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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 22, 2022

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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)

Secretive plea bargain talks may have begun as early as July

AG said to have agreed deal for Netanyahu to quit politics for just 2 years, reneged

Reports say Mandelblit backed away from offer amid scathing criticism from state prosecution colleagues, is now demanding ‘moral turpitude’ clause which spells 7-year ban for ex-PM

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a conference in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2021.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

AG wants plea deal for fear Netanyahu could regain power, subvert democracy – report

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

Reversing earlier miscue, FBI say Texas was ‘terrorist attack on Jewish community’

SWAT team members deploy near Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on January 15, 2022.(Andy Jacobsohn/AFP)

‘Time to go’: Hostages escaped Texas synagogue as FBI SWAT team moved in

By AP and Jacob Magid

This January 2, 2022 photo provided by OurCalling, LLC shows Malik Faisal Akram, at a Dallas homeless shelter. (OurCalling, LLC via AP)

Colleyville synagogue hostage-taker killed by multiple gunshots — medical examiner

By AP and Jacob Magid

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

‘Show up in shul’: US Jewish leaders urge synagogue attendance after Texas attack

In this August 20, 2010, photo, an Iranian security guard walks past a gate of the Bushehr nuclear power plant as its reactor building is seen in background, just outside the city of Bushehr 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Russia proposes interim nuke deal to Iran, with US aware of talks on matter – report

Moscow said to offer some sanctions relief in return for nuclear program limits; Biden administration said to have knowledge of proposal, which would likely need US Congress review

A 2010 file photo of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran holding talks with Russia to expand its sole nuclear power plant

By AFP

Analysis

French parliamentary report on Sarah Halimi murder reopens wounds it sought to heal

Despite finding police arrived on scene before murder but did not stop it, committee says none of the officers, judges, psychiatrists or anyone involved in case did anything wrong

Protesters march with a banner of killed Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, April 25, 2021 (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Jonathan D. Sarna

A brief history of antisemitic conspiracy theories

The recent hostage-taking at a Texas synagogue was fueled by a long history of hateful myths offering simple explanations for bewildering social changes

That time a firetruck totaled my car

The guy asks, ’You have the documents? The keys?’ I photograph his ID, his business license, and more. ’Don’t worry,’ he says. ’That’s the way we do it’

A woman who allegedly spit on Jewish children in New York seen in security camera footage from January 14, 2022. (Screenshot/NYPD)

NYPD nabs woman who allegedly told Jewish kids: ‘Hitler should have killed you all’

Christina Darling faces hate crime charge for spitting at children outside Brooklyn synagogue, threatening to kill them

Bennett: Israel is ours because it’s the Jewish homeland, not because of Holocaust

80 years after Wannsee Conference, PM says a ‘strong, secure, independent, thriving, diverse, free and united’ state is needed to ‘ensure the existence of the Jewish people’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on October 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Interview'Why would a people not consume something so protein-rich?'

What’s with Judaism’s pork taboo? Documentary film ‘Magnificent Beast’ bores into it

By Rich Tenorio

Mother-son duo Tess and Josh Gerritsen travel the world to find out why pigs are so controversial in the movie screening virtually at the Miami Jewish Film Festival through Jan. 26

A Magen David Adom worker takes a swab sample from a man at a drive-thru testing complex in Jerusalem on January 17, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health officials said to predict Omicron wave will begin receding within a week

TV report cites Health Ministry assessments that number of new COVID infections per day has started to moderate

Israel sees 70,000 new COVID cases, with 638 hospitalized in serious condition

3rd booster shots effective against severe illness from Omicron, CDC studies show

COVID cases, deaths soar worldwide but show signs of slowing

By AFP

A firefighter douses the flames in an Israeli car after it was allegedly set on fire by Jewish extremists in the West Bank near the outpost of Givat Ronen on January 21, 2022. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)

Coalition members condemn latest settler attack, with some calling to raze outposts

Criticism of masked attackers mostly comes from left-wing, centrist lawmakers, but Yamina minister also slams assault on activists, Palestinians: ‘This behavior must be rooted out’

Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, then the director of the Presbyterian Church Office of Public Witness, at a prayer service outside the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill, on October 8, 2013. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

Top Presbyterian official slammed for equating Israeli occupation with slavery

A still from 'Camp Confidential.' (Netflix via JTA)

35-minute film is on Oscar shortlist for best docu short

‘Camp Confidential’ tells story of Jews who looked after Nazis at US army compound

By Andrew Lapin

Netflix animated documentary from Israeli directors recalls group of Jewish American veterans whose sole experience of WWII was guarding secret Nazi POW camp on US soil

In this image taken from video and released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Russian army's self-propelled howitzers fire during military drills near Orenburg in the Urals, Russia, Dec. 16, 2021 (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Analysis

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

With drills and military muscle-flexing, Russia ups the ante amid Ukraine tensions

Maneuvers reflect bold attempt by Kremlin to halt decades of NATO expansion after the end of the Cold War; Putin working to strengthen alliances with countries opposed to West

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov move to their seats before their meeting, on Friday, January 21, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

No ‘breakthroughs’ at US-Russia talks in bid to reduce tensions in Ukraine crisis

By Matthew Lee and Jamey Keaten

Edward Ilyasov, 29, left his job in finance to pursue opening a pickle store full time after years of feeling unfulfilled. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

'It teaches my community to take risks for their passions'

Meet the 29-year-old Bukharian Jew who quit Wall Street to open a pickle shop

By julia GERGELY

Edward Ilyasov is using his already-successful venture to show others in his community that unusual or riskier careers can pay off big – in both money and fulfillment

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A general view of the only electrical plant that generates electricity in the central Gaza Strip, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Qatar signs financial deal to ensure natural gas supply to Gaza power plant

A sceren image of a post by artist Manfred Kielnhofer from Austria depicting an Israeli flag with a star of David made up of syringes and one of his statues. (Facebook via JTA)

Austrian artist under fire after posting Star of David made of syringes

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ruins of a prison hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Saada, Yemen, January 21, 2022 (Screen grab/BBC)

Houthis say at least 80 killed in Yemen prison airstrike; Saudis deny targeting site

By AP

This photo, released on Monday, March 27, 2017 by the official Twitter account of Operation Inherent Resolve, shows the Tabqa Dam, in Raqqa, Syria. (Operation Inherent Resolve via AP)

Risking thousands, US targeted massive Syria dam it claimed was on ‘no strike’ list

Pope Francis (right) hugs Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Sunday, September 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Pope vows justice for victims after Ratzinger faulted in four sex abuse cases

By Nicole Winfield

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)

Unsigned Trump order told Pentagon to seize voting machines after election — report

By AFP

Jon Stewart speaks backstage a 'Stand Up for Heroes' benefit show in New York City, on November 4, 2019. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The Bob Woodruff Foundation via JTA)

Jon Stewart to receive prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

'The Netanyahus,' 'A Play for the End of the World,' 'People Love Dead Jews' and Dvora Hacohen’s biography of Hadassah founder Henriette Szold are among the winners of the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards. (National Jewish Book Awards via JTA)

Biography of Hadassah founder takes top prize at National Jewish Book Awards

By Andrew Lapin

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