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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 11, 2022

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A member of Hadassah Medical Center's staff cares for a coronavirus patient on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Interview'Impact is less dramatic' but 'things are ramping up fast'

View from a COVID ward: With Omicron, even the sickest patients are breathing easier

By Nathan Jeffay

At Hadassah Hospital, Prof Zvi Fridlender describes a race for more beds as cases grow, alongside relief new variant isn’t leaving patients gasping for air as its predecessors did

COVID-19 rapid antigen tests at a Magen David Adom drive-through complex in Jerusalem, on January 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Expert Health Ministry panel recommends slashing quarantine to 7 days

Police watch a woman paints black crosses on the pavement, for the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw, Poland, on April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Half of Europe set to catch Omicron, WHO says on 2nd anniversary of 1st COVID death

People shop at a market in the central town of Ramle, December 31, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

41,154: Israel hits COVID case record; expert estimates true daily tally is 100,000

Health Ministry data shows serious cases top 250; active cases multiply by 12 in 2 weeks; minister says figures show Israel is heading toward ‘herd immunity’

A man receives a fourth Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from a Magen David Adom national emergency service volunteer, at a private nursing home, in Netanya, Israel, on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Pfizer CEO questions whether 4th dose of COVID vaccine needed

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Finance minister denies businesses suffering from COVID policies, rules out aid

In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

'If this works, there will be an endless supply of organs'

In world first, US surgeons successfully transplant a pig heart into human patient

By Carla K. Johnson

Doctors at Baltimore hospital say 57-year-old, who did not qualify for human heart, doing well 3 days after operation to implant organ genetically modified against rejection

Analysis

Expectations grow for a deal to emerge from Iran nuclear talks

After months of pessimism, both sides are speaking of progress and showing signs of flexibility, but time is short

Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora speaks to journalists after a meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Vienna on December 27, 2021. (ALEX HALADA / AFP)

Screen capture from video of Iran's Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, 2018. (YouTube)

Iran prosecutor threatens action against judicial protests over nixed pay hike

By AFP and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 11 – You calling me crazy? Two former PMs face off in court

Political correspondent Tal Schneider and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur take on a high-profile libel case and the end of ‘othering’ in the Central Bureau of Statistics

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and their son Yair (L); former prime minister Ehud Olmert (R). (Flash90)

Olmert unrepentant after calling Netanyahus mentally ill, says many agree with him

(R-L) Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, digital adviser Topaz Luk, and Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court okays search of Netanyahu ex-aides’ phones in witness harassment case

Yair Lapid, center, yells during a Knesset debate in Jerusalem on January 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid tests positive for COVID as government struggles to control outbreak

By Alexander Fulbright

Officials scramble to iron out COVID testing kinks amid questions over antigen kits

Omicron sweeps through schools, infecting over 38,000 students

Daily infections of 45,000 to cost Israel $800m every three weeks, says central bank

By Ricky Ben-David

IDF soldiers wear masks on a base in northern Israel on October 27, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

IDF cancels reservist exercises, limits combat troops’ leave amid Omicron outbreak

By Judah Ari Gross

With thousands of soldiers diagnosed with COVID-19, including two generals, military issues tighter restrictions, but anticipates case numbers will rise anyway in coming weeks

Israeli military technicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a IDF lab in central Israel, on July 15, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Two top generals contract COVID-19 as Omicron sweeps through IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

Mourners attend the funeral of Israeli soldier Omer Tabib, 21, in Elyakim in northern Israel, on May 13, 2021. Tabib was killed when Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired an anti-tank missile near the border. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

IDF reports 31 fatalities in 2021, a slight increase; suicide still leading cause

By Judah Ari Gross

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

What to eat during Armageddon

Omicron has made it impossible to plan and impractical not to worry. But my life necessitates both preparation and heavy denial, so how am I to proceed?

Sovereignty begins at Homesh

By not enforcing Israeli law for illegal West Bank outposts and other de-facto separatist communities, Israel is steadily turning itself into a shtetl with an army

MK Mansour Abbas, leader of the Islamist Ra'am party, speaks during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

LiveUpdated 56mo ago

Nationalist tree planting in the south sparks coalition infighting, violent protests

Bedouin protesters see KKL planting program as a land grab; Ra’am threatens to boycott coalition; 2 police injured in riot

10:53 pm

Labor lawmaker becomes 10th MK infected with COVID in recent days
10:48 pm

Rahat mayor demands end to tree planting
10:31 pm

Lapid, Netanyahu spar over KKL tree planting as crisis widens

The Central Council of Jews in Germany gave the group an award in 2020. (Omas Gegen Rechts/via JTA)

'We regularly get harrassed but we're not intimidated'

In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far-right

Omas Gegen Rechts has picked up steam since starting off with 10 elderly women in 2017, and its efforts are being recognized by progressive activists and the far-right alike

Border Police troops stand guard during a demonstration in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on December 17, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

From our archive

Fresh Sheikh Jarrah eviction threatens to roil capital anew

By Aaron Boxerman

Eleven Palestinians set to be removed by new owner, a Jerusalem city councilmember; police have asked to delay eviction until end of the month

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, accompanied by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyanin (right), speaks at a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

US lawmakers launch bipartisan caucus to promote Abraham Accords

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

PM said to tell MKs he expects escalation with Lebanon or Gaza

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Bennett reportedly tells Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that as it readies Iran strike, Israel is preparing for potential wars with Tehran’s proxies

Lebanese would-be-migrant Bilal Moussa, 34, smokes a cigarette by the sea in Tripoli north of Beirut on December 9, 2021. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Lebanese seek escape from economic crisis via perilous sea smuggler trip to Europe

By Hashem Osseiran

Onlookers including Orthodox Jewish residents stand on the corner of Forshay Road in Monsey, New York, December 29, 2019, down the street from the scene of a stabbing rampage that occurred late the previous day during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP Photo/Allyse Pulliam)

‘An act of pure evil’: NY leaders hold 2-year memorial for deadly antisemitic attack

Governor, senators, attorney general and Israeli envoy commemorate 2019 machete assault on Hanukkah worshipers in Monsey that killed 1, injured 5

A volunteer, left, distributes hot soup at a distribution tent set up by the Masbia kosher pantry network near the scene of a deadly fire in the Bronx, Jan. 10, 2022. The fire, which claimed 19 lives, is the city's deadliest in 30 years. (Courtesy Masbia via JTA)

Jewish groups rally for victims of deadly Bronx fire as residents mourn

Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center presents on the center's 2018 list of global antisemitism incidents at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Dec. 27, 2018. (Mark Ralston/AFP)

EU slams Simon Wiesenthal Center, says its annual antisemitism list has gone too far

By Cnaan Liphshiz

This year’s ‘Global Anti-Semitism Top Ten’ included BBC, the entire state of Germany, and Jewish Voice for Peace, alongside Iran and Hamas; German Jewish groups also condemn list

Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rally in Weimar, Germany, October 1930 (public domain)

Indiana lawmaker apologizes for saying teachers should be ‘impartial’ on Nazis

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative photo of a man dressed as Santa Claus with a Christmas tree, outside of Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel to begin classifying non-Arab gentile citizens as ‘extended Jewish’

By Tal Schneider

Change by statistics bureau to affect over 400,000 Israelis, most of them Russian-speakers not defined as Jewish and non-Arab Christians, who were previously categorized as ‘other’

Headache

Israeli woman sues after unwittingly inspiring a sex doll

By Stuart Winer

Instagram model Yael Cohen Aris says Chinese company is marketing life-size toy with her head on it, using her name, and with details right down to the beauty mark on her lip

Israeli Instagram model Yael Cohen Aris (right) in a British TV interview, and the sex doll (left) she says was created in her image without her consent, January 10, 2022. (YouTube screenshot)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Bennett holds warm talk with Hungary’s Orban, who’s been panned by Israeli ministers

By Michael Bachner

PM speaks for the first time with populist leader; meeting reportedly arranged with help from Foreign Minister Lapid, who previously accused Orban of running antisemitic campaign

Servicemen guard an entrance of the city hall building after clashes in the central square in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Jan. 10, 2022. (Vasily Krestyaninov/AP)

After days of deadly violence, Kazakhstan president says ‘attempted coup’ defeated

By Christopher RICKLETON and Jonathan Brown

Kazakhstan troops and police block a street in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Jan. 10, 2022. (AP Photo)

Nearly 8,000 detained in Kazakhstan as violent protests are quelled

By Dasha Litvinova

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Real estate heir Robert Durst sits during his murder trial at the Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles on March 4, 2020. (Etienne Laurent/EPA via AP, Pool)

Robert Durst, NY real estate heir suspected of 3 murders, convicted of 1, dies at 78

By ANDREW DALTON and brian melley

IDF disabled veteran Itzik Saidyan. (Facebook)

In recording, army vet heard speaking for first time since self-immolation

Illustrative: A seismograph detects an earthquake (Petrovich9; iStock by Getty Images)

6.6-magnitude quake hits off Cyprus coast, felt across Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

Bereaved Iranian couple sues top security officials over airliner downing

By AFP

A delivery driver from the Wolt app leaves a pharmacy with rapid antigen tests for the coronavirus, to deliver to a customer in Tel Aviv, January 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Amid Israel’s Omicron ‘panic,’ a food delivery company pivots to home test kits

By Laurie Kellman

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Woman indicted for breaking quarantine while infected with COVID

A photo released by police on January 10, 2021, shows damage to a security vehicle that was allegedly caused by settlers during clashes with police at the illegal Homesh outpost in the northern West Bank. (Israel Police)

5 arrested on suspicion of assaulting police demolishing West Bank outpost

Illustrative: A scientist holds a petri dish in a laboratory with a sample of cultured meat. (Liudmila Chernetska/istock via Getty Images)

Tnuva beefs up food tech operations with new cultured meat venture

By Ricky Ben-David

A rapid coronavirus test is taken in a temporary facility outside a pharmacy in Lakatamia a suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus, on December 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Detection of ‘Deltacron’ variant likely due to lab error, experts say

By AFP

This image released by 20th Century Studios shows Ariana DeBose as Anita, foreground left, and David Alvarez as Bernardo in "West Side Story." (Niko Tavernise/20th Century Studios via AP)

Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ among winners at untelevised Golden Globes

By Andrew MARSZAL

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