Mother-of-six murdered in West Bank * Quarantine for all arrivals * New elections almost certain * Jewish ’mother of bomb’ inspires spy thriller * Celestial dance tonight

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, December 21, 2020 Presented by IDC Herzliya [Mother-of-six murdered in West Bank, in what police believe was terror attack]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [Body of Esther Horgen found in forest after she went for a run Sunday afternoon and didn’t return home; police say her body bore signs of violence; no arrests made]( [Suspect dies in police chase of settlers who threw rocks at Palestinians]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF soldier dismissed for failing to return fire in Molotov cocktail attack]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Israel to compel all returning citizens to isolate in hotels from Wednesday]( By [TOI staff]( [Foreign nationals to be barred; Israelis returning in next 48 hours from all destinations said to require home quarantine; travelers testing positive to be checked for new strain]( [Israel media review / Strain in vain: What the press is saying on December 21]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Dozens of UK arrivals refuse forced quarantine at Jerusalem hotel, some fly back]( By [Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff]( Live updates [LIVE: Elections loom as Blue and White MKs said set to revolt, oppose budget delay]( By [TOI staff]( [‘We’re going to elections,’ official in centrist party tells TV network]( Analysis [Nathan Jeffay]( [Experts doubt highly contagious new British COVID can be kept away from Israel]( [‘We won’t be able to stop it,’ immunologist says of strain believed to be 70% more contagious; mutation lab chief: Without quick vaccination, we could face more wild-card strains]( [Explainer / How worried do we need to be about new coronavirus strains?]( By [MARILYNN MARCHIONE]( [Britain holds crisis meeting as Europe slams its doors against new virus strain]( By [AFP]( [75 years post-Hiroshima, Jewish ‘mother of the bomb’ inspires spy thriller novel]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [CRM]( Top Ops [Eran Globus]( [Gimme that old-right politics and some new, young candidates]( [The next elections will be a referendum on Israel’s post-pandemic socio-economic future. Time for the cynical old guard to move aside]( [Molly Livingstone]( [It’s not checkmate, it’s a lockdown]( [Take a moment and remember where you were this time last year. Did you throw up a little in your mask? Our new normal is a numbed reality of what was]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Eyeing 2-week reprieve, coalition fiddles with budget as precedents burn]( [Tentative agreement to delay Knesset’s dissolution involves once again rewriting the Basic Laws, and reveals the state budget was prepared long ago]( [Poll shows Gideon Sa’ar on 19 seats, Blue and White barely returning to Knesset]( By [TOI staff]( [Blue and White MKs said to mull torpedoing deal that would stave off election]( By [TOI staff]( [Gantz, Netanyahu said to agree on last-ditch bill to delay budget, avert ballot]( By [TOI staff]( [Iran-linked group claims to hack Israeli defense firm, releases employee data]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Elta, a subsidiary of state-owned Israeli Aerospace Industries, says it is investigating the latest in a series of suspected Iranian cyberattacks]( [Al-Jazeera reporters’ phones hacked by spyware from Israeli NSO Group — report]( By [Isabel Debre]( [Vaccine drive revs up as Israelis over 60 start getting virus shots]( By [TOI staff]( [‘No pain at all,’ says one woman as she receives inoculation; despite logistical difficulties, some 200,000 Israelis made appointments by Sunday night]( [Vaccine overload: Health providers swamped as tens of thousands seek virus shots]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Health Ministry chief says aiming to vaccinate 60% of population by April]( By [TOI staff]( [Nurse who almost vaccinated Netanyahu says hospital protocol was breached]( By [TOI staff]( [Shoshi Gomel was replaced by PM’s personal physician, Tzvi Berkovitz, even though she had filled the syringe]( [Netanyahu said to seek a third national lockdown within days]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [COVID-19’s long-term effects: Work from home and slower globalization – report]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israeli study shows generic anti-lipid drug may squelch COVID-19 severity]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Patients on fenofibrate, a drug commonly prescribed to lower fat levels, have ‘astounding’ outcome compared to others with coronavirus, Hebrew University team says]( [Israeli who died from second bout of COVID-19 confirmed to have different strain]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Man dies after collapsing with possible COVID-19 symptoms on US flight]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Normally reticent Auschwitz museum director wades into Yad Vashem controversy]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( A timely 'conjunction' [Jupiter and Saturn cheek-to-cheek in rare celestial dance]( By [Juliette COLLEN]( [While more than 730 million kilometers apart, the planets will appear to be closer to each other than at any time in almost 400 years]( [Christmas festivities reach Saudi Arabia in a sign of changing times]( By [AFP]( More Headlines [Life sentence for Halle synagogue shooter who killed 2 in Yom Kippur rampage]( By [Agencies]( [Swastika spray-painted onto Brooklyn yeshiva in apparent hate crime]( By [Gabe Friedman]( [French prosecutors probe anti-Semitic tweets targeting Miss France runner-up]( By [AFP]( [Social media, meet your past: This startup wants to bring back phone calls]( By [Jake Epstein]( [Ahead of key Senate vote, Georgia candidates lay out cases for Jewish community]( By [Gabe Friedman]( [Grain of truth / UNESCO honors couscous, cooking up debate on its origins]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Environment minister targets energy minister’s plan to advance regional gas club]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Cutting-edge scientific analysis reveals secrets of ancient Jewish Purim scroll]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Arab Israeli convoy blocks major highway in protest of violence within community]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Portraits of a pandemic / Outdoor photo exhibit offers ‘Local Testimony’ of 2020 events]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [‘Wonder Woman 1984’ grabs $38.5 million outside US in first week after release]( By [Lindsey Bahr]( [Longtime Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Abrahamson dies at 87]( By [Scott Bauer]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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