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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 6, 2021

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Ichilov hospital team members wearing protective gear as they work at the coronavirus department of Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv, on January 01, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel still world’s best for vaccination, but now among worst for contagion

Per capita, Israel state has inoculated 10 times more of its population than the US, but its mushrooming new outbreak is worse than America’s, and most everybody else’s

Health care workers take coronavirus test samples of Israelis in a drive through complex in Jerusalem, January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus cases top 8,000 for 2nd straight day as minister warns against complacency

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men from the Toldos Aharon Hasidic dynasty attend a wedding in Beitar Illit, violating coronavirus regulations, January 5, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

As infections surge, mass ultra-Orthodox weddings held despite lockdown rules

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (L) and Sudanese Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari sign the Abraham Accords in Sudan's capital Khartoum, January 6, 2021. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Sudan signs ‘Abraham Accords’ with US, paving way for Israel normalization

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Deal inked during Steve Mnuchin’s trip to Khartoum, the 1st by a top US official since the Trump administration removed Sudan from terror list as part of normalization deal

US Rep. Gregory Meeks speaks during a news conference outside the USPS Jamaica station, August 18, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

InterviewNew House foreign affairs head looks to resume US aid to Palestinians

By Shaun Tandon

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, welcomes Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani upon his arrival to attend the Gulf Cooperation Council's 41st Summit in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, January 5, 2021. (Saudi Royal Court via AP)

Ending regional rift with a public embrace, Saudi Arabia and Qatar restore ties

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

Netanyahu seeks delay at court, weighs reviving parliamentary immunity bid

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Defense lawyers ask for more time due to AG’s acknowledgment he did not okay probes in writing, which they claim requires nixing all the charges

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at an event at Bar Ilan University, March 4, 2020. (Flash90)

Responding to PM’s lawyers, AG says he pre-approved probes, but not in writing

A relatively empty coronavirus vaccine dispenser in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, January 5, 2021 (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

ToI investigates

With distrust rampant, East Jerusalem Palestinians shirk COVID vaccine

By Aaron Boxerman

Only 20% of Palestinian residents of the city aged 60 and over have been immunized, compared to 60% of Jews; health providers lament spread of conspiracies and fake news

Palestinian Health worker takes samples for coronavirus at a health center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 5, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Amnesty calls on Israel to give Palestinians virus vaccine

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is pictured in a Strasbourg clinic, eastern France, Tuesday, Jan.5, 2021. Amid public outcry, France's health minister promised Tuesday an "exponential" acceleration of his country's shockingly slow coronavirus vaccination process after barely 500 people in France were vaccinated in the first six days. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Half measures: Facing slow vaccine rollout, world’s scientists weigh new tactics

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

‘Final effort’: Cabinet okays 2-week lockdown to counter mushrooming virus cases

Full closure to take effect midnight Thursday, shutting all schools, non-essential businesses; daily cases hit 8,000 amid fears of unchecked British variant spread; 1.5m vaccinated

Illustrative: A Soroka Medical Center staff member works in the coronavirus ward on September 15, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Patient on floor, a body not removed for 6 hours at overwhelmed Israeli hospital

Illustrative image of hacking, hackers, ransomware and a cybersecurity attack. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Cyberattacks spike globally as criminals target under-pressure hospitals

By Shoshanna Solomon

Jerusalemites wear face masks while walking on Jaffa Street on January 6, 2021, during the 3rd lockdown due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: Introducing ToI’s ‘Daily Briefing’ — today, locking down the lockdown

Listen to our fresh podcast in which a panel of ToI reporters and editors wrestle with today’s news — and each other (audibly, not literally)

Another kind of pain… calling out Rabbi Avi Weiss

Consider these 4 key aspects of Reverend Warnock’s leadership that come before grappling with his difficult comments on Israel and our community

Did my colleagues at the Pentagon think I was a security risk because this man raised that specter of dual loyalty? What if they discovered I knew all the words of ’Hatikvah’?

Investor beware: Israelis face unique risks in the UAE

The rules are rigged – what’s earned in the UAE is likely to stay in the UAE – and the more successful you are, the higher the risk

Rabbi Yehuda Henkin zt”l: Appreciating what we had

When a local rabbi expressed surprise that I called the great rabbi at will, I realized how lucky I’d been, as a yoetzet halacha, to take his accessibility for granted

Police with guns drawn watch as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Live updates (Closed)

How the deadly assault on the US Capitol unfolded — January 6 liveblog

In real time: The initial storming of the compound by thousands of Trump backers, the hours of chaos, and the eventual clearing of the building to confirm Biden’s election win

4:25 am

DC police say 4 died as mob stormed US Capitol
4:02 am

DC mayor extends state of emergency in city for further 15 days
3:25 am

Senate rejects challenge to Biden win in Arizona

Naama Gatt, a 75-year-old kibbutznik, waiting for her vaccine in the Arab Israeli town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, on January 3, 2020 (Nathan Jeffay/Times of Israel)

Analysis

Vying for vaccines, Jewish Israelis help fill near-empty clinics in Arab towns

Locals say frenzied influx of outsiders looking to secure spare coronavirus shots and slots is helping bolster inoculation drive among initially skeptical Arab community

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

Vaccination nation: 5 factors in Israel’s world-leading COVID inoculation drive

By PHILISSA CRAMER and Ben Sales

Illustrative: A COVID-19 vaccine is administered in Jerusalem, January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Moderna to ship 100,000 vaccine doses to Israel this week — reports

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses for a photograph with pupils on the first day of school in the Israeli Arab town of Tamra, Thursday, September 1, 2016. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Does Netanyahu really think he can win over Israel’s Arabs?

Likud’s surprising new campaign for Arab voters is savvier than it sounds. An anti-Arab campaign helped boost Arab turnout. Now the party hopes a pro-Arab one will lower it

Rafi Peretz to quit politics as Jewish Home seeks to merge with Yamina once more

Yamina set to split as Bennett, Smotrich fail to bridge differences

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

Huldai says 4 female candidates, ex-IDF deputy chief have joined his party list

Screen capture from video of Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock declaring victory in a Georgia run-off vote, January 6, 2021. (Twitter)

Winning Georgia, Warnock takes Democrats step closer to US Senate control

By Steve Peoples, Bill Barrow and Russ Bynum

Pastor becomes state’s 1st Black senator as majority hangs on the outcome of state’s other run-off election, between Republican David Perdue and challenger Jon Ossoff

Then-US president Donald Trump speaks in the press briefing room as then-vice president Mike Pence listens, November 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump insists, falsely, that Pence can decertify US election results

By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin

Supporters of US President Donald Trump gather for a rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, on January 5, 2021. A string of extremists are expected at the rally. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images via JTA)

Fears as Trump supporters, including anti-Semitic groups, rally in Washington

Beate Sirota Gordon at American Japanese Festival in 1938. (Beate Sirota Photo Gallery/ via JTA)

Author interview

Jewish feminist Beate Sirota Gordon changed women’s rights in Japan forever

By Maddy Albert

Illustrative. Centrifuges enriching uranium. (Public Domain/US Department of Energy/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran says it’s installing 1,000 more centrifuges as US slaps on new sanctions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Day after upping uranium enrichment to 20%, Islamic Republic’s atomic chief announces steps to increase production further

US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 3, 2013, before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Iran deal negotiator Wendy Sherman up for deputy US secretary of state — report

Police officers scuffle with demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside of his official residence in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel’s internal ‘dysfunction’ ranks high in think tank’s annual risk analysis

By Judah Ari Gross

War against Hezbollah, Iranian nuke are atop list of threats facing Israel, according to the Institute for National Security Studies, but societal issues come in a close third

Israeli small business owners protest the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Tel Aviv, on January 5, 2021 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Guinea pigs for the government’: Business owners decry fresh lockdown

A teenager search for cans through a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem on September 02,2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Interview

Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s lack of economic vision could cloud the Zionist dream, expert fears

Former central bank senior official Zvi Eckstein warns that without a budget and long-term investment, the middle class will flee the country

Illustrative: Dollars and shekels. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Dollar rate drops to NIS 3.19, its lowest value in 24 years

Illustrative image of a baby's first steps (NelliSyr; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel earmarks NIS 80 million to help early-stage startups take first steps

By Shoshanna Solomon

Efraim Halevy is interviewed by the Times of Israel's David Horovitz, February 26, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Behind the Headlines

Former Mossad head Efraim Halevy opens up: Early access for ToI Community

In this week’s Behind the Headlines, our editor-in-chief David Horovitz gets candid with the spymaster, who still has a few surprises up his sleeve

An illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox wedding. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Interview

How Israeli ultra-Orthodox women have taken back their reproductive rights

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

More Headlines

Illustrative -- In this Nov. 9, 2018 underwater photo, a dead pen shell stands open in a seagrass meadow in the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf (AP Photo/Elena Becatoros)

Warming sea causing species collapse on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, says study

By Patrick Galey

Margaret Keenan (C) is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital in Coventry, England, on December 8, 2020. (Jacob King/Pool/AFP)

Bless this messPittsburgh rabbis promote new prayer for COVID-19 vaccine

A Palestinian man fills a cup of water from a solar-powered water generator that extracts potable water straight from the air donated by Watergen, a company owned by a Russian-Israeli businessman, in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 16, 2020 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Israeli firm helps provide Gaza with clean water – by extracting it from the air

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Photos of Tommy Raskin included in a memorial post by the Raskin family. (Collage by Laura Adkins/JTA)

Jamie Raskin and family set up fund in son’s memory

Illustrative: A neo-Nazi tattoo at a rally in Newnan, Georgia, April 21, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Anti-Semitic flyers warning of Jewish ‘war’ posted around NY’s Staten Island

Antisemitism Cow, an anonymous account that made mooing at anti-Semitic tweets its mission, returned to lash out at Twitter. (Screenshots from Twitter via JTA)

‘Antisemitism Cow’ returns final time to slam Twitter: ‘Blood is on your hands’

Screen capture from video at the scene of a deadly shooting in the Arab Israeli town of Kafr Qara, January 7, 2021. (Walla news)

Man shot dead, another seriously injured in Arab Israeli town Kafr Qara

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Louis Shenker protests outside a town hall held by US Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2018. (Michael Swensen/The Boston Globe via Getty Images/JTA)

NYC bomb hoax suspect is former Jewish youth group leader, now extreme rightist

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