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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 10, 2021

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Jerusalem's near-deserted Arena COVID-19 vaccination center on February 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Only 65,000 Israelis a day coming for their first shots

Edelstein mulls bill to enable employers to ban non-vaccinated workers

By Stuart Winer

Health minister says those working in education who refuse to be inoculated may have to pay for a virus test every 48 hours, warns of fines for businesses that violate lockdown

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing evacuate a patient to the coronavirus unit at Ziv Medical Center in the Northern Israeli city of Safed, on February 4, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

OECD: Israel worst in daily virus cases, among best for low fatalities

Illustrative: President Reuven Rivlin, attends a funeral at Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Rivlin attended funeral that violated coronavirus restrictions

By Stuart Winer

Left photo: Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the Likud party's election rally in Ramat Gan on February 29, 2020; Right photo: Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, holds a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s Likud signs surplus vote-sharing deal with far-right party

Agreement with Religious Zionism further aligns PM with extremists such as Otzma Yehudit’s Itamar Ben Gvir, is said to promise Religious Zionism MKs in any Netanyahu-led coalition

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett visits the ultra-Orthodox Jewish city of Elad, central Israel, September 6, 2020. (Flash90)

Poll shows Yamina in kingmaker role, Meretz failing to enter Knesset

A vaccination center in Hod Hasharon, Israel, on February 2, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Vaccine reduces spread risk even before 2nd shot, Israeli study indicates

By Nathan Jeffay

When people test COVID positive, viral loads are 4 times lower if they’re vaccinated, finds first-of-its-kind research; expert calls it ‘game-changer’ in pursuit of herd immunity

Illustrative: Online search data. (HAKINMHAN via iStock by Getty Images)

Web search data and help from Israel mean England can catch COVID spikes early

By Nathan Jeffay

Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak speaks at a lecture in the northern city of Tiberias, on March 3, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Facebook removes popular rabbi’s anti-vaxxer group that peddled fake news

Kenneth S. Stern

We disagree about the Working Definition. That’s OK. Here’s what’s not.

Yes, I am the lead author, but ‘who wrote what’ isn’t as important as the question of how we best fight anti-Semitism today

Anna Harwood-Gross

Protecting yourself from an abusive therapist

Yes, invest the time to understand what drives your dysfunctional behaviors and painful thoughts – just be sure you know what it looks like when therapy goes wrong (5 tips)

Don’t turn Eilat and Ashkelon into oil cities

The environmental risk from an oil spill could be devastating – and, besides, it’s not worth jeopardizing Israel’s newly formed ties with its neighbors

Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl ad: a powerful vision of unity — for Christians

A message built on a central image of a single faith contradicts the founders’ vision that people of all faiths are welcome and equal as Americans

Analysis

Women set to make gains, but Knesset still a good ol’ boy’s club

Labor’s Merav Michaeli ended the female party head drought and may lead a female-majority faction, but even as some slates put women in top spots, true equality remains a mirage

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

Former US president Donald Trump's impeachment lawyer David Schoen covering his hand with his head before drinking water during a Senate hearing in Washington, DC, February 9, 2021. (Screen Capture from CNN live broadcast via JTA)

Why did Trump’s impeachment lawyer keep putting his hand on his head?

By LAURA E. ADKINS and Ron Kampeas

While David Schoen tried to avoid calling attention to his Jewishness by wearing kippa, his halachically questionable way of reciting a blessing before drinking water did just that

Trump supporters at a rally before an assault on the US Capitol, Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Trump impeachment trial gets go-ahead after emotional, graphic first day

By LISA MASCARO, Eric Tucker, MARY CLARE JALONICK and Jill Colvin

In this image from video, Bruce Castor, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, speaks during the second impeachment trial of Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

Trump fumes at his legal team, Republican senators baffled by its approach

By Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on February 8, 2021. Netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust in three cases and bribery in one of them. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

With court of public opinion decided, Netanyahu trial no longer campaign fodder

By now, few will be swayed by the premier’s graft cases, so parties are focusing on his handling of the pandemic instead, as polls show that tiny moves can trigger tectonic shifts

Prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari (left) with colleagues at the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the District Court in Jerusalem, February 8, 2021. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

Mandelblit laments ‘incitement’ against lead prosecutor in Netanyahu trial

By Michael Bachner

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit at a Covid-19 vaccination center in Zarzir, northern Israel, February 9, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu rules out PM rotation agreement after March election

In interview with right-wing network, Likud leader says national vote presents ‘opportunity’ to create right-wing government ‘of our dreams’

7:24 pm

Iran produces uranium metal in violation of nuke deal -- WSJ
7:12 pm

Steven Spielberg wins Israel's Genesis Prize for films, philanthropy
7:11 pm

Poll: Netanyahu still unable to assemble gov't; Yamina could be kingmaker

Illustrative: The nearly-empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport, on April 12, 2020. (Flash90)

Analysis

Jessica Steinberg

Stuck abroad with airport shut, flummoxed Israelis scramble for a way back home

Travelers who left for what they thought was a short trip are now winging it and searching for answers on how they can get to Israel, angry at the government for abandoning them

Illustrative: A man walks through the almost empty Ben Gurion International Airport on January 24, 2021 (Flash90)

Vaccinated arrivals to Israel will still need to test out of quarantine

Illustrative image: lungs infected by the coronavirus (wildpixel via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli inventor of promising COVID drug hopes it can help vaccineless countries

By Nathan Jeffay

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 10 — Good COVID news: Vaccine study, ‘wonder’ drug

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

Jerusalemites shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market on February 9, 2021, as Israel exits its third lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID patients lowest in a month, as vaccine effect appears to show

Yair Tayeb, a patient who recovered from COVID-19 at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, February 9, 2021 (Channel 13 screenshot)

Feeling better ‘in 2 hours’: COVID drug for critically ill starts Phase 3 trials

Irene Fogel Weiss points to a photo of herself upon arrival in Auschwitz in May 1944. (Lesley Weiss/ via JTA)

Interview

On surviving Auschwitz. And watching a man in Camp Auschwitz shirt storm Capitol

Irene Fogel Weiss, 90, who lost most of her family in the camp, saw the January 6 assault unfold on TV from her nearby home. She has a message for US Jews

Jacob Chansley sits in Vice President Mike Pence's seat in the Senate on January 6, 2021 before leaving him a threatening note. (Screencapture/ YouTube)

Man who wore horns, furry hat while storming US Capitol says he’s ‘very sorry’

By JACQUES BILLEAUD

Rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US senators transfixed by riot footage shown at Trump impeachment trial

By Michael Mathes

Israelis on the beach in Tel Aviv, which was opened as Israel exited its third coronavirus lockdown; February 9, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Gyms, malls, hotels could be reopened to the vaccinated on February 23

Health Ministry plan lays out targets for gradual reopening of economy, envisions coffee shops and restaurants open to all by early March

Palestinian workers seen during construction work on new building apartment buildings in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa, East Jerusalem, on October 28, 2014. (Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Contractors urge Israel to vaccinate 65,000 Palestinian construction workers

Illustrative: Israeli students arrive at a high school in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020. (Flash90)

Ministers approve Health Ministry plan to partially reopen schools Thursday

Supporters of Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah chant slogans ahead of his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, January 5, 2020. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

IDF: Hezbollah likely to initiate limited battles with Israel in 2021, not war

By Judah Ari Gross

Military releases annual intelligence assessment for coming year, sees Iran shifting focus to Yemen and Iraq as possible launchpads for attacks on the Jewish state

Fireworks explode next to Milad telecommunications tower during celebrations marking the 42nd anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, February 9, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

‘Death to Israel’ on wheels: Iran marks 1979 revolution anniversary

By AP and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally against the coronavirus restrictions and enforcement, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, February 9, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Rejecting criticism, fringe ultra-Orthodox maintain defiance of COVID-19 rules

By Ilan Ben Zion

Though many community members comply with government orders to curb virus spread, some put their traditional way of life above all other considerations

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police during a protest against coronavirus restrictions in Jerusalem, February 9, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox lockdown protesters clash with police in Jerusalem

Ultra-Orthodox men walk outside the IDF recruitment office in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

High Court delays issue of ultra-Orthodox conscription until after election

IDF troops map out the home of a Palestinian man suspected in the murder of Esther Horgen, ahead of its potential demolition, in the West Bank village of Tura, near Jenin, December 24, 2020 (IDF video screenshot)

IDF demolishes home of Esther Horgen’s suspected killer in rare daytime op

By Judah Ari Gross

Security forces destroy two floors of building where Muhammad Mruh Kabha lived; High Court permitted razing after he confessed to terror attack

Israeli soldiers wearing protective face masks walk on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on June 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ombudsman finds IDF responded poorly to coronavirus, but is improving

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Fatah and Hamas agree on terms of 1st Palestinian election in 15 years

By Aaron Boxerman

Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking, left, and Jan Grabowski, right. (Yad Vashem via AP / courtesy)

Poland orders Holocaust scholars to apologize in case that could muzzle research

By Vanessa Gera and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Court rules Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski disseminated false information and harmed the honor of a man they said helped kill Jews in WWII; his niece brought the suit

Illustrative: A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometers (18 miles), north of Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

100-year-old former Nazi guard charged on 3,518 counts of accessory to murder

By David Rising

More Headlines

A rib-eye steak produced from meat cells cultivated in a laboratory by Israeli start-up Aleph Farms. (Courtesy: Aleph Farms/Technion Institute of Technology)

Higher steaks as Israeli company makes first lab-cultivated rib-eye cut

By Stuart Winer

Israeli startup Sightec has developed software that can navigate civilian drones to destination without using GPS signals (Dror Ben David, Matrix)

In ‘first,’ delivery drone gets to destination in Israel without GPS signal

By Shoshanna Solomon

Gal Gadot attends the premiere of 'I Am the Night' on January 24, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Gal Gadot showcases women of wonder in new documentary series

By AP

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, and Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister, left. (Attila Kovacs/MTI via AP / Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Germany, Hungary back Israel in opposing ICC ruling on war crimes probe

In this October 17, 2017 photo, Stevie Wonder attends the TIDAL X: Brooklyn 3rd Annual Benefit Concert in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Stevie Wonder awarded Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize

By AP

From left to right: Lior Ben Dor, Director of the Department for Maghreb at the MFA; Abderrahim Beyyoud, Head of the Moroccan Liaison Office in Israel; and Gil Haskel, Head of Protocol, MFA (Foreign Ministry)

Morocco’s envoy arrives in Israel to reopen liaison office

By Lazar Berman

Alon Ben Zur, CEO, Bynet Data Communications, left to right, Moshe Leon, Mayor of Jerusalem, and Uzi Navon, Oracle Israel Country Leader (Ezra Levy)

Oracle to set up regional cloud center in Jerusalem

By Shoshanna Solomon

The newsroom of Army Radio, which contains both conscripted soldiers and civilians who work on its programming. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90/File)

Deputy AG: Defense Minister can’t shut down Army Radio during election season

In this image from video made in 2005, Abdul Benbrika, an Algerian-born Muslim cleric, speaks during an interview at his home in Melbourne, Australia. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)

Australian court upholds continued imprisonment of extremists at end of sentence

A Hasidic Jew walks past a closed synagogue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on October 9, 2020. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

US court blocks NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s capacity limits on houses of worship

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