Artzeinu ○ www.artzeinu.org ○ Vol. 20 No. 671 ○ February 6, 2021

Israel, Kosovo establish ties, that do not directly serve the public will nearly 3.4 million people had received be allowed to return to their offices, and one dose, of whom close to 2 million had p Jerusalem embassy one-on-one services will resume. received both doses. More than 9 million live in Israel. Israel and Kosovo formally established In addition, restaurants will be allowed to diplomatic ties on Monday, with the serve takeaway and bed and breakfasts Rescue flights for Israelis Muslim-majority territory also will be able to take in guests. stranded in NY, Dubai recognizing Jerusalem as the Jewish The government voted in principle to El Al Israel Airlines has filed a request state’s capital — putting it at odds with open preschools and grades 1-4, however to operate special flights from New York the rest of the Islamic world, The Times the final details and the date that for thousands of Israelis left stranded of Israel reports. classrooms will open will be decided overseas by the closure of Ben Gurion In a ceremony held over Zoom in separately by the Health and Education airport, Globes reports. Jerusalem and Pristina, Foreign Minister ministries. El Al says that there are thousands of Gabi Ashkenazi and his counterpart from The vote followed a dramatic move earlier passengers stuck in NY. El Al's request the Republic of Kosovo, Meliza Haradinaj in the evening by Attorney General has yet to be approved. United and Delta Stublla, signed a joint declaration Avichai Madelblit, who overturned a fly daily cargo flights from the US to Tel establishing ties. cabinet decision to extend Israel’s Aviv but are prevented from taking Ashkenazi said he had approved national lockdown until Sunday night, passengers on their empty seats. The Kosovo’s “formal request to open an saying that under the coalition agreement airlines hope that it will soon be possible embassy in Jerusalem.” the decision needed to be unanimous, The to bring passengers in and out who have “The establishment of relations between Times of Israel reports. special exemptions. Arkia Airlines Ltd. Israel and Kosovo is an important and That abrupt ruling after late Thursday has also requested permission to operate moving historical step that reflects the followed an angry government meeting rescue flights to Dubai where hundreds of many changes the region has experienced where Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Israelis are stranded. in recent months,” Ashkenazi said. his fellow Blue and White ministers Officially Ben Gurion Airport is closed refused to endorse the extension. Prime Netanyahu wins shutdown until February 8 but the cabinet is Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gantz expected to extend the closure to February political battle with Gantz accused each other of playing with Israeli 15 and possibly beyond that due to fears lives for political gain ahead of the over lockdown extension that Covid variants that resist the Pfizer upcoming March elections. The government voted in the middle of vaccination will be brought into the the night Thursday to extend the Gantz and fellow ministers from the Blue country. and White party opposed the decision to coronavirus lockdown on Israel through Israel targeted at UNHRC Sunday at 7 a.m., The Jerusalem Post extend the lockdown, unless or until there reports. was a clear exit plan outline to present to The watchdog organization UN Watch on the public. The lockdown was originally supposed to Monday published its first report detailing end at 7 a.m. on Friday. The extension Earlier Thursday the Health Ministry the strong anti-Israel claims made at the passed less than five hours before the announced that Israel had passed the grim United Nations Human Rights Council deadline. milestone of 5,000 dead. (UNHRC) by various nations, according to The Jerusalem Post. Beginning Sunday morning, movement Ministry figures showed that there were restrictions will be rescinded and people about 1,000 people in serious condition The 58-page report documents how will be allowed to visit each other in their and more than 7,400 new cases reported claims are put forward against Israel by homes. Nature reserves and national parks Wednesday. Israel has struggled to bring notorious human rights abusers, such as will be open. People who work in places its cases down despite its advanced the Palestinian Authority, Syria, North vaccination drive. By Thursday evening Korea, and dozens of other council members, that frequently accused Israel of disseminated in parts of the ultra- series for her portrayal of Esther Shapiro various crimes and human rights Orthodox community in which listeners in the Netflix series “Unorthodox,” violations. are implored, using fake statistics, not to Nocamels reports. Among the spurious claims made against thego and vaccinate, claiming that those who “Unorthodox,” which was inspired by the Israel at the UNHRC include: Israel do are at risk of falling ill or dying. 2012 memoir Unorthodox: The hindering the Palestinians in their fight Ex-Breitbart reporter to Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic against COVID-19; Israel occupying Roots by Deborah Feldman, was the first Palestinian land; Israel committing helm Bibi’s campaign Netflix series to be mostly in Yiddish apartheid against the Palestinians; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has and was nominated for Best Anthology damaging holy sites; and the illegal named a former journalist with the right- Series, Motion Picture Made For blockade of Gaza. wing Breitbart news website as his Television, and Television Limited Under Agenda Item 7, Israel is the sole campaign chief for March 23 national Series. country discussed at the council, while all elections, Israel Hayom reports. Shira Hass was born in 1995 in Tel Aviv. the other 193 countries in the world are Aaron Klein has served as a political Besides playing Ester Shapiro on addressed under Agenda Item 4. strategist to Netanyahu since last year. He Unorthodox, she has also starred in “The Likewise, the report notes that no special confirmed his appointment to the Israeli Zookeepers Wife,” “Princess,” “Broken agenda items were filed on Iran, Syria, media. Mirrors,” and “Asia,” which is Israel’s North Korea, and other prominent human Klein is a former US radio show host and Oscar Awards entry this year. rights abusing countries. ex-Jerusalem bureau chief for Breitbart The Golden Globes will take place Ministry weighs police News. He was appointed by the site's virtually on Feb. 28 for the first time executive chairman at the time, Steven because of the pandemic and will be action against anti-vaxxers Bannon, who would later become a key hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. who fake appointments strategist to Donald Trump. A King’s purple The Health Ministry Thursday was An Oscar, technically Groundbreaking research conducted by considering filing police complaints Four Israelis this week won an Oscar in Israeli archaeologists enabled them to against anti-vaxxers who have been the scientific and engineering category for recover scraps of fabric dyed in royal scheduling appointments to inoculate only technology developed by the firm purple from the time of King David and to cancel them at the last minute, forcing Amimon, Israel21c reports. King Solomon, some 3,000 years ago, HMOs to throw out unused doses, The the first time that purple-dyed Iron Age Times of Israel reports. The company’s chipset, used throughout the global film industry, transmits high- textiles have been found in Israel, or The Ministry has also asked Facebook to quality video from many cameras to indeed throughout the Southern Levant, take down the posts of anti-vaxxers monitors on a film or television set, with Ynetnews reports. bragging about their exploits; the social no delay. The result is that a director can Fabric dyed with this royal purple, media giant has pledged to keep anti- see all shooting angles on a set Argaman in Hebrew, was worn by the vaxxers and those spreading fake simultaneously in real time. Temple priests and Kings David and vaccination information off its platform Solomon. but is failing to do, Channel 13 reported. The formal presentation of the award will be made in a virtual event on Feb. 13. While examining the colored textiles “If everyone who does not plan on getting from Timna Valley, an ancient copper vaccinated makes an appointment to Israeli nominated for production district in southern Israel the vaccinate and then doesn’t come, we’ll Golden Globe researchers were surprised to find finish the stock (in the trash) really remnants of woven fabric, a tassel and quickly. Just saying,” read one post on Israeli actress Shira Haas received a fibers of wool dyed with royal purple. Facebook. Golden Globes nomination for best performance by an actress in a limited Direct radiocarbon dating confirms that Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said the finds date from approximately 1,000 incidents like these were limited, but BCE, corresponding to the biblical those trying to disrupt the vaccination monarchies of David and Solomon in drive were “a dangerous group who are Jerusalem. ideologically opposed, like a cult.” The dye, which is produced from species One Israeli hospital chief called the of mollusk found in the Mediterranean, phenomenon “criminal” in an interview over 300 km from Timna, is often with Channel 13. Channel 13 also Artzeinu, online at www.artzeinu.org, is published weekly by Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, 125 E. 85th Street, mentioned in the Bible together with the revealed that a voice recording was New York, NY 10028. To get Artzeinu in your shul, email [email protected]. The Artzeinu team: Amichai Gelman,light Bennett-blue R. dyeKatz, Techelet. JJ Hornblass. 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