman, on December 18, 2020. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Jordan arrests reporter for alleging officials secretly vaccinated

By AFP

Limaca Medical says it has developed a medical device to perform endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsies that promise 'ten times' greater procedural efficiency (Courtesy)

Drilling tissue for biopsies, startup eyes better tumor samples

By Shoshanna Solomon

The national flags of Israel and Morocco are projected on the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, December 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Moroccan delegation due in Israel on Sunday to advance normalization deal

The Vertigo Dance Company performed 'Birth of the Phoenix' at a drive-in event in July 2020, during the pandemic (Courtesy Vertigo Dance company)

Web whirlDance isn’t simple to show online, but Vertigo troupe tries it

By Jessica Steinberg

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

FBI at home of possible person of interest in Nashville bombing

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Eric Tucker

In this June 6, 2000 file photo, Roger Berlind, producer of "Kiss Me, Kate," accept the Tony award for Best Revival of a Musical at the 54th annual Tony Awards ceremonies at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)

Tony-winning Broadway producer Roger Berlind dies at 90

By AP

Wild boars gather in a residential area in the northern city of Haifa on December 5, 2019 ( MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Wild boar moderately injures woman hiking in northern Israel with her family

By Stuart Winer

A car packed with stolen avocados, December 26, 2020 (Israel Police)

Fruits of crimeOff-duty police officer thwarts avocado heist in central Israel

Outbrain suggests interesting and relevant content to users, and powers many publishing sites including that of CNN, Fox News and Slate (Shoshanna Solomon/TimesofIsrael)

Content discovery firm Outbrain reportedly seeks IPO at $2 billion valuation

By Shoshanna Solomon

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