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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 16, 2022

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US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden pack food boxes while volunteering in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service, at Philabundance, a hunger relief organization, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 16, 2022. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Biden calls Texas synagogue attack an ‘act of terror’ as FBI names British gunman

By Michael Bachner

US president says attacker Malik Faisal Akram used ‘antisemitic and anti-Israeli comments’; hostage-taker died during rescue operation after all hostages were freed unharmed

7:49 pm

Polls show Israelis object to Netanyahu plea deal, believe ex-PM is playing a trick
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White House adviser pans Trump's 'catastrophic mistake' in leaving Iran nuclear deal
7:44 pm

UK foreign minister slams US synagogue attack as 'act of terrorism and antisemitism'

SWAT team members deploy near Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue during a hostage situation in Colleyville, Texas, January 15, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP)

Captor reportedly ranted about Jews; called rabbi 'good guy'

All hostages released from Texas synagogue after 10-hour standoff

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Attacker dies during rescue op after gunshots heard; hostages seen running from building: FBI: He ‘focused on one issue’ – apparently seeking release of ‘Lady Al-Qaeda’ convict

SWAT team members deploy near Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue during a hostage situation in Colleyville, Texas, January 15, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP)

Man takes hostages at Texas synagogue during Saturday service

Inside story

‘Calm, collected’ synagogue rabbi wowed FBI through 11-hour Texas hostage crisis

COLLEYVILLE, Texas -- Local and federal law enforcement credited Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker's "calm and collected" demeanor for helping bring about a miraculous end to the 11-hour hostage crisis at his northern Texas synagogue on Saturday night. Cytron-Walker and the three other worshipers who made it to Sabbath morning services in the quiet town of Colleyville surely felt... Continue Reading

SWAT team members deploy near Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue during a hostage situation in Colleyville, Texas, January 15, 2022; inset, Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP; Congregation Beth Israel)

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who was held hostage inside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, January 15, 2022. (JTA)

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, the ‘mensch’ liked even by the man who took him hostage

By Andrew Lapin

Texas Christian University professor Adam McKinney, upper left, organized an online vigil in support of Congregation Beth Israel of Colleyville, Texas, where an attacker took several congregants hostage, January 15, 2022. (Screenshot via JTA)

As Texas synagogue hostage crisis unfolded, many Jews prayed for captives’ release

By PHILISSA CRAMER

This Federal Bureau of Investigation handout image shows undated images of a woman identified as Aafia Siddiqui (FBI)

Explainer

Texas attacker sought release of Aafia Siddiqui, who blamed Israel for her jailing

By AP and TOI staff

Neuroscientist is serving 86 years in US for trying to shoot American soldiers in Afghanistan; didn’t want ‘Zionist Jews’ in jury at trial, said they should be genetically tested

A police vehicle patrols an intersection on January 15, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas, near Congregation Beth Israel. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images via AFP)

UK government confirms Texas synagogue attacker was a British citizen

By Jacob Magid and Amy Spiro

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US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, DC, December 6, 2021. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Biden after Texas synagogue attack: ‘We will stand against antisemitism’

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

US president says he’s sending a ‘clear’ message to those who spread hate; Bennett thanks rescuers, says Israel in solidarity with Jews worldwide

Police near Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, January 15, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP)

Police step up security for Jewish communities in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas

A law enforcement officer walks across an intersection near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 15, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)All 4 hostages freed, captor dead, at Texas synagogue

By TOI staff and Luke Tress

Daphne Lazar Price

Jewish life and Jewish lives: Thoughts after Colleyville

Every week when I walk by my synagogue, I am both sickened and reassured in equal measure that there is a police presence outside

Where was the Chief Rabbinate? Definitely not in Colleyville

While members of a Reform temple in the US were held hostage, apparently because they were Jews, the chief rabbi didn’t see fit to offer a prayer for their safety

From right, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman attend the first cabinet meeting, at the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Will a potential Netanyahu plea deal bring down the government that ousted him?

Finance Minister Liberman says a Netanyahu exit would be ‘the big bang’ of Israeli politics, while coalition’s ex-Likud MK Haskel says ‘if Netanyahu goes, anything is possible’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 11, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bennett: ‘Rest assured’ government will not fall if Netanyahu signs plea deal

Israelis protest against then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside a court hearing on the submarine affair, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on January 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Vote on state inquiry into murky submarine deal said delayed at least a week

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

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 16 – Netanyahu eyes a plea deal; a Texas rabbi keeps calm

Editor David Horovitz and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discuss a possible end to the Netanyahu corruption trial, and US correspondent Jacob Magid reports from Colleyville, Texas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on November 20, 2019 (left); Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit addresses the press in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2019. (Gali Tibon; Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Hundreds demonstrate outside AG's home, opposing a plea deal

Report: Netanyahu, AG may agree to leave ‘moral turpitude’ to judges in plea deal

Sides weighing compromise on key sticking point, Channel 13 reports, as the former Israeli leader is said to move toward backing proposed agreement

Former Supreme Court chief justice Aharon Barak speaks at the funeral service for late former chief justice Meir Shamgar at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on October 22, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court chief says Netanyahu asked him to raise plea deal with AG

Arnon Mozes seen during a court hearing in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Newspaper publisher Mozes expected to sign plea deal in Netanyahu case — report

Israel said to secretly ink unprecedented deal to supply gas to Lebanon, via Jordan

By TOI staff and Agencies

Israel has signed an agreement to indirectly pump natural gas to Lebanon to aid the crisis-hit nation, an unsourced television report claimed on Saturday. Channel 12 news reported that the deal was brokered by Amos Hochstein, Washington's special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, and signed in secret over the weekend. It will... Continue Reading

View of the Israeli Leviathan gas field gas processing rig as it seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90)

A general view of a petrol station on the main highway that links the Capital Beirut to south Lebanon as cars come from every direction to try and fill their tanks with gasoline, in the coastal town of Jiyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021 (AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar)

Tens of thousands of Lebanese left without internet amid fuel crisis

By Sarah El Deeb

Hezbollah fighters hold their group's flag as they stand in front of a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and swear their oath of allegiance to him, during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of his assassination, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on January 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah says ready to return to Lebanon cabinet meetings, after 3-month boycott

By Agencies and TOI staff

The damaged synagoge building at Ziv's Lookout, near the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Hever and the Palestinian village of Birin, January 15, 2022. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Synagogue in West Bank’s South Hebron Hills torched in apparent arson

By Emanuel Fabian

Firefighting officials say several car tires found inside scorched building; prayer books, empty Torah ark damaged

Palestinian relatives carry the body of Omar As'ad, at his funeral; As'ad was found dead after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid, in Jiljilya village in the West Bank, on January 13, 2022. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Echoing State Dept, US lawmakers urge probe into citizen’s death after IDF arrest

Two Israeli and one American F-16 fighter jets fly alongside one another during a joint exercise in southern Israel in January 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli Air Force, US military hold joint aerial drill over Negev

By Judah Ari Gross

‘Desert Falcon’ exercise is latest cooperation between IDF and America’s Middle East-focused Central Command

(L) Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset, January 10, 2022; (R) Likud MK David Amsalem speaks during a Knesset plenum session on November 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Weekend COVID cases top 50,000 as finance minister, Likud MK also test positive

Serious cases rise to 387 as Omicron continues to rampage; but virus transmission rate continues steady decline seen in past few days

3D illustration of the mutating coronavirus variant. (wildpixel; iStock by Getty Images)

Eye on the ‘Pi’? Scientists warn of potential for new problem variants after Omicron

Analysis

WHO spurns boosters. That’s not the blow it may seem to be for jab-friendly Israel

Headlines that appeared around the world this week had some hearts sinking here in Israel: The World Health Organization was warning against repeated use of boosters. It sounded like a negation of the Vaccination Nation’s prevailing wisdom. After all, this is the country that weathered Delta by introducing universal third shots before anyone else. And for... Continue Reading

As part of the global race to vaccinate against COVID-19, a medical worker at South Tangerang Regional General Hospital in Tangerang, Indonesia, holds a vaccine vial the she is using to administer third doses on, Jan. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility arrives in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Febuary 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Diomande Ble Blonde)

UN’s COVAX program delivering vaccines to poor countries hits 1 billionth dose

By AP

An animated video posted by @KhameneiSite on Twitter shows a robot and a drone targeting former president Donald Trump. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Twitter bans account linked to Iran leader over animated video threatening Trump

By AFP

Titled ‘Revenge is Definite,’ animation showed ex-president being targeted by robot and drone while playing golf in Florida

A camera directed on Palais Coburg, where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, on December 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber)

Nuclear negotiators head home for consultations, as Iran talks hit critical stage

By AFP

In this file photo from June 25, 2017, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

A revolution-minded Yale Law alum: The militia leader who plotted US Capitol attack

By AFP

‘He sees himself as a much-revered grand figure in history,’ says estranged wife of Oath Keepers chief Stewart Rhodes, who has been charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 riot

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

Legal risks in sedition conspiracy charge for ‘Oath Keepers’ who stormed Capitol

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and Michael Kunzelman

Former US president Donald Trump prepares to take the stage during a rally in Perry, Georgia, on September 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Ahead of midterms, GOP faces dilemma of how closely to align with Trump

This image provided by US Department of Health and Human Services shows an illustration of the outer coating of the Epstein-Barr virus. (US Department of Health and Human Services via AP)

New study finds ‘kissing disease’ virus is leading cause of multiple sclerosis

By AFP

Harvard researcher says developing a vaccine or treatment for Epstein-Barr infection ‘could ultimately prevent or cure MS’

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