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What Matters Most On Monday, December 27, 2021

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An Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccine center at the Malcha mall in Jerusalem, on December 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Israeli hospital begins world’s first study on efficacy of 4th COVID vaccine dose

By ToI Staff and AP

6,000 individuals, including 150 medical staff, to be given additional booster shot in first-of-its-kind research

Likud MK Gadi Yevarkan attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK likens COVID rules to Nazi policies: ‘All that’s missing is concentration camps’

Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli flight attendant in Chinese quarantine facility after catching Omicron

Main picture: Rabbi Jacob Yisrael Herzog in Riyadh, 2021. (Courtesy)

TOI investigates'He'll create more damage... The Saudi public isn't ready'

In Saudi Arabia, a rabbi angles to lead a Jewish community that doesn’t exist

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Jacob Herzog is loudly trying to build Jewish life in a country where non-Islamic displays are forbidden, raising concerns among local Jews who prefer to stay under the radar

ToI investigates

Carrie Keller-Lynn

In Israel’s month-long COVID flight ban, staff of 20 handling 24,000 urgent requests

Almost 2 years into pandemic, entry and exit appeals are being reviewed on emergency basis, with consequent confusion and error, rather than within an effective, longterm framework

An arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 28, 2021, heads to a mandatory COVID test. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during a press conference at a Maccabi vaccine center for children in Tel Aviv on November 23, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel could lift curbs on international travel next week — health minister

By Michael Bachner

Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport on December 22, 2021. (Flash90)

Expert panel urges end to ‘red countries’ list as Omicron swells

Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital's coronavirus ward in Jerusalem on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Authorities reportedly set to ease back on quarantine rules, travel bans

By Joshua Davidovich

Bennett said to be pushing ministers to get vaccination numbers up or face harsher rules and possible lockdown in future as new infections mount

7:31 pm

All sides willing to work seriously on nuke deal, top EU negotiator says
7:09 pm

Hospitals will be slammed by Omicron, but no need to panic, Biden says
6:45 pm

US envoy pours cold water on Israeli visa waiver buzz

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 27 – Omicron dominates and bird flu decimates

Health writer Nathan Jeffay discusses fast-approaching Omicron effects; environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at a fowl disease affecting wild and domestic birds, green successes

People at a shopping mall in Jerusalem on December 16, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New limitations on shopping, schools take force as Omicron spreads

A volunteer looks on as people wait to receive a dose of the COVID19 vaccine at a pop-up coronavirus vaccination centre at the Redbridge Town Hall, east London on December 25, 2021 (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

ExplainerPandemic prognosis for 2022: Where does it go from here?

A screenshot from the 1942 animated film 'Bambi.' (Screenshot/Youtube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law) )

New translation of ‘Bambi’ showcases tale as allegory on early Austrian antisemitism

While the 1942 Disney film is far more well-known, the original text analogizes the tragic story of a fawn to the plight of Jews just before the Holocaust

Natan Kohn-Magnus

Pride, backaches, trauma: Some honesty about IDF combat service

The tendency to lionize combat service risks minimizing the physical, mental and professional toll that former soldiers bear for the rest of their lives

Local private rabbinic courts undermine the reason they should exist

A private court that is forced on litigants by the ultra-Orthodox community that sponsors it can’t properly serve those who would otherwise seek its rulings

Chaim Walder in 2011. (CC BY-SA Yoninah/Wikimedia Commons)

Haredi author Haim Walder, accused of serial sexual abuse, dies in apparent suicide

Celebrated children’s writer found dead of gunshot wound by his son’s grave in Petah Tikva cemetery, a day after fresh accusations came to light

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

Health care workers take test samples of Israelis in a drive through complex to check if they have been infected with COVID-19, in Modi'in, on December 26, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

1-2 weeks until Omicron dominant in Israel, with ‘rampant’ quarantine – expert

By Nathan Jeffay

1% of the population, including the PM, already in isolation, and that number will grow ‘very dramatically,’ says panel head Prof. Nadav Katz, predicting disruption in schools

Health care workers take test samples at a drive through complex to check for Covid-19 infections, in Modi'in, on December 26, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Fifth COVID wave picks up, with 50% of diagnoses estimated to be Omicron

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Image provided by Pfizer in October 2021 shows the company's COVID-19 Paxlovid pills. (Pfizer via AP)

Health Ministry grants emergency approval to Pfizer’s anti-COVID pill

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

6 months in, the coalition is proving a house divided against itself can still stand

Armed with an ultra-effective foil in Benjamin Netanyahu and MKs seemingly committed to letting bygones be bygones, government is thriving despite serious divisions in its ranks

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, center, and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on November 7, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

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

Police minister: Fellow members of government made me ‘the enemy’ of settlers

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks during a plenum session in the Knesset on December 15, 2021. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Ministers advance online censorship bill, drawing Netanyahu’s ire

The Hiriya Landfill Restoration Project, located southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel. Food waste dumped into landfill is doubly negative for the environment, because of the environmental costs of producing food. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Leket Israel: 2.5 million tons of wasted food in 2020

Over a third of food produced last year went to waste, costing Israel $6b — report

Document’s author accuses previous government of ‘economic folly’ for failing to create national food rescue policy during year in which 150,000 joined ranks of food insecure

An empty plastic bottle is seen in a crack of mud at the Shlomo River, near Eilat, Israel, November 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

ExclusiveCoalition MKs to push climate law within weeks to force PM’s hand

Barel Hadaria Shmueli, a Border Police officer who was shot dead by a Gaza gunman at the border in August 2021 (Courtesy)

IDF clears officers of wrongdoing in killing of border guard on Gaza fence

By Judah Ari Gross

Investigation blames decision to position troops directly against the security wall on ‘a professional error in retrospect,’ says rioters were not expected to be armed

A photo taken on June 24, 2019 shows raw sewage flowing near the main Gaza Strip power plant, serving the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, south of Gaza City. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

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

Crane carcasses litter the lake at the Hula Lake Park in northern Israel on December 26, 2021, following an outbreak of bird flu. (Guy Eilon/ Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

5,000 dead cranes counted at Hula Lake reserve amidst bird flu outbreak

Several dozen dead birds also spotted in Jezreel Valley in northern Israel, as environmental protection minister accompanies nature officials on situation assessment

Vehicles are under water during flooding in Philadelphia, on Thursday, September 2, 2021, in the aftermath of downpours and high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ida that hit the area. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Weather disasters around world cost $20 billion more than last year – UK charity

By AFP

An undated photograph of a newly installed bomb shelter in the community of Kfar Yuval along Israel's border with Lebanon. (Defense Ministry)

Fearing Hezbollah rockets, Defense Ministry reinforces northern Israeli communities

By Judah Ari Gross

Government expands program that began last month, will install home bomb shelters in 3 more communities along Lebanon border, with plans to eventually place them in 21

Palais Coburg, where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, on December 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber, File)

Iran demands unfettered access to oil revenue as Vienna nuclear talks resume

By AP and ToI Staff

Foreign minister says Tehran wants to ‘enjoy full economic concessions’ from talks, as tensions with Israel escalate

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro talks to journalist covering his vote in elections to choose members of the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 6, 2020. (Ariana Cubillos/AP)

Venezuelan president to visit Iran to further cooperation

Yemenis inspect damage following a reported overnight air strike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting in the Houthi rebel-held capital Sanaa, on December 24, 2021. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Saudi Arabia accuses Iran, Hezbollah of aiding Houthis after deadly missile attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel to ease entry for Palestinian-Americans, officials say

Improved treatment of US citizens of Palestinian descent is a key US demand in talks with Israel on joining Visa Waiver Program

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)

UTJ MK Yaakov Litzman seen in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on July 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi MK Yaakov Litzman says he will not run for Knesset again

UTJ’s former health minister, 73, says his announcement has nothing to do with looming charges against him for obstruction of justice and breach of trust

Shas MK Aryeh Deri at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri indicted for tax offenses after plea deal

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Likud MK Haim Katz attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on September 3, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

High Court upholds Likud MK’s plea deal in corruption case

'I never felt excluded. I always felt respected'

Jesuit college Holy Cross hangs mezuzah in honor of Jewish women’s basketball legend

By jacob gurvis

Sherry Levin still holds her alma mater’s record for points, points per game, field goals made and free throws made, from an era with no 3-point line and 30 fewer games than today

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Undated photo of Tzviki Tessler. (Israel Police)

In bid to up safety, religious affairs minister taps supervisor for Meron festival

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Likud faction leader Yariv Levin attend a hearing at the Likud internal court in Tel Aviv regarding the New Likudniks group, December 26, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Netanyahu urges Likud court to expel ‘Trojan horse’ faction in party

Zohar Barnea, the Haredi brother of Mossad chief David Barnea, returns to the site of the Mount Meron disaster he survived earlier in the year, December 2021 (Channel 13 screenshot)

‘Everything went silent’: Mossad chief’s Haredi brother recalls deadly Meron crush

People looks out from inside BBC's New Broadcasting House, in central London, March 28, 2013. (AP Photo/ Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

Wiesenthal Center puts BBC 3rd – after only Iran, Hamas – on antisemitism list

A CityMD in Manhattan on December 22, 2021 in New York City (SPENCER PLATT / Getty Images via AFP)

New York sees increase in hospitalized children as Omicron hammers US

By AFP

Illustrative: Two men visit the snow covered Holocaust Memorial at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, January 27, 2014. (AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber/ File)

Germany to release $200m to 150,000 Holocaust survivors due to pandemic

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Flowers are placed alongside a photo of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, December 26, 2021. (AP Photo)

‘An inspiration to generations’: Tributes pour in for Archbishop Tutu

By AFP

This photo taken on December 24, 2021, Roman Catholic priest Fr. Ricardo Virtudazo (center) walking among toppled banana trees caused by Super Typhoon Rai, as he visits typhoon-affected parishioners in Alegria, Surigao del Norte province.(Ferdinandh Cabrera/AFP)

Devastated by typhoon, Philippines death toll rises to 388

By AFP

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