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What Matters Most On Monday, January 25, 2021

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A bus set alight by an ultra-Orthodox mob in the city of Bnei Brak, January 24, 2021. (Israel Police)

'I got out of there by the skin of my teeth'

Driver recounts ‘nightmare’ after Haredi mob torches his bus at lockdown protest

Says 200 rioters ‘tried to lynch me’; blazing vehicle burns through power cables; mayor blames police for violence, is also attacked by crowd

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the traditional selling of hametz (food containing leavening) of the State of Israel to a non-Jew before the upcoming Passover holiday, on March 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As 4 cops hurt in fresh clashes, chief rabbi slams ‘delinquent’ Haredi rioters

Ultra-Orthodox protesters set a bus on fire during a protest against the enforcement of the coronavirus lockdown, in the city of Bnei Brak, January 24, 2021 (Screencapture/ Twitter)

Fresh clashes in Bnei Brak as Haredi leaders blame police for violence

Police officers stand guard next to burning garbage during clashes with ultra-Orthodox Jews in Bnei Brak, Israel, January 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel media review

Where they burn buses: What the press is saying about Haredi unrest, more deaths

By Joshua Davidovich

Fighting between police and the ultra-Orthodox over COVID restrictions appears to step up a notch, with fingers pointed over excessive violence and excessive silence

Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrate against a police enforcement of lockdown orders due to the coronavirus, in the city of Bnei Brak, January 24, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox MKs said to warn Netanyahu against bill increasing lockdown fines

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A United Airlines commercial jet taxis away from Terminal C before lift-off at Newark Liberty International Airport, July 18, 2018, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Haredi passengers said to refuse to wear masks on flight from New York to Israel

Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

13 years after bolting, 6 since arrest, Malka Leifer extradited to Australia

From the Blogs

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

This is not my Judaism!

How dare these apparent representatives of the Haredi Judaism I hold dear so disgrace the very Torah they claim to uphold!

Workers from Chevra Kadisha Kehilat Yerushalayim, getting dressed with full protective gear to prepare a body before a funeral at a morgue for people who died from Covid-19, at the Sanhedriya Cemetery in Jerusalem, January 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Daily Briefing

PODCAST: The vaccine is working; keeping the ultra-Orthodox on lockdown is not

A quick 15-minute podcast with ToI editors and reporters to catch you up on what’s important today

Illustrative: A traveler approaches a medic to be sampled while testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, upon arrival at the rapid testing center in Ben-Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Health officials: UK variant running wild, hitting children at a worrying rate

By Stuart Winer

An anti-Semitic cartoon published on Telegram on March 15, 2020, likening Jews to the coronavirus using the image of the Trojan horse. (Diaspora Affairs Ministry monitoring team via ADL/courtesy)

Israel predicts rise in anti-Semitism, as virus-related hate is spread online

An 80-year search for ‘the student K,’ murderer of Jewish babies

Her horrific cruelty, described in rare survivor testimony, spotlights Lithuania’s widespread Nazi collaboration. We may have found this killer

The prophetic charge of Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’

In a moment that calls for a reckoning with the demons of our history, the poet pushes each one of us to ’…step out of the shade aflame and unafraid’

A Purim carnival in February 2019, one of the many activities created by the Lod Garin Torani community in Lod. (Courtesy Lod Garin Torani)

Analysis

Jessica Steinberg

In Lod, a community brings ‘love thy neighbor’ to a special needs bachelor pad

A new kind of mainstreamed living situation for adults with disabilities is being launched by a group of people who have not always been welcomed by their other neighbors

One of the artworks created by Holon high school student, Shani Segev, over the course of the coronavirus for an exhibit, Zoom In, opening January 20, 2021. (courtesy, Shani Segev)

Art in time of coronaHolon exhibit gives artistic teens chance to express themselves

By Jessica Steinberg

Police enforcing coronavirus lockdown measures at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, January 25, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Health Ministry said to oppose planned easing of lockdown due to high infections

By Michael Bachner

Officials reportedly debating whether to recommend weeklong extension of all restrictions or support limited reopening

7:40 pm

White House to resume public COVID-19 briefings
7:35 pm

US watchdog probes if Department of Justice officials tried to overturn election
7:33 pm

Italian prime minister to quit Tuesday, seeking new government

Labor MK Merav Michaeli casts her vote for party leader at a polling station in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2021. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Merav Michaeli elected new Labor leader, vows to rebuild beleaguered party

MK takes 77% of leadership vote, urges storied party’s supporters to’ come home’; fellow center-left faction heads call for alliance

Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March 11, 2020 (left); Yesh Atid-Telem leader Yair Lapid in December 2019. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Netanyahu, Lapid both strengthen and Michaeli-led Labor crosses threshold — poll

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, later attorney general, during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 21, 2014. (AP/Menahem Kahana, Pool/File)

Netanyahu pledges cash handouts during election campaign, despite AG’s objection

The Palestinian Ministry of Health crews conduct random checks through blood in the town of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on January 14, 2021. For the first time, preventive medicine will contact citizens to complete hundreds of checks during blood sampling, to avoid violating the curfew measures. The blood test helps measure anti-bodies. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Senior PA health official: We’re hesitant about using Russian vaccine

By Aaron Boxerman

Ramallah also worried by delay in getting doses, with first major AstraZeneca shipment due in March and other suppliers possibly taking months more

A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem's Beit Hanina neighborhood gets vaccinated against the coronavirus at a Clalit Health Services clinic there, on January 12, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Several US Democrat lawmakers call out Israel for not vaccinating Palestinians

An almost empty Ben Gurion International Airport on January 18, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel to almost completely shut Ben Gurion Airport for week amid mutation fears

Ministers approve proposal barring incoming and outgoing flights, with minor exceptions, from Tuesday until the end of the month

Hospital staff wearing safety gear, as they work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on January 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over 1,000 virus deaths recorded so far in January, as toll hits 4,419

Then-US president Donald Trump (R) listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, then-White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP/ Alex Brandon)

Health adviser says COVID-19 deniers in White House gave Trump ‘parallel’ data

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a forum titled 'Common Security in the Islamic World' in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

As US vows to coordinate with Israel, Iran says no changes to nuke deal

By Lazar Berman

FM Zarif says Tehran’s ‘return to the table’ at stake if Washington and its allies demands new terms for lifting sanctions

Illustrative: International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors (2nd and 3rd left) and Iranian technicians at the Natanz nuclear power plant, south of Tehran, on January 20, 2014. (Kazem Ghane/IRNA/AFP/File)

Iran insists it does not intend to expel UN nuclear inspectors

By AFP

Illustrative: French President Emmanuel Macron speaks on the telephone to US President-elect Joe Biden, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. (Ian Langsdon, Pool via AP)

Biden speaks with Macron, agrees to coordinate on Iran nuclear deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad. (Andre Garcia)

Times Will Tell

29-year-old composer releases ‘Kaddish’ for survivor grandfather on top label

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

National Guard members jog across a road leading to the Capitol, after most downtown streets and public spaces had reopened to the public following the inauguration of President Joe Biden, on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021 in Washington.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

US agencies investigating threats to lawmakers ahead of Trump Senate trial

By MICHAEL BALSAMO

Dangers include talk of killing legislators or attacking them outside US Capitol; thousands of National Guard troops to remain in DC until mid-March

People wearing hats and patches indicating they are part of Oath Keepers attend a rally at Freedom Plaza January 5, 2021, in Washington, in support of US President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Under pressure, Trump’s far-right supporters may be more motivated than ever

By Paul Handley

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the top Republican in Senate, leaves the chamber after Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new Democratic senators, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. The victory by the two candidates in the pivotal Georgia runoff election this month was decisive in handing Democrats the majority in the Senate and forcing McConnell to become the minority leader. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans signal growing opposition to Trump trial in the Senate

By Brian Knowlton

Raphael Gribetz at his home in Presque Isle, Maine. (Janine Strong/ via JTA)

A suffering formerly Orthodox artist spreads a Jewish spark in northern Maine

More Headlines

Eitan Na'eh, the head of Israel's mission to the UAE, in Abu Dhabi on January 24, 2021. (Foreign Ministry/courtesy)

Israel officially opens embassy in United Arab Emirates with arrival of envoy

By Lazar Berman

Site of excavations that uncovered a 7th century mosque in the city of Tiberias. (Hebrew University)

One of the oldest mosques in the world uncovered in Tiberias

An illustration of a City Transformer vehicle (Courtesy)

Israel’s incredible shrinking car heads to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Bhutanese and Israeli chess players in a friendly online chess match on January 21, 2021 just weeks after the two countries agreed to diplomatic relations Courtesy Chess4All)

Chess matesAll good moves in Bhutan-Israel chess tournament

By Jessica Steinberg

Ivanka Trump, daughter of and adviser to President Donald Trump, is escorted by Sen. Marco Rubio as she arrives at the Capitol to meet with lawmakers about parental leave, in Washington, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rubio: Ivanka Trump will face ‘tough race’ if she wants to be Florida senator

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Israeli forces fire tear gas at Palestinians during a clash near the West Bank city of Nablus on, December 18, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian worker said to die from heart attack after being tear gassed by IDF

By Aaron Boxerman

US President Joe Biden waves as he departs after attending Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

A double schmear of guiltBiden’s first stop after church, a ‘Jew-ish’ deli

By Gabe Friedman

Imri Biton, left, and Nadia Tereszkiewicz in 'Possessions.' (Courtesy of HBO Max via JTA)

HBO’s next Israeli show is thriller about woman caught in murder case

By Curt Schleier

Prince Emanuele Filiberto arrives for a press conference in Milan, Italy, March 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Heir of Italian king apologizes for monarchy’s role in Holocaust

By AFP

Illustrative image of the European Union and Israeli flags (Maksym Kapliuk; iStock by Getty Images)

EU firms punching below their weight in Israeli tech scene, report shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

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