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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 20, 2022

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A child receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit vaccination center in Katzrin, Golan Heights, on December 16, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Vaccinated kids half as likely to get Omicron, but protection fades fast — study

By Nathan Jeffay

Health Ministry-led research also shows teens who got their shots over four months ago only slightly better off than unvaccinated; hospitalizations among kids reportedly on rise

An Israeli child receives his second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine at Clalit vaccine center for children in Kfar Saba, December 13, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel to begin giving COVID boosters to at-risk kids aged 5-11

Hospital staff wear safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward of Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, on January 18, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases top 500, total infections since pandemic’s start pass 2 million

Illustrative: In this February 17, 2016 photo an iPhone lock-screen is seen. (AP /Carolyn Kaster, File)

Police targeted activist with NSO software, saved info on his sex life — report

By Michael Bachner

Likud MK David Bitan arrives for a court hearing at the Lod District Court, on January 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Report: Police used NSO’s spyware in corruption probe of Likud MK

Legislators examine gaps in surveillance laws: ‘No one foresaw’ NSO spyware tech

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Holocaust diarist Anne Frank. (Anne Frank Fonds)

TOI investigates'My students would not get away with this'

Historians bash ‘rubbish’ findings of investigation into Anne Frank betrayal

By Matt Lebovic

A six-year probe by dozens of experts is detailed in a new book that accuses fellow Jews of revealing her hideout to the Nazis. The only problem, scholars say: Lack of evidence

International Premiere on IZZY — Stream Israel

When their Arab-Israeli romance is brought to the public eye, Muna & Yaniv’s relationship gets entangled in the crosshairs of politics. Can their love overcome a century of hatred?

Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Eshel, right, and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Rolf Wirtz sign an agreement for Israel's purchase of three submarines at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, January 20, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Deal comes as ministers advance probe of purchase

Israel signs scandal-ridden €3 billion deal with Germany to buy new submarines

Agreement will see three new vessels delivered to Israeli Navy, includes reciprocal contract for German shipbuilder to make €850 million in purchases from Israel

Op-ed

Why Israel’s prosecutors would be wise to forgo a plea bargain with Netanyahu

A deal would resolve the case of the state versus the former PM. But what about the fateful matter of the former PM versus the law enforcement institutions of the state?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement before entering a courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24, 2020, for the start of his corruption trial. Alongside him from left are Likud MKs and ministers including Amir Ohana, Miri Regev, Nir Barkat, Israel Katz, Tzachi Hanegbi and Yoav Gallant. (Yonathan Sindel/Flash90)

(L) Benjamin Netanyahu during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, January 5, 2022. (R) Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a confrence in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel; Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu plea deal talks appear to be in dire straits, as AG’s departure looms

Joint List MK Ofer Cassif at the Knesset, January 19, 2022 (Screenshot)

Joint List MK tells female lawmaker to ‘stop shouting like a hen’

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 20 – Experts slam police on privacy abuse; startup prints salmon

Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben-David discusses spyware, foodtech and shopping tech, while diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman looks at an attack on the UAE, and Russia-Ukraine

Illustrative: A data protection concept.(Galeanu Mihai via iStock on Getty Images)

Israeli cybersecurity firms raised record $8.8b in 2021, exports reached $11b

By Ricky Ben-David

Congregation Beth Israel hostage taker, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram. (Courtesy)

In final call, Texas synagogue hostage-taker ranted about ‘f*cking Jews,’ US wars

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In recording of last phone call during siege, Malik Akram tells his brother he wants to ‘go down as a martyr’ and that he’s ‘opening doors’ for other jihadists

A law enforcement vehicle sits in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP)

UK police arrest two men over Texas synagogue attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

InterviewThrust into spotlight by standoff, Colleyville rabbi looks to keep focus on healing

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Alexander Kalantyrsky, a construction engineer who helped build the concrete base of the Chernobyl sarcophagus in 1986, at his home in Bat Yam alongside former MK Ksenia Svetlova, June 26, 2019 (ToI staff)

Obituary'We raced against time; Europe could have been wiped out'

Alexander Kalantyrsky, leader in Israel of ‘liquidators’ who battled Chernobyl, dies

By David Horovitz

Construction engineer volunteered to help build the sarcophagus over the exploded nuclear reactor in 1986, immigrated six years later and led campaign for promised state assistance

Andrew Silow-Carroll

From vigils to vitriol, social media and the Texas hostage crisis

Closely mirroring how Jews talk to and about one another, Twitter brought out the best and worst fast takes, from prayers of support to misinformation and invective

Where Jewish conspiracy lies are seeded

There’s a direct line between Colleyville and the chutzpah of a convicted Al Qaeda agent, who got financial aid at Brandeis, calling Jews ’backstabbers’

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (left); and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right). (Hussein Malla/AP; Oliver Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Lapid speaks with Turkish counterpart in latest sign of diplomatic thaw

Phone call between FMs is the first to be publicly announced in 13 years; top Israeli diplomat’s office says Mevlut Cavusoglu inquired about Lapid’s health after COVID diagnosis

12:54 pm

Likud: Commission should probe current government for delay in submarine purchase
7:15 pm

Minister accuses UN envoy of mischaracterizing ties with Palestinian counterpart
6:56 pm

Bennett speaks with Abu Dhabi crown prince following deadly Houthi attack

An image from a 6th grade UAE textbook promoting tolerance (screenshot)

No mention of history of Jews in region, nor of Holocaust

UAE textbooks promote tolerance, but leave Israel off maps – study

By Lazar Berman

Report on Emirati school lessons gives high marks for urging respect toward Jews and showing trend away from negative portrayals of Israel, but some remain

US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Biden says Iran nuclear talks advancing, not time to call it quits

By AFP

US president says all six world powers are on the same page in negotiations opposite Tehran on reviving 2015 pact, week after top diplomat says time running out

Illustrative: This photo released on January 13, 2021, by the Iranian Army, shows an Iranian Navy warship during a navy military drill in the Gulf of Oman. (Iranian Army via AP)

China, Russia and Iran to launch joint naval drill on Friday

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) speaks with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (right) during their meeting in Moscow, on January 19, 2022. (Pavel Bednyakov/Sputnik/AFP)

In Moscow, Putin and Raisi hail ties during decisive moment for Iran nuclear deal

By AFP

A person walks on the ruins of a Palestinian house demolished by Israeli authorities in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on January 19, 2022 (Ahmed Gharabli/AFP)

EU, European powers pan Israel over East Jerusalem eviction and construction

By Lazar Berman

France, Germany, Italy and Spain say proposed Jewish neighborhood near Har Homa threatens viability of future Palestinian state

Palestinian FM: US approach will spell ‘funeral’ for two-state solution

By AP and ToI Staff

Family of Palestinian-American who died after IDF arrest wants US pressure on probe

By Aaron Boxerman

US pans eviction of Palestinian family from Sheikh Jarrah home

Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ Flash90/ File)

Four Jews charged with attempted murder over racist attack on Arab men in Bat Yam

Victims, one in wheelchair, were sitting with Jewish friends; assailants asked if they were Arab and then returned with weapons, including improvised firearm

A face mask left on Roemerberg square in Frankfurt, Germany, November 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

Police use DNA from face mask to crack 13-year-old rape case

Larry David speaks in the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' panel during the HBO Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on July 26, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

TV series reviewWarning: Spoilers ahead

Did Larry David put his foot in his mouth with a ‘Curb’ finale Holocaust gag?

By Jordan Hoffman

The comedian’s semi-autobiographical character regularly pushes the boundaries on touchy subjects. As some ask whether he’s toeing the line or crossing it, our critic steps in

Combination photo of the cast of 'As We See It.' (Ali Goldstein/Amazon via AP)

Widely relatable

Amazon remake of Israeli show ‘On the Spectrum’ to hit screens

By Mark Kennedy

‘As We See It’ follows a trio of autistic young people — all played by actors on the spectrum — as they negotiate daily life and are looked after by a neurotypical aide

Inge Auerbacher, an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor who lives in Jamaica, Queens, poses with the books she's written. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

Interview'I’m not going to scream, "You murderers," which some are'

New York-based survivor to address German parliament on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Inge Auerbacher follows the likes of Elie Wiesel and Shimon Peres in being invited to speak to the Bundestag, where she will discuss being sent to Theresienstadt as a child

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Israeli security forces fire tear gas at Bedouin demonstrators following a protest against a forestation project by the Jewish National Fund near the Bedouin village of Sa'we al-Atrash in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, January 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

16 Bedouins charged over riots against controversial Negev forestation work

By Emanuel Fabian

The view of the Iraqi nuclear reactor as seen on the screen of one of the attacking F-16s. (Photo credit: IDF/AF via Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Court okays auction of control stick from Israeli jet that bombed Iraqi reactor

Palestinians and Arab Israelis protest against the 2003 Citizenship and Entry Law into Israel, on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meretz seeks to scuttle bill to renew ‘Citizenship Law’ despite ministerial OK

The Viola Ventures team, January 2022. (Eric Sultan)

Israeli VC Viola Ventures pulls in $250m for early-stage investment fund

By Ricky Ben-David

Snow in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, January 19, 2022. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Snow blankets north, but only teases Jerusalem with light appearance

By Stuart Winer

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Director General Nachman Ash, hold a press conference in Tel Aviv, January 4, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

State to expand subsidized medications, to total NIS 550 million

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik sits in the makeshift courtroom in Skien prison on the second day of his hearing where he is requesting release on parole, in Skien, Norway, January 19, 2022. (Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB scanpix via AP)

Still ‘a very dangerous man’: Prosecutors reject parole for Norway mass killer

By david keyton

This photo taken on June 22, 2020, shows former pope Benedict XVI at the airport in Munich, southern Germany, after visiting his brother. (Sven Hoppe / POOL / AFP)

Retired pope accused of failing to act against priests accused of sexual abuse

By Geir Moulson

Illustrative: Supporters of the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement hold flags during a demonstration at the Kungsholmstorg square in Stockholm, Sweden on August 25, 2018. (Fredrik Persson/Getty Images/AFP)

Swedish report shows over 1 in 4 hate crimes target tiny Jewish minority

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A Israeli man tries to open a sewer drain as water floods a street during a storm in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv, on October 25, 2015. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Climate risk map will help Israel’s communities plan for storms, floods, fires

Cranes working on sunset at a construction site in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israelis borrowed record NIS 116 billion in mortgage loans in 2021

By Ricky Ben-David

Jared Leto stars as Adam Neumann in new Apple miniseries WeCrashed. (Courtesy via JTA)

Requiem for a streamJared Leto sports Israeli accent as WeWork founder Adam Neumann

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