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What Matters Most On Friday, January 14, 2022

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Analysis

It’s all about ‘turpitude’: Making sense of the Netanyahu plea bargain reports

The former PM wants to stay out of jail. The departing AG wants to secure a conviction. The sides can agree on all that. But there’s one crucial issue that’s dividing them

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-newly appointed cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 9, 2013. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/FLASH90)

Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jerusalem District Court, on November 22, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Secret plea deal in Netanyahu corruption trial said to await his approval

A Likud party supporter holds a campaign poster featuring then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on April 7, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Netanyahu at the plea market: What the press says about bargain hunting with Bibi

By Joshua Davidovich

The press is paying close attention to plea deal talks with the Likud head, seeing an agreement as a game-changer both for the opposition leader and the future of the coalition

COVID-19 PCR tests are analyzed by medical staff at a Clalit Health Services lab in Jerusalem, on January 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

At least 20 cases of Omicron sub-variant BA2 detected in Israel

Health Ministry says ‘no evidence’ new strain behaves differently from Omicron

Health care workers wear safety gear as they work in the COVID ward of the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, on January 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Number of seriously ill COVID patients climbs to over 300, with 40,000 new cases

Healthcare workers wear safety gear as they work in the COVID ward of the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, on January 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

COVID czar: Non-essential medical treatment may need to be halted in Omicron wave

A Hamas operative holds up a harness the terror group says was on a dolphin that it believes was being used by Israel, from a video released by Hamas on January 8, 2022. (Screenshot)

Analysis

Hamas claims of Israeli killer dolphins are easy to mock, but not so farfetched

By Judah Ari Gross

Folks were quick to ridicule a video, released by the terror group, alleging one of its naval commandos found a dolphin in the service of the IDF. But it’s not entirely ludicrous

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboard the new submarine 'Rahav' at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Gantz, Lapid say ministers to vote Sunday on state inquiry into murky submarine deal

But TV report says PM may not agree to hold vote; Gantz says panel ‘a necessary step to safeguard security,’ Lapid says government will leave ‘no stone unturned’ to reach truth

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Bereaved mothers portray mourning and renewal in Koby Mandell play

A conversation with writer and mother Sherri Mandell, along with director Yael Valier and actress Rebecca Sykes, about their production of ‘The Blessing of a Broken Heart’

Actress Rebecca Sykes, center, during a recent rehearsal of 'The Blessings of a Broken Heart,' the book by Sherri Mandell that's being performed by Theater and Theology in Jerusalem, in January 2022. (Courtesy PR)

Rabbi Shira Stutman and actor Joshua Malina are the new voices behind 'Chutzpod!' (Courtesy)

Interview'This isn't Judaism 101'

An actor and a rabbi teamed up to make a Jewish podcast that’s not just for Jews

By Cathryn J. Prince

In the new weekly ‘Chutzpod,’ Sixth and I’s Rabbi Shira Stutman and ‘West Wing’ star Joshua Malina make light work of life’s heavy questions for Members of the Tribe – and friends

Analysis

Biden administration not waiting for nuclear talk denouement to begin damage control

To prepare for either stalemate or an unpopular deal coming out of Vienna talks, US doubles down on message that intractable conflict is a result of Trump’s JCPOA withdrawal

US President Joe Biden speaks to the media after meeting privately with Senate Democrats, Jan. 13, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

People walk past Palais Coburg, where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, December 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber)

US: Only ‘a few weeks left’ to save Iran nuclear deal, we’re eyeing ‘other options’

By AFP and ToI Staff

This photo, released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on December 30, 2021, shows the launching of Simorgh, or 'Phoenix,' rocket in an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran claims to launch solid-fuel satellite rocket into space

By AP

How a tree turns bitter water to sweet

Bitterness is a corrosive and debilitating, often born out of trauma. It takes time, care, and deep roots to outgrow it (Beshalach)

They are not ‘others’ – they are a part of us

Israel thankfully accepted my request to apply the status of Extended Jewish Population for immigrants who identify as Jews, though their mothers are not Jewish

Elisha Williams, left, and Julian Lerner in the "The Wonder Years" episode "Brad Mitzvah." (Screenshot via JTA)

33 years after classic bar mitzvah episode, revamped ‘Wonder Years’ revisits ritual

By PHILISSA CRAMER

TV show broke ground with 1989 episode showing Jewish ceremony; new version of series tackles race and adolescence in 1960s Alabama

The funeral of Maj. Ofek Aharon, who died in a friendly fire incident a night earlier, in the Gan Yavne cemetery, on January 13, 2022. Inset: Undated photographs of Maj. Itamar Elharar (left) and Aharon. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90; Israel Defense Forces)

Officers killed in friendly fire incident laid to rest; family demands answers

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

‘I want an explanation from Kohavi,’ says father of Maj. Ofek Aharon; Maj. Itamar Elharar described as ‘modest, impressive,’ by unit commander

An Israeli army flare illuminates the sky during searches after a military helicopter crashed off the coast of Haifa on the night of January 3, 2022. Inset: The two soldiers killed, Lt.-Col. Erez Sachyani (right) and Major Chen Fogel (Alon Nadav/Flash90; Israel Defense Forces)

IDF probe finds motor failure caused deadly chopper crash, but cause still unknown

By Judah Ari Gross

Gary Mond speaks at a JNF UK conference in London. (Courtesy/JNF UK via JTA)

British Jewish leader resigns following comments about ‘war with Islam’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Gary Mond, an official at the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the JNF, steps down after past social media activity comes to light

Samuel Hayek, in jacket, meeting young musicians in Ashdod in January 2018. (Jewish National Fund-United Kingdom/via JTA)

From our partnerCharity Commission investigating JNF UK after chair’s comments on Muslims

Right-wing activists protest the demolition of structures at the illegal West Bank outpost of Homesh, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Thousands of right-wing activists rally in Jerusalem to ‘overthrow evil government’

By Emanuel Fabian

Fearing more demolitions at illegal West Bank outpost, demonstrators and opposition MKs protest government policies outside PM’s office

Anchors and presenters of Now 14, the TV news channel in Israel formerly at Channel 20. (Courtesy Channel 14)

Repositioned news channel 14 aims for mainstream while keeping pro-Netanyahu script

By Jessica Steinberg

The former Channel 20 is trying to make itself into a true conservative alternative to news channels 12 and 13, but critics say doing so will mean breaking with the former PM

Illustrative: A Yeshiva University building in New York City. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

Yeshiva University pledges change amid uproar over alleged sexual assault

School vows to ‘restructure’ its Title IX office in light of allegations a basketball player raped another student; student activists say it’s progress, but not enough

A Netto store in Munich powered by Trigo's checkout-free tech, October 2021. (Stefan Hobmaier)

Israel’s Trigo challenges Amazon on its own turf, with US debut of shop-and-go tech

By Ricky Ben-David

Computer vision startup to pilot frictionless shopping tech with Wakefern, largest retailer-owned grocery co-op in America

Israel Space Agency officials and students watch from Herzliya as the SpaceX Falcon rocket launches in Florida, on January 13, 2022. (Screenshot)

8 tiny satellites built by Israeli students launched into space

SpaceX rocket launch marks culmination of three years of work for science-minded students at schools across Israel, who gathered to watch the Florida event from Herzliya

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

Queen strips Prince Andrew of his military roles, public duties, amid abuse claims

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI

Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)

Golda Meir’s grandson defends casting of Helen Mirren as former Israeli PM

Shaul Rahabi tells Jewish Chronicle his late grandmother would have loved casting, and being Jewish ‘doesn’t matter at all,’ amid renewed ‘Jewface’ debate

More Headlines

Vivek Shandas, a professor of climate adaptation at Portland State University, takes a temperature reading of almost 106 degrees in downtown Portland, Oregon, on August 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

2021 was Earth’s 6th warmest year on record since 1800s

By Seth Borenstein

Bedouin protesters and Israeli forces clash during a protest in the southern Israeli village of Sawe al-Atrash in the Negev Desert against a forestation project by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), on January 13, 2022. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Hundreds of Bedouins clash with police over controversial Negev tree planting

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Sirhan Sirhan during a parole hearing in San Diego, February 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, Pool, File)

‘Most notorious’: California governor denies parole to RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan

By Don Thompson

Family and friends mourn at the funeral of Solomon Tekah, in Kiryat Haim, on July 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police to pay NIS 1.8 million to family of Ethiopian-Israeli teen killed by cop

Mohamed Toujgani. (Screenshot)

Belgium expels imam who called for burning of Jews

By AFP

Beitar Jerusalem soccer supporters sing and wave their flag as players enter the pitch during a team training session in Jerusalem, December 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Beitar Jerusalem announces sale to French businessman as Hogeg battles charges

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 apologizes for comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi measures

Police officers collect evidence in East Jerusalem's Shuafat refugee camp, after a suspected murder, on January 13, 2022. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in East Jerusalem refugee camp

By Emanuel Fabian

A man wearing a mask takes cover from the rain on Jaffa Road in the city center of Jerusalem on December 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel braces for unseasonably cold, rainy weekend

Members of the Oath Keepers at the US Capitol, on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Seditious conspiracy: US indicts 11 far-right Oath Keepers for Jan. 6 Capitol attack

By Paul Handley

Illustrative: Members of Hapoel Beersheba play against Hapoel Jerusalem at the Balkan International Basketball League match in Jerusalem, on October 22, 2020. (Flash90)

In first, Israeli basketball player signs with Moroccan team

Illustrative: CBD hemp oil next to cannabis leaves. (Tinnakorn Jorruang/iStock by Getty Images)

High hopesStudy: Cannabis compounds prevent coronavirus entering cells

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