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What Matters Most On Monday, January 18, 2021

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Jacob Chansley sits in Vice President Mike Pence's seat in the Senate on January 6, 2021 before leaving him a threatening note. (Screencapture/ YouTube)

New Capitol riot video shows mayhem as mob ransacks Senate, prays for victory

‘I’m gonna take a sit in this chair because Mike Pence is a f*cking traitor,’ says QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley before leaving a threatening note for the VP at his desk

Armed protesters, who identified themselves as Liberty Boys, pose for fellow demonstrators' pictures outside the Oregon State Capitol on Jan. 17, 2021, in Salem, Oregon (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Right-wing protesters, some armed, rally outside fortified statehouses across US

By DAVID A. LIEB and ADAM GELLER

Supporters of then US president Donald Trump in Washington, January 6, 2021. (John Minchillo/AP)

Former Trump campaign aides played key roles in organizing Washington rally

By Richard Lardner and Michelle R. Smith

Police at a temporary roadblock in Jerusalem on January 11, 2021, during a 3rd nationwide full lockdown, in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Report: New bleak forecast says Israel could see large new COVID wave in March

By Itamar Sharon

Health officials said to fear British variant could become ubiquitous within weeks, causing fresh surge of cases despite mass vaccination

7:30 pm

AG pans Ohana at High Court over withholding of vaccines from prisoners
7:05 pm

WHO raises 'concerns' about Israeli-Palestinian vaccine inequity
6:48 pm

Netanyahu said pushing to extend lockdown by 10 days

Still from 'Out of My Head': Emma retreats to her darkened room as a migraine descends. (Maya Edelman)

Directors interview

For world’s 1 billion migraine sufferers, COVID a major headache, new film shows

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett at a protest against the state's intention to close the Hilla Project, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Israel’s coming election may be decided on the religious right

Netanyahu has no coalition without Naftali Bennett. Neither does Gideon Sa’ar. The fight is on

Gideon Sa'ar seen during a visit to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem on December 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu rival Sa’ar hires anti-Trump Lincoln Project founders

By AP and ToI Staff

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

Meeting Arab mayors, Netanyahu vows to tackle community crime like terrorism

By Aaron Boxerman

Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and modern cancel culture

These inspirational leaders, both flawed, and the greats who inspired them, would flunk today’s PC criteria as worthy topics for academic study

Now is the time for female leadership in Israel

Empirical testing shows that women are better equipped to deal with the adaptive challenges of today – just ask Germany, Finland, New Zealand, or Taiwan

Yael Ravia-Zadok

Economic diplomacy in action: Jobs, vaccines, travel and more

Throughout the pandemic, the foreign ministry has been busy serving entrepreneurs, developing markets and pitching Israeli technology abroad

A crotchety old academic reflects on the great Russian ‘wave’

Israel owes a lot to the aliyah from the former Soviet Union, but it took time – the new immigrants struggled with poverty, displacement, and the humbling of talented people

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sits in the cockpit of F-15i fighter jet, August 11, 2009, during a visit to the Hatzerim air base in southern Israel. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

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Illustrative: Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, on November 13, 2019. (Anas Baba/AFP)

2 Gaza rockets fired toward Ashdod land in sea; IDF strikes Hamas in response

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Left: Then-US President-elect Joe Biden on January 14, 2021, in Wilmington, Delaware (AP Photo/Matt Slocum); Right: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, December 9, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Analysis

Violating the nuke deal, Iran shows it wants to talk to Biden

Tehran is trying to gain leverage in expected negotiations with the US, experts say; but it’s also gradually advancing its nuclear weapons capability: ‘We are getting 2030 in 2020’

People walk in downtown Jerusalem on January 17, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Israeli death toll tops 4,000, ministers set to extend lockdown for 3rd week

Health experts reported to tell cabinet infections rates will stay high even after another week of lockdown; cabinet orders all arrivals from UAE into quarantine hotels

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

In highest rate in months, 9.1% of virus tests return positive

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

An empty departure hall at Ben Gurion Airport, on November 9, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Ministers to weigh ban on all outbound travel to curb spread of virus

Construction in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, near the city of Hebron, on April 2, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/ Flash90)

Israel approves some 800 new settlement homes ahead of Biden inauguration

Peace Now, European Union blast move, which is seen as being hurried through before new US administration arrives

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, 2nd left, participates in the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, January 17, 2021. (Maty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Netanyahu hails outgoing US envoy: ‘There was never a better ambassador’

Right-wing journalist Shimon Riklin during a Channel 20 broadcast in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2020. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Right-wing Channel 20 wins tender to move to channel 14, likely boosting ratings

Andrew Borans is the CEO of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation and the former executive director of the fraternity. (Screen shot from YouTube/ via JTA)

Analysis

AEPi exec defends his ties to campus group that sent buses to pro-Trump DC rally

Century-old Jewish frat says Andrew Borans’s independent involvement with Turning Point USA, which sent demonstrators ‘to fight for this president,’ is his ‘constitutional right’

Trump supporters gather outside the US Capitol building, January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

US Jewish umbrella group: Grant to far-right group linked to DC riot was anomaly

OrphAnalytics CEO Claude Alain Roten (C) poses with staff members and a laptop using the text analysis software on January 6, 2021 (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Swiss sleuths use text analysis to track down the identity of ‘Q’ behind QAnon

Assaf Granit, one of the three owners and founders of Jerusalem's famed Machneyuda restaurant. Granit will participate in Open Restaurants Jerusalem, held November 22-24, 2016 (Courtesy Machneyuda)

Jerusalem's Star chef

Classic Jerusalem cuisine earns Assaf Granit a Michelin star

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘I can’t get over it,’ chef says, setting eyes on second star, after his Paris establishment Shabour is granted legendary gastronomic award

Medical workers test people at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing in the northern city of Safed on January 4, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israelis to be exempted from quarantine a week after getting 2nd vaccine dose

Virus czar says authorities are finalizing distribution of ‘green passports’ to those deemed immune from coronavirus

Haredi children head to school despite the government forbidding institutions from opening during a nationwide lockdown, January 17, 2021 (video screenshot)

Growing number of Haredi schools said to reopen, flouting lockdown

Israeli top model Bar Refaeli, right, and her mother, Tzipi Rafaieli wear face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic as they leave a courtroom in Tel Aviv, September 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Model Bar Refaeli’s mother gets COVID in jail; doctors say her life is in danger

By ToI Staff and Agencies

B'Tselem head Hagai El-Ad gives a webinar to Haifa students, January 18, 2020 (Screen grab/Walla)

Defying education minister’s ban, school goes ahead with rights group’s webinar

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Yoav Gallant had pledged to keep ‘groups that act in contradiction to education system’s goals’ away from schools after B’Tselem said it will refer to Israel as ‘apartheid state’

Education Minister Yoav Gallant holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, August 6, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Education minister bans major human rights groups from entering schools

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hala Mashhour Qat, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl, recovers at a hospital, after an alleged stone-throwing attack by ultranationalist settlers. (Madama Resident/ Yesh Din)

Palestinian girl briefly hospitalized after alleged settler attack

By Aaron Boxerman

US President Donald Trump looks on after delivering an update on 'Operation Warp Speed' in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on November 13, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump associates being paid huge sums to secure pardons in final days – report

Various allies of the president have been marketing themselves as lobbyists for US leader’s clemency powers, NY Times reports; one person claims Giuliani wanted $2 million to help

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., left, walks with Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Prosecutor: Trump’s incitement ‘most dangerous crime’ committed by US president

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

National Guard troops reinforce security around the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Fearing insider attack at Biden inauguration, FBI vetting National Guard troops

By Lolita C. Baldor

In this May 29, 2009 file photo, music producer Phil Spector sits in a courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool, File)

Phil Spector, ‘Wall of Sound’ music producer, murderer, dies at 81

By Linda Deutsch and Christopher Weber

Hailed by John Lennon as ‘the greatest record producer ever,’ Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003; jailed for 19 years, he died in a prison hospital

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The Polish academic edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (L) is seen next to an original edition of the book from 1942 (R) on the table of Eugeniusz Cezary Król, author of the translation and historical commentary of the academic edition, in his flat in Warsaw, on January 15, 2021. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

Mein Kampf academic edition published in Poland as ‘homage to victims’

By Bernard OSSER

A police sketch of a suspect in the January 2019 killing of Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri (Israel Police)

Police release sketch of suspect in 2019 murder of Jerusalem couple

Illustrative image of a patient treated in an ICU, coma, brain injury (sudok1; iStock by Getty Images)

Startup hopes to track coma patients’ condition with goggles that monitor pupils

By Shoshanna Solomon

An education worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a Clalit clinic in Jerusalem, January 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s data-for-vaccines deal with Pfizer raises privacy concerns

By Ilan Ben Zion

A sign at the entrance to University of California, Riverside. (Wikimedia Commons)

U of California, Riverside prof says Zionism ‘politically toxified our schools’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An Israeli man walks past Emirati staff after passport control upon arrival from Tel Aviv to the Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates, on November 26, 2020. (Karim Sahib/AFP)

UAE delays visa waiver agreement with Israel until July amid pandemic

A man wears a protective face mask as he walks by the closed Habima Theater in Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

Deputy AG says Tel Aviv mayor has no authority to reopen culture venues

Self-employed Israelis protest the lack of financial support from the government during the coronavirus pandemic, on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, July 7, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Work hours lost in Israel due to virus exceed EU average, Finance Ministry says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Twitter suspends QAnon-supporting US congresswoman over election fraud claims

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

Israel to start vaccinating prisoners this week, including Palestinians

People look at anti-Semitic graffiti on a shop window in Belsize Park, North London, December 29, 2019 (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

Poll: Nearly half of UK Jews avoid visible signs of Judaism due to anti-Semitism

Illustrative: A family takes part in a Zoom shiva. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images / via JTA)

Zoom bombers shout ‘Jews in the ovens’ at online Holocaust book launch in Italy

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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