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What Matters Most On Friday, January 7, 2022

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Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 19, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel nixes ‘red’ list of countries ahead of reopening to foreigners on Sunday

Officials say Omicron COVID surge makes the roster of banned countries obsolete; Health Ministry director predicts daily infections will top 30,000 within days

People line up for PCR and Rapid Antigen COVID-19 coronavirus tests in Tel Aviv, January 4, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Daily COVID-19 cases near record 17,000 as new testing rules take effect

Israeli schoolchildren return to school after the Sukkot holiday, in Tel Aviv, on September 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ministers decide to ease virus regulations for in-person classes at schools

Interviews'We stand to lose large chunks of the Jewish people'

As process stalls, candidates to lead Jewish Agency warn of urgent world challenges

By Lazar Berman

The Times of Israel speaks to figures seeking to head the venerable body as drawn-out nomination reveals political rifts; coalition nominees refuse interviews

The candidates vying to become the next Jewish Agency head, clockwise from upper left - Danny Danon, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Omer Yankelevich, Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Michael Oren, Ruth Calderon (Courtesy)

Then-Israel ambassador to France Aliza Bin Noun, 2015. (CC BY-SA Erez Lichtfeld, Wikimedia Commons)

‘You’re pissing me off!’ Israeli diplomat reportedly yells at European envoys

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Author digs into wacky-but-true tales of Jerusalem archaeology

Journalist Andrew Lawler’s new book ‘Under Jerusalem’ is a treasure trove for the unbelievable real history of excavations in the Holy City through today

Ammar Muhammad Hujayrat (Courtesy)

Thousands at funeral of Arab child shot dead in north, president expresses ‘horror’

4 suspects remanded in custody over stray gunfire that killed 4-year-old Ammar Hujayrat on playground in Bir al-Maksur

Illustrative: Medics and security forces are seen at the scene of the shooting in Lod, on June 27, 2021. (Courtesy)

Lod man shot dead, in day’s second Arab community slaying

Ammar Muhammad Hujayrat (Courtesy)

Two suspects arrested in fatal shooting of 4-year-old boy on playground

A Neolithic mask loaned by American billionaire Michael Steinhardt, is displayed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Inside storyMuseum has another Steinhardt piece of uncertain provenance

Several of Michael Steinhardt’s looted art pieces still on display at Israel Museum

By Ilan Ben Zion

US court last month ordered billionaire to surrender $70 million worth of artifacts, including several loaned to Israel, to avoid prosecution; museum says it is examining issue

Then-Meretz MK Yair Golan pictured during a Knesset plenum session, January 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

We’re going down: What the press says about the coalition’s flubs and fights

By Joshua Davidovich

The government is sniping over Omicron, leaving the press to bewail Israel’s state and score points along the way; plus the slaying of a 4-year-old earns long-overdue attention

Deputy Religious Affairs Minster Matan Kahana in Meron, northern Israel, on January 4, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Man indicted for death threat against minister over religious reforms

You got Emma Watson’s post all wrong. Let me tell you why

Normalizing the Palestinian cause isn’t antisemitism, and crying wolf about this post undermines concern about real Jew-hatred disguised as criticism of Israel

Not an ‘apartheid state’ – but too close for comfort

Here’s my scorecard rating Israel’s poor excuses for treating the Palestinians like second-class citizens

We will beat neither COVID nor climate change on our own

Israel should organize an international coalition to vaccinate the world, and it should include the infrastructure for rapid responses to new variants and more

Israel needs olim

First and foremost, Israel shelters oppressed Jews worldwide, so when French Jews facing rampant antisemitism choose Canada or the US, it’s a failure of Zionism

Yair Golan attends a discussion held at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy minister says he regrets ‘subhuman’ settlers comment, but stands by criticism

After furor, Yair Golan concedes his choice of wording about Homesh outpost residents may have been ‘problematic’; source accuses him of creating more divisions in coalition

Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt welcomes a journalist into his home in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on April 6, 2008. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Former Dutch PM accused of blood libel after saying settlers poisoned Palestinians

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Police arrest ultra-Orthodox pedestrian Haim Mizrachi in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022. (Screenshot)

Jerusalem police filmed beating ultra-Orthodox men, blasting them with water cannons

Officers respond violently to protests, attacks against a store selling non-kosher phones; bystander is beaten and arrested after trying to speak with undercover detectives

US President Joe Biden he speaks from Statuary Hall at the US Capitol to mark the one year anniversary of the riot at the Capitol by supporters loyal to then-president Donald Trump, in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2022. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

'We are in a battle for the soul of America'

Biden says Trump and his backers placed a ‘dagger at the throat of democracy’

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and Zeke Miller

On first anniversary of Capitol invasion, US president says his predecessor ‘tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power’; Trump dismisses ‘political theater’ as GOP stays away

Supporters of then US president Donald Trump in Washington, January 6, 2021. (John Minchillo/AP)

Trump maintains tight grip on Republican party despite violent insurrection

Rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Terror, shattered glass and gratitude: US lawmakers recall January 6 Capitol assault

By Alan Fram and KEVIN FREKING

Played therapist Dr. Elliot Kupferberg on 'The Sopranos'

Peter Bogdanovich, lauded Hollywood filmmaker and son of an Austrian Jew, dies at 82

By Andrew Lapin

Director and actor helmed hits including ‘The Last Picture Show’ in the 1970s; his Christian father sacrificed his career to help his Jewish mother flee the Nazis

US film director, writer and actor Peter Bogdanovich at the Rome Film Festival in Rome on October 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Sandro Pace, File)

‘The soundtrack of generations’: Artists, ministers bid farewell to Yoram Taharlev

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Government members fete famed lyricist’s ‘unique combination of love of country and love of his fellow person, of romance and of pain and always with humor’

The wake of songwriter and poet Yoram Taharlev (insert), ahead of his funeral, in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2022. (Courtesy; Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Illustrative: A 12-volume set of Babylonian Talmud with commentaries, printed in Amsterdam by Immanuel Benveniste, 1644-47 (Kestenbaum & Company)

'The Jerusalem Talmud often gets brushed under the rug'

New online translation by Sefaria may be the Jerusalem Talmud’s ‘Cinderella moment’

By David Stromberg

The nonprofit offers free access to Jewish texts, and debuts one of its most ambitious projects yet – an interactive version of a cryptic and oft-overlooked version of the Talmud

As 26 die in mass protests, Kazakh leader orders use of lethal force on ‘terrorists’

By Dasha Litvinova

President Tokayev warns: ‘Those who don’t surrender will be eliminated’; Russia-led troops arrive to guard government institutions

A police car on fire as riot police prepare to stop protesters in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov)

A cleric walks past Zolfaghar, top, and Dezful missiles displayed by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran displays missiles amid nuclear talks with world powers

By AP

State television says missiles in central Tehran are the same types as those used to strike US bases in Iraq after Soleimani killing

Iranians mourn in Tehran during a funeral procession for 150 Iranian soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), whose bodies were recovered from battlefields, on January 6, 2022. (AFP)

Thousands of Iranian mourners attend mass funeral for 250 dead in ’80s war with Iraq

By Isabel Debre

Screen capture from video of a statute of slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani that was set on fire in the Iranian city of Shahrekord, on January 5, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Statue of slain commander Soleimani torched in Iran hours after unveiling

By AFP and ToI Staff

NYC Councilmembers Lincoln Restler and Chi Ossé speak to members of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, who were in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to canvas passersby and offer tips on how to defuse antisemitic and other bigoted incidents, January 4, 2022. (Julia Gergely/JTA)

In Brooklyn, a Jewish group tries a face-to-face approach to fighting antisemitism

By julia GERGELY

Members of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice canvas New York neighborhoods, offering passersby tips on intervening in hate crimes to head off potential violence

File: American Airlines passenger jets prepare for departure, July 21, 2021, near a terminal at Boston Logan International Airport. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Brazilian court fines American Airlines $1,759 after passengers denied kosher food

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Airline caused ’emotional suffering’ to travelers who went without food for some 10 hours, judge says in ruling

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Illustrative: fireworks fill the sky over the Opera House in Sydney on New Year's Eve on December 31, 2021. (David Gray / AFP)

120 artists, industry officials slam boycott of Sydney festival over Israeli funding

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland's ruling party Law and Justice, speaks at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday Oct. 26, 2021 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Polish leader admits country bought powerful Israeli-made spyware

By Vanessa Gera

Israelis protest against violence toward women at in Tel Aviv, on June 1, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Number of women murdered by relatives, partners falls after 2020 spike

A neglected armory in Mantua, Italy, will become a 'House of Remembrance' to spotlight the town's Jewish history. (Giovanni Vigna/JTA)

North Italian town to establish museum at burial site of 17th-century Kabbalists

By Giovanni Vigna

State Prosecutor Amit Eisman, at a ceremony at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State prosecutor to fill in as attorney general until Mandelblit replacement found

Illustrative: Hezbollah operatives stand in formation at a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, or Al-Quds Day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Saudis say Hezbollah a threat to Arabs after Nasrallah calls king a ‘terrorist’

A Mobileye car doing a pilot drive in New York City, July 2021. (Courtesy)

Mobileye unveils ‘super-computer’ chip to power fully autonomous driving

By Ricky Ben-David

Composer and conductor Tomer Adaddi with singer Shlomit Aharon during their duet for 'Singing with the Composer,' Addadi's 2022 program that puts him at the front of the stage (Courtesy Tomer Addadi)

On a different noteAfter composing for top artists, conductor finds his own voice

By Jessica Steinberg

Australian soft rock duo Air Supply performs at a concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. (AP/Lai Seng Sin)

Come what mayAir Supply plans two-show jaunt to Israel in spring

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Police officers near Jerusalem's Old City, on December 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State seeks harsher sentence for Arab man in Jerusalem assault case

By AP and ToI Staff

Lt. Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla, commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps, gives a speech at the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) change of command, March 5, 2021, at the division parade field, Fort Campbell, Kentucky (Spc. Andrea Notter/US Army via AP)

Biden taps combat-hardened officer to lead Central Command, which works with Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

The Hebrew home page of the Palestinian news agency Wafa. (Screenshot)

Palestinian Authority’s Wafa news agency relaunches Hebrew service

By AFP

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