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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 23, 2022

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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla attends a ceremony in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, October 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, file)

Pfizer CEO to Israeli TV: World should be back to near-normal in ‘a few months’

Albert Bourla says US-based pharma firm is aiming to produce annual shot to cover all COVID variants; accuses anti-vaxxers of causing millions of deaths by spreading misinformation

The Coronavirus ward of the Shaare Zedek medical center in Jerusalem on January 20, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases rise to 732, as top health expert says Omicron wave is peaking

A woman wearing a face covering due to COVID-19 walks past a red telephone box on Whitehall, near the Houses of Parliament in central London, January 20, 2022. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Omicron sub-variant throws up fresh questions about virus

By Isabelle TOURNÉ

Cracks that appeared in a building in Tiberias following an earthquake on January 23, 2022, prompting an evacuation of residents. (Screenshot: Twitter)

2nd minor earthquake within hours rattles northern Israel; some buildings evacuated

3.5-magnitude quake centered south of Tiberias, just hours after earlier temblor; no immediate reports of injuries

Illustrative: A researcher shows seismograph sensor readings from an earthquake in Mexico, on July 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

‘The whole house shook’: Minor earthquake wobbles northern Israel

Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh. (WAFA)

Live updates (closed)

Lapid meets senior Palestinian official Hussein Al-Sheikh in Israel — report

By Michael Bachner

Foreign minister said hosting one of Palestinian Authority leaders’ closest confidants and potential heir, with Ramallah hoping diplomatic issues to be raised

7:39 pm

Dutch tourist detained for Nazi salute at Auschwitz
7:24 pm

Lapid meeting senior Palestinian official Hussein Al-Sheikh in Israel -- report
7:15 pm

Police increase security around far-right MK Ben-Gvir over death threats

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Manhattan's Central Synagogue spoke about her experience being contacted by the gunman who took Jews hostage at a synagogue in Texas a week earlier in a Friday night sermon on January 21, 2022. (Screenshot via JTA)

'I think of the ripple effects that this man set off'

In ‘Captives of Hope’ sermon, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl describes call with Texas gunman

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Leader of New York’s Central Synagogue says she is ‘unsettled’ by societal antisemitism, calls for unity and faith in first Shabbat service since hostage crisis

Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, January 17, 2022. (Emil Lippe/Getty Images/AFP)

‘An act of resistance’: US Jewish leaders defiant in 1st Shabbat since hostage siege

Rabbi Cytron-Walker of Colleyville’s Beth Israel says ‘the words Shabbat shalom have never felt so good,’ as community takes stand against antisemitism, week after hostage-taking

Analysis

Israel-Europe ties may not get much warmer with Macron as president of EU Council

As France assumes six-month leadership of key body, more pressing issues like Russia, COVID, and migration mean that relations will continue to be limited despite Lapid’s efforts

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) presents a new two-Euro-coin marking the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union during a press conference on France assuming EU presidency, in Paris, on December 9, 2021. (Ludovic MARIN / various sources / AFP)

3 mayors said targeted by police using NSO spyware despite no evidence of offenses

Calcalist website reports officers used Pegasus spyware on family members of targets too, leading to arrests in cases that were eventually closed

Police chief Kobi Shabtai, left, Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, center, and Northern Command police chief Shimon Lavie, right, during a ceremony in Nazareth, November 9, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Police minister denies illegal use of NSO spyware, acknowledges public mistrust

Illustrative: A person using a cellphone. (Oatawa via iStock by Getty Images)

ExplainerThe NSO Affair: What is allowed and what is not in online surveillance?

By Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and Amir Cahane

Matthias Kuntzel

80 years later the echo of Wannsee persists

Today’s Iranian regime is pursuing the project begun by Hitler, declaring plans to wipe Israel off the map and even adopting the phrase ’the final solution’

George R. Mastroianni

Is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum helping promote a Communist lie?

The myth of ’self-liberation’ was concocted to give Buchenwald prisoners a heroic role in liberating the camp, casting American soldiers as mere spectators

Police minister: Settler attack on activists is ‘organized action of a terror group’

Barlev says that in West Bank attack that injured 6 activists, perpetrators are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’; confirms Shin Bet involved in investigation

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)

A car vandalized in the West Bank Palestinian village of Qira, January 23, 2022 (Israel Police)

Palestinians’ cars vandalized in West Bank amid rising Jewish extremist violence

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 23 – Debating the pros and cons of a Netanyahu plea bargain

Editor David Horovitz and political and legal correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discuss a potential deal for the ex-premier, and cast light on the NSO spyware scandal

Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri, right, hands his letter of resignation to Knesset Speaker MK Mickey Levy, January 23, 2020. (Knesset spokesperson)

Deri resigns from the Knesset in line with tax offense plea deal

Because the Shas party leader will not be an MK at time of pending verdict, he’ll dodge a ‘moral turpitude’ conviction, enabling possible return to politics

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

Gantz proposes larger team to probe submarine affair, with ‘public representative’

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister says decision to expand committee to five members from original three, ahead of Sunday’s vote, came after discussion with top legal officials

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a press conference in Tel Aviv, January 11, 2022; Israelis protest against then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside a court hearing on the so-called submarine affair, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, January 25, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton; Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett to abstain on vote for state inquiry into murky submarine deal — reports

Customers sitting at Cafe Kadosh in Jerusalem, May 2020. The restaurant is one of hundreds in Israel that has opted for kosher certification outside the auspices of Israel's Chief Rabbinate. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As kashrut reform takes hold, businesses put their money where the mouths are

By Jessica Steinberg

Now free to switch overseeing agencies, food establishment owners say they’ll do so only if it’s good for business — and it often isn’t

An instructor trains members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units, in a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

‘Planning an attack’: UK says Moscow trying to install pro-Russia leader in Ukraine

British Foreign Office says it has information showing Russian intelligence is in contact with Ukrainian politicians to prepare for a takeover of Kyiv

German navy chief resigns after praising Putin amid Russia-Ukraine border crisis

By AFP

Ukraine says Germany is ‘encouraging Putin’ by refusing to supply weapons

By AFP

Families of US embassy workers in Ukraine said told to start evacuating soon

By ToI Staff and AFP

British lawmaker Nusrat Ghani speaks in parliament in 2020. (Screenshot/YouTube)

UK lawmaker says she was sacked from ministerial post because she is a Muslim

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Medics are seen at the scene of a deadly carbon monoxide poisoning incident in the northern town of Jadeidi-Makr, January 22, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Couple in north dies of apparent CO poisoning from grill used to heat home

By Emanuel Fabian

Reports say young children noticed parents didn’t get out of bed by the afternoon, alerted relatives; temperatures in Jadeidi-Makr area fell to 9°C overnight

People at the Mount Hermon ski resort in northern Israel, January 17, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Anticipating heavy snowfall, Mt. Hermon ski resort to close after busy weekend

US service members board a stateless fishing vessel transiting international waters in the Gulf of Oman as a rigid-hull inflatable boat and patrol coastal ship USS Chinook (PC 9) sail nearby, Jan. 18, 2022. (US Navy via AP)

US detains ship loaded with bomb-making compound heading from Iran to Yemen

By Isabel Debre

Same stateless fishing dhow was stopped last year with cargo of weapons UN said was likely intended for Houthi rebels; UK seizes $26m worth of drugs in Mideast waters

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)

UAE bans recreational drones after deadly attack claimed by Iran-backed Houthis

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran's then-president Hassan Rouhani addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

South Korea pays Iran’s UN dues with frozen assets, restoring Tehran’s voting rights

By AFP

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View of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, February 19, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Shin Bet questions Technion PhD student over alleged contact with foreign agent

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli forces stand by the ruins of a Palestinian house demolished in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem on January 19, 2022 (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Palestinian family evicted from East Jerusalem home to appeal to ICC

A protester stands outside Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2020, flanked by anti-Israel and antisemitic signs. (Alex Sherman/Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

After 18 years, Michigan city condemns ‘Jewish Power Corrupts’ demos as antisemitic

By Andrew Lapin

A flag of the United Arab Emirates in flies in Dubai. (typhoonski via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli startups head to Dubai to tout medical, health technologies

By Ricky Ben-David

Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, wearing a face mask, waves as he leaves the National Palace after meeting with the king in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Malaysia’s antisemitic ex-PM hospitalized but stable, says daughter

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Ramle woman shot dead in suspected murder

An NYPD officer stands at the scene of shooting in Harlem on January 21, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

NYPD officer killed, another severely hurt in Harlem shooting

By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz

In this Oct. 17, 2020, file photo, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, right, is congratulated by her partner Clarke Gayford following her victory speech to Labour Party members at an event in Auckland, New Zealand (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

New Zealand’s Ardern cancels wedding amid new Omicron restrictions

By AFP

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