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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 7, 2021

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on August 24, 2020. (Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Live updates (closed)

‘Blood will be on your hands’: Recordings leaked from chaotic cabinet meeting

By Michael Bachner

Exchanges aired by 2 networks show Netanyahu hurling accusations at Gantz over lockdown extension, in mudslinging apparently aimed at potential voters

7:41 pm

'Blood will be on your hands': Recordings leaked from chaotic cabinet meeting
6:51 pm

Facebook removes group promoting conspiracies about COVID vaccines
6:34 pm

Iran's supreme leader: 'The post-US era has started'

Women get their hair styled at a salon in Tel Aviv on February 7, 2021, following the lifting of a nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel eases 3rd lockdown, lifting travel limit, restrictions on some businesses

Ministers to convene to discuss reopening of school system; airport closed until at least February 20

The BIG shopping center in Ashdod, on February 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Some malls reopen, defying virus rules: ‘We’re not waiting for the government’

A first-grade student on his first day of school at Tali Geulim school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ministry proposes alternate school days, outdoors, in cities worst-hit by virus

Illustrative -- Kansas City Chiefs fans celebrate the team's Super Bowl victory in Kansas City, Missouri, Feb. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Super Bowl 2021

‘The ways of Torah are peaceful’: Why football is a dilemma for American Jews

By Gabe Friedman

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 7 — Israel in the dock? What the ICC ruling means

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, speaks to IDF soldiers during a visit to the IDF Central Command in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz to IDF: ICC war crimes ruling ‘a tool of our enemies’; we will defend you

illustrative: A member of the Russian military police patrols near the village of Tal Krum in the Syrian Golan Heights, on August 14, 2018.(AFP PHOTO / Andrey BORODULIN)

Russian forces search for Israeli soldiers’ remains near Damascus — report

Evolutionary biologist and author of 'Exercised' Daniel Lieberman takes a man's blood pressure in Mexico. (Photo by David Ramos)

Interview

Loathe jogging? Harvard prof explains how humans evolved to be couch potatoes

By Cathryn J. Prince

This flawed decision turns the ICC itself into just one more Israel-basher

The Pre-Trial Chamber’s recognition of ICC jurisdiction over the Territories is an irreparable stain on the Court

The night of the attack

Nobody ever knocked on my door and said ’I’m so sorry to have to tell you that your son Avraham David has been killed’

Michal Slawny Cababia

It took aliyah for me to find my political home

The fact that I’m a Yesh Atid candidate for Knesset is proof to me of the Zionist dream, for we immigrants make a difference, on the ticket and across the country

Donald Trump and the time someone yelled ‘fire!’ in a crowded Yiddish theater

The Senate’s case may rest on whether the ex-president’s call to ’fight like hell’ was a clear and present danger, as happened in 1887

Attorney David Schoen speaks to the media, January 6, 2016. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Trump’s Orthodox impeachment lawyer wins pause if trial runs into Shabbat

By TOI staff and Agencies

Chuck Schumer’s spokesman says David Schoen’s request will be accommodated, according to New York Times, though it puts Senate leaders in a bind on timeframe

Roberta Kaplan, right, a lead lawyer in Sines v. Kessler, and Amy Spitalnick, executive director of Integrity First for America, the nonprofit funding the lawsuit, pose for a photo in Atherton Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

Meet Roberta Kaplan, the Jewish lawyer taking on Trump and the far-right

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

Senator Patrick Leahy, the president pro tempore of the US Senate, who is presiding over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, swears in members of the Senate for the trial at the US Capitol in Washington, January 26, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

ExplainerEverything you need to know about Trump’s second impeachment trial

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Thousands protest on Saturday, February 6, 2021 in the Arab-Israeli town of Tamra, northeast of Haifa, where a nursing student was killed earlier in the week in a shootout between police and suspected criminals. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Thousands protest against violent crime in Arab communities after student killed

By TOI staff and Aaron Boxerman

Demonstrators gather in Tamra, where nursing student Ahmad Hejazi, 22, was killed in a shootout between police, suspected criminals this week

Demonstrators scuffle with police during a protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the PM's official residence in Jerusalem, February 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prominent activist injured in clashes at anti-Netanyahu rally

Illustrative: A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Jerusalem, on January 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US rabbis guessing if they’re eligible for vaccine in midst of chaotic rollout

By Hannah Dreyfus

From left, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.; Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; speak to reporters on Capitol Hill on Jan. 10, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrat lawmaker backtracks on claim Israel ‘burning down Palestinian villages’

Rep. Ro Khanna says he should have ‘clarified’ he was referring to incidents where ‘Israeli settlers burn Palestinian orchards, olive trees’

Lou Dobbs, left, speaks with Bill O'Reilly during taping a segment for Fox News channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," in New York, November 16, 2009. (AP/Kathy Willens)

Fox News cancels show of pro-Trump host over conspiracy theories

By AFP

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud minister opposes ‘unacceptable’ Ben Gvir joining future coalition

Senior member of ruling party says he cannot imagine sitting in same government as leader of Otzma Yehudit party, whose path to Knesset has been smoothed by Netanyahu

Israeli politician Gideon Sa'ar speaks at his New Hope party's headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Sa’ar: There’ll be no place for extremist Ben Gvir in my coalition

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's annual conference, April 18 2017, San José, California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Beam me up, Mark

‘We should be teleporting, not driving,’ says Zuckerberg

Facebook founder ponders the impact of virtual and augmented reality technology on the future of how people live

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Musician Marilyn Manson and actress Evan Rachel Wood attend the after party for a special screening of "Across The Universe" at Bette on September 13, 2007 in New York City (Scott Wintrow / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Evan Rachel Wood accuses Marilyn Manson of anti-Semitic abuse

By TOI staff and AP

Taiwan and Israel flags (Oleksii Liskonih; iStock by Getty Images)

Taiwan program seeks Israeli startups in AI, big data to pave way to Asia

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rep. Lee Zeldin is among the bill's sponsors, saying it could "establish an international brain trust invaluable" to American and Israeli service members. (John Paraskevas/Newsday RM/Getty Images via JTA)

US military veterans introduce joint US-Israel PTSD research bill

A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, in April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter, 1943. (AP Photo)

Holocaust historians face verdict in Poland defamation trial

By Stanislaw Waszak

Illustrative -- Thabisle Khlatshwayo, receives her second shot at a vaccine trial facility for AstraZeneca at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 30, 2020 (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

AstraZeneca shot less effective against mild illness caused by S. African strain

By TOI staff and Agencies

Tiffany Haddish appears on the red carpet to premiere her Netflix special "Black Mitzvah" in December 2020. (Netflix via JTA)

170 celebrities sign launch of Black-Jewish Entertainment Alliance

By Gabe Friedman

A medic prepares the Coviran coronavirus vaccine produced by Shifa Pharmed, part of a state-owned pharmaceutical conglomerate, for injection at a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, December 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Aref Taherkenareh)

Iran to start COVID-19 vaccinations within week, says Rouhani

By AFP

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, and opposition leader Vadim Rabinovich, right. (AP/Seth Wenig/Efrem Lukatsky)

Jewish lawmaker advances impeachment against Ukraine’s Jewish president

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Baroness Jenny Tonge (screen capture: YouTube)

Anti-Israel UK lawmaker who blamed anti-Semitism rise on Jewish groups retires

This June 1, 2020 illustration provided by Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre depicts the United Arab Emirates' Hope Mars probe. (Alexander McNabb/MBRSC via AP)

UAE’s Mars probe ‘Hope’ to be 1st Arab space mission, 5th to reach Red Planet

By Dana Moukhallati

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