Bennett is 1st Israel PM in UAE * No 4th COVID shot yet * Givat Amal: Neighborhood invited by Ben-Gurion, now booted * Miss Universe shows national beauty * $25b for tech

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, December 13, 2021 Presented by [Thirty-Six podcast]( [Bennett, on landmark UAE visit, meets crown prince to discuss booming ties, Iran]( By [TOI staff]( [In 1st official visit by an Israeli leader, PM also meets government ministers, tells state news: ‘Mutual partnership and friendship are natural. We are neighbors and cousins’]( [Bennett welcomed in Abu Dhabi by Emirati FM on first official visit by Israeli PM]( By [TOI staff]( [World’s first confirmed Omicron death announced in Britain]( By [James Pheby]( [Visiting vaccination center, PM Johnson estimates that 40% of coronavirus cases in London are Omicron, notes hospitalizations are rising]( [Boy, 6, dies; four of his sisters hospitalized with shortness of breath]( By [TOI staff]( [Health Ministry advisory board decides against fourth COVID shot, for now]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [WHO: Omicron spreads faster, vaccines less efficacious, but symptoms less severe]( By [AFP]( Live updates [LIVE: Workers emerge after trapped by smoke in hydroelectric facility tunnel]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Most of crew unharmed after fire in caverns being built by Chinese firm for pumped storage installation near Sea of Galilee; 8 taken to hospital for smoke inhalation]( [Israel delays travel ban to UK and Denmark by 24 hours]( By [TOI staff]( [Decision will go into effect overnight Thursday to allow more time for Israelis abroad to return, Health Ministry says]( [Jobless tourism workers protest travel bans, demand compensation]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli leader of Belz Hasidic sect urges teachers in Brooklyn yeshiva to vaccinate]( By [Shira Hanau]( From our sponsor [Spreading Light Within the Pandemic Darkness]( [Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum discusses how her community combatted despair during the depths of COVID-19]( ToI podcast [Daily Briefing Dec. 13 – What they talked about in the hallways of the IAC summit]( By [TOI staff]( [Political reporter Tal Schneider and US correspondent Jacob Magid discuss last week’s Israeli American Council’s national conference in Florida]( [A Tel Aviv neighborhood is gone, but evicted residents are still mired in struggle]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [The working-class Givat Amal is to be replaced by luxury high-rises, but its last residents, scarred and scattered by their removal, say they’re still seeking fair compensation]( [Israel’s beauty on full display as India takes the crown at Miss Universe in Eilat]( By [Amy Spiro]( [‘Tonight we are in the beautiful country of Israel,’ host Steve Harvey tells hundreds of millions of viewers in 172 countries who tuned in for live TV broadcast from Eilat]( [Battered by COVID, Eilat hopes Miss Universe will help revitalize tourism]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Israel’s contestant faints during Miss Universe rehearsal]( By [Amy Spiro]( Top Ops [Betsalel Steinhart]( [Reach out, please, to your local tour guide]( [I’ve lost count of the many skilled educators who are working menial jobs to feed their families, who are having trouble coping, who are suffering from despair]( [Efraim Zuroff]( [May you live long and be prosecuted]( [At 100, Herbert Wahler has outlived other Germans listed as members of the genocidal Einsatzgruppe C. His age should not shield him from accountability.]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Wherefore Israel’s left?]( [Meretz and Labor MKs cannot easily pursue their preferred agenda in the current government, but they can establish red lines to block what they find untenable]( [Andrea Zanardo]( [About those supposed anti-Arab slurs]( [Reports on the attack against Hanukkah revelers on a London bus show how media spread false tales of a worldwide Zionist Islamophobic conspiracy]( [33 unicorns and $25b in funding: Israeli tech sector sets new records in 2021]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Blockbuster funding year for local startups and companies is driven by massive investments in cybersecurity, fintech, and enterprise IT]( [Miss Fix the Universe: Alternative ‘pageant’ in Israel highlights beauty of ideas]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Liberman says tourism workers should find a new job amid ongoing travel restrictions]( By [TOI staff]( [Firebrand Arab Israeli Islamist released from prison, given hero’s welcome]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Radical cleric Raed Salah, jailed for praising a deadly Palestinian terror attack, arrives in his hometown of Umm al-Fahm after nearly a year and a half behind bars]( [Troops shoot and kill Palestinian man during West Bank arrest raid]( By [TOI staff]( [Car owned by Jewish resident of Sheikh Jarrah firebombed]( By [TOI staff]( [Oxygen when sleeping eases depression for 1 in 3 patients in small Israeli study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Results from double blind, peer-reviewed research show improvement among those who received extra oxygen, but not regular air]( [Nurses declare nationwide strike Wednesday over violence against medical staff]( By [TOI staff]( [80 years ago this month, Nazis invented ‘industrial murder’ at quiet Chelmno]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [In a small Polish village outside Lodz, German SS leaders discovered how to bring the Jewish genocide ‘to scale’ and hide evidence of their crimes by cremating the human remains]( [Saudi and Iranian experts hold ‘security dialogue’ in Amman]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Rivals said to discuss missile threats and cooperation on nuclear fuels, but Riyadh’s envoy to UN says Tehran is just ‘playing games’ with its regional diplomacy]( [Iran: Europe not offering viable solutions at Vienna nuclear talks]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [CRM]( [Justice minister files list of candidates for next attorney general]( By [TOI staff]( [2 deputy AGs and a former Tel Aviv District attorney named as potential successors to Mandelblit; more candidates may be added before December 20 deadline]( [Education minister denies top official was fired over school vaccine drive]( By [TOI staff]( [Education Ministry director fired amid spat with minister]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Israel’s Negev Desert chosen to feature in first global fungi map]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Israeli soccer star Zahavi’s Amsterdam home ransacked for second time in six months]( By [TOI staff]( [US Jewish day schools rushed to hold vaccine drives, but most hold off on mandates]( By [julia GERGELY and Shira Hanau]( [Jerusalem teens head to Dubai for academic meetup]( By [TOI staff]( [Deadly clashes break out during funeral for Hamas member in Lebanon refugee camp]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Covert US army unit tasked with fighting IS repeatedly killed civilians – NYT]( By [TOI staff]( [Man gunned down in Haifa in apparent clan feud]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Second ancient synagogue found in Migdal alters ideas of Jewish life 2,000 years ago]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Hot topic: Education Ministry explores teaching climate crisis in classrooms]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Cryptocurrency fraud case against businessman Moshe Hogeg ‘very weak’ — TV]( By [TOI staff]( [In shift of mindset, young Arabs flock to fintech as saving, investing takes off]( By [Salim Essaid]( [Interview / Taliban urges against sanctions, seeks ‘good’ ties with US]( By [KATHY GANNON]( [The daily edition]() [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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