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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 25, 2021

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Hospital workers wearing safety work in the coronavirus ward at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on October 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

TV report: 4th shot campaign now set to go ahead after all

Milder but more infectious, Omicron may yet overload Israeli hospitals, experts warn

Eran Segal, who advises government, says country could see 15,000-20,000 cases a day at height of coming wave

An illustration of the COVID-19 Omicron strain (CIPhotos; Stock by Getty Images)

UK agency: Pfizer booster’s ability to prevent symptomatic COVID wanes within weeks

Mohammad Eslami, new head of Iran's nuclear agency (AEOI) talks on stage at the International Atomic Energy's (IAEA) General Conference in Vienna, Austria, Sept. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

Iran atomic chief claims country won’t enrich uranium over 60% if nuclear talks fail

By ToI Staff and AFP

Lebanese politician Sami Gemayel in 2019 (Al Arabiya screenshot)

Nephew of Lebanon’s assassinated president: Country taken hostage by Iran, Hezbollah

By ToI Staff and AFP

Left: IDF combat soldiers take part in a drill in December 2021; Right: An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

As start-up nation snaps up IDF tech alumni, combat vets say they are left behind

By Itamar Sharon

In a changing Israel where those hailing from tech units get the red carpet treatment for high-wage jobs, a debate is growing on what constitutes significant IDF service

Amid spat with EU, Poland accuses Germany of seeking to create a ‘Fourth Reich’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Warsaw has been involved in a lengthy stand-off with Brussels, particularly over judicial reforms; it is also in an escalating dispute with Israel over its Holocaust policies

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling PiS Party, speaks during a campaign convention in Warsaw, Poland, October 8, 2019.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

In this image released by NASA, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, lifts off on December 25, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana (NASA via AP)

World’s most powerful telescope blasts off to scour the universe for hints of life

The Hubble Space Telescope, left, orbiting the Earth and an illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope, right. (NASA via AP)

ExplainerHow does the veteran Hubble compare to the new Webb space telescope?

Israelis flood Nazareth for Christmas celebrations, while Bethlehem subdued

By Claire Gounon

Tens of thousands visit northern town for festive events; in the West Bank, meanwhile, locals who depend on tourism for their livelihood say health crisis ‘worse than war’

Priests and clergy walk in a procession to attend the Christmas celebration midnight Mass at the Cathedral-Basilical in Vilnius, Lithuania, December 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Photo essayWorld’s Christians usher in a second pandemic Christmas, as Omicron rages

Christmas carols in Brooklyn: A baal teshuvah tale

When I left Baptist belief and practice, the small-town culture stayed with me more than I realized – until I joined some Jewish friends to go caroling for fun

It was 40 years before the siblings reunited

Joseph first went to Israel, but settled in South Africa. Mendel was a dentist in the Nazi concentration camps. And Isadore, my grandfather, went to Seattle

Gal Zukerman is seen kiteboarding. (Screenshot: Instagram).

Israeli kiteboarder who won gold medal in Oman says organizers hushed up her win

Gal Zukerman, 18, says Israel’s team participated ‘under the radar’ in competition last week, and authorities barred winners from playing anthem, showing flag

Olivia Colman stars as Leda in 'The Lost Daughter,' directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and produced by Israeli producers, Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman-Keren of Pie Films (Courtesy YANNIS RAKOULIDIS/ NETFLIX)

Starring Olivia Colman, film comes to Netflix next week

Israeli producers put passion into movie version of Ferrante’s ‘The Lost Daughter’

By Jessica Steinberg

Pie Films’ Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman-Keren turn Maggie Gyllenhaal into a director and the Italian novel into a film

Confetti flies after the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball drops in a nearly empty Times Square, early Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, as the area normally packed with revelers remained closed off due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Explainer

Miriamne Ara Krummel

How common is the ‘Common Era?’ How A.D. and C.E. took over counting years

Christian calendar authored by a 7th-century English monk dominates worldwide and has a history of antisemitism

Travelers walk to a security checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport in New York, on December 24, 2021. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

Over 4,700 Christmastime flights canceled worldwide as Omicron hinders travel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Lufthansa, Delta, United Airlines and many others forced to halt and delay flights as many pilots, flights attendants head into quarantine amid new wave of COVID-19 infections

US President Joe Biden prepares to remove his face mask in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex December 23, 2021 in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden warns of ‘winter of death’ for unvaccinated as Omicron spreads

By AFP

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in his trial, November 16, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Netanyahu will likely testify in trial if no plea bargain reached, report says

Plea deal seen as unlikely, especially after Attorney General Mandelblit leaves office in five weeks; ex-premier denies TV report, says he hasn’t decided about taking witness stand

Then-Supreme Court Justice Menachem "Meni" Mazuz at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 10, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court Justice Mazuz says Netanyahu tried to ‘crush’ legal system

Elana Berusch pioneered colorful marble shortbread that became the Washington Post's cover cookie for the 2021 holiday season. (Photos courtesy Berusch/ via JTA)

'This cookie celebrates more than just Christmas'

Meet the inventive Jewish baker behind the year’s most colorful Christmas(y) cookies

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Elana Berusch’s marble holiday cookie recipe has gone viral, expanding her reach far beyond her 30,000 Instagram followers – but, as the color scheme shows, it’s not about Yuletide

Mikhail Gorbachev, eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, closes his resignation speech on the table after delivering it on Soviet television in the Kremlin, Moscow, Wednesday, December 25, 1991. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File)

30 years ago today, Gorbachev’s resignation marked the end of the Soviet Union

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Political experts still argue over whether the last Soviet leader could have held onto his position and saved the USSR

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses an extended meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry Board at the National Defense Control Center in Moscow, Russia, on December 21, 2021. (Mikhail Tereshchenko, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia blocks rights monitor website for promoting ‘terrorism’

By Evan GERSHKOVICH

Police officers evicting a resident of Givat Amal on November 15, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

TV: Contractor paid police NIS 2 million to evict families from TA neighborhood

1,000 cops participated in last month’s removal of final working-class residents from Givat Amal area sold to real estate developer Yitzhak Tshuva for luxury homes

Reporter's notebook

In LA, Austria honors Jews who fled WWII darkness to forge Hollywood’s Golden Age

By Sharon Rosen Leib

Together with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and others, the Austrian consulate pays tribute to expat stars with a symposium and 6-week film series running through Jan. 31

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Illustrative: Smoke rises following Israeli missile strikes on Gaza City on May 13, 2021. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

UN moves forward with unprecedented open-ended probe against Israel

Pope Francis looks at the crowd before delivering the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world') Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on December 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

On another subdued Christmas, pope prays for pandemic’s end, peace dialogue

By Nicole Winfield

Illustrative: A man checks a nasal spray bottle. (Malikov Aleksandr; iStock by Getty Images)

Accused of complicity in opioid crisis, Teva launches nasal spray to treat overdoses

Ambulances are seen at the scene of an apparent hit-and-run on Route 60 near the West Bank town of Sinjil, December 24, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Elderly Palestinian killed by Israeli driver; Hamas warns Israel to ‘pay a price’

By Emanuel Fabian

In this August 13, 2020 file photo, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Jared Kushner raises over $3 billion in committed funding for new firm — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The suspect in an attack on a Jewish man in London is seen in security camera footage (Courtesy)

UK police probe antisemitic Hanukkah attack; suspect wanted ‘to kill my first Jew’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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