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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 2, 2021

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A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, on January 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Before, we lacked vaccines; now we lack people to vaccinate

Israel’s vaccine drive slowing, with clinics struggling to bring people in

Some HMOs now offering inoculations to all to avoid wasting vials; one said to throw out 1,000 doses; lockdown may be extended again; unemployment rises to 16.7%

Police patrol Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, February 01, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Low infection Tel Aviv gets 2.5 times more fines than high infection Bnei Brak

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews participate in funeral for prominent rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, in Jerusalem, January 31, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Nearly 1-in-4 new virus patients is Haredi, data shows, amid ire over crowds

By Nathan Jeffay

Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of the capital Tehran, on April, 9, 2007. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP)

Live updates (closed)

Minister: US will never attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israel may act alone

Tzachi Hanegbi says Israeli leaders will be forced to choose between accepting a nuclear-armed Tehran and independently taking action

7:26 pm

UK tests house-to-house in hunt for new coronavirus variant
7:22 pm

Vaccines may be available for all ages from Wednesday
7:15 pm

Biden administration 'embraces and champions' IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi signs a joint declaration establishing ties with Kosovo during an official ceremony held over Zoom with his counterpart from Kosovo, Meliza Haradinaj Stublla, onscreen, at the Israeli Foreign Ministry headquarters in Jerusalem on February 1, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Muslim-majority Kosovo forges ties with Israel; will open embassy in Jerusalem

By TOI staff and Agencies

First Muslim state to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital; ceremony held via Zoom due to COVID-19 restrictions; Ashkenazi says Pristina’s mission likely to open in the spring

A Kosovo worker drags the red carpet next to Kosovo's and Israel's flags displayed during a ceremony at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry in Pristina on February 1, 2021 (Armend NIMANI / AFP)

Serbia ‘not happy’ with Israel’s recognition of Kosovo, says it will impact ties

By Agencies and TOI staff

People at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on February 1, 2021, during the country's 3rd lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

We will have to live with COVID-19 for a long time, says Israeli expert

New strains mean herd immunity impossible unless kids are vaccinated, leading epidemiologist says; ministry warns against reopening schools, recommends vaccine throughout pregnancy

A Clalit Health Service-run vaccination center in Petah Tikva, January 27, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Post-COVID vaccine, under 0.3% of Israelis reported side effects to doctor

By Nathan Jeffay

Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward on January 27 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media reviewWhat goes up must come down? What the press is saying about morbidity and apathy

By Joshua Davidovich

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 2 — Gloom, doom, and hope in the COVID-19 fight

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

Israeli soldiers at the empty Upper Galilee Mall, in Hatzor Haglilit, January 10, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

IDF cancels leave for most soldiers as infection rates on bases soar

The departure hall at the almost empty Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on January 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Green passport hope dashed? Israel weighs post-flight isolation for vaccinees

By Nathan Jeffay

Labor party leader Merav Michaeli speaks to press after casting her vote in the Labour primaries, in Tel Aviv on February 01, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90 )

Ex-commando, social activist, Reform rabbi take top slots in Labor primary

By Raoul Wootliff

Leader Merav Michaeli says party ‘starting anew,’ as former MK Omer Barlev wins most votes in election for party slate, followed by Emilie Moatti and Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv

Illustrative: Blue and White party member Omer Yankelevich at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Omer Yankelevich, Israel’s first female Haredi minister, quits politics

United Torah Judaism party chairman and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (L) and party member Moshe Gafni attend the party headquarters on election night in Giv'at Shmuel, March 2, 2020. (Roy Alima/ Flash90)

After 18 years, Litzman to give up leadership of United Torah Judaism

By Raoul Wootliff

Shulamit S. Magnus

Congratulations, Gilad Kariv. Now please, don’t sell us out.

The Reform rabbi and Labor Party official signed on to the 2017 Kotel deal that would have immensely expanded Haredi establishment power

BCE (Before COVID Era) when we lived life in person

I remember when Shabbat and holidays meant an overflowing house, when we needed folding chairs lugged up from the basement

Consequential leaders

Few remember who succeeded Churchill and Netanyahu. For Biden to be more than just the man who followed Trump, he will need to make a difference.

Fight Voter Misinformation Tragedy With Education, Presidential Pardon

What’s a country to do about the many Republicans who think they face an existential threat from an illegitimate president?

Worshipers in Iran chant slogans during Friday prayers ceremony by a banner showing slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Qassem Soleimani, left, and Iraqi Shiite senior militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in Iraq in a US drone attack on January 3, and a banner which reads in Persian: 'Death To America,' at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, January 17, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iranian agents scouted Israeli, US, UAE embassies in East Africa for attack — TV

Attempted strike to avenge deaths of Iranian general, nuclear scientist was thwarted last month, Kan News claims, citing Western intelligence sources

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at a joint press conference in the president's house in New Delhi, India, on January 15, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu speaks with Indian leader Modi after blast near Israel’s Delhi embassy

Journalist Ruhollah Zam speaks during his trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran on June 2, 2020. (Ali Shirband/Mizan News Agency via AP)

How Iran lured a dissident from France to his execution

By Stuart Williams and Cecile Feuillatre

In this August 20, 2010, photo, an Iranian security guard walks past a gate of the Bushehr nuclear power plant as its reactor building is seen in background, just outside the city of Bushehr 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israel says Iran could be 1-2 years away from nukes

Energy minister: Tehran would need 6 months for required enrichment before bomb development; Blinken said Iran could make enough fissile material in weeks if violations continue

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens during the talks in Moscow, Russia, January 26, 2021. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Iran asks Europe to help bridge impasse with US over return to nuclear deal

By AFP and TOI staff

The launch of Iran's newest satellite-carrier rocket, called 'Zuljanah,' at an undisclosed location, in Iran, on February 1, 2021. (Official Website of the Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran state TV airs launch of new satellite-carrying rocket

By AP and TOI staff

Then-US vice president Joe Biden meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 9, 2016. (FLASH90).

In first public contact in years, senior Palestinian, US officials share call

By Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid

Palestinians have boycotted Washington since 2017, although some informal contacts have remained in place; senior PA official says two sides discussed bilateral relations

UAE Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba speaks on a Zoom panel organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on February 1, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

UAE ambassador: ‘Abraham Accords were about preventing annexation’

Illustrative: An Israeli couple wait for a play to begin in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2013. (Zuzana Janku/Flash 90)

Tel Aviv and theaters fund incubators to set stage for new class of dramatists

By Jessica Steinberg

The scene of a deadly shootout between police and criminals in Tamra, February 1, 2021. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Nursing student, suspect killed in shootout between cops and criminals in Tamra

Police shoot dead one suspect, injure another; innocent bystander killed and doctor wounded; death of Ahmed Hijazi sparks protests, strike in Arab city

Ruby Alexander (Courtesy of Alexander family)

Interview

Toronto trans girl inspires supportive dad to design non-binary bikini bottoms

By Renee Ghert-Zand

People gather near the stage of a pro-Trump rally at Marine Park in Brooklyn, New York on October 25, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Analysis

Do Jewish conservatives still have a home in the post-Trump Republican Party?

Many are torn, still ardently supporting Trump’s policies, particularly on Israel, but can’t reconcile them with his lies about stolen election and role in Capitol insurrection

Attorney David Schoen speaks to the media, January 6, 2016. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Trump’s newest lawyer believes Epstein was killed, has fought for Jewish causes

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks as President Donald Trump listens at a campaign rally in support of Senate candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue in Dalton, Georgia, Monday, January 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

McConnell slams Greene’s ‘looney lies,’ calls them a ‘cancer’ for Republicans

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

Students at the Leffell School in Westchester County, which emerged as an early epicenter for the coronavirus last spring in New York state, celebrated Purim from home in 2020. (Courtesy of Yael Buechler/ via JTA)

COVID-fatigued US Jewish communities prepare for a socially-distanced Purim

More Headlines

Daniel Pearl was a journalist for The Wall Street Journal. (The Daniel Pearl Foundation)

Pakistan orders man acquitted in Pearl murder off death row and into safe house

By KATHY GANNON

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

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine 91.6% effective, study says

By AFP and TOI staff

This image released by NBC shows actor Dustin Diamond as Samuel Powers, better known as Screech" from the 1990's series "Saved by the Bell." Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with carcinoma, according to his representative. He was 44. Diamond was hospitalized last month in Florida and his team disclosed later he had cancer. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank via AP)

ObituaryDustin Diamond, Screech on ‘Saved by the Bell,’ dies at 44

By Mark Kennedy

Illustrative: New immigrants from North America arrive on a flight arranged by the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization at Ben Gurion Airport, on August 14, 2019. (Flash90)

COVID-19 sparks sharp drop in 2020 aliyah numbers to Israel

By AFP

Then-Likud MK Oren Hazan dances at the annual Likudiada party event in the southern city of Eilat, January 10, 2018. (Flash90)

Comptroller lashes Likud for financial infractions, singles out Eilat retreat

Illustrative: Speeding cars and a traffic jam in Jersey City, New Jersey, January 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Car data firm Otonomo to go public on Wall Street at $1.4 billion valuation

A soldier in the IDF's Combat Intelligence Corps operates a new drone purchased by the military for company commander. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF drone crashes in Gaza, a day after another went down in southern Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

A long row of unsold 2021 Model 3 sedans sits at a Tesla dealership, December 27, 2020, in Littleton, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Tesla launches electric car sales in Israel, unveils lower-than-expected prices

Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo following a meeting of the consultative committee with ministers of the Federal government, the regional governments and the community governments in Brussels, January 22, 2021. (Olivier Hoslet/Pool Photo via AP)

Belgian prime minister’s home daubed with swastikas

By AFP

K-pop girl band GFriend (Screen grab/YouTube)

Dummy?Star of K-pop’s GFriend sorry for hugging Nazi uniform mannequin

By AFP

Facebook draws ire after employee says site could police term ‘Zionists’

By Gabe Friedman

A woman walks outside the Paris mosque, October 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French lawmakers debate bill to root out country’s radical Islam

By Elaine Ganley

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