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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 5, 2022

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A Magen David worker take a COVID-19 rapid antigen test to detect coronavirus, at a screening center in Jerusalem, on December 30, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

12,554: Israel reports all-time high for new daily COVID-19 infections

By AP and ToI Staff

Record number comes amid confusion over regulations and massive lines at testing centers; serious cases continue to rise, most of them unvaccinated

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) tours Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, on January 4, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Week into trial, Bennett claims 4th vaccine shot provides major immunity boost

People wait to be tested for COVID-19 at a public hospital in Asuncion, Paraguay, January 4, 2022. (Norberto DUARTE / AFP)

Soaring Omicron could mutate into more dangerous variants, warns WHO official

By AFP

NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. (NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham/Wikipedia)

InterviewOn moving parts, the universe and making aliya in your 50s

Space is changing. Webb is just the start, says ex-Israeli who was in from its dawn

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Michael Kaplan, who shepherded the telescope through its planning stages before temporarily living in Israel, talks space robots, baby galaxies, and the pitfalls of Israeli bravado

Webb telescope deploys tennis-court size sunshield in mission milestone

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) meets in Amman with Jordan's King Abdullah on January 5, 2022. (Royal Hashemite Court)

Gantz meets Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman to discuss security concerns

By Judah Ari Gross

In rare public meeting with the monarch, Israel’s defense minister hails improving ties between countries

Celebrate Two Years of Daf Yomi with My Jewish Learning

Join us to celebrate 700+ pages of Talmud studied in this Daf Yomi cycle, with music & conversation featuring singer Neshama Carlebach, Rabbi Dov Linzer, Rabbi Benay Lappe & more

Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital staff wear safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Nearly 3,000 hospitalized with flu since September, amid ‘twindemic’ fears

Health Ministry urges vaccinations to counter both COVID and influenza, after first ‘flurona’ case identified

People stand in line to be tested for the coronavirus in Tel Aviv, on January 4, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health Ministry shifts emphasis to home testing as surging virus strains capacity

A member of the Salt Lake County Health Department COVID-19 testing staff performs a test outside the Salt Lake County Health Department, on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

ExplainerRocketing COVID case numbers lose relevancy as Omicron surge shifts calculus

By Carla K. Johnson

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett confronts and argues with opposition lawmakers in the Knesset during a vote on the electricity bill, Jerusalem, January 5, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Power struggle: Bill to hook up illegal Arab homes to grid passes in stormy session

PM stands up to confront opposition MKs as they hurl insults over legislation: ‘A bunch of thugs. I’m not afraid of you’; Netanyahu: ‘A dark day for Zionism’

Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the opposition Religious Zionism Party, outside the Knesset, on July 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition parties boycott Knesset over fast-tracking of Electricity Bill

Capt. Ron Birman, right, a naval officer who escaped a helicopter crash, shakes hands with the head of the Israeli Navy, Maj. Gen. David Sa'ar Salama, at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center on January 4, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Sole survivor recounts his attempts to save pilots as helicopter smashed into sea

By Judah Ari Gross

The grave of Maj. Chen Fogel, an Israeli Air Force pilot killed in a helicopter crash, is seen at the military cemetery in Haifa, on January 4, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

As pilots buried, initial probe finds motor malfunction doomed helicopter

By Judah Ari Gross

The East Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa, February 15, 2017. (Dan Balilty/AP)

Live updates (closed)

Jerusalem advances thousands of new homes in Jewish areas of East Jerusalem

By Michael Bachner and Joshua Davidovich

Over 1,400 new units planned for area between Har Homa and Givat Hamatos, which critics say would block Bethlehem from capital; over 2,000 more homes okayed in French Hill

7:42 pm

Kazakhstan calls on Russian-led alliance for help against 'terrorists,' amid mass-protests
7:20 pm

US-led coalition says rocket attack hits base in northeast Syria
7:07 pm

Police arrest six at ultra-Orthodox protest against Jerusalem cellphone store

Stephanie Z. Bonder

An open letter to Emma Watson

When you let others use your name and platform for discrimination against Jews and Israel, you alienate fans like me, and stand on the wrong side of history

Talli Rosenbaum

When religious leadership fails, it leads to a crisis of faith

When your support system falls, you ask: What am I still doing here? But why do I have to leave? I love and believe in God. It’s religion that’s a problem

A goblin at the Gringotts bank, part of Warner Bros' 'The Making of Harry Potter Tour in London (courtesy/ www.wbstudiotour.co.uk)

Jon Stewart says J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ goblin characters clearly antisemitic

‘That’s a caricature of a Jew from an antisemitic piece of literature’: Comedian surprised there wasn’t wider outcry over depiction of hooked-nosed characters that run the banks

Dave Bateman, CEO of Entrata, speaks during StartFEST at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Bateman, a Utah tech company founder and onetime prominent figure in state Republican politics, is facing calls to step down after he sent an email screed to a several fellow executives outlining an antisemitic vaccination conspiracy theory. (Stacie Scott/The Deseret News via AP)

US tech founder out after screed blaming COVID on Jews wanting to exterminate people

By AP

The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour, Sept. 17, 2021. (Mark Baker/AP)

20 acts pull out of Sydney Festival over Israeli embassy funding of dance show

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

People ride bicycles on empty Jerusalem roads on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 16, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel to ease rules on imports of goods to boost competition, reduce cost of living

By Ricky Ben-David

Economy Ministry says thousands of items — electronics, bicycles, eyewear, toys — that already meet international standards will benefit from reform of regulations

Inside story

‘It’s a two-way street’: PA warns of fallout from US holdup of consulate reopening

Palestinian officials tell ToI Ramallah can’t be expected to follow through on key asks, such as reform of prisoner payment policy, when Biden isn’t living up to his promises

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden after a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 10, 2010. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

Muntasir Shalabi is brought to the courtroom for a court hearing at the Israel's Ofer military court near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 5, 2021. (Flash90)

Palestinian-American gets two life sentences for deadly West Bank terror attack

Supporters and relatives of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash rally in his village of Dura west of Hebron in the West Bank, on January 2, 2022, to demand his release from Israeli administrative detention, as he teetered close to death after around 140 days of refusing food. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Palestinian detainee ends hunger strike after 141 days, to be freed in February

By Aaron Boxerman

Dozens attack the vehicle of Saeed Mousa, an Arab man, in Bat Yam on May 12, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Court issues first sentence over Jewish mob’s attack on Arab man in Bat Yam

By AP and ToI Staff

Lahav Nagauker jailed for a year in plea deal; did not participate in unprovoked beating that left Saeed Mousa seriously injured during May war, but was party to it

A man passes by cars torched after a night of violence between Israeli Arab protesters and Israeli police in the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Lod, central Israel, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)

Thousands applied for gun licenses after May violence, new data shows

US: 'Modest progress' made at last week's negotiations

IDF intel chief reportedly says restored Iran nuke deal better than talks failing

Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva quoted telling ministers that an agreement would increase certainty about limits on Tehran’s nuclear work, better position Israel for a possible escalation

Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, head of the IDF's Operations Directorate, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

A UN peacekeeping soldier sits on a tank at a road that links to a UNIFIL base where the Lebanese and Israeli delegations meet, in Naqoura town, Lebanon, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UN peacekeeping forces attacked in southern Lebanon near Israeli border

By AP

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

IDF: Hezbollah drone downed after flying over border from Lebanon

Animatronic bank tellers at Gringotts Bank, part of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida, are seen on June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 5 – Israel’s draconian abortion process & J.K. Rowling’s goblins

US correspondent Jacob Magid updates us on a new development in PA-US tit-for-tat politics and reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn goes in-depth on humiliating procedures for abortions

From the blogs

The Haredi leadership: Crime and its punishment

The ultra-Orthodox self-segregate from Israeli society, but the Walder affair is revealing major cracks in the ’wall of holiness.’ A day of reckoning is coming

Illustrative: Foreign tourists arrive in a resort in the Kurumba island in Maldives, February 12, 2012. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Israel expects to establish ties with Comoros, Maldives next — sources

By Lazar Berman

After no new accords signed in 2021, Israel working toward agreements with Indian Ocean Muslim-majority nations, though no announcement is said to be imminent

A meeting of the United Nations Security Council is held, on Thursday, September 23, 2021, during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. (AP/John Minchillo, Pool)

UAE, four others join powerful UN Security Council

By AP and ToI Staff

Google acquires Israeli cybersecurity company Siemplify for $500m

By Ricky Ben-David

Israeli firm will become part of Google Cloud’s security team, and ‘change the rules’ of threat detection and response

StoreDot CEO Doron Myersdorf. (StoreDot)

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker invests in Israeli fast-charging battery developer

By Ricky Ben-David

Remilk's cow-free cream cheese served at the company's offices in Rehovot, November 2021. (Times of Israel staff)

Israeli food tech startup Remilk raises $120m investment for cow-free milk

By Ricky Ben-David

Suzanne Singer, right, and her husband, Max Singer, on the balcony of their Jerusalem apartment (Courtesy Saul Singer)

Obituary

Suzanne Singer, writer who used fallen son’s legacy to inspire others, dies at 86

By Jessica Steinberg

Longtime Moment Magazine managing editor, a New York native, followed her children to Israel, where she turned bereavement into facts, and family, on the ground

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Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, right, walks with Poway mayor Steve Vaus, left, as he arrives for a news conference at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, shortly after a deadly shooting at the congregation, April 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Rabbi hailed as hero after Poway synagogue shooting gets prison time for fraud

Illustrative: An El Al flight takes off at the Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, on October 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

El Al attendant to return from China after quarantine for Omicron – reports

Two Israeli women arrive in Lisbon, Portugal, on February 15, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Over 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews naturalized by Spain, Portugal

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former CEO of the Heftsiba Construction Company, Boaz Yona, awaits for his verdict at the Jerusalem District Court, on Wednesday, November 19, 2008. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Disgraced real estate magnate Boaz Yona suspected of defrauding creditors

Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana speaks during a conference in Jerusalem on August 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tzohar rabbi tapped to head conversions, prompting rage from Haredi leaders

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer attends a lecture at the New York Public Library on June 27, 2007, in New York. An anthology of the late Mailer's writing that Random House allegedly had scheduled for his centennial in 2023, but backed off from, will be released by Skyhorse Publishing. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, File)

Amid controversy, collection of Norman Mailer’s writing finds new publisher

By Hillel Italie

Main entrance to Shearith Israel synagogue in Montreal. (Courtesy)

Quebec shuts synagogues, other houses of worship as Omicron surges

By David Lazarus

Government Military Secretary Avi Gil (right) poses for a selfie with NSO spokesman Oded Hershkovitz at a New Year's party in Tel Aviv. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Government military secretary spotted partying with NSO executives

By Tal Schneider

A soldier-reporter for Israel's Army Radio, seen at work on November 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Attorney general says defense brass can’t close Army Radio on their own

French President Emmanuel Macron during departures at the end of an EU Summit in Brussels, Dec. 17, 2021 (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool Photo via AP)

Irritable bowelMacron uses vulgar term to target unvaccinated, sparking outcry

By John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet

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