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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 13, 2021

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In this screenshot, Michael van der Veen, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, listens as the clerk read a question from Senator Bill Cassidy, during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the US Capitol in Washington, February 12, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

Senate delays impeachment vote, seeks witnesses after shock report on Trump call

By Agencies and TOI staff

Following reveal of shouting match between ex-president, GOP’s McCarthy on day of Capitol attack, Senate extends trial to look at evidence; earlier McConnell said he’d acquit

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after stepping off Air Force One, May 30, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California is at left. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Expletive-laden shouting match shows Trump refused to call off Capitol rioters

By TOI staff and AP

In this image from video, a security video shows Vice President Mike Pence being evacuated as rioters breach the Capitol, as House impeachment manager Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

Impeachment trial reveals possible risk to Pence’s nuclear codes in Capitol riot

By TOI staff and Agencies

Analysis

Haley definitively breaks from Trump; it could make her Jews’ GOP 2024 favorite

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nikki Haley has finally and decisively broken with Donald Trump in a move that puts her at the front of the potential Republican presidential pack for moderate conservatives, including pro-Israel Jews who mainly stuck with the party over the past four years because of Trump’s foreign policy. After serving as his UN... Continue Reading

Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations, in Monroe, Georgia, October 30, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/JTA)

Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks while campaigning for US Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Trump can’t run again, says former UN envoy Nikki Haley

By AFP

Then-US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with outgoing US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House, October 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

From the webNikki Haley pans Trump’s post-election behavior: ‘He let us down’

Incoming ICC prosecutor Karim Khan in Baghdad, July 27, 2019. (Sabah Arar/AFP)

UK’s Karim Khan elected next ICC prosecutor, will replace controversial Bensouda

By Agencies and TOI staff

Said to be Israel’s preferred candidate, British lawyer will likely decide whether to move ahead with planned probe of alleged Israeli, Hamas war crimes; Bensouda leaves in June

Illustrative photo of the ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, and the Arab village of Wadi Fukin below, June 17, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

US Reform movement condemns KKL-JNF plan to buy West Bank land for settlements

Palestinian Authority workers destroyed part of the retaining wall of a West Bank archeological complex believed to house an altar built by biblical Joshua on February 11, 2021 (Screencapture/twitter)

Rivlin urges army to protect West Bank shrine said damaged by PA construction

A young Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, on February 10, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top health official says ‘buzz’ that young people are not vaccinating is wrong

40% of those aged 16-39 have received first shot; government pushing ahead with plans to offer incentives, access to concerts, sporting events to those who are vaccinated

Palestinian Muslims resume praying outside the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosques compound on February 12, 2021, following a 45-day pause due to COVID-19 restrictions. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

15,000 Muslim worshipers pack Temple Mount in defiance of COVID restrictions

A medical worker tests an ultra-Orthodox man for coronavirus in Safed on February 10, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Haredi towns see drop in COVID morbidity rate, but remain among highest

Zalman Unreich (On) teaching wrestling in Palestine, 1930s. Photo appeared on collecting cards and in book titled, 'Mishmar VeSport' (https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002015431/NLI)

Interview

Wrestler, rescuer, diplomat, spy: Grandson unmasks his heroic Israeli patriarch

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Support for the Adoption Tax Credit is a Jewish imperative

Contact your reps to support this bill enabling families to give vulnerable children safe homes and repairing a society drowning in fear and selfishness

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Is the Jewish deli the new synagogue?

Engaging with food is a huge part of Jewish identity — from it we capture nostalgia, maintain community and share stories

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, center, and Lauren Boebert, left, are seen during a group photo with freshmen members of the House Republican Conference in Washington, DC, January 4, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)

How Jewish constituents describe their new congresswomen who’ve supported QAnon

A man donates plasma at the Jewish Children's Museum plasma drive, Brooklyn, New York, January 27, 2021. (Courtesy/Anash.org)

Analysis

Cathryn J. Prince

Grassroots Orthodox effort in NY helps bring antibody treatment into mainstream

In early 2020, donors recruited by the Covid Plasma Initiative supplied 50% of the nation’s plasma, also demonstrating the treatment’s efficacy and paving the way to widespread use

Andrew Yang announces his run for New York Mayor during a press conference in Morningside Park on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).

NYC mayoral hopeful Yang backs hands-off approach to Orthodox yeshiva education

By Hannah Dreyfus

People wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus ride in a subway train in Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Worldwide coronavirus case count plunges by almost half in last month

By AFP

Police Commissioner Yaacov Shabtai (3R) and Deputy Public Security Minister Gadi Yevarkan (C) meets with the family of Solomon Tekah on February 12,2021 (Israel Police)

Police chief transfers cop who killed Ethiopian-Israeli teen to fire department

After meeting family of Solomon Tekah, whose killing in 2019 sparked nationwide protests, Shabtai backs off decision to reinstate officer to police service, calls for restraint

A girl smiles upon arriving from Ethiopia as her mother kisses the ground at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on February 12, 2021. (Courtesy of ICEJ via JTA)

While skies officially shut, exception made for 300 Ethiopian Jewish immigrants

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A field of anemone flowers blossoming in Shokeda Forest, southern Israel, January 30, 2019 (Dudi Modan/Flash90)

Tens of thousands flock to nature reserves as lockdown eased, temperatures rise

With stormclouds on the horizon for later this week, Israelis take advantage of eased restrictions while the warm weather lasts

Elli Kriel, a sociologist by training, has succeeded as a chef by fusing traditional Jewish and Emirati recipes. (Courtesy of Kriel via JTA)

With fusion Emirati-Jewish dishes, a kosher chef blossoms in Dubai

By Asma Ali Zain

More Headlines

Emergency services at the site of a light plane crash near Afula, February 13, 2020 (Magen David Adom spokesperson)

Pilot, passenger killed in light aircraft crash near Afula

A health worker prepares doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine on the first day of vaccination campaign, in Rabat, Morocco, Jan. 29, 2021 (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

AstraZeneca vaccine to be tested on children as young as 6 in world-first trial

By Agencies and TOI staff

An Incredible Hulk model in the exhibit hall during the fourth day of the Comic-Con International 2011 convention held in San Diego, July 24, 2011 (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Marvel removes ‘troubling and offensive’ anti-Semitic trope from Hulk comic

In this Feb. 2, 2021, file photo, students wear masks as they work in a fourth-grade classroom, at Elk Ridge Elementary School in Buckley, Washington (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

CDC: Classroom schooling can resume safely with masks and social distancing

By Collin Binkley and Mike Stobbe

The payslip of a Roman soldier found at Masada, believed to be from between 72 and 75 CE (Courtesy)

Hail seizure!Roman soldier’s ancient Masada payslip shows unfair wages go way back

Illustrative: Palestinian and left-wing Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel and support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp)

US court revives challenge to Arkansas law targeting the boycott Israel movement

Arno Klarsfeld in an interview broadcast February 10, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Son of famed French Holocaust survivor likens slaughterhouses to gas chambers

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The border fence between Israel and Egypt, January 02, 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO/FLASH90)

IDF soldier lightly hurt by stray fire in exchange between Egypt army, smugglers

A police vehicle stoned by participants at an illegal wedding near the Itamar settlement on February 11, 2020, and one of the officers who was lightly injured while breaking up the gathering. (Israel Police)

3 cops injured by stone-throwing revelers at illegal West Bank wedding

Jorge Knoblovits heads the Jewish umbrella group DAIA in Argentina. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Argentine Jewish leader gets police protection following anti-Semitic threat

By JTA

Illustrative: People board a bus outside Waterloo station in London, Sept. 23, 2020. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Woman punches Holocaust survivor and rabbi son on London bus: ‘I hate you Jews’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady was held in Iran for three months before being released on bail on November 21, 2019. (Facebook)

Academic who fled Iran when charged with visiting Israel accused of sexual abuse

By AFP

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