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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 21, 2021

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

Iran nuclear deal not on the Day One agenda

‘It feels like I’m going home’: Biden enters White House as 46th US President

New commander-in-chief begins work in West Wing, planning executive actions to undo Trump’s policies on immigration, climate change and handling of coronavirus pandemic

US President Joe Biden delivers his inauguration speech on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

‘Democracy has prevailed’: Joe Biden is sworn in as 46th US president

By AP and TOI staff

Kamala Harris is sworn in as US vice president by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as her husband Doug Emhoff holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021.(Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Kamala Harris sworn in as first female and Black US vice president

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and Alexandra Jaffe

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav with his mother Sarah in an undated picture. (Courtesy Mendy Hachtman)

Blood on rabbis’ hands, Haredi emergency chief says after mom’s COVID death

By Nathan Jeffay

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav pleaded with his family not to hold a party, but with Haredi leaders not taking the virus seriously, the ZAKA rescue group leader says he didn’t stand a chance

A woman receives her second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from an army medic, left, at a vaccination center set up on a mall parking lot in Givataim, central Israel, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus, January 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

For 1st time since October, Israel’s transmission rate shows outbreak slowing

Police enforce a lockdown at a temporary checkpoint at the entrance to the ultra-Orthodox town of Elad on January 18, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Blue and White accuses Likud of blocking effort to boost COVID enforcement

People wear protective face masks due to the coronavirus outbreak as they walk outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, December 17, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Netanyahu backs reopening art, culture events in two weeks

PM meets with representatives of battered industries, proposes that those vaccinated against coronavirus would be permitted to attend performances

A man places flags at the National World War I Museum and Memorial Jan. 19, 2021, in Kansas City, Missouri. The 1,665 flags represent the area residents who died in the coronavirus pandemic and the display was part of a national memorial to lives lost to COVID-19. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Biden unveils ambitious COVID-19 strategy as US virus deaths top WWII fatalities

Home Front Command soldiers and police at the Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem, used as a quarantine facility, on May 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Travelers returning from Dubai turn violent at Jerusalem quarantine hotel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulates US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris following their inauguration, January 20, 2021 (video screenshot)

Congratulating Biden, Netanyahu urges him to build on peace deals, confront Iran

Unlike after his election victory, Israeli leaders waste no time in welcoming new US president; PM also tweets thanks to Trump ‘for all the great things you have done for Israel’

Left: 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)

TV: Israel warns ‘nothing to discuss’ with Biden if returns to Iran deal as is

By TOI staff and Jacob Magid

US President Joe Biden delivers his Inauguration speech after being sworn in as the 46th US President on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / POOL / AFP)

Op-ed

Joe Biden, his mother, and the Golden Rule

America would appear to be fortunate that a veteran conciliator is the president now charged with healing the nation. Israel, too, has cause for relief and appreciation

Outgoing US President Donald Trump addresses guests at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 20, 2021. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP)

Unbowed, Trump supporters contemplate America under Biden

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

Arnold M. Eisen

American Yizkor

The memorial for coronavirus victims, a step toward healing, recalled the Yom Kippur service when we remember those we have lost

Dennis C. Sasso

Donald Trump as a messianic cultic figure

In the former president, echoes of another figure in history who left a polarizing trail of broken communities, conspiracies and heresy accusations

The American Jewish community: United, none may be blotted out

The values of the Torah are what bring the Jewish People together. Without them, we are just wandering in another desert of our own making.

Sarah Golubtchik

Real Life 101: A teacher’s perspective

Pay attention, ask good questions, check your sources — in short, resist the growing pressure to simply read and repeat the thoughts of others

Eytan Stibbe and Israeli president Reuven Rivlin bump elbows at a ceremony celebrating Stibbe's planned trip to the International Space Station, November 16, 2020 (Mark Neyman/GPO)

ToI investigates

Simona Weinglass

Questions on arms sales, funding bring 2nd Israeli astronaut back down to earth

Before he was being feted as a national hero for paying his way into orbit on a private trip, pilot Eytan Stibbe was making a fortune in a war-torn corner of Africa

Two US Navy F-35C Lightning II jets fly in formation during an exercise out of Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, November 16, 2018. (US Navy/Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon E. Renfroe)

UAE reportedly signs for purchase of F-35s an hour before Biden sworn in

Illustrative image of hacking, hackers, ransomware and a cybersecurity attack (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli cybersecurity firms raised record $2.9 billion in 2020 amid pandemic

By Shoshanna Solomon

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)

Israeli immunity hinges on Palestinians getting COVID shots too, doctors say

By Aaron Boxerman and Nathan Jeffay

Epidemiological interest is clear, say officials, warning that herd immunity cannot be reached otherwise, but legal experts conflicted over whether Israel is ultimately responsible

Editor's NoteVaccinating the Palestinians * Michael Leven’s philanthropy campaign

By David Horovitz

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 premier: Abbas to run as Fatah candidate in Palestinian presidential election

By Aaron Boxerman

US President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

With 15 strokes of a pen, Biden reverses Trump on climate, virus and immigration

By Zeke Miller and AAMER MADHANI

Taking to Oval Office, new US president signs series of executive orders ending Muslim travel ban, halting construction of border wall, sending US back to Paris climate agreement

A National Guard stands at a road block near the Supreme Court ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony, January 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Despite fears, Biden’s inauguration goes off with no security issues

By Ben Fox, Colleen Long and MICHAEL BALSAM

A Qanon believer Jacob Chansley, who was later arrested for his role storming the Capitol, speaks to a crowd of President Donald Trump supporters outside of the Maricopa County Recorder's Office where votes in the general election are being counted, in Phoenix, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-MIlls)

‘Where’s the storm?’ Biden inauguration leaves QAnon adherents reeling

By Michael Kunzelman, AMANDA SEITZ and David Klepper

President-elect Joe Biden, wearing a medical boot, raises his leg as he enters The Queen theater, December 1, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing – Biden’s one-legged Talmudic inaugural speech

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

US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden watch a military pass in review ceremony on the East Front of the Capitol at the conclusion of the inauguration ceremonies, in Washington, January 20, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Israel media reviewWe’re baaaaack: What the press is saying about a new US and an old tiff

By Joshua Davidovich

President Joe Biden gives his inaugural address during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Inaugural addressFull text of Biden’s speech: ‘America has been tested; we’ve come out stronger’

In this image from video, US Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)

Harris swears in 3 new Senators, making Schumer first Jewish majority leader

By LISA MASCARO

Among those sworn in is Jewish Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff; 1st Biden Cabinet pick confirmed amid efforts by Republicans to block nominations

Senator-elect Jon Ossoff (D-GA) arrives at the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP

Jon Ossoff sworn into US Senate seat holding historic book of Hebrew scripture

By Gabe Friedman

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware on January 7, 2021. He called the US Capitol protests one of the 'darkest days' in US history. (JIM WATSON / AFP)

All the Jews Biden has tapped for top roles in his new administration

By JTA

Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks at the UN in New York. (Shahar Azran/Israeli Mission to the UN)

Shuttle diplomacy: UN envoy Erdan starts 2nd role as Israel’s ambassador to US

Splitting time between NYC and DC, former Likud lawmaker enters post at sensitive point in bilateral relationship, hoping to prevent disagreements from developing into crises

An Israeli airforce Blackhawk helicopter carrying US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hovers over Sha'ar Binyamin industrial park near the Psagot settlement in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem, on November 19, 2020. (Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP)

Israel issues tenders for 2,500 E J’lem, West Bank homes, as Biden takes office

By AFP and TOI staff

Twitter Account of US Embassy in Israel briefly includes the West Bank and Gaza in its title on January 20, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

US Embassy briefly includes West Bank and Gaza in Twitter handle, sparking storm

New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner, center, CEO Joseph Meyer, left, and editor Ken Kurson attend The New York Observer's 25th anniversary party at The Four Seasons Restaurant on March 14, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

More than a dozen Jews, but no Sheldon Silver, among Trump’s last-minute pardons

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jews who made the cut included several whose crimes affected Jewish communities or who had support of Aleph Institute, an organization that works with Jews who are incarcerated

Then-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, flanked by his wife Nancy, announces he will not seek reelection during a news conference in San Marcos, California, July 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, Files)

Trump pardoning spree a windfall for well-connected fraudsters

Then-US vice president Joseph Biden, left, walks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 10, 2010. (AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

‘We stood tall against the bully’: Palestinians hail end of Trump, welcome Biden

By Aaron Boxerman

‘At least we won’t wake up every morning expecting the worst,’ Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki tells local media

US President Joe Biden delivers his inauguration speech on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Biden gets cool welcome in Gulf amid uncertain Iran policy

By AFP

US President Joe Biden speaks during his on the West Front of the US.Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

World welcomes US President Biden, with some leaders openly expressing relief

By TOI staff and Agencies

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid arrives at the Blue and White party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on election night, March 3, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu needs Lapid as his chief rival, or he’ll really be saying ‘gevalt’

The better the Yesh Atid head does on election day, the more likely Netanyahu is to win; but if Sa’ar leads the anti-Netanyahu bloc, Likud will lose a potent election-day tactic

New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar (left) welcomes Benny Begin to his party, January 21, 2020 (Courtesy)

Former Likud MK Benny Begin, son of late PM, joins Sa’ar’s New Hope

A bee sits on an iris flower near the town of Zichron Yaakov in northern Israel, February 4, 2017. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Israeli researchers find a new bee species, amid worries about declining swarms

Little known about Lasioglossum dorchini, found in Alexander Stream National Park during research into best ways of rehabilitating habitats stunted by planted eucalyptus trees

Produce grown using Israeli start up Vertical Field's farming system. (Courtesy/Vertical Field)

Israel’s Vertical Field inks deal to deploy its farming system in UAE

Flint chopping tools from the Revadim prehistoric site, east of Ashdod. (Courtesy Prof. Ran Barkai/Tel Aviv University)

Early humans used prehistoric tool to chop bones, eat the marrow: Israeli study

By Stuart Winer

More Headlines

The Knesset Guard marches during the opening session of the new Knesset, following elections, on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Security officials said to prepare Knesset Guard to repel Capitol-like assault

Civilians and security forces gather at the site of a deadly bomb attack in Baghdad's bustling commercial area, Iraq, January 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Rare twin suicide bomb attacks kill at least 32 in Baghdad

IDF troops are seen during an exercise in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF to hold massive exercise this summer, simulating full-scale, multi-front war

By Judah Ari Gross

Former presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) sits in the bleachers on Capitol Hill before Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US President on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Radical chicFashion icon Bernie Sanders, and his mittens, star at inauguration

By TOI staff and Agencies

Israeli soldiers stand on a road in the central West Bank where two improvised explosive devices were uncovered on November 22, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops arrest 4 settlers after 2 tried to break into West Bank base

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: The Jerusalem District Court on September 20, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel publishes court procedures to make testimony easier on sex crime victims

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative image of a hospital intern, a physician or a medical professional (megaflopp; iStock by Getty Images)

AI-based software scours literature to help physicians get to a diagnosis faster

By Shoshanna Solomon

Andrew Borans is the CEO of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation and the former executive director of the fraternity. (Screen shot from YouTube/ via JTA)

Jewish fraternity AEPi exec leaves pro-Trump group after backlash from alumni

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