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What Matters Most On Monday, January 24, 2022

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File - Technicians carry out a diagnostic test for COVID-19 in a lab at a branch of Leumit Health Care Services in Or Yehuda on January 21, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

With half a million currently infected, COVID expert says Omicron peak is here

Eran Segal warns of tough days ahead, as new serious cases rise even when total infections fall; minister, deputy minister test positive

A man displays the Green Pass on his cellphone in Jerusalem, October 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry experts recommend scrapping Green Pass

Health care staff receive a 4th dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, at the Sheba Medical Center, on January 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health Ministry: 4th dose triples protection from serious illness for over-60s

Then-outgoing Supreme Court chief justice Miriam Naor speaks during her a farewell ceremony in Jerusalem, on November 6, 2017. (Flash90)

Former Supreme Court chief justice Miriam Naor dead at 74

Retired jurist, who was serving as head of state commission of inquiry into Meron disaster, remembered as ‘one of the titans of Israeli law’

Israel Police commander Jamal Hakrush attends a Public Security Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Senior cop fled scene of stabbing, tripped over dying victim on way out — video

Jamal Hakrush, head of unit that battles Arab Israeli crime, put on leave after footage shows him running past bleeding man and out of plant in Kafr Kanna during 2020 killing

Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir visits in Kafr Qasim, on October 5, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

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

Illustrative: Ivan Perchek dresses in a traditional bear costume ahead of the Malanka festival in the village of Krasnoilsk, Ukraine, January 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 24 – Ties that bind: Ukraine crisis, pro-lsrael UN & submarines

Correspondents Tal Schneider and Lazar Berman update us on a near-unprecedented UN resolution against Holocaust denial and aftershocks from the scandal-ridden submarine deal

As Russian forces amass on Ukraine border, NATO deploys ships and fighter jets

Israel said preparing for potential need to evacuate Ukrainian Jews in case of war

By ToI Staff and AP

US orders diplomats’ families to leave Kyiv ahead of possible Russian invasion

By AFP

Kosher in the Bahamas

Inspired by Israeli cooking techniques, Atlantis’ Kosher dining service offers contemporary fare with an array of classic and novel dishes. For events and group functions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu expected to be called as central witness in state probe of submarine deal

The five members of the government-backed commission of inquiry will need to have no ties to the scandal-ridden procurement deal from a German shipbuilder

Foreign Affairs Minister Yair Lapid walks through a protest supporting the establishment of a committee of inquiry into the submarine affair, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cabinet votes to establish state inquiry into submarine affair

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2-R) and his wife Sara, wait in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, on 10 January 2022, for a preliminary hearing in the Netanyahus' defamation lawsuit against Olmert, who called them "mentally ill" in interviews. (Avshalom SASSONI / POOL / AFP)

Olmert asks court to order psychiatric evaluations for Netanyahu, wife and son

Brother of Texas synagogue hostage-taker says ‘religious nuts got a hold of him’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gulbar Akram also asserts that brother Akram had not been antisemitic: ‘He didn’t hate Jews. One of his closest friends is Jewish’

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

A Palestinian examines damage to a shop allegedly from Jewish extremist stone-throwing in Huwara, near Nablus, on Monday, January 24, 2022 (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Settler convoy parades through Palestinian town, stoning cars and storefronts

Rights group say Israelis drive through northern West Bank town of Huwara to celebrate release of Jewish suspect in recent attacks on Palestinians in the area; 3 injured in assault

7:43 pm

Likud MK calls for probe into whether police used NSO spyware in Netanyahu investigations
7:28 pm

Report: Netanyahu filmed video declaring intention to remain Likud head in advance
7:20 pm

Lapid says Netanyahu plea talks proof that state needs 'moral turpitude law'

Illustrative: A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet carrying a Kinzhal missile takes off from the Hemeimeem air base in Syria on June 25, 2021. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia said conducting joint patrols of Syrian border airspace, including over Golan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a parade marking the Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea, on May 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

AnalysisUkraine crisis is a showdown between two worldviews

By John Daniszewski

Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces fighters take their positions at the defense wall of Gweiran Prison in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022 (AP Photo/Hogir Al Abdo)

Death toll in Syrian prison standoff tops 150

By AFP

I let an unhoused man into my synagogue before Colleyville. Now what?

The rise of antisemitism should concern us not only for what might happen to us — but also, for who we might become

What’s in a name? Turning Arabic names to Hebrew does not smell sweet

As Israel’s naming committee inches toward more accurately reflecting the national demographic, it can better preserve the country’s diverse heritage

File: A general view of the Givat Ronen outpost in the West Bank on October 25, 2006 (Olivier Fitoussi / Flash 90)

Illegal outpost gets demolition notices days after Jewish extremist attack

Security forces will be able to wreck buildings in three days’ time; men believed to have come from the outpost assaulted Palestinians and Israeli activists on Friday

People protest over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG said closing case against cops involved in settler teen’s death in car chase

Dozens attack the vehicle of Saeed Mousa, an Arab man, in Bat Yam on May 12, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

State appeals light sentence for Jewish man in mob attack on Arab man in Bat Yam

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, and Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Commissioner Hussein al-Sheikh. (Flash90; Wafa)

In latest high-level contact, Lapid meets with top PA official Hussein al-Sheikh

By Aaron Boxerman

FM’s office declines to comment, but does not deny meeting; al-Sheikh says he stressed need for a ‘political horizon’

Omar As'ad. (Courtesy)

IDF troops held elderly Palestinian bound and gagged for over an hour — report

Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporters lift placards as they demonstrate in Gaza city on January 22, 2022, to denounce the war in Yemen. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

With chants against US and Saudis, Gaza terror group stages massive pro-Iran rally

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

A million homes at risk of collapse by earthquake — report

Home Front Command and geological officials unsure whether two tremors felt in northern Israel earlier this week are isolated, or a prelude to a stronger event

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (C) departs after speaking at the Lincoln Memorial to a "Defeat the Mandates" rally in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2022.(Stefani Reynolds / AFP)

RFK Jr. utilizes Holocaust analogy in speech to DC anti-vaccine rally

Comments by son of assassinated US attorney general are slammed by Auschwitz Memorial, which calls them ‘a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decay’

Illustrative: MK Gilad Kariv chairs a Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee at the Knesset, November 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-vaxxer ‘Zoom bombs’ Knesset committee meeting on coronavirus with porn

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid shakes hands with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, on June 29, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem GPO)

Israel approves multimillion-dollar joint R&D fund with UAE

By Lazar Berman

NIS 300 million to be allocated over next decade to support private sector collaboration and investment

A yellow Star of David Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis, is seen with other belongings of Holocaust survivors from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp that are on display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, January 24, 2005 (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Israel extends Holocaust pension to over 8,000 unrecognized survivors

Report says lack of Hebrew literacy or knowledge of eligibility among reasons many survivors find themselves without financial aid

Anne Frank (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Anne Frank Fund head slams findings on betrayal of diarist as ‘full of errors’

Convicted right-wing British extremist Ben John in an undated photo (Courtesy)

Court sends UK neo-Nazi to jail after earlier ruling instructed him to read classics

Israeli startup Redefine Meat develops plant-based products as an alternative to animal meat. (Redefine Meat)

Israeli developer of 3D-printed plant-based meat pulls in $135 million

By Ricky Ben-David

Redefine Meat to use funds to set up production lines in Israel, Netherlands, expand restaurant partnerships

French startup 'La Vie' co-founder and CEO Nicolas Schweitzer cooks their veggie recipe bacon sticks at their headquarters in Paris on January 7, 2022. (Photo by Eric Piermont/AFP)

Fake it till you make itNatalie Portman, French firm work to create vegan bacon

By Pascale Mollard-Chenebenoit

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators assault Jews at a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles, on May 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Ministry report highlights backlash against world Jewry over 2021 Gaza conflict

By Stuart Winer

Annual review of global antisemitism finds 31% increase in hate posts about Jews on Twitter in 2021 compared to 2020; during May fighting, content spiked six-fold

Michael Levine inside the Westwood Creative Artists office in Toronto, October 2021. (Robert Sarner)

Interview'Knowing where I came from has always interested me'

Top Canadian agent smokes out long-lost relatives with new title ‘The Cigar Factory’

By Robert Sarner

Over his 50-year career, Michael Levine has arranged deals for books, screen and business – but none hit home like a Holocaust memoir released in English this month

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A medical worker takes a swam sample from an Israeli at a testing center in Beit Hashmonai, on January 16, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

WHO says global COVID-19 emergency could end this year

By AFP

Interceptors are launched over Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to hit incoming missiles, January 24, 2022. (video screenshot)

UAE intercepts 2 ballistic missiles over Abu Dhabi fired by Iran-backed Houthis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israelis ride their bicycles on Rothschild Boulevard, in Tel Aviv, on June 20, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Government agrees to plant 450,000 urban trees to help counter rising heat

This composite image made from a series of Jan. 23, 2018 photos shows a self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Vera Rubin Ridge. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via AP)

Israeli astrobiologist: New Mars ancient life findings ‘important’ but incomplete

Rabbi Simcha Krauss speaks at a dinner hosted by Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi in his honor on Feb. 5, 2014. (Courtesy Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi)

ObituaryRabbi Simcha Krauss, who fought for women’s rights in Orthodoxy, dies at 85

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police during a protest against coronavirus restrictions in Jerusalem, February 9, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Three arrested as police, ultra-Orthodox protesters clash in Jerusalem

Cows in the snow in the northern Golan Heights, January 19, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Jerusalem braces for a dusting of white as winter storm moves in

Dany Tirza, stands next to a dummy as he speaks at his office in the West bank settlement of Kfar Adumim, on December 14, 2021. (Ahmad Gharbali/ AFP)

Israeli firm develops body cams with facial recognition technology

By Daniella Cheslow

Illustrative: A man suspected of sexual abuse at a court hearing in Jerusalem. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Education director in Haredi city named as suspect in child sex abuse case

Illustrative: Maccabi Tel Aviv fans during the UEFA Champions League playoff round second leg soccer match between Switzerland's FC Basel 1893 and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on August 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In first, soccer club faces disciplinary action over fans’ anti-gay chants

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony at the presidential palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 24, 2021. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

Turkey arrests TV journalist for insulting Erdogan

By AFP and ToI Staff

Cecile Klein with her daughter Harriet Nussbaum (right) and granddaughter Elaine Nussbaum (left)

ObituaryCecile Klein, Canada’s oldest person for 7 months, dies at 114

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

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