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What Matters Most On Friday, January 22, 2021

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An image posted on Ali Khamenei's @khamenei_site Twitter account threatening former US president Donald Trump, with a doctored image of him playing golf under a shadow of a drone. (Twitter)

Khamenei account suspended after tweet of Trump golfing under warplane shadow

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Twitter freezes account linked to Iranian supreme leader for threats to avenge 2020 Soleimani death, but main account that routinely threatens destruction of Jewish state still up

AnalysisAt odds on Iran and settlements, Netanyahu and Biden can still avoid a brawl

By Lazar Berman

Syrian Air defenses respond to alleged Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

Syrian media reports Israeli airstrikes near western city of Hama

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Police operate to enforce lockdown in Bnei Brak, January 21, 2020 (Israel Police)

Police shut down synagogues, yeshiva in Beitar Illit, Ashdod

Haredi leaders claim cops sought ‘revenge’ in Bnei Brak clashes; police deny it

Litzman accuses law enforcement of ‘collective punishment’ after violence over lockdown left 7 officers injured; police say cops were ‘brutally attacked’; PM condemns rioters

6 arrested in Bnei Brak as ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with cops over lockdown

Netanyahu vows action after ultra-Orthodox mob protesting lockdown injures cop

London cops bust mass wedding at Haredi girls school for violating lockdown

A pregnant woman wearing a face mask and gloves holds her belly as she waits in line for groceries in Waltham, Massachusetts, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Senior health official: UK virus variant putting pregnant women at greater risk

Sharon Alroy-Preis says ‘there is a certain change in the nature of the pandemic,’ also attributes surging ultra-Orthodox infection rates to British strain

A medical worker takes swab samples from an Israeli at a coronavirus testing center in Beit Shemesh, on January 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Daily infections, positive test rate drop further as outbreak seems to abate

An Israeli man wearing a face mask walks in downtown Jerusalem on January 21, 2021, during a 3rd national coronavirus lockdown. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus czar predicts national lockdown won’t be extended into February

Joe Biden's cousin Joe Blewitt speaks to the media underneath his mural painted on a wall in Ballina, Ireland, January 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Joe Biden wants to erase the last four years. In the Mideast, that won’t be easy

A dramatic new political reality has dawned in Washington. But back in the Middle East, a distracted US president won’t have much room to maneuver on Iran and the Palestinians

'What We’re Scared Of,' by author Keren David. (Courtesy)

Author interview

Dating, zits and bigotry: UK’s 1st YA novel to cover anti-Semitism gets it right

When Keren David was approached about breaking ground on a tough topic, the hit author and journalist had concerns. But ‘What We’re Scared Of,’ out this week, is right on key

Katharina von Schnurbein speaks at a conference of anti-Semitism envoys in Bucharest, Romania, June 17, 2019. (Shahar Azran/World Jewish Congress via JTA)

Times Will Tell

PODCAST: After 5 years, anti-Semitism czar says no improvement for EU Jews – yet

EU Commission’s first Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism Katharina von Schnurbein on the controversial IHRA definition and ‘deeply rooted’ hatred against European Jewry

The interior of the Holocaust Museum of Porto, January 2021. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Porto/ via JTA)

Jewish community shaped by Inquisition opens Portugal’s first Holocaust museum

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Over 100,000 members of Hitler's stormtroopers at the huge Nazi rally in the Leopold Arena in Nuremberg, on Sept. 15, 1935, listen as German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks. (AP Photo)

Germany moves to eradicate lingering Nazi laws, some anti-Semitic

By Mathieu FOULKES

Know a president by his tweets

Not just for selfies: A transitional Twitter account let the world see the Biden-Harris priorities, and prepare accordingly, even before the new administration took office

When the Israelites prepared to leave Egypt, they knew what they needed to do, yet could not have known what would follow – a sentiment that resonates today (Bo)

Left to Right: Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000.
(William J. Clinton Presidential Library/ Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Director interview

Renee Ghert-Zand

Room where it didn’t happen: US mediators reveal failed Israel-PLO peace talks

In ‘The Human Factor,’ key American negotiators answer Israeli director Dror Moreh’s pointed questions about how a peace plan spanning two administrations crashed and burned

Then-US President Bill Clinton, center, looks on as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and PLO leader Yasser Arafat shake hands in the East Room of the White House after signing the Middle East accord in Washington on September 28, 1995. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)

Film reviewDocumentary highlights the ‘Human Factor’ in Israel-Palestinian peace talks

By Jocelyn Noveck

Broken windows are seen on a Palestinian car that was allegedly targeted with rocks by settlers near the Givat Assaf outpost in the West Bank, January 21, 2021. (Yesh Din)

5-year-old Palestinian boy hurt by rock thrown at car in reported settler attack

Then-head of the IDF Northern Command Maj. Gen. Yizhak Hofi, left, speaks to then-IDF chief of staff David Elazar, right, and other IDF top officers during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in an undated photograph. (Defense Ministry Archive)

‘Maybe we should bomb Damascus?’: Yom Kippur War deliberations declassified

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry releases transcripts of government meetings during 1973 conflict, showing the leadership’s uncertainty and concerns in the first few days of fighting

Tedplach Bitao, 28, rejoices as she arrives in in Israel from Ethiopia on January 22, 2021. (Avi Hayun for Keren Hayesod)

With funding from Chinese backer, 162 Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel

By Lazar Berman

6th flight of Operation ‘Tzur Yisrael’ arrives with financial support from entrepreneur and Keren Hayesod; minister hails ‘the return of our sons and daughters home to Israel’

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters at the US Capitol in Washington, January 21, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Chuck Schumer is now Washington’s highest-ranking Jewish elected official ever

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: A green shake, like the ones in the diet developed by Prof. Iris Shai (id-art via iStock by Getty Images)

Diet said to bust liver fat with plant goodness unveiled by Israeli academics

By Nathan Jeffay

Beersheba researchers and their collaborators at Harvard say they’ve adapted the Mediterranean diet to make it twice as effective in eliminating liver fat

Guests attend the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Reporter's notebook

Joe Biden’s inauguration was replete with anxiety, and a lot of it was Jewish

A kindergarten pupil in Ashdod has his temperature taken by the Thermoguard device (courtesy of Thermoguard)

With kids unvaccinated, Israeli tech aims to prevent school outbreaks

By Nathan Jeffay

Test run of Sheba-backed AI system indicates it can give early warning so studies can be stopped in time

A medical professional prepares to administer the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at a makeshift vaccination center in a sports arena in Jerusalem, Jan. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israelis bend the rules to get COVID vaccines — with some medics’ pragmatic help

An Israeli medical worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on December 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

2nd vaccine dose causes 37% of health workers side effects, mostly a sore arm

Plans for the new Babyn Yar memorial complex in Kyiv, Ukraine (courtesy: BYHMC)

Nazis' largest mass grave

World’s largest Holocaust memorial planned for Ukraine’s Babyn Yar ravine

By Matt Lebovic

Covering 370 acres, site of central ‘Holocaust by bullets’ massacre will become one of world’s largest commemorations for Jewish genocide

An armed policeman stands guard in front of the synagogue in Seitenstettengasse in Vienna on November 3, 2020, one day after the shootings nearby and at multiple locations across central Vienna. (Hans Punz/APA/AFP)

Austria presents national strategy for fighting anti-Semitism

By AP

More Headlines

Illustrative: Radio broadcasters at Army Radio headquarters in Jaffa, on March 27, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Defense minister to take army out of Army Radio, approving longtime IDF request

By Judah Ari Gross

A mushroom cloud rises above the Pacific Ocean on November 1, 1952, during the world's first test of a full-scale thermonuclear device. (AP Photo/Los Alamos National Laboratory)

1st treaty to ban nuclear weapons enters into force, ratified by just 61 nations

By Edith M. Lederer

Norman Golb at work in his University of Chicago office. (Courtesy of the University of Chicago via JTA)

ObituaryNorman Golb, pioneering Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish history scholar, dies at 92

By Gabe Friedman

Iraqi mourners pray over the coffin of a victim who was killed in a twin suicide bombing in central Baghdad, during a funeral in the holy city of Najaf on January 21, 2021 (Ali NAJAFI / AFP)

Islamic State claims Baghdad twin bombing at market that killed 32, wounded 110

Illustrative -- People walk through the campus of the UCLA college in Westwood, California on March 6, 2020 (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

UCLA opens center for music of the ‘American Jewish experience’

Illustrative -- A Pakistan Army helicopter flies over the site of an avalanche over Gayari camp, April 18, 2012 (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Jewish Harvard Medical School professor dies climbing in Pakistan’s mountains

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A man at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on January 10, 2021, during a third nationawide coronavirus lockdown. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Standard of living dives as middle class pummeled by virus — government report

Jessica Rosenworcel answers a question during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 24, 2020. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Biden names Jessica Rosenworcel, a net neutrality champion, as acting FCC chair

Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack, right, faces reporters as Governor Charlie Baker, left, looks on during a news conference in Boston, July 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Biden names Massachusetts official Steph Pollack to senior roads post

US President Joe Biden's pick for national intelligence director Avril Haines listens during a confirmation hearing before the Senate intelligence committee in Washington, January 19, 2021. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Avril Haines confirmed as Biden’s director of national intelligence

Amal Abo Alqom, resident of the Bedouin village of Segev Shalom and founder of the non-profit Women for Themselves. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Bedouin women’s activist who backed polygamy joins Ya’alon’s Telem

Graffiti reading "kill Arab drivers" spray-painted on a wall in the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit, on January 21, 2021. (Courtesy)

Graffiti calling to kill Arab bus drivers spray-painted in West Bank settlement

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