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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 12, 2022

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Shin Bet arrests 5 Jewish Israelis suspected of spying for Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Suspects photographed sensitive sites in Israel, attempted to get their kids to join army intelligence units; Bennett tells citizens ‘to be vigilant’ against such online attempts

Israeli police detain a man as Bedouins protest in the Negev Desert against a forestation project by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), on January 12, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

11 arrested in clashes as Negev tree-planting resumes, then pauses in climbdown

Working to ease coalition crisis, minister brokers temporary deal to halt forestation program pending negotiations

A car set on fire in southern Israel during protests over a KKL-JNF tree planting program, January 11, 2022. (Screenshot)

FM Lapid calls to halt Negev tree planting amid violent protests, coalition trouble

A car set on fire in southern Israel during protests over a KKL-JNF tree planting program, January 11, 2022. (Screenshot)

Jewish group’s tree planting sparks coalition turmoil, violent protests in the Negev

By Alexander Fulbright and Aaron Boxerman

A picture made available by the Italian online news portal Open, showing people gathered around a swastika-covered casket outside the St. Lucia church, in Rome, on Monday, January 10, 2022. (Open Via AP)

Swastika-draped casket at neo-fascist funeral in Rome sparks outrage

Catholic leaders denounce procession at local church, which included mourners making fascist salute, as ‘offensive and unacceptable’

Illustrative: The Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Yad Vashem puts records of Holocaust victims online

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

HMO workers conduct tests on PCR samples for COVID-19 at a Clalit Health Services laboratory in Jerusalem on January 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

COVID still climbing, with 43,815 new cases detected, but no rise in serious cases

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Seriously ill patients stable at 254; positive test rate climbs to 12.09%; MK Ofir Sofer catches virus

Israelis wait for a COVID-19 rapid antigen test, at a drive through complex in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coronavirus cabinet meets for first time in three weeks, makes no decisions

People, some wearring face masks, walk on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, on January 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Government to bankroll COVID isolation days for salaried workers, self-employed

By Ricky Ben-David

Tires are set on fire in the southern Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, January 12, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

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Cops, rioters clash for 2nd straight night amid protests against Negev tree planting

12 arrested in southern Bedouin towns as unrest continues despite deal to pause forestry work while negotiations held to resolve matter

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Police arrest another 7 suspects in riots over forestry work in south
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Netanyahu yet to get 4th shot of COVID vaccine -- TV

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2020, file photo, Raymond Duda, special agent in charge in Seattle, speaks as he stands next to a poster that was mailed earlier in the year to the home of Chris Ingalls, an investigative reporter with KING-TV in Seattle, during a news conference in Seattle. A federal jury in Seattle on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, convicted Kaleb Cole, a leader of a neo-Nazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states. Cole and three others were charged last year with having sent Swastika-laden posters to journalists and people affiliated with the Anti-Defamation League in Washington, Florida and Arizona. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Neo-Nazi gets 7 years in US prison for threats to Jewish activists, reporters

By Gene Johnson

Sentence is the longest to be handed down to a participant of conspiracy involving Atomwaffen Division hate group

The suspect in a hate crime against a Jewish man in Brooklyn in footage released by the NYPD. (Screenshot)

Man charged with hate crimes for attack on Jew in Brooklyn last month

Salt Lake City’s Congregation Kol Ami. (Screenshot from Google Maps via JTA)

Tech firm pledges 6-figure sum to Utah synagogue after founder’s antisemitic screed

Analysis

No longer prime minister, Netanyahu tries to keep Likud crown from slipping away too

The opposition leader is busy battening down the hatches, as former allies lay the groundwork to mount challenges for the party leadership

Benjamin Netanyahu walks next to MKs Yuli Edelstein and Nir Barkat in the Knesset on October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in his trial, November 16, 2021, in Jerusalem. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Netanyahu held talks with prosecutors on potential plea deal – report

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Daily Briefing Jan. 12 – Negev tree crisis puts coalition out on a limb

Palestinian affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman spotlights hot-button issues for Arab Israelis; health reporter Nathan Jeffay describes Omicron as a very different coronavirus wave

Arab Israelis and activists protest against the murder of 15-year-old Muhammad Ades in Jaljulia, March 12, 2021 (Flash90)

Deadly crime wave grips Arabs in Israel ‘by the throat’

By Majeda El Batsh and Ben Simon

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks a press conference, at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on October 31, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court tells interior minister to stop enforcing expired ‘Citizenship Law’

By Aaron Boxerman

20 years and counting: My stroke

My life didn’t turn out as I expected, which is painful, but on this ’strokaversary,’ I celebrate the blessings made possible by my miraculous medical team

When fathers weep

A Bedouin child’s violent death. His family’s extra bitter coffee of mourning. And my effort to share the pain in an embrace that said what I couldn’t in words

Green Mediterranean diet can slow brain atrophy, Israeli-led study suggests

Ben-Gurion University trial shows consumption of green tea, duckweed and walnuts may significantly reduce age-related brain damage, especially among over-50s

Illustrative: A green shake, like the ones in the diet developed by Prof. Iris Shai (id-art via iStock by Getty Images)

A soldier stands guard in the light of an army jeep in Qalqilya on January 14, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel/File)

Elderly Palestinian said to die of heart attack during arrest by Israeli troops

By Aaron Boxerman

Omar As’ad, 80, was allegedly violently detained in Jiljilya, near Ramallah; IDF says Military Police are opening investigation into the case

The scene of a suspected ramming attack in the West Bank, January 11, 2022. (IDF)

IDF soldier moderately hurt in suspected West Bank ramming attack

Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana (Yitzhak Kelman)

Religious services minister unveils government plan to reform conversion system

Matan Kahana touts ‘historic opportunity’ to address problem of close to half a million Israeli residents of Jewish ancestry who are not considered Jewish by state

Ultra-Orthodox women protest against Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman plan to stop daycare subsidies for some ultra-Orthodox, outside the Knesset, July 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court stalls cut to daycare subsidies for children of yeshiva students

Illustrative image: A nurse with a child coronavirus patient (Visivasnc via iStock by Getty Images)

1st kids’ Omicron ward opens with classes, clowns, and doctors bracing for ‘war’

By Nathan Jeffay

Beds likely to fill up within 2 weeks, says Sheba hospital ward director; pleads with parents not to be flippant about variant; says even if illness is mild, long COVID is concern

Illustrative: A man spills pills into his hand from a bottle (FotoDuets; iStock by Getty Images)

Report: 1 in 3 Israelis offered COVID treatment pill are refusing it

A Magen David Adom health worker takes a swab sample at a drive-thru coronavirus testing complex in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel cuts quarantine for asymptomatic COVID patients to 7 days

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference on the Omicron outbreak, at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on January 11, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bennett vows to keep economy open ‘as much as possible’ during Omicron wave

Amid record case numbers, PM says lockdowns don’t work: ‘I don’t want to see people losing their jobs, closing their businesses’; state to fund compensation for quarantine days

An unidentified COVID-19 patient is attached to life-support systems in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, NH, on January 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

COVID infections more than double globally, but death toll stable – WHO

By AP

A woman looks on, as a health worker prepares to administer a booster shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a community health center in Jakarta, Indonesia, on January 12, 2022. (AP Photo/ Dita Alangkara)

EU regulator skeptical on need for additional COVID booster shot

By Ethan Freedman

Israeli soldiers guard the Quneitra Crossing, on the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Golan Heights on March 23, 2019. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

As Syria warms to Gulf states, Israel sees opportunity to curb Iran – report

French European and Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian speaks during a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris, on January 11, 2022. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

Iran nuclear talks proceeding too slowly, France says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Argentina fumes after Iranian AMIA bomb suspect spotted at Nicaragua ceremony

President Isaac Herzog attends the funeral of his mother, Aura Herzog, at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem, January 12, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

‘A pioneer’: Aura Herzog, wife of one president, mother of a second, laid to rest

In eulogy, Isaac Herzog says his mother’s great loves were her family, Israel and ‘good taste, aesthetics… and understanding the big wide world’

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A view of the New York City offices of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. (Jonathan Heisler/Shalom Hartman Institute via JTA)

Brooklyn-based marketing firm nixes potential client over its Israel ties

Pergolas shade the overlook at Ariel Sharon Park. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Committee advances plans to expand Ariel Sharon Park, central Israel’s ‘green lung’

Aras Amiri. (Screenshot/Twitter)

UK group says employee sentenced to 10 years in Iranian prison has been freed

By AP

David Blumberg lighting a ceremonial torch for Independence Day on April 15, 2013. (Screenshot/YouTube)

National Library board chief resigns over sexual harassment hush money allegations

Members of a French-Iraqi archaeological expedition work on a dig at the site of the Sumerian city-state of Larsa, in the Qatiaah area of Iraq's southern province of Dhi Qar near the city of Nasiriyah, on November 23, 2021. (Asaad Niazi/AFP)

After years of war, European archaeologists return to Iraq for rare finds

By Guillaume Decamme

Illustrative image: an isolated child. (iStock via Getty Images)

Number of youths seeking mental health hospitalization doubled during COVID – report

By Stuart Winer

Dr. Anthony Fauci, then White House chief medical adviser and director of the NIAID, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022, in Washington, DC (POOL / Getty Images via AFP)

US on the ‘threshold’ of living with coronavirus, Fauci says

People walk into the headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Washington, DC, on Thursday, December 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

US Muslim group accuses Jewish charities of funding Islamophobia

New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, pictured at an event in Queens, New York in 2019. (Video screenshot)

NYC Council member apologizes for comparing vaccine mandates to Nazism

'Fauda' co-creators Avi Issacharoff (left) and Lior Raz in Tel Aviv, May 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Sign up‘Fauda’ creators sell production company to former Disney executives

By Jessica Steinberg

US Sen. Rand Paul questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the President, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022 in Washington, DC (Photo by POOL / Getty Images via AFP)

Kindling the crazies?Fauci heard calling GOP senator ‘a moron’ at testy Senate hearing

Assistant Attorney General for National Security Division Matthew Olsen, seen from a video monitor, testifies remotely before a US Senate Judiciary Committee during a virtual hearing to examine the domestic terrorism threat one year after January 6, on Capitol Hill, on January 10, 2022, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US Justice Department establishing unit focused on domestic terror

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