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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 30, 2021

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He led IDF intel gathering on Iran, was ignored and fears Israel is now paying price

Danny Citrinowicz, ex-head of Military Intelligence research, says politicians’ inability to adopt a nuanced approach led to ‘colossal’ policy failure, sped up Tehran’s nuke effort

Israel Military Intelligence representative in Washington Danny Citrinowicz in Arlington, Virginia in 2016. (Courtesy)

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani arrives at the Coburg Palais in Vienna for nuclear talks, on November 29, 2021. (Vladimir Simicek/AFP)

As talks resume, Iran says no return to nuclear deal unless all sanctions lifted

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

Iran gearing up to enrich uranium to weapons-grade soon, Israel reportedly warns US

Tehran is capable of producing 90% enriched uranium within weeks, Israeli defense figures quoted saying; in 2nd report, officials say Biden needs to assemble anti-Iran coalition

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri arrives at the Coburg Palais, the venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) meeting, in Vienna on November 29, 2021. (Vladimir Simicek/AFP)

Countering Europeans, Iran makes maximalist demands after Vienna nuclear talks open

By Nasser Karimi

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a Conservative Friends of Israel event in London, Britain, November 29, 2021. (Stuart Mitchell)

Lapid in the UK: Our fight against Iran and Hezbollah is good against evil

By Lazar Berman

Raz Nizri, deputy attorney general, during a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 21, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy AG: Shin Bet tracking ‘very problematic,’ but Omicron is an exceptional case

By Michael Bachner

Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, speaks to the media after Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker toured the Moderna facility, on May 12, 2021, in Norwood, Massachusetts. (Nancy Lane/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Moderna CEO predicts existing COVID vaccines less effective against Omicron

An Israeli child receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a Maccabi vaccination center in Katzrin on November 24, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israel vaccinating kids 5-11 faster than it did those aged 12-15

Screen capture from video showing French far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour delivering a speech to announce his candidacy for the 2022 Presidential election in a video broadcast on his Youtube channel, on November 30, 2021 in Paris. (YouTube / AFP)

Jewish far-right pundit Zemmour launches French presidential bid

By Stuart Williams and Adam PLOWRIGHT

Fiercely anti-immigration and seen by critics as a racist, candidate says he will ‘save’ France, but his popularity has waned following an initial surge in polls

French far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour giving the middle finger to a woman who insulted him after a visit in Marseille, southern France, on November 27, 2021. (Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)

Five ways France’s Jewish far-right presidential candidate sparks controversy

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

Today, your gift goes twice as far for the land and people of Israel.

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ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 30 – With Gantz visit, Morocco and Israel tighten their ties

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross discusses defense minister’s trip to Rabat; environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at pipeline company shenanigans and plans for marinas

Morocco's King Mohammed VI, right, receives Aziz Akhannouch the president of the National Rally of Independents party (RNI), winner of the legislative elections at the Royal Palace in Fez, Morocco, September 10, 2021. (Moroccan Royal Palace via AP)

Morocco king says Rabat will push to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians receive their $100 financial aid as part of the aid allocated by Qatar to poor families, through a post office, in the town of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on December 3, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas says it reaches deal with Qatar for it to subsidize Gaza public employees

Deal between Hamas, Egypt and Qatar will see Doha send fuel to Gaza from Egypt for Hamas to resell in order to help cover payrolls

7:27 pm

ADL offering $10,000 reward for information in 3 Brooklyn antisemitic attacks
7:13 pm

Drill at Ben Gurion Airport simulates mass-casualty plane crash
7:04 pm

TV: Israeli official says killing Fakhrizadeh did not slow down Iran's nukes

Henry Kissinger negotiates with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in the garden of his summer villa at Mamoura, Alexandria, on August 25, 1975. (David Hume Kennerly White House Photographs/Kissinger Papers at Yale University)

Interview'His focus was always on order, not peace'

Martin Indyk says Kissinger’s Machiavellian tactics helped stabilize Israel, Mideast

By JP O’ Malley

In ‘Master of the Game,’ his new bio on the former US secretary of state, veteran diplomat Indyk looks at how regional powers were leveraged into living with each other

Israeli champion natural bodybuilder and silver world medalist Lavie Kafra (Orel Sabran)

Interview'I'm very extreme. I always take it to the absolute limit'

Israeli natural bodybuilder pumped to receive silver medal at world championships

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Years of tough workouts and strict nutritional intake pay off for 25-year-old Lavie Kafra, who aims to show that hard work and discipline — not drugs — are the key to success

Illustrative: Malaysia's Ng Ean Yow, right, and Hong Kong's Au Chun Ming during the men's team squash final match at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Squash world championship in Malaysia canceled over refusal to allow in Israelis

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

To Rabbi Serfaty on your Spinoza response: Chutzpah!

The Amsterdam Sephardi community leader is clearly ignorant of the Dutch philosopher’s work and unaware his excommunication ended with his death

For the love of Israel, we need to say: The Reform Movement is Zionist

How could future Jewish leaders write an open, public letter in the middle of a war, missiles raining down on our people, without ever mentioning Hamas?

Nir Hefetz arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on November 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial

Judges reject Netanyahu trial witness’s request for closed-door cross-examination

Ex-Netanyahu aide Nir Hefetz says ‘draconian’ police tactics caused him to turn state witness, most details of cops’ maneuvers are under a gag order to protect his privacy

Yair Netanyahu, son of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court hearing on a defamation suit, in Tel Aviv, November 29, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Court hears Yair Netanyahu’s and ex-MK’s mutual lawsuits over Twitter spat

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a press conference in Jerusalem announcing an investigation into the Mount Meron tragedy on May 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Political parties fined over campaign finance violations during 2019 elections

Dutch Portuguese Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo arguing for the lifting of the ban on Baruch Spinoza, December 6, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In echo of excommunication, top Spinoza scholar banned from Amsterdam synagogue

Leader of Dutch city’s Sephardic community declares Yitzhak Melamed ‘persona non grata,’ citing his ‘study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas’

'Every year is different; agriculture is never on time'

Israeli agtech companies take on worst-case climate crisis forecasts

By Viva Sarah Press

Science, data and technology will play a major role in adapting to climate change effects, say agriculture tech entrepreneurs

SupPlant says its sensors upload data from the plant, the soil, and the weather so farmers can make better decisions. (SupPlant)

An aerial view of the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's (EAPC) oil terminal at Israel's southern Red Sea port city of Eilat, February 9, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Firm behind disputed UAE-Eilat oil pipeline: Ministries don’t have right to see deal

The TAU Ventures team, from left to right: Nimrod Cohen, managing partner, Ella Iwler, VP business operations, Inbal Perlman, VP business development and Jennifer Schwarz, head of venture programs. (Eran Pereg)

Tel Aviv University’s VC arm raises $50m to invest in startups

By Ricky Ben-David

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a press conference at the presidential palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 17, 2021. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

Erdogan says Turkey seeking to mend troubled ties with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

After smoothing over tensions with the UAE, Turkish leader indicates detentes with Jerusalem and Cairo are next on his agenda, including the return of ambassadors

Israeli Ambassador to Bahrain Eitan Na'eh aboard a plane to Manama, on November 29, 2021. (Twitter)

Israel’s first ambassador to Bahrain arrives in Manama

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tends to his broken menorah, November 29, 2021 (Youtube screenshot)

Down in flames

UK’s Johnson is gifted menorah, breaks it within seconds

At Conservative Friends of Israel lunch, British prime minister demonstrates why you should never wave a Chanukkiah about, UK’s Jewish News reports

US Vice President Kamala Harris talks with her husband, Doug Emhoff, during a visit to Paris on November 13, 2021. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

VP Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff light Hanukkah menorah at home

Left to right: Mayim Bialik, HAIM, and Andy Cohen, who all shared photos of their menorahs on social media. (Screenshots from Instagram via JTA)

Claim to flameJewish celebrities light up Hanukkah

Israel protests as UN marks partition plan with Palestinian solidarity event

Ambassador notes that Jews accepted historic November 29, 1947, vote, while Arabs declared war; slams world body for calling for Palestinian ‘right of return’

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan launches a campaign to protest a UN decision to highlight the Palestinian right of return on the anniversary of 1947 adoption of the partition plan that saw the establishment of a Jewish state. (Shahar Azran)

Taboo, will.i.am, J. Rey Soul and apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas performing at Pais Arena in Jerusalem, on November 29, 2021. (Ethan Freedman/The Times of Israel)

Concert review

Black Eyed Peas rock Jerusalem arena with lots of love for the ‘mishpocha’

In COVID era’s first major international performance in Israel, group plays a smattering of its greatest hits and issues calls for solidarity among Israelis and Palestinians

American musician will.i.am, front man for Black Eyed Peas, listens during an interview in Jerusalem, on November 29, 2021. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Appearing in Jerusalem, Black Eyed Peas frontman rejects calls to boycott Israel

By Tia Goldenberg

Screenshot from a video of Kosha Dillz, left, and Nissim Black performing across Midtown Manhattan in the video to 'The Hanukkah Song 2.0.' (JTA)

Rapping it upJewish hip-hop royalty take ‘Chanukah song’ to NY streets

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Profile

Deputy foreign minister aims to woo US progressives despite Israeli policy

As a gay married father of two, Idan Roll leads a life that has much in common with liberal ideals, but he strives to promote Israel’s relationship with the US on its own merits

Idan Roll, Israel's deputy foreign minister, emerged as an advocate for LGBTQ rights before he entered politics. (Elad Guttman/Israel Foreign Ministry via JTA)

An adult Eric Cartman (Trey Parker) is now a rabbi on "South Park: Post COVID." (Screenshot via Paramount Plus via JTA)

Whateva, I do what I want

After decades of tormenting Jews, South Park’s Cartman converts to Judaism

By Andrew Lapin

In new series of movies, the audience is left confused by the notorious cartoon antisemite’s change of heart, as is his on-screen nemesis Kyle

More Headlines

Lt. Col. Dan Sharoni, who is suspected of secretly filming his female soldiers, in an undated photograph. (Facebook)

IDF officer dismissed over suspicions he secretly filmed female soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Top ultra-Orthodox rabbis urge against mixed-gender prayer plaza at Western Wall

The Gilboa prison in northern Israel on September 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Prison officer slams allegation he ‘pimped’ female guards to Palestinian inmates

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks during a ceremony in Thessaloniki, Greece, on October 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, File)

Pfizer CEO: We’re working on vaccine for Omicron; our pill will also be effective

By AFP

Police officers at the scene of an explosion that killed a man in Beersheba, November 12, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man found dead in Beersheba apartment; nephew arrested

Danny Fenster, center, hugs his mother Rose Fenster as former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, right, looks on at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Journalist freed by Myanmar helps light menorah in Detroit

By AP

In this April 20, 2021, photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks in Brooklyn Center, Minn., during a news conference at the site of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Boebert refuses to apologize to Ilhan Omar for suicide bomber quip

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield on November 15, 2021. (Asi Efrati/ GPO)

Foreign Ministry workers open labor dispute, putting official visits at risk

By Lazar Berman

A projected vision of the Miss Universe stage for the competition slated to be held in Eilat, on December 12, 2021. (Courtesy)

Miss Universe contestant tests positive for COVID after landing in Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of smashed glass on the floor of a bus that was stoned as it traveled from Tel Aviv to Eilat, November 30, 2021. (Twitter)

Rocks hurled at bus heading to Eilat, smashing window

By Stuart Winer

Police officers at the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem's Old City on November 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Man seriously injured in Jerusalem terror attack released from intensive care

Illustrative: Jewish religious women do their national service at the maternity department at a hospital in Jerusalem. October 28, 2010. (Abir Sultan/FLASH90)

After hiking IDF salaries by 50%, Israel takes same step with national service

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