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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 28, 2021

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New Hope party leader and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks at the Knesset on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PM: I know public is weary, but steps necessary

Justice minister: New COVID measures unwarranted without ‘very, very strong reasons’

Gideon Sa’ar says new restrictions will hurt economy; Health Ministry chief, interior minister insist Omicron variant must be stopped before it spreads

Travelers at Ben Gurion Airport on September 13, 2021 (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Israel barring tourists, renewing travel quarantine rules to contain Omicron variant

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

Full text: Israel’s new rules barring foreign tourists, tightening quarantine

Eliyahu David Kay, killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem on November 21, 2021. (Instagram / HaShomer HaChadash)

Visitors to terror victim’s family turned back at airport, forced to violate Shabbat

Two friends from South Africa, who flew out before new restrictions were announced Thursday night, say they were ‘treated like criminals’

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

Authorities scramble to locate 800 Israelis feared exposed to Omicron variant

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference in London, on November 27, 2021. (Jeff Gilbert/Pool via AP)

Britain tightens COVID rules as world scrambles to contain Omicron variant

From the blogs

One day in the house with Steve

Encounters with Stephen Sondheim led me to a deeper understanding of a titan of the theater, the most humane of men, who dealt in contradictions rather than absolutes

Travelers walk with their luggage in Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, November 28, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)

South Africa, WHO call to lift travel bans as world scrambles to unlock Omicron

By Joshua Davidovich

Officials in Israel and elsewhere say time needed to figure out whether vaccines work against mutation and if border controls can thwart its spread

7:22 pm

South Africa, WHO call to reverse travel bans, say Omicron mostly mild
6:57 pm

Soldier avoids jail time after accused of sexually abusing women -- reports
6:39 pm

More COVID cases in Israel are thought to have Omicron, labs to start checking all cases

The cast of 'Eight Gifts of Hanukkah,' premiering in 2021 on Hallmark. (Courtesy Hallmark)

'For many years our stories haven't gotten the shelf space'

Love, laughter, latkes: Hanukkah rom-coms are having a moment

With a new Hallmark film and multiple new romance novels out this year, American Jews have a greater chance of seeing the Festival of Lights reflected in popular culture

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 28 – The politics of the Omicron variant

Health and science reporter Nathan Jeffay and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discuss the new coronavirus strain and what it means for Israel

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (left) hold a press conference at Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on November 26, 2021. (Moti Milrod/Pool via Flash90)

Bennett urges ‘caution and minimal risks’ amid Omicron variant uncertainty

A healthcare worker conducts a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test on a traveler at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on November 27, 2021, after several countries banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant Omicron. (Phill Magakoe / AFP)

In jab at China, US praises South Africa’s fast detection of new COVID strain

By AFP

Yamina MK Matan Kahana arrives for a meeting with Yamina party leader Naftali Bennet, at his home in Ra'anana, on June 4, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Shin Bet boosts security for religious affairs minister threatened over reforms

Death threats made against Matan Kahana as he pushes to make deep changes to Israel’s religious status quo

A view of Kenya's capital Nairobi. (CC BY-SA Africanmodern/Wikimedia Commons)

Kenya suspects Iranian man plotted to attack Israelis — report

A man fills his car at a gas station amid a cyber attack on the nation's fuel system, in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

2 US defense officials say Israel hacked Iran’s gas system last month — NYT

David E. Weisberg

Menorahs and abortions

The overturning of Roe v. Wade would not be a ruling on freedom of religion; it would simply return to the states full authority to regulate abortions

Hilary Faverman

Preparing for Hanukkah 2021: Our annual sufganiya taste-test comparison

In the ’fancy’ category, one doughnut was so good that we had give it a new name, in honor of its magnificent flavor

Hayum Shahada. (Facebook)

Man shot dead in northern Druze town

Hayum Shahada, 53, from Yarka, gunned down at his place of work in front of customers, bringing number of Arab Israelis killed in suspected homicides this year to 96

The entrance to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, January 30, 2011. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Nurses strike at Haifa hospital after violent assault on staff

Lit Hanukkah menorahs are part of the tour in Jerusalem's Old City during the eight-day holiday, which begins November 28, 2021 (Courtesy Michal Ben Atar)

The tours, events and shows that will light up your Hanukkah

By Jessica Steinberg

File: IAEA inspectors at Iran's nuclear power plant in Natanz on January 20, 2014. (IRNA/AFP/Kazem Ghane)

European nations condemn Iran’s ‘excessively invasive’ searches of inspectors

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UK, Germany, France say UN atomic agency representatives subject to intimidation: ‘This is unacceptable and unprecedented’

Screen capture from video of Iran's top nuclear negotiator Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri, 2020. (YouTube)

Iranian negotiator arrives in Vienna for resumption of nuclear talks

By AFP

Interview

Shoshanna Solomon

Booming global markets kept shekel ‘too strong,’ says ex-Bank of Israel deputy head

Weakening of Israeli currency as markets react to Omicron variant shows strong link between shekel and global stocks, says Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg

Illustration photo of the new 100 Israeli Shekel bill. December 31, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Katia Pascariu in 'Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn.' (Magnolia Pictures/ via JTA)

Film review

Lauded indie film uses porn to launch a discussion on Jewish persecution in Romania

By Andrew Lapin

In Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging,’ a teacher’s online sex clip gets parents riled up, and they soon let the worst fly in a cartoonish indictment of society

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US Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) listens during a news conference in front of the US Capitol, on July 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Ilhan Omar calls for action over Republican Boebert’s ‘Jihad Squad’ comment

By James Anderson

American navy ships USS Kearsarge and USS Bainbridge deployed alongside the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf waters near Iran, May 17, 2019 (MCSN Michael S. Singley, US Navy)

US Navy rescues Iranian seamen adrift in Gulf for 8 days

By AFP

People chant slogans as hundreds of demonstrators gather in Jordan's capital Amman to protest a deal with Israel, on November 26, 2021. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

‘Agreement of shame’: Thousands of Jordanians protest major energy deal with Israel

In this file photo taken on November 19, 2021, Iranians gather during a protest to voice their anger after their province's lifeblood river dried up due to drought and diversion, in the central city of Isfahan. (Fatmeh Nasr/ISNA/AFP)

Iran arrests 67 during water protests, deploys riot police

By AFP

Israeli lawyer Maya Reiten. (Facebook)

Israeli held in Belarus on suspicion of smuggling in 2.5 grams of medical marijuana

In this Monday, October 5, 2015 photo, a thick blanket of early morning fog partially shrouds the skyscrapers of the Marina and Jumeirah Lake Towers districts of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

UAE says it will enact largest legal reform in its history

Amir Peretz seen during a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Cabinet okays Amir Peretz as IAI board chair over objections of vetting panel

Then-US president Barack Obama (right) presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to composer Stephen Sondheim during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on November 24, 2015, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim

By Mark Kennedy

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