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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 29, 2020

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A policeman advises a vendor at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, Dec. 28, 2020, during Israel's third nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Health Ministry reports 5,459 new cases, highest daily tally in nearly 3 months

Record 115,000 vaccinated on Monday, bringing the total to 495,000, more than the number diagnosed since pandemic’s start

People receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit COVID-19 vaccination center in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel nears 500,000 vaccinated, in new daily record; teachers to be prioritized

A technician collects nasal swab samples for COVID-19 at the coronavirus lab, at Ben-Gurion International Airport on December 14, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

In U-turn, government cancels forced hotel quarantine for arrivals from abroad

Mayor of Tel Aviv Ron Huldai attends a Tel Aviv city council meeting, January 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

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

By Raoul Wootliff

Ron Huldai confirms entry into national political arena, says he’ll launch campaign Tuesday night reaching out to those who ‘feel they have no home in the current political system’

Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn seen at the Knesset, October 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In blow to Gantz, Justice Minister Nissenkorn joins Tel Aviv mayor’s new party

Israel's antisemitism envoy Michal Cotler-Wunsh in an undated photo. (Rami Zarenger)

MK Cotler-Wunsh quits Blue and White, says she’s ‘committed to continue serving’

Clockwise from top left: Woody Allen (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File); Sacha Baron Cohen as Boart (Screenshot); Seth Rogen in 'American Pickle' (Courtesy HBO); Cover of 'Self Care' by Leigh Stein (Courtesy); Members of the band Haim (CC-SA-2.0/ Flickr/ Raph_PH); Zoe Kazan in 'The Plot Against America' (Michele K. Short/HBO).

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: ToI’s top 11 countdown of Jew-ish TV, songs, movies and books of 2020

By Jordan Hoffman

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem on December 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Hit me with your best shots: What the press is saying on December 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel is going gangbusters for the COVID-19-busting vaccine and there’s enough for everyone, assuming the doses keep coming. Until then, the fake lockdowns should keep us safe

Family, ministry say no link to vaccine as man dies hours after inoculation

Under new lockdown rules, 640,000 kids to return to remote learning on Wednesday

Lockdown lite: Closure sees patchy compliance, has little impact on traffic

Illustrative: A rocket is fired into the sea during a military drill organized by terror groups outside Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza terror groups launch first joint drill, fire rockets into sea as ‘message’

By Aaron Boxerman

Hamas closes down main streets of Gaza City for exercise conducted with Islamic Jihad and smaller Gaza factions, breathlessly covered by local media

The smoke trail of a rocket, fired by Palestinian terrorists, flying over the Gaza Strip, on February 23, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Rocket sirens blare in south as projectile fired from Gaza fails to cross border

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, at a cabinet meeting on January 4, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90/File)

Siding with Netanyahu, court demands to see AG’s written authorization of probes

Prosecutors must hand over documents within a week; PM’s attorneys claim Mandelblit’s permission for police investigations was given retroactively, all charges must be canceled

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

High Court to hear petitions on opening probe into Netanyahu over submarine case

Yigal Amir, appearing in court in 2004. (Yoram Rubin/Flash90/File)

Rabin assassin hires prominent lawyer to work for his early release

Crime and punishment: The sorrows of young Benny

Gantz, a decent fellow who bumbled and stumbled into leadership, committed the sins of hubris, cluelessness, weakness and, worst of all, being a ’freier’

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Justice must not be the price for peace with Sudan

The US Congress should stand firm in protecting the legal rights of the many victims of terror groups sponsored by the East African nation

A focused Netanyahu is down, but not out

The prime minister’s unmatched zest for ruling has beaten down and worn out anyone with even a hint of potential to succeed him

Naomi Mittelmann Cohen

A cancel culture that risks canceling our own Jewish voices

Some World Union of Jewish Students members are boycotting the annual congress over a New Israel Fund speaker. That is the opposite of leadership.

Phosphorus-starved chickpea plant dusted with phosphorus (left) shows more growth than control. (Sudeep Tiwari, Yonatan Weizman, Volcani Agricultural Research Organization)

Eat my dust: Israeli scientist shows plants grab nutrients off dust in the wind

Researchers find some desert plants sprinkled with motes manage to absorb phosphorous on their leaves, and grow stronger; breakthrough could open door to reduced fertilizer usage

After the war Herman Likwornik returned to his hometown, which had become part of the USSR and was now known as Kalush. Photo taken in 1947. (Courtesy Victor Likwornik)

First person

Double tragedy: Survivor’s nephew uncovers fate of Polish Jews who fled to USSR

By Bernard Dichek

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai announces his new 'The Israelis' party, December 29, 2020. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Ron Huldai announces new ‘The Israelis’ party, vows end to national ‘despair’

By Michael Bachner

Tel Aviv mayor says he, not Sa’ar, is true alternative to Netanyahu and right wing; meanwhile, Gantz says he’ll keep leading ailing Blue and White, claims he ‘saved the country’

7:15 pm

Sa'ar says his new party will include minorities, possibly including Muslims
6:59 pm

Russia opens probe against Navalny, alleging 'fraud'
6:58 pm

Likud wishes 'luck' to Huldai, Gantz while Netanyahu 'gets Israel out of virus crisis'

A younger resident of Shahak Heights enjoying his bike. (Shira Malul/via Ayalim)

For 21st century Zionist pioneers, it takes an off-the-grid eco-village

Illustrative: An Orthodox Jewish man walks past Parcare's health care facility, December 27, 2020, in the Willamsburg section of Brooklyn in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Analysis

Half-vaccinated patients at NY clinic under investigation unsure what’s next

As the Jewish-owned ParCare network undergoes what appears to be the US’s first inquiry into vaccine misappropriation, it promises to work with state to administer second dose

A man walks past a sign advertising the services of ParCare Community Health Care Network in front of the company's facility in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, December 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Cuomo vows consequences for vaccine fraud as ParCare clinics investigated in NY

A sign on the entrance to a Parcare health care facility announces that they have "No Vaccines!!" in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, December 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Prominent US rabbi says he didn’t know his ParCare vaccination was not allowed

Moshe Hogeg, one of the owners of Beitar Jerusalem FC soccer club, plays with a ball, in the team training ground in Jerusalem, December 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Interview

Beitar Jerusalem owner confronts soccer team’s racist fans

By Josef Federman

After selling 50% of the club to an Emirati royal, Moshe Hogeg vows to take on fans opposed to signing Arab players: ‘If you are about hate and racism, you are not part of us’

More Headlines

Chairman of The Jewish Agency Isaac Herzog, center, meeting with children who immigrated to Israel during the coronavirus pandemic, December 28, 2020. (David Salem/The Jewish Agency for Israel)

Pandemic withers immigration by nearly 40%

By Stuart Winer

Labour leader Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria applaud outside their home on May 14, 2020 in London, England (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images via JTA)

UK Labour leader Starmer opens up about his family’s Jewish traditions

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: An Israir flight taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, September 3, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Supermarket mogul poised to become new owner of Israir Airlines

Screen capture from video of three men robbing a Beersheba jewelry store, December 26, 2020. (Channel 12 news)

Smash and grab robbers take NIS 1.7 million haul from Beersheba jewelry store

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Lawmakers vote against a bill to delay the budget deadline on December 22, 2020 (Danny Shem Tov/ Knesset Spokesperson)

Knesset approves interim financial package in absence of state budget

Tayebeh Mokhber is injected with the Coviran coronavirus vaccine produced by Shifa Pharmed, part of a state-owned pharmaceutical conglomerate, at a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, December 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Aref Taherkenareh)

Iran begins human trials for locally made coronavirus vaccine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video produced by his office in which he welcomes the normalization deal between Israel and Morocco. (Twitter screen capture)

Western Sahara map in backdrop of Netanyahu clip said to spark fury in Morocco

Police officers are seen during a protest in the northern city of Safed on December 22, 2020, following the death of Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed when his car flipped over while being chased by police in the West Bank. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Settler youths suspected of negligent homicide in fatal crash during chase

A Border Police officer stands guard next to the US ambassador's official residence in Herzliya, September 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israeli records show US sold ambassador’s home for $67 million

By Joseph Krauss

An illustrative image of a merger and acquisition deal (designer491; iStock by Getty Images)

M&A deals plunge in Israel as pandemic sidelines foreign investors

By Shoshanna Solomon

Amir Abu Laban (L) at the Tel Aviv District Court on December 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Driver jailed for 9 years for killing 8-year-old boy on Yom Kippur

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)

Pfizer, AstraZeneca chosen for lab to foster Israel biotech startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

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