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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 8, 2022

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Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 21, 2021. (Flash90)

Explainer

Who can travel to Israel and how, as country reopens to visitors on Sunday

As surging virus rates make impact of travel restrictions negligible, Israel to allow vaccinated and some recovered foreign travelers to arrive

Children wait to receive COVID-19 vaccines at a government school in New Delhi, India, January 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

‘So huge and quick’: World passes 300 million COVID cases as Omicron breaks records

By AFP

Nearly empty shelves of produce at a supermarket in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

ExplainerMild or severe: How Omicron is impacting the global economy

By Daniel Hoffman and Ali BEKHTAOUI

Levan Kogeashvili, killed in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 7, 2022 (Courtesy)

22-year-old Israeli killed by gunfire in violent Kazakhstan protests

By ToI Staff and AP

Foreign Ministry bringing Levan Kogeashvili’s body to Israel for burial; family says he wasn’t protesting and was just going to work; comes after Kazakh leader orders lethal force

Karim Masimov poses for a photo during a meeting in Sochi, Russia, Aug. 12, 2016 (Alexander Astafyev, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP, File)

Kazakhstan’s former anti-terror chief detained on suspicion of treason amid protests

A health care worker takes swab samples from Israelis at a drive-thru testing complex in Modiin, January 6, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Virus czar predicts 50,000 new cases a day by next week

Health officials believe 2-3 million Israelis will get Omicron — TV

But report says spread of new variant could end up being greater but go unrecorded under new testing rules; senior official: 12% of cases are among people who previously had COVID

Medical workers and family members at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem receive their fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on January 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US experts say Israel’s ‘forever-boosting’ strategy not effective in long run

Registered nurse Morgan Flynn works inside a patient's room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, January 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

In US, hospitalizations skyrocket among kids too young for COVID vaccines

By Lindsey Tanner and Mike Stobbe

Riot police during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov)

Researcher: Chance of attack on Jews low to nonexistent

Kazakh Jews, who ‘steer clear’ of politics, sit out their country’s bloody unrest

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Chief rabbi says Jewish community staying in ‘until the forces maintaining order stabilize the situation,’ claims without proof that protesters may not ‘actually be Kazakhs’

Israeli soldiers search for parts of a crashed military helicopter after a military helicopter crashed off the coast of the northern Israeli city of Hafia, January 4, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Investigators said to find that flotation device failed in deadly helicopter crash

Report says electrical short hampered pilots’ ability to control helicopter during crash landing; aircraft hit water on its right side and sank with two crew members still on board

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Republican-Alabama) discussing opportunities between the Us and Israel with Heather Johnston and Ari Sacher in his office in Washington in 2021 (courtesy)

'US needs Congress to... understand the true narrative'

From Iron Dome to supply chains, US Christian group quietly shaping US-Israel ties

By Lazar Berman

After bringing House leaders to the West Bank and securing missile defense funding, the Alabama-based USIEA sees Abraham Accords countries replacing China as pharma suppliers

Obituary

Sidney Poitier dies at 94; transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen

By Hillel Italie

Inspirational movie star was first Black man to win an Academy Award for best lead performance, for role in 1964 film ‘Lilies of the Field’

Actor Sidney Poitier poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, California, on June 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Then US President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sidney Poitier during ceremonies in the East Room at the White House in Washington on, Aug. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

‘Dignity and grace’: Obama leads tributes to actor Sidney Poitier

By AP

Steven Greenberg

Zan* and the Art of Motorcycle Insurance

Let’s stop wasting time and deepening societal divisions by hating and humiliating the unvaccinated, and simply make them pay their fair share

A reckless Israeli film crew in Nigeria and the Igbo Jews who paid the price

In their apparent ignorance of the government’s policies and practices, the visitors suffered — their Igbo hosts suffered far more

David Amsalem (L) and Nir Barkat (R) (Flash90)

Amsalem accuses fellow Likud MK Barkat of bribery; ex-mayor’s associates: ‘Slander’

Outspoken opposition lawmaker offers no evidence for claim, says ‘people like that should be jailed’; Barkat’s associates slam ‘baseless lies,’ say Amsalem is harming party unity

Israeli history

Over a century of historical Israeli footage is now online, and it’s a revelation

By Karen Chernick

The Israel Film Archive opens a trove of films previously closed to the public that shows wars, elections and vintage advertisements, thanks to a yearslong $10M digitization effort

Illustrative: A Palestinian gunman during a funeral for police officer who died in a shootout with Israeli troops, in Jenin, June 10, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

PA arrests son of Gilboa prison escapee, sparking clashes and gun battle in Jenin

Palestinian security forces arrest Muhammad Zubeidi, whose father briefly broke out of Israeli jail; reportedly released hours later; rioters said to fire on government building

New York Mayor Eric Adams greets students and parents at Concourse Village Elementary School in the Bronx, New York, on January 3, 2022. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

NYC Jews hoping new mayor will reach out beyond Brooklyn’s Orthodox community

Progressive, non-Orthodox Jewish activists express concern Eric Adams’ close ties with the Orthodox could lead to their exclusion from posts in his administration

Judge dismisses sole criminal charge against Andrew Cuomo

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and Michael Hill

This photo released on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 by the Iranian Army, shows a missile being fired during a military drill at an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran says military drills are acting as deterrent against Israel’s ’empty threats’

Spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard Corps claims Israel has subdued rhetoric since Tehran held major exercises

A COVID-19 patient in a hospital in the city of Qom, Iran, September 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

World Bank approves $90 million in pandemic aid for Iran

By AFP

In this file photo taken on January 08, 2021 a woman cries in front of a huge screen bearing portraits of late crew members and passengers of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which crashed in Iran a year before, during a commemorative ceremony at the site of a future memorial on the Dnipro river bank in Ukraine's capital Kiev (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Iran says it has begun paying compensation to families over downed Ukraine jet

By AFP

Behind the scenes of 'Witness,' a new online production by the Arlekin Players. (Courtesy)

Theater review'If we’re not trying to do something new, then why do art?'

In Boston, COVID sends Russian-Jewish theater group hurtling through space and time

In ‘Witness,’ playing through January 23, the Arlekin Players take their performance online, combining tech elements to transport viewers back to the ill-fated MS St. Louis in 1939

Alleged Hezbollah drone operators, as seen in an image released by the IDF from a downed Hezbolah drone, January 7, 2022 (IDF Spokesman)

IDF releases photos from downed drone showing alleged Hezbollah operatives

By AFP and ToI Staff

Security source says images appear to show members of the Lebanese terror group’s special forces training in how to use drones, in first such glimpse for Israel

The deli and cafe at Asif, Tel Aviv's culinary center housed in Start-Up Nation Central. (Courtesy: Asif)

'Preserve it, cook it, practice it to know how to make it'

Ingathering of the victuals: Israeli cuisine from all over gets a home in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Part restaurant, part research institute, part incubator and part archive, the Asif culinary library gathers people along with food

More Headlines

David Blumberg, head of Israel's National Library. (Screenshot/YouTube)

TV: National Library chief paid off employee of his to hush sexual harassment claims

The aftermath of a two-vehicle accident, which left at least five Germans and three Egyptians dead and others injured on the road between Hurghada and Safaga on the Red Sea coast of Egypt on Sunday. (AP)

Bus crash kills at least 16 on west coast of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula

By AP

Jews visit the graves of relatives killed in the Holocaust during World War II, in the Romanian city of Lasi, November 28, 2012 (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Right-wing Romanian political party calls Holocaust education a ‘minor topic’

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

Ethan Crumbley in a remote court hearing in Rochester Hills, Michigan, January 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

US school shooter charged with killing 4 is obsessed with Nazis, prosecutors say

Agriculture Ministry staff work in protective gear to clean up dead cranes infected with Avian Influenza (bird flu) from the Hula Lake Reserve in northern Israel, January 2, 2022. (Moraz Brom/Flash90)

Bird flu outbreak in northern Israel ebbs; no humans harmed, officials say

Around 100 kilograms of drugs that were intercepted during a smuggling attempt from Egypt, January 8, 2022 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF captures 100-kilogram drug shipment on border with Egypt

Lani Guinier speaks at the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 1994, in Washington (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)

ObituaryPioneering US civil rights lawyer, professor Lani Guinier dies at 71

By Jessica Gresko and GARY FIELDS

Ahmaud Arbery's mother Wanda Cooper-Jones, center, reacts as Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley sentences Greg McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, January 7, 2022, in Brunswick, Georgia. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, Pool)

3 men sentenced to life in prison for killing Ahmaud Arbery in US

Muslim men perform Friday noon prayers close to their workplace on the first working Friday in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, on January 7, 2022. (Karim Sahib/AFP)

What day is it?UAE works on Friday for 1st time in switch to Western-style weekend

By Shatha YAISH

Jake Cohen attends SAVEUR Holiday Social at Astor Center, Dec. 13, 2014 in New York City. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for SAVEUR via JTA)

Jewish food influencer Jake Cohen named in discrimination lawsuit

Maccabi Haifa's Mohammad Abu Fani (Youtube screenshot)

King of the cornerIsraeli soccer star hailed for ‘greatest time-wasting performance ever’

Protestors gather outside an immigration detention hotel where Serbia's Novak Djokovic is believed to stay, in Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 7, 2022 (AP Photo/Hamish Blair)

Djokovic lawyers say tennis star exempt from vaccine due to December COVID infection

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