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What Matters Most On Monday, November 29, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks from his Jerusalem office in a video statement addressed to world powers at the opening of renewed nuclear talks with Iran, November 29, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

PM: Iran deserves no rewards in return for its brutality

As Iran talks begin, Bennett urges world powers: Resist regime’s ‘nuclear blackmail’

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Pleading with negotiators in Vienna, premier warns: If Iranians get their way and sanctions are lifted, they won’t just keep their nuclear program, ‘they’ll be getting paid for it’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) walks with UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at the Foreign Office, in London, November 29, 2021. (Stuart Mitchell/ GPO)

Lapid: Iran wants more funds for terror, will keep advancing nuclear program

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on November 22, 2021; and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, on October 3, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90; AP Photo/Jon Super)

As Vienna talks resume, Israel, UK say they’re working jointly to block nuclear Iran

Analysis

In seventh round of nuclear talks, Iran’s intentions will finally become clear

Khamenei had plenty of reasons to stall, but if there’s no change in Tehran’s stance, the West needs a Plan B — with options ranging from a military strike to US concessions

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, reviews armed forces with Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, during a graduation ceremony at Iran's Air Defense Academy, in Tehran, Iran, October 30, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

ExplainerCan world powers curb Iran in new nuclear talks?

By Josef Federman

Israel said to urge nuclear talks be conditioned on Iran halting uranium enrichment

As talks set to restart, Iran says it is ‘firmly determined’ to salvage nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran. (IRIB via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Iran preparing to enrich uranium to weapons-grade soon, Israel said to warn US

By Michael Bachner

Israeli intelligence presented to Washington reportedly indicates that once preparations completed, Tehran will be able within weeks to reach 90% purity, which has no civilian use

7:02 pm

Iran preparing to enrich uranium to weapons-grade soon, Israel said to warn US
6:53 pm

Israel said eyeing $1,100 fine for arrivals not taking COVID test on 3rd day of stay
6:47 pm

Israel failing to adequately test returnees from African states for Omicron: report

Thirty-Six podcast

Yossi Klein Halevi

Justin begins his journey to find the Lamed Vav Tzadikim, Thirty-Six Righteous people, in the home of one of his favorite authors, Yossi Klein Halevi

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 29 – How much will Omicron affect Israel’s economy?

Times of Israel editor David Horovitz discusses Iran talks and Bennett; Startup Israel editor Ricky Ben-David talks about the Omicron effect and the dollar-shekel rate

Ben Gurion International Airport on November 28, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Slamming the door on Omicron, Israel closes its borders to tourists

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A first image of the Omicron variant, compared to the Delta variant, made by the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, November 2021 (AFP)

First image of Omicron shows many more mutations than Delta

By AFP

New US envoy to Israel Tom Nides (R) bangs elbows with Gil Haskel, Foreign Ministry Chief of Protocol (David Azagury/ US Embassy Jerusalem)

New US ambassador lands in Israel, heads straight to quarantine at home in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Thomas Nides assumes post after nearly 10 months with no American envoy, as disagreements with Israel remain on Jerusalem consulate and Iran

People lineup to get on a flight to Paris at OR Tambo's airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 26, 2021. (AP Photo/ Jerome Delay)

South Africa, WHO urge reversal of travel bans as world scrambles to contain Omicron

By AFP

Analysis

Omicron may be unstoppable, but Israel’s moves to slow the spread may save lives

More gradual spread means more time to get kids immunized and to source special supplies if necessary, like vaccines adapted for Omicron and antibody cocktails for treatment

A petrol attendant stands next to a newspaper headline in Pretoria, South Africa, November 27, 2021. (AP Photo/ Denis Farrell)

As 2nd Omicron case found, Israel bars airport arrivals from taking buses, trains

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during a press conference at a vaccine center for children in Tel Aviv on November 23, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Health minister says Omicron COVID variant under control, no need for panic

A couple reunites in the arrival hall of Ben Gurion Airport. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Inside story

Israeli children born abroad are automatically citizens, yet some are locked out

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Children of Israelis overseas who don’t have Israeli passports can’t enter on foreign documents due to COVID curbs; a long-running High Court petition seeks to change that

Eliyah Hawila, born to a Shiite Muslim family in Lebanon, posed as an Orthodox Jew to marry an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn woman, seen here on his wedding day. (Screen capture/ Kan)

Lebanese Muslim who posed as Orthodox Jew to wed: I loved her and they took her away

Eliyah Hawila tells Israeli TV how he was drawn to Judaism as a teen in Lebanon, his regrets and guilt over deceiving his Brooklyn bride, his desire to come to Israel and convert

What Horn gets wrong in her ‘Dead Jews’ critique of Jewish heritage tourism

The author unfairly slams the motives of those engaged in Jewish historical preservation but offers no viable alternatives to the memorialization of Jews

Hanukkah: A time to celebrate renewable energy

That one flask of oil reduced the Temple menorah’s fuel use by 87%. If we can match that for today’s fuel consumption, we just might save the world

The ‘Ugly Israeli’ abroad and at home

Widespread verbal and physical violence is driven by deep-seated power inequities, chief among them, the ongoing occupation of lands captured in 1967

Kenneth Jacobson

This November 29, it’s time to reject Palestinian rejectionism

The Arab world has figured out it’s better to work with the Jewish state rather than against it. Why hasn’t the rest of the world caught up?

Nir Hefetz at a hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on November 29, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial

Ex-Netanyahu aide cries in court recalling arrest, says testimony is ‘entire truth’

Nir Hefetz breaks down, forcing pause, as he describes decision to turn state witness under ‘monstrous pressure’; tells of Murdoch news channel pitch scripted by Netanyahu

Lighting candle at Hebron shrine, Herzog says Jewish connection is ‘unquestionable’

President also appeals to common Abrahamic heritage at Tomb of the Patriarchs; left-wing demonstrators slamming his visit are blocked by troops from reaching the West Bank city

President Isaac Herzog lights a Hanukkah candle in Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, November 28, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) lights a candle to mark the first night of Hanukkah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 29, 2021 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

PM, Gantz light Hanukkah candles as Western Wall events honor terror victim Eli Kay

Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 28, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ailing tourism sector takes another hit, as Israel bars tourists to curb variant

By Ricky Ben-David

Tourism minister demands compensation plan for industry workers as restrictions barring entry to foreign nationals poised to take effect

A woman is seen speaking on her phone at Ben Gurion Airport, on November 28, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ministers okay limited Shin Bet tracking program in bid to head off Omicron threat

An Emirates SkyCargo aicraft. (Emirates)

Emirates airline delays launch of Tel Aviv route after Israel bars entry to tourists

Medical workers in protective suits administer vaccines in Makati City, suburban Manila on November 29, 2021.(Ted ALJIBE / AFP)

WHO warns risk from COVID variant is ‘very high,’ but cautions against travel bans

By AFP and ToI Staff

A gas station attendant stands next to a newspaper headline in Pretoria, South Africa, Nov. 27, 2021. (Denis Farrell/AP)

Epidemiologist: Omicron will drive daily cases to 10,000 this week in South Africa

By Sofia CHRISTENSEN

Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, on November 28, 2021. (Screenshot: BBC)

South African doctor who flagged Omicron claims variant not causing serious illness

By AFP

In first, Sanhedrin-era building found in Yavne, where sages fled Temple’s ruin

By Stuart Winer

Israel Antiques Authority says structure contained items identified with Jewish community of 2nd century CE; cemetery nearby poses riddle over who is interred

Foreground: A lead sling stone bearing the name of Diodotus Tryphon. Background: Tel Zif in the southern Hebron Hills. (Civil Administration Spokesperson)

Sling stone from Hasmonean period found in southern Hebron Hills

Tzvi Tzucker is seen outside the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on November 1, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Berland’s son-in-law, follower named as suspects in cold case murders linked to sect

Tzvi Tzucker was head of Shuvu Bonim cult’s ‘modesty patrol’ at the time 17-year-old Nissim Shitrit disappeared; police tell court they plan to charge ex-minister’s son

A view of Hunter College in New York City. (Matthew Rutledge/Flickr Commons/via JTA)

'If I don't share my political stance, I'm usually OK'

In latest campus controversy, Jews debate whether CUNY Hunter is hostile environment

Pro-Israel organization StandWithUs files complaint alleging unaddressed antisemitic behavior at the NYC school that’s 10% Jewish, but some students and faculty disagree

More Headlines

Aya Biran, third from left, a paternal aunt of Eitan Biran, who survived a cable car crash in Italy that killed his immediate family, arrives to court in Tel Aviv Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. ( AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli Supreme Court upholds ruling sending Eitan Biran back to Italy

Members of the Ethiopian Jewish community attend a religious service at the synagogue in the city of Gondar, Ethiopia, on October 26, 2020. (Eduardo Soteras/AFP)

Government approves immigration of thousands of Ethiopian Jews

Screen capture from video taken near Rambam Medical Center in Haifa of a hunt for a suspected suicide bomber, November 29, 2021. (Twitter)

West Bank man triggers suicide bomb alert at Haifa hospital

Illustrative: Cars standing at the Hizma Checkpoint, near Jerusalem, July 7, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli bus driver injured by rocks near West Bank checkpoint near Jerusalem

An outpost near the Yitzhar settlement on October 24, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Yitzhar settlers said to expose Shin Bet agent who spent a year in nearby outposts

Illustrative: Police inspect the scene of a murder in the northern city of Nazareth on September 23, 2019. (Israel Police Spokesperson)

Man shot dead in Nazareth; 2 suspects arrested

Lital Yael Melnik. (Facebook)

In reversal, suspect in 17-year-old girl’s murder to remain in custody

Then-senior adviser to the president Jared Kushner, attending a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Kushner seeking Mideast investments for newly founded firm — NYT

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ira Vigdorchik is seen during during a ceremony with the Israeli Olympic delegation competing ahead of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Former coach of Israel’s medal-winning gymnastics team switches to Russian squad

By Stuart Winer

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, right, shakes hand with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, in Doha, Qatar, Nov 29, 2021. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP)

Lebanon’s president in Qatar hoping to end crisis with Gulf states, drum up funding

By AP

In this file photo dated April 15, 2019, Notre Dame cathedral is burning in Paris (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh, FILE)

Hot takeNotre Dame in Paris denies post-fire redesign is too radical

By Sandra BIFFOT-LACUT

Screen capture from video of the Syrian national basketball team listening as the Iranian national anthem is erroneously played in their honor before a game in the first leg of Asian qualifiers for World Cup 2023 in Kazakhstan, November 27, 2023. (Twitter)

Dropping the ballKazakhstan plays Iran’s anthem to welcome Syrian basketball team

By AP

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