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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 31, 2020

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A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine held by a nurse in Boston, Massachusetts, December 30, 2020. (Elise Amendola/AP)

Moderna said set to send 1 million vaccines next week, cover Israel’s shortfall

Health Ministry says it cannot confirm TV report that the scheduled delivery of the shots, a type not yet being used in Israel, has been moved up from March

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, on December 30, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israeli coronavirus vaccine drive hits 800,000 but infections, deaths also mount

Teachers receive a COVID-19 vaccine, at the Shamir Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov on December 30, 2020. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Running low on vaccines, Israel may stop giving 1st doses for short period

ToI investigates

Arab communities shattered, as organized crime fuels a skyrocketing murder rate

On December 16, Nimr Suleiman was sitting in a house in al-Reineh with several friends when a group of armed men burst in and opened fire. Suleiman was hit by a spray of bullets and died on the spot. While his death is still being investigated, it is believed that the intruders had intended to... Continue Reading

Illustration of a protest against crime in Arab communities, in Majd al-Krum. The poster reads 'The police have abandoned the Arabs' (original photos by David Cohen/Hadas Parush/Nati Shohat/Flash90; illustration by Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

From the blogs

Miriam Herschlag

Voices of 2020: The blog posts that helped us through the chaos

It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. And also a year when peace in the Middle East looked possible. These writers offered wisdom when we needed it most

First person

Vaccinated in Israel, I feel incredibly appreciative, and I’m daring to hope

I have a tiny, blessed ache in my right arm. May it signal the beginning of the end of our common nightmare. I've just sat down at my desk having been vaccinated against COVID-19, a few minutes ago, by the staff of the Maccabi health fund at Jerusalem's Arena stadium -- an indoor sports and... Continue Reading

An Israeli teacher receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at the Shamir Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov, on December 30, 2020. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler in Jerusalem on September 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK diagnosed with coronavirus 10 days after vaccination shot

By Stuart Winer

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

1 in 1,000 Israelis report mild side effects from vaccine

Police at a temporary checkpoint at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem on December 28, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Thousands of police officers deployed to break up illegal New Year’s Eve parties

Checkpoints set up on highways, amid anticipation that Israelis will host gatherings in violation of lockdown rules, despite sky-high infection rates

7:22 pm

Netanyahu speaks on phone with parents of settler teen killed in car chase -- TV
7:12 pm

US and Israel vote against UN's 2021 budget
7:09 pm

Interim police chief steps down tonight

Police at a temporary checkpoint during Israel's third coronavirus lockdown, Jerusalem, December 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police preparing to crack down on thousands of illegal New Year’s gatherings

Officers to deploy drones and helicopters to locate parties that are barred under virus lockdown rules; Health Ministry frets about restrictions’ efficacy amid high infection rate

Members of the Palestinian security forces enforce a lockdown following the spread of the coronavirus in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 18, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Despite restrictions, coronavirus infections remain high in West Bank, Gaza

By Aaron Boxerman

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)

Virus lockdowns help cut Israel’s 2020 traffic deaths by 15%

Golani Brigade soldiers search for the killer of one of their comrades, Amit Ben-Ygal, in the West Bank village of Yabed in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

2020 sees fewest soldiers, civilians killed in war or terror in Israel’s history

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF releases year-end statistics, including 50 targets hit in Syria, a million doctor’s visits by troops, and over 1.4 million coronavirus-related phone calls answered

A new F-35 fighter jet at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, on July 14, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IAF chief expresses lingering concerns, hopes over US sale of F-35 to Emirates

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: GBU-39 SDB (Small Diameter Bomb) at the Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, on August 1 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Lance Cheung via Wikipedia public domain)

State Department greenlights sale of 3,000 precision-guided bombs to Saudis

David Yeger, director of the excavation at Gethsemane in Jerusalem, in the Byzantine church. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

2020 in review

As COVID hit, archaeologists turned to futuristic labs to dig up ancient history

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the launch of his Likud party's election campaign in Ramat Gan, March 4, 2019.(Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Israeli elections 2021

Likud scraps primaries; polls show Huldai party taking votes from Lapid, Bennett

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu given ok to pick 6 names to freshen up slate; said to want ex-Health Ministry DG Moshe Bar Siman-Tov; anti-PM parties heading for majority, but would they join forces?

Izhar Shay poses at the Knesset, on April 29, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

2 more lawmakers leave sinking Blue and White ahead of new elections

Israeli economist Yaron Zelekha seen at a press conference headed by leader of the Israeli Labor party Shelly Yachimovich (not seen), prior to the national Israeli elections. January 15, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Former Treasury official Zelekha launches party, says he aims to save economy

It’s just another leap year. It shall pass!

’I wish I visited you more, Grandpa. I wish I’d made it to your birthday last year. I wish you’d reminded me that nobody knows what might happen in a leap year’

What to make of the folks in Trump Country?

I used to have a positive prejudice toward Middle Americans. Now my sense is that many Democrats feel as I do: alienated from them, bewildered by them, scared of them

A 21-year-old, whose name has not been released by Israeli censors, is Israel's first female American air force pilot. (Israel Air Force)

21-year-old from Boston becomes Israel’s first US-raised female Air Force pilot

Lt. O. is 1 of 2 women in her class to pass grueling 3-year training course; will fly Boeing 707 in aerial refueling, cargo operations

A US Air Force B-52H 'Stratofortress' from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is refueled by a KC-135 'Stratotanker' in the US Central Command area of responsibility, Dec. 30, 2020. (Senior Airman Roslyn Ward/U.S. Air Force via AP)

US bomber flight over Persian Gulf aims to intimidate Iran in Trump’s final days

By AP and TOI staff

Senior military officer says operation meant to warn Tehran against targeting US forces before Biden takes office, comes after Israeli sub said to have openly crossed Suez Canal

Debris litters the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iran allocates $150,000 to pay each family of 176 Ukraine crash victims

By Isabel Debre

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks outside the Lebanese Foreign Ministry, August 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iran’s Zarif says Trump trying to fabricate ‘pretext for war’

Ultra-orthodox young women who are part of the Adva program that aims to train them with skills for the high-tech sector (Courtesy)

Newly trained, young Haredi women ready for bold foray into tech world

By Shoshanna Solomon

1st group graduates intensive 2-year Adva program, which is lauded as model for other sidelined groups by industry figures eager for diversity

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend a funeral in Jerusalem, October 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: 78% of Haredim back health rules, 60% broke them to send kids to school

Commander Shimon Marciano stands next to the young boy he shoved towards a wall during an ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem on October 4, 2020 (Screenshot: Twitter)

Commander of Jerusalem police station indicted for beating child during protest

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Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)

Couples marry online via State of Utah to beat lack of civil marriages in Israel

By Stuart Winer

Dead Sea Periclase Ltd. (Shira Sal Webshat, via Israel Chemicals Ltd)

Israel Chemicals planning to build solar plant in southern Israel

London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. (Google street view)

London college refunds student who left due to ‘toxic anti-Semitism’

By Stuart Winer

Israelis clash with police during a protest march against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on their way to Netanyahu's official residence on Balfour Street, September 5, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2 anti-Netanyahu protesters charged for breaking leg of undercover cop at rally

Illustrative: Investors check stock prices on their mobile phones near a display of the stock market index at a brokerage in Beijing on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (AP/Ng Han Guan)

Online trading platform eToro reportedly planning IPO at $5b valuation

By Simona Weinglass and Shoshanna Solomon

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference at the prime minister's Jerusalem residence on December 21, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Report: Jared Kushner’s family firm files to raise $100 million in Israel bonds

A rabbi officiates under a traditional Jewish wedding canopy during marriage ceremony of the Israeli couple Noemie Azerad, left, seated under the canopy, and Simon David Benhamou, at a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 17, 2020. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

In new playground Dubai, Israelis find parties, Jewish rites

By Isabel Debre

Illustrative: Syrian engineering troops check for mines in the M5 highway in Aleppo, Syria, February 15, 2020. (SANA via AP)

Syria’s state media says attack on bus in its south kills 28 civilians

By AP

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