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What Matters Most On Monday, January 10, 2022

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Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2-R) and his wife Sara, wait in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, on 10 January 2022, for a preliminary hearing in the Netanyahus' defamation lawsuit against Olmert, who called them "mentally ill" in interviews. (Avshalom SASSONI / POOL / AFP)

Session ends with sides refusing judge's compromise plea

Two former PMs clash in court, as Netanyahus sue Olmert for calling them crazy

Judge warns sides not to turn case into ‘circus’; Netanyahu lawyer says ‘in another country Olmert would have been arrested’; judge responds: ‘Thank God we’re not in that country’

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judge raps Netanyahu for requesting hearing delay: ‘Leave home earlier’

An MDA health worker takes an antigen test sample at a testing center in Jerusalem, on January 9, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 )

As daily cases pass 21,000, Health Ministry issues new guidelines for home tests

Officials say tests should be taken 3 days after encounter with confirmed person, include throat swab; ministry chief: Even if you only have a runny nose, stay home

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 19, 2021. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Bennett appeals for ‘patience’ amid public dismay over shifting, unclear COVID rules

By Michael Bachner

People line up in a queue at the entrance to a COVID-19 rapid antigen Magen David Adom testing center in Jerusalem's Cinema City on January 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Health Ministry hotline collapses as new COVID testing rules stump Israelis

File: President Chaim Herzog and his wife Aura during a visit to Toledo, Spain, in 1992 (Sa'ar Ya'acov)

Aura Herzog, wife to one Israeli president and mother to a second, dies at 97

Politicians laud ‘pioneering’ woman who devoted herself to public service; she took part in Israel’s War of Independence and was a social and environmental activist

Maysoon Sweity, a 54-year-old Palestinian from Beit Awwa, sits on the roof of her home and watches as e-waste and garbage burns near the concrete wall separating her village from Israel on April 26, 2019. (Tamir Kalifa)

ToI investigates'We’re living on poisoned ground'

A deadly trash trade is poisoning Palestinians in the West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Burning Israeli scrap for valuable raw metals is a lethal livelihood for thousands of Palestinians, sending cancer rates skyrocketing in villages near Hebron

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaking at a faction meeting of the Yesh Atid party in the Knesset, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tests positive for coronavirus

By Michael Bachner

Yesh Atid leader said to be feeling fine, was in close proximity with Bennett and other top government officials in past day

8:33 pm

Yair Lapid comes down with COVID, feeling well
7:32 pm

Yemen pro-government troops capture oil-rich Shabwa province from pro-Iran rebels
7:09 pm

Report: No recently vaccinated are among COVID deaths, serious cases in past 3 weeks

When I was 7, Aliza was my savior. I just learned who she really was.

I was about to switch off the clip after watching the horrific story of a Holocaust survivor from Lodz, Poland, but decided to read the credits

Danielle Nagler

Don’t take it out on the testers

With so many waiting for so long, tempers fray, but the volunteers, among them my daughter, are already working 11-hour shifts, barely stopping for a drink

Urgently needed: A new social pact

The government’s ceding of its duty to manage the pandemic by handing the job to individual citizens has resulted in the mayhem of the past few days

Michael Feldstein

Better than a ’Jewish Disneyland’

The current long hiatus away from Israel may be just what we need to renew our appreciation of the Jewish state, when we are finally able to return easily

2019 Congressional Tour on the steps of the Tomb of the Patriarchs. In the photo (left to right): General Charles Krulak, Corene McMorris, Olivia Hnat Shields senior staffer to Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Chad Carlough CfS for Rep. Byrne, Clarinda Roe, Rep. Phil Roe, Rep. Bradley Byrne, Rep. Ann Wagner, Ray Wagner, Heather Johnston, Julie Escue (USIEA Director of Tours), Ari Sacher, Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum (courtesy)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 10 – Inside a tiny US pro-Israel Christian group with big reach

Diplomacy reporter Lazar Berman casts an eye on the USIEA and the race to head JAFI; news editor Amy Spiro updates us on the Western Wall and Israel’s 1st Orthodox figure skater

Illustrative image: a patient battling influenza, placing a cold compress on his head. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Some fear 'twindemic' could overwhelm hospitals

As Omicron cases soar, Israel also faces ‘flu storm’ intensified by vaccine lethargy

By Nathan Jeffay

Together, the two diseases could put ‘major burden’ on medical system and cost lives, warns Hadassah Hospital doctor, though Ichilov chief thinks Israel can take them in stride

Illustration of a human heart (magicmine; iStock by Getty Images)

First case reported in Israel of heart inflammation linked to Omicron infection

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Eyeing Iran, Bennett says military undergoing largest rearmament in years

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh during a press conference in Tehran, on February 22, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran rules out prospect of an interim nuclear agreement in Vienna

By ToI Staff and AFP

People carry portraits of late Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad Airport, in Baghdad on January 2, 2021, at the site of their killing. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iran sanctions 52 Americans on anniversary of Soleimani killing, drawing US rebuke

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An illustration of the ‘Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror’ website set up by Forensic Architecture with Amnesty International and Citizen Lab (Courtesy)

Interview

Don’t toss the spyware with the NSO scandal bathwater, urges Israeli cyber guru

By Shoshanna Solomon

Democracies need cybersurveillance tools to track criminals and terrorists. Just regulate the tech better, argues Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel

FILE - Bob Saget arrives at the People's Choice Awards at the Microsoft Theater on January 18, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Obituary

Comedian Bob Saget, beloved TV dad of ‘Full House,’ dies at 65

By AP and ToI Staff

Jewish actor found dead in a Florida hotel room while on tour; police say no sign of foul play or drugs; colleagues laud him for his humor and kindness

Bob Saget, from left, Dave Coulier and John Stamos, winners of the award for favorite premium comedy series for "Fuller House," pose in the press room at the People's Choice Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Jan. 18, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Comedians, friends, co-stars remember ‘funny’ and ‘kind’ Bob Saget

By AP

Producer Michael Lang poses for a portrait in New York, August, 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

Michael Lang, who organized the 1969 Woodstock Festival, dies at 77

A protest against the 'family reunification law' outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New ‘Citizenship Law’ advances, months after ban on Palestinian spouses lapsed

By Aaron Boxerman

Legislation pushed by Interior Minister Shaked would once again mostly bar Palestinians married to Israelis from living in Israel

A Palestinian man hands over his temporary ID to a civil affairs employee to get his officially approved register letter, in Gaza City, January 3, 2022. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Some Palestinians get legal status after years in Gaza limbo

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A police officer keeps watch from an observation tower at the Gilboa Prison in northern Israel on September 6, 2021. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)

Israel weighs extending administrative detention of sick Palestinian teen

Jaroslaw Nowak, the Polish government's envoy for Jewish relations, was fired after calling a Holocaust speech law passed by his country's ruling party as 'stupid.' (video screenshot)

Polish envoy to Jews fired after calling Holocaust law ‘one of stupidest ever’

By AP

Jaroslaw Nowak criticized his own government’s policies on Holocaust remembrance in an interview with UK’s Jewish News

Deborah Lipstadt walks a red carpet for 'Denial' during the 11th Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome on October 17, 2016. (Elisabetta A. Villa/WireImage)

Lipstadt may be asked to apologize before confirmation as antisemitism envoy

Softbank group CEO Masayoshi Son answers a question during a press conference announcing the company's financial results in Tokyo, August 7, 2019. (Toshifumi KITAMURA/AFP)

Japan-Israel ties strengthen, as 2021 investments nearly triple to record $2.9b

By Ricky Ben-David

Japan accounts for 15.8% of all foreign investment in Israeli high-tech, compared just 1.8% in 2016, data compiled by consulting firm Harel-Hertz shows

MeMed Diagnostics founders Dr. Kfir Oved and Dr. Eran Eden. (Courtesy)

Medical tech firm MeMed nabs $93m investment to decode body’s immune responses

By Ricky Ben-David

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Israel’s national library sees Arabic site traffic boom

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File: Israeli settlers at the illegal West Bank outpost of Oz Zion, December 30, 2012 (FLASH90)

Clashes as police evacuate illegal West Bank outpost near Jerusalem

Illustrative: Israeli rescue forces and police at the scene of the fatal crush during Lag B'Omer celebrations on Mount Meron, in northern Israel, on April 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Top officer tells Meron disaster probe: Police chief dismissed crowding concerns

Police at the scene of a suspected murder in Ashdod on January 9, 2022. (Israel Police)

Man found dead in Ashdod; wife, another man held on suspicion of murder

Israeli singer Itay Levi in New York for a series of performances, where he also had Friday night dinner with Mary J. Blige and LL Cool J (Courtesy Itay Levi Instagram)

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By Jessica Steinberg

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Kfar Saba ranks 1st for quality of life in national survey; Jerusalem last

By David Brummer

Israeli Premier League soccer player Yitzhak Asefa arrives to hear the verdict in his hit-and-run trial at the Tel Aviv District Court on January 30, 2020. (Flash90)

Soccer player gets early release 2 years into sentence for deadly hit-and-run

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman (L) and Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov (R) attend security talks on soaring tensions over Ukraine, at the US permanent Mission, in Geneva, on January 10, 2022 (DENIS BALIBOUSE / POOL / AFP)

US and Russia hold high-stakes talks on Ukraine

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Norwegian bingin'Netflix series ‘The Girl From Oslo’ brings drama, twists and turns

By Jessica Steinberg

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