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The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Thursday, February 11, 2021

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Police and inspectors of the Bat Yam municipality enforce a COVID-19 lockdown at the mall in Bat Yam, which was partially opened against government regulations, on February 11, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police shut down 3 malls that reopened in defiance of lockdown

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Shopping centers in Bat Yam, Karmiel, and Petah Tikva allowed in customers who have been inoculated against or recovered from COVID-19, or tested negative in past 72 hours

Vered Brosh, the school principal, arranges the class for reopening at "Israeli school Beit Hakerem" in Jerusalem on February 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Some Israeli kids head back to school amid confusion and uncertainty

Students wearing face masks return to school at Gabrieli Carmel School in Tel Aviv on February 11, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Daily virus infections drop to lowest rate since late December

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

File: The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi is seen on a giant video screen during his online broadcasted speech during the general conference of the IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

IAEA: Iran has started producing uranium metal, in violation of nuke deal

Material can be used as component in nuclear weapons; European foreign ministers have warned move has ‘grave military implications’

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

Report: Iranian nuke scientist was killed by Israeli 1-ton automated gun

In this photo released Jan. 20, 2021, by the Iranian Army, troops participate in a military drill (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches ground forces drill near Iraq border

By Agencies and TOI staff

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

Netanyahu says far-right Ben Gvir won’t be in cabinet, will be part of coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

Drawing distinction, PM indicates Kahane disciple won’t be given a ministerial post, but ‘plainly’ will be a coalition member; also says he won’t share premiership with anyone else

Dani Dayan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, on July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

New Hope candidate backtracks after saying party won’t join coalition with Labor

Labor party leader Merav Michaeli seen during a first meeting of the Labor party with new elected members in Tel Aviv on February 2, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

In 2017 podcast, Labor leader Michaeli says she considered joining Likud

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

A photo said to depict illegal missile development for an unnamed Asian country, released February 11, 2020. (Shin Bet)

20 suspected of testing illegal missiles in central Israel, selling to Asia

Former defense industry officials among those investigated; video appears to show rocket fired in test near residential area; country implicated in case is unnamed

An IDF soldier seen silhouetted as he is walking through the fields near his army base, in Beersheba, southern Israel, March 31, 2014 (Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)

Thieves break into IDF base after using drones to gather intel, cause blackout

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 11 — How to cure Israel’s COVID-infected economy

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

Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron attends a press conference on March 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Central bank may go beyond $30 billion forex buy to tame mighty shekel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of an elbow-bump (Picturesque Japan; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli startups raise record $1.44 billion from investors in January

By Shoshanna Solomon

Itamar Rabinovich

Blinken’s nod to Syria

The secretary of state acknowledged Israel must hold the Golan Heights but left the final legal status open. He also signaled a cooldown in US-Israel ties.

Yaakov Kermaier

When the Sheikh smiled

Our annual gathering to honor the special Jews-Druze relationship is on hold during the pandemic, but we can still (carefully) pray together

Bishara A. Bahbah

12 legislative landmines on Biden’s path to restoring US-PLO ties

Decades of laws and temporary waivers pose an obstacle to a constructive US working relationship with the representatives of the Palestinian people

(Re-)Discovering Zionism in pre-Communist China

A 1920 letter from the ’father of the Chinese nation,’ highlights the warm ties between Chinese leaders and Jewish communities near and far

Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Joe Biden after their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

Analysis

Trying to woo US with election, Palestinians drop a hot potato in Biden’s lap

While broadly supportive, Washington has reacted cooly to the initiative which may end up strengthening Hamas, just as the White House is looking to renew ties with Ramallah

Members of Gaza's Central Elections Commission's field team register a local woman to the electoral roll, at the main road of Gaza City, February 10, 2021 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gazans hope for vote after years of deterioration under Hamas rule

A MDA medic vaccinates a Palestinian worker in East Jerusalem on February 10, 2021 (Screencapture/Twitter)

Israeli medics vaccinate some Palestinians with permits to work in Israel

Left: a portrait of Golda Meir in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market by Solomon Souza (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI); Right: Dame Maureen Lipman (Jay Brooks)

Golda Meir given posthumous encore in debut of newly rediscovered musical

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)

Israel media review

Whose call is it? What the press is saying about vaccine and phone refusers

By Joshua Davidovich

With school back in session, the question turns to whether teachers or other workers can be compelled to get the shot; plus Biden ghosting Netanyahu takes a strange turn

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon listens to speakers at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters Tuesday, September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Former Israeli envoy to UN urges Biden to phone Netanyahu, tweets his number

Israel's then ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the central Israeli city of Ra'anana, July 28, 2020. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Israeli ex-envoy: Tweet urging Biden to call Netanyahu not coordinated with PM

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

Op-ed

Israel’s vaccination stagnation: Why we’ve caught it; how to cure it

With plenty of vaccines and efficient HMOs to deliver them, we could’ve been in the final stretch for 1st doses. Instead, doctors are reduced to imploring patients to get the shot

An Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, February 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Don’t want to vaccinate? Israel set to limit access to cafes, culture and more

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

1 in 73 ultra-Orthodox Israelis over 65 has died of COVID, report says

By JTA and TOI staff

Illustrative: An image of a Symbicort budesonide inhaler for asthma. (Wikimedia Commons/One Salient Oversight)

Common asthma drug can reduce COVID hospitalizations by 90% — study

By TOI staff and AFP

Oxford University researchers say steroid budesonide, inhaled as a treatment for respiratory disorders, effective when administered to patients within a week of first symptoms

A state legislator adjusts her face masks while asking a question at the Capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, February 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Double bind: CDC study finds two masks are better than one

Gamida Cell's lab manager Noga Goudsmid-Rosenheimer at work, July 16, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Hope grows for blood cancer patients, as cell therapy firm’s key trial succeeds

By Shoshanna Solomon

Gamida Cell shares surge after results of key trial show flagship drug results in faster blood count recovery, fewer bacterial and viral infections after bone marrow transplants

In this image from video, a security video shows Vice President Mike Pence being evacuated as rioters breach the Capitol, as House impeachment manager Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

Trump trial chilling video: Police beg for help, senators flee, VP is evacuated

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

January 6 footage, seen for first time, shows rioters hunt for lawmakers, coming within meters of Romney; Pence is rushed to safety as infiltrators call to execute him

House impeachment manager Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speaks during the second impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, February 10, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

Trump was Capitol riot ‘inciter in chief,’ Democrats charge at impeachment trial

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

In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel speaks at the Ohio Republican Party election night celebration in Columbus, Ohio (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Ohio’s Josh Mandel announces 3rd run for Senate, pushing ‘America First’ agenda

A helicopter flies during an exercise simulating fighting on the Lebanese border in northern Israel on February 10, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF trains for fighting Hezbollah on Lebanese border in large two-day drill

By Judah Ari Gross

‘Thunderstorm’ exercise comes amid growing belief in the military that the Shiite terror group will likely attempt attacks along the frontier in the coming year

Students and their teacher attend class after the opening ceremony of the Hashtroudi school in Tehran, Iran, September 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Teaching hate: Iran textbooks push anti-Semitism, say COVID hyped to harm regime

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Israel urges social media giants to label anti-Semitic content

A member of the GIL Jewish community, Karin Rivollet, speaks about Judaism at the GIL synagogue in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 6, 2020. (Courtesy of GIL via JTA)

Pig meat left outside two Swiss synagogues

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sister Andre, Lucile Randon in the registry of birth, the eldest French and European citizen, prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday - born on February 11, 1904 ( NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP)

French nun, Europe’s oldest person, turns 117 after surviving COVID-19

By AFP

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men eat cholent in Jerusalem, December 24, 2015 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Meat you there?Bnei Brak to distribute cholent at Thursday night vaccine drive

Illustrative: People hold up placards and Union flags as they gather for a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism outside the head office of the British opposition Labour Party in central London on April 8, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

Despite COVID lockdowns, only slight drop in anti-Semitic incidents in Britain

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Head of far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) Marine Le Pen, after a hearing in her trial for tweeting in 2015 images of the Islamic State group's atrocities, leaves the courthouse in Nanterre, west of Paris on February 10, 2021. (Christophe ARCHAMBAULT/AFP)

French far-right leader Le Pen on trial for tweeting Islamic State death images

By Clara WRIGHT and Joseph Schmid

Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Chinese nation, whose letter extolling Zionism was recently discovered in 2021 at The National Library of Israel (Courtesy The National Library of Israel)

In writingChina’s century-old support for Zionism surfaces in letter

By Jessica Steinberg

Gina Carano arrives at the world premiere of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" on Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, in Los Angeles (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

‘Mandalorian’ star fired for comparing US political climate to Holocaust

By AP

Roses with a note saying "#weremember" are placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Panel meets to discuss Berlin memorial to Polish victims of WWII

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg speaks as he introduces President Barack Obama at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Steven Spielberg wins Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize for films, philanthropy

By Josef Federman

This picture taken February 10, 2021 in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh shows a woman viewing a tweet posted by the sister of Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul, Lina, showing a screenshot of them having a video call following Hathloul's release after nearly three years in detention (Fayez Nureldine / AFP)

After 1,001 days, prominent Saudi women’s rights activist freed from prison

By Isabel Debre

Illustrative: An Iraqi farmer collects dates in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016.. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

From the webAn Israeli sensor is helping the Middle East save its dates

By Matti Friedman

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