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What Matters Most On Friday, February 5, 2021

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Illustrative: Human respiratory system (magicmine; iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv hospital hails 'a huge breakthrough'

New Israeli drug cured 29 of 30 moderate/serious COVID cases in days — hospital

Medicine developed at Ichilov moderates immune response, helps prevent deadly cytokine storm, researchers say; 29 of 30 phase 1 trial patients left hospital within 3-5 days

People receive a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from medical professionals at a coronavirus vaccination center in Givatayim, February 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

With contagion still frustratingly high, Israel discovers the limits of vaccines

By Laurie Kellman

Illustrative: An elderly woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2021 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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

View of the site of the US Embassy in Jerusalem ahead of its inauguration, May 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Senate okays keeping embassy in Jerusalem permanently, in vote of 97 to 3

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

Only Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Carper oppose motion; Jerusalem council recently approved plans for additional embassy compound

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks to State Department staff, February 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Resetting US foreign policy after Trump, Biden declares: ‘Diplomacy is back’

By AAMER MADHANI, Matthew Lee and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Supporters of then US president Donald Trump in Washington, January 6, 2021. (John Minchillo/AP)

Trump refuses to testify in impeachment, calls trial ‘unconstitutional’

By Paul Handley

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with Likud Arab candidate Nail Zoabi on February 5, 2021 (Scrrencapture/ Twitter)

Netanyahu vows to appoint Likud’s Muslim candidate as minister in next coalition

School principal Nail Zoabi is first Muslim on Likud slate, but placed in low 39th slot; PM says he will be minister for advancing Arab communities

AnalysisAs the Arab Joint List falls apart, the biggest winner is Netanyahu

By Aaron Boxerman

Screen capture from video of Nail Zoabi. (YouTube)

Netanyahu recruits first-ever Muslim to Likud list, also adds firebrand novelist

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about Israel's coronavirus vaccination campaign in a video statement released on December 26, 2020. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Israel media review

Do the math: What the press is saying as parties divide and infections multiply

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu is regarded to be in the driver’s seat after rivals to both the left and right balkanize, with one foul exception; plus lockdown-ending drama rules as deaths add up

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe, pictured after she was declared the winner in elections for leadership of the Jewish Home party, January 19, 2021. (YouTube)

39 parties register for elections; Jewish Home spurns Smotrich, will back Yamina

AnalysisAs party slates are finalized, a tussle of two cities takes shape

By Tal Schneider

Chana Tannenbaum

So much unfairness of things

A new wrinkle to the problem of theodicy: how can God’s punishment of one generation for the sins of another be an act of kindness?! (Yitro)

The divine ’They/Them’

Genderless language helps us develop a deeper, richer understanding of what it means to be created in God’s image

Elana Stein Hain

The Mobius strip of truth and relationships

What if we all took the time to figure out what is true, instead of letting ourselves get caught up in the opinions of those we care about?

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Flying over the lockdown

Stuck at home, I watched from my rooftop as wave after wave of birds headed south, soaring high overhead, powerful and magnificent. I was determined to find out what they were

Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, holds a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Why is Netanyahu trying (again) to push Kahanists into the Knesset?

The PM is courting censure by helping Israel’s most extremist faction, and its leader isn’t even a reliable ally. But the move could pay off when it’s time to build a coalition

Itamar Ben Gvir of the Otzma Yehudit party speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem marking the 27th anniversary of the killing of extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, November 7, 2017. The sign behind him reads, 'Kahane was right!' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Otzma Yehudit head says Kahane was ‘holy’; backs expulsion of ‘disloyal’ Arabs

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

Center-left fractures as Huldai, Shelah drop out of elections ahead of deadline

Photo illustration showing Chevra Kadisha workers preparing to carry the body of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Haber who died from complications of coronavirus infection, at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2020. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; Illustration by Joshua Davidovich)

For 5,000 Israelis killed by COVID, a digital tapestry of stories ended too soon

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

After tumultuous vote, Israel extends lockdown until Sunday; death toll at 5,000

An initial decision, opposed by Blue and White, was ruled invalid by AG Mandelblit, leading Netanyahu to accuse Gantz of ‘condemning many to terrible death’; a compromise followed

A man receives a Covid-19 vaccine injection, at Clalit Covid-19 vaccination center in Holon, February 4, 2021. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Health Ministry weighs calling the cops on anti-vaxxers who fake appointments

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz during a discussion on a bill to dissolve the parliament, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli minister proposes making vaccinations mandatory, is shot down

A Palestinian man's car outside the home of an Israeli man on the illegal Sadeh Efraim Farm outpost in the northern West Bank, where the Israeli military says the man attacked someone before being shot dead on February 5, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Palestinian tries to break into settlement home, is shot dead during tussle

By Judah Ari Gross, Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

In odd incident, army calls the man, who was unarmed, a terrorist; says he assaulted a man before being shot by two settlers

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file, photo, Palestinian Bedouin watch Israeli troops demolish tents and other structures of the Khirbet Humsu hamlet in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian hamlet in Jordan Valley demolished for second time in 3 months

By Aaron Boxerman

Yahya Sinwar, the top Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, May 1, 2017. (Adel Hana/AP)

Hamas Gaza chief: If Israel messes with our elections, we’ll mess with theirs

A Palestinian woman attends a demonstration outside the outside UNRWA's Headquarters in Gaza City, August 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

UAE massively cut aid to Palestinians after normalization with Israel

TV report, confirmed by UNRWA, says funds dropped from some $50 million a year to just $1 million in 2020, in possible retribution for Palestinian animosity over peace deal

Saudi journalists watch a large display screen in a media center, showing Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, center, at the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting, in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia, January 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

In first, Saudi paper prints op-ed by Israelis — on Erdogan’s private militias

By Lazar Berman

Messauda Fadlun, seen in old photos, was living in Libya in 1938 when it was an Italian colony and under the racist laws targeting the Jewish community. (Courtesy of Ariel Finzi/ via JTA)

After giving Holocaust survivor pension, Italy wants her husband to pay it back

By Simone Somekh

Times Will Tell

Times Will Tell

PODCAST: ‘Biblical’ royal purple cloth, and all about radiocarbon dating

It’s Archaeology 101 with two of Israel’s leading scholars: Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef on excavations at Timna; and Prof. Elisabetta Boaretto breaks down radiocarbon dating for dummies

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walks back to her office after speaking on the floor of the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Taylor Greene kicked off US House committees for hateful conspiracy theories

By Alan Fram and BRIAN SLODYSKO

11 Republicans support move as Georgia representative backtracks from support of QAnon and 9/11 trutherism, but fails to apologize for anti-Semitic, racist and violent comments

President John F. Kennedy is seen riding in motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot in Dallas, Tx., on Nov. 22, 1963. In the car riding with Kennedy are Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, left, and her husband, Gov. John Connally of Texas. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens)

Marjorie Taylor Greene liked a tweet implicating Mossad in JFK assassination

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, leaves her office on Capitol Hill on February 3, 2021 in Washington, DC (ALEX EDELMAN / AFP)

She said what? A look at US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s incendiary words

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

Bruce Becker behind the counter at Max and Mina's. (Shira Feder/ JTA)

Lox of flavors

World-famous kosher NYC ice cream parlor helps lick COVID woes

More Headlines

In this file photo taken on July 21, 2020 a woman is seen next to a gas chamber at the museum of the former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, July 21, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

In rare case against a woman, Berlin charges Nazi camp aide with role in murders

Illustrative: A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Jerusalem, on January 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel flies in diplomats from UK for vaccinations; envoys elsewhere to follow

By Lazar Berman

File: General Moshe Dayan, chief of staff of the Israeli Army, is pictured with his wife, Ruth in London, Jan. 13, 1958 (AP Photo)

Ruth Dayan, storied social activist and 1st wife of Moshe Dayan, dead at 103

University Hall at Northwestern University, which responded to a complaint about hate speech against Bart van Alphen by telling the student to "reach out to Hillel," the Jewish campus organization. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Northwestern scientist who wrote anti-Semitic, racist tweets dies by suicide

French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on February 4, 2021 (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Macron: Israel, Saudis must be involved in new talks on Iran nuclear deal

A view of a detention center in the Manhattan borough of New York City. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images via JTA)

Death of Jewish inmate from COVID-19 may get vaccines to New York prisoners

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Illustrative: Ethiopian Federal Police ride through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday May 21, 2010. (AP/Jerome Delay)

Report: Ethiopia arrests 16 in an Iranian cell planning attack on UAE embassy

Amazon's Andy Jassy in 2019 (video screenshot)

As Bezos steps down, Amazon to get new Jewish CEO

By JTA

Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)

Jeffrey Epstein victims fund abruptly halts payouts

By Larry Neumeister

Likud MK David Bitan at the Knesset on January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90)

‘I was close to death’: MK David Bitan leaves hospital after 2-month COVID fight

Illustrative: Anti-terrorist units of the Romanian Informations Service (SRI) march during national day celebrations in Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ex-intel officer jailed in 1st conviction under Romania’s Holocaust denial law

By AFP

A demonstrator wrapped in a flag of the German empire stands opposite riot policemen standing guard in front of the Reichstag building, which houses the Bundestag lower house of parliament, after protesters tried to storm it at the end of a demonstration called by far-right and COVID-19 deniers to protest against restrictions, in Berlin, on August 29, 2020. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Germany reports new jump in far-right crime, nearing 20-year record

By AFP

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