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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 30, 2020

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Jonathan Pollard, left, shortly after his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, December 30, 2020, in a picture released by the Prime Minister's Office. (Courtesy)

'We are ecstatic to be home at last'

Jonathan Pollard arrives in Israel, 35 years after his arrest for spying

Ex-US Navy analyst, jailed for passing secrets to Israel, touches down with wife a month after end of parole; greeted by Netanyahu: ‘You can start life anew, with freedom’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets released US spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard and his wife Esther at Ben Gurion Airport, December 30, 2020 (Courtesy)

Israel media reviewLike a spy in the night: What the press is saying on December 30

By Joshua Davidovich

US Vice President Mike Pence visits Jerusalem's Western Wall on January 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Pence’s final visit to Israel before leaving office is canceled

By Judah Ari Gross

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi meets at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 10, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gabi Ashkenazi quits Blue and White, as party further disintegrates

Gantz’s deputy says he’s ‘taking time off’ from politics, hails party’s achievements in reining in ‘adventurism’; plans to stay on as foreign minister as long as needed

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit vaccination center in Rehovot on December 29, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Running out of vaccines, Israel may stop giving 1st doses for short period

Supplies will run out in 10 days at current pace, Channel 13 says; plan would see 2nd doses get priority for 2-week period; health minister warns current lockdown ‘a swiss cheese’

7:30 pm

302 people died in road accidents this year -- lowest number since 2013
7:09 pm

Police said to expect thousands of illicit New Year's Eve parties Thursday
6:41 pm

Netanyahu said to offer ex-health ministry chief Bar Siman-Tov top spot in Likud

People wait to receive a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, December 29, 2020 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Record 152,000 vaccinated in a day, but new cases hit highest rate in months

Health minister says Israel nearing 650,000 COVID-19 shots administered; virus czar warns of slowdown if more doses don’t arrive soon

A nurse prepares a vial of coronavirus vaccine in Jerusalem, December 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hundreds of COVID vaccines thrown away as inoculation push said ‘out of control’

Passengers who arrived on a flight from England arrive at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Jerusalem, used as a quarantine facility, on December 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel officially scraps hotel quarantine requirement for returning travelers

Clockwise from top left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives the coronavirus vaccine (Amir Cohen/Pool/AFP); National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat elbow bumps with an Emirati official, (Nir Elias/Pool/AFP); protesters pose for Netanyahu's 'Last Supper,' (Courtesy Omer Burin); Donald Trump holds up his face mask, (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File); A woman at prayer, September 2020 (Ricki Rosen/Times of Israel); a new Israeli iconic demonstrator (AP Photo/Oded Balilty).

2020 in review

Bye-bye 2020: ToI writers share important stories from a year of crisis and hope

As the year comes to a close, many would like to put it out of mind. But first, a few ToI stories that have made the last 12 months unforgettable — for better or for worse

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after receiving the the first vaccination against the coroanvirus as part of a national inoculation program, at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, outside of Tel Aviv, on December 19, 2020. (Flash90)

Elections 2021

Shalom Yerushalmi

Netanyahu confident mass vaccines will be shot in the arm needed to win election

Predicting up to 40 seats in vote, PM said to tell confidants that challenger Sa’ar is a ‘balloon that will burst’; efforts to recruit envoy to US Ron Dermer so far rebuffed

A beggar on Tel Aviv promenade (Gili Yaari / Flash 90).

Pandemic will worsen already high poverty, inequality in Israel, report says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the media in Jerusalem, on December 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to again postpone trip to UAE, Bahrain

An ultra-Orthodox man walks near an election campaign poster showing Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on April 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Haredi parties signal ardent alliance with Netanyahu no longer a given

UTJ and Shas have stuck by Likud for the last five years, but as political winds shift, they are letting other parties know that their loyalty may be up for grabs

A volunteer in the Phase 2 trial for Israel's coronavirus vaccine, at Sheba Medical Center, on December 28, 2020 (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

As Israel goes vaccine-wild, will the homegrown version lose its shot?

By Nathan Jeffay

Phase II of Brilife trial launches, but success of current immunization drive in quashing coronavirus may make effective testing impossible, and some who get placebo could drop out

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (4L) and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein (2L) accompany David Herzl Levy as he becomes the 500,000th Israeli to receive a coronavirus vaccine.(Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Leading world in vaccine drive, Israel crosses half a million milestone

Illustrative: A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, December 29, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

88-year-old dies hours after vaccine; doctors stress he was seriously ill

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

Analysis

Move over Gantz, Tel Aviv’s mayor is the new anti-Netanyahu kid in town

While the Blue and White leader fumes at the political price he is paying for his sacrifice, voters are no longer listening. Will they find Ron Huldai more compelling?

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

Veteran Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai launches new center-left party, ‘The Israelis’

Screen capture from video of Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman during an interview with Channel 12 news, December 29, 2020. (Channel 12 news)

Liberman sets his sights on becoming Israel’s next finance minister

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks at a press conference, December 29, 2020. (Elad Malka/Blue and White)

Claiming Blue and White ‘saved Israel,’ Gantz says he’ll lead party in election

By Raoul Wootliff

Defense minister vows to create ‘alliance’ to unseat Netanyahu, castigates ‘whiners’ and ‘cowards’ who criticized him for joining Likud-led government

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a conference in Netanya on March 18, 2019. (Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot decides against running for Knesset

Labor MK Merav Michaeli speaks during a protest in Jerusalem, November 9, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Former parliamentary aide accuses MK Merav Michaeli of workplace abuse

Israeli model Yael Shelbia, named the most 'beautiful face' in the world in 2020 by TC Candler (YouTube screenshot)

First face

Israeli model named world’s ‘most beautiful face’ of 2020

Yael Shelbia, 19, tops TC Candler’s ‘100 Most Beautiful Faces’ list; currently serving in the IAF, she’s represented Kim Kardashian’s KKW Beauty makeup line; Gal Gadot ranks 21

This photo issued by the University of Oxford shows of vial of coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, in Oxford, England. (John Cairns/University of Oxford via AP)

UK is 1st to approve use of AstraZeneca’s cheap, easily stored COVID-19 vaccine

By DANICA KIRKA

Developed by British-Swedish drugmaker and University of Oxford, shots can be stored in a regular refrigerator making them an easy option for many countries

US President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks on the pandemic in Wilmington, December 29, 2020. (Mark Makela/Getty Images/AFP)

‘Falling far behind’: Biden criticizes pace of US vaccine rollout

By AFP

A promoter talks about the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm subsidiary CNBG during a trade fair in Beijing on September 6, 2020. (Ng Han Guan/AP)

China drugmaker says its coronavirus vaccine is 79.3% effective in final tests

By Joe McDonald and HUIZHONG WU

Russian solders, left, take pictures with a tree decorated for Christmas and New Year celebrations in Moscow, Russia, December 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

First person

For many Jews from FSU, New Year’s Eve always involves a Christmas-style tree

By ASHLEY ZLATOPOLSKY

More Headlines

Israeli police scuffle with demonstrators during a protest over a young settler who was killed earlier this week in a car crash during a police chase after allegedly throwing stones at Palestinians, Jerusalem, December 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesters beat police officers at demonstration over settler teen’s death

Members of the Knesset Honor Guard, Home Front Command, firefighters, IDF, Israel Police and Magen David Adom Emergency Medical Services participate in an emergency drill simulating an earthquake at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Major earthquake, killing hundreds, likely to hit Israel in coming years – study

By Stuart Winer

Screen capture from video of Shimon Hayut getting a coronavirus vaccination injection, December 28, 2020. (Channel 12 news)

‘Tinder swindler’ faked being medic, conned his way into early vaccine – report

Sama Abd al-Hadi (Screen capture: YouTube)

Rights groups demand release of Palestinian DJ after rave at Muslim holy site

By AFP

Illustrative: A Syrian surface-to-air missile explodes in the sky over southern Syria on August 31, 2020. (SANA)

Syrian media says 1 soldier killed, 3 injured in Israeli strikes near Damascus

By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross

Members of ultra-Orthodox community gather to listen to an interview conducted by a journalist on a street corner, in the Borough Park neighborhood of New York as Gov. Andrew Cuomo moved to reinstate restrictions on houses of worship in and near areas where coronavirus cases are spiking, October 7, 2020. (John Minchillo/AP)

US court strikes down pandemic limits on New York’s houses of worship

Kobi Shabtai, commander of the Border Police, on September 28, 2017 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Vetting panel approves appointments of new chiefs of police, prisons service

A screen capture of video from social media shows a Christmas tree that was set on fire outside a church in the northern Arab Israeli city of Sakhnin, December 30, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

3rd Christmas tree outside church set alight in northern Arab city of Sakhnin

Illustrative: A firefighter is silhouetted against a fire burning outside the village of Roqueiro, near Oleiros, Portugal, September 14, 2020 (AP Photo/Sergio Azenha, File)

Ahead of UN deadline, 40 groups urge Israel to adopt stiffer climate goals

An ultra-Orthodox man receives a Covid-19 vaccine, at a Kupat Holim Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

1 in 132 Israeli ultra-Orthodox adults over 65 has died of COVID-19

A hydrogen fueled truck on the road. (audioundwerbung, at iStock by Getty Images)

Bazan Group embarks on $3.7 million project to advance hydrogen-fueled vehicles

Luke Letlow speaks after signing up to run for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)

US Congressman-elect dies from COVID-19, days before swearing-in

By Melinda Deslatte

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