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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 25, 2022

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Medical staff receive a 4th dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, January 06, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

More than 83,000 cases diagnosed Monday for 2nd day in row

Health Ministry experts back 4th COVID vaccine dose for over-18s

Advisory panel recommends second booster when five months have passed since third shot or recovery; move pending approval by Health Ministry chief

People wearing face masks are seen in central Jerusalem, January 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Omicron wave could mark end of pandemic, Israeli COVID expert says

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)

Pfizer, BioNTech begin Omicron vaccine trial

By AFP

Illustrative: Israelis protest against corruption, urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, in Tel Aviv on February 16, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates

‘A warning sign’: Israel reaches all-time low in annual corruption index

By Michael Bachner

Jewish state ranked 29th out of 37 OECD countries, in what watchdog head says shows ‘phenomenon of corruption in Israel is strengthening’

7:31 pm

Knesset okays new COVID emergency law, strengthening parliamentary oversight
7:24 pm

Biden says 'no intention' of US or NATO forces entering Ukraine
7:23 pm

Right-wing MKs slam 'reckless' reported plan to evacuate, rebuild Khan al-Ahmar

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a video statement on the corruption cases against him, January 24, 2022. (Twitter screenshot)

Declares he's still working to regain leadership of Israel

Netanyahu says he didn’t agree to ‘turpitude’ in plea talks, will keep leading Likud

Statement issued after negotiations on deal in graft cases said to collapse, with Mandelblit notifying ex-PM’s lawyers that talks will have to wait for next AG

Former MK Aryeh Deri, leader of the Shas party, arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on January 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

No longer an MK, Deri convicted of tax offenses in plea bargain

(From left to right) Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on August 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers’ trips abroad have cost nearly NIS 16 million in seven months — report

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)

ADL, other Jewish groups denounce ‘ongoing terrorism’ by settler extremists

By JTA and Jacob Magid

In letter to Bennett, Lapid and Gantz, organizations urge ‘unequivocal action’ to stop violence against Palestinians, other Israelis and IDF; note damage caused to ties with US

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

3 Palestinians injured after Jewish extremists attack West Bank village near Nablus

By Aaron Boxerman

Screen capture from video of an IDF soldier firing across the Israeli-Gaza border in a clip that was posted on the TikTok video-sharing app. (Twitter)

IDF soldier gets jail for TikTok video of himself firing across border into Gaza

AJ Edelman (front) poses for a photo with the rest of the 2022 Israel Bobsled team (from left): Amitay Tzemach, Ward Fawarseh, Menachem Chen, Roman Shargaev and Amit Haas. (Courtesy AJ Edelman)

Israel’s 2022 Olympic bobsled dreams are crushed. But AJ Edelman is not giving up

After devastating razor-thin miss of spot at Beijing Games, Israeli-American Olympic skeleton veteran already has 2026 in his sights: ‘This mission is not done’

Stella Schuhmacher

‘Auschwitz did not fall from the sky’

Austria is using art to come to terms with its dark role during Nazism — but is that enough to counter the recent rise of antisemitism?

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Seeing the person behind the tubes

When Leonard became a ’John Doe’ patient, unconscious in a hospital bed, I felt I had to make sure those charged with saving his life would know who he was

Members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces, train in a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 22, 2022. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukrainian Jews prepare to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day as Russia war jitters loom

By Cnaan Liphshiz

As tensions between Moscow, Kyiv and West ratchet up, some see echoes of region’s complicated history, while others warn against drawing too many parallels with past

Ukraine urges calm amid tinderbox tensions, says Russian invasion not imminent

By YURAS KARMANAU

Dutch tourist held after making Nazi salute at Auschwitz

By AFP

Detail from 'Entertainment,' a drawing of the Terezín concentration camp by Bedřich Fritta, from 1943. Collection of Thomas Fritta Haas. ('Our Will to Live' by Mark Ludwig, published by Steidl/ via JTA)

'My musical work was fostered and not inhibited there'

A musician’s project sheds new light on artistic life in Terezín concentration camp

By Jonah Goldman Kay

Trying to pass off the brutal camp as a ‘spa’ for propaganda, the Nazis inadvertently set the stage for creativity by bringing many of the top Jewish artists together in one place

Holocaust survivors honor those who saved them, in social media campaign

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Knesset speaker to address Bundestag on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Analysis

1 in 20 Israelis infected, yet experts optimistic Omicron won’t defeat hospitals

Virus cases have passed half a million and are about to peak, but all indications are that the number of seriously ill patients is small enough to avoid health system crisis

A medical worker at Kaplan Hospital at the coronavirus ward on January 18, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 25 – Who should be handling extremist settlers?

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross and Arab affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman discuss extremist settler violence and Russia’s patrol with Syria on the Israeli border

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaking at the funeral of former chief justice Miriam Naor in Jerusalem on January 25, 2021. (GPO)

Leaders eulogize ‘queen of justice’ Miriam Naor as former chief justice buried

Prime minister calls Naor ‘one of the most significant judges of our time’ at funeral at capital’s Sanhedria cemetery

Head of the Religious Zionist Party MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a rally against the government in Tel Aviv, November 2, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Smotrich panned for criticism of Miriam Naor hours after her death

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev attends a ceremony at the Israel Police National Headquarters in Jerusalem, September 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Amid NSO scandal, minister says wiretap laws must be ‘adapted to the 21st century’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Public Security Minister Barlev calls current legislation ‘old’; Knesset committee opens discussion on claims that police used Pegasus spyware to track civilians without oversight

The Fluidic Telescope Experiment (FLUTE), was designed and built by researchers in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion in collaboration with a team of researchers at NASA. (Courtesy of the Technion)

Space meat and hummus: Israel finalizes experiments for upcoming ISS mission

By Ricky Ben-David

35 projects, part of Rakia program of research studies on International Space Station, to be performed by Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe this spring

Senior Islamic Movement officials gather in Kfar Qasim on Saturday, January 22, 2022 to elect a new leadership (courtesy: Islamic Movement)

Islamic Movement elects new spiritual leader seen as close to Ra’am’s MK Abbas

Safwat Freij, a resident of Kafr Qasim, widely seen as agreeing with pragmatic line espoused by coalition party

Deputy Commissioner Jamal Hakroosh attends an internal security committee meeting at the Knesset on November 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top cops said to have known about senior officer fleeing deadly stabbing scene

As chief of police orders independent probe, Jamal Hakrush tells media video of him tripping over dying victim doesn’t give full picture, claims he was trying to secure scene

Scene where a car bomb went off, injuring a mother and her toddler in Rehovot, January 25, 2021. (United Hatzala)

Woman and her toddler injured in apparent car bombing in central city

Illustrative: Police officers outside the Bedouin village of Mulada in the Negev desert, southern Israel, January 12, 2022. (Flash90)

Month-old baby hit by gunfire from armed brawl in Bedouin village

By Emanuel Fabian

Bedouin youth during a protest against tree planting by the Jewish National Fund, outside the Bedouin village of al-Atrash in the Negev desert, southern Israel, January 13, 2022 (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

'Israel can't handle Iran threats on its own'

Internal rifts impair ability to counter Iranian, Palestinian threats — think tank

By Lazar Berman

Warning Tehran can prepare nuclear weapon within weeks, INSS presents annual survey to President Herzog, calling for an integrated Israeli approach to external, domestic challenges

Nuclear talks spark glimmer of hope for Westerners held by Iran

Taking up Tehran’s offer, US says ‘prepared to meet directly’ with Iran

Iran says will consider direct US talks for ‘good’ nuclear deal with firm guarantees

By AFP

Illustrative: A sticker with a swastika is seen in Anchorage, Alaska, on May 25, 2021. (Anchorage Police Department)

2021 was the worst year in a decade for antisemitism around the world, report finds

Joint summary by World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency says there was a daily average of 10 incidents, with attacks in Europe accounting for 50% of global total

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is broadcast on a large screen as he speaks during an anti-vaccine rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Holocaust memorials, ADL slam RFK Jr. for ‘reckless’ Anne Frank comparison

By AP and ToI Staff

Antisemitic flyers distributed in South Florida, January 24, 2022. (Via Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Antisemitic flyers distributed in Florida list health experts claimed to be Jews

By AP

Pedestrians walk during a snowfall in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan. 24, 2022. (Emrah Gurel/AP)

Thousands stranded in Istanbul as snowstorm causes havoc en route to Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Turkish capital’s airport closed while emergency crews using snowplows struggle to reach motorists trapped on highways

Marking 30 years of ties, Israel and China convene joint committee on innovation

By Lazar Berman

Fifth meeting of senior governmental forum led by Foreign Minister Lapid; three-year plan signed during virtual talks with Beijing’s vice president

Then-foreign minister Yair Lapid (second from left) speaks at the Fifth Israel-China Joint Committee on Innovation meeting, January 24, 2022. (MFA)

A cargo ship at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in Zhoushan, in the Zhejiang Province of China, January 19, 2022. (Yao Feng/VCG via Getty Images/JTA)

China was Israel’s leading source of imports in 2021, surpassing US

By JTA and ToI Staff

More Headlines

In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on June 25, 2021, a pair of the Russian air force's Tu-22M3 bombers taxi at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Israel said holding talks with Russia over Syria standoff, may limit air campaign

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This picture taken on January 23, 2022, in Cairo shows a laptop displaying a scene from the Netflix-produced pan-Arab film 'Ashab wala Aaz' depicting Lebanese actors Adel Karam and Diamand Bou Abboud. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Risque Netflix comedy-drama stirs outrage in Egypt, calls to ban streaming service

By AFP

Israeli special forces conduct a raid in the village of Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin to arrest the men suspected of having carried out a deadly shooting attack outside the Horesh outpost in the West Bank earlier in the week, on December 19, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF notifies family of alleged Palestinian attacker of impending home demolition

By Emanuel Fabian

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during a visit to Finchley Memorial Hospital, in North London, Jan. 18, 2022. (Ian Vogler, Pool Photo via AP)

London police probing Downing Street lockdown parties that fueled crisis for Johnson

Warsaw's northern district during World War II, when German Nazis created a ghetto for 400,000 Polish Jews (public domain)

‘Yizker bikher’ books commemorate Holocaust, but also celebrate Jewish lives lost

By Jennifer Rich

British Conservative Party MP Nusrat Ghani joins members of the Uyghur community as they demonstrate to call on the British parliament to vote to recognize alleged persecution of China's Muslim minority Uyghur people as genocide and crimes against humanity in London, April 22, 2021. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

UK to probe lawmaker’s claim she was fired over her Muslim faith

By Jill Lawless

A boy looks at the remnants of a Byzantine church during the inauguration of Mukheitim archaeological site in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 24, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

Restored 5th-century Byzantine church reopens in Gaza

By AFP

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arriving at the courthouse in New York, Nov. 24, 2015. (Seth Wenig/AP Images)

Sheldon Silver, NY state politics powerhouse felled by graft conviction, dies at 77

By AP

Bob Dylan performs at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, February 26, 2002. (Hector Mata/AFP)

Bob Dylan sells his entire recording catalog to Sony

By AFP

In this May 1, 2019, file photo, a person walks past a Google sign in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

New lawsuits accuse Google of tracking data without users’ permission

By AFP

Author Jane Yolen and her most famous book, 'The Devil's Arithmetic.' (Photos: Courtesy of Jason Stemple and Penguin Random House via JTA)

‘Devil’s Arithmetic’ author honored with lifetime achievement award

By Penny Schwartz

President Joe Biden arrives for a meeting on efforts to lower prices for working families, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

SOB storyBiden caught insulting ‘stupid’ Fox News reporter

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