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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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A woman takes a photo at the deserted departure hall at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, on January 25, 2021. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Exceptions made for medical emergencies, funerals

Israel halts all commercial flights in bid to keep virus variants at bay

The order, in effect until January 31, marks the first time since the start of the pandemic the Jewish state is barring entry to its own citizens and new immigrants

Illustrative: Children wearing face masks study in a classroom of the Kramim school in Jerusalem on their first day back to classes on November 1, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Increased child infection rates cast doubt on school reopenings

Workers from Chevra Kadisha Kehilat Yerushalayim, getting dressed with full protective gear to prepare a body before a funeral at a morgue for people who died from COVID-19, at the Sanhedriya Cemetery in Jerusalem, January 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Health Ministry recommends extending lockdown, as daily deaths hit new high

Interview

Arriving in UAE, Israeli envoy sets sights on budding trade bonanza

Ambassador Eitan Na’eh, speaking from quarantine in Abu Dhabi, says he’ll focus on bringing cheaper goods to Israel, with stickier diplomatic issues not on his agenda yet

Eitan Na'eh, Israel's first ambassador to the UAE, after arriving there on January 24, 2021. (Foreign Ministry, courtesy)

First Israeli minister makes Sudan visit after normalization

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF: Palestinian attempts to stab troops near Ariel, is shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

Settler attacked by Palestinians while jogging – medics

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

In week after 2nd Pfizer vaccine shot, only 20 of 128,000 Israelis get COVID

By Nathan Jeffay

Figure represents 0.015 percent of people, indicating vaccine is hitting 95% efficiency rate predicted by clinical trials; top immunologist hails ‘exciting results’

Illustrative: Courtney Senechal unpacks a special refrigerated box of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines as she prepared to ready more supply for use at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts, December 24, 2020. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is effective against UK, South Africa variants

By AFP and ToI Staff

A bus set alight by an ultra-Orthodox mob in the city of Bnei Brak, January 24, 2021. (Israel Police)

Police, firefighters stood by for an hour as ultra-Orthodox mob torched bus

Ignoring pleas by Bnei Brak residents, fire crew stationed down the street refused to intervene, citing police orders; fire burned through power lines, approached buildings

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clash with police as they protest against construction work for the Jerusalem Light Rail in their neighborhood in Jerusalem, January 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Haredi protesters endangered light rail passengers’ lives, operator says

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in the Knesset on November 24, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Under Haredi pressure, PM said to agree to soften bill hiking lockdown fines

Merav Michaeli, leader of the Labor Party (Courtesy)

Interview

Back from the brink? Merav Michaeli has two months to save the Labor Party

Labor’s dwindling membership decided this week it would rather be led, after all, by the one MK who didn’t break her promises. Now she has to win back a wider electorate… fast

Labor MK Merav Michaeli casts her vote for party leader at a polling station in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2021. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Labor’s new leader says her party is exiting coalition, orders ministers to quit

Blue and White party member Ram Shefa at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 14, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Blue and White defector Ram Shefa joins Labor, will run in primaries

Iranian cleric Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani speaks from Tehran with Ohad Hemo of Israel's Channel 12 on January 25, 2021. (Channel 12 screenshot)

From Iran, cleric tells Israel TV hostility between the two countries should end

Iranians ‘don’t have a problem with Israel,’ says former ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani; shrugs off concerns when asked if he fears for his life for talking to Israeli media

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)

Biden official says US seeking direct dialogue with Iran – report

By Aaron Boxerman

Ephraim Portnoy

Why do I have to be scared to publish this?

To those who claim the violence against Covid enforcement came from people on the fringe of Haredi society, I ask, who are we fooling?

What’s a reasonable emissions target for Israel? Zero

In the shift to renewable energy, a maximal approach is neither radical nor fanciful. It’s paramount for securing our environmental future

‘Auschwitz Camp’ on a black shirt at the Capitol

The anti-Semitism of groups like QAnon is just the tip of the iceberg. Tracking the unregulated ’dark web’ of violent discourse must become a priority

Israel, Palestinians, and COVID vaccines: A reality check

It’s a fact that Israel offered assistance and Palestinian leaders declined, but why let facts get in the way of demonizing the Jewish state

A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, with photographs of people deported there, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

We want to dedicate the anniversary to the youngest victims

Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day to focus on 1.5 million children killed by Nazis

By Matt Lebovic

Global commemoration that marks Auschwitz-Birkenau’s liberation by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945, increasingly important as Holocaust denial rises

A Holocaust survivor shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel says 900 survivors died of COVID-19

In this January 23, 2020, file photo, a delegation of Muslim religious leaders gather at the gate leading to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, together with a Jewish group in what organizers called 'the most senior Islamic leadership delegation' to visit the former death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (American Jewish Committee via AP, File)

From our partner‘Never again’ in Hebrew and Arabic as Gulf states mark Holocaust Memorial Day

An ultra-Orthodox man faces off with police officers during enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations, in Jerusalem, January 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Daily Briefing

PODCAST: Ultra-Orthodox extremists rage on and the politics of Eurovision

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

Illustrative - Haredi schoolchildren outside a school in the city of Ashdod, January 22, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Gantz threatens to block cabinet lockdown talks in spat over Haredi enforcement

A portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu is set on fire during an annual pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 10, 2015. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Analysis

US wants to hear out allies on Iran. Netanyahu girds for fight unless it listens

Leaked comments indicate the prime minister is readying for battle over Biden’s insistence on rejoining the nuclear pact, even as Washington says it will hear Israeli concerns

US President Joe Biden signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, January 25, 2021. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Pressuring Biden, Iran warns he won’t have endless time to rejoin nuclear pact

By Nasser Karimi

French President Emmanuel Macron (right) with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters on September 25, 2018, in New York. (AFP Photo/ludovic Marin)

France: Iran must comply with nuclear deal before US returns to pact

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a swearing-in ceremony for new judges at the President's Residence, Jerusalem, January 26, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Rivlin, Hayut denounce attacks on judicial system at ceremony for new judges

President says ‘red lines are crossed in the name of so-called governance’; Supreme Court chief justice decries ‘violation of the independent, neutral status of courts’

The start of the trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Court rejects Netanyahu’s request to delay next hearing of his corruption trial

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a coronavirus vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, on December 19, 2020, becoming the first in Israel to get the vaccine (AMIR COHEN / POOL / AFP)

Facebook suspends Netanyahu’s chatbot for seeking to ID unvaccinated Israelis

Israelis stand in line for COVID-19 vaccinations in Rehovot, central Israel on January 26, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel passes 4,500 COVID deaths, officials said stumped by high case count

TV report says health experts expected better results after 2 weeks of tight restrictions, and do not see possibility of reopening schools or businesses under current conditions

7:43 pm

Report: Health Ministry moves to allow vaccination of at-risk under 16s
7:14 pm

New poll: 61% of voters want a coalition without ultra-Orthodox parties
7:06 pm

Widespread internet outages hit northeast US

A nurse draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Sacramento, California, January 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

WHO says pregnant women should not get Moderna vaccine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Health body previously gave similar recommendation on Pfizer-BioNTech shot, a position rejected by Israel amid a spike in serious cases

A Russian medical worker prepares a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow, Russia, December 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Iran approves Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine

By AFP

Tayebeh Mokhber is injected with the Coviran coronavirus vaccine produced by Shifa Pharmed, part of a state-owned pharmaceutical conglomerate, in a ceremony in Tehran, Iran on December 29, 2020. (AP/Aref Taherkenareh)

Iran says 30 volunteers have no side effects from 2 doses of a homemade vaccine

By ToI Staff and AP

The Jewish Council of Amsterdam was a body set up by the Nazis to have Jews oversee preparations for the extermination of their own minority throughout the Netherlands during World War II. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam/ via JTA)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

In Amsterdam, ‘personal cards’ of Holocaust victims return to Jewish hands

The 140,000-plus identification papers are set to be displayed publicly for the 1st time; they’re unique in containing details of status and personal traits, unlike Nazi-made cards

People visiting the site of a former synagogue at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on the day the museum reopened to the public after an expansion project in Shanghai, December 8, 2020. (Photo by STR / AFP)

Holocaust Remembrance DayExpanded Shanghai museum highlights China’s role as safe haven during Holocaust

By Peter Stebbings

Then-opposition leader Isaac Herzog greets Nancy Pelosi in Tel Aviv on March 26, 2018. (Isaac Herzog's Twitter feed via JTA)

How an Israeli poem sustained and inspired Nancy Pelosi through the Trump years

Analysis

Boxed-in Turkey tries to rekindle ties, but Israel can now play hard to get

Erdogan is eager to turn the page, as old antagonist Biden assumes office, but Jerusalem, sitting pretty with gas alliances and new Arab friends, will have some demands

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Istanbul on August 5, 2020. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pats his head during a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani after their trilateral meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via AP)

Pompeo plan to declare rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’ over Israel stance shelved

Former official says policy, introduced after Trump lost election, faced pushback because of free speech concerns; State Department did not have time to get ball rolling

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism via JTA)

US Reform movement: IHRA definition of anti-Semitism should not be law

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

At Holocaust ceremony, UN chief urges global alliance against rise of neo-Nazis

By Edith M. Lederer

More Headlines

An F-35 jet maneuvers during a graduation ceremony for pilots who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90/File)

F-35s seen flying over southern Lebanon, Beirut in apparent threat by Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Blue and White MK Yair Lapid speaks at the Maariv conference in Herzliya, on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid jets back from US after pre-election parley with Democrat advisers

By Tal Schneider

Fake money bills with pictures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Elovitch at a protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside PM Netanyahu's house in Jerusalem, July 3, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel criticizes Netanyahu’s proposed cash handouts to Israelis

Eden Alene, Israel's 2021 Eurovision representative and winner of the reality show 'The Next Star,' during the final in Neve Ilan studio near Jerusalem on February 4, 2020. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Take 2‘Set me free’: Israel picks Eurovision song entry for 2021

(R-L) Joint List MK Mtanes Shihadeh, President Reuven Rivlin and Joint List MKs Ayman Odeh, Mansour Abbas and Ahmad Tibi during a meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 20, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

‘No Likud in the Joint List,’ say Arab MKs, as talks with renegade member falter

By Aaron Boxerman

US President-elect Joe Biden, right, listens as Janet Yellen, who Biden nominated to serve as Secretary of the Treasury, speaks at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Janet Yellen confirmed as first female US treasury secretary

Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, in an undated screenshot. (Screen capture YouTube)

After Trump eases them, Biden urged to reinstate sanctions on Israeli tycoon

By AFP

Illustrative: Traders at the New York Stock Exchange, March 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Online ad firm Taboola to go public on Wall Street at $2.6 billion valuation

'Turtle Boy' and 'Welcoming Elijah' are among the top Sydney Taylor Book Awards winners in 2020. ('Turtle Boy': Courtesy of Delacorte Press/Random House; 'Welcoming Elijah': Courtesy of Charlesbridge/ via JTA)

A Passover tale and 2 coming-of-age debut novels win Jewish books for kids award

By Penny Schwartz

Screen capture from video of NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg in an episode of PBS' 'Finding Your Roots.' (JTA)

Finding her roots, reporter Nina Totenberg learns of family Holocaust escape

By Gabe Friedman

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