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What Matters Most On Monday, December 28, 2020

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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Maccabi Healthcare Services vaccination center in Modiin, on December 24, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

51% of Israelis live in high infection areas

99,000 vaccinated Sunday as world-leading Israel expands its inoculation drive

With 379,000 shots administered, Israel overtakes Bahrain for injections per capita while Edelstein pledges to increase pace; but positive tests hit highest rate in two months

Deputy Transportation Minister Uri Maklev holds a face mask during a press conference at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem on July 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

MK warns of spiritual side effects as vaccination drive continues on Shabbat

By Nathan Jeffay

Police at a temporary checkpoint in Jerusalem's Old City on December 28, 2020, during the a third national lockdown to contain the coronavirus. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset panel narrowly approves cabinet’s lockdown rules

TV: One car created a diversion as gunmen fired from another

Gangland attack while under police protection: 1 killed, 1 hurt in Route 6 hit

2nd man in critical state as cops fail to protect victims from drive-by shooting; men were being escorted to another locale to protect them after man slain in Lod overnight

A car is seen by the roadside on Route 6 after it was shot at on December 28, 2020. One man died and another was critically injured in the suspected revenge attack (video screenshot)

A demo photo of a "Vote and drive station" provided by the Central Elections Committee on December 28, 2020, shows a model of a drive-thru voting station for coronavirus carriers that will be set up for the elections on March 23, 2021. (Central Elections Committee)

With drive-thrus for voters with COVID, Israel prepares for election in pandemic

Elections committee director promises 30% more polling stations, and 2 booths at each, to reduce crowds at March 2021 vote; nursing homes, virus wards to get own booths

Likud members cast their votes for the party list in primaries at the Tel Aviv Likud polling station on February 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lockdown, tight schedule threaten primaries in upcoming elections

A man walks through a closed market amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, in Tel Aviv, September 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Third lockdown may cause additional 100,000 unemployed, official says

The Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York, in 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)

Facing 1900s New York anti-Semitism, a banker built this castle; you can visit

By Matt Lebovic

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gives an address on official party al-Manar TV on September 29, 2020. (Screenshot: Al-Manar)

Nasrallah claims Saudi-Israeli plot to kill him; says precision missiles doubled

Hezbollah chief says his terror group can hit anywhere in Israel, and is still committed to avenging its fighter killed in Syria and Iran’s slain top general

An autonomous robotic dog manufactured by the Rafael defense contractor equipped with advanced sensors that can be used by soldiers in urban warfare, as seen in a demonstration of the device on December 24, 2020. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)

Rafael seeks to outfit IDF with drones, robots that spot threats by themselves

By Judah Ari Gross

Special police forces enter a home in the Palestinian town of Tura to arrest a man suspected of murdering Israeli Esther Horgen (Israel Police)

Police footage shows arrest of Palestinian suspected in murder of Esther Horgen

By Emanuel Fabian

I miss shopping. There, I said it.

I know, I know, there are real tragedies. But I can’t help it: I miss the heady feeling of enjoying something new – the sense of fresh possibilities

When Orthodox Jews ‘disagree’ with the scientific consensus

That ’2 Jews, 3 opinions’ claim is real: Judaism prizes argument – for the very existence of dissenting voices prove the rule, and the unanimous decision is suspect

Calling all Israeli democrats!

Liberal parties must function in an openly democratic manner, including prioritizing pluralism – or risk losing the large democratic camp

Michael Zoosman

The death penalty is an abomination

As a Jewish, former prison chaplain and descendent of Holocaust survivors, I know this: State-sponsored killing of prisoners is the epitome of evil

A man closes his shop in Jerusalem on December 27, 2020, as Israel enters its 3rd nationwide lockdown. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Melancholy and the finite lockdown: What the press is saying on December 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Shopkeepers are sad and frustrated, teachers are angry and parents are confused, but those who want to are able to see deliverance from the plague and its shutdowns coming up fast

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

Health minister: ‘Wretched’ decision to keep schools open will extend lockdown

Closed down stores at the Azrieli shopping mall in Tel Aviv on December 27, 2020, as Israel enters its third nationwide lockdown in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

‘This is no lockdown,’ top health official says as school, workplaces stay open

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai attends the annual international Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February 19, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Tel Aviv mayor to form new left-wing party to run in March elections

Ron Huldai set to launch campaign on Tuesday night, further splintering center-left vote

7:13 pm

South Africa mandates mask-wearing, bans alcohol sales
7:06 pm

Man stabbed and seriously injured in Givat Shmuel
6:42 pm

Burial society threatens to stop COVID funerals if its workers aren't vaccinated

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

Tunisian who sang duet with Israeli gets death threats, said fired from his job

Noamane Chaari, who says he performed with Ziv Yehezkel to promote ‘peace and tolerance between religions,’ allegedly subject to state-led pressure campaign

Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat (2nd-L) and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (3rd-L) meet with Moroccan King Mohammed VI (C) at the royal palace in Rabat, Morocco, December 22, 2020. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Moroccan team arrives in Israel to prepare for reopening of liaison office

By Judah Ari Gross

Gideon Sa'ar seen during a visit to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem on December 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Gideon Sa’ar: Limiting PM’s term to 8 years is ‘the first law we’ll pass’

Also seeks to restrict mayors to two terms; Eilat’s veteran mayor quits Likud to join Sa’ar’s New Hope, says Netanyahu’s party has ‘a culture of slander’

A composite image shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Gideon Sa'ar, right. (Flash90)

Poll signals neither Netanyahu nor Sa’ar have clear path to governing coalition

Knesset members Asaf Zamir and Miki Haimovich attend the ceremony marking Remembrance Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on May 7, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz ousts rebel Blue and White MKs Zamir, Haimovich from party

A stone abrasion tool, dated to be some 350,000 years old, that was found in the Tabun Cave in Mount Carmel. (University of Haifa)

Stone found in Israel is oldest known tool in world used for ‘delicate’ abrading

By Stuart Winer

Archaeologists determine that 350,000-year-old cobble was used by hominids as they worked on soft materials at Mount Carmel site; exactly what they were producing remains a mystery

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with his lawyers at the Jerusalem District Court for the start of his trial on corruption charges, May 24, 2020. (Amit Shabi/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu lawyers again seek to cancel charges, claim AG never authorized probe

State prosecution denies allegation; premier’s previous requests to throw out his criminal indictment were rejected by the court

Illustrative: Police scuffle with anti-Netanyahu protesters block the light rail tracks on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem, October 17, 2020. ( Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Jerusalem man arrested for pulling knife on anti-Netanyahu protesters

Visitors look out from the Lincoln Memorial across the Reflecting Pool at the Washington Monument as the sun sets on December 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP)

1 in 1,000 Americans has died of COVID-19, as country surpasses 19 million cases

By AFP

Johns Hopkins data show US has been recording at least a million infections per week since early November

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

Trump signs massive COVID relief bill, after slamming it for days as ‘disgrace’

A pro-democracy activist holds placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan outside the Chinese central government's liaison office, in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Zhang, a former lawyer and citizen journalist from Shanghai, has been sentenced to four years in prison for her reporting on the initial coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. The activists demand the releases of Zhang, as well as the 12 Hong Kong activists detained at sea by Chinese authorities. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Chinese citizen journalist jailed for four years for Wuhan virus reporting

Palestinian and Arab Israeli rave attendees make merry at the Nabi Musa mosque in the West Bank on December 26, 2020 (Screenshot/Twitter)

Techno party at Muslim holy site draws censure from Palestinian leadership

By Aaron Boxerman

Amid blame game, Palestinian Authority forms committee to probe who was behind party at Nabi Musa mosque, arrests prominent DJ; Hamas condemns rave as ‘despicable’

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Ivanka Trump speaks during a campaign rally for Republican Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, December 21, 2020, in Milton, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Ivanka Trump said weighing run for US Senate or Florida governor

Satmar Rebbe Zalman Teitelbaum visits the northern Israeli city of Safed on November 21, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, US Satmar Hasidic leader, tests positive for COVID-19

Police clash with ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting the arrest of a draft dodger, in the central city of Bnei Brak, December 27, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Cop filmed punching Haredi man in head during arrest at Bnei Brak protest

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Investors can hope for new highs as TASE to launch cannabis index

By Shoshanna Solomon

Investigators continue to examine the site of an explosion, December 27, 2020, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

US officials say suspected Nashville suicide bomber died in blast, acted alone

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Eric Tucker

View of caravans in the Givat Hamatos neighborhood of Jerusalem, on July 5, 2016. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Israel said planning to advance settlement building before Biden enters office

View of new home being built in the southern Israeli town of Netivot, Janury 21, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Green building standard becomes mandatory for more construction

Shoppers walk past the Victoria's Secret store on Broadway in the Soho neighborhood of New York, on April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Angels in IsraelVictoria’s Secret, Bath & Body Works set to open Israel stores

Gal Gadot in 'Wonder Woman 84.' (Courtesy Warner Bros. Films)

Wonder Woman 1984 has best COVID-era box office debut; part 3 to be fast-tracked

This November 30, 2014, image made from video released by Loujain al-Hathloul, shows her driving toward the United Arab Emirates-Saudi Arabia border before her arrest on December 1, 2014, in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Loujain al-Hathloul, File)

Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison

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