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What Matters Most On Friday, January 29, 2021

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Policemen stand guard near the Israeli Embassy after a blast in the area in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Rishi Lekhi)

Blast outside Israel’s New Delhi embassy damages cars; security raised worldwide

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nobody hurt in explosion apparently caused by a small improvised device; Israeli authorities treating it as a suspected terror attack

US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House on January 25, 2021. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Analysis

Biden’s first phone calls show where he’s looking — and it’s not at Israel

Unlike his predecessors, the US president has not called Middle East leaders in his first days, likely indicating what his administration will focus on: Neighbors and NATO

(L-R) UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and US President Donald Trump, wave on the South Lawn of the White House after they participated in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Netanyahu says US freeze of F-35 sale to UAE won’t dent normalization

(L) Anne Neuberger, new director of cybersecurity at the US National Security Agency and Maher Bitar, NSC senior director for intelligence programs. (Screen captures/YouTube)

White House slams ‘spurious’ attacks on Jewish, Palestinian staff picks

Acro Ninja athlete Tami Jeffay and her team of Mighty Girls, in August 2020. (Courtesy Tami Jeffay)

Helping make obstacles for TV ninjas, a mom shows girls how to defy life’s tests

By Jessica Steinberg

Fragment of the rare purple fabric from 1,000 BCE excavated in the Timna Valley. (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ancient cloth with Bible’s purple dye found in Israel, dated to King David’s era

3 scraps from 1,000 BCE, earliest such finds in region, point to Edomite kingdom described in Bible; vibrant and lasting ‘royal’ dye, mark of the elite, comes from murex sea snails

Dr. Katia Cytryn-Silverman, an archaeologist with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, poses for a portrait at the site of the Al-Juma (Friday) Mosque, in Tiberias, northern Israel, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

By Sea of Galilee, unprecedented excavation of mosque from Islam’s first decades

By Ilan Ben Zion

The real threat of COVID-19 to the religious community (and to our humanity)

Isolation can be hard, but it IS easier to pray alone, to not have guests on Shabbat, to lecture over Zoom instead of traveling for the face-to-face – and easier is dangerous

Caleb Guedes-Reed

As I was converting to Judaism, I found myself in a hot tub full of neo-Nazis

Undressed in the bath with skinheads, I started rethinking my choice to become a Jew, for the first time

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

When Pharaoh stopped calling the shots

Joseph saved his family by working within the system, and Moses was effective after leaving it – the contrast between them is an object lesson in freedom

At the intersection of two pandemics

Since my brother died of AIDS, I have met ’dinosaurs’ – those living inexplicably long lives with HIV. Today, they are coping with a second plague

Illustration of a human brain (apagafonova via iStock by Getty Images)

Israel-led team creates a ‘Google Map’ of brain RNA; may help Alzheimer’s fight

By Nathan Jeffay

Scientists sequence RNA inside tissue ‘to nano resolution,’ and say breakthrough heralds new insights on brain research and why immunotherapy only works on some cancer patients

US Vice President Kamala Harris looks on as President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders in the State Dining Room of the White House, January 26, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

Biden breaks from predecessors by taking it slow on Israeli-Palestinian peace

Like Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton, US president says ultimate goal is 2-state solution; unlike them, he’s not interested in launching a high-stakes initiative to get there

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Under new US leadership, UN chief sees ‘hope’ for Mideast peace progress

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Terrorist Ali Hassan Salameh, left, is seen with then Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in an undated photo (Courtesy)

PA daily and Fatah Facebook page eulogize Munich terror mastermind as role model

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks during an Israeli Navy ceremony in Haifa, on March 4, 2020. (Flash90)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Picking a fight with US over Iran deal, IDF chief baffles even accord’s critics

Kohavi’s public denunciation of Biden’s intention to rejoin nuke agreement seen as needlessly antagonistic of a brand new White House, possibly motivated by domestic budget fight

Then Secretary of Defense nominee Lloyd Austin speaks during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 19, 2021. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP)

New US defense secretary speaks to Gantz, vows to uphold Israel’s military edge

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, left, and the head of the US Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie plant a tree in honor of the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, on January 28, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Head of US military’s Central Command lands in Israel to meet with IDF top brass

By Judah Ari Gross

Pedestrians pass a GameStop store in New York City, January 28, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

The Jewish angles to the GameStop stock saga, explained

By Gabe Friedman

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, June 10, 2019 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s nuclear activities do not mean it’s seeking atomic bomb, FM Zarif says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tehran’s top diplomat once again insists US must return to deal before Iran does, as Turkish counterpart expresses hope for sanctions removal

Robert Malley in 2018 (YouTube/ Screen capture)

Biden set to name Obama aide Malley as Iran envoy; hawks reportedly ‘aghast’

By ToI Staff and AP

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Iran says it will install 1,000 centrifuges at nuclear plant in next 3 months

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jews from the Ugandan Abayudaya community participating in the Shabbat Project. (Courtesy)

Israel-Diaspora rift

Conservative Jewish leaders slam Israel’s rejection of Ugandan Jewish immigrants

Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin, co-editors of 'The New Jewish Canon: Ideas & Debates 1980-2015.' (Academic Studies Press)

Behind the Headlines

Join ToI Community to catch two authors who are redacting modern Jewish history

In this week’s Behind the Headlines, for ToI Community members, Drs. Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin discuss Judaism’s recent transformation and their book ‘The New Jewish Canon’

In this photo taken May 19, 2011, a miner works at an illegal mining process in Delta Uno, Madre de Dios, Peru. Mercury released by the mining is slowly poisoning people, plants, animals and fish, scientific studies show (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Humans destroying basis of our existence, ‘ecological footprint’ expert warns

Canada’s Prof. William Rees tells Israeli confab we are extracting resources as if Earth were 73% bigger, deluding ourselves that economic growth, consumption, can go on

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks during a press conference at Airport City, outside Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2020. (Flash90)

Gov’t appears poised to extend lockdown as vote on raising fines set for Sunday

By Stuart Winer

Factions agree to vote on boosted enforcement, seemingly halting infighting that was complicating closure; health minister warns Israel will be ‘virus incubator’ if lockdown lifted

Israel said to apologize to UAE for official blaming virus surge on Dubai travel

Panel of experts warns closure of education system does more harm than good

By Stuart Winer

London halts UAE flights as several countries fear Dubai boosting COVID spread

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

KGB groomed Trump as an asset for 40 years, former Russian spy says

New book interviewing Yuri Shvets and many other sources alleges Moscow rescued Trump’s businesses with laundered funds, directly tying this to ex-president’s affinity for Putin

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

Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed deadly forest fire on Rothschilds and space lasers

Employees of the Competence Call Center (CCC) work for the Facebook Community Operations Team in Essen, Germany, November 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

New Facebook oversight panel orders banned posts restored; no decision on Trump

By AFP

More Headlines

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnap-slaying, appears at the court in Karachi, Pakistan, March 29, 2002. (Zia Mazhar/AP)

US ‘prepared to prosecute’ man acquitted in Pakistan of murdering Daniel Pearl

By AFP

This Sept. 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows the investigational Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. Johnson & Johnson's long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine appears to protect against symptomatic illness with just one shot – not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses. (Cheryl Gerber/Johnson & Johnson via AP)

One shot J&J vaccine moderately effective, less against South Africa variant

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and LINDA A. JOHNSON

A Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville restaurant in downtown San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images via JTA)

Heavenly lodgingsTimes Square’s new ‘Margaritaville’ to include first-floor synagogue

By JTA

In this Tuesday, May 26, 2020 file photo released by Nucleus Network/ABC, clinical trial participants are monitored during Novavax COVID-19 vaccine testing in Melbourne, Australia (Patrick Rocca/Nucleus Network/ABC via AP)

Novavax says its vaccine appears 96% effective, but less so against variants

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Palestinians sit as PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh opens a hospital for COVID-19 patients in the West Bank city of Nablus, on January 16, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

Israel to give Palestinians vaccines for 1,000 medical workers — report

By AFP and ToI Staff

Valdas Rakutis walks into the Seimas building in Vilnius, Lithuania on November 24, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons/Sofija Vytautaitė)

Jews share blame for Holocaust, Lithuanian lawmaker says on remembrance day

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An olive tree surrounded by spring blooms in the Galilee, northern Israel, February 10, 2008. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Olive the aboveOlive voted as national tree to mark Tu Bishvat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara address their supporters on the night of the Israeli elections, at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

TV: PM’s wife working from private home, costing state hundreds of thousands

Iconic film star Sophia Loren, who will be honored by Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School at an upcoming February 22, 2021 graduation event (Courtesy Edoardo Ponti)

A special daySophia Loren named honorary fellow of Jerusalem film school

By Jessica Steinberg

Nursing home residents in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines at Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility in New York, January 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

New York undercounted COVID nursing home deaths by thousands, state’s AG says

By MARINA VILLENEUVE, Bernard Condon and Matt Sedensky

Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, right, arrives in Basra, Iraq on July 15, 2020. (Ahmed al-Rubaye/Pool Photo via AP)

Iraqi premier says top Islamic State figure killed by security forces

By AFP

US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden watch a military pass in review ceremony on the East Front of the Capitol at the conclusion of the inauguration ceremonies, in Washington, January 20, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

InterviewLibrettist Gene Scheer is awed Biden cited his ‘American Anthem’ at inauguration

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