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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 19, 2021

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Israeli special forces arrest two men suspected of being part of the cell that carried out a deadly shooting attack outside the Horesh outpost in the West Bank, on December 19, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli forces nab suspected terrorists in deadly West Bank shooting

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

6 Palestinians arrested in overnight raid; troops seize guns, car suspected of being used in attack that killed Yehuda Dimentman, wounded 2 others

Israeli special forces conduct a raid in the village of Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin to arrest the men suspected of having carried out a deadly shooting attack outside the Horesh outpost in the West Bank earlier in the week, on December 19, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Shin Bet: Suspects in deadly West Bank shooting are members of Islamic Jihad

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 14, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

PM, ministers praise security forces for capturing suspected terrorists

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

US, Canada, Germany, Italy among 10 countries Israel set to add to no-fly list

Ministers expected to endorse Health Ministry recommendation later Sunday, with countries to be designated ‘red’ starting Wednesday

An El Al plane parked at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Travelers walk with their luggage in Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, November 28, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Bracing for ‘significant outbreak,’ Israel looks to expand no-fly list

Prime Minister Naftali Benntt during a press briefing about the COVID-19 pandemic, December 19, 2021 (video screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett: Omicron coming; vaccinate your kids, work at home where possible

PM says Israel’s 5th wave has begun, urges parents to inoculate their children before strain becomes widespread; ‘in 3-4 weeks there will be no room for doubt’

7:13 pm

Environmental group says 100 million cubic meters of rainwater wasted every year
7:11 pm

Omicron may sideline two leading drugs against COVID-19
6:45 pm

TV: Ex-Mossad chief had affair, told woman and her husband state secrets

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2021. (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

PM urges vaccination to slow Omicron: Time is running out, infection wave is coming

Bennett says border restrictions delayed entry of variant, but there is already community transmission; reportedly not planning a sweeping ban on international travel

Israeli Consul General to New York Asaf Zamir speaks at a New York City event with the Jewish Federations of North America on September 27, 2021. (Shahar Azran)

Israel’s consul general in New York, 12 other aides test positive for COVID

Foreign Ministry claims Asaf Zamir still waiting for results, but diplomat’s wife blows lid off story with Instagram post

Disinfecting the Knesset ahead of the swearing in of MKs amid the coronavirus crisis, March 16, 2020 (Knesset spokeswoman)

9 Knesset members sent to quarantine after contact with suspected Omicron carrier

Israeli security forces demolish illegally constructed buildings on the Homesh outpost, which were set up following a deadly terror attack nearby, on December 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

IDF: Settlers assaulted troops while breaking into outpost

Israeli forces raze structures set up at illegal outpost after deadly terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Family of victim say his legacy should be the legalization of the Homesh yeshiva: ‘Otherwise we feel that this innocent victim’s death was in vain’

Police use a water cannon to disperse a group of protesters in Jerusalem, on Saturday, December 18, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

13 arrested at Jerusalem protest urging government action against terror attacks

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

ToI VideoWhat happened when Haredim moved into a liberal neighborhood

State of Jerusalem: The ‘Secular’ Struggle

In this first part of our three-part miniseries, we examine conflicts among Jerusalem’s Jewish communities

Erris Langer Klapper

COVID fatigue could be killing us

It’s hard to stay vigilant, but with Omicron, we must: letting down our guard allows the virus to keep spreading and endangering at least some of our loved ones

Needed: A two-pronged strategy for antisemitism from the right and left

US Jews must understand the different causes of – and remedies for – the right-wing’s deadly political fantasies, and the left’s totalistic utopianism

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 19 – Tech firms celebrate best year as tour guides bemoan fate

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross discusses last week’s terrorist attack, followed by Startup Israel editor Ricky Ben-David on the tourism industry and tech exits

Workers from the tourism sector, calling for financial support from the Israeli government, protest outside Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 13, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Chicken nuggets made by Israeli cultured meat developer Future Meat. (Future Meat)

Israel’s Future Meat raises $347m, largest investment for cultured meat firm to date

By Ricky Ben-David

ICAN Nevada Chairwoman Sigal Chattah with Armenian American ally Lenna Hovanessian in Nevada supporting Holocaust and Genocide education legislation. (Courtesy: Israeli-American Civic Action Network)

Interview'The best thing about Israel is outside Israel'

A Nevada conservative running for attorney general leans hard into her Israeliness

Sigal Chattah rose to prominence in the US for her anti-COVID restriction advocacy; now she’s promoting Israeli pride – so she and her fellow expats won’t have to go back to Israel

People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at a street-side testing booth in New York on December 17, 2021 (Ed Jones/AFP)

For New Yorkers, Omicron revives dark memories of nightmarish 2020

By Diane DESOBEAU and Nicolas Revise

‘We are actually in the beginning again, or maybe even worse,’ Brooklyn resident says as COVID surge prompts temporary business closures, cancellation of shows

Despite rainy weather, Duesseldorf's city center is well frequented despite the coronavirus rules for retailers, shortly before Christmas in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Saturday, December 18, 2021. (Malte Krudewig/dpa via AP)

European countries reimpose restrictions as Omicron sweeps continent

By DANICA KIRKA

In this handout image published by the Israel Defense Forces on December 18, 2021, a United States Cyber Command officer and an Israeli Joint Cyber Defense Division officer are seen at a US Cyber Command facility in the United States. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF Cyber Defense unit holds drill with US Cyber Command

By Emanuel Fabian

Joint exercise this week included training for ‘a variety of cyber defense challenges,’ military says

Spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group found on phone of jailed Indian activist

Illustrative image: A computer hacker. (iStock via Getty Images)

Hacker group claims to steal 3 million users’ data from Israeli hiking websites

Illustrative: Sarah Rosenberg, an ordination program student, studies in the beit midrash, a space for learning, at Yeshivat Maharat in the Bronx borough of New York, on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Despite tradition, more Orthodox Jewish women are getting ordained

By Ilan Ben Zion and Yonat Shimron

Women attempting to become rabbis or spiritual leaders face an uphill battle; in US, around half a dozen ordained women serve in Modern Orthodox synagogues

Orthodox Jewish women’s leadership is growing – and it’s not all about rabbis

By Michal Raucher

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Paul Rudd attends the premiere of "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" at AMC Lincoln Square 13, November 15, 2021, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

‘Sexiest man alive’ Paul Rudd hosts SNL without audience due to Omicron spike

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich attends the UEFA Women's Champions League final soccer match against FC Barcelona in Gothenburg, Sweden, on May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Roman empireOligarch Abramovich gets Portugal passport under Jewish ancestry law

Dalit Stauber speaks during a conference in Beit Shemesh on March 13, 2013. (Flash90)

Cabinet okays new Education Ministry director after feud over predecessor’s firing

A screenshot from video of a mass brawl in the southern Bedouin village of Abu Queider on December 17, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Man seriously hurt in mass brawl in southern Bedouin village

FILE -- A scientist works in a lab on coronavirus testing kits just outside Tehran, Iran, April 11, 2020 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran announces first diagnosed case of Omicron variant

By AP

The Israeli flag on Nawaf Al-Temyat's shirt at a FIFA Legends game in Qatar is seen blacked out, on December 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Saudi soccer player appears to deface Israeli flag on FIFA Legends uniform

In this January 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned US Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Pentagon documents reveal ‘deeply flawed’ US air war in Middle East — NYT

By AFP

Flipped-over helicopter near Yakum on December 19, 2021 (Screen grab/Ynet)

Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua lightly hurt after helicopter overturns on ground

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