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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 16, 2021

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Ronni Gamzu, CEO of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and former virus czar receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), on December 20, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'It's over,' Netanyahu recorded telling closed-door meeting

Top official: Israel in ‘final stages’ of COVID, showing world an exit strategy

Ex-virus czar says with a quarter of population having received 1st shot, country seeing clear evidence vaccine is working; number of seriously ill over 60 drops sharply

A Israeli healthcare worker prepares a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit health clinic in Jerusalem, on January 14, 2021 (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Nearly 170,000 get 2nd COVID shot; initial study shows no major side effects

Cemetery workers carry the remains of a person who died of COVID-19 to bury in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

‘A terrible amount of death’: Global virus toll passes 2 million

By CHRIS SHERMAN, Maria Cheng, John Leicester and Joshua Goodman

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

E3: Iran making uranium metal, a nuke component, has ‘grave military’ potential

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Britain, France and Germany say Tehran has ‘no credible civilian use’ for the material, which it says it is now researching in breach of nuclear deal

Illustrative: In this photo released January 16, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are launched in a drill in Iran. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP)

Iran says ballistic missiles destroy target 1,800 km away in anti-warship drill

By Agencies and ToI Staff

January 6, 1932 cover of The Sketch featuring (Clockwise from top left) Unity, Jessica, Diana and Nancy Mitford (Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Author interview

Downton Abbey author’s new mystery stars real-life Hitler-loving Mitford sisters

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Interview

PHILISSA CRAMER

‘Something holy about this space’: The rabbi on guard at the US Capitol

National Guard chaplain Jordan Hersh, stationed in Washington since the pro-Trump riot, says protecting Congress is ‘like a spiritual experience’ for himself and his unit

Rabbi Jordan Hersh has been deployed as part of the Maryland Army National Guard to the US Capitol since a mob of Trump supporters stormed it on January 6, 2021. (Courtesy/Hersh via JTA)

Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest in the US Capitol Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment receiving death threats

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas alongside Central Elections Commissioner Hana Naser on Friday, January 15, 2021, announcing an election decree (WAFA)

Abbas issues decree ordering Palestinian elections for first time in 14 years

By Aaron Boxerman

Hamas agrees to support move although several previous attempts to unite rival factions and hold a vote have failed over the years; observers are skeptical this time too

The Givat Hamatos neighborhood, Jerusalem (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

Court halts sales in new East Jerusalem neighborhood amid discrimination claims

By Aaron Boxerman

(L-R) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Susan Pompeo, Aya Cohen and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, January 15, 2021. (State Department/Twitter)

Pics with Mossad chief, settlement wines: Pompeo’s departing pro-Israel posts

By Jacob Magid and AP

Israeli paratroopers and US soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment take part in training during the joint Israeli-US military Juniper Cobra exercise at the Tzeelim urban warfare training center in southern Israel on March 12, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Pentagon moves Israel into Central Command to boost cooperation with Arab states

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and Judah Ari Gross

Change approved during Trump’s final days shifts Israel out of US military’s European Command sphere, will allow for greater regional collaboration against Iran

In this April 24, 2019, photo released by the US Air Force, an F-35A Lightning II fighter jet prepares to taxi and take off from Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. (Staff Sgt. Chris Drzazgowski/US Air Force via AP)

US says Bahrain, UAE are ‘major security partners’ after normalizing Israel ties

By Jon Gambrell

Moroccan King Mohammed VI waves to a crowd as he arrives for the opening session of the Moroccan Parliament in Rabat, Morocco, on October 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Trump gives top award to Morocco’s king for normalizing with Israel

By AP

William (Bill) Kovarik

No platform for lies and rabble rousing

That time private US media companies stepped in to silence the falsehoods and incitements of a major public figure … in 1938

Nicholas Castillo

As a Mexican Jew, I was terrified to be in DC during the riots

The day right-wing militants stormed the US Capitol left me angry, frightened and also resolute: I won’t let those bigots win by leaving this country

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks to National Guard troops outside the US Capitol in Washington, January 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

US Capitol rioters, enraged at Pence, came within 100 feet of him — report

Intruders incited against the vice president by Trump were seconds away from spotting Pence and his family, Washington Post reports

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)

US federal prosecutors back away from claim of assassination plot at Capitol

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and JACQUES BILLEAUD

Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Investigators probing if US Capitol attack was planned with help from insiders

By Paul Handley

Members of the National Guard walk past the Dome of the Capitol Building on Capitol Hill in Washington Jan. 14, 2021. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Possible Inauguration Day return of neo-Nazi violence has US Jews on edge

False rumor about MAGA-hat wearing suspect looking for nearest synagogue sparks increase in patrols in West Virginia at a time of heightened anxiety after Capitol storming

Members of the Washington National Guard stand near the Legislative Building at the state Capitol in Olympia, Washington, January 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

States declare emergencies, close capitols amid threats of inauguration violence

By DAVID A. LIEB

In this Jan. 6, 2021 image from video provided by Robyn Stevens Brody, a line of men wearing helmets and olive drab body armor walk up the marble stairs outside the US Capitol in Washington in an orderly single-file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the man ahead (Robyn Stevens Brody via AP)

‘Ranger file’: How ex-military, cops among mob used training to storm Capitol

By Michael Biesecker, Jake Bleiberg and JAMES LaPORTA

Screen grab showing Jenna Ryan, accused of 'knowingly' entering or remaining in the restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly conduct on US Capitol on January 6 (Screen grab/ CBS 11)

Woman who took private jet to Capitol riot arrested: ‘I listen to my president’

Texas realtor Jenna Ryan says she hopes she’ll be pardoned by Trump; livestream shows her walking to building saying: ‘Life or death, it doesn’t matter. Here we go’

Richard Barnett, a supporter of US President Donald Trump, sits inside the office of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi inside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Judge blocks release to house arrest of man who invaded Pelosi’s office

By Andrew DeMillo

Workers walk with hand trucks past the West Wing of the White House, as offices in the White House complex are being packed up and moved out, Jan. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Trump to leave Washington for Florida on morning of Biden’s inauguration

By Jill Colvin and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

A worker installing an SOS WiFi router in the Hawwa stream hiking trail in southern Israel. (Courtesy)

Group aims to give hikers emergency wifi, no matter how far off the beaten path

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Yair Lapid, left, and Benny Gantz in the Knesset on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Despite spectacularly stormy split, Lapid and Gantz may reunite for election run

A pharmacist prepares a COVID-19 vaccine for nursing home residents in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Jan. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

‘We can get it done’: Biden vows to tackle COVID as US vaccine rollout staggers

By Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and Bill Barrow

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (L) and Justice Minister Amir Ohana attend the annual justice conference in Airport City, outside Tel Aviv on September 3, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

AG slams Ohana, says he won’t defend order in court to not vaccinate prisoners

Flo Milli performs at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, June 22, 2019. (Sarah Morris/Getty Images for BET via JTA)

Fresh traditionFlo Milli samples ‘If I Were a Rich Man’ in new track

By Gabe Friedman

Mayim Bialik speaks at the AT&T's SHAPE: 'The Scully Effect is Real' panel on June 22, 2019, in Burbank, California. (Mark Von Holden/ Invision/AP)

Who is guest hosting?Mayim Bialik named as a ‘Jeopardy!’ guest host

By Curt Schleier

Robert Keith Packer seen during the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2020 (L) and in custody in Virginia, January 13, 2013. (Screen capture: Twitter/Western Tidewater Regional Jail)

Pelosi: ‘Punk’ in Auschwitz shirt helped spur my review of deadly Capitol raid

Michael Cohen arrives at his Manhattan apartment in New York after being furloughed from prison because of concerns over the coronavirus, on May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

NY prosecutors interview Michael Cohen about Trump finances

By Jim Mustian and Michael R. Sisak

In this file photo Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during an event on lowering prescription drug prices on November 20, 2020, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

US Health Secretary Azar condemns Capitol riot in resignation letter

Nathan Freihofer (Screen capture: YouTube)

US Army ousts junior officer for joking about Holocaust on TikTok

David Cohen, seen here at a Capitol Hill hearing on Iran sanctions in 2011, was named to the No. 2 position at the Central Intelligence Agency. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images via JTA)

Biden returns David Cohen, Obama-era CIA deputy director, to his old position

In this file photo taken on November 6, 2020 a user updates Facebook's WhatsApp application on his mobile phone in Mumbai (Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

After users flee in backlash, WhatsApp delays data sharing change

By Glenn Chapman

Judges deliberate at the trials of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany, Jan. 1, 1945 (The US Holocaust Memorial Museum via JTA)

Complete Nuremberg Trials recordings online for the first time

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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