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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 9, 2021

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In this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo, a technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran may pursue nuclear weapons, its intelligence minister warns

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In rare comments admitting Tehran is considering developing nukes, official claims it would be the West’s fault for making moves to ‘corner’ his country

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

IDF sees permanent ban on weapons-grade uranium as essential for Iran nuke deal

By Judah Ari Gross

The scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, in Tehran, Iran, on November 27, 2020. (Fars News Agency via AP); Inset: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Iran: Military member was involved in murder of nuke scientist blamed on Israel

An Israeli health worker waits for people to come get vaccinated at a largely empty Clalit Health Services vaccination station on February 7, 2021, in the northern city of Herzliya. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Aim was 200,000 shots a day, but vaccine centers are quiet

As demand for vaccines plummets, Israel may resort to incentive programs

Proposals include sending health workers to offices of major companies, bonuses for convincing members of public to vaccinate; firms offer cash, mull bans on those without shots

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion seen at the opening of a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing, at the entrance to the East Jerusalem village of Jabel Mukaber August 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor warns unvaccinated Arabs they won’t be able to go to mosque

Rabbi Yuval HaCohen Asherov (YouTube screenshot)

Videos by anti-vaxxer ‘rabbi to the stars’ said fueling vaccine distrust

Then-US Vice President Joe Biden at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (Debbie Hill, Pool via AP)

Analysis

As Netanyahu waits for Biden to call, some fear four years of busy signals

After nearly 3 weeks, the question is whether the US president’s decision to not call Israel’s leader is a petty snub or a sign of how the administration will approach the region

A picture taken from the remains of a tank dating back from the 1973 war shows the Syrian town of Quneitra, as seen from the Golan Heights, on December 23, 2019. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Blinken supports Israel holding Golan, but backs off recognizing sovereignty

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Top US diplomat questions legality of Trump’s deeming strategic plateau part of Israel, but says there’s nothing to talk about with Assad and Iran

Benjamin Netanyahu tours the Golan Heights on April 23, 2019. (PMO)

Netanyahu responds to Blinken: Golan will remain part of Israel forever

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department, Feb. 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Blinken says US returning to ‘flawed’ UN Human Rights Council

By Jacob Magid and AP

Then-US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visits the Western Wall on the final day of his tenure, in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 20, 2021 (Courtesy)

Interview

No longer US ambassador, David Friedman is sticking to his sledgehammers

By Lazar Berman

Sarah Bunin Benor

How do you say goodbye in Judeo-Arabic?

We’re running out of time to preserve endangered Jewish languages. Here’s how we can stop them from being lost forever

Hershel Shanks served biblical archaeology with joy

The late founder of a popular archaeology magazine spread his lifelong passion for antiquities far beyond the elite halls of academic research

Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya is seen in the Egyptian capital Cairo on November 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Live updates (closed)

Meeting in Cairo, Fatah and Hamas agree on mechanisms for elections

Draft joint declaration commits all sides to immediate release of political prisoners, establishing independent election court and respecting freedom to campaign

7:30 pm

Data shows far less than 1% of Israelis vaccinated reported side effects
7:02 pm

Ministers okay partial opening of schools Thursday
7:01 pm

Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo say they've agreed on mechanisms for elections

The Daily Briefing

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

Thousands attend the funeral of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Jerusalem, January 31, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Virus czar warns ultra-Orthodox: Crowding at funerals will beget more funerals

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

At briefing for Haredi media, Nachman Ash also urges ‘responsible’ celebration of the coming Purim festival to prevent further spread of coronavirus

A first-grade student on his first day of school at Tali Geulim school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Cabinet set to approve partial reopening of schools starting Thursday

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Israel on February 8, 2021. (Miri Shimonovitz/Courtesy)

Israel, Greece seal deal to allow travel for vaccinated; UK, Estonia may be next

Protesters demonstrate outside the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, February 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Evidence stage of Netanyahu’s trial expected to be put off until after election

By Raoul Wootliff and Michael Bachner

PM warns of ‘crude intervention in elections’ if trial continues before March 23 vote, as defense layers ask for next stage in corruption case to be delayed by 3-4 months

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with his lawyers prior to a hearing at the district court in Jerusalem, February 8, 2021. (Reuven Castro/AP)

Court rejects Netanyahu’s request to reveal redacted parts of probe approval

Arnon Milchan (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in the Knesset, on March 28, 2005. (Flash90/ File)

Wrong number said to show key witness in Netanyahu case speaking to PM’s lawyer

A woman undergoing a medical mammography scan. (jovannig via iStock by Getty Images)

Futuristic Israeli blood test could replace cancer screening in decade: inventor

By Nathan Jeffay

Hebrew University’s advanced DNA test already conducted on 1,000 people; method now published in prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nature Biotechnology

Gugulethu Moyo is the new executive director of the Tucson Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center. (Illustration by Grace Yagel/ JTA)

New leader of Tucson’s Holocaust museum is a genocide survivor herself

By Phyllis Braun

Interview

Meet a Jewish woman living in a former Aryan Nations stronghold

Most of the stereotypes she is subjected to are a result of ignorance, not prejudice or malice, says Andie Bond, one of only two Jews living in Wallace, Idaho

Andie Bond in her Wallace, Idaho, home, with her mezuzah. (Andie Bond via JTA)

In this image from video, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, Republican-North Carolina, January 7, 2021. (House Television via AP)

After controversies, Madison Cawthorn reaches out to Jewish constituents

Illinois Republican Rep. Mary Miller. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/JTA)

Congresswoman who said Hitler ‘right on one thing’ meets rabbis who defended her

Coin with the Syrian god MEN (the moon god) surrounded by the legend 'of the people of Geva
Phillipi' civic year 217 (158–159 CE) (Israel Antiquities Authority)

IDF soldier finds rare 1,800-year-old coin during training exercise in north

Expert says well-preserved find was minted the year that cities in the area were granted self-government under the Roman Empire

More Headlines

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

Trump’s Orthodox lawyer pulls request to delay impeachment trial over Shabbat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Beginning in 1942, Jews in the Lodz ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland were deported to death camps including Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Yad Vashem)

Poland awaits verdict in libel case that could muzzle Holocaust research

By Vanessa Gera

Palestinian faction leaders gather to discuss holding Palestinian national elections, in Cairo on February 8, 2021 (WAFA)

Palestinian factions begin election talks in Cairo

Material seized by British police from the home of a boy in Cornwall convicted on terror charges. (Courtesy/British police)

Teen neo-Nazi who talked about ‘gassing’ Jews is UK’s youngest terror convict

Palestinians walk with luggage at the Rafah border crossing's departure area to travel from the Gaza Strip into Egypt, on February 9, 2021 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Egypt opens Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip ‘indefinitely’

By AFP and ToI Staff

A golden jackal. (Ido Shaked, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Snacks for stray cats may be feeding a rash of jackal attacks

A car is seen by the roadside on Route 6 after it was shot at on December 28, 2020. One man died and another was critically injured in the suspected revenge attack (United Hatzalah)

5 indicted for gangland attack that killed teen under police’s nose

A stolen car that was abandoned inside the Israeli Air Force's Nevatim Base after alleged thieves drove into the facility, puncturing the tires on security spikes at the gate, on February 8, 2021. (Israel Police)

Suspected car thief breaks into Israel’s most important air base, home to F-35s

By Judah Ari Gross

The Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, July 9, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israeli girl, 14, lightly injured as car attacked in West Bank

A video produced by the American Jewish Committee that aims to dispel anti-Semitic myths related to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. (screenshot: YouTube)

New Arabic-language video seeks to dispel anti-Semitic myths

Sanaa Mohamed in a music video with an Israeli artist (Screen grab/YouTube)

Moroccan singer receives death threats over song with Israeli artist

Hugo Hagen, the managing director & country division head of Bayer, Israel. (Courtesy: Danit Nitzan/Bayer)

InterviewPharma giant Bayer scouts Israeli startup scene in search of competitive edge

By Shoshanna Solomon

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