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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 16, 2021

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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Lapid: Extremist violence ‘a stain on Israel,’ there must be zero tolerance

In newly published comments made earlier this month, before current coalition storm on ‘settler violence’ against Palestinians, the foreign minister decried ‘violent hooligans’

Settlers from Homesh hurl stones at Palestinians on March 26, 2020. (Yesh Din)

As coalition bickers, hundreds of soldiers to help police confront settler violence

Yamina MK Nir Orbach attends an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina MK says he’ll hold up legislation from coalition members who ‘smear settlers’

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)

Live updates (closed)

Ukraine’s envoy: We could recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in coming months

Speaking in city, Yehven Korniychuk expresses hope embassy branch will be inaugurated next year if security ties expand

7:29 pm

Islamic Jihad praises terror attack, does not take responsibility
7:28 pm

Herzog receives credentials of 5 new female ambassadors
7:14 pm

Herzog calls Bahrain's king to mark country's 50th National Day

Op-ed

Why is Israel again abandoning the Solomonic wisdom of the Western Wall compromise?

A coalition avowedly committed to advancing consensual issues is, deplorably, instead capitulating to extremists over access for the Jewish people to our holiest place for prayer

Members of the Ugandan-Jewish Abuyudaya community in Israel on a Birthright trip organized by MAROM participate in a ceremony celebrating the dedication of a new Torah scroll at the Western Wall's pluralistic prayer pavilion, August 27, 2018. (Courtesy MAROM)

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When wounded IDF soldiers need rehabilitation, they all go to Israel’s National Center For Rehabilitation of injured soldiers, at SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER

Arriving travelers at Ben Gurion Airport, November 28, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ban on foreigners extended until December 29

France, Spain, UAE added to no-fly list, with US reportedly being considered as well

Government introduces compensation package for tourism sector further decimated by Omicron variant restrictions, including offers of up to $9,500 for those who shift industries

People shop at the Hadar Mall in Jerusalem, on December 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Green Pass rules for malls delayed amid confusion over enforcement

An image produced by US researchers shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (red), covering human bronchial cilia (blue), and mucus (yellow). (Ehre Lab, UNC School of Medicine)

Omicron variant found to grow 70 times faster than Delta in respiratory tissue

Arab Israeli, Gazan worker spied on Iron Dome batteries for Hamas, Shin Bet says

By Judah Ari Gross

According to agency, terror group recruited Israeli citizen and Palestinian who had a valid permit to enter Israel, to gather intel on IDF and prepare for attacks

An Iron Dome anti-missile battery seen on June 15, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 16 – Is a return to the Western Wall compromise being abandoned?

Editor David Horovitz talks about the suspended holy site deal and Iran’s nuclear threat; Arab affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman discusses settler violence and Christmas in Bethlehem

Yamina MK Shirly Pinto brings her new baby to the Knesset on December 15, 2021 (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)

MK forced to come to Knesset with six-day-old baby, but coalition still loses a vote

Illustrative: This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows anti-aircraft fire in the sky after US-led airstrikes targeting different parts of the Syrian capital Damascus in retaliation for the country's alleged use of chemical weapons, April 14, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Syria says Israeli air strikes target south of country, soldier killed

State-run media claims most missiles shot down during overnight attack, but admits one fatality and material damage to unspecified sites

A solar field in Timna, southern Israel, built by EDF Renewables Israel and formally opened on December 15, 2021. (EDF Renewables Israel)

‘Gas can wait,’ says energy minister, rejecting panel’s call for further exploration

Addressing a renewable energy conference in Eilat, Karine Elharrar vows that 2022 will be the ‘year of renewable energy’

One of Augwind's polymer air batteries at Kibbutz Yahel in southern Israel, December 15, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

IEC inks $8 million deal with company that uses air, water to store energy

Investigators look over artifacts seized by police that likely date to the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Stopping a suspect car, police find ancient items Bar Kochba rebels took from Romans

Detectives searching a vehicle in Jerusalem find box with rare bronze antiquities believed seized by Jewish rebels 2,000 years ago as spoils of war

In this March 15, 2021 file photo boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Israel to give 1 million coronavirus vaccines to African countries

By AP and ToI Staff

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pauses as he delivers his speech, during a protest against the COVID-19 vaccination green pass in Milan, Italy, Nov. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. built a dangerous anti-vaxx juggernaut amid COVID-19

By Michelle R. Smith

Illustrative image: antibodies attack SARS-CoV-2 (iStock via Getty Images)

Israeli scientists say new test can gauge vaccine response before antibodies form

By Nathan Jeffay

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

Passport renewal

What kind of religious woman would even consider removing her head covering for an ID photo and where’s my bionic chip?

Jacob B. Ukeles

Jewish extremist violence against Arabs: End the denial and act!

So what if ’only’ a minority of settlers commit acts of violence. Where are the voices of condemnation from Israeli leaders in the territories?

The Zionism = racism lie isn’t over

Three decades after the UN scrubbed its most anti-Israel resolution, efforts to tarnish the Jewish state are back full steam with charges of Apartheid

Blending families

Whether we kids were his, hers, or theirs, it didn’t matter, Abba treated us all like his own flesh and blood – but he never tried to replace our father

People walk past a Christmas decorated church in Haifa, Israel, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

After Birthright exception, Holy Land Christians decry Israel’s ‘racist’ travel ban

By AP

Churches asking Tourism Ministry for Christmas tourists to be allowed in as well as Jewish group, as Bethlehem and other cities ready for second yuletide season without visitors

Jewish youth from across the world attend the main annual Taglit-Birthright event at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Birthright groups reportedly given exemption from Israel’s tourist ban

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in the central city of Bnei Brak on September 22, 2020. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Senior Haredi rabbi who backed COVID vaccines for children receiving threats

Iranian hackers targeting Israel using ultra-exploitable coding flaw — experts

By AP and ToI Staff

As governments and internet gurus warn world over Log4j, called one of the most serious vulnerabilities ever, firm says Iran-backed APT35 tried to hit 7 Israeli targets

Illustrative: Kids at a gamer festival in Tel Aviv, April 2, 2018. (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)

An Associated Press photograph shows some of over 132,000 members of the Hitler youth assembled at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany on May 1, 1939 (AP Photo)

Inside Story

Nazi Germany used student exchanges with US prep schools to promote propaganda

Founder urged schools to continue program even after Kristallnacht; exchanges appeared to have some success in persuading American partners to give Nazi regime benefit of the doubt

The Kunsthaus in Zurich, seen in 2009. (CC BY, Daniel Lobo, Flickr)

Swiss museum to reinvestigate origins of Nazi-era art collection

By Agnès PEDRERO

Works from Picasso, Renoir and more amassed by Emil Buhrle under new scrutiny after book raises questions about whether they were stolen from Jews during World War II

A car drives down Berlin's street named for Heinrich von Treitschke. (Google Maps via JTA)

290 streets in Berlin named for people with antisemitic views, analysis finds

By Cnaan Liphshiz

COVID-19 vaccination opponents protest in front of the Polish parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, against the new restrictions introduced in Poland (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish anti-vaccination rally jeered for use of Holocaust imagery

By AFP

Cranes on a construction site in Jerusalem, September 1, 2021. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90/ File)

Investors rushed to buy housing units in October, ahead of purchase tax hike

By Ricky Ben-David

Households buying second or third homes up 236% in October, compared to last year, says Finance Ministry report

A construction site in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh on September 5, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Housing prices surged over 10% in past year, the biggest spike in a decade

UBQ Materials CEO and co-founder Tato Bigio (Courtesy)

Cleantech firm nabs $170m to make eco-friendly plastic substitute from waste

By Ricky Ben-David

A soldier practices entering a room in a training facility located in the Nahal Brigade base in southern Israel, December 15, 2021. (Emanuel Fabian/The Times of Israel)

IDF turns to new training simulators in quest to level up recruits

By Emanuel Fabian

It’s no substitute for the real thing, but system set to be implemented on all infantry training bases will allow army to closely track troops’ progress as they get combat ready

More Headlines

A still image of surveillance footage showing a suspect in the stabbing of an Israeli woman in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on December 8, 2021. (Israel Police)

Prosecutors to indict 14-year-old Palestinian girl for stabbing attack

US flags seen near the Capitol Building in Washington, DC on January 19, 2021, ahead of the 59th inaugural ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

US Senate sends Biden defense bill, with funding for cyber-cooperation for Israel

Illustration of humam sperm (vchal via iStock by Getty Images)

Gaza mother says her twins were born of sperm smuggled from father jailed in Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Nir Hefetz seen as he arrives for a court hearing in the trial against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem, December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trialKey witness says he made media demands for Sara Netanyahu under premier’s name

View of Hura in the Negev Desert on August 27, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Parent stabs teacher at school in southern town of Hura

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu during a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Group urges probe of ‘disappeared’ gifts given to Netanyahu that are state property

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Thierry Baudet, leader of right-wing populist party Forum for Democracy, addresses parliament in The Hague, Netherlands, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch MP punished for comparing COVID curbs to Nazi persecution

By AFP

US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US, Israel convene economic policy group for 1st time under Biden administration

A woman walks outside the Paris mosque, October 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France moves to shut mosque with preacher ‘targeting Christians, homosexuals, Jews’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Marcus Fysh. (House of Commons via JTA)

UK lawmaker apologizes for evoking Nazi Germany during debate on virus measures

By Cnaan Liphshiz

New York City Mayor-Elect Eric Adams, center, takes photos with people celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, Nov. 28, 2021. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images via JTA)

Mayor-elect of New York City Eric Adams moves inauguration to after Shabbat

Miami Mayor Daniella Levine Cava pardoned piglets Manchita, David, Shlomo and Sakura at a ceremony Tuesday. (Daniella Levine Cava via JTA)

Nothing to snort atChristmas pigs raised by Jewish farmers get pardon

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