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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 4, 2022

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Lt.-Col. Erez Sachyani (right) and Major Chen Fogel, who were killed in a helicopter crash on January 3, 2022 (Israel Defense Forces)

IAF chief grounds fleet after two die in helicopter crash at sea

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

25-year-old AS565 Panther, or ‘Atalef,’ can land on missile ships and is used to surveil enemy coastlines, locate maritime targets and conduct search-and-rescue operations

An Israeli army flare illuminates the sky during searches after a military helicopter crashed off the coast of Haifa on the night of January 3, 2022. Inset: The two soldiers killed, Lt.-Col. Erez Sachyani (right) and Major Chen Fogel (Alon Nadav/Flash90; Israel Defense Forces)

Two pilots killed in IDF helicopter crash off Haifa coast

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Police search for parts of a crashed military helicopter near the northern Israeli city of Hafia, January 3, 2022. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

IAF says military helicopter went down without warning, sank after crashing

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

With helicopter crash, Military Censor again confronts social media, comes up short

2 MKs shared information about Monday’s deadly crash, violating a gag order and, in one case, spreading a false rumor – but not before the internet was already awash with reports

An Israeli army flare illuminates the sky during searches, after a military helicopter crashed off the coast of Haifa on the night of January 3, 2022. (Alon Nadav/Flash90)

Washed up parts of a military helicopter lie on the ground after it crashed off the coast of Haifa on the night of January 3, 2022. (Alon Nadav/Flash90)

Bennett: IDF pilots killed in helicopter crash were ‘the best of us’

Cars line up at a drive-through COVID-19 testing center at Expo Tel Aviv, January 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Daily COVID cases surge past 10,000, near all-time record

By Michael Bachner

A woman receives a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, at a medical center in Ashkelon, on January 3, 2022. (Flash90)

Tens of thousands race for fourth COVID shot as Israeli campaign blazes ahead

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during a press conference near Tel Aviv, on December 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health minister pans ‘apocalyptic scenarios’ after PM predicts 50k daily COVID cases

Illustrative image: woman on a hospital bed (iStock by Getty Images)

ToI investigates

Easy to access, but hard to stomach, ‘humiliating’ abortion process may soon change

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Women seeking to terminate a pregnancy must justify themselves before an impersonal panel, a step reformers want to abolish. After decades, the Health Ministry is now on their side

Children by surrogacy to be allowed for same-sex couples, single men from next week

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Senior gynecologist arrested after 15 women accuse him of rape, harassment

By Michael Bachner

From the dynamic CEO of ADL: “It Could Happen Here” AVAILABLE NOW

Jonathan Greenblatt offers a bracing primer on how we-as individuals, as organizations & as a society-can strike back against antisemitism and hate. LEARN MORE AND BUY THE BOOK HERE

A Hezbollah drone brought down by the Israeli military after it crossed the border into Israel, on January 4, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

IDF says it downed Hezbollah drone as it crossed border into Israel

Forces monitored small quadcopter and brought it down as it entered Israel’s airspace, the army says

7:32 pm

Health official fear testing influx could cause crucial delay in life-saving pills
7:10 pm

IDF says it downed Hezbollah drone as it crossed border into Israel
7:06 pm

Lapid at Yesh Atid confab: 'We won't stop until we're the biggest party in Israel'

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 4 – One-year anniversary edition: Covid, politics and space!

David Horovitz breaks down current coronavirus politics, while Haviv Rettig Gur discusses his soon-to-appear interview with an American, ex-Israeli former NASA engineer

Prof. Ronni Gamzu in September 2020, when he was coronavirus czar. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

Omicron will give Israel herd immunity without swamping ICUs, says former COVID czar

By Nathan Jeffay

Ronni Gamzu predicts mass infections but fewer intensive care cases than during Delta wave, slams travel restrictions, says 4th shot is as logical as ‘1+1=2’

Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health services at the Health Ministry, speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem about new coronavirus restrictions, December 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top health official says Israel has ‘no control’ over Omicron as cases keep surging

Coronavirus czar Prof. Salman Zarka seen during a visit at a Safed hospital on August 24, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Virus czar denies Israel pursuing herd immunity through mass infection

Why I’m getting a fourth COVID vaccine

Because I’m from the generation that shows up, a generation that today would do almost anything for our kids and grandkids

Suzanne Singer: Building a life

After her son Alex was killed in battle in Lebanon, the US-born Jerusalem resident turned the tragedy into a teaching opportunity on how to live a meaningful life

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Why I wrote ‘It Could Happen Here’

Hate is on the rise everywhere in America, much more than many people realize. Our social fabric is weakening, and our communities are buckling under the pressure.

We must not abandon Diaspora Jewry in their hour of need

Travel restriction exceptions must be made for first-degree relatives, along with property owners and those coming for weddings or funerals

A goldfish operating a fish operated vehicle. (screen capture: Twitter/Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Just keep driving

Israeli scientists train goldfish to steer car around room

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University say fish managed to take specially designed vehicle to targets for rewards, showing that navigation may be independent of environment

Left: Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Then Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a press conference in Moscow, Russia, August 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)

Lapid feuds on Twitter with Iran FM who said Israel ‘has no place in world’s future’

Posting in Hebrew, English and Persian, Israel’s top diplomat answers Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, says Tehran’s ‘failed leadership is destroying Iran from within’

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech during a ceremony in the capital Tehran, on January 3, 2022, commemorating the second anniversary of the US drone strike in Iraq that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran vows revenge for Soleimani killing unless Trump put on trial

By AFP

Parts of the wreckage of a drone are laid out on the ground near the Ain al-Asad airbase, in the western Anbar province of Iraq, January 4, 2022. (International Coalition via AP)

For 2nd time in as many days, armed drones shot down in attack on US troops in Iraq

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Israeli tech companies raised $25.6 billion in ‘extraordinary’ 2021 — report

By Ricky Ben-David

Foreign investments account for record $18.64b of total capital amid ‘new reality’; 23 firms IPO on Wall Street, says IVC-Meitar report

The Nayax team opening trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, together with TASE officials Amon Neubach and Ittai Ben Zeev, first two from left, on May 20, 2021. (Sivan Farag)

Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll attends a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on December 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy FM found positive for coronavirus days after attending New Year’s party

Idan Roll said to be symptom-free, was checked after his husband, singer Harel Skaat, tested positive following case in his production team

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Three Israeli diplomatic missions closed due to COVID spread

By Lazar Berman

The stone toilet seat found during the excavation of an ancient villa at Armon Hanatziv in Jerusalem. (Ya’akov Billig/Israel Antiques Authority)

Down in the dumps

Ancient toilet shows Jerusalem’s rich wallowed in luxury – and discomfort

By Stuart Winer

Sediment samples swiped from 2,700-year-old privy reveal the presence of intestinal worm eggs that would have caused abdominal pain, diarrhea and itching

Technicians from Israeli firm Kando extract sewage samples from a manhole near the beach, in the southern coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon, on June 11, 2020 (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Poo patrol: Israeli firm to deploy coronavirus-detecting tech in sewers nationwide

By Ricky Ben-David

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Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)

Numbers of animals imported for fattening, slaughter up 42% last year

Agriculture Ministry says a record 856,630 calves and lambs shipped to Israel in 2021; 7 bills in Knesset seek to halt live shipments within 3 years, import chilled meat instead

Flooded vineyards following heavy rainfall near the Jewish settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, January 9, 2020. (Yaniv Nadav/ Flash90)

Global warming caused NIS 300 million of agricultural damage in 2021 – report

Soft drinks at a Rami Levi supermarket in Israel, December 3, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel hikes tax on sweetened drinks in bid to encourage healthy lifestyle

Ines Chattas, the new culinary director at UN Plaza Grill in Manhattan, with some of the dishes she has added to spice up the menu: beef potstickers (left) and crispy seared branzino. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

'There are less than a handful of women in such a position'

She wants to take the upscale kosher restaurant UN Plaza Grill to the next level

By Rachel Ringler

Argentinian-born, Miami-based Ines Chattas is bringing her over 20 years of hospitality experience to the Big Apple, along with a culinary heritage spanning from Germany to Syria

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Then US president-elect Donald Trump, center, stands next to Allen Weisselberg, second from left, Donald Trump Jr., right and Ivanka Trump, left, at a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, on January 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/File)

Trump, Ivanka and Don Jr. subpoenaed by New York attorney general in fraud probe

By AP

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks during a Blue and White faction meeting at the Knesset on December 6, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz, ‘disappointed’ by criticism of Abbas meeting, vows to meet PA chief again

A screenshot from Omer Adam's latest song, 'Kakdila,' which has been called racist by several prominent Israelis (Courtesy screenshot)

Harmful cocktailOmer Adam’s new song ‘Kakdila’ called out for racist overtones

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speak at the Knesset, on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Lapid won’t rule out meeting Abbas, but says no reason to do so right now

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, accompanied by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, right, speaks at bilateral meeting at the State Department in Washington, Oct. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Israel will keep US in the loop on major economic deals with China — report

Illustrative: An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, October 2, 2019. (Staff Sgt. J.T. Armstrong/US Air Force via AP)

Five global nuclear powers make rare pledge to prevent atomic weapons spread

By Stuart Williams and Didier Lauras

Illustrative: A picture taken from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip shows Israeli soldiers inspecting the area around their observation post next to the border fence with the coastal enclave on August 1, 2019, following a firefight with a Palestinian gunman. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Machine gun fire from Gaza triggers alarms near border community

By Judah Ari Gross

Emma Watson poses for photographers at The Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony, Alexandra Palace, England, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. (AP/Scott Garfitt)

UN envoy lashes out at Harry Potter star Emma Watson for Palestinian solidarity post

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reads a book during a Knesset plenum session on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu kept advance from Yedioth for unpublished book – report

Jewish author Mameve Medwed. (mamevemedwed.com/Grace Yagel for JTA)

Mameve Medwed, novelist whose ‘New England Jewish wit’ infused her work, dies at 79

By Penny Schwartz

Britain's Prince Andrew speaks. during a television interview at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, England, on April 11, 2021. (Steve Parsons/Pool Photo via AP)

2009 settlement between Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew’s accuser made public

By Larry Neumeister

Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on January 3, 2022 in San Jose, California. A jury found Holmes guilty on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud investors. (David Odisho / Getty Images via AFP)

Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes convicted of fraud, conspiracy over blood test scam

By Michael Liedtke

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