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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 7, 2021

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Trump backers storm US Capitol, halting Senate meeting to certify Biden win

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Egged on by the president, demonstrators breach seat of American government in unprecedented scenes; staffers barricade themselves in offices

Vice President Mike Pence walks onto the House floor to officiate a joint session of the House and Senate to confirm Electoral College votes at the Capitol, Jan 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US Congress validates Biden victory, hours after pro-Trump mob storms Capitol

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington, January 6, 2021. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Trump commits to orderly transition of power, but still disputes election result

By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) addressing the media alongside US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Jerusalem, January 7, 2021. (GPO)

Netanyahu calls ‘rampage’ in DC ‘disgraceful,’ lauds Trump as Mideast peacemaker

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

After lengthy delay, PM denounces assault on Capitol without naming president or specifying circumstances, says US democracy will prevail; then thanks Trump for peace breakthroughs

US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally of his supporters in Washington, January 6, 2021. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Trump’s cabinet members discuss ousting him after Capitol stormed

By AFP

Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, January 5, 2021. (Elad Guttman)

Lapid, Gantz ‘shocked, horrified’ by violence at US Capitol; Netanyahu silent

A supporter of US President Donald Trump wears a gas mask as he protests after storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Op-Ed

Watching in horror, worrying for our US ally, with concerns of our own

The shameful Trump-inflamed assault on democracy has complex implications for an Israel whose leadership has partnered so closely with him, underlines fears for our rule of law

Congress staffers hold up their hands while Capitol Police Swat teams check everyone in the room as they secure the floor of Trump suporters in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Inside storyGuns drawn, lawmakers under desks as pro-Trump mob roams and loots Congress

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Andrew Taylor, LISA MASCARO and Calvin Woodward

US President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden warns US democracy ‘under unprecedented assault,’ tells Trump to ‘step up’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Violent protesters, loyal to US President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Holocaust-denying neo-Nazis among the Trump supporters who stormed US Capitol

By Agencies and ToI Staff

White supremacists join Washington rampage, with experts saying the violence was stoked by far-right conspiracy theories like QAnon

Amid violence, Twitter suspends Trump account, threatens permanent ban

By AP and ToI Staff

Capitol violence sparks social media reckoning with Trump and his rhetoric

By Barbara Ortutay and David Klepper

White House officials resign, others consider quitting after assault on Capitol

Ashli Babbit (Twitter)

Woman shot dead in US Capitol was Air Force veteran, Trump supporter

US media identifies woman as Ashli Babbitt from the San Diego area in southern California; officials have not confirmed details of how she was killed

A person on a stretcher is placed in an ambulance outside the US Capitol, January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

4 die in Capitol pro-Trump riots: 1 shot by police, 3 in ‘medical emergencies’

By AFP

Capitol police officers in riot gear push back demonstrators who try to break a door of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on January 6, 2021. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

US Democratic lawmakers vow to investigate police after Capitol breach

By Matthew Daly

Richard Barnett, a supporter of US President Donald Trump, sits inside the office of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi inside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

‘Fragile, vulnerable’: Iran, China, Russia mock US democracy after Capitol chaos

America’s adversaries unleash scorn at ‘limping’ democratic system, gloat over images of violence in Washington, while allies urge a return to normalcy

People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the US Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

‘Embarrassing, disgraceful’: US media reacts to unprecedented assault on Capitol

By David Bauder

District of Columbia National Guard stand outside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, after a day of rioting protesters (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

ExplainerUS Capitol has seen violence over 220 years, but this riot was unprecedented

By JERRY SCHWARTZ

Dear Trump-supporting friends, we love you and forgive you. Now apologize.

It was never about whether being Republican was OK. It was about supporting an unhinged, dangerous serial liar

Menachem Creditor

Please God, protect our government’s leaders

I’m a rabbi and I’ve never felt as strongly about the prayer for the government as I did after seeing the blasphemy of weapons on the floor of Congress

Elchanan Poupko

American Orthodoxy’s political suicide

Here’s how the community sabotaged its own political interests and reached a point when mask-burning and death-threats were somehow acceptable

I just lied to my 4-year-old daughter

I’d rather not tell my sweet child about the far-right march that shut down her Jewish preschool here in Washington DC

Security forces respond with tear gas after US President Donald Trump's supporters breached the US Capitol security in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Inside story

Orthodox Jewish Trump supporters decry violence, but not movement that fueled it

Busloads traveled to DC to hear Trump speak before the storming of the Capitol; some say it was a shameful day, but it doesn’t make them regret supporting the US president

Supporters of US President Donald Trump enter the US Capitol's Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

US Jewish groups express ‘outrage,’ ‘disgust’ at DC violence, criticize Trump

Rabbi Moshe Azman, founder of the Anatevka community near Kiev, February 29, 2016. (R. Litevsky/Courtesy of the Office of Rabbi Moshe Azman)

One of Ukraine’s chief rabbis endorses siege of US Capitol by Trump supporters

By Sam Sokol and Cnaan Liphshiz

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits the Atlit naval base in northern Israel on January 5, 2021. (Screen capture)

Live updates (closed)

Even as his party members desert him, Gantz insists he’s running in March

‘I believe I am doing what’s right for Israel. Therefore, I’ll continue ahead’ to remove Netanyahu from office, Blue and White leader says

8:08 pm

Gantz to back appointment of new police commissioner
8:01 pm

Biden picks Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as labor secretary
7:33 pm

Pelosi: Invoke 25th amendment to remove Trump from office

Supporters of US President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

‘The world is watching!’: Foreign leaders decry pro-Trump assault on Capitol

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

UK’s Johnson calls scenes ‘disgraceful,’ German FM urges mob to accept Biden’s victory; Turkey, which saw its own coup attempt in 2016, invites parties to practice ‘moderation’

Then-Georgia Democratic candidates for US Senate Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, right, gesture toward a crowd during a campaign rally in Marietta, Georgia, November 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Democrats gain Senate control after Ossoff and Warnock both win in Georgia

By AP and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel seen on a screen as she makes a statement on the events in Washington with the storming of the Capitol building by supporters of US President Donald Trump supporters at the beginning of the digital press conference at the winter retreat of the CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Berlin, Germany, January 7, 2021. (Kay Nietfeld/Pool via AP)

Merkel says Trump’s denial of election result shares blame for Capitol storming

By AFP

Trump supporters gesture to US Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing — Aftershocks from the siege on US democracy

A panel of ToI reporters and editors struggles with the storming of the US Capitol and what it means for the future of the free world

Trump supporters gesture to US Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Explosive device found near US Capitol building, another at RNC headquarters

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Supporters of US President Donald Trump enter the US Capitol's Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.(Saul LOEB / AFP)

Trump tells backers to ‘stay peaceful’ but fails to condemn storming of Capitol

By AFP and ToI Staff

People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the US Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sheltering from the mob: The view from Jewish lawmakers under siege in Congress

‘I don’t recognize our country today,’ says one of at least 33 Jewish members in House and Senate; many had to barricade themselves as Trump-supporters stormed the US Capitol

Likud MK Miki Zohar reacts during a meeting at the Knesset, January 13, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Top Likud MK compares mob that stormed Capitol to anti-Netanyahu protesters

US President Donald Trump addresses supporters in a video after they stormed the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (video screenshot)

Hours after supporters assail US Capitol, Trump says: ‘Go home now, we love you’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rep. Mary Miller speaks at a pro-Trump DC rally against certifying the election results on January 6, 2020. (Screen capture/Twitter)

‘Hitler was right on one thing,’ Republican congresswoman tells pro-Trump rally

Newly sworn-in House member from Illinois Mary Miller quotes Nazi leader’s Mein Kampf at DC demonstration against certifying election results; ADL demands apology

Florida Congresswoman Kat Cammack. (Kat Cammack/Facebook)

Republican vows to fly Israel flag outside Congress office next to Rashida Tlaib

Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. It's been a stunning day as a number of lawmakers and then the mob of protesters tried to overturn America's presidential election, undercut the nation's democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the White House. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Extremism watchdogs have long-warned US heading to events like DC violence

Police at a temporary checkpoint at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem on December 28, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Heavy enforcement’: Police prepare closure crackdown with 5,000 officers

As Israel launches new virus curbs Thursday night, roadblocks will be set up on highways and in cities, but officials tell paper police won’t close Haredi schools that defy rules

Top ultra-Orthodox rabbi orders schools shut ‘for several days’ during lockdown

Op-edVaccine champ, contagion chump — the two sides of Israel’s battle against COVID

By David Horovitz

As Israel readies for tightened lockdown, vaccination rate starts to slow

An Israeli family wears gas masks for fear of a chemical weapon attack during the 1991 Gulf War. (Michael Tzarfati/Defense Ministry Archive)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Gas masks, missiles and irony: Defense Ministry releases photos of 1991 Gulf War

Military archive marks 30 years since the conflict, when Iraq fired dozens of Scud missiles at Israel, with never-before-seen video, images and internal documents

A Patriot missile defense battery sits in the desert in the Ovda air base in southern Israel during the international Blue Flag exercise on November 9, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

IDF deploys air defenses to south amid threats of attack from Yemen

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: A Syrian anti-aircraft missile is fired into sky near Damascus during an alleged Israeli airstrike on January 6, 2021. (Screen capture: SANA)

Syria says Israeli airstrikes hit sites around Damascus

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

A man closes his shop in Jerusalem on December 27, 2020, as Israel enters its 3rd nationwide lockdown. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rules for Israel’s new lockdown: What you need to know

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyers, Boaz Ben Tzur (right) and Amit Hadad (second right), at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing on December 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court blocks Netanyahu trial delay but says AG must show written proof on probes

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

File: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, left, gives a joint statement with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, July 20, 2020. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool via AP)

Egyptian FM speaks with Israeli, PA counterparts to build momentum for talks

People in Tel Aviv, some wearing protective face masks, on January 6, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

‘Twindemic’ fears fizzle with zero flu cases recorded nationwide

By Nathan Jeffay

Palestinians scuffle with Israeli soldiers outside of al-Tuwani, southeast of Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank, on January 1, 2021. (Screenshot)

IDF: Shot that paralyzed Palestinian wasn’t aimed at him, troops were in danger

By Aaron Boxerman and Judah Ari Gross

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men from the Toldos Aharon Hasidic dynasty attend a wedding in Beitar Illit, violating coronavirus regulations, January 5, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Police chief suspends officers who allowed mass Hasidic wedding to go ahead

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel transferred dozens of vaccine doses to Palestinian Authority — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, center, welcomes the Foreign Minister of Great Britain, Dominic Raab, right, and the Foreign Minister of France, Jean-Yves Le Drian, left, for a meeting in Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2020. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/DPA via AP, Pool)

Europe says ‘no credible civil justification’ for Iran enriching uranium to 20%

By AP

Popular Mobilization Forces and their supporters light candles at Baghdad's international airport on the first anniversary of the killing of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the PMF and Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds forces, on January 2, 2021. (Khalid Mohammed/AP)

A year later, Iraq issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of Iran general

By AP

Illustrative: Thabisle Khlatshwayo receives her second shot at a vaccine trial facility for AstraZeneca at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, November 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Health official: ‘Worrying’ study on vaccine’s potency against S. African strain

An illustration of vegetables growing on walls by Vertical Field. (Courtesy)

Vertical Field to deploy green-wall farms in Ukraine supermarkets

By Shoshanna Solomon

Protective face masks hang on an abandonded boat in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa port on October 28, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cleantech startup UBQ converts used face masks into ecofriendly material

By Jake Epstein

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