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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 27, 2022

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Henry and Charlotte Birnbaum after the war (Yad Vashem)

Holocaust Remembrance Day'I did not intend to relinquish my life so easily'

Exhibit on false identities shows terror of Jews who hid from Nazis in plain sight

By Matt Lebovic

Online exhibition by Yad Vashem, open from January 27, highlights the accounts of 14 survivors who forged papers, pretending to be non-Jewish to survive the genocide

Tshuva Kabra, left, director of the national welfare system at the Chasdei Naomi charity, embraces Holocaust survivor Freida Rovenchim, in her family apartment in Jerusalem, January 26, 2022 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

As world commemorates Holocaust, many Israeli survivors rely on charity

By Ilan Ben Zion and ISAAC SCHARF

An attack on two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in north London, January 26, 2022 (Screenshot via Twitter)

2 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men assaulted on London street, 18-year-old arrested

An Iranian woman walks past a new mural painted on the walls of the former US embassy in the capital Tehran, on November 2, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

US and Iran ‘in ballpark’ of possible nuclear deal, White House official says

By Joshua Davidovich

Brett McGurk also cautions that there is ‘a very real chance that these talks could collapse very soon’; Bennett uses Holocaust commemoration to slam possible deal

7:28 pm

Omicron wave seen slowing down, but serious cases expected to continue rising
7:17 pm

One day in, government amends rules for quarantine-free schools
7:07 pm

Half of students stayed home for first day of quarantine-free school — report

Head of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan in his Jerusalem office, in front of a quote from murdered artist Gela Seksztajn. (Alex Kolomoisky/Yad Vashem)

Interview

Dani Dayan: Yad Vashem is fulfilling Holocaust victims’ last will and testament

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The good news? ‘Outright Holocaust denial is today a marginal phenomenon,’ says the new head of Israel’s Shoah memorial. ‘But we do have a serious problem of Holocaust distortion’

People gather in front of the Westin Hotel in Leipzig, Germany, on October 5, 2021, to show solidarity with the musician Gil Ofarim. (Dirk Knofe/dpa via AP)

Holocaust Remembrance Day2021 saw positive legal, cultural trends in fight against antisemitism — TAU report

By Lazar Berman

A pendant discovered in the building where victims would undress before being taken to the gas chambers in Sobibor, reading, 'To the faithful king, Hear O Israel, our God is One. Blessed be the name of the glorious king forever and ever.' (Yoram Haimi)

Holocaust Remembrance Day‘Shema Yisrael’ pendants uncovered in Sobibor death camp in Poland

Adi Altschuler giving a TED talk. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot/TEDx)

Thirty-Six podcast

Adi Altshuler on making Israel more inclusive

The Israeli social entrepreneur discusses how a young boy inspired her to launch the Krembo Wings youth movement.

Photo essay

Snow blankets Jerusalem, transforming city into winter wonderland

Rare covering of white delights residents as schools, kindergartens stay shut; snow may not stick around for long, though, with rain falling and temperatures set to rise

Snow falls on Jaffa street in Jerusalem, as a heavy storm hits nationwide, January 26, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Snowfall overnight in Jerusalem closes main highways to capital

An Israeli policeman confronts rioters in East Jerusalem during a rare snow storm on January 26, 2022. (Israel Police)

22 arrested as police clash with rioters in East Jerusalem during snowstorm

Yaffa Ben-David, head of Israel’s Teacher’s Union arrives for a court hearing at the Labor Court in in Bat Yam, January 27, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

State prosecutors assail ‘violent and political’ attempt to launch teachers strike

Illustrative: Students at the Ramon School in Modi'in, on October 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Court blocks teachers’ strike over canceled quarantine for kids, classes to go ahead

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Education Minister Dr. Yifat Shasha-Biton sit with children at the Eli Cohen Meuhad School in Yeruham, at the start of the new school year, on September 1, 2021. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Rejecting health concerns, government nixes quarantine for kids starting Thursday

Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward on January 20, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘I see death daily’: Under record strain, doctor describes misery of Omicron wards

By Nathan Jeffay

Ariel Rokach speaks to ToI minutes after yet another patient dies; hospitals will cope, he says, but doctors are being pushed to their limits, emotionally and physically

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash at a press conference in Tel Aviv, January 4, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Israel approves fourth COVID vaccine shots for vulnerable over-18s

UTJ MK Yaakov Litzman seen in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on July 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Litzman signs plea deal in Leifer case, avoiding jail time and paying symbolic fine

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Belz Hassidic dynasty attend the wedding ceremony of Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the grandson of the Belz Rabbi, to Hana Batya Pener in Jerusalem on May 22, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Belz Hasidic sect to begin teaching core curriculum, more communities may follow

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 27 – How a new Anne Frank book wasted a last chance for answers

For International Holocaust Day, writer Matt Lebovic breaks down a cold case workup of who turned in the famous diarist, plus an audio essay from senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur

Illustrative: An iPhone loaded with TikTok and other social media application icons. (Wachiwit/iStock)

TikTok to direct users to reliable information about Holocaust

Illustrative: the Instagram app icon on the screen of a mobile device in New York, August 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

WZO launches Instagram accounts for Holocaust survivors to tell their stories

10 Holocaust lessons and how to implement them

In recalling horrors too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened, we are obligated to give voice to the voiceless and to empower the powerless

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, I’m thinking of the grandfather I never knew

I see him as a groom, and as a father. I imagine him in my life, and doing puzzles on the floor with my daughter. Even in death, he’s so much more than a number

Holocaust distortion is the real challenge today

Eastern Europe’s post-Soviet ’new democracies’ have taken to falsely equating communist and Nazi regimes and denying the role they played in the genocide

Stuart Eizenstat

Reparations, restitution and the price of forgetting

The work of compensating victims and memorializing the Holocaust becomes ever more urgent and daunting as the last eyewitnesses die out

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian cars at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank as an IDF soldier attempts to drive them back on January 26, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

IDF troops detain a settler who attacked Palestinians; police promptly free him

By Judah Ari Gross

Detail from Nicolas de Largillière, 'Portrait of a lady as Pomona, traditionally identified as the Marquise de Parabère' (Courtesy Sotheby's)

Holocaust Remembrance Day'This painting is the shared property of all his heirs'

After finding it, author to part with her family’s Nazi-looted 18th-century painting

By Renee Ghert-Zand

On Jan. 27, Sotheby’s to auction ‘Portrait of a Lady as Pomona,’ once owned by collector Jules Strauss; the work’s long journey is the subject of a book by Pauline Baer de Perignon

National Security Council chairman Eyal Hulata (L) and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in front of the White House on October 5, 2021. (Jake Sullivan/Twitter)

US updates Israel on nuclear talks in virtual meet of national security advisers

Jake Sullivan assures Eyal Hulata that while Biden administration still prefers diplomacy to prevent nuclear Iran, it’s ‘preparing alternative options’ if Vienna talks fail

Protesters hold photos of individuals they say are political prisoners killed in 1988 during a rally to denounce Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi near United Nations headquarters, Sept. 21, 2021 (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Naming Raisi, ex-UN officials urge probe of Iran’s 1988 mass execution of dissidents

By AFP

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides hosts his Emirati, Bahraini and Moroccan counterparts for the Ambassadorial Abraham Accords Working Group's inaugural meeting on January 26, 2022. (US Embassy in Israel)

US envoy launches working group for ambassadors representing Abraham Accords members

A meeting of the United Nations Security Council is held, on Thursday, September 23, 2021, during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. (AP/John Minchillo, Pool)

Israel set on discrediting UN probe that may label it ‘apartheid’ – report

Leaked Foreign Ministry cable says ‘top priority’ for diplomats to debunk commission into last May’s Gaza conflict and wider inquiry into Israel’s treatment of Palestinians

The Westchester Reform Temple. (Google Maps)

Jewish educator sues NY synagogue, saying she was fired for ‘anti-Zionist’ beliefs

By julia GERGELY

A Palestinian security officer stands next to a truck carrying Sputnik V vaccines, donated by the United Arab Emirates, at a cold storage warehouse in Gaza City on January 26, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

Abbas rival Dahlan arranges delivery of 1 million vaccine doses to Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative image: iStock

Op-ed

Israel’s deepening slide into corruption

A corrupt society is an unhappy society, and an unhappy society lacks resilience. Israel must heed the alarm sounded by its slipping rank on a global corruption index

Around 100 kilograms of drugs that were intercepted during a smuggling attempt from Egypt, January 8, 2022 (Israel Defense Forces)

2 border guards lightly hurt by friendly fire while trying to thwart drug-smuggling

By Judah Ari Gross

Security forces respond to 9 smuggling attempts in ‘one of the most active nights on the Egyptian border in recent memory’

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi speaks during a ceremony honoring wounded soldiers, in Tel Aviv, on November 21, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

IDF chief: Motivation to serve in combat units up among Israelis, except the wealthy

By Judah Ari Gross

Teddy Katz, as seen in 'Tantura,' directed by Alon Schwarz. (Yonathan Weitzman, courtesy of Reel Peak Films)

Interview

‘Tantura’ director: Israelis have been lied to for years about alleged 1948 massacre

By Renee Ghert-Zand

With his shocking documentary out this month, Alon Schwarz says Israel can only move forward as a Jewish democratic state by being honest about the killing of Arab villagers

Footage of Israeli soldiers around the time of the 1948 War of Independence from the documentary film 'Tantura.' (Screenshot)

Israeli film ‘Tantura’ prompts calls to excavate possible Palestinian mass grave

By Andrew Lapin

Omar As'ad. (Courtesy)

Detention by soldiers led to elderly Palestinian’s deadly heart attack – PA autopsy

By Aaron Boxerman

Doctors find that Omar As’ad, 78, perished from cardiac arrest caused by ‘external injuries’ during detention by Israeli troops

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian cars at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank as an IDF soldier attempts to drive them back on January 26, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Settlers throw rocks at Palestinian vehicles near Homesh outpost, IDF says

By Judah Ari Gross

The Palestinian village of Burqa is seen as an Israeli flag is placed in the Jewish West Bank outpost of Homesh, January 17, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

In ‘dismantled’ Homesh, settlers brazenly parade power to stick around

By Joseph Krauss

Rabbi Yisrael Elbom (Courtesy, via Facebook)

Rabbi, it's cold outside

Israeli rabbi takes shelter from snowstorm in Turkish mosque

On work assignment in Istanbul, Israel Elbom — a kashrut supervisor from Bnei Brak — is brought to nearby prayer house by troops after being stranded on the highway for half a day

President Isaac Herzog (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right). (AP)

Turkey says Herzog to visit next month, could open a ‘new chapter in relations’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Asian citrus psyllid. (Agriculture Ministry)

Newly arrived bug threatens to decimate Israel’s citrus fruit industry

By Stuart Winer

Sap-sucking Asian citrus psyllid identified in Emek Hefer region, prompting Agriculture Ministry to launch pesticide campaign; likely arrived on smuggled plant material

Tennessee school board removes iconic Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ from its curriculum

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Author Art Spiegelman says decision by McMinn County to bar book from eighth grades, citing ‘curse words’ and nudity, is ‘Orwellian’

School board members in McMinn County, Tennessee, objected to Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' because of its language and images. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)

Robert Keith Packer seen during the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2020 (L) and in custody in Virginia, January 13, 2013. (Screen capture: Twitter/Western Tidewater Regional Jail)

January 6 rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt pleads guilty

By Michael Kunzelman

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)

Antisemitic incidents in France increased by 75% in 2021

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Illustrative: US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman addresses a press conference following a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, January 12, 2022. (JOHN THYS / AFP)

Senior US official predicts Russia will attack Ukraine by mid-February

By ToI Staff and AFP

Rasha Sitawi. (Courtesy)

Man to be charged with executing woman in front of her child

Arab students take part in a Makeathon in 2020 at Tel Aviv University organized by Tsofen. A Makeathon is when teams work to build new products (Courtesy)

Israel launches $70m program to promote tech entrepreneurship in Arab community

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: LGBT activists denounce violence against Israel's transgender community in Tel Aviv, on July 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Experts hit back at claim transgender voice therapies aren’t lifesaving

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, joined at right by Majority Whip Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, speaks to reporters after a Democratic policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 14, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Democrats seek fast confirmation of new US Supreme Court seat, taking cue from GOP

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO

The inauguration of the Congressional Caucus for the Advancement of Torah Values was attended by (left to right) 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, DC. (Sruly Saftlas/CNW Group/Dirshu via JTA)

Liberal-leaning Jewish groups slam Congress’s ‘Torah Values Caucus’

An Israeli Navy Sa'ar 5 corvette defends a natural gas extraction platform off Israel's coast, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

Lebanon ready to resume maritime border talks with Israel, president says

This illustration provided by SpaceX shows the SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. (SpaceX/NASA via AP)

Israel signs onto NASA-led Artemis program to land astronauts on lunar surface

By Ricky Ben-David

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

US authorities arrest suspect who sold gun to synagogue hostage-taker

Illustrative: Jordanian soldiers stand at the northeastern border with Syria, Feb. 14, 2017. (Raad Adayleh/AP)

Jordanian military kills 27 in shootout with armed smugglers from Syria

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks ahead of the eighth Greece-Cyprus-Israel summit alongside Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (left) and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, December 7, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

EU to fund construction of Israel, Cyprus, Greece electricity cable link

By AP

Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deploy outside Ghwayran prison in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on January 26, 2022 (AFP)

Following prison siege, Syria Kurds hunt down jihadists

By Gihad Darwish

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