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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 26, 2021

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A picture shows a power generating facility in the middle of the Gaza Strip on August 17, 2020. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Qatar, PA advance deal to supply Gazan power plant with Israeli natural gas

Under the proposal, natural gas would flow from Israel’s Leviathan gas field to a power station in southern Israel, then to Gaza via pipeline extensions funded by the EU and Qatar

7:14 pm

Health minister: Travel ban could be lifted next week
7:04 pm

Israeli hospital to begin study on efficacy of 4th COVID vaccine dose
6:45 pm

Officials to weigh ending quarantine for vaccinated Israelis exposed to Omicron

Then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with his family, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2021. (Ariel Zandberg/Yamina)

PM leaves cabinet meeting, enters quarantine after daughter catches COVID

Bennett’s daughter was vaccinated against COVID in June; Prime Minister’s Office staffer also tests positive, as virus numbers rise to highest levels in six months

A COVID-19 rapid antigen carried out at a Magen David Adom testing center in Jerusalem, on December 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Transmission rate highest since July; positive COVID tests top 2% as Omicron spreads

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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

Confirmed Omicron infections triple as daily COVID-19 cases near 1,800

Ministers take part in a special cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights on December 26, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

‘This is our moment’: Israel okays major plan to boost Golan, double its population

Cabinet holds meeting on strategic plateau, with ministers approving $317M development plan; Bennett hails Trump recognition, then goes into quarantine as daughter catches COVID

People visit at a lookout point on Mount Bental, overlooking the border with Syria, in the Golan Heights, on March 12, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Government set to approve NIS 1 billion Golan Heights development plan on Sunday

ToI investigates

Ricky Ben-David

Terrifying cyber weapon ‘against which there’s no defense’: Experts on NSO’s spyware

The embattled company’s tech exploits are ‘pretty incredible’ and ‘pretty terrifying,’ say security analysts; users are ‘passive, don’t have to click on anything, have no control’

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Rebecca Bardach

Why are Knesset members threatening schools and peace activists?

Using accusatory and ominous language, activists are managing to repress much-needed debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Stop fighting about Israel and start listening to each other

When a diverse group of Jewish Brown U. students met to discuss Israel and the Palestinians, everyone felt uncomfortable. That, they say, is as it should be

The scene of a deadly incident when a bomb exploded, destroying a car and killing a woman sitting inside, in Ramle December 26, 2021. (Israel Police)

Woman killed by car bomb in Ramle; passerby and her baby injured in explosion

6-month-old suffers moderate injuries, mother lightly hurt as they are caught in shock wave from blast in residential building’s parking lot

Director Joel Coen, left, and actor Frances McDormand on the set of "The Tragedy of Macbeth," released December 2021. (A24 via AP)

In 1st film without his brother, Joel Coen distills ‘Macbeth’ down to the bone

Starring Denzel Washington and Francis McDormand, highly abstracted version of Shakespeare’s classic reaches US theaters, will stream online January 14

Denzel Washington in a scene from "The Tragedy of Macbeth," released December 2021. (A24 via AP)

Film reviewDenzel Washington’s aging Macbeth is one for the ages

By Jocelyn Noveck

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 26 – Will Netanyahu take the stand?

Political writer Tal Schneider discusses ex-premier’s case, Mansour Abbas’s comments; culture editor Jessica Steinberg reports on Israeli-produced Gyllenhaal film and new gallery

Palestinians clash with Israeli troops in the village of Burqa in the northern West Bank, on December 25, 2021. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Palestinians clash with troops near West Bank outpost, a week after terror shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says gunmen open fire at military post near Nablus; medics say seven Palestinians shot with live fire, 35 others with rubber bullets

Angelina Muñiz Huberman is one of a few Jews in the prestigious Mexican Academy of Language. (Courtesy of Huberman/ via JTA)

'My mother showed me how to make the sign of the kohanim'

Lauded Mexican writer’s novels explore her Sephardic history and crypto-Judaism

By Alan Grabinsky

Told by her mother that the family were secret Jews, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman often writes about hidden identity, Iberian Jewry, and Jewish mysticism

Filthy conditions at a northern Israeli egg farm, where chickens live in cages above piles of their own excrement. (Screenshot)

Hundreds of thousands of chickens to be culled as bird flu spreads; egg shortage due

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

Agriculture Ministry says it will kill 320,000 laying hens, in addition to the 244,000 that have already been culled in northern Israel in past week

File: Pfizer's experimental COVID-19 pills, which the drugmaker said on November 16, 2021 that it is submitting for US authorization, setting the stage for a likely launch in coming weeks. (Pfizer via AP)

Israel to receive first shipment of Pfizer anti-COVID pills in coming week — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM Naftali Bennett speaks to Pfizer CEO to finalize purchase of 100,000 pills shown to reduce risk of hospitalization, death in high-risk groups by 90%

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a conference of the Association of Corporate Counsel, in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

AG clarifies there won’t be curbs on unvaccinated unless epidemiologically justified

By Stuart Winer

Ofek Reef regularly scores in double-figures for the Yeshiva University men’s basketball team, currently enjoying the longest streak in men’s college basketball. (Courtesy YU/ via JTA)

Incredulous Yeshiva U fans watch their basketball team continue a 50-win streak

The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health crews conduct random checks through blood in the town of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on January 14, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

First case of Omicron coronavirus variant detected in Gaza

By Aaron Boxerman

Despite health campaign and stockpiles of belatedly available COVID-19 vaccine, inoculation rates in the Hamas-run enclave remain at 27% of population

A general view of Gaza City is seen December 12, 2021. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Israel said planning to ease restrictions on Gaza, pressuring Hamas to keep the calm

By Michael Bachner

A woman holding a rosary waits for Pope Francis to deliver 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, December 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A second Christmas clouded by COVID brings anxiety, but also optimism

By Nicole Winfield, Michael Tarm and Peter Smith

With many countries going through renewed outbreaks, vaccine centers in Britain stay open Saturday to deliver ‘jingle jabs’; Philippines celebrates amid typhoon devastation

Travelers trek through Terminal E at Logan Airport, on December 21, 2021, in Boston. (AP/Charles Krupa)

Further US travel misery as hundreds more flights canceled amid COVID surge

A man has a swab taken at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, December 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Australia’s most populous state sets new daily COVID case record

By AP

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Avigail and Yael Gross (Courtesy of the Gross family)

Court awards NIS 3.5 million to family whose daughters died in pesticide accident

By Stuart Winer

Travelers seen exiting Ben Gurion International Airport, as Israel opens its borders and allows tourists to enter the country after months of being shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic, November 1, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel to ease entry for Palestinian-Americans, officials say

Sudanese refugees demonstrate in front of the Knesset in protest of the new "Holot" detention camp for illegal migrants, on Monday, December 17, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel to grant temporary residency to 2,440 Sudanese asylum seekers

Eliran Malul, charged with stabbing to death his wife Michal Sela at their home in Ramat Motza, seen after a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on October 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man sentenced to life for 2019 murder of his wife in Jerusalem suburb

Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai attends the Jewish People's Lobby, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Jewish Agency seeks its next chief, Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai not in running

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A young student sits with her head down in an empty classroom. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

Religious high school girls accuse teacher of years of sexual abuse

Police detain a man who allegedly assaulted a woman in Tel Aviv, on December 24, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Police arrest Jerusalem resident for series of assaults against women in Tel Aviv

The Magic Kass amusement park (Courtesy)

From the webA new Israeli wonderland, where you can almost forget where you are

Illustrative: A neo-Nazi tattoo at a rally in Newnan, Georgia, April 21, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

German police find Nazi ‘altar’ in home of drunk man who called for help

By AP

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

In this file photo taken on March 03, 2014 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks during a memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at Westminster Abbey in London (JOHN STILLWELL / POOL / AFP)

ObituaryArchbishop Desmond Tutu, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies at 90

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police guard the Henry VIII gate at Windsor Castle at Windsor, England on Christmas Day, on December 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Armed intruder arrested on Windsor Castle grounds, UK police say

By AP

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