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What Matters Most On Friday, January 21, 2022

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Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan holds an enlarged copy of the resolution passed on January 20, 2022 to combat Holocaust denial, flanked by Holocaust survivors at the General Assembly. (Israel's Mission to the UN)

'As number of survivors diminishes, denial grows'

UN General Assembly adopts Israeli resolution aimed at combating Holocaust denial

Only 2nd time an Israeli-led measure has ever passed; initiative earns 114 cosponsors, is approved by consensus; Iran opposes but can’t force vote since it hasn’t paid its UN dues

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks during a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, January 18, 2022. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

On Wannsee anniversary, German FM says Nazi-era diplomats share blame for Holocaust

By AP

Gilad Erdan (left) holds a rock during a UN Security Council session on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on January 19, 2022; Meretz Chair Tamar Zandberg (center) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his Ramallah office, on March 10, 2019. (Screenshot/UN; Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Minister raps UN envoy for mischaracterizing her ties with Palestinian counterpart

An Israeli activist, bloodied from a beating allegedly by Jewish extremists in the West Bank near the outpost of Givat Ronen, on January 21, 2022. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)

Masked settler extremists assault Palestinians and left-wing activists in West Bank

By Aaron Boxerman

Group descending from illegal outpost hurls stones, beats people planting trees, sets car alight; multiple people wounded, no arrests; settler leaders say they’re ‘horrified’

Then deputy economy and industry minister Yair Golan, poses during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2022. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

InterviewDeputy minister: You can’t have free, democratic state so long as we control people

By Tia Goldenberg

High school students take a mathematics exam in a school in Yehud, January 20, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Expert: Country near peak of Omicron outbreak

Israel world #1 in daily COVID cases per capita; exposed schoolkids won’t quarantine

Starting next Thursday, students to take antigen tests twice a week at home and present negative results when going to school; PM says ‘millions’ of home tests to be handed out

Health workers collect a swab sample from a man to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on January 20, 2022. (AFP)

World breaks daily COVID case count record, again, tally shows

By AFP

Lawmakers vote on compulsory COVID-19 vaccination in the parliament in Vienna, Austria, on January 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

In first for an EU state, Austria makes COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for adults

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and Geir Moulson

COVID Q&A

Two months since Omicron emerged, where does Israel stand? Q&A with an expert

Did the travel ban help? Why aren’t vaccines working the same as with previous variants? Why don’t antibody counts tell us if we’re protected? Immunologist Dr. Yariv Wine answers

A member of the medical staff and a patient on the coronavirus ward of Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot on January 18, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a vote at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, January 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz becomes latest cabinet minister to catch COVID-19

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Liberman says ‘no money handouts’ for businesses, insists economy doing well overall

A medical assistant prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children at a vaccination center set up at a car dealership in Iserlohn, western Germany, on January 5, 2022. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)

Natural immunity was more potent than vaccines during US Delta wave — study

By AFP and ToI Staff

But authors of paper warn against depending on infection, given the higher risks of hospitalization, long-term impacts and death

A healthcare worker tends to a Covid-19 patient, at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Bellvitge University Hospital in Barcelona on January 19, 2022 (Josep LAGO / AFP)

Spain leads call for COVID-19 to be treated like flu

By AFP

A man takes a rapid COVID-19 test in Doula, during an African Cup of Nations 2022 soccer match between Cameroon and Ethiopia at the Olembe stadium in Yaounde, Cameroon, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

COVID cases ‘drop significantly’ in Africa, WHO says

By AFP

Boeing 707 and F-15 demonstrate mid-air refueling, December 1, 2014. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Report: Israeli fighter jets, refueling planes hold massive drill aimed at Tehran

Maneuvers seen as intended to plan for strike on Iran, Saudi-owned Elaph claims, month after New York Times reveals new tankers seen as key to threat won’t arrive before late 2024

In this photo provided Friday, January 21, 2022 by the Iranian Army, an Iranian army member fires a weapon during a joint naval drill of Iran, Russia and China in the Indian Ocean. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran, Russia and China begin joint naval drill in Indian Ocean

By AP and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) and his Greek counterpart Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, January 20, 2022. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz: Iran’s ‘double game’ in region must be on the table at nuclear talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Deputy State Attorney Shlomo Lamberger (right) speaks at a conference held by the Israel Bar Association, on January 20, 2022. (Screenshot/Ynet)

Deputy state attorney: Netanyahu plea deal without ‘moral turpitude’ inconceivable

Benjamin Netanyahu attends a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, on January 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ExplainerWhat does a plea bargain mean in Israel, and what could it spell for Netanyahu?

By Amir Fuchs and Guy Lurie

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, right, is interviewed by Amos Yadlin at the Institute for National Security Studies annual conference in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2019. (INSS)

Societal rifts a larger threat to Israel than foreign enemies, ex-IDF chief says

Security officials and rescuers at the scene of a fatal crush during Lag B'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, on April 30, 2021. (AP Photo)

Ministers agree on NIS 500,000 in aid for each family of 45 Meron disaster victims

Justice and finance ministers announce compensation for ‘tremendous loss’ in Israel’s worst peacetime disaster

From the blogs

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

The NSO scandal should be an earthquake for the Israel Police

They hacked into the very souls of Israeli citizens illegally, without public oversight, and, most troubling of all, claim it was approved by the Attorney General

Chief of Police Kobi Shabtai speaks during a ceremony in the northern city of Nazareth, on November 9, 2021 (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Police chief defiant amid NSO scandal: ‘Some want to harm our crimefighting ability’

Facing claims of spying on citizens, Kobi Shabtai tells officers force is ‘under attack,’ vows to continue to develop intel tech, insists authorities only use it lawfully

Police chief Kobi Shabtai at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on September 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Attorney general opens investigation into police use of NSO spyware against Israelis

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

US Jews prepare for Shabbat in shadow of ‘disheartening’ Texas synagogue attack

‘It’s scary to be Jewish in America these days,’ says religious leader acquainted with Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi taken hostage in Colleyville last week

NY police seeking woman seen spitting on Jewish kids, threatening to kill them

Ilana Sober Elzufon

A father-in-law’s pragmatism

Moses’s commitment to truth and justice brought him the highest level of prophecy, but he needed some help with the more practical side of leadership (Yitro)

All of us stood at Sinai: On being Orthodox and single

Many of our leaders have been married for a long time, which makes crucial that they learn what single people need from the single people themselves

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Can fakin’ bacon and moon-shaped croissants be called kosher?

Times Will Tell takes a closer look at the first step of Israel’s reforms in the kosher supervision system, and who’s making the decisions

Crave Jerusalem's 'facon' duck bacon on its Black Forest Special (Courtesy Crave)

View of a United Airlines flight at Ben Gurion Airport on August 3, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Flight from NY to Tel Aviv turns back after two unruly Israelis grab business seats

Passengers said to raise ruckus after sitting in business class, refusing to prove to cabin crew they had tickets for it; pilot returns to NY, pair arrested

Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram (Courtesy American United)

Christian adoption agency accused of discrimination after refusing Jewish couple

Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram suing Tennessee, which funds Holston United Methodist Home, in first challenge to 2020 law giving agencies room to not help those of other creeds

Rep. Lauren Boebert, Republican-Colorado, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 29, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

US Rep. Boebert asks Jewish visitors if they are spying on Capitol

By Gabe Friedman

Interview'Embarassing moments as a kid become strengths as an adult'

Leaning into own past, Jewish ‘Wonder Years’ writer comes of age with TV bar mitzvah

From doily head coverings to pre-speech jitters, the rebooted sitcom managed to capture the Jewish rite just right, largely thanks to screenwriter Yael Galena’s own experiences

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) sits down with UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the latter's Abu Dhabi palace, on December 13, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Bennett speaks with Abu Dhabi crown prince following deadly Houthi attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM affirms support, expresses condolences; UAE news agency says he stressed ‘need to confront terrorist forces that threaten stability and peace in the region’

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

Lapid talks with Turkish FM, in first acknowledged call in 13 years

Visiting Moroccan musicians playing with the Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod for the 2021-2022 year. (Courtesy: Rafi Daluya)

In perfect harmonyMoroccan musicians spend year in Israel with Ashdod Orchestra

By Jessica Steinberg

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A woman accused of contacting a foreign agent from Iran, arrives for a court hearing in the Jerusalem District Court, January 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In questioning, women in Iran espionage case insist they had no sinister intentions

By Michael Bachner

This file photo, taken on October 26, 2019, shows men suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group, praying in a cell of the Sinaa prison in the Ghwayran neighborhood of the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

Islamic State attacks Syria jail, military base in Iraq in deadly escalation

By AFP

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

IDF issues demolition order for residence of suspect in fatal West Bank shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

Murder victim Rasmia Barbur with her huband in an undated photo (Courtesy)

Man suspected of murdering pregnant wife in northern Israel

The remains of a house that was destroyed by Israeli authorities, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on January 19, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

5 Palestinians freed following arrests during East Jerusalem eviction

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screenshot of UN Watch CEO Hillel Neuer's personal Facebook page, January 21, 2022. (Facebook)

Citing error, Facebook nixes threat to delete page of pro-Israel UN watchdog chief

By Stuart Winer

The inauguration of the Congressional Caucus for the Advancement of Torah Values was attended by Reps. Kat Cammack (R-FL); Don Bacon (R-NE); Rabbi Dovid Hofstedter; Henry Cuellar (D-TX); Dan Meuser (R-PA); and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) in Washington, D.C. (Sruly Saftlas/CNW Group/Dirshu via JTA)

Non-Jewish US House reps form congressional ‘Caucus for Advancement of Torah Values’

Ivanka Trump waves to supporters during a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, on November 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

‘You were in the Oval Office’: Jan. 6 investigators ask Ivanka Trump to cooperate

By Frankie TAGGART

The Ryanair plane carrying opposition figure Raman Pratasevich, lands at the international airport outside Vilnius, Lithuania, May 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

US charges Belarus with air piracy in flight diversion nation blamed on Hamas threat

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US surgeons prepare to transplant kidneys from a genetically modified pig into the body of a deceased recipient in September 2021. (University of Alabama at Birmingham via AP)

After heart transplant, researchers successfully test pig-to-human kidney donation

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Fashion designer Rachel Antonoff at the Animal Haven Gala in New York City, May 22, 2019. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Animal Haven Gala 2019 via JTA)

Funny fashionRachel Antonoff employs Jewish comedians to model her latest

Meat Loaf performs at a concert in New York's Madison Square Garden, on Wednesday, July 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Andy Kropa, File)

ObituaryMeat Loaf, ‘Bat Out of Hell’ rock legend, dies at 74

By Hillel Italie

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