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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 5, 2021

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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani is seen leaving the Coburg Palais, venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) meeting aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, in Vienna, on December 3, 2021. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Iran walked back its own compromises, stepped up its demands

US official: Iran backtracked on all compromises; we’re preparing for no deal

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Official warns more sanctions likely if Iran kills negotiations, says China and Russia were also taken aback; Mossad chief heads to Washington for talks as nuclear crisis deepens

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 5, 2021. (Emil Salman/POOL)

PM: Iran can’t both negotiate and enrich uranium, must pay price for violating deal

In this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo, a technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran says US refusal to remove sanctions is main obstacle to nuclear deal

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

Bennett, Barlev say officers ‘acted as required’ by shooting Palestinian attacker

Public security minister says there was no need for Border Police to be interrogated, later clarifies that procedure is routine

Israeli security forces at the scene of stabbing attack outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, on December 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Border Police officers questioned amid fracas over shooting of Palestinian attacker

Border Police at the scene of a stabbing in Jerusalem, on December 4, 2021. (Video screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Border Police officers who fatally shot terrorist expected to be cleared

Officers pay visit to wounded civilian in Jerusalem hospital: ‘We were doing our job, we were doing what had to be done’

7:34 pm

New US ambassador meets PM Bennett in Jerusalem
7:06 pm

Ex-PM Barak dismisses Israeli government's 'empty rhetoric' on Iran
6:48 pm

New poll shows political blocs remain deadlocked

This Chanukah, help feed the 2 million Israelis living in poverty.

Help Meir Panim in providing warm meals for thousands of hungry Israeli children and their families who are struggling to make ends meet. Join us in giving back this holiday season.

An Aeroflot Airbus A330-200 seen departing from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on June 17, 2011. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

NATO spy plane forced flight from Tel Aviv to dive to avoid ‘catastrophe’ — Russia

By AFP

Moscow authorities say Aeroflot plane headed for Russian capital nearly collided with the US air force recon aircraft over Black Sea

Mossad chief David Barnea at a ceremony marking his taking the helm of the agency, on June 1, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Mossad chief heads to US as Iran nuclear talks stall

David Barnea to reportedly press top Biden administration officials not to seek an interim deal, is also expected to present Americans with new intel on Iranian nuke program

Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, speaks during the first meeting of national security secretaries in the Iranian capital Tehran, September 26, 2018. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Emirati official expected in Tehran for first official visit in 6 years

By AFP

Alon Schuster, March 19, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israeli official on Iran nuke site blast: ‘We don’t ask a man what he did at night’

Deputy Defense Minister Alon Schuster says Israel will use military means in extreme situations, a day after an explosion near Natanz that Tehran said was an air defense test

The Natanz uranium enrichment facility buildings are pictured some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, on March 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Blast heard near Iran’s Natanz nuclear site; officials cite air defense test

By ToI Staff and AFP

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 5 – A terrorist stabbing and the potential for political mess

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross on the probe of 2 Border Police officers who shot a Palestinian attacker dead; and David Horovitz on Israel’s apparent partial Iran success

Sheldon Kirshner

Lara Logan’s grotesque comparison: Fauci and Mengele

How could anyone who calls herself a journalist compare an upstanding, caring scientist to the Nazi war criminal known as the Angel of Death?

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Too many IDF soldiers: What will replace universal army service?

With signs that a smaller, higher tech army is already on the way, there is an alternative that would even include the ultra-Orthodox and Arab sectors

Son of ex-minister Rehavam Ze’evi among two charged in cold case murder of teen

Indictment says Binyamin Ze’evi was part of a group that lured Nissim Shitrit, 17, and beat him to death, in case linked to cult leader Eliezer Berland

Binyamin Ze'evi outside the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on October 19, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israelis enjoy the Tel Aviv Port on September 7, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Average wage in Israel dips slightly as economic recovery continues

By Ricky Ben-David

Salaries for Israeli workers average NIS 11,667 ($3,710) per month; tech workers make about NIS 26,242 ($8,344)

Rabbi Moti Grumach with some Hanukkah-styled Japanese koma tops and traditional dreidels. (Courtesy/Moti Grumach via JTA)

In Kyoto, traditional Japanese candles and tops get Hanukkah spin

By Jordyn Haime

Chabad emissary in Japan gives local crafts a Jewish twist, forging a connection between cultures and boosting small businesses hurt by the pandemic

A medic collects a swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 drive-through testing site in Jerusalem on November 29, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Health officials: We don’t know enough about Omicron and vaccines to let guard down

Health Ministry chief Ash cautions it is still unclear how vaccine-resistant the strain may be; virus czar Zarka says it will take another week to clarify the impact of the variant

The arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, on November 28, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel’s COVID reproduction rate drops below 1, despite Omicron fears

Palestinian health workers at a hospital in the West Bank town of Nablus, where health workers were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) earlier today, after the delivery of vaccine doses from Israel, February 3, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

PA sends 100 suspected Omicron cases to Israel for testing

By Aaron Boxerman

Religious affairs minister says death threats causing him ‘a wretched feeling’

‘We already know where this leads,’ Matan Kahana warns after reportedly being threatened with kabbalistic death curse

Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK Gilad Kariv speaks during an interview at his office in the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 24, 2021 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

First Reform rabbi MK: Most Israeli Jews feel closer to liberals than ultra-Orthodox

By Delphine Matthieussent

Eric Fischer and Danielle Clemons held their wedding on July 2, 2020 in her family's backyard in Armonk, New York with just 14 people. (Eric Fischer and Danielle Clemons/via JTA)

'It's insane - limos are picking couples up at 6:30 a.m.'

US Jewish weddings are back — along with rising prices, staff shortages, uncertainty

Demand has skyrocketed as couples schedule nuptials that were on hold due to restrictions or health concerns, putting a strain on everyone, from rabbis to caterers and vendors

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Sara Netanyahu at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, in Jerusalem, on June 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Man charged with harassment for threat to sexually assault Sara Netanyahu

Chris Cuomo attends The Hollywood Reporter's annual Most Powerful People in Media cocktail reception on April 11, 2019, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

CNN fires Chris Cuomo for helping brother deal with sexual harassment allegations

By David Bauder and Michelle L. Price

Justices Uzi Fogelman (C), Yosef Elron (L), and Ofer Grosskopf preparing for a Supreme Court hearing in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

High Court rejects petition by overseas Israeli families to admit their children

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Soldiers stand guard outside Al-Hussein Al Salt Hospital in Salt, Jordan on March 13, 2021 (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan jails hospital chief over deaths of 10 COVID patients from oxygen shortage

By AFP

The Amos 17 satellite of Spacecom Satellite Communications (Courtesy)

Defense Ministry said seeking to block sale of satellite firm to Orban ally

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a a speech at the defence ministry during the ceremonial send-off for her in Berlin, on December 2, 2021. (Odd Andersen/Pool/AFP)

In last podcast as chancellor, Merkel urges Germans to get vaccinated

By AFP

French far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour speaks to members of London's French community at the ILEC Conference Centre in west London, November 19, 2021. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Far-right Zemmour set to hold first rally as French presidential candidate

By Anne Renaut and Adrien de CALAN

The Scene of a deadly car accident in the central West Bank, on December 3, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

9-year-old girl dies a day after West Bank car crash that killed her brother

Valerie Pecresse waits at the Conservative party Les Republicains headquarters after being elected as the party's presidential candidate, on Saturday, December 4, 2021, in Paris. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

French right chooses Paris region chief to challenge Macron

By AP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for the G20 Summit, on October 30, 2021, in Rome. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)

Turkish officials find explosive on officer’s car ahead of Erdogan rally

Composite image shows Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, left, and President Isaac Herzog, right. (Markus Schreiber/AP, Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Herzog, in first call with UAE leader, talks free trade and Mideast stability

Israel is a world leader in the field of assistive technology, which helps disabled people cope with their environment. (Iacopo Luzi/Times of Israel)

Poll shows 1 in 3 Israeli parents do not want kids to study with the disabled

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