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What Matters Most On Monday, January 3, 2022

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Travelers arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, on December 22, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel set to reopen Sunday to some vaccinated tourists; US and UK still out

Recommendations subject to Knesset committee approval; quarantine for vaccinated returning Israelis to be shortened

People stand in line to be tested for coronavirus in Tel Aviv, on January 2, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Over 6,500 new daily cases as virus surge turns Tel Aviv into high-infection area

FM fears 'debate unprecedented in its venom, radioactivity'

Lapid: 2022 will see intense effort to paint Israel as apartheid state

By Lazar Berman

Foreign minister warns Israeli participation in international events could be threatened by campaigns at The Hague and UN; says Israel open to a good deal on Iran’s nuclear program

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Newly appointed Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Ziad Hab al-Reeh shakes PA premier Mohammad Shtayyeh's hand after formally receiving his portfolio on Sunday, January 2, 2022 (WAFA)

PA appoints intelligence chief as minister overseeing security forces

By Aaron Boxerman

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 2, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Bennett announces approval of 4th vaccine doses for over-60s, medical workers

PM says travel restrictions likely to be lifted in coming week; ministers okay temporary Green Pass for anyone who gets 1st vaccine shot

Screen capture from video of Ora Rosenzweig, one of the first COVID-19 patients in Israel to be prescribed Pfizer's coronavirus-fighting drug, Paxlovid, January 2, 2022. (Channel 12 News)

First patients in Israel receive Pfizer’s coronavirus-fighting pill

Merck antiviral medication molnupiravir. (Merck & Co. via AP, File)

Health Ministry approves Merck’s anti-COVID pill, the second okayed in Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People stand in line to be tested for coronavirus in Tel Aviv, on January 2, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed(

Daily case rate climbs to 6,570, but serious cases not rising in parallel

108 Israelis in serious condition due to COVID-19, which is two less than a day earlier, strengthening analysis that Omicron variant not as strong as previous strains

7:22 pm

Apple becomes 1st US company to reach $3 trillion valuation
7:07 pm

US Congress’ doctor urges ‘maximal telework’
6:50 pm

Doctors begin prescribing Pfizer's Paxlovid pills against COVID

Thirty-Six podcast

Leket’s Joseph Gitler

How the Founder and Chairman of Israel’s leading food rescue organization transformed his idea of minimizing food waste into one of Israel’s most well-respected and impactful nonprofit organizations

Iranian news agency launches Hebrew site to mark anniversary of Soleimani killing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tasnim says its new website is necessary due to ‘strategic importance’ of the Palestinian issue for Muslims around the world; also opens Hebrew Twitter, Instagram accounts

A screen grab of the image used by Iran's Tasnim News to launch its Hebrew-language site on January 2, 2022 (Screen capture)

Iran cites new ‘realism’ from Western powers at nuclear talks

By AFP

Jerusalem Post website hacked with Iran warning on anniversary of Soleimani killing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Armed drones targeting Baghdad compound shot down on anniversary of Soleimani death

By Laure Al Khoury

SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. (NIAID-RML via AP)

Study: Coronavirus spreads quickly throughout body, can linger in organs for months

In this May 19, 2021, photo, a licensed practical nurse draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Fear and worry over COVID can lead to impaired cognitive function, study finds

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (R) and MK Idan Roll, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 7, 2019. (Flash90)

Lapid rebukes deputy FM for dancing maskless at New Year’s Eve party

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Dear parents: It’s ok to be THAT mom or dad when it comes to your child’s health

Worried about looking neurotic or insulting people? Don’t, it’s YOUR baby. Anyone who tells you otherwise – well, here’s what they can do…

Daniel Rosehill

Lessons from an Israeli-Palestinian beer-and-burger meetup

10 of us braved the rain and, without the lens of international news coverage about our official dispute, began chipping away at our mutual ignorance

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 3 – Omicron encroaches, and Israeli food tech expands

Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben-David discusses the need for a local food technology plan, and health and science correspondent Nathan Jeffay offers an Omicron overview

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Dec. 1, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Fauci cites near ‘vertical’ rise in US COVID cases, but sees hope wave may soon fade

By AFP

Anna Boros and Dr. Mohamed Helmy, circa WWII. (Anna Gutman Estate, Carla Gutman Greenspan Family Archives, New York)

Interview'He was a talented con man'

How an Egyptian doctor saved a Jewish teen in Nazi Berlin

By Robert Philpot

‘Anna and Dr. Helmy’ by Ronen Steinke tells the true story of an Arab physician who resisted German overtures and helped a girl survive the Holocaust by parading her in plain sight

A cultivated beef kebab by Israeli cultured meat company Future Meat. (Future Meat)

Israel must nourish its food tech industry or risk falling behind, report warns

By Ricky Ben-David

Without comprehensive strategy and funding, country will have ‘initiated’ field but will not reap benefits, according to Good Food Institute Israel

Israeli cleantech company Tipa develops compostable packaging solutions for food and goods. (Tipa)

Israeli compostable packaging firm Tipa nabs $70m investment

By Ricky Ben-David

Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, the terrorist who killed an Israeli civilian and wounded four others in a shooting attack in East Jerusalem's Old City on November 21, 2021. (Facebook)

IDF issues demolition order for home of Hamas terrorist who killed Eli Kay

By Judah Ari Gross

Move comes a month and a half after the attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, following attempts by Abu Shkaydam’s family to block it

Joint List MKs pay a solidarity visit on January 2, 2022, to the Palestinian village of Beita in the northern West Bank where residents have been engaged in regular protests for months, often clashing with the IDF over the establishment of the illegal Evyatar outpost nearby. (Joint List)

Likud MKs visit outpost, as Joint List stops by neighboring Palestinian town

Former Lebanese foreign minister Gebran Bassil, speaks to journalists at the presidential palace, in Baabda east of Beirut, Lebanon, October 22, 2020. (AP/ Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanese Christian leader: Our alliance with Hezbollah is no longer working

By Sarah El Deeb

Illustrative: Female soldiers of the Caracal Battalion, November 2007. (Yoni Markovitzki/IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

IDF to open female-only combat platoon to accommodate religious servicewomen

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Unit to be incorporated into one of the existing mixed-gender battalions; seminaries have reportedly made clear women want to serve if religious obstacles can be overcome

Aaron Lieberman, shown in an undated photo from his campaign website, quit his Arizona state legislature seat in September to run for governor next year. (aaron4az.com/via JTA)

'I’m here for all Arizonans no matter their faith tradition'

Jumpstart founder Aaron Lieberman wants to be Arizona’s first Jewish governor

After quitting in his second term to focus on his campaign, the former state legislator and startup CEO is focusing on bipartisan issues in the famously purple state

Dozens protest antisemitism in New York after two Jews attacked

Then-Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks during a session of the summit to support Sudan, at the Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris on May 17, 2021. (Christophe Ena/AP)

Analysis

Sudan PM quitting risks return to repressive policies, analysts say

As activists call for more protests, military rulers step up powers to quell dissent; Abdalla Hamdok, seen as a mediator between sides, is now departing

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks during a session of the summit to support Sudan, May 17, 2021 at the Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris. (AP Photo/ Christophe Ena, Pool)

‘I tried my best’: Sudan’s PM announces resignation amid political deadlock

By AFP

In this January 6, 2021 photo, supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the US Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar)

One year after Capitol riots, polls show Americans deeply fearful for democracy

By AFP

Pride in US democracy drops sharply, with many saying violence against the government can be justified in certain situations

This image from Metropolitan Police Department body worm camera video and contained in the Statement of Facts supporting an arrest warrant for Pauline Bauer, pointing second to left, taken in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Justice Department via AP)

Capitol’s most violent rioters now claim to be ashamed, pleading for mercy

By Michael Kunzelman, Colleen Long, JACQUES BILLEAUD and LINDSAY WHITEHURST

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

Twitter permanently bans personal account of Marjorie Taylor Greene

By AP

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg poses at the 2019 'An Unforgettable Evening' benefiting the Women's Cancer Research Fund in Beverly Hills, Calif. on February 28, 2019. (Chris Pizzello/ Invision/ AP)

The show must go on

Spielberg’s rescue of Welsh town movie theater hits big screen

By Stuart Winer

‘Save the Cinema’ tells true story of how a social activist kept Lyric Cinema in Carmarthen open by arranging 1993 premier of Jurassic Park, with a little help from the director

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'We believe victims' fliers placed in the mailboxes of a building of Haredi residents on December 31, 2021. (Courtesy)

Challenging rabbis, Orthodox activists hand out fliers after Walder victim’s suicide

Construction work at the Gilboa Prison to fix design flaws that led to jailbreak, December 2, 2022 (Israel Prison Service)

Construction begins at Gilboa Prison to fix design flaws that led to jailbreak

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks with Economy and Industry Minister Orna Barbivai at the Knesset on October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government approves planning and construction reform in business sector

By David Brummer

Customers at a branch of the Golda ice cream company (Screen grab/Channel 12)

Ice cream, pasta and sushi are latest products to see price hikes

Like it's 1999Y2K redux? 2022 Microsoft bug glitches email program

Likud MK David Amsalem during a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 6, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ FLASH90)

Likud’s Amsalem files NIS 500K defamation lawsuit against media outlets, figures

In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, June 25, 2021, a Tu-22M3 bomber of the Russian air force takes off from the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

3 killed in Russian airstrikes on rebel-held Idlib, Syrian monitors say

A view from Tamanart, Morocco. (Marokko-erfahren/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Researchers discover ruins of 16th-century Jewish community in Morocco

By Jordyn Haime

An illustrative file photo of an ambulance on August 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two men killed in unrelated work accidents

An illustrative photo of Israeli firetrucks (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man, 60, found dead in apartment after building fire in Ramle

Illustrative: View of the Bank Hapoalim offices in the center of Tel Aviv. August 4, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bank worker charged with pocketing NIS 114,000 in cash deposited by clients

Relatives, friends and journalists stand beside the coffin of slain Mexican radio journalist Jacinto Romero Flores, during a Mass in Ixtaczoquitlan, Veracruz state, Mexico, Aug. 19, 2021. (Felix Marquez/AP)

45 journalists killed in 2021 in one of the lowest tolls ever, says media watchdog

By AFP

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