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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 29, 2022

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A medical worker takes a COVID-19 rapid antigen test from Israelis, at a testing center in Beit Hashmonai, on January 16, 2022. ( Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Slight fall in number of serious cases

Health Ministry believes Omicron wave has passed its peak

Still, minister warns Israel could see two more tough weeks; officials hope transmission rate will drop below 1 next week, potentially signaling end of outbreak

A medical worker prepares to enter the respiratory diseases unit of the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, January 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Global COVID deaths soar 20 percent in a week as cases surge in Middle East, Europe

By AFP

Joseph Weisberg, creator of 'The Americans' and author of 'Russia Upside Down.' (Courtesy/ FX)

Interview'Listening to their concerns would help more than threats'

Ex-CIA agent and creator of ‘The Americans’ says US and Russia aren’t that different

By JP O’ Malley

As Russian troops amass on the Ukrainian border, Joseph Weisberg, author of ‘Russia Upside Down,’ argues that a little empathy – and eased sanctions – could go a long way

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a conference in Netanya on March 18, 2019. (Flash90)

Former IDF chief calls US withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal ‘a strategic mistake’

Gadi Eisenkot says pullout gave Tehran ‘legitimacy’ to violate pact; criticizes Bennett for refusing to meet with Biden’s Iran envoy; claims Israel nearly killed Soleimani in 2018

People walk past Palais Coburg, where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, December 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber)

‘Political decisions are needed’: EU says Iran nuclear talks put on pause

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian soccer players celebrate qualifying for the 2022 World Cup after defeating Iraq, at the Azadi stadium in Tehran, Iran, January 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US nuclear negotiator congratulates Iran on qualifying for World Cup

By AFP

A woman accused of making contact with a foreign agent from Iran arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem District Court, January 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2 women accused of spying for Iran released to house arrest

The suspects, who are among 5 Israelis accused of assisting an Iranian operative, to be monitored and barred from using internet

Iraqi Shiite fighters of the Popular Mobilization Forces secure the border area with Syria in al-Qaim in Iraq's Anbar province, opposite Al-Bukamal in Syria's Deir Ezzor region, on November 12, 2018. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iran said beating out Assad regime for influence in key Syrian border province

'God knows that if I as a teenager had access to this, it would have been inordinately helpful and beneficial to me in my journey. I may have even come out 20 years ago, or 30 years ago,' Rosen said. (Courtesy Rosen and Branfman/ via JTA)

'I had no choice, I could no longer hide from the truth'

Ex-Hasid comes out as trans while translating kids’ book on sexuality into Yiddish

Lili Rosen consulted and acted in productions such as ‘Unorthodox.’ She says that if she’d had access to a guide like ‘You Be You,’ she may have transitioned decades ago

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Minister of Justice Gideon Sa'ar (right), and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (left), hold a press conference in the Prime Minister's Office on July 6, 2021. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Bennett said to eye ‘new national camp’ with coalition partners Liberman, Sa’ar

PM says new right-wing political bloc taking shape; Ayelet Shaked’s role said to be unclear, according to unsourced TV report

The ’Maus’ ban: Yet more historical distortion in the American south

In a region rife with Civil War revisionist history, it comes as no surprise that the facts of the Holocaust are now up for debate

Holocaust sacrifices will not be forgotten

With post-war lessons fading and old hatreds resurfacing, we must bear witness to the survivors’ accounts, and ensure the world never forgets

Portraits of some of the children of Auschwitz documented by Alwin Meyer. (Alwin Meyer Archive/Hubert Kreke/State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim/Zoltan Kozma/via JTA)

'Their survival was a matter of pure luck'

In ‘Children of Auschwitz,’ a German writer confronts history and himself

By Toby Axelrod

Alwin Meyer has devoted his life to documenting the stories of the few of the notorious death camp’s youngest members lucky enough to survive

Kristin Davis reprises the role of Charlotte in "And Just Like That..." (Craig Blankenhorn /HBO Max via JTA)

Beleaguered TV series ‘And Just Like That’ angers fans with Holocaust comment

By Stephen Silver

In episode of ‘Sex and the City’ sequel released on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a character says ‘the Holocaust is a hoax’ at a Shabbat dinner

Union Station in Washington DC defaced with swastikas on January 28, 2022. (Sheila Katz/Twitter)

Swastikas drawn on Washington train station after Holocaust memorial day

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Tennessee school board’s removal of ‘Maus’ sparks local backlash, book giveaway

By Andrew Lapin

After district jettisons iconic Holocaust graphic novel, a comic book store vows to give out free copies, church plans discussion on its themes and a professor pledges free classes

Artwork from Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' (Courtesy/Pantheon & Schocken Books)

Omar As'ad. (Courtesy)

US said demanding to know why probe of citizen’s death after IDF arrest not finished

State Department sends letter to army with tough questions regarding death of 78-year-old Palestinian-American; military chief orders results be on his desk in coming days

US President Joe Biden speaks to the press about the situation in Ukraine, after arriving on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on January 28, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Biden to send troops to eastern Europe amid Ukraine diplomacy push

By Paul Handley, Max Delany and Michael MAINVILLE

An Ukrainian serviceman and an armored personnel carrier near a front line position in the Luhansk area, eastern Ukraine, January 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Putin and Macron agree on need for ‘de-escalation’ in Ukraine, France says

By AFP

This studio photographic illustration shows a smartphone with the website of Israel's NSO Group which features 'Pegasus' spyware, on display in Paris, on July 21, 2021. (Joel Saget/AFP)

Hungarian journalists, activist will sue NSO Group after alleged hacking

Rights group in Hungary says it’s taking legal action against Hungarian state and Israeli spyware company ‘to expose the practice of unlawful secret surveillance’

Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, January 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Finland alleges diplomats’ phones hacked with Israeli spyware

Pouring tea at Jerusalem's Waldorf Astoria, where tea is served every afternoon (Courtesy: Waldorf Astoria)

Israel keeps British teatime tradition alive, with a spoonful of local flavor

By Jessica Steinberg

The perfect antidote to winter weather? A cuppa with a side of scones and cream cakes

An initial model for the statue of Licoricia of Winchester scheduled to be unveiled in that city in the United Kingdom in February 2022. (The Licoricia of Winchester Appeal/Facebook via JTA)

UK to honor Licoricia of Winchester, slain 13th-century Jewish moneylender to royals

By Cnaan Liphshiz

City to put up statue by renowned British artist Ian Rank-Broadley to commemorate medieval businesswoman who was mysteriously murdered

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Israel Police commander Jamal Hakrush attends a Knesset event on February 5, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Senior police officials urge top cop seen fleeing stabbing scene to resign

Yan Andrayev (Facebook)

Israeli held in Armenia in case family says is political payback by Putin

iviu Beris visits a Holocaust memorial in Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 8, 2009. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP)

ObituaryLiviu Beris, Romanian Holocaust survivor who became a genetics pioneer, dies at 93

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

A man walks in front of a billboard for Egyptian President Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, with Arabic that reads 'Long live Egypt,' at the annual Cairo International Book Fair, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Days after massive arms deal, US halts Egypt military aid over human rights concerns

Yousef Sammir Alafenish shows the bullet that struck his neck, from a hospital bed at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Courtesy)

7-year-old moderately hurt in shooting in southern Bedouin city of Rahat

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

View of the Western Wall plaza and the Dome of the Rock in the background, in Jerusalem's Old City, December 23, 2021. (Lee Aloni/Flash90)

French historian claims Israel abetted 1967 razing of Jerusalem’s Mughrabi quarter

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Jan. 15, 2022, in Florence, Ariz. Trump is already declaring himself the 45th and 47th president of the United States. But the quip during a round of golf — captured on shaky cellphone video — belies the growing challenges Trump is confronting. (AP/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Trump facing legal, political headwinds as he eyes comeback

A man walks over the rubble left after of the Argentinian Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires after it was targeted in a deadly bombing, July 18, 1994 (Ali Burafi/AFP)

Argentine official causes outrage suggesting Israel should investigate AMIA bombing

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

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

Joni Mitchell arrives at the 2015 Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala in Beverly Hills, California, on February 7, 2015. (John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)

Joni Mitchell to join Neil Young in protest over Spotify antivax podcast

By David Bauder

The late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her signature lace jabot, one of which was donated by Ginsburg before her death to Tel Aviv's Museum of the Jewish People. (Courtesy Supreme Court of the United States)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg library sells for $2.35 million in online auction

By ToI Staff and JTA

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice holds up his dog Babydog's rear end as a message to people who've doubted the state as he comes to the end of his State of the State speech in the House chambers, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, in Charleston, W.Va. (Chris Dorst/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

Wind beneath her wingsWV governor tells Bette Midler to kiss his dog’s ‘heinie’ – and shows it

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

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