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What Matters Most On Friday, January 28, 2022

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File: Benjamin Netanyahu (right) during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 13, 2021; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) speaks during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP/File)

Saudi crown prince called Netanyahu to renew kingdom’s NSO spyware license – report

NYT: With Pegasus permit stalled after Khashoggi murder, MBS phoned then-PM to sort matter, in return for opening airspace to Israel flights; FBI also bought Pegasus, didn’t use it

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses a press conference after meeting with his counterparts from Germany, France and Britain at the German Foreign Office in Berlin on January 20, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/Pool/AFP)

42 bipartisan US lawmakers urge Blinken to work to end UN commission on Israel

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview at the UN Headquarters, on January 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)

UN head skirts adoption of IHRA antisemitism definition in Holocaust memorial speech

Guterres recites part of definition, but leaves out controversial section, makes no mention of official adoption; Israeli envoy insists sec general ‘effectively acknowledged’ it

Isaac Herzog participates in the March of the Living ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, on May 2, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Warning of rising antisemitism, Herzog says shock of Holocaust ‘is wearing off’

A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter, in 1943. (AP Photo)

Flee the trains: Warsaw Ghetto fighter’s early warning to Western European Jews

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, loser of a recent election, walks away after briefly shaking hands with new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, after the Knesset voted confidence in Bennett's coalition by 60-59 votes, June 13, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)

PM: Netanyahu threatened to sic his ‘army’ on me for forming government without him

In series of interviews, Bennett accuses his predecessor of ‘spreading chaos, hysteria and a lack of faith’ in ruling coalition, claims Israel doing best in the world on COVID

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

Still, Brett McGurk also cautions that ‘these talks could collapse very soon’; Bennett uses Holocaust commemoration to slam possible deal

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)

A broadcast on Iran state TV shows dissidents' call for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's death, after an apparent hack, January 27, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Dissidents hack Iran state TV, broadcast call for Khamenei’s death

By Jon Gambrell

Former State Department Principal Deputy Coordinator for Sanctions Policy Richard Nephew testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, during a hearing on 'confronting threats from China.' (AP/Susan Walsh)

Pushing more hardline approach, US deputy Iran envoy quits Vienna negotiating team

Charles E. Coughlin attacking the Roosevelt administration in a speech before the Townsend National Convention, July 17, 1936. (AP Photo)

Interview'I wanted to show how lethal this organization really was'

FBI files shine light on homegrown Nazi plot to overthrow US government during WWII

By JP O’ Malley

In ‘Nazis of Copley Square,’ historian Charles R. Gallagher argues that the widely overlooked Christian Front posed a true threat – and he’s got newly released intel to prove it

Biden warns of ‘resurgence of antisemitism’ in Holocaust commemoration

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan (Alex Kolomoisky/Yad Vashem)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: New Yad Vashem head on why Holocaust distortion has overtaken denial

In a conversation days after Colleyville synagogue attack, Dani Dayan speaks about Holocaust education as a way of mitigating antisemitism and how his institution can take the lead

In this July 24, 2021, file photo, people stage a protest against the 'green pass' in Milan, Italy. Protesters in Italy and in France have been wearing yellow Stars of David, like the ones Nazis required Jews to wear to identify themselves during the Holocaust. Some carry signs likening vaccine passes to dictatorships. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

With rising antisemitism, yellow star misuse, Holocaust remembrance grows in urgency

By Cnaan Liphshiz

How snow, ashes, and half a sandwich saved my father-in-law

The psalm I say every day came alive for the first time, with children playing in a winter wonderland near Jerusalem, healing the broken heart of a people

Chana Tannenbaum

When slaves kept Shabbat

The Torah teaches that all people were created equal, so how can it include the institution of slavery in its commandments? (Mishpatim)

Daniel Rosehill

Jerusalem’s pristine snow day, sullied by ugly politics

If you hide rocks in a snowballs and throw them at your antagonists in an age-old conflict, you cannot legitimately claim that you’re just enjoying the snow

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

How to make friends in Jerusalem snow

Our 13-step family recipe for how to celebrate the snow yourself and share the joy with others (includes: making the world a happier place)

(left) Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the arrival of a freight plane transporting the first batch of Pfizer vaccines, at Ben Gurion Airport, December 9, 2020; (right) Former US president Donald Trump prepares to provide commentary for a boxing event in Hollywood, Florida, September 11, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL via Flash90; AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump plan favored delivering COVID vaccines to Israel over poorer countries: report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

List detailed by former officials to POLITICO appears to show US had plans to distribute life-saving shots based on political preferences

A vial of the Phase 3 Novavax coronavirus vaccine is seen ready for use in the trial at St. George's University hospital in London Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Israel signs deal to procure 5 million Novavax COVID vaccine doses

By ToI Staff and AP

A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past a health campaign poster from the One NGO, in an underpass leading to Westminster underground train station, in London, on January 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK data finds 3rd vaccine dose offers 95% protection against Omicron deaths

Shaare Zedek medical staff wear safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward of the hospital in Jerusalem, January 20, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health Ministry said to believe 3 million caught Omicron

Omicron wave appears to slow, but experts warn serious cases could still rise

Daily cases fall to 57,563; transmission rate nears 1, potentially signaling end of outbreak; 25% of tests positive; number of COVID patients in serious condition stable at 941

More COVID cases confirmed in Israel in January than all of 2021, data shows

AnalysisTireless triage: How Israeli community medicine prevents Omicron swamping system

By Nathan Jeffay

Teachers union head undeterred by backlash for strike call over nixing of isolation

Illustrative: Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, December 23, 2013. (Flash90)

Amid winter storm Elpis, 9 kids suffer CO poisoning from coal burnt to heat homes

By Emanuel Fabian

Three of the children arrive at Soroka Hospital unconscious, but doctors manage to stabilize them; 3 people have died in apparent similar circumstances this winter

Israeli soldiers in the snow-covered Golan Heights, in northern Israel, after a heavy storm hit the nation, January 27, 2022. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Tail end of storm bringing heavy rain, threats of flood to south, more snow in north

A Border Police officer stands guard near East Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, overnight January 27, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police clash with Palestinian rioters in snowy East Jerusalem; 4 arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 2, 2022. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Israel media review

When it snows, it pours: What the press is saying about Bennett, Omicron and Litzman

By Joshua Davidovich

The PM blitzes the media with his thoughts, Omicron’s onslaught leads to a politically tinged fight over school quarantines, and the AG’s plate-clearing plea deals raise scrutiny

Interview

Russian envoy: Our talks with Israelis don’t focus on Ukraine tensions

Anatoly Viktorov decries ‘hysterical’ speculations around expected Russian invasion; blames US and Europe for arming Kyiv and stoking tensions

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, November 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Lavrov: Russia doesn’t want war with Ukraine, but will defend its interests

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

AnalysisIn tactical shift, US and allies name and shame Russian disinformation on Ukraine

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

Ukraine official says in call with Zelensky, Biden told him to ‘prepare for impact’

By ToI Staff and AFP

George brent at the men's barracks in Auschwitz in a scene from 'Don't Forget Me,' one of the films showing at the virtual reality exhibition 'The Journey Back' at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Chicago. (Courtesy)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust survivors help viewers experience the camps firsthand, via virtual reality

By Cathryn J. Prince

Opening Jan. 27 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Chicago, ‘The Journey Back’ puts participants in the narrators’ shoes as they hear their tales of suffering and survival

In tears, Knesset speaker recites mourner’s Kaddish in German parliament

By Stuart Winer and AP

One World Trade Center in New York City is lit up in yellow to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2022. (Courtesy/World Jewish Congress)

New York lights Niagara Falls, other sites yellow for Holocaust memorial

‘We remember the millions murdered’: State leaders commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as hate crimes remain high and awareness of genocide drops in US

Haunted by Holocaust, Israeli charity assists Afghans fleeing Taliban rule

By Jonah Mandel

In remembrance2 solo exhibits look back on Jewish communities lost to Holocaust

By Jessica Steinberg

German soccer club fans unveil plaque dedicated to Jews deported from local area

By Ciaran Fahey

Seagulls fly across Abu Dhabi's corniche in the Emirati capital, on January 24, 2022. (Karim Sahib/AFP)

US warns against travel to UAE, cites Houthi rebel threat; Herzog set to fly Sunday

By ToI Staff and AFP

‘Rebel groups operating in Yemen have stated an intent to attack neighboring countries… using missiles and drones,’ State Department says

A demonstrator poses under an overturned car during a protest rally on behalf of Ahuvia Sandak at the Chords Bridge in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Case shut against police in 2020 West Bank chase that left settler teen dead

Attorney general says no evidence officers tried to hit car of Ahuvia Sandak, shutting book on highly charged case; coalition MK claims ‘coverup’

Nationalist activists protest the closure of a probe into the death of Ahuvia Sandak, at the entrance of Jerusalem, on January 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

2 arrested at Jerusalem protest over closure of probe into settler teen’s death

By Emanuel Fabian

A gazelle in southern Israel, July 14, 2017. Ice Age humans feasted on gazelle, along with smaller prey animals, according to a new Hebrew University study. (Haim Shohat/Flash90)

Ice Age humans in Israel lived the good life while contemporaries starved — study

Hunter-gatherers on the Sea of Galilee 23,000 years ago enjoyed a broad diet and abundant food sources during an era of global scarcity, Hebrew University researchers say

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Shas party leader Aryeh Deri leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court after pleading guilty on charges of tax offenses as part of a negotiated plea bargain, on January 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Despite resigning as MK in plea deal, Deri to continue leading Shas Knesset activity

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

A man (R) appears to make a Nazi salute, in a video showing a group of people accosting Jews on a Chabad bus as they celebrated Hanukkah in London, November 28, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

UK Jewish groups slam BBC ‘non-apology’ for misreporting antisemitic Hanukkah attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This file photo from August 31, 2017, shows a Barnes & Noble Booksellers store in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Barnes & Noble removes ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ from website

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

Filmmaker Gal Uchovsky at the Knesset, on June 4, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/ File)

Police to drop sexual assault charges against leading LGBT activist Gal Uchovsky

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Anglesey, North Wales, January 27, 2022. (Carl Recine/Pool Photo via AP)

As Johnson waits, UK police seek to cut out parts of key ‘partygate’ report

By Jill Lawless

Illustrative: The Beersheba District Court in southern Israel, on December 1, 2019. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

For first time in year, 50 new judges appointed to district and magistrate courts

In this image from the Free Ramy Shaath Facebook page, Ramy Shaath poses for a picture on January 2, 2015, in Cairo, Egypt. (Free Ramy Shaath Facebook page via AP, File)

After being freed from jail, Palestinian activist denounces Egypt as ‘a big cell’

By Selim SAHEB ETTABA and Joris FIORITI

This image released by Iraq's Transport Ministry shows a damaged airliner after rockets were fired at Baghdad airport, January 28, 2022. (Facebook/Courtesy)

Six rockets hit Baghdad airport, damaging disused civilian plane

By AFP

Lt. Rom Abergil is seen at a military court hearing, on January 27, 2022. (Screenshot/Ynet)

IDF officer sentenced to 1.5 years for secretly filming dozens of female soldiers

By Emanuel Fabian

Shira Isakov arrives for a court hearing of Aviad Moshe, her ex-husband who tried to murder her in their apartment in Mitzpe Ramon, at the Beer Sheva district court, January 27, 2022. (Flash90)

Man sentenced to 23 years in prison for 2020 attempted murder of wife

Artists covering their artworks in December 2021 protest over a feud regarding a controversial painting at a Ramat Gan museum (Courtesy David Reeb Instagram)

Galleries to present protesting artists’ works in weekend show of solidarity

By Jessica Steinberg

Leondra Kruger, left, is sworn in as an associate justice to the California Supreme Court by Gov. Jerry Brown during an inauguration ceremony in Sacramento, California, Jan. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

ExplainerBiden said he’ll nominate a Black woman to US Supreme Court. Who’s in the running?

By Jessica Gresko and Colleen Long

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