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What Matters Most On Monday, January 17, 2022

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Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu reportedly agrees to ‘moral turpitude’ in potential plea deal

Opposition leader denies he’s ‘announced’ agreement to clause that would bar him from public life; prosecutors said to remain doubtful deal can be clinched before AG’s term ends

7:26 pm

Gantz on draft law: Things that worked for 73 years don't fit reality today
6:38 pm

Third person files sexual assault complaint against screenwriter Gal Uchovsky
6:26 pm

Polish senators question cyber experts in NSO hacking inquiry

Analysis

With info scarce, US authorities, Jewish groups differ on Texas attacker’s motives

FBI declares gunman ‘singularly focused,’ Biden says he had multiple agendas; Reform movement sure targeting of synagogue was antisemitism, but synagogue itself says it was random

FBI Special Agent In Charge Matthew DeSarno speaks at a news conference near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 15, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images via AFP)

Police stand in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, January 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)

Tight-knit Texas synagogue bowled over by support but has had ‘painful awakening’

By Jamie Stengle

Police stage in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. Insert: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl speaks at the Central Synagogue in New York City, on October 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade; Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)

Texas synagogue gunman spoke twice to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl during hostage crisis

By JTA and ToI Staff

Law enforcement officials gather at Colleyville Elementary School near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Bennett speaks to Rabbi Cytron-Walker, hails his leadership

Texas rabbi: Hostages managed to escape as gunman became ‘increasingly belligerent’

Congregation chairman appears to downplay antisemitic motive, calling attack ‘random act of violence,’ rabbi credits security training with giving hostages awareness when to flee

Biden calls synagogue hostage incident an ‘act of terror’ as FBI identifies attacker

UK police arrest 2 teens over Texas synagogue attack, reportedly gunman’s sons

By AFP and ToI Staff

UK’s Johnson calls Texas attack an ‘antisemitic act of terrorism’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Plant Trees with JNF-USA for Tu B’Shvat

Planting trees in Israel is a beautiful way to show you care for the Earth. It connects us to the land & plants roots of hope for the future. Plant trees with JNF-USA for Tu B’Shvat!

A journalist takes images of pictures of Anne Frank at the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 21, 2018. (AP Photo/ Peter Dejong, File)

Anne Frank may have been betrayed by Jewish notary, new book claims

By AFP and ToI Staff

Arnold van den Bergh, founding member of Jewish council used to organize deportations, allegedly revealed secret hiding place to Nazis to save his own family

Artist Tova Berlinski was born in Oswiecim, and died in Jerusalem in 2022 at the age of 106 (Courtesy The Israel Museum)

ObituaryTova Berlinski, artist who painted the pain of Auschwitz, dies at 106

By Jessica Steinberg

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara leave after meeting on the plea deal with their lawyers, outside Boaz Ben Zur's home in Ramat Gan, January 16, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu said leaning toward accepting plea deal after talks with lawyers

Reports say ex-PM’s wife Sara and son Yair are main opponents of an agreement, but former premier’s lawyers are urging him to press ahead with talks with AG

Head of opposition and of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, November 15, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Likud struggles for unified response amid reports that Netanyahu seeks a plea deal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Demonstrators protest against a planned plea deal with Benjamin Netanyahu near the home of Attorney General Mandelblit, in Petah Tikva on January 15, 2022. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Most Israelis oppose plea deal in Netanyahu trial, polls find

Palestinians with gas cylinders stand on a rooftop of a house being evacuated by Israeli special forces in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, January 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In first since 2017, police try to evict family in flashpoint Jerusalem neighborhood

By Aaron Boxerman

The knife used in an alleged stabbing attempt in the central West Bank's Gush Etzion Junction on January 17, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Palestinian tries to stab troops at West Bank bus stop, is shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

Video shows a man stealing a car (right) while the owner attempts to stop him in the Palestinian town of al-Auja on January 14, 2022. (Screenshot)

Israeli man jumps out of moving vehicle after Palestinian steals car in West Bank

Erris Langer Klapper

FBI agent adds insult to injury in Texas hostage situation

Special Agent-in-Charge DeSarno’s words have done damage that will take time to repair, for they leave us feeling invisible, irrelevant, and alone

Sherwin Pomerantz

Colleyville: ‘It is burning, brothers, it is burning’

Do we look the other way, excuse it as an isolated incident? One thing we can be sure of: Someone is already planning the next attack

Richard H. Schwartz

12 Jewish lessons from trees that can help heal our imperiled planet

These powerful teachings can be used in efforts to help avert a climate catastrophe and shift us onto a sustainable path

MLK’s professors in Jerusalem

A 1965 letter to the US president found in Martin Buber’s archive is a reminder of the mutual admiration between King and the Israeli Jewish philosopher

Filmmaker David Fisher (left) speaks to retired Israeli Supreme Court justice Gabriel Bach, who served as the deputy prosecutor in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. (Courtesy)

Filmmaker, a child of survivors: For me it's 6,000,002

A new Israeli film tackles the taboo: Did six million Jews die in the Holocaust?

Filmmaker David Fisher’s latest documentary, the controversial ‘The Round Number,’ explores how the toll was determined and why many are loath to call it into question

Indonesia officials said to have visited Israel to talk COVID, despite lack of ties

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Delegation reportedly part of US effort to warm relations between the countries; Foreign Ministry won’t confirm visit but says ‘believes in international cooperation’ against virus

People line up to register for a booster shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a community health center in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Amos Hochstein in Athens, Greece, on May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

US denies brokering deal for Israel to indirectly pump gas to Lebanon

View of Abu Dhabi Skyline at sunset, United Arab Emirates (vwalakte; iStock by Getty Images)

From the webUAE wealth fund Mubadala invested $100m in Israeli VC firms – report

InterviewIn EU-Israel ties, 'the best is yet to come'

French ambassador: Every passing day jeopardizes chances of Iran deal

By Lazar Berman

As France assumes European Council presidency, Eric Danon says EU and Israel have much to learn from one another but warns that lack of progress with Palestinians cannot be ignored

French Ambassador to Israel Eric Danon (courtesy French Embassy Tel Aviv)

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei checks the time in farewell meeting with outgoing President Hassan Rouhani's administration in Tehran, Iran, in July 28, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran arrests Khamenei’s niece after she praises widow of ousted shah

By AFP

Illustrative: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh during a press conference in Tehran, on February 22, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranian diplomats arrive in Saudi Arabia for first time since 2016

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 17 – There’s science behind those booster shots

Health and science writer Nathan Jeffay offers commentary on vaccine boosters; political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses whether Benjamin Netanyahu will remain at Likud helm

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks during a ceremony in Thessaloniki, Greece, on October 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, File)

Pfizer CEO: Virus will be here for years but this may be last wave with restrictions

Medic works in the coronavirus ward of the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, January 13, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

1,500 said to refuse COVID antibody treatment, leading to preventable deaths

Israeli startup Plantish, based in Rehovot, says it made the first 3D-printed, whole-cut, plant-based salmon fillet in January 2022 with plans for a commercial launch in 2024. (Plantish)

Faux fish

Israeli startup unveils 3D-printed, plant-based salmon fillet

By Ricky Ben-David

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing on a lawsuit against former premier Ehud Olmert, at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on January 10, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/POOL)

Campaign to cover Netanyahu’s legal costs raises over NIS 2 million

By Tal Schneider and Emanuel Fabian

Activist lawyer warns money crowdfunded by right-wing journalist may be illegal, could constitute an ethical violation if ex-premier takes it

Shas MK Aryeh Deri at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court rejects petition calling on it to insist on harsher plea deal for Deri

IDF troops, including then chief of staff Benny Gantz, stand on a Dolphin-class submarine (IDF via Wikipedia)

Deal to purchase German submarines may be signed this week, after top panel meets

Ministerial committee discusses buying 3 Dolphin-type vessels; Germany said to signal deal can go ahead even if prior corruption found, paving way for Israel to okay investigation

Illustrative image: A ketogenic food diet (iStock via Getty Images)

High-fat diet may restore cognitive function lost in brain injury – Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

More than half of the lost cognitive ability returns after mice are given ketogenic diet for two months, Tel Aviv University scientists report in peer-reviewed research

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during a press conference about COVID-19, on December 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health minister pushes to cut mandatory quarantine to 5 days

Horowitz orders ministry officials to move forward with further shortening of isolation period, days after it was slashed to a week

Palestinian health workers at a hospital in the West Bank town of Nablus, where health workers were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), after the delivery of vaccine doses from Israel. February 3, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinians see few serious coronavirus cases, but infections expected to rise soon

By Aaron Boxerman

Former US president Donald Trump prepares to speak at a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on January 15, 2022 in Florence, Arizona. The rally marks Trump's first of the midterm election year with races for both theUS Senate and governor in Arizona this year. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

At Arizona rally, Trump stirs racial tensions, repeats claim of stolen election

Former US president falsely claims white people being denied vaccines, sent to back of line for therapeutics; indicates he won’t endorse candidates who accept 2020 results

Darren Beattie speaks at the At the Wall Symposium on July 28, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Biden fires Trump appointee from commission that monitors Holocaust sites

'I'm trans, and I didn't want to make anyone uncomfortable'

The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews worldwide in a changing ritual

By Rachel Román

Online and in-person, a new group is making the tradition of the ritual bath communal rather than personal, and more welcoming to non-cis-gendered participants

More Headlines

Three of 10 freedom riders on trial at Tallahassee, Florida, for unlawful assembly confer during a court recess on June 22, 1961. Talking are (from left) Rabbi Israel Dresner, the Rev. A.L. Hardge and the Rev. Robert Storm. (AP Photo)

ObituaryIsrael ‘Sy’ Dresner, ‘most arrested rabbi,’ who marched with MLK Jr., dies at 92

A protest against the 'family reunification law' outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In nod to opposition, ministers advance new bill to renew ‘Citizenship Law’

(L-R) Pine trees in a forest near Jerusalem; Bedouins protest against tree planting by the Jewish National Fund, outside the village of al-Atrash in the Negev desert, on January 13, 2022; Firefighting planes extinguish a forest fire near Jerusalem, on June 9, 2021. (Nati Shohat; Jamal Awad; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Invasive species, protests, fires: How Negev tree planting became so controversial

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Haredi radio host Dudi Shwamenfeld recording at the Kol Berama radio station on July 1, 2009. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Popular Haredi radio host accused of sexually assaulting multiple women

Jewish youngsters plant trees during a Tu Bishvat event organized by the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael in the Ben Shemen forest, February 6, 2012. (Omer Miron/Flash90)

Tu BishvatNew bill seeks to replace British mandate law on protection, planting of trees

Ferris State University professor Barry Mehler wearing an astronaut helmet in a video he made for students. (Screenshot)

US professor suspended for bizarre, profanity-laden ‘welcome’ video to students

By AP and ToI Staff

A view of the city of Beit Shemesh on September 5, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ministers approve over NIS 500 million to develop Beit Shemesh

Former Jerusalem District commander Niso Shaham at the Tel Aviv District Court to appeal his sentencing on July 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Supreme Court rejects ex-top cop’s appeal against prison term for sex crimes, fraud

Then-president Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Employees allege Rivlin was abusive and a bully as president

Screenshot from video purportedly showing fire after drone attack in Abu Dhabi on January 17, 2022. The video could not be independently verified (Screen grab)

3 killed as suspected Houthi drone attack causes blasts on UAE tankers, airport fire

View of the Western Wall plaza and the Dome of the Rock in the background, in Jerusalem's Old City, December 23, 2021. (Lee Aloni/Flash90)

Israel okays $35 million to upgrade Western Wall infrastructure, boost tourism

Muhammad Amash, killed on January 16, 2022 (Courtesy)

Man stabbed to death outside home in northern Arab town; 16-year-old arrested

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