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What Matters Most On Friday, November 26, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett heads a weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2021. (Ariel Schalit / POOL / AFP)

Bennett warns Israel entering ’emergency situation’ over new COVID-19 strain

As arrival from Malawi becomes first case of highly mutated B.1.1.529 variant detected in country, Health Ministry said to urge mandating additional COVID test for all arrivals

Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport on October 31, 2021. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Israel bars travel from most of Africa to curb new COVID variant, Omicron

Travelers arriving at Ben Gurion Airport, on November 1, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel detects its first case of new, highly mutated COVID-19 strain

Healthcare workers take samples at a drive through complex for coronavirus testing, in Modi'in, on November 10, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Explainer

Omicron is the most mutated version of virus yet, but is it the most dangerous?

Little is yet known of new COVID strain, though its 30-plus mutations could speed its spread. But will it cause more serious disease, and can it get past vaccines?

Illustrative: A Lufthansa flight arrives from Munich, Germany as an American Airlines aircraft takes off at Miami International Airport, November 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Europe moves to halt flights from southern Africa over worrying COVID variant

A jogger runs past the Palace of Westminster, comprising the House of Lords and the House of Commons, on the banks of the River Thames in London on November 22, 2021. (Niklas Halle'n/AFP)

UK to ban travel from six African countries due to new COVID variant

By AFP

General view of the board of governors meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, August 1, 2019. (Ronald Zak/AP)

US says it’ll amp up pressure on Iran if it does not start cooperating with IAEA

By ToI Staff and Agencies

File - Former head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen attends a Jerusalem Post conference, held in Jerusalem, October 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Mossad chief says Israeli strikes on Iran nuclear sites ‘must be on the table’

In this file photo, taken on September 20, 2021, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), attends the IAEA General Conference, an annual meeting of all the IAEA member states, at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

On eve of renewed Iran talks, UN nuclear watchdog chief says ‘no progress’ made

By Jastinder KHERA

Israel media review

Hold me back, bru: What the press is saying about threats on Iran and from S. Africa

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel aims its tough guy routine at Iran and the US, but as the threats trickle through domestically, some ask whether the bombast is credible

A scene from the film 'Dr. Strangelove.' (Screen capture: YouTube/United Artists)

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a press conference with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz says differences over Iran must not upset US ties

By Judah Ari Gross

Leonard Cohen performs during the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, April 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Interview'He saw the Bible as a common definition of truth'

Hallelujah: How Leonard Cohen looked to the Bible and Kabbalah for inspiration

By JP O’ Malley

‘Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius’ by UK author Harry Freedman shows how Judeo-Christian theology and rabbinic roots shaped the writer and musician’s worldview

A post-lockdown pandemic of violence is spreading through our schools

We must put the well-being of those who are finding it hard to adjust to school after so much social isolation ahead of academics

Thanksgiving kindness (Parshat Vayishlach)

The woman who engineered the national holiday most feared the brother-against-brother violent potential for civil war, akin to the clash between Joseph and his brothers

A prison guard who alleges her superiors used her 'as a sexual object' to help get information from a Palestinian security prisoner. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Police reopen investigation into claim female guards ‘pimped’ to Palestinian inmates

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi speaks during a ceremony honoring wounded soldiers, in Tel Aviv, on November 21, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

IDF chief says officer suspected of secretly filming female soldiers to be expelled

Michal Sela, murdered in 2019 by her husband, appears in a new domestic violence awareness campaign that animates photos of victims and gives them a 'voice' after death, November 2021. (Screenshot)

From the webDomestic violence awareness campaign gives ‘voice’ to murdered Israeli women

Rasha Sitawi. (Courtesy)

Woman, 32, shot dead at home in northern town

By Emanuel Fabian

Police say no arrests made yet in Maghar after shooting of Rasha Sitawi; at least 22 women killed in apparent homicides in Israel this year, 15 of them Arab

Illustrative: An ambulance at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, on November 4, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man allegedly pushed partner off roof, then faked accident to get to her in hospital

By Emanuel Fabian

This picture taken on November 25, 2021 shows a view of the human-headed sphinxes along the 2700-meter-long 'Rams Road' leading from the Temple of Luxor (background) to the Karnak Temple (unseen) further north, in Egypt's southern city of the same name (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt unveils renovated 3,000-year-old ‘Avenue of the Sphinxes’ in Luxor

By Haggag Salama

Ancient walkway connects famous Karnak and Luxor temples, is believed to have been path pilgrims trod to visit holy sites and pay tribute to their deities

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, center, visits the headquarters of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces in Rabat on November 24, 2021. (Defense Ministry)

Israel looking to deepen ties with Morocco, with plans for arms sales, joint drills

By Judah Ari Gross

Leaving Rabat, Gantz says his 2-day trip was unprecedentedly public and heralds deep cooperation with the kingdom

Salah Goudjil speaks after being elected speaker of the upper house of parliament, or Senate, in Algiers, on February 24, 2021. (Fateh Guidoum/AP)

Algeria says it was ‘targeted’ by Gantz’s visit to Morocco

By AFP and Judah Ari Gross

Samekh Zakout, left and Uriya Rosenman of Dugri, the straight-talking rap pair who aim to find a different narrative for young Arabs and Jews in Israel (Courtesy Dugri)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: This Arab and Jew talk straight, in raps and in person

Rapper Samekh Zakout and educator Uriya Rosenman talk about the impetus for their Dugri rap project

Architects' plans for a new neighborhood at the site of the abandoned Atarot Airport. (Jerusalem Municipality)

Israel backs off housing project at Jerusalem’s Atarot airport site amid US pressure

Officials notify White House they won’t move forward with plan to build 9,000 units on abandoned plot at northern tip of the capital, across the pre-1967 Green Line

Experts: Israel has ‘no strategy’ for managing ‘lifeline’ Mediterranean Sea

Naval, planning experts tell confab that country needs laws, coordinating body, to ensure that sea, on which Israel depends for drinking water, fuel and trade, is properly managed

Ships seen at sunset off the coast of the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, on May 13, 2019. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

A shopper tries out the bottle deposit automat at a Talpiot, south Jerusalem, branch of the Yochananoff supermarket chain, November 23, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Supermarkets ill-prepared for expanded bottle deposit law

A Hanukkah menorah in Israel glows with the light of olive oil, not candles. (Dana Friedlander for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism)

With more choosing pure olive oil for Hanukkah, counterfeiters see an opportunity

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Analysis

Meeting between Erdogan and MBZ points to a new, pragmatic regional order

Bitter rivals Turkey and UAE are striking a conciliatory tone, in line with Ankara’s moves away from its Muslim Brotherhood allies

Abu Dhabi's powerful crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, attends the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on November 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Mourners carry the body of Osama Subh, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed by Israeli soldiers during a gun battle near Jenin, during his funeral in the village of Burqin in the northern West Bank on September 26, 2021. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

As unrest in West Bank’s Jenin rises, governor vows to restore order

By Aaron Boxerman

City has boiled in recent months, with illegal weapons spreading, says PA governor; Israeli forces entering Jenin have seen repeated gun battles over the past few months

'Some stigmatize it even without even seeing the content'

Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo as Hungary debates its contents

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Though completed in 2015, the grandiose building with its towering Star of David remains empty amid an ongoing stalemate between two arms of the Jewish community and the government

Protesters are seen in the dry bed of the Zayandehrud River, in the Iranian city of Isfahan, November 26, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Iranian police fire tear gas at protesters demanding response to drought

By AP

Hundreds said to gather in Isfahan; separately, pipeline that transfers water to other provinces reported to be damaged

Protesters break into the Lebanese Social Affairs Ministry building in Beirut, November 26, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Protesters storm Lebanese ministry building as country’s currency sinks to new low

By AP

Syrian Tourism Minister Mohammed Rami Martini speaks during a press conference in Damascus on November 24, 2021 (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Syria hopes for return of European tourists

By AFP

More Headlines

Maj. 'Yud,' the first female squadron commander in the Israel Air Force's flight school, is seen alongside another ariman in an undated photo. Their faces have been blurred due to IAF security protocols (IDF)

Israel Air Force flight school gets first female squadron leader

Poland's then-ambassador to Israel, Marek Magierowski, poses for a picture in Jerusalem, on October 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poland downgrades mission to Israel, says it won’t return ambassador

By AP and ToI Staff

Cyprus said to arrest man who aided ‘kidnapping’ of boy orphaned in cable car crash

The scene of a deadly car crash on Route 1, November 26, 2021. (Courtesy Magen David Adom)

1 killed in crash on Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway; driver suspected to have been drunk

By Emanuel Fabian

Lior Ben Yosef in an undated photo (Facebook)

Israeli held in Taiwan for over a month after violent road incident

Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a Shas party election rally at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem on February 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ombudsman: Axe chief Sephardi rabbi from religious court over anti-government action

British and Israeli participants are seen at at the inaugural Veterans Games (Courtesy)

From our partnerInjured veterans from Israel, UK participate in joint sporting competition

The view of the Iraqi nuclear reactor as seen on the screen of one of the attacking F-16s. (Photo credit: IDF/AF via Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Auction of joystick from Israeli jet that bombed Iraqi reactor fires up dispute

The gravestone of Rabbi Aharon Yehudah Leib Steinman is seen damaged in Bnei Brak, November 26, 2021. (Courtesy)

Ultra-Orthodox leader’s grave desecrated, prompting outrage

Social Democratic Party chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz (second right) stands with the Green party leaders Annalena Baerbock (left) and Robert Habeck (second left) and the Free Democratic Party chairman Christian Lindner (right), as they arrive for a joint news conference in Berlin, Germany, on November 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German coalition parties vow to defend Israel’s security, fight antisemitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Naqib Bashar al-Hussein, commander of Syrian Arab Army 90th Brigade's reconnaissance company, is seen next to leading Hezbollah commander who goes by Jawad Hashem, along the Syrian-Israeli border, in an undated photo released by the military on November 25, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF accuses Syrian recon officer of aiding Hezbollah on northern border

By Emanuel Fabian

View of the tomb of Samuel the Prophet site at Nebi Samuel, northeast of Jerusalem, November 1, 2019. (Mila Aviv/Flash90)

Hanukkah menorah removed from roof of mosque after Palestinians protest

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