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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 14, 2021

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US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One, December 12, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

GOP's Liz Cheney: Trump 'assembled the mob, lit the flame'

Donald Trump impeached a 2nd time, charged with ‘incitement of insurrection’

By Agencies and TOI staff

US House votes 232 to 197, with 10 Republicans in favor; Senate trial unlikely before Jan. 19, so Trump – 1st president in US history to be impeached twice – set to serve out term

An image on a monitor shows US President Donald Trump speaking during in a video posted on the White House Twitter feed, in the empty Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 13, 2021 ( MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Subdued Trump condemns ‘calamity’ Capitol invasion, doesn’t mention impeachment

By TOI staff and Agencies

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, center, is applauded during her speech in the Chagall state hall at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Times of Israel PodcastPODCAST: The Daily Briefing – Pelosi’s Hebrew poem; all about the Arab vote

Members of the National Guard walk through the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 13, 2021, ahead of the House vote impeaching US President Donald Trump. (Saul Loeb / AFP)

Op-ed

Schwarzenegger’s Kristallnacht comparison is outrageous… isn’t it?

The next test will not be long in coming. Even as January 6 is investigated, January 20 looms — and this time, law enforcement authorities cannot underestimate the warning signs

Glenn Beck appearing on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News on January 12, 2021. (Screenshot via JTA)

Glenn Beck compares right-wing social media bans to the Holocaust

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden arrive to speak at Amtrak's Pittsburgh Train Station, September 30, 2020, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden to forgo train ride to Washington for inauguration over security fears

By Alexandra Jaffe and Zeke Miller

A health worker prepare a vaccination against COVID-19 at a Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

How well does the vaccine work? Israel’s real-world stats can be globe’s guide

The international community will be watching Israel, where vital data is starting to emerge from the breakneck-paced mass inoculation campaign

Prison guards wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, seen as they transport a prisoner suspected of having the coronavirus at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Rivlin calls for vaccination of prisoners: Ban is ‘inconsistent with our values’

Illustrative -- A Magen David Adom ambulance enters Tel Aviv’s Dan Panorama hotel which was turned into quarantine facility in Tel Aviv, on March 26, 2020 (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Health Ministry worker said to send his ex to quarantine, unnecessarily, 4 times

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz in conversation with former ADL head Abe Foxman on Behind the Headlines, January 2020. (Times of Israel)

Behind the Headlines

Foxman to ToI: Ban Trump from 2nd term (Join ToI Community for early access)

On this week’s Behind the Headlines, David Horovitz speaks with former ADL head Abe Foxman about the effects of the Capitol building riots on the US and beyond

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., displays the signed article of impeachment against US President Donald Trump in an engrossment ceremony before transmission to the Senate for trial on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

ExplainerWhat happens next, now that Trump has been impeached, again?

By Chris Lefkow

US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on January 6, 2021, in Washington, shortly before the mob assault on the US Capitol. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

AnalysisText of Trump impeachment: A threat to security, democracy, and the Constitution

F-16 jets fly above the Herzliya airport on November 15, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

With Iran held in check by Biden hopes, Israel grabs chance to hit hard in Syria

With US in transition, the IDF sees Tehran as less likely to retaliate, and is making hay by expanding and intensifying its air campaign against Iranian forces across the border

Illustrative: Reporters film the scene during a media presentation of what Saudi officials say is the wreckage of Iranian-Houthi suicide drones, in Khobar city, Saudi Arabia, April 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Iranian kamikaze drones said spotted in the possession of Yemen’s Houthis

By Judah Ari Gross

US Vice President Joe Biden, right, offers his condolences to Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz upon the death of his brother Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, at Prince Sultan palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Israel said planning to lobby Biden to go easy on new Mideast allies over rights

Peta Jones Pellach

A dangerous phone call

A pro-Netanyahu drive posing as a voter survey and designed solely to elicit praise for the PM’s ’achievements’ should be illegal

Donniel Hartman

Believing the unbelievable

Seeing the Capitol riots as an aberration may help us sleep at night, but we Jews know better — and yes, Holocaust comparisons are allowed

The ultra-Orthodox elephant in the coronavirus crisis room

It is the state’s job to consider the common good of all, rather than creating a wedge in the country by allowing the fringe to dictate the agenda

30 years later: COVID lessons from the Iraqi Scud assault

The US can learn from Israel’s handling of a terrifying threat during Operation Desert Storm: Start by appointing a Corona spokesperson a la Nachman Shai

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara celebrating election night in Tel Aviv on March 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

In leaked video, Netanyahu predicts he’ll win 40-42 seats due to virus response

PM ties his success in March elections to the coronavirus pandemic, says he’ll gain more support as the virus wanes

7:20 pm

26,000 National Guard members to secure Washington for inauguration
7:02 pm

France delivery driver to be deported after refusing to take kosher food orders
6:59 pm

NY AG sues NYPD over 'brutal' crackdown of Black Lives Matter protests

US President Donald Trump, center, with from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Amid impeachment, Pompeo says Trump should win Nobel for Israel-Gulf peace

US secretary of state tweets photo from signing of Abraham Accords between Israel and UAE and Bahrain and tags prize committee

An Israeli passenger from a flydubai flight from Tel Aviv waves her Israeli passport on arrival at Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, November 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

UAE approves visa exemption agreement with Israel, Foreign Ministry says

View of the US consulate in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood, shortly before the building became the American embassy in Israel, February 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Jerusalem gives preliminary approval for location of new US Embassy

By AP

Members of the Joint List party seen at the joint list party headquarters, in the Arab city of Shfar'am, during the Knesset Elections, on March 2, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90

Analysis

Divided and dismissed despite historic gains, Arab parties now bleeding support

The Joint List alliance got an unprecedented 15 seats and broke political taboos in a bid to achieve its goals. Its factions have little to show for it except their community’s ire

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a coronavirus vaccination facility in the northern Arab city of Nazareth on January 13, 2021. (Gil Eliyahu/POOL/AFP)

Wooing Arab votes, Netanyahu claims 2015 ‘voting in droves’ remark was twisted

By Aaron Boxerman

Seniors are vaccinated against COVID-19 at a New York State vaccination site in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, January 13, 2021, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Israeli group sparks debate with plans to vaccinate world’s Holocaust survivors

By Nathan Jeffay

Jerusalem-backed Shalom Corps says it will rush doses to 130,000 in Diaspora, but some ask whether plan is feasible, moral, or politically expedient

A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, January 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Health officials said to believe third wave has peaked, consider easing lockdown

Hadassah Medical Center staff members receive the second round of the COVID-19 vaccine, at the Hadassah Medical Center, in Jerusalem, January 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hopes for global vaccine ‘green passport’ said dampened as some EU states object

Settlement Affairs Minister Tzachi Hanegbi in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, December 24, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Likud minister warns Israel could attack Iran nuclear program if US rejoins deal

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

Tzachi Hanegbi says Israel does not expect Trump to take final dramatic action; cautions against American ‘weakness’ and repeating ‘Obama mistakes’

This Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006 file photo, shows a reactor building of the Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Netanyahu said forming team for talks with Biden on Iranian nuclear program

In this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo, a technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran advances research on uranium metal, a key component in nuclear weapons

By AFP

Two women, one wearing a tallit, blow the shofar amid the Capitol rioting, Jan. 6, 2021. (Lloyd Wolf via JTA)

Interview

Storming of the Capitol through the lens of a veteran Jewish DC photographer

In this January 6, 2021 photo, supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the US Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar)

‘It pierces the heart’: Jewish leaders alarmed over anti-Semitism in Capitol mob

US community heads say riot was not so much a ‘tipping point’ for Jew hatred, but rather ‘the latest explicit example of how it animates the narratives of extremists’

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust on Capitol Hill in a Wednesday, July 29, 2020 file photo, in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

ProfileDavid Cicilline: The Jewish US lawmaker leading Trump impeachment charge

By Gabe Friedman

US President Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Amid violence fears, US army chiefs remind troops they are bound by Constitution

By Agencies and TOI staff

A billboard by YAFFED in front of a yeshiva, asking parents to think about their sons' secular education. Schools in the ultra-Orthodox community are virtually all segregated by sex. (Courtesy)

Hasidic man cites lack of schooling in US mercy plea for laundering drug money

More Headlines

United States ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power votes on a resolution during a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Biden taps Power, who allowed anti-settlement UN resolution, as USAID chief

Illustrative: In this May 26, 2019, photo, a teacher supervises while Palestinian schoolchildren take a final exam during the last day of the school year, at the UNRWA Hebron Boys School, in the West Bank city of Hebron. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Monitoring group: UNRWA textbooks glorify terror, deny Israel’s existence

Train tracks and the Ayalon highway in central Tel Aviv, with the Azrieli Towers as a backdrop, December 18, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Fitch reiterates Israel’s A+ rating, citing diversified economy, strong finances

By Shoshanna Solomon

Then-MKs Gideon Sa'ar, right, and Naftali Bennett in the Knesset plenum on February 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yamina rules out joint Knesset run with ‘devious,’ image-focused Sa’ar

By Michael Bachner

Part of a field hospital set up by a US charity on the Israel-Gaza border. (Screenshot/Facebook)

Hamas bars patients from going to US charity’s field hospital on border

By AP

Dani Dayan, left, and New Hope party leader Gideon Sa'ar, right, in a photo released by New Hope on January 13, 2021. (Courtesy/New Hope campaign)

Dani Dayan, ex-settler leader and consul-general to NY, joins Sa’ar’s party

US Capitol Police push back demonstrators who were trying to enter the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

GitHub reportedly fires Jewish employee who warned of ‘Nazis’ at Capitol siege

US President Donald Trump speaks following a meeting on infrastructure at Trump Tower, August 15, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

New York City to terminate all contracts with Trump following Capitol attack

By Karen Matthews

(L) US relay swimmer Keller during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, August 12, 2008. (R) Keller seen participating in the US Capitol riots January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle / Screenshot: Youtube/Townhall Media)

US Olympic gold medalist charged for participating in Capitol riot

By PAUL NEWBERRY

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, in Washington. The committee summoned the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google to testify during the hearing. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Twitter chief backs need for Trump ban, but says it sets ‘dangerous’ precedent

By AFP

Haifa District Prosecutor Amit Aisman. (Justice Ministry)

Gantz appoints interim state prosecutor after permanent appointment held up

llustrative image of a law enforcement team, emergency first responders (Semen Salivanchuk; iStock by Getty Images)

Former CIA chief David Petraeus among investors in Israel’s Carbyne

By Shoshanna Solomon

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