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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 17, 2021

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In this photo by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, concrete is poured for the base of the second nuclear power reactor at Bushehr plant, some 440 miles (700 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, November 10, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

France: Iran is acquiring a nuclear weapons capacity

French FM warns Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ tactics only increased risk posed by Tehran; comments come after Iranian announcement of advancing research on uranium metal production

Left: Then-US President-elect Joe Biden on January 14, 2021, in Wilmington, Delaware (AP Photo/Matt Slocum); Right: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, December 9, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Report: Biden team already holding talks with Iran on US return to nuclear deal

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman testifies on Capitol Hill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Oct. 3, 2013 (AP/Molly Riley)

Biden announces Iran deal negotiator Wendy Sherman for deputy secretary of state

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An adorned wooden sarcophagus is displayed during the official announcement of the discovery by an Egyptian archaeological mission of a new trove of treasures at Egypt's Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, on January 17, 2021. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

'This discovery rewrites the history of the New Kingdom'

Queen’s temple, 50 coffins, Book of Dead: Ancient Egypt trove ‘remakes history’

Unveiling funerary temple found at vast necropolis near Cairo, archaeologists showcase 3,000-year-old sarcophagi, papyrus with spells for directing the dead through the underworld

Moshe Harazi (via Facebook)

COVID patient dies after breathing tube detaches, staff fails to notice in time

Ichilov hospital investigating, but blames heavy workload amid Israel’s third pandemic wave, says it will divert more staff to coronavirus wards

Ziv hospital team members transport a new patient at the coronavirus ward of the hospital in the northern city of Safed on January 7, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel nears grim milestone of 4,000 coronavirus deaths

Police at a temporary roadblock by the beach promenade in Tel Aviv, during a nationwide lockdown. January 16, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Health official: ‘No choice but to extend the lockdown for another week’

From the blogs

Black Jewish Partnership in the Age of Black Lives Matter

Supporting BLM does not mean signing on to every aspect of the movement, it means standing with the Torah’s teaching that all humans matter

From left to right: Leah Schapira, Esti Waldman, Victoria Dwek, Shaindy Menzer, and Renee Muller are the women of Between Carpools. (ESTIphotography for Between Carpools)

These US Orthodox women bloggers prefer not to be seen, but are very much heard

By Cathryn J. Prince

Leon Wiener Dow

Trump’s Hollywood ending

No, it’s not a happy one, it’s a dystopia in which it gradually becomes clear that 50 percent of Americans agree with those who stormed the Capitol

El Mehdi Boudra

The Moroccan exception should become an expectation

My country approached Israel with fairness and reason; now, Israel can do the same for the Palestinians, to achieve another historic compromise

Illustrative: France's rider Pierre Cherpin, 52, competes during the Stage 2 of the Dakar 2021, on January 4, 2021. (FRANCK FIFE / AFP)

Israeli race drivers traveled to Saudi Arabia to compete in Dakar Rally

Participating under Belgian, US flags, some team members reportedly entered kingdom on Israeli passports, despite official ban on travelers from the Jewish state

Members of the Moroccan Jewish community pray at the synagogue of Em Habanim in the western city of Casablanca on January 5, 2021 (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Jews in Morocco ‘already packing their suitcases’ for direct Israel flights

By Ismail Bellaouali

Bank Hapoalim CEO Dov Kotler, right, meets with CEO of the National Bank of Bahrain Jean-Christophe Durand in Manama, Bahrain in Nov. 2020 (Courtesy)

Israeli lenders Hapoalim and Leumi sign accords with National Bank of Bahrain

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a coronavirus vaccination facility in the northern Arab city of Nazareth on January 13, 2021. (Gil Eliyahu/POOL/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu vows to crack down on crime in Arab community, as with terrorism

By Michael Bachner

In Zoom call with Arab mayors, PM vows more state funds, police stations, as some local leaders boycott call and others say change of tack not evident in the field

7:37 pm

Sa'ar hires advisers from Project Lincoln, who campaign against Trump
7:11 pm

Morocco becomes 2nd Arab country to promote fighting anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism
6:51 pm

Egypt seizes assets of Morsi, 88 Muslim Brotherhood members

Illustrative: Safety jackets hang at a factory in southern Israel on March 13, 2018. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Strong shekel ‘murdering us,’ exporters complain as BoI banks on buying billions

By Shoshanna Solomon

A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, January 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing – Israel, the VacciNation: Your questions answered

A quick 15-minute podcast with ToI editors and reporters to catch you up on what’s important today

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai speaks during a concert at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on May 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Huldai: Tel Aviv cultural venues to open in February for the fully vaccinated

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center on December 20, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau tests positive for coronavirus

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold the first cabinet meeting in the Knesset on May 17, 2020. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Gantz accuses PM of trying to derail permit process for Palestinian construction

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister says Netanyahu attempted to go behind his back by speaking directly to military officials, against protocol; authorizations were issued despite the intervention

Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar seen with Likud supporters during an event in the city of Hod Hasharon, November 25, 2019. In the background is a poster of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Elections 2021New Hope’s Sa’ar: If I win, Likud can join me but Netanyahu can’t be a minister

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Nazareth on January 13, 2021 (courtesy: PMO)

Arab mayors to meet with Netanyahu on community violence; some call for boycott

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes part in a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Golan Heights, near Merom Golan on the border with Syria, on November 19, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Pool/AFP)

Pompeo hits Iran, China, Cuba in last-minute sanctions push

By Shaun Tandon

Days before leaving office, US punishes Chinese steel company and UAE-based building materials firm for working with Iran Shipping Lines

A satellite image from April 2, 2016, of the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran. (Google Earth)

Iran asks UN not to publish ‘unnecessary’ details on its nuclear program

By AP

File: Thick smog blankets the skyline, obscuring nearby mountains, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Blame Bitcoin? Iran hit by blackouts and smog amid electricity production woes

Artist Koketit, aka Shira Barzilay, has used Instagram to market her art and find clients, particularly during the last ten months of the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy Shira Barzilay)

Pinched by pandemic, Israeli artists paint new paths onto Instagram walls

By Jessica Steinberg

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic in Wilmington, Delaware, Jan. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

On 1st day in office, Biden to cancel Muslim travel ban, rejoin climate accord

Incoming US president to roll back some of Trump’s most controversial actions, take steps to expand virus testing and mask mandate

US President Donald Trump arrives to address the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing US troops in Washington, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump has been habitually ripping up documents; could leave a hole in US history

By Deb Riechmann

Sen. Josh Hawley, Republican-Missouri, speaks to reporters as he returns to the Senate Chamber at the Capitol, in Washington, January 7, 2021. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Loews Hotels cancels event for Republican Missouri senator after US Capitol riot

By AP

Members of the Florida National Guard stand guard outside of the Lincoln Memorial on January 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Heavily armed man arrested in DC while trying to access inauguration area

By AFP

Search of Wesley Allen Beeler’s vehicle uncovers a loaded handgun, more than 500 rounds of ammunition, shotgun shells and a magazine for the gun

Trump-backing pillow salesman visits White House, suggests declaring martial law

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘Kill him with his own gun’: DC police recount harrowing assault on Capitol

Neo-Nazi ‘Baked Alaska’ arrested over US Capitol riot

By AP and ToI Staff

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Kobi Shabtai (C) receives his rank as new police chief from Public Security Minister Amir Ohana (R), January 17, 2020 (Israel Police)

Cabinet okays Kobi Shabtai as permanent police chief, a job unfilled for 2 years

New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain in 1980. (Peter Noble/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

ObituarySylvain Sylvain, Jewish guitarist for the New York Dolls, dies aged 69

By Gabe Friedman

Democratic US Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock waves to supporters during a drive-in rally, Jan. 3, 2021, in Savannah, Georgia (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Hackers attack Atlanta synagogue stream of senator-elect Warnock’s sermon

People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem, on January 16, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Inoculate for corruption’: Anti-Netanyahu activists rally for 30th week

The new elected Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party chairman Armin Laschet stands on the podium after the voting at a digital party convention in Berlin, Germany, January 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Merkel’s center-right party selects pragmatist German governor as new leader

By Geir Moulson

This combination of photos shows various podcasts, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/David Hamilton)

Tech giants crack down on far-right content, but leave major loophole: Podcasts

A hospital staff member receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a government Hospital in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, January 16, 2021. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

India kicks off ‘world’s largest’ COVID-19 vaccination drive

By AP

Undated photo of Benjamin de Rothschild. (Courtesy of Edmond de Rothschild Group)

ObituaryBenjamin Rothschild, prominent French member of the banking family, dies at 57

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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