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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 4, 2021

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Otzma Yehudit party member Itamar Ben Gvir (R) speaks with then-National Union faction leader Betzalel Smotrich, during a campaign event in Bat Yam, April 6, 2019. (Flash90)

AIPAC has slammed Ben Gvir's party as racist, reprehensible

Far-right parties led by Smotrich and Ben Gvir, a Kahane disciple, join forces

As in past elections, Netanyahu, anxious to avoid votes going to waste, pushed alliance that could see disciple of racist rabbi elected; slate includes anti-LGBT Noam party

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel PodcastPODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 4 — Kahane lives: Merger may mean extremist MKs

Meretz MK Yair Golan speaks during a plenary session in the Knesset, Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Meretz MK says party would join Sa’ar coalition if it meant ousting Netanyahu

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019. Netanyahu forced the dissolution of the Knesset that night, after it became clear that he was unable to win the support of Avigdor Liberman and thus could not form a majority coalition. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Kahanists, Arabs, Gantz could help Netanyahu, in Israel’s least ideological vote

This is no familiar right-vs-left election. It’s Netanyahu versus the rest. But though ‘the rest,’ this time, includes potent challengers from his own camp, the PM is far from done

Interview

Vaccinated! Now what? An expert offers answers for Israel’s dosed and confused

Prof. Nadav Davidovitch says new variants have made returning to normal even harder, but he offers advice, and a peek at the possible road ahead, for a nation seeking immunity now

Illustrative: A grandson visits his grandmother at her home in Moshav Haniel in central Israel. She is wearing a face mask as a COVID-19 precaution. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Hospital staff work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

14 of 16 severe COVID patients in trial recover with experimental Israeli drug

A staff member works in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health officials report surge in babies infected by coronavirus

People receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a Maccabi Health Services center at the Givatayim mall, outside of Tel Aviv, January 20, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As vaccination figures dip, Israel starts inoculating all over-16s

Expanded drive said to snag on short supplies, with one HMO only able to book appointments in Jerusalem for next week and Tel Aviv residents told they have to wait

People gather in Limanakia Vouliagenis beach in southern Athens, August 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Israel and Greece said negotiating travel corridor for the vaccinated

Jerusalemites on Jaffa street on January 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

High Israel contagion rates blur effect of Pfizer shot on virus transmission

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE and Ben Simon

Joint List factions: Hadash, Balad, and Ta'al sign an agreement for the March elections on February 3, 2021. (Courtesy: Joint List)

Joint List of Arab parties splinters, as Ra’am decamps in a perceived win for PM

Hadash, Balad, and Ta’al ink accord ahead of elections, but Islamist faction is left out after making overtures to Netanyahu

(L-R) New Hope candidates MK Tzvi Hauser, MK Yifat Shasha-Biton and Jerusalem council member Ofer Berkovitch present the party's slate for the March 2021 election to the Central Elections Committee, February 3, 2021. (New Hope)

Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope files election slate, heavy with ex-Likud MKs

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Aaron Klein (courtesy)

Netanyahu names ex-Breitbart journalist as his campaign chief

By AP and ToI Staff

Thousands attend the funeral of 22-year-old nursing student Ahmad Hijazi near the Arab city of Tamra, northern Israel, February 2, 2021 (Sraya Diamant/Flash90

After student killed, Arabs say community caught between police and criminals

By Aaron Boxerman

Arab Israelis have been urging increased law enforcement to fight organized crime, but an innocent bystander’s slaying in an ambush gone awry underscores why many are mistrustful

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a new plan to fight crime in Arab Israeli communities on February 3, 2021 (screenshot: YouTube)

PM reveals plan to fight Arab society violence; panned as ‘too little, too late’

By Aaron Boxerman

Rachael Risby-Raz

Vaccinating Aaron

The day an ultra-Orthodox survivor of the horrors of Bergen Belsen blessed a Jewish convert from Australia, in the middle of the street in the holy city of Jerusalem

Ruthie Charendoff

Orthodox young women and sexual shame

Orthodox Jews aren’t supposed to touch before marriage, but many do anyway, and then suffer the guilt in silence. They need a safe way to talk about it

Lokman Slim in an interview with MTV Lebanon News on July 27, 2013. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Prominent Hezbollah critic shot dead, Lebanese security official says

Lokman Slim, who went missing Wednesday evening en route to Beirut, was regularly criticized by terror group’s supporters, media

A Syrian anti-aircraft missile explodes in mid-air, lighting up the night sky near Damascus on November 24, 2020. (SANA)

Israel strikes targets in south Syria — state media

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli Heron military drone flies over the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on November 13, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Hezbollah fires anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli drone over south Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai holds a press conference at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, on January 24, 2021 in Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ron Huldai, Ofer Shelah drop out of race ahead of deadline to file party rosters

Both experienced politicians failed to gain traction since forming new parties to run in the March election, and were not projected to make it into the Knesset

7:32 pm

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas says he does not 'hug terrorists'
7:11 pm

Virus czar said to warn of another lockdown within weeks if gov't not careful
7:07 pm

TV: Several vaccinated elderly tested positive for coronavirus, but had no symptoms

From the blogs

Amanda Gorman vs The Rabbis. Epic poetry battles of history

Millennia before America’s brilliant youth poet laureate was wielding wise words, the Talmud’s sages could amaze with a turn of phrase

An Iranian flag flutters at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on November 10, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran may reverse fatwa banning nukes if Israel, US act dangerously: ex-official

Former Iranian diplomat says the Islamic legal opinion issued in 2003 ‘might be changed’ and Biden could be forced back into nuclear deal ‘with no preconditions’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech before the heads of banks, in Tehran, Iran, January 16, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP)

Iran’s president claims ‘big victory’ in legal efforts to end US sanctions

By AP

British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady was held in Iran for three months before being released on bail on November 21, 2019. (Facebook)

UK-Iranian academic charged with visiting Israel says he fled Iran while on bail

By AFP and ToI Staff

Robert Rotenberg in downtown Toronto near his office, January 2021. (Robert Sarner)

Interview

Canadian lawyer sets high bar with his bestselling, very Jewish crime thrillers

By Robert Sarner

From left: Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy in the series premier of 'Schitt's Creek' (Screenshot/YouTube)

2021 Golden Globes: All the Jewish nominees, from ‘Borat’ to ‘Unorthodox’

By Emily Burack

‘Schitt’s Creek’ vies for 5 awards; ‘Unorthodox’ nominated for best limited series and its Israeli star Shira Haas for best actress

Israeli actress Shira Haas nominated for Golden Globe for ‘Unorthodox’ role

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Academic awardAnd the Oscar goes to… Israeli engineers for film technology

By Jessica Steinberg

Jewish nominees for 2021 NAACP Image Awards: From Daveed Diggs to Doja Cat

By Emily Burack

Muhammad Mruh Kabha, 40, from the Palestinian village of Tura al-Gharbiya, is suspected of murdering Esther Horgen of the Tal Menashe settlement on December 20, 2020. (Shin Bet)

Murder indictment filed against Palestinian suspect in killing of Esther Horgen

Muhammad Mruh Kabha charged with killing mother of six as she was out hiking near her home in the West Bank

Israeli citizen Yuri Shaulov, left, is accused of trafficking airsoft guns to West Bank resident Muhammad Abu Hiya, right, according to the Shin Bet, February 3, 2021. (Courtesy/Government Press Office)

Shin Bet: Israelis sold airsoft rifles, easily made into real ones, to West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and Luke Tress

A shipment of the Russian Sputnik V vaccines allocated for the Palestinian Authority on February 4, 2021 (courtesy)

Palestinians receive 10,000 doses of Russian vaccine

By Aaron Boxerman

PA health minister says Ramallah has so far secured delivery of around 1 million doses of various coronavirus vaccines

In this February 3, 2021, photo, a man registers to get the COVID-19 vaccine, in Algiers, Algeria. (AP/Fateh Guidoum)

IMF says Mideast recovery down to ‘race between the virus and the vaccine’

By Jon Gambrell

Former congressman Denver Riggleman in his barrel barn, where he ages spirits from the Virginia distillery that he co-owns with his wife, Nov. 20, 2020. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty Images /JTA)

Ousted by far-right, US lawmaker now works with Jewish groups against extremists

More Headlines

The brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Piers Corbyn, gestures during a coronavirus anti-lockdown rally on Oxford Street, in London, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

From our partnerPiers Corbyn, ex-Labour head’s brother, arrested for anti-vax Auschwitz leaflets

A bone fragment discovered near Ramle, Israel with deliberate etchings on that may be the earliest-known use of symbols. (Marion Prévost)

Scientists: Bone carving found in Israel could be earliest human use of symbols

An Israeli Air Force officer takes part in the Juniper Falcon exercise in February 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel, US launch joint Juniper Falcon air defense drill, possibly for last time

By Judah Ari Gross

People hold pictures of relatives killed by the Iranian regime during the 'Free Iran 2018 - the Alternative' event on June 30, 2018, in Villepinte, north of Paris. Six people were arrested in Belgium, Germany and France for an alleged plot to attack the rally, including an Iranian diplomat and his wife. (AFP Photo/Zakaria Abdelkafi)

Iranian diplomat convicted of plot to bomb opposition rally in France

By Agencies and ToI Staff

From left to right: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani stand on the Blue Room Balcony during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Repeatedly delayed, Netanyahu’s trip to Gulf states postponed indefinitely

By ToI Staff and Agencies

From 'Yellow Peppers,' the Israeli drama that has been adapted for multiple global networks and now by Keshet for NBC Universal in 2021 (Courtesy Keshet)

Ties that bindKeshet renews major deal with Universal TV

By Jessica Steinberg

Neo-Nazis and white supremacists encircle counter-protesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., August 11, 2017. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

ADL proposes ‘whole of society’ offensive against domestic terrorism

Maccabi Haifa players celebrate a goal during an Israeli Premier League match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Haifa at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on July 7, 2020. (Flash90)

Building on normalization, UAE and Israeli clubs to play first soccer friendlies

By AFP

SS veterans and their supporters march in Riga, Latvia on March 16, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

Germany names Dutch SS veterans still receiving pensions for serving Hitler

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walks with fellow House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 3, 2021, following a meeting called by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans vote to keep Cheney as their No. 3 leader, but stand by Greene

By Alan Fram, BRIAN SLODYSKO and KEVIN FREKING

Adam Neumann, co-founder and CEO of WeWork, attends the opening bell ceremony at Nasdaq, in New York, January 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

The officeJared Leto to play WeWork founder Adam Neumann on TV

By Lior Zaltzman

In this Jan. 9, 2014, file photo, the medieval Dome Reliquary (13th century) of the Welfenschatz, or Guelph Treasure, is displayed at the Bode Museum in Berlin. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

US Supreme Court sides with Germany in $250m Nazi-era treasure dispute

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