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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 9, 2022

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Magen David workers take COVID-19 rapid antigen test at a testing center in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Number of seriously ill COVID patients jumps past 200 as pandemic surges

Positive test rate up to 11.71% — highest since October 2020 — as 17,521 new cases diagnosed on Saturday; over 500 hospitalized

A man receives a fourth Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a private nursing home, in Netanya, on January 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Over 250,000 people have received 4 COVID vaccine doses — ministry

A health worker carries out a COVID-19 test of a resident of Larnaca, a resort town in southern coast of Cyprus, on Sept. 28, 2020 (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus identifies combined ‘Deltacron’ COVID strain, but says unlikely to spread far

A health worker conducts a COVID antigen test at a testing center in Jerusalem on January 9, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett: 2-4 million Israelis will test positive for COVID in current wave

Coronavirus cases among IDF personnel double in just 3 days; prime minister asks public for patience, says ‘I understand the frustration and I am listening to it’

7:10 pm

90% of recent COVID infections in Israel are Omicron, claims new report
6:47 pm

Some antigen tests used in Israel much less reliable than others, claims TV report
6:26 pm

Tourism Ministry launches site to ease COVID-era travel to Israel

Women of the Wall activist Lesley Sachs clutches a Torah scroll while sitting on the floor amid protest at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Nov. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

ToI investigates'I hear the promises, but I don't hear a schedule'

Will the Western Wall compromise deal ever be realized?

With mixed messages from the government and a Supreme Court dragging its feet, the status quo of monthly scuffles at the holy site appears to have no end in sight

A man rides his bike along the seaside promenade as the capital city remains in darkness during a power outage, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, August 19, 2021. (AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar)

National blackout hits Lebanon; power company blames protester sabotage

By AFP

Firm says activists stormed key substation and disconnected equipment, causing major disruptions amid ongoing crisis

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, on November 30, 2021. (MFA/Quentin Crestinu)

Lapid speaks to Macron, calls for pressure on Iran as Vienna nuclear talks continue

Illicit weapons seized from a stateless fishing vessel in the North Arabian Sea, sailing from Iran and likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen, are arranged for inventory aboard guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane's (DDG 77) flight deck, in a photo released Dec. 21, 2021. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Elisha Smith/US Navy via AP)

UN fingers Iranian port as key weapons conduit for Yemen rebels

By AFP

Steven E. Zipperstein

How not to make the case for Palestinian statehood

With a long history of rejecting offers, making a legal case for sovereignty is a losing battle. The conflict isn’t a legal dispute, it’s an inherently political one

Israel’s Rabbinate should welcome these kashrut and conversion reforms

They do reduce the Rabbinate’s centralized power, but in very different ways, which fundamentally upholds the rabbis’ authority, rather than undermining it

Servicemen and their military vehicles block a street in central Almaty on January 7, 2022, after violence that erupted following protests over hikes in fuel prices (Abduaziz MADYAROV / AFP)

No plans to evacuate Israelis from Kazakhstan, senior diplomat says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Official cites good ties between nations, says authorities are ‘taking control of the situation’ there

An armed riot police officer detains a protester during a security anti-terrorists operation in a street after clashes in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Jan. 8, 2022 (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)

Kazakhstan says 164 people killed in unrest, including 3 children

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the briefing room at the State Department in Washington on January 7, 2022. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP)

Blinken to Kazakhstan: It’s hard to get Russians to leave once they’re in your home

A health worker takes test samples of Israelis at a COVID testing center in Jerusalem on January 9, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 9 – Rising Omicron numbers and Israel’s new consul general in NY

ToI editor David Horovitz weighs in on coronavirus and death of 4-year-old by stray bullet, as US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses interview with new envoy Asaf Zamir

A picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows men holding up a poster portrait of 35-year-old Palestinian professor and Hamas member Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh who was killed in Malaysia, outside his family's house in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas claims to nab Palestinian who aided alleged 2018 Mossad hit in Malaysia

By Aaron Boxerman

Hamas says unidentified suspect admitted to involvement in slaying of Fadi al-Batsh, an engineer who allegedly helped the terror group build weapons; father demands death penalty

In this January 17, 2018 photo, provided by Egypt's state news agency, MENA, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Cairo, Egypt (MENA via AP)

PA President Abbas arrives in Sharm el-Sheikh to meet Egypt’s Sissi

Intel reports repeatedly missed threat to Capitol, even as others saw danger foment

By Eric Tucker and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Documents obtained by AP show Capitol Police assessed risk of violence as improbable while other reports cautioned of ‘significantly dangerous situation’ with Congress as target

Police hold off violent insurrections loyal to then-US president Donald Trump as they try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021. (Julio Cortez/AP)

Former US vice [resident Dick Cheney walks with his daughter, Republican Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, in the Capitol Rotunda at the US Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Old guard Republicans get rebrand by denouncing Trump

By Camille CAMDESSUS

Illustrative: Israeli schoolchildren arrive for classes at a school in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on September 30, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

New COVID rules for schools take effect; borders reopened to vaccinated foreigners

Under guidelines adopted amid Omicron surge, the vaccination rate of each class will no longer determine if kids go to school in person or remotely

COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, September 29, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Students to get free home COVID tests amid concerns over price, availability of kits

Illustrative: Soldiers from the Golani Brigade wearing face masks, on May 12, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

IDF puts troops back in separated pods as COVID tears through army

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Former Prime Minister's Office manager Nir Hefetz, (center) and Israeli media tycoon Shaul Elovitch (left back) and Eli Kamir (right back) seen at the courtroom for the extension of their remand in Case 4000, at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Exposé'We see this - and a lot worse - every single day'

High-profile cases shine harsh light on Israel’s draconian interrogation tactics

By Chen Shalita

As they dominate headlines, former Netanyahu aide Nir Hefetz and businessman Moshe Hogeg allege their testimonies were extracted cruelly; rights activists say that’s nothing new

'We want to show the part we played in Singapore's history'

A new museum tells the story of Singapore’s Jews, starting with their Baghdad roots

By Jordyn Haime

Countless landmarks in the city pay homage to the contributions and rich 200-year history of the small Jewish community, which now has a place to showcase its achievements

Maya Reiten speaks to Channel 12 news in an interview aired on January 8, 2021. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

‘So degrading’: Israeli woman recalls detention in Belarus for cannabis possession

Maya Reiten, who was jailed over medical marijuana in her bag, says she lost track of time until she saw Hanukkah festivities on TV: ‘Each day I drew the candle… and blessed it’

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the parliament in Tehran on November 16, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran justice workers hold rare protests after Raisi reneges on wage hike promise

By AFP

Demonstrators decry ‘hypocrisy of the government and parliament,’ threaten to ‘shut down the justice system’

Rescue workers search the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, on January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Tehran rally demands justice on 2nd anniversary of jet downing

By AFP

Iranian activist, filmmaker and poet Baktash Abtin. (YouTube/Screenshot)

After poet dies of COVID in Iranian jail, activists blame Tehran

By Stuart Williams

Shoshana Akabas founded the New Neighbors Partnership after working with refugees and immigrants through volunteer work at her synagogue, B’nai Jeshurun on the Upper West Side. (Courtesy New Neighbors Partnership/ via JTA)

'It's so important for us to have one person to lean on'

When refugees arrive in America, a NY nonprofit makes sure they feel like neighbors

By julia GERGELY

The New Neighbors Partnership matches arriving families with established ones with kids of the same age, so hand-me-downs can keep coming for years and lasting relationships formed

Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces, the military reserve of the Ukrainian Armes Forces walks on a trench on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near to Avdiivka, Donetsk, southeastern Ukraine, on January 8, 2022. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)

Russia rules out concessions ahead of security talks with US over Ukraine

By Nina Larson and Shaun Tandon

Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov says Kremlin ‘disappointed’ with signals coming from NATO and Western Europe as he prepares to meet US Deputy Secretary of State Sherman in Geneva

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Belarusian peacekeepers leave a Russian military plane at an airfield in Kazakhstan, January 8, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

AnalysisKazakhstan unrest adds uncertainty to US-Russia talks on Ukraine

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) pays a condolence visit to the family of Ammar Hujayrat in Bir al-Maksur, on January 8, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Visiting family of toddler shot dead, police and defense chiefs vow to find culprits

File: Dr. Guy Rofe, a gynecologist arrested on suspicion of sexual harassment, arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Haifa, January 4, 2022. (Alon Nadav/Flash90)

Police drop rape suspicion against gynecologist; court extends custody

A soldier from the Ethiopian National Defense Forces gestures after finishing training in the field of Dabat, 70 kilometers (43 miles) northeast of the city of Gondar, Ethiopia, on September 14, 2021. (Amanuel Sileshi/AFP)

Tigray rebels claim dozens killed in strike on civilian camp in Ethiopia

By Tanya Willmer

Saudi Princess Basmah Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz speaks during a discussion on the role of women in the Middle East at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC on April 12, 2017. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Saudi princess freed after nearly 3 years in jail, following international pressure

By AP

Former British prime minister Tony Blair is shown ahead of a meeting at the EU Charlemagne building in Brussels, on November 6, 2019. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via AP)

1 million sign petition to strip Tony Blair of knighthood over Iraq War

Holocaust survivor Edward Mossberg with Polish president Andrzej Duda, at a ceremony in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 12, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90/ File)

From our partnerPolish envoy for Jews: Holocaust research law ‘one of stupidest ever’

This combo of file images shows Steven Carrillo (left) provided by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, and Robert Alvin Justus Jr., in undated Department of Motor Vehicles photo provided by the FBI. (Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office; FBI via AP)

Sister of US officer slain by extremists sues Facebook for promoting radicalism

By DAISY NGUYEN

NASA James Webb Space Telescope Project Manager Bill Ochs monitors the progress of the observatory's second primary mirror wing as it rotates into position, on Saturday, January 8, 2022, from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Webb telescope’s ‘golden eye’ opens in space, in last major hurdle

Aerial view of the Haifa University. September 20, 2018. (Matanya Tausig/FLASH90)

Body of woman, 24, found near University of Haifa

The foreign minister in Afghanistan's new Taliban-run cabinet, Amir Khan Muttaqi, gives a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 14, 2021. (Muhammad Farooq/AP)

Taliban FM makes first trip to Iran since group seized control of Afghanistan

By AFP

Masonic collars are seen next to book shelves at the Poznan University Library, housing a historic archive of Freemasonry in Europe amassed by the Nazis, in Poznan, western Poland on December 22, 2021. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

Masonic archive amassed by Nazis still has secrets to reveal, curators say

By Stanislaw Waszak

Honorees Alan (left) and Marilyn Bergman arrive at the ASCAP Film and Television music awards in Beverly Hills, CA, on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

ObituaryMarilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist, dies at age 93

By Hillel Italie

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