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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 19, 2021

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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)

Data shows enforcement much laxer in Haredi areas

Israel passes 10,000 daily infections for first time since start of pandemic

By Michael Bachner

Positive test rate highest in months, as officials make grim prediction of major outbreak in spring despite vaccination campaign

A woman receives a coronavirus shot at a vaccination station on January 16, 2021 in the coastal city of Herzliya. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Israelis aged 40+ start receiving vaccines in race to halt record infections

By Michael Bachner

People walk in downtown Jerusalem on January 17, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewThis is a fine mess: What the press is saying about lockdowns, Haredim and Trump

By Joshua Davidovich

Ron Dermer speaks to media at Trump Tower on November 17, 2016, in New York. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Profile

Netanyahu’s envoy Dermer departs US, but to Democrats he’s been gone for years

Ambassador’s close relationship with the PM and willingness to bet it all on Trump paid handsome dividends, but many on other side of aisle say strategy will haunt Israel

Israeli national security Adviser speaks to a press at the royal palace in Rabat, Morocco, December 22, 2020. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Morocco 2nd Arab country to promote combating anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit speaks during an Arab League emergency meeting discussing the US-brokered proposal for a settlement of the Middle East conflict, Cairo, February 1, 2020. (Khaled DESOUKI/AFP)

Arab League chief hopes Biden reverses Trump policies, revives 2-state solution

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A supporter of US President Donald Trump wears a hat in the colors of the American flag at a rally for his re-election, at a promenade overlooking Jerusalem, October 27, 2020. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

Inside story

Born on the 4th: Israeli parties look to US playbook for pandemic-era campaigns

By Tal Schneider

Anthony Blinken speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, November 24, 2020. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

No more ‘America First’: Biden’s top diplomat says US needs its allies to thrive

By Shaun Tandon

From the blogs

Kenneth S. Stern

Can America inoculate against the dire threat of ‘us vs. them’?

As false claims of a Trump victory stoke political violence, the US must launch a grand effort to rebuild a society in which disagreement is not deadly

Illustrative image: A groom dances with family and friends during his wedding in Giv'at Ze'ev, outside Jerusalem on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Flash90)

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing – Ultra-Orthodox dance at weddings, pray for sick

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

'The Rising Tide of Color,' published by Lothrop Stoddard in 1920 (public domain)

The 1920s white supremacist influencer beloved by president Harding – and Hitler

By Matt Lebovic

Rachel Aridor-Hershkovitz

WhatsApp’s new terms of service? Kiss your privacy goodbye

With Facebook’s insatiable appetite for personal data, the new requirement for users of its popular subsidiary should be a red light to us all

A eulogy for lost truth within the Torah community

A flood of extreme conspiracy theories is driving painful wedges between us – we have a responsibility to speak out when we see them

A composite image shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Gideon Sa'ar, right. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Poll: Netanyahu’s Likud regaining support, Sa’ar’s New Hope losing it

TV survey says PM’s party would pick up 30 seats if new elections held today, but lacks clear path to cobbling together a majority

7:19 pm

US soldier arrested in plot to blow up 9/11 Memorial in NYC
7:15 pm

Poll: Netanyahu's Likud regaining support, Sa'ar's New Hope losing it
6:44 pm

IDF says rocket fired from Gaza Strip toward Israel

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Iran says it is producing half a kilo of 20% enriched uranium every day

Country’s nuclear agency chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, says it will resume adhering to nuke deal’s terms if ‘other parties’ do so

This photo released on January 19, 2021, by the Iranian Army, shows paratroopers parachuting during a military drill. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran kicks off ground forces drill on coast of Gulf of Oman

By Nasser Karimi

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens as Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a joint press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, June 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Lavrov: Israel should inform Moscow of Iranian threats in Syria, not bomb them

By Judah Ari Gross

Sheba Medical staff members receive the second round of the COVID-19 vaccine, at the Sheba Medical Center outside of Tel Aviv, January 10, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli hospital: 98% of staff who got 2nd shot have high-level COVID antibodies

‘The vaccine works wonderfully’: Sheba Medical Center says Pfizer inoculation gives more protection than recovery from coronavirus infection

A pharmacist draws saline while preparing a dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in Sacramento, California, January 12, 2021.(AP Photo/Noah Berger, Pool)

A new COVID-19 challenge: Mutations rise along with cases

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Passengers at the Ben Gurion Airport departure hall on December 14, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Officials bicker over airport virus failures ahead of cabinet vote

Former Yesha Council chairman and head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council in the West Bank David Elhayani at a protest tent outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Lambasting ‘inciter’ Trump, settler leader expresses relief president on way out

The Avigayil outpost, southeast of Hebron in the West Bank, Febuary 21, 2010. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Gantz blocks Netanyahu’s ‘irresponsible’ push to legalize West Bank outposts

PM reportedly tried to add recognition of 6 illegal settlements to cabinet’s agenda a day before Biden inauguration

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at UN Headquarters in New York City, on February 4, 2020. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

UN calls on Israel to stop new settlement construction in West Bank

By AFP 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)

UK ‘seriously concerned’ by Israeli approval of new West Bank homes

By AFP and ToI Staff

People evacuate from the West Front of the US Capitol, due to a false alarm during a rehearsal for the 59th presidential inauguration, in Washington, January 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Inauguration rehearsal halted, US Capitol briefly locks down after false alarm

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Fire in a homeless encampment sparks fears, temporary evacuation, as Washington remains on edge ahead of Biden’s swearing-in

US President Donald Trump flanked by first lady Melania Trump is introduced by his daughter and White House senior adviser, Ivanka Trump, as he prepares to deliver his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House August 27, 2020, in Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump not planning to pardon himself or his family members — report

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine meets with the media at the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) headquarters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 29, 2020. (Joe Hermitt/The Patriot-News via AP, File)

Biden picks transgender Jewish woman as assistant US health secretary

By Will Weissert

A Volkswagen electric car is plugged in at a power station in Berlin on February 2, 2016. (AFP / TOBIAS SCHWARZ)

Revving up electric car industry, Israeli firm develops 5-minute-charge battery

Herzliya-based startup StoreDot unveils solution for main obstacle to widespread use of electric vehicles, but it requires major upgrades to charging stations

A video published by the al-Ittihad Emirati newspaper welcoming the Israel-UAE normalization deal. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Israel- and Dubai-based investors set up $100 million tech debt fund

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of the American and Israeli flags. (3dmitry; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel-US R&D fund to invest $7.45 million in 8 new projects

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Prof. Irit Bahar, director of the Ophthalmology Department at Rabin Medical Center, removes the bandages from Jamal Furani, after he got the artificial cornea implant developed by CorNeat Vision (Channel 13 screenshot)

In first, Haifa man regains his vision after getting artificial cornea implant

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with attorney Micha Fettman (L) inside the court room, as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu lawyers say he was never questioned on many accusations in graft cases

By Michael Bachner

Palestinians sit as PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh opens a hospital for COVID-19 patients in the West Bank city of Nablus, on January 16, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

WHO raises ‘concerns’ about vaccine inequity between Israel and Palestinians

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 19, 2020. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool/AFP)

PA demands Israel allow East Jerusalemites to take part in Palestinian elections

By Aaron Boxerman

A vial with Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in a medical room, in Moscow, Russia, December 5, 2020 (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Palestinian shipment of Russian Sputnik vaccine delayed

By Aaron Boxerman

President Reuven Rivlin, center, meets with the heads of hospitals to discuss financial crisis threatening their collapse, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, January 18, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Rivlin pleads with government to resolve hospital budget crisis

By Stuart Winer

Likud MK Miki Zohar reacts during an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 13, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud whip accuses defecting minister of choosing ‘white people’s party’

A Tenufa Bakehila volunteer with the organization's emergency repair vehicle, used to do home repairs for free for those in need during the coronavirus (Courtesy Mark Neyman/GPO)

Quick fixHome repair organization helps elderly during coronavirus

By Jessica Steinberg

A sign at the entrance to the village of Malinowo, Poland. (Google Maps)

Polish Holocaust scholars on trial for suggesting mayor helped kill 22 Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former prime minister Ehud Barak, during a media interview in Tel Aviv, September 30, 2019. (File: Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Barak says he will not return to Labor, citing fractured left-wing field

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