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The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Monday, January 11, 2021

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A member of the Knesset Guard stands at his position, with a face cover, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on September 9, 2015. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Watching DC strife, armed Knesset Guards say they’ve long readied for unrest

By Tal Schneider

Israel’s parliament has not seen serious violence for decades, but unit that protects MKs has been drilling for riots or a hostage situation since well before Capitol rampage

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) on trial at the District Court in Jerusalem on May 24, 2020. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Netanyahu’s 2nd court appearance in graft trial set for February 8

By Michael Bachner and TOI staff

Moshe Ya'alon and Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Efrat on December 19, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Ya’alon kicks off Telem campaign: ‘Benjamin Netanyahu, your time is up’

By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff

Op-ed

Israel and the shameful, dangerous final days of Donald Trump

Few if any national leaders were more closely allied with the disgraced US President Donald Trump, inciter of last week's assault on the Capitol in Washington, on American democracy, than Benjamin Netanyahu. Few if any nations would consider themselves to have been greater beneficiaries of Trump-backed policies than Israel, even though Israelis were deeply conflicted... Continue Reading

In this March 25, 2019, photo, US President Donald Trump (left) smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a proclamation recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Most Israelis believe democracy in danger; trust in Supreme Court, Knesset dives

Robert Keith Packer's shirt, right, was one of many hate symbols present at the storming of the Capitol. Other rioters constructed a noose. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP Images and screenshot from Reddit via JTA)

Capitol rioter in ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt said identified as Virginia man

By JTA and TOI staff

New apartments buildings under construction in the Beit El settlement in the West Bank with the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the background, October 13, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israel to okay over 800 new settlement homes days before Biden sworn in

Netanyahu says plan to be approved by Defense Ministry panel next week includes 100 housing units in Tal Menashe, hometown of woman killed last month in terror attack

In this January 11, 2021 photo, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (L), Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin (C), and MK Zvi Hauser (R) attend a farewell meeting for the outgoing envoy in the Knesset. (Dani Shem Tov/Knesset Spokesperson)

Jerusalem recognition ‘led to explosion of peace,’ departing US envoy tells MKs

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the annual AIPAC conference in Washington on March 26, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Elated outgoing US envoy says ‘there’s no going back’ on Trump’s Israel policies

Screen capture from video of movie star and former Republican governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Twitter)

Schwarzenegger says Capitol raid like Kristallnacht; recalls father’s WWII guilt

By TOI staff and JTA

Austrian-born film star and ex-Republican California governor compares mob’s ideology to Nazi lies, says it ‘shattered the ideals we took for granted,’ calls Trump failed president

Full text: Schwarzenegger’s ‘Kristallnacht’ message after attack on US Capitol

67% of Americans blame Trump for Capitol riots; 56% want him ousted early

By TOI staff and Agencies

In highly rare protest, US diplomats call for Trump’s ouster over riot

Father Francesco Patton, the Custos of the Holy Land, leads mass on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, at St John the Baptist Chapel on the banks of the Jordan River, January 10, 2021. (COGAT Spokeperson's Office)

Reporter's notebook

With landmines cleared, church on Jordan River holds 1st mass in 54 years

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ilai Z. Saltzman

The fallacy of Netanyahu’s Iran policy

Instead of abandoning the deal, the PM could have leveraged it for gains on Tehran’s ballistic missile program and disruptive regional policies

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Am I the Palestinian now?

Now who’s facing random roadblocks, getting interrogated and electing leaders who don’t serve their interests?

The Palestinians’ moment is coming

When the Likud courts the Arab vote, and the Saudis prioritize the Palestinian question, you know the ’peace process’ is headed back to the top of the national agenda

Jonathan Dekel-Chen

Unshackling Israel from Trump

In the end, even Trump’s pulling out of the Iran deal accomplished nothing more than good publicity for Netanyahu

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing – Arnold Schwarzenegger looks evil in the eye

ToI panel weighs in on US movie star-turned-politician’s stark warning, discusses whether headlines of 800 new settler homes will prod Biden, and charts Israel’s religious right

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

Israel media review

Just the vax, ma’am: What the press is saying about shots, medical and otherwise

By Joshua Davidovich

The vaccine drive is ramping back up, though some question what is being traded away for virus immunity; and election jockeying has some asking if there’s room for all the parties

An Israeli man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Experts urge dose of transparency as medical data traded to Pfizer for vaccines

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this August 26, 2012, photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks to then Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar as they arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Uriel Sinai/Getty Images, Pool, File)

ProfileGideon Sa’ar, longtime Netanyahu ally, emerges as his primary challenger

By AP and TOI staff

A staff member and a resident at the ADI Jerusalem facility for individuals with disabilities (courtesy of ADI Jerusalem)

Analysis

100 residents, 0 cases: How Jerusalem’s largest home for disabled dodged COVID

A rigorously sterile environment and other strict measures have helped ADI Jerusalem elude the pandemic, though staying safe has come at a cost of increased isolation

This file combination of pictures created on September 24, 2019 shows US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, on September 24, 2019 and US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, September 20, 2019. (Photos by Mandel NGAN and SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Pelosi pushes ahead with impeachment, says Trump ‘imminent’ threat to democracy

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Alan Fram and MARY CLARE JALONICK

US Democrat says plans will proceed unless Pence and cabinet agree to oust Trump by invoking the 25th Amendment, declare president incapable of executing the duties of his office

Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including Jake Angeli (aka Jacob Chansley), a QAnon supporter, enter the Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump was angry at Capitol mob only because they looked ‘cheap and poor’: report

Pinchas Gerby, an Israeli supporter of US President Donald Trump who was part of the mob that breached the US Capitol, speaks to Channel 12 news on January 10, 2021. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

‘There was no violence,’ claims Israeli Trump supporter who raided US Capitol

From left to right, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, takes a photo with his cellphone of journalists, during a meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, ahead of a press conference at Tahrir Palace, in Cairo, Egypt, January 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt, Germany, France, Jordan meet on reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

By AP and TOI staff

European foreign ministers sit down in Cairo ahead of Biden taking office, seeking to build on ‘positive regional context’ of Israel’s normalization deals with Arab states

Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem (Courtesy)

Border guards arrest Palestinian teen who threw firebomb at Rachel’s Tomb

By Judah Ari Gross

Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)

Records show fervent Trump supporters fueled violent takeover of US Capitol

By Michael Biesecker, Michael Kunzelman, Gillian Flaccus and Jim Mustian

Among 90 people facing charges over riot are longtime fans of US president, some of whom threatened violence in support of false election claims

Violent protesters, loyal to US President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP/ John Minchillo)

ExplainerIt wasn’t a coup, but Capitol riot resembled events seen in fragile democracies

By Clayton Besaw and Matthew Frank

Police hold back supporters of US President Donald Trump as they gather outside the US Capitol's Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery/AFP)

Staffed like a normal day: Capitol police overrun, ‘left naked’ against rioters

By Colleen Long, MICHAEL BALSAMO and LISA MASCARO

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, in a January 11, 2021 speech, says he was wrong to partner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz: I was wrong to shake Netanyahu’s hand, parties that oppose him must unite

By Itamar Sharon

Blue and White chief says PM ‘deceived me, deceived you’; urges politicians to let go of ego and grievances and ‘unite for the good of the country’

7:30 pm

US President-elect Joe Biden receives second COVID vaccine shot
7:12 pm

Yesh Atid responds to Gantz: 'We'll make every effort to form alliances'
7:11 pm

Liberman to Gantz: If you want to help the country, remove yourself from running

An illustration of the Smart Shooter system in action (Captain Fred Warmer)

Startup says it can make rifles smarter, deadlier — and safer

By Shoshanna Solomon

Smart Shooter, based in Kibbutz Yagur, fits its device onto standard rifles, to give infantry soldiers accuracy and connectivity

Noah Galvin as Dr. Asher Wolk on 'The Good Doctor.' (ABC/Jeff Weddell/ via JTA)

Ex-Orthodox character on ‘The Good Doctor’ is inspired by the creator’s family

By Curt Schleier

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ExclusiveUAE pipeline deal will imperil Eilat’s critical coral reefs, scientists warn

Illustrative: A Deliveroo driver is seen in traffic in north London, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Robert Stevens, File)

Food courier in France allegedly refuses to serve Jews

Trash on the shore of the Dead Sea. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Israelis more concerned about littering than climate change, extinctions — poll

Parler forced offline after losing access to host servers

By AFP

Demonstrators gather during a protest against the government restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Prague, Czech Republic, January 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Amid virus protests, Czechs ask Israel for assistance on vaccine rollout

By AFP

Palestinians wearing face mask attend a prayer at a mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 10, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Palestinians hope for vaccines by March, knock Israel for not providing them

By Aaron Boxerman

Screen capture from video of Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani during a television interview. (YouTube)

Iran to boot out UN nuclear inspectors unless US sanctions lifted – lawmaker

(RomoloTavani/iStock/Getty Images)

Amid virus crisis, lockdowns, Jewish Israelis saw drop in divorce rate in 2020

Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ FLASH90/ File)

Cops who broke up illegal birthday party stole pricey gifts — report

Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita (C) and David Schenker, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs - who is wearing a traditional dress for men called 'Darraa' - (center-R) pose with other officials for a picture after their meeting in Dakhla, in Morocco-administered Western Sahara, on January 10, 2021. (Fadel SENNA / AFP)

After Israel-Morocco deal, US launches work on consulate in Western Sahara

By AFP

People protest over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

IDF: Settler attacks officer during protest over teen’s death

By Judah Ari Gross

French-Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz (L) arrives with his lawyers for his trial in Geneva on January 11, 2020. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Israeli diamond magnate’s Guinea graft trial begins in Geneva

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