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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 23, 2021

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Larry King attends a screening of the environmental documentary "Planet in Peril," Monday, Oct. 8, 2007, in New York. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)

'I don’t pretend to know it all. I ask...'

Larry King, broadcasting giant, dies at 87 after hospitalization with COVID-19

By ANDREW DALTON

Jewish everyman, born Lawrence Zeiger, conducted 50,000 interviews, including with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes, helping define US conversation for a half-century

Maya Segev describes being mobbed by Haredi extremists in Bnei Brak on January 22, 2021. (Screen capture/Israel Police)

‘We feared for our lives,’ says cop attacked by ultra-Orthodox mob

Police chief says trend of Haredi violence against cops only getting worse; yeshiva affiliated with rioters condemns incident but hints that police instigated it

In this December 20, 2017, photo provided by Joel Friedman, Rabbi Avrohom Pinter makes a speech at Canvey Island,in Essex, southeast England. (Joel Friedman via AP)

Site of mass Haredi wedding in London: A school whose principal died of COVID

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli student receives a COVID-19 vaccination, at a Kupat HolimLeumit center in Tel Aviv, on January 23, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel expands vaccination campaign to teens aged 16-18

By AFP and ToI Staff

Inoculation of high school students subject to parental approval; close to 2.5 million of Israel’s nine-million-strong population have received first dose

Illustrative: A nurse stands in the children's ICU for coronavirus patients at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem on January 22, 2020. (Courtesy/Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem)

Hadassah hospital opens Israel’s first pediatric ICU for COVID-19 patients

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the media in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on November 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said planning new aid to small businesses ahead of election

Analysis

In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive

Director Vadim Perelman, who lost relatives in the Shoah, says his movie ‘Persian Lessons’ also shows the Nazis’ humanity to highlight that evil isn’t always committed by monsters

Nahuel Perez Biscayart portrays a Jewish inmate at a concentration camp during filming in Belarus of the film 'Persian Lessons' in 2019. (Courtesy of HyperFilms/ via JTA)

Police at a temporary roadblock in Jerusalem during a 3rd nationwide lockdown, in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, on January 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel expected to raise COVID fines, place fresh limits on air travel

TV report: Travelers to country will need negative test before flying; HMOs set to begin vaccinating 16-18-year-olds, so that matriculation exams can go ahead

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a coronavirus press conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Friday Jan. 22, 2021. Johnson announced that the new variant of COVID-19, which was first discovered in the south of England, may be linked with an increase in the mortality rate. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

UK warns new virus variant may be more deadly, could be around ‘forever’

By AP and ToI Staff

Israel's coronavirus czar, Prof. Nachman Ash, visits at the coronavirus department at the Ziv hospital in Safed, in northern Israel. December 24, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel walks back reported virus czar claim that Pfizer 1st dose less effective

In this Sept. 22, 2020 file photo, then Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

Trump mulled replacing AG to try and overturn election results — US media

By AFP

According to NY Times, 45th president backed off plan when warned all remaining top officials at Justice Department would resign en masse

US President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House after a trip to Texas, Washington, Jan. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Trump’s impeachment trial to begin the week of February 8

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO

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

Biden to review ‘serious, growing national security threat’ from domestic groups

What sick children taught me about healing in polarized America

At a summer camp for kids with life-threatening illnesses, I’ve seen how vastly different people find commonality without sacrificing who they are

Florida State’s anti-Semitic student senator

How does the guy who wrote ’stupid Jew thinks he is cool’ and posts swastikas on Facebook still have a platform on this campus?

Then-US president Donald Trump (right) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Trump's departure to Rome at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, on May 23, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO via Flash90)

Analysis

‘Erratic’ or ‘Strategic Clarity’: What to make of Trump’s Middle East legacy?

Experts from Israel and abroad weigh in on how the unconventional tenure of the 45th president changed the region — for good and for bad

Illustrative: Two US F-35 Lightning II’s bank after receiving fuel over the American Midwest, September 19, 2019. (US Air Force/ Master Sgt. Ben Mota/ File)

UAE confirms it signed deal to buy F-35 jets from US on last day of Trump’s term

Interview

Francine Wolfisz

‘Bridgerton’s Jewish author says Netflix hit drama is ‘exactly what we all need’

63 million households have watched the adaptation of romance writer Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels — and the show’s creators are already planning more

Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton with Rege-Jean Page as the Duke of Hastings in 'Bridgerton.' (Screenshot)

A woman stands at a memorial for the victims of a deadly shooting the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, on October 27, 2018. (SMIALOWSKI/AFP)

Son of couple killed in Pittsburgh synagogue attack sues NRA for its rhetoric

By AP

Plaintiff argues gun lobbyists radicalize people with ‘white supremacist conspiracy theories,’ also sues gun maker Colt, alleged shooter

US Houser Representative Andy Harris speaks during a news conference with members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republican lawmaker with gun sets off House chamber metal detector

By Matthew Daly

Camp Munkatch boys choir sings in front of the White House. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Singing his praise

‘Devotion so strong’: US Hasidic boys’ choir sings tribute to Trump

Song by New York campers praises ex-president for pardoning Jews, normalization deals

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz (Facebook)

In his good booksRabbi starts praying for president again after Trump departs

A healthcare worker tends to a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center during the coronavirus pandemic in San Jose, California, January 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

In LA and Arizona, COVID death surge overwhelms the Jewish community

Jura Abaev in Khujand, Tajikistan. (Courtesy/Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty via JTA)

After 3-time aliya, last Jew in Tajikistani city’s centuries-old community dies

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jura Abaev was the final member of the Bukharan community in Khujand; he’d immigrated to Israel three times, but ‘felt like a nobody’ and went home

'Rehearsals' co-creators Noa Koler, left and Erez Drigues, who also play the lead roles on the show (Courtesy Vered Adir)

With theater actors’ legs intact, TV’s ‘Rehearsals’ breaks a heart instead

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

Jewish Democrats see Ossoff and Warnock as a heroic new Black-Jewish duo

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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

Pfizer to supply 40 million COVID-19 shots for poor countries

By LINDA A. JOHNSON

Police detain a man during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on January 23, 2021 (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

Russia arrests over 350 protesters rallying for Navalny’s release

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy in the State Dining Room of the White House, January 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Underpromise, overdeliver — Biden signals early approach to pandemic

By Alexandra Jaffe and Zeke Miller

Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz is comforted by lawyer Camille Haab after his conviction for corruption linked to mining deals in Guinea, in Geneva on January 22, 2021. Steinmetz was sentenced to five years in jail. (STEFAN WERMUTH / AFP)

Swiss court jails Israeli diamond magnate for 5 years for corruption

A picture taken on November 1, 2017, shows a general view of buildings in downtown Gaza City and the Israeli port city of Ashkelon in the background (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Blast in northern Gaza destroys house, said to injure 36 people; cause unclear

This June 23, 2018, photo shows a general view of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Saudi Arabia says it intercepted ‘hostile target’ over capital

By AFP

Illustrative: A drone that the IDF says was flown into Israel from Lebanon by Hezbollah before it was shot down by IDF troops, on March 26, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it shot down drone that crossed into Israeli airspace from Lebanon

Illustrative. Pizza. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Pie in the skyPizza Hut Israel to trial drone deliveries this summer

Makua Rothman surfs at Pe'ahi in Hawaii, Jan. 14, 2018. (Brian Bielmann/AFP via Getty Images)

Swell of prideHawaiian-Jewish surfer may have ridden largest wave of all time

By Gabe Friedman

Israeli blueberries grown in carefully tended containers in the Golan Heights will now be marketed from 2021 in Israel, Dubai and Europe Courtesy Carmel Berry)

What the wind blue inBlueberries from Down Under thrive in Israel’s north, indoors

By Jessica Steinberg

Participants at the World Social Forum in Montreal in 2016 (video screenshot)

Brazil BDS activists to speak on anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism at ‘justice’ meet

By JTA

Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (CC BY-SA Matěj Baťha/Wikimedia Commons)

Author who made controversial comments on Jews quits Dutch Holocaust event

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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