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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 25, 2021

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Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of the United States Central Command, listens during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, September 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Top US general says Iran ‘very close’ to bomb, plans are ready if diplomacy fails

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IAEA reports ‘no progress’ with Tehran over monitoring its nuclear program; Washington ‘disappointed,’ doubts Iran’s seriousness ahead of negotiations next week

US will not ‘sit idly’ if Iran drags out nuke talks while advancing program — envoy

By AFP

Israel fears US will settle for a ‘less for less’ Iran nuclear deal — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Lapid to meet Johnson, Macron in Europe as Iran nuclear talks resume

By Lazar Berman

Prime minister Menachem Begin (center), defense minister Ezer Weizmann (second right) and other Israeli officials return to Atarot Airport from talks in Egypt with president Anwar Sadat, 12/7/1978 (Eliyahu Hershkowitz)

The dizzy rise, swift fall, and planned radical repurposing of Jerusalem Airport

By David Horovitz

When Jordan held Atarot, it built a 15-destination hub for an elite clientele. Israel wasn’t able to keep it going; then came the 2nd intifada. Now, there’s a very different vision

Israeli firefighters at a ceremony burning chametz, or leaven products, collected by the Jerusalem municipality in a final preparation before the Passover holiday, near the disused runway at the abandoned Atarot Airport, north of Jerusalem, on April 8, 2020. In the background are high-rises in the Kafr Aqab Palestinian neighborhood -- an area formally part of municipal Jerusalem but beyond the security barrier. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel advances controversial plan for East Jerusalem neighborhood at old airport

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Haaretz Democracy Conference in Jaffa, on November 9, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

President to light candle for 1st night of Hanukkah in Hebron, angering Meretz

Buses parked at what was once Jerusalem Airport at Atarot; in the background, the high-rises of the Kafr Aqab neighborhood -- formally part of Jerusalem but outside the security barrier, November 2021. (DH / Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Seeking to calm US, Israel said to back off contentious East Jerusalem housing plan

By Joshua Davidovich

Proposal for 9,000 homes to be built over Atarot airport seemingly won’t be advanced by District Planning Commission for now, but unclear if neighborhood off the table altogether

7:23 pm

Bennett orders southern Africa be labeled 'red' over virus mutant worries
7:05 pm

Israel appears to back off controversial East Jerusalem neighborhood plan
6:45 pm

Protean South African virus mutation raises alarms in Israel

Gilboa prison commander Freddy Ben Shitrit arrives to give testimony at following the escape of security prisoners from the prison, in Modi'in, November 24, 2021. (Flash90)

Female IDF soldiers were ‘pimped’ to terror inmates, prison commander says

Guards said in 2018 that they were put in close contact with prisoners in order to be ogled or assaulted in exchange for concessions, but probe was closed and claims were buried

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, November 9, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Minister asks AG to probe claim female guards were ‘pimped’ to Palestinian inmates

Dan Sharoni, an IDF officer accused of sexual offenses, appears in court in news footage broadcast on November 24, 2021. (Screenshot)

IDF officer arrested on suspicion of secretly filming female soldiers

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right, shakes hands with his Moroccan counterpart Abdellatif Loudiyi, after signing a memorandum of understanding between the two countries at the Moroccan Defense Ministry in Rabat on November 24, 2021. (Defense Ministry)

Israel-Morocco defense deal opens door to intel sharing, joint drills

By Judah Ari Gross

Head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Political-Military Bureau says agreement signed by Gantz will create a ‘strategic alliance of knowledge’ between Jerusalem and Rabat

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, center, visits the Tomb of Moroccan King Muhammad V in Rabat on November 24, 2021. (Defense Ministry)

In op-ed, Gantz says Rabat helped return body of rabbi who died in Morocco last week

By Judah Ari Gross

Amid NSO scandal, Israel said to ban cyber tech sales to 65 countries

In potential major blow to industry, Defense Ministry reportedly scales down list of eligible states to just 37, dropping the UAE, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and dozens of others

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 25 – What’s the latest plan for recycling bottles?

Environmental correspondent Sue Surkes unpacks Israel’s new bottle recycling system and maritime plans, while reporter Emanuel Fabian discusses disturbing sexual abuse allegations

Reporter's notebook

Lab to table: Israeli tech kitchens cook up future of animal-free food

By Ricky Ben-David

Bovine-free dairy and beef products, fowl-free eggs, animal-free seafood, and sugar-free sweeteners are just some of the recent Israeli innovations in a growing foodtech sector

Michael Humphries

Hate Israel’s high cost of living? Don’t blame supermarket chains.

Like Hawaii and post-Brexit Britain, Israel is expensive because it’s an island economy, located far from its trading partners. That’s not going to change any time soon.

Maine law discriminates against private schools for religious minorities

Why would Biden’s Justice Department aggressively oppose the fight for religious liberty – unless it’s simply out of spite for Trump?

People shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on October 5, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Health official says new restrictions possible if COVID cases top 1,000 per day

Ministry official says crowd limits may be needed if transmission rate continues to climb; 30,000 young kids booked for vaccine appointments out of 1 million

Jerusalem, November 24, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health minister suggests fourth vaccine dose amid rising fears of fifth COVID wave

A Covid-19 testing center at the departure hall of the Brussels Airport. November 07, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Travelers to Israel can now take rapid test, rather than PCR, to enter country

UAE Ambassador to Israel, Mohamed Al Khaja (right) and Executive Director at Start-Up Nation Central Wendy Singer. (Eran Beeri)

UAE embassy in Israel hosts first-of-its-kind business, innovation forum

By Ricky Ben-David

At Jaffa event initiated by Emirati ambassador, government officials, business and industry leaders discuss economic ties

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

Saudis attempted to block UAE-Israel-Jordan deal on energy, water — report

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a media conference at the G20 summit in Rome, on October 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

In fresh broadside, Erdogan slams Israel’s ‘oppressive’ treatment of Palestinians

The scene of a car crash following a suspected settler attack in the West Bank on November 24, 2021. (United Hatzala)

Palestinian driver seriously wounded in suspected settler attack

Police and Shin Bet investigating after vehicle flips, causing serious head injury; youths had reportedly been seen in area throwing rocks

Screen capture from video of a demonstration by Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank against stone throwing attacks on vehicles by Palestinians, November 25, 2021. (Ynet)

Settlers protest rise in stoning attacks in northern West Bank

Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, the terrorist who killed an Israeli civilian and wounded four others in a shooting attack in East Jerusalem's Old City on November 21, 2021. (Facebook)

After terror attack, Israel said mulling security checks for East Jerusalem teachers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (right). (Flash90)

Netanyahu told to return $900,000 in gifted legal funds from US billionaires

By Raoul Wootliff

AG Mandelblit tells High Court former PM should give back $300,000 given to him by cousin Nathan Milikowsky and $600,000 he received from real estate mogul Spencer Partrich

Nir Hefetz as he arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on November 23, 2021/ (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trialCourt hears tapes of Netanyahu, son ordering ex-aide to involve media boss

Daniel Keidar, arrested on suspicion of the murder of prominent real estate developer Eldad Peri (Facebook)

Suspect accused of murdering real estate businessman after stalking him for 7 months

Daniel Keidar, 64, indicted over fatal shooting of Eldad Peri at point-blank range after failed apartment sales resulted in millions of shekels lost

Beitar Jerusalem owner Moshe Hogeg, on December 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Businessman Hogeg said implicated in sexual assault of minor as remand extended

Illustrative: Ambulances outside the entrance to the emergency room at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

East Jerusalem man shot dead in his car in suspected murder

23-year-old Amir al-Ladawi named as victim, raising this year’s Arab death toll to 112; gunmen believed to have fled scene on motorcycle

Illustrative: Police units in the Bedouin city of Rahat after a shooting incident, April 8, 2021. (Israel Police)

3 stabbed, seriously injured, during brawl in Rahat

Interview

‘Bad omens’: Optimism over Israel’s child vaccine marred by COVID spike — expert

Top immunologist Cyrille Cohen reflects on the dosage, efficacy and timing of the shots being rolled out for kids

Professor Cyrille Cohen (courtesy of Professor Cyrille Cohen)

Critical care treat a COVID-19 patient in London (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

Israeli drug cuts COVID deaths by 70% in small study, company says

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: Paramedic Clive Maleso stands next to a Saaberie Chishty ambulance before transferring a COVID-19 patient from his home to the hospital in Lenasia, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

South Africa detects new COVID-19 variant of ‘serious concern’

By AFP

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A rabbi speaks about the weekly Torah portion at the Ohel Jakob Synagogue in Munich, November 23, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Munich rabbinical confab on post-pandemic Jewish life hit by fresh COVID wave

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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In this Tuesday, February 11, 2014 photo, Israeli workers inspect barrels in a winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Israel scuffles with Belgium over labeling of settlement goods

By ToI Staff and AP

Major General Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi, inspector general at the UAE interior ministry and candidate for the 2021 Interpol election speaks on the phone on the first day of the 89th Interpol General Assembly in Istanbul on November 23, 2021. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)

Emirati general accused of torture picked as new president of Interpol

By AFP

This December 29, 2016 photo shows an Israeli Air Force F-15 plane in flight during a graduation ceremony for new pilots in the Hatzerim air force base near the city of Beersheba. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Air Force suspends training after jet almost crashes during exercise

Tourists visit the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, November 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israel to give Gaza Christians entry permits for Christmas holiday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A car that swerved into the Dead Sea on November 25, 2021. (Courtesy)

Driver killed as his car plunges into Dead Sea

Moshe Margareten lights candles at the White House Hanukkah party in 2019. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Biden’s White House planning a last-minute, in-person Hanukkah party

Palestinian Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish sits in Israel's Supreme Court for a hearing on his demand for an apology from Israel over a 2009 tank strike that killed three of his daughters and a niece in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Supreme Court rejects Gaza doctor seeking redress for strike that killed daughters

Illustrative: Israeli squash player Daniel Poleshchuk, on December 26, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Malaysia not allowing Israelis at squash world championship, governing body says

Chelsea Clinton attends the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts American Songbook Gala at Alice Tully Hall on May 29, 2018, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Chelsea Clinton upbraids Facebook for enabling book-burning events

Abe Schumer, father of Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, Democrat-NY, attends a swearing-in ceremony for his son in the Capitol's Old Senate Chamber, January 03, 2016. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via JTA)

Abraham Schumer, father of Sen. Chuck Schumer, dies at 98

Amar'e Stoudemire attends the 2021 Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational Series at Gulfstream Park on January 23, 2021 in Hallandale Beach, Florida. (Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for The Stronach Group via JTA)

Beyond the arcHBO shows Stoudemire’s journey from the NBA to Orthodox Judaism

Doja Cat performs on day two of the Austin City Limits Music Festival's first weekend on Saturday, October 2, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Making music2022 Grammys: Jewish nominees, from Doja Cat to an Israeli cellist

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