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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 8, 2021

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Police and medics at the scene of a stabbing attack in East Jerusalem on December 8, 2021 (Hatzalah)

Israeli woman stabbed in apparent E. J’lem terror attack; Palestinian girl arrested

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Assault takes place as victim is walking with her kids near flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood where she lives; suspect is 14-year-old neighbor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, later attorney general, during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 21, 2014. (AP/Menahem Kahana, Pool/File)

'I don't know how it would have ended'

Netanyahu was fraying democracy, we were saved ‘by grace of God,’ AG reported to say

Avichai Mandelblit said to tell associates privately that the ex-PM he put on trial hoped to appoint prosecutors and judges who would protect him; ‘democracy not guaranteed’

Defending Netanyahu, Likud MK compares attorney general to Stalin

Thousands protest against government at right-wing rally in Tel Aviv

Netanyahu trialEx-aide testifies Netanyahu ‘tried to rob state funds for personal needs’

Traffic jams on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, December 27, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

ToI investigates

It’s the errands, not the commute: What’s really driving Israel’s traffic crisis

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Why, if COVID has left many working from home, is the country so gridlocked? Partly because people jump into their newly bought cars for trips they once took on public transit

“Love It Was Not” on demand now!

“A superbly documented, creatively executed tale about a taboo romance at Auschwitz between a Jewish prisoner and her SS captor.” – Variety

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)

Tense talks on Iran’s nuclear program to resume Thursday in Vienna

By AP and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Blinken says he is ‘not hopeful’ for a resolution of the negotiations ‘based on what we’ve seen so far’

US reveals its largest-ever grab of weapons shipment by Iran’s Guards

By Stuart Winer

No evidence Iran has decided to weaponize nuclear program, CIA chief says

Comptroller to grade Israel’s handling of Iran nuclear threat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Doses of the Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 27, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann / POOL / AFP)

Pfizer says three doses of its COVID vaccine protect against Omicron

By Amy Spiro and AFP

Vaccine producer also working on a shot specifically designed for the variant that is slated to be ready in March

Early data shows Pfizer vaccine less effective against Omicron

Daily COVID infections hit 6-week high, with 786 new cases

Fourth COVID shot for all Israelis a possibility, health minister says

Several dozen far-right Jewish nationalists march through the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in response to a suspected Palestinian terror attack against an Israeli Jewish resident there earlier in the day, December 8, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Sparks fly as nationalists march in Arab neighborhood where Jewish woman was stabbed

Palestinians scuffle with police in Sheikh Jarrah as several dozen far-right protestors demonstrate after Moriah Cohen, 26, was attacked there this morning alongside her children

7:27 pm

Gantz to form committee to consider IDF conscription reform
7:26 pm

Report: Israel to launch major exercise simulating strike on Iran this spring
7:18 pm

US journalist freed in Lebanon after call by rights groups

3D illustration showing rod-shaped bacteria infecting blood (r_Microbe via iStock by Getty Images)

‘Life saving’ Israeli tech helps ID patients most at risk from blood infections

By Nathan Jeffay

Blood infections are common, with 250,000 annually in the US; Tel Aviv artificial intelligence allows doctors to focus attention on those with high risk of death or serious illness

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) and President Isaac Herzog attend a welcome ceremony ahead of their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, October 5, 2021. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Analysis

The statesman in the room: How Isaac Herzog became Israel’s secret diplomatic weapon

By Tal Schneider

Working with a relatively green government, the veteran politician is using his experience and personal ties to turn a largely ceremonial role into an important stabilizing force

From the blogs

Neshama Carlebach

I’m stepping back from hugs and embracing the mitzvah of consent

Just as we’re exiting COVID lockdown into a touch-starved world, I’ve had the uncomfortable realization that my family’s tradition of hugging needs to be re-examined

A 3D render of a brain (Kirsty Pargeter. via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli drug candidate slows Alzheimer’s-causing protein in mouse brains

By Nathan Jeffay

Scientists say their lab results could make their compound a promising drug for combating dementia, possibly also autism

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 8 – President Herzog takes on Facebook cyberbullying

Startup Israel editor Ricky Ben-David talks about a new Facebook campaign and Mobileye, while US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses some Jerusalem housing plans

Ariel Finkelstein

Can Israel’s politicians regain Israelis’ trust?

If they’d hand over political power to local authorities, that just might do the trick

Jeremy Benstein

A radical answer to Joseph, the evil tzadik: Building a just society

How the sabbatical year solves the boom and bust business cycle, first sparked by a canny tycoon who had insider info and the keys to the kingdom (Vayigash)

Lieutenant General Aviv Kohavi, Israel's army chief of general staff, pictured by the newly completed barrier above and below the border with the Gaza Strip, near Moshav Netiv HaAsara in southern Israel on December 7, 2021 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israel media review

Joshua Davidovich

Divide, but don’t conquer: What the press is saying about Syria and Gaza

A strike in Latakia is seen as an Israeli attempt to wean Assad off Iran, and a new barrier is seen as a way to keep Israel from needing to go into Gaza

Palestinian amputees play a soccer match while using their crutches during a training session, at Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza soccer league aims to help amputees cope with war trauma

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Film review

Spielberg’s beautifully choreographed ‘West Side Story’ update hits every note

By Jordan Hoffman

Out Dec. 9, the remake, tweaked just enough to resonate today, rounds out its characters more than the original – and with its killer musical numbers, purists won’t be disappointed

Will Smith poses for photographers upon arrival at the UK Premiere of "King Richard" in London, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Will Smith’s production company boards Israeli docuseries on Munich massacre

A still from 'West Side Story' by director Steven Spielberg. (Courtesy: 20th Century Films)

Gulf countries ban ‘West Side Story’ over transgender character

Albert Speer with clapper board, as he is about to be filmed for a television interview, 1971. (Realworks LTD)

Israeli documentary about Nazi Albert Speer accused of misrepresenting quotes

By Andrew Lapin

Claroty's leadership team from left to right: Udi Bar Sela, CFO, Benny Porat, co-founder, Amir Preminger, co-founder, Guilad Regev, SVP customer care, Natalie Katester Boimer, global VP HR, Yaniv Vardi, CEO, Seth Gerson, VP and general counsel. (Courtesy)

Softbank backs $400m investment in Israeli industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty

By Ricky Ben-David

Japanese investment giant’s Israel operations are led by former Mossad head Yossi Cohen, who is joining Claroty’s board

'This play harmed us on a political and interpersonal level'

30-year-old play about Israeli-Palestinian conflict resurfaces – minus Palestinians

By Jonah Goldman Kay

As a new adaptation of ‘Abraham’s Land’ streams online through Dec. 12, Palestinian artistic collaborators from the original and current productions have withdrawn support

More Headlines

Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 29, 2021. (Flash90)

Non-Israeli parents of pregnant women exempted from travel ban — report

Screen capture from video of Omri Goren, accused of offering to spy on Defense Minister Benny Gantz for Iran, during a remand hearing at Lod District Court, on December 2, 2021. (Channel 12 News)

Shin Bet officers slapped on wrist for letting ex-con work for defense minister

By Judah Ari Gross

Lawmakers applaud outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center on top, in the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Stefanie Loos)

Ovation for Merkel as Scholz voted in as Germany’s leader, ending her 16-year tenure

By Geir Moulson

Contestants of the Miss Universe pageant visit the Tower of David Museum in the ancient citadel of Jerusalem near the Jaffa Gate entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, on November 30, 2021. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Puerto Rican Miss Universe contestant reveals great-grandfather survived Holocaust

Activists and members of the Human Rights Association Istanbul branch hold posters with photos of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and talk to members of the media, during a protest in his support near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, October 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Saudis claim France arrested wrong man over Khashoggi killing

By Stuart Williams and Wafaa Essalhi

A sign in Castilla Mota de Judios was defaced with graffiti restoring the town's name from 1627 to 2015, which translates to Fort Kill the Jews. (Courtesy Lorenzo Gutierrez via JTA)

Spanish town until recently called Fort Kill the Jews hit with antisemitic graffiti

By Orge Castellano

In this courtroom sketch, a witness testifying under the pseudonym "Carolyn," breaks down on the witness stand testifying about her experiences with Jeffery Epstein, during proceedings in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-abuse trial, in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

In court, woman describes how Maxwell abused and groomed her when she was 14

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays

Clémence Botino, Miss Universe 2021 contestant from France. (Miss Universe)

After 10 days, Miss Universe contender who contracted COVID cleared to compete

Israeli lawyer Maya Reiten. (Facebook)

‘I won’t last much longer’: Lawyer begs for gov’t help after 1 month in Belarus jail

Prof. Ardon Rubinstein speaks at a hearing of the Knesset Finance Committee, on December 7, 2021. (Screenshot)

Ice cold sunshineSugary drinks expert unmasked as Coca-Cola lobbyist in Knesset

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