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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 13, 2022

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Undated photographs of Maj. Itamar Elharar, left, and Maj. Ofek Aharon, who were killed in a friendly fire incident outside their base in the Jordan Valley on January 12, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two IDF commando officers killed in friendly fire incident at West Bank base

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Maj. Ofek Aharon, Maj. Itamar Elharar crept up on another soldier during patrol, thinking he was a suspect; he thought he was under attack and shot them

The area close to the base where two IDF soldiers were killed in a so-called friendly fire incident the night before, on January 13, 2022 (Yonathan Sindel/Flash90); Maj. Itamar Elharar, top right, and Maj. Ofek Aharon, bottom right (Israel Defense Forces)

Initial IDF probe faults lack of coordination for ‘friendly fire’ that killed 2

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, later attorney general, during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 21, 2014. (AP/Menahem Kahana, Pool/File)

Plea bargain could be sealed 'in days,' before AG steps down

Report: Prosecutors could close Case 2000, nix Netanyahu bribery charge in plea deal

Some reports say ex-PM willing to admit breach of trust, step down from politics for a few years; AG said not to be demanding jail term; gaps between sides said to be narrow

The flag of Iran waves in front of the International Center building with the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, on May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter, File)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 13 – Who are the Israelis spying for Iran?

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross talks about Shin Bet arrests and IDF suicides; Ops & Blogs editor Miriam Herschlag looks at Haredi abuse victims and kosher reforms

Illustrative: Likud MK Keti Shitrit attends a Knesset committee meeting on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘I was in total shock’: Likud MK among those targeted in Iranian espionage operation

Shin Bet arrests 5 Jewish Israelis suspected of spying for Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Outgoing-Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Tel Aviv, on June 29, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Prosecutors fumed over Mandelblit’s secret plea deal talks with Netanyahu

Channel 13 says state prosecution will only agree to a deal that includes an admission of moral turpitude by the former premier — likely ending his political career

7:38 pm

Short shelf lives see poor nations decline millions of Covid shots, UN says
7:15 pm

20 cases of Omicron sub-variant BA2 found in Israel – report
7:08 pm

Trump's envoy to Israel David Friedman joins RJC board of directors

Covid-19 is making Israel seem farther than ever before — until now

SRUGIM, MUNA, ONE on One and a new feature film every Friday, all part of the IZZY content catalog for 2022. Discover IZZY today with free episodes that are one click away.

Interview'Next year at the Walter Reade Theater!'

Everyone can kvetch and kvell at the hybrid in-person/online NY Jewish Film Festival

By Jordan Hoffman

Festival director Aviva Weintraub says even Omicron won’t keep the show from going on January 12-25; audiences will be on the edge of their seats – at Lincoln Center or at home

Workers push to unionize at New York Jewish Museum amid pandemic uncertainty

Analysis

Why tree planting in the Negev sparked protests, riots and a coalition crisis

In JNF forests, Bedouin see ‘soft expulsion,’ environmentalists see a key ecological interest, and right-wing politicians see a weapon against ‘illegal squatters’

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

Amid crisis, government said advancing plan to recognize 10-12 Bedouin villages

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

JNF finishes planting on disputed Negev lands as state seeks compromise with Bedouin

Magen David Adom medics and Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on January 11, 2022.( Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel sees less need for ventilators, shorter hospitalization times with Omicron

COVID still climbing, with 43,815 new cases detected, but no major rise in serious cases; of 257 serious cases, 64 people are on ventilators and another 12 on ECMO machines

Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on January 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Number of seriously ill COVID patients rises, with over 48,000 new virus cases

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: A medical student prepares a syringe with vaccination against COVID-19 in Berlin, Germany, January 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Denmark to offer 4th COVID vaccine shots to the highly vulnerable

By AFP

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

As time runs low at Iran nuke talks, White House focuses blame on ‘reckless’ Trump

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

With Vienna negotiations seen likely to end within a month, one way or another, Biden officials bash predecessors for bolting 2015 deal ‘with no thought as to what might come next’

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran (L), US President Donald Trump at the White House (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)

Iran leader’s website showcases animation of drone strike killing Trump

By AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett shake hands during their meeting in Sochi, Russia, on October 22, 2021. (Evgeny Biyatov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP/File)

Bennett to Putin: World must stand firm against Iran’s nuclear progress

Fingers with shoes on

Our problem is how to get the extra pounds off those seminary girls so we can marry them off. But wait — do the seminary girls even have a body?

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

What I inherited when my mother died

The same knuckles, the same tapered fingers…what is it about our mothers that make us look at ourselves for the sameness?

Op-ed

When a 4-year-old is shot dead in a playground

Nobody thought stemming the tide of violent crime in the Arab community would be easy. But as the terrible killing of Ammar Hujayrat underlines, it is desperately urgent

Ammar Hujayrat, 4, in the playground at Bir al-Maksur on January 6, 2022, shortly before he was fatally hit by errant gunfire (Youtube screenshot)

Ammar Muhammad Hujayrat (Courtesy)

Two more suspects nabbed in fatal playground shooting of Arab 4-year-old

Illustrative: A baby receives a routine vaccine. (naumoid; iStock by Getty Images)

COVID vaccine for Israeli babies, toddlers expected by April, says health official

By Nathan Jeffay

Would mean all Israelis over six months eligible for vaccines; shot is waiting on Pfizer trial, which has already indicated it is safe for under-5s

A Jerusalem father tests his daughter with a home rapid test ahead of her first day of school, August 31, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Disgraceful’ home COVID test prices might soon come under state control

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative: Ministers and MKs attend a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

10% of Knesset absent due to virus as COVID spreads among lawmakers

Palestinian-American Amr Abd al-Majid As'ad, who died while in Israeli custody on January 12, 2021. (Courtesy)

US seeks clarification after Palestinian-American, 80, dies following IDF arrest

By Jacob Magid and Aaron Boxerman

State Department spokesman says his office has been in touch with Omar As’ad’s family following fatal heart attack he suffered after he was allegedly beaten while in IDF custody

IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank Palestinian town of Silat al-Harithiya, December 20, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF issues demolition orders for homes of suspects in deadly West Bank shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, L, speaks during a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Palestinian Authority General Intelligence Services chief Majed Faraj speaking in Hebron on June 11, 2018. (Screen capture/Youtube)

Lapid said to have met PA intel chief, but did not discuss diplomatic issues

An explosion rocks southern Lebanon, early on January 13, 2022 (Screen capture/Twitter)

Large explosion reported in Hezbollah storage site in south Lebanon, cause unknown

Local media reports no casualties, while news outlets linked to terror group ignore incident; last month, 12 people were killed in a blast at a local Hamas weapons depot

Supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group chant slogans as they hold posters of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent opposition Saudi Shiite cleric who was executed by Saudi Arabia in 2016, during a conference for Saudi opposition in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah hosts confab in Lebanon for Saudi opposition amid Beirut-Riyadh warming

A hotline responder works at the Tahel, Crisis Center for Religious Women and Children, in Jerusalem on January 5, 2022. - "Lo Tishtok" - Hebrew for "You shall not be silent" - is a phrase gaining momentum among ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim, who are being forced to reckon with claims of serious crimes, including sexual abuse of children, against several of their cultural icons. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

'The age of innocence is over'

As sexual abuse cases hit ultra-Orthodox community, some vow to be silent no longer

By Alexandra Vardi and Michael Blum

Insular community struggling to deal with several high profile cases of prominent people being accused of abuse, with counselors seeing a rise in the number willing to speak out

New Jersey yeshiva principal resigns abruptly amid past sexual abuse allegations

Britain's Prince Andrew at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, England, on April 11, 2021. (Steve Parsons/Pool Photo via AP, File)

What next for UK’s Prince Andrew after ruling in Giuffre sex assault lawsuit?

By Peter HUTCHISON

Royal could settle claim in civil case with Virginia Giuffre, who says prince abused her when she was 17, or face grilling by her lawyers; expert says criminal charges unlikely

Britain's Prince Andrew is photographed on Aug. 11, 2021. (Neil Hall/PA via AP)

US judge rules sex assault damages case against Britain’s Prince Andrew can proceed

By Peter HUTCHISON

Interview'YIVO has never done anything like this in its history'

From reverent to raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

After surviving decades hidden from Nazi and Soviet forces and years more of litigation over ownership, a priceless trove is now accessible to researchers and the public

More Headlines

Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg (R) meets with Jordanian Ambassador to Israel, Ghassan Majali (L), in Jerusalem, January 12, 2022. (Courtesy)

Hosting Jordanian ambassador in J’lem, Zandberg vows to promote climate cooperation

Katy Perry, head of the Israel Prisons Service on January 12, 2022, and (R) Gilboa prison commander, Freddy Ben Shitrit on November 25, 2021, at a commission of inquiry probing the escape of security prisoners from the Gilboa prison, in Modi'in. (Flash90)

‘Direct responsibility’: Prisons Service chief blames Gilboa warden for jailbreak

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Former Syrian intelligence officer Anwar Raslan (C) arrives in the courtroom at a courthouse in Koblenz, western Germany, on January 13, 2022, on the last day of his trial where he was sentenced to life in jail for crimes against humanity in the first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria. (Photo by Thomas Frey / POOL / AFP)

In world first, German court convicts man of crimes against humanity in Syria war

By CHRISTOPH NOELTING and Frank Jordans

The entrance to the Ramat Gam Museum of Israeli Art. (Talmoryair/Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Ramat Gan art museum shuts its doors due to feud over controversial painting

Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, listens during a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

Ohio GOP Congressman posts Nazi health card in attack on DC vaccine mandate

Dozens of El Salvador journalists, activists said hacked with Israeli-made spyware

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and Frank Bajak

General view of Southwark Crown Court, in London, March 24, 2020. (Alberto Pezzali/AP)

Israeli man acquitted of $150,000 in damage to London hotel room in insanity plea

A Uruguayan resident observes the eagle on display from the German battleship Graf Spee in Montevideo, Uruguay, Feb. 14, 2006 (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez) (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez).

Jewish businessman wants to buy 800-pound Nazi eagle and swastika and blow it up

By Juan Melamed

A general view of the buildings of the main quadrangle and Hoover Tower on the campus of Stanford University, Oct. 2, 2021. (David Madison/Getty Images via JTA)

Stanford to investigate claims it capped admissions for Jews in 1950s

Menachem Begin Park in south Tel Aviv. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Burnt corpse found in Tel Aviv park

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony at the presidential palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 24, 2021. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

Erdogan calls Herzog to offer condolences for his mother’s passing

Gal Gadot attends the premiere of 'I Am the Night' on January 24, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

To catch a roleGal Gadot to step into Grace Kelly’s shoes in Hitchcock remake

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