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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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Israeli students arrive at a high school in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ministers approve 2-week full lockdown, closing schools, nonessential businesses

Order to go into effect overnight Thursday-Friday after daily virus cases leap to 8,000, amid fears of unchecked spread of British variant

7:16 pm

1st shipment of 100,000 Moderna vaccines expected in Israel this week -- report
7:03 pm

Poll: Likud still has no clear path to gov't; PM's rivals could form narrow one
7:00 pm

Ministers approve tighter lockdown, closing schools and nonessential businesses

Then-Georgia Democratic candidates for US Senate Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, right, gesture toward a crowd during a campaign rally in Marietta, Georgia, November 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Georgia’s Senate runoffs: All the Jewish drama from a charged campaign

By Gabe Friedman

The state’s elections reflect national Jewish narratives thanks to an infamous campaign ad, a letter about a trip to Israel and a controversial photo taken with a white supremacist

US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in support of Republican incumbent senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead of the Senate runoff race, Dalton, Georgia January 4, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

‘This is it’: Biden, Trump rally in Georgia as parties vie for control of Senate

By Bill Barrow, Will Weissert and Jeff Amy

Healthcare workers take s swab samples from Israelis at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site in Jerusalem on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Daily infections surge past 8,300, with 7.6% of COVID tests positive

Monday sees highest number of new daily cases since end of September, when Israel was in 2nd lockdown; health minister to hold emergency meeting due to rising morbidity

Health minister: Moderna vaccines won’t reach Israel for another 2 months

Hospital heads: 3rd COVID wave shaping up to be worst yet; Edelstein: Like Italy

Moderna says Israel approved its vaccine, 1st shipment set to arrive this month

A technician at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, February 3, 2007. (AP/Vahid Salemi/File)

Iran confirms it has begun enriching uranium to 20% in breach of nuclear pact

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IAEA verifies violation at underground Fordo facility; Iranian FM claims government was legally bound to take step, says move ‘fully reversible upon FULL compliance by ALL’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits the Atlit naval base in northern Israel on January 5, 2021. (Screen capture)

Gantz: World must unite to prevent Iran from getting nuclear arms

By Alexander Fulbright and ToI Staff

A lift truck carries a cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride gas for the purpose of injecting the gas into centrifuges in Iran's Fordo nuclear facility, November 6, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

European Union says it will redouble efforts to save Iran nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli troops at the scene of a suspected attempted stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, January 5, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian attempts to carry out stabbing in West Bank, is shot dead, IDF says

By Alexander Fulbright

Army says suspect was ordered to stop by settlement security official and soldier, threw a meat cleaver at the former

From the blogs

The last 10 minutes: A wartime parable for our times

With vaccinations in full swing, there’s a temptation to let down our guard. Here’s what Zvuvi taught me during the Lebanon War

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a coronavirus vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, on December 19, 2020, becoming the first in Israel to get the vaccine (AMIR COHEN / POOL / AFP)

Exclusive

Hundreds of Netanyahu’s office staff get COVID vaccine regardless of age, health

By Tal Schneider

Employees at Prime Minister’s Office receive shots even if they’re not in at-risk groups or are critical workers

MP Meyer Habib speaks at the National Assembly in Paris, November 28, 2014. (screen capture)

French-Jewish MP gets vaccine in Israel despite appearing not to meet criteria

A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on December 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Health minister halts vaccine supply to Tel Aviv hospital that injected teachers

Maziar Bahari at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (courtesy)

Expat Iranian joins with US Holocaust Museum to teach Jewish genocide in Persian

By Matt Lebovic

Yakir Englander

Aging and the beauty of being

As the pandemic forces us to focus narrowly on physical health and survival, we risk neglecting the crucial spiritual role our elders play in our lives

Qanon is the new Protocols of the Elders of Zion

A small group of people, in dark smokey rooms, control the banks, make war and plant Manchurian candidates. Sounds familiar

Jared Kushner alongside a member of the Saudi delegation, during a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House, March 20, 2018. (Kevin Dietsch/ Pool/ Getty Images)

Analysis

With Qatar feud solved, are Saudis better placed for Israel normalization?

While admitting that deal unlikely before Trump leaves office, senior US official says Gulf detente does remove an obstacle; analysts assert the two issues are unrelated

Saudi Arabia to lift Qatar embargo, open airspace and border

Qatar’s ruling emir lands in Saudi Arabia for summit to end blockade

By Aya Batrawy, Isabel Debre and amr nabil

First Israeli diplomat set to take up post in Abu Dhabi – report

A pair of historical ram's-horn shofars from The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. (Bradley Strauchen-Scherer)

Join a curator on a virtual tour of the Met’s Ashkenazi Jewish treasures

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Israeli women inspect lemons at the market in the northern city of Safed on December 9, 2020. (David Cohen/ Flash90)

Study finds ‘the strongest predictors’ of COVID-19: Loss of taste and smell

Researchers in Israel, UK, and US say the 2 symptoms are ‘omnipresent’ among those who test positive for coronavirus

BioNTech, Pfizer’s vaccine partner, warns against delaying 2nd dose

By AFP

Health Ministry says vaccinated, recovered to get ‘green passport’ for 6 months

South Africa testing amid concerns vaccines won’t work against new COVID variant

By AP and ToI Staff

The collapsed wall of the evaporation pool at ICL Rotem (formerly Rotem Amfert Negev Ltd), seen on January 27, 2020. The 2017 collapse of the wall led to major pollution of the Ashalim stream. (Courtesy Rael Horwitz, HaMaarag)

Ecosystem still reeling from toxic spill 3 years after Ashalim stream disaster

Meirav Cohen with Yair Lapid as she joins Yesh Atid, January 5, 2021 (Elad Guttman)

Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen jumps from Blue and White to Yesh Atid

Lawmaker is the ninth member of Gantz’s party to leave since the Knesset was dissolved in December; says she’s back ‘on the right path’

Gantz reportedly considering alliance with Bennett’s hard-right Yamina party

Taking over Justice Ministry, Gantz vows to prevent Netanyahu meddling

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Yesh Atid-Telem said planning to split, as Yamina courts Jewish Home

By Raoul Wootliff

US President Donald Trump dances after speaking during a campaign rally for a Republican senator at Dalton Regional Airport, in Dalton, Georgia, January 4, 2021, (Evan Vucci/AP)

Analysis

AFP and ToI Staff

As Iran eyes Biden, could conflict still erupt with Trump?

Iranians apply pressure by breaking nuclear deal with higher uranium enrichment, but experts say US president is becoming more unpredictable as he rages over election loss

Burj Al Arab, a luxury hotel, foreground, and Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, in background center, seen from a plane in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili/File)

UAE denies report it thwarted an Iranian plot to kill Israelis

By Judah Ari Gross

Artifacts recovered in raids on a suspected smuggling ring, January 4, 2020. (Yoli Schwarz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Ancient treasures recovered: Thousands of stolen antiquities found in major bust

Israel Antiquities Authority says ‘spectacular and rare’ artifacts seized from smuggling network were stolen from graves in Mediterranean Basin, Africa, and South America

A Yad Vashem security guard in the empty Hall of Names in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 19, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police nab gang suspected of burgling Yad Vashem Holocaust center

By Stuart Winer

More Headlines

British author Michael Morpurgo, seen in 2019. (David Levenson/Getty Images via JTA)

Pound of freshShylock cut from Shakespeare anthology for kids

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Larry King attends the Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award ceremony honoring Billy Crystal at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York, November 12, 2018. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Larry King, hospitalized with COVID, moved out of intensive care unit

By AP

Screen capture from video of a doctor using the Spincare spray-on system to treat a patient's wounds. (YouTube)

Israeli spray-on ‘skin’ tech has burns in Europe, India covered – report

Israeli Air Force M-346 training aircraft. (Elbit Systems)

Greece okays $1.68 billion defense deal with Israel

By Alexander Fulbright

An F-35 jet maneuvers during a graduation ceremony for pilots who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90/File)

Defense minister urges purchase of a third squadron of F-35s

Naftali Bennett (L) and Gideon Sa'ar (R) attend Jerusalem Day celebrations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on May 17, 2015. (Flash90)

Sa’ar’s New Hope, Bennett’s Yamina sign surplus vote-sharing deal

Proud Boys leader Henry 'Enrique' Tarrio during a rally in Portland, Oregon, September 26, 2020. (Allison Dinner/AP)

Proud Boys leader arrested, accused of burning church banner at pro-Trump rally

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ELANA SCHOR

Likud MK David Bitan attends a meeting of the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on March 5, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Likud’s MK David Bitan, sick with COVID-19, put back into intensive care

Screen capture from video of Holocaust survivor and educator Toby Levy. (YouTube)

Holocaust survivor pens NY Times op-ed on how COVID is ‘stealing’ her last years

By Gabe Friedman

Egyptian rapper Mohamed Ramadan. (screen capture, YouTube)

Egypt rapper suspended over selfies with Israelis is reinstated to TV series

By AFP

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron, speaking at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society organized by the Israel Democracy Institute, December 17, 2019 (Michal Fattal)

Bank of Israel holds rate at 0.1% as fast vaccination pace injects optimism

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) 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)

Kan retracts claim millionth vaccinee was murderer; ToI apologizes for citing it

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