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What Matters Most On Monday, January 4, 2021

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A satellite image from September 15, 2017, of the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran. (Google Earth)

Iran ramps up uranium enrichment to 20%; Netanyahu: Proof it is seeking nukes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Move can bring Islamic Republic just a short step away from attaining weapons-grade levels of 90%; PM: ‘Israel will not allow Iran to produce nuclear weapons’

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)

Amid fears of attacks on Israelis, UAE said to nab Iranian terror cell

Illustrative: In this July 2, 2012, photo, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat moves in the Persian Gulf while an oil tanker is seen in the background (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran seizes South Korean-flagged oil tanker headed for the UAE

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Selling official residence, US leaves next envoy without a home away from home

Expansive Herzliya abode was sold to Adelsons in apparent bid to keep embassy in Jerusalem, but new digs, in former Jerusalem consulate, are not fit for an ambassador, sources say

The US ambassador's residence ahead of a Fourth of July party in 2013. (US Embassy)

Muhammad Mruh Kabha, 40, from the Palestinian village of Tura al-Gharbiya, is suspected of murdering Esther Horgen of the Tal Menashe settlement on December 20, 2020. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet: Esther Horgen’s killer scoped out area 6 weeks before attack

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Security service names suspect as Muhammad Mruh Kabha, from nearby Palestinian village of Tura al-Gharbiya, says he sought to avenge prisoner who died of cancer in Israeli custody

A car hit by rocks in a suspected terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf, January 3, 2021. (Binyamin Regional Council)

IDF arrests suspects in rock attack that seriously injured Israeli woman

From the blogs

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I let my guard down and got COVID-19 – This is what it’s like

Today is Day 7 and I am shredded and somewhere, deep within a well of memory inside me, I can hear my mother’s voice: This too shall pass

Reina Abitbul, 92, receives a Covid-19 vaccine, at the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, on January 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s vaccination drive likely to be briefly halted next week

Expected shortage in vaccines to slow process, with one leading health provider to run out of doses for over 60s; 1.2 million Israelis have received first dose

Illustrative: Palestinian police check cars in Ramallah as part of enforcing a coronavirus lockdown on January 1, 2021. (WAFA)

PA extends lockdown restrictions as infections remain high in West Bank

Minister of Defense Benny Gantz visits the Jerusalem Municipality on November 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz opposes school closures as health officials push full lockdown

The law that made being Israeli meaningless for me

Israel’s nation-state law is an affront to me as a citizen, an IDF general, a Druze, an Arab, and a believer in democracy and justice

Michael Eisenberg

Let my people vaccinate: Israel should issue a ‘vaccine visa’

By offering a visa that includes a free vaccination, Israel can leverage its global health advantage to become an economic juggernaut #israelvaccinevisa

Iran’s human rights crisis: A cause for American Jews on the left

Now that making a ’deal’ with this regime is on the agenda for many US politicians, the Jewish community must speak out

In pain…calling out Senate candidate Rev. Warnock

It hurts to raise a voice of Jewish conscience against Democratic candidate in Georgia, but it is something I must do

A man waits at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media review

Up shot creek without a lockdown: What the press is saying on January 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel is running low on vaccines, as some wonder why whippersnappers snapped up doses; meanwhile, the cabinet mulls a closure that actually closes things while hospitals cry uncle

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men during a ceremony in Meron, near Safed, on December 7, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

A quarter of all new virus cases diagnosed are among ultra-Orthodox

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: A young boy receives the coronavirus shot at a vaccine center in Jerusalem, on January 3, 2021. (Shalva)

1,200 vaccinated at special needs center in Jerusalem

Medical personnel wearing protective equipment treat COVID-19 patients in an intensive care ward that has been converted from underground parking, at Rambam Hospital in the northern city of Haifa, December 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Live updates (closed)

Third wave of pandemic shaping up to be worst one yet, hospital chiefs warn

Top officials say rise in patients steeper than ever, many of them trending young; health officials said to warn of 10,000 cases a day if nothing done to curb disease

7:30 pm

Hospital chiefs warn third wave of pandemic shaping up to be worst yet
6:49 pm

Saudi Arabia to reopen its borders with Qatar, ending blockade, Kuwait says
6:47 pm

Likud left out in the cold by parties' vote surplus deals

Clockwise from left: 'The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia,' Sara Schenirer; author Rachel Manekin; The Felician Sisters’ convent on 6 Smoleńsk Street, Kraków (Courtesy of the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków); Runaway Jewish daughter Michalina Araten (Courtesy of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw).

Author interview

In 1800s Poland, Hasidic runaway girls spurred a Jewish school revolution

By Cathryn J. Prince

A composite image of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and former Bezeq controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch. (Flash90: Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Amended indictment filed against Netanyahu, detailing 200+ demands for coverage

Prosecutors allege PM was personally involved in 150 demands for more favorable media coverage from Walla news site, in corruption case against him

Screen capture from video of Nail Zoabi. (YouTube)

Likud set to reserve election-slate spot for Arab Israeli school principal

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

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

Gideon Sa’ar says he won’t agree to power-sharing coalition with Netanyahu

Palestinian Authority security forces enter the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab following a triple homicide on January 2, 2021 (video screenshot)

PA arrests suspects in East Jerusalem triple homicide, hands them to Israel

After manhunt, Palestinian security services reportedly arrest two people alleged to have carried out deadly shooting in Kafr Aqab and two others who aided them

Palestinians protest Israeli policies and settler attacks in the south Hebron Hills as soldiers look on, January 2, 2021. (WAFA)

Witnesses dispute IDF account after Palestinian shot during West Bank operation

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: BDS movement in France. (CC BY-SA, Odemirense, Wikimedia commons)

France grants $10 million to Palestinian group promoting Israel boycott

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Trump is returning to Washington after visiting his Mar-a-Lago resort. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

‘Find 11,780 votes,’ Trump recorded pressing Georgia official to overturn vote

By Jeff Amy, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Kate Brumback

US president heard warning state election chief and lawyer that they could be criminally liable if they fail to find that thousands of ballots were destroyed, despite no evidence

In this Dec. 12, 2020, file photo US President Donald Trump stands on the field before the 121st Army-Navy Football Game in Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ex-US defense chiefs warn against Trump effort to involve military in election

By AFP

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks to the media, Wednesday Dec. 30, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Democrat Nancy Pelosi narrowly re-elected as US House speaker

Actress Tanya Roberts arrives for the 4th annual TV Land awards held at Barker hangar in Santa Monica, California on March 19, 2006. (Chris Delmas/AFP)

Bond actress, ‘That ’70s Show’ star Tanya Roberts in ‘critical’ condition

By AFP

Earlier reports of her death were a ‘miscommunication,’ publicist says

Joan Micklin Silver and Sherri Finkbine attend the premiere of 'A Private Matter' on June 14, 1992 at the Director's Guild Theater in Hollywood, California. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection /Getty Images via JTA)

‘Crossing Delancey’ director Joan Micklin Silver dies at 85

By Gabe Friedman

Rabbi Adir Yolkut, who is doing a yearlong rabbi-in-residence program at Temple Israel Center in White Plains, New York, says it's been hard to assess the intangibles of prospective jobs given the impossibility of in-person visits. (Emil Cohen/Marry Me A Little Photography/ via JTA)

Starting a new job as a rabbi during the pandemic? For Americans, it’s not easy

Labor party head MK Amir Peretz and party member MK Merav Michaeli at a press conference with party members at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, following the announcement of the Trump peace plan, on January 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In win for rebel MK Michaeli, court forces Labor to hold primaries

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Left-wing lawmaker announces bid for leadership of embattled party after overturning leader Peretz’s decision to cancel internal vote

Ex-Mossad chief Danny Yatom (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

Former Mossad chief to launch retirees political party

More Headlines

Family, friends and Israeli soldiers attend the funeral of Cpl. Lihu Ben-Bassa who was killed in a plane crash in southern Israel, in the military cemetery in Rishon Lezion on November 25, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Suicides down in IDF in 2020, but remain leading cause of death for troops

By Judah Ari Gross

Houston Health Department LVN Alicia Meza prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, at a Houston Health Department's COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Houston. The department vaccinated 1,008 people who qualify under Phase 1A or Phase 1B of the state's guidelines at the clinic's first day on Saturday. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

US administers 4 million vaccines as death toll passes 350,000 amid new surge

By GARY D. ROBERTSON

The closed down HaTikva market in Tel Aviv, during a nationwide lockdown to curb coronavirus infections, on January 3, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Health minister: ‘Dire’ virus infection numbers require immediate full lockdown

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Marnell Maglasang, from La Puente, Calif., directs an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Arabian Sea, Friday Nov. 27, 2020. The Nimitz returned to the Mideast in a move to support the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq according to the Pentagon. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cheyenne Geletka/U.S. Navy via AP)

US orders aircraft carrier to remain in Gulf after ‘recent threats’ by Iran

By AFP

View of the Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem, November 29, 2016. Photo (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Jewish Agency accuses Evangelical contractors of ‘numerous violations’

Supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah terror group watch a speech by its leader Hassan Nasrallah, broadcast on a screen, in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs, January 5, 2020. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

A year on, Hezbollah says Iran ‘doesn’t need help’ avenging its top general

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Heavy fog in Ben Gurion Airport on January 4, 2021. (Israel Airports Authority)

Not flying blind: Dense fog in central Israel briefly shutters airport

Basil Hawari (left) and Afaf Shehab, co-founders of Petwork (Courtesy)

Pets, jewelry, streaming: Meet the Hybrid accelerator’s Arab Israeli startups

By Jake Epstein

82-year-old Brian Pinker receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, England, January 4, 2021. (Steve Parsons/Pool Photo via AP)

UK ramps up inoculations with rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

By AP

Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP)

Hundreds march in Ukraine in annual tribute to Nazi collaborator

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Beitar Jerusalem owner Moshe Hogeg (C) with UAE member of the royal family Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan (R) (Beitar Jerusalem)

Report: Emirati co-owner of Beitar J’lem feared to have overstated his wealth

Israeli soccer returns after months of coronavirus hiatus, with a Premier League match between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Beersheba at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on May 30, 2020 (Flash90)

Financial footingTel Aviv Stock Exchange to coach soccer players on smart investment tactics

By Shoshanna Solomon

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