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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 2, 2021

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In this April 9, 2018 file photo, released by an official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark "National Nuclear Day," in Tehran, Iran.(Iranian Presidency Office via AP, File)

Iran says has ‘finger on trigger’ to enrich uranium to 20% ‘as soon as possible’

By Agencies and TOI staff

Tehran nuclear chief issues warning amid heightened tensions day ahead of one-year anniversary of Soleimani’s killing in US drone strike

Ahead of Soleimani anniversary, Iran vows harsh response to ‘any action’ by foes

By Agencies and TOI staff

Ultraconservative Iranian cleric, Khamenei ally Mesbah-Yazdi dies at 85

By AFP

Israel said bracing for possible strikes by Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Yemen

By TOI staff and Agencies

Interview

In Haifa coronavirus ward, a US-trained rabbi helps Muslims keep the faith

As Israel’s third wave COVID cases surge, Rabbi Mike Schultz dons his hazmat suit, and prepares to talk about Allah. Israel’s Arab citizens have been disproportionately hit by the coronavirus pandemic, which means that 12 years after graduating from a New York rabbinical school, Schultz is spending his days talking with a lot of patients... Continue Reading

Rabbi Mike Schultz outside of Rambam Medical Center on December 30, 2020. (Nathan Jeffay/Times of Israel)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a vaccination center in Tira on December 31, 2020 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu signals intention to campaign hard for Arab votes in March election

By TOI staff and Tal Schneider

Visiting Umm al-Fahm, PM says Arabs should be full part of ‘Israeli success story,’ but some in community say they haven’t forgotten his ‘incitement, racism’ against them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, center with Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab Jabarin, the millionth Israeli to get a COVID-19 vaccine, and medical staff in Umm al-Fahm, January 1, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Protesters in Arab town denounce Netanyahu as he visits for vaccine drive

Basketball player Amar'e Stoudemire (C) shows off his Israeli national identity card at the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem alongside Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (R) and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion on March 13, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Amar’e Stoudemire’s Jewish journey, from young scholar to aspiring ‘prophet’

By Gabe Friedman

Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija (9) dives for the ball next to Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Jan. 1, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King)

Wizards, with Israel’s Avdija, beat Minnesota Timberwolves for 1st win of season

No. 9 overall draft pick has season-high 11 points and added seven rebounds, three assists, three steals; coach Scott Brooks: ‘Deni took another step in a young career’

In honor of the nurses

They are the ones who run towards the fire on our behalf, even when they aren’t safe, even when their job stress is magnified by failed policies

Pinchas Allouche

7 lessons from this year of uncertainty

If one sneeze can affect our world so dramatically, one positive deed can certainly produce an even greater change

Nurses attend to a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California, December 18, 2020.
(Apu Gomes/AFP)

New Year arrives with US hitting a staggering 20 million COVID cases

By Ben Sheppard

As raging pandemic deadens holiday celebrations, US death toll passes 347,000; France imposes new curfews; UK reopens field hospitals to cope with surge in cases

A grave digger prepares graves at the Motherwell Cemetery in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020 (AP Photo/Theo Jeftha)

World hits grim daily record of 15,000 reported COVID deaths on last day of 2020

By TOI staff and Agencies

A row of ambulances are parked outside the Royal London Hospital in London,, December 29, 2020. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

‘Eye of the storm’: UK in crisis as cases surge, likely due to new virus variant

Personal belongings of the victims of Sobibor displayed at the museum, October 2020 (courtesy: State Museum at Majdanek)

Holocaust

In Poland, new Sobibor museum memorializes victims through unearthed belongings

By Matt Lebovic

Defense Minister Benny Gantz and then Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn visit the Jerusalem Municipality on November 10, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz calls Nissenkorn a backstabber, PM untrustworthy, as Blue and White flails

Party leader slams the former justice minister who accused him of agreeing to undermine democracy to save coalition; says his trust in coalition partner Netanyahu was unjustified

Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz, left, and Minister of Justice Avi Nissenkorn visit at the Jerusalem Municipality on November 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-justice minister says Gantz agreed to ‘insane’ Likud demands behind his back

Israelis listen from their balconies as saxophonist Yarden Klayman performs a concert from a rooftop on Basel Square, in Tel Aviv, March 23, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Far from being curtains, pandemic ushered in new audiences for artists

By Jessica Steinberg

Palestinians scuffle with Israeli soldiers outside of al-Tuwani in the West Bank, on January 1, 2021 (screenshot)

Palestinian critical after being shot at close range in face-off with IDF

By Aaron Boxerman

Army looking into incident, caught on video, during operation to confiscate construction equipment; TV report says soldier may have accidentally discharged weapon

Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich stands outside the Learning from the Righteous mobile studio in London, UK in December 2020. (Learning from the Righteous/ via JTA)

Customized van helps UK Holocaust survivors record their stories during pandemic

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A view of the Hatzbani, or Snir, stream in northern Israel, 2009 (Hamad Almakt/Flash 90)

Hezbollah TV denies new Lebanese reservoir will deplete water flow into Israel

After officials express concern over construction to Kan news, al-Manar says report is ‘propaganda,’ and that Lebanon only wishes to benefit from its water sources

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Pakistani security personnel escort Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, as he leaves the court after a hearing in Islamabad on January 1, 2015. photo credit: AFP/Aamir QURESHI)

Pakistan nabs key suspect in 2008 Mumbai attacks; 166 died, 6 of them Israelis

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a suspected murder scene in Haifa, June 10, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Two Arab men killed in separate violent incidents on first day of new year

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives at the US Capitol on January 1, 2021 in Washington, DC (Liz Lynch/Getty Images/AFP)

Delivering rebuke to Trump, US Senate overrides his veto of defense bill

By Brian Knowlton

Police officers escort Grafton Thomas, the suspect in a stabbing spree at a rabbi's home in Monsey, New York, to a police vehicle in Ramapo, New York, December 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

Hanukkah stabbing suspect still unfit for trial a year after attack in New York

Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)

Roadside bombing in Egypt’s Sinai kills 2 police

By ASHRAF SWEILAM

President-elect Joe Biden, center, acknowledge supporters at the end of a drive-in rally for Georgia Democratic candidates for US Senate Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, Dec. 15, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

In Georgia runoff, Biden’s presidency meets early defining moment

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