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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 20, 2021

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US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, January 20, 2021, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Wishes new administration 'great success,' leaves Biden note

Vowing return ‘in some form’ Trump leaves White House as president for last time

By Agencies and TOI staff

Outgoing president flies to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida – where he will be when his replacement, Joe Biden, is sworn in outside the Capitol in Washington

US President Donald Trump speaks in a farewell video released on his final day in office, Washington, January 19, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Trump wishes new administration luck, highlights Mideast deals in farewell video

By AP and TOI staff

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks from the Senate floor to his office, on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 6, 2021. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Ahead of Senate impeachment trial, McConnell says Trump ‘provoked’ Capitol mob

By AFP

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrive at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Trump’s departure to Biden’s inauguration as it happened — Liveblog January 20

Joe Biden becomes 46th US president, while Kamala Haris is first woman, and first person of color, to become US vice president

9:58 pm

Kamala Harris swears in 3 new Democratic senators
9:06 pm

Biden enters White House for first time as US president
8:53 pm

'Keep doing what you're doing': Biden fist bumps reporters outside White House

(Clockwise from top right) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould El-Ghzaouani and Indonesian President Joko Widodo. (Collage/AP)

Exclusive

Trump officials: Mauritania, Indonesia were next to normalize, but time ran out

US peace team was ‘weeks’ away from inking deal with northwest African country to re-establish ties with Israel, outgoing officials say, adding that Jakarta was not far behind

The Jerusalem site formerly known as the Allenby Barracks, a planned location for a second campus of the US Embassy (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem deputy mayor dreams of int’l ’embassy district’ close to US legation

A general view of the Givat Hamatos settlement in east Jerusalem, on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

EU urges Israel to halt plans to build new East Jerusalem neighborhood

By Lazar Berman

Tammy Friedman, left, Ambassador David Friedman, second left, and former ambassador Dan Shapiro, right, at the ambassador's residence in Herzliya in 2017. (US Embassy)

Inside story

Four years after leaving post, will Dan Shapiro return as old-new US ambassador?

Ex-envoy’s name mentioned as possible candidate, along with energy guru Amos Hochstein and former Rep. Robert Wexler, as David Friedman prepares for post-ambassadorial life

US Secretary of State nominee Tony Blinken testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 19, 2021. (Alex Edelman/Pool via AP)

Biden’s State pick: We’ll consult with Israel, allies before return to Iran deal

US Secretary of State nominee Tony Blinken testifies during his confirmation hearing to be Secretary of State before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 19, 2021. (Alex Edelman/Pool via AP)

Biden’s State pick backs two-state solution, says US embassy stays in Jerusalem

By AFP

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)

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing – ToI blogosphere weighs in on end of Trump era

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

Quick take: Trump was a dud, but not for Israel

Some of the worst leaders of the American people, at least according to the usual measures of presidential success, have been the most effective allies of the Jewish state

Tamar Sternthal

Why doesn’t the NYTimes rely on its own archives?

The ’paper of record’ is getting its Israel-related facts wrong, and it isn’t even correcting the errors that contradict its past reporting

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a Clalit Health Services vaccination center in Jerusalem, on January 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two HMOs say they’ll vaccinate those 35 and up, without Health Ministry okay

By Stuart Winer

Clalit and Meuhedet broaden pool of those able to get coronavirus shots; officials said to consider scrapping prioritization entirely

Israelis recieve a Covid-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, January 19, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After record infections, record vaccines: Israel gives 200,000 shots in past day

By Stuart Winer

Israel's coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash at the Jerusalem Municipality, on November 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s virus czar says 1st dose less effective than Pfizer indicated — report

Incoming vice president Kamala Harris send out a Hanukkah message with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, December 10, 2020. (YouTube screenshot)

Analysis

Biden, Harris and their families are making Jewish history on Inauguration Day

Incoming US administration has plenty of firsts, holding distinctions for oldest president and first woman and person of color VP. Here are some of their milestones for the Tribe

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

The issues galvanizing Jewish voters that Joe Biden has planned for Day One

By Gabe Friedman

US President-elect Joe Biden, right, listens as his nominee for the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and adviser on science Eric Lander speaks during an event in Wilmington, Delaware, January 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Biden chooses Jewish geneticist Eric Lander to lead Cabinet-level science office

US President-elect Joe Biden and incoming First Lady Jill Biden arrive at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 19, 2021, one day ahead of his inauguration as 46th President of the US. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)

Biden to be sworn in as 46th US president, ending Trump era

By Sebastian Smith and Michael Mathes

Veteran politician to enter position he first sought 34 years ago; Washington inauguration to take place under heavy guard in shadow of US Capitol riot

US President-elect Joe Biden stands with his wife Jill Biden after speaking at the Major Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Delaware, January 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Our Moses’: Delaware rabbi blesses Biden at ceremony on eve of inauguration

US President-elect Joe Biden delivers brief remarks during a memorial service to honor the 400,000 American victims of the coronavirus pandemic at the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, January 19, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden arrives in Washington for inauguration with big plans, big problems

By Bill Barrow and AAMER MADHANI

View of the closed-down stores in the Givatayim Mall during a nationwide lockdown, January 18, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Government extends lockdown until January 31 amid soaring virus rates

Ministers also approve new regulations requiring all those entering the country to present a recent negative virus test or face a fine

A vaccination center operated by the Tel Aviv Municipality with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov hospital), at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, January 19, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Health Ministry advises pregnant women get vaccine, after 10 serious infections

By Stuart Winer

Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg walks among thousands of white flags planted in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, near Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, October 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

In Trump’s final hours, US crosses 400,000 virus deaths, nearly its WWII toll

By AP

Activists outside a meeting of the Labour National Executive Committee in London, with signs protesting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, September 4, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images/ via JTA /SUE)

Explainer

IHRA definition of anti-Semitism divides US Jews ahead of Biden presidency

Parameters set by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance were intended to unify people over a contentious topic – but Israel’s inclusion in them is again stirring debate

Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Author accused of anti-Semitism is keynote speaker at Dutch WWII memorial

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US-Jewish singer Matisyahu speaks at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, January 8, 2016. (Courtesy of Amir Norman via JTA)

Spain acquits 8 BDS activists of hate crimes against US Jewish singer Matisyahu

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) leads a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset alongside MK Yoav Kisch, January 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Deputy health minister: Elections could be delayed if virus cases stay high

Yoav Kisch, of Netanyahu’s Likud party, likens pandemic to war; but top health official says move ‘not on the table’; opposition MKs seethe at suggestion

Combo photo (from left): New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett. (Flash90)

Netanyahu’s Likud widens lead over Saar’s New Hope to 15 seats — poll

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe, at the Jerusalem municipality. May 03, 2016 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Right-wing Jewish Home party elects first female leader

By Stuart Winer

A late 5th century CE Greek inscription, 'Christ born of Mary,' recently found in the village of et-Taiyiba (Taibe) in the Jezreel Valley. (Tzachi Lang/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

‘Christ born of Mary’: 1st proof of early Christianity found in Galilee village

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Greek inscription provides evidence of a hitherto-unknown 5th century Byzantine-era church; the find ‘closes a circle’ on Christian settlement in small Jezreel Valley village Taibe

Left: Marcella White Campbell, the new executive director of Be'chol Lashon; Right: A Shabbat service at Camp Be’chol Lashon in 2016 led by Ethiopian Israeli, Maor Sanbata and campers. (Both photos courtesy of Be’chol Lashon/ via JTA)

Interview

Meet Marcella Campbell, 1st Jew of color to head diversity group Be’chol Lashon

By Gabe Friedman

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Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel (left) and solar energy entrepreneur Yosef Abromovitz in a video welcoming the new Biden-Harris US administration, January 20, 2021. (Screen capture)

Environment minister welcomes Biden, Harris, with zero carbon pledge

Rabbi Kenneth Hain banned the 5 Towns Jewish Times from his synagogue after a local Trump supporter who attended the Jan. 6 protests in Washington was featured on the paper's front page. (Screenshot from 5 Towns Jewish Times)

Long Island rabbi receives threatening note after banning local Jewish paper

Abir Kara (Facebook)

In boost for Bennett, small business owners’ protest leader joins Yamina

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: An explosion caused by Iron Dome air defense system missiles intercepting rockets fired from Gaza, February 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra/ File)

IDF says rocket fired from Gaza Strip at Israel; no injuries

A guard tower and barbed wire fence surround a detention facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux, in western China's Xinjiang region, December 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

US says China committing genocide against Uighur Muslims

The Sentinel urine monitoring device developed by Serenno Medical (Serenno)

Startup hopes life-saving kidney monitor will hit US hospitals this year

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen capture from video as police use a water cannon to disperse protesters against enforcement of a national lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2021. (Kikar Shabbat)

17 arrested as police clash with ultra-Orthodox over virus lockdown violations

The snow covered around the Israeli Northern city of Majdal Shams, January 19, 2021.(Maor Kinsbursky/FLASH90)

Snow, rain hit Israel in winter spell, raising Sea of Galilee level

Israel Discount Bank Ltd. and the nation's largest supermarket chain Shufersal are setting up a joint venture to offer a digital banking services that aims to compete with the traditional banking system (ARISA THEPBANCHORNCHAI; iStock by Getty Images)

Bank Discount, Shufersal chain set up joint financial services firm

By Shoshanna Solomon

Thousands gathered for the wedding of the son of Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, grand rabbi of a faction of the Bobov Hasidic sect. (Screenshot from WhatsApp via JTA)

Thousands attend Hasidic wedding in Brooklyn kept secret due to COVID rules

US President Donald Trump, left, on July 22, 2018, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on February 6, 2018. (AP Photo)

Iran’s Rouhani celebrates departure of ‘tyrant’ Trump

By AFP and TOI staff

The Tamar gas rig, located 23 kilometers (14 miles) west of the city of Haifa in northern Israel. (AP/Albatross Aerial Perspective)

7 years on, Tamar natural gas partners make 1st payment to national wealth fund

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