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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 30, 2022

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President Isaac Herzog inspects an honor guard with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, January 30, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

MBZ: 'Bilateral relations are moving full steam ahead'

In ‘message to the region,’ Herzog meets UAE crown prince in Abu Dhabi

By Lazar Berman

After Hatikva plays, president sits for two hours with the Emirates’ de facto ruler, who invites Herzog to palace for unscheduled follow-up chat

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog and greeted in Abu Dhabi by Emirati FM Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, January 30, 2022 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Herzog lands in Emirates for landmark visit, is greeted by Emirati FM

By Lazar Berman

Hezbollah fighters hold their group's flag as they stand in front of a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and swear their oath of allegiance to him, during a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of his assassination, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on January 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese foreign minister rejects Gulf nations’ demand that Hezbollah disarm

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a confrence of the Association of Corporate Counsel, in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In parting swipe at Netanyahu, Mandelblit pans those who try ‘to weaken rule of law’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Departing AG, who indicted the ex-PM for graft, tells ministers they must put ‘interests of the state before their political and personal interests,’ as he ends term after 6 years

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, center, and State Prosecutor Amit Aisman attend a ceremony at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, June 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Final 3 candidates for new attorney general said set to be announced Sunday

By Michael Bachner

Justice Minister Gideon Saar speaks during a plenum session in the Knesset on December 15, 2021. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Justice minister contracts COVID ahead of cabinet farewell for AG

A Ra'anana home bifurcated by a security wall, with a "Bennett to Balfour" sign in Hebrew. January 13, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

ToI investigates

A neighborhood gone sour: In Ra’anana, still no solution for Bennett’s ‘Balfour’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

With the PM unwilling to move to his official residence, neighbors say security measures and protests badly harm their quality of life; after 7 months of tumult, little has changed

Children going into 1st grade attend school on their first day of the new academic year at the Pola school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2021. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Education Ministry, teachers union reach deal to avoid strike

After court injunction blocks planned teacher’s strike over new COVID quarantine rules, agreement includes distributing tests to all educational staff

7:16 pm

Herzog touts 'vision of inclusiveness' in meeting with UAE Jewish leaders
7:02 pm

Attorney general selection committee narrows pick to three finalists
6:31 pm

Education Ministry, teachers union reach deal to avoid strike

NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio speaks with Channel 12 News in an interview aired on January 29, 2022. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

CEO: Pegasus sold to 40 countries; we said no to another 90

NSO chief calls blacklisting by US ‘an outrage,’ rejects ‘hypocritical’ criticism

Shalev Hulio says firm has disconnected Pegasus spyware 7 times over misuse; denies it was used against Macron, or in Khashoggi murder: ‘I sleep soundly at night. NSO here to stay’

Nearly 200 deaths in a week as serious cases keep rising

Cabinet extends Green Pass rules for another week as fifth wave begins to wane

By Stuart Winer

COVID-19 reproduction number dips below 1 for first time since November, but PM warns against premature celebration of end to Omicron outbreak

Israelis present their Green Pass vaccination certificates at the entrance of a cafe on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

A Shaare Zedek medical worker holds the hand of a patient, in the coronavirus ward of the hospital in Jerusalem, on January 20, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Number of serious COVID cases tops 1,000, even as Omicron wave appears to ebb

Yaffa Ben David, head of Israel's Teacher's Union in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teachers, Education Ministry resume talks on COVID rules amid threat of strike

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 30 – Does Israel’s corruption score show awareness, or problems?

ToI founding editor David Horovitz and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discuss Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition musings, and the state of Israeli corruption

David Zvi Kalman

Raunchy, sarcastic TikTok Talmud commentary isn’t profane; it’s Torah

Miriam Anzovin is funny, fresh, millennial and no, she’s not mocking Judaism – she’s showing that rabbinic sermons aren’t the only way to treat sacred texts

I called Josh Gottheimer a Jew – it wasn’t a slur

In chiding the Congressman for his opposition to Biden’s economic rescue plan, I used a rebuke that both our grandmothers would likely have understood

Palestinian students affiliated with UNRWA wear face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on November 25, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Despite EU vow to end incitement, Palestinian textbooks remain unaltered — report

Terrorists are still hailed as heroic resistance fighters and Zionism is deemed racism; PA leaders defend curricula as authentic expression of ‘narrative and national identity’

Left: Defense Minister Benny Gantz. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File); Right: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File)

Abbas asked Gantz to release 25 Palestinian prisoners in December meeting — report

Israeli special forces in the village of Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin, on December 19, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Troops come under fire near Nablus; vehicle damaged, with no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: An Iranian flag made from binary code. (Sergio Lacueva/iStock Photo by Getty Images)

Report: Iranian ‘honey trap’ sites try to enlist spies to ostensibly work for Israel

Cybersecurity experts say 16 sites, using same phrasing, logos, and sometimes web infrastructure, likely part of Iran-backed counterintelligence operation

This combination of file pictures shows French President Emmanuel Macron (right) and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. (AP)

Macron tells Iranian counterpart nuclear talks must be ‘accelerated’

Trump vows to pardon January 6 Capitol rioters if he wins in 2024

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Former US president says insurrectionists are being treated ‘so unfairly,’ attacks ‘racist prosecutors’ and committee probing his role in events

Former US president Donald Trump speaks during his 'Save America' rally at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Conroe, Texas, on January 29, 2022. (Brandon Bell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Dakota Johnson, right, appears in a scene from 'Cha Cha Real Smooth' by Cooper Raiff, an official selection of the US Dramatic Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Institute via AP)

Acclaimed Sundance movie explores love, awkwardness on bar mitzvah circuit

By Stephen Silver

‘Cha Cha Real Smooth,’ a coming-of-age film about a non-Jew who becomes a bar mitzvah ‘party starter,’ wins audience prize for best drama

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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)

Report: AG likely to indict 4 friends of settler teen killed in West Bank car chase

Hassen Chalghoumi speaks during an interview with France 2 TV, on January 13, 2022. (Screenshot/MEMRI)

French imam recounts death threats from Islamists for asking to respect Holocaust

People watch a TV showing a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, January 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

In message to US, North Korea appears to test longest-range missile since 2017

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and Mari Yamaguchi

The Apollonia (Tel Arsaf) beach on the coast of the central city of Herzliya, on July 24, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Human skeleton washes up on Herzliya coast; police investigate

Likud MK David Bitan during a plenum session in the Knesset, on October 13, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK David Bitan contracts COVID for 2nd time, after brush with death last year

A person crosses the street during white-out conditions as Winter Storm Kenan bears down on January 29, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Scott Eisen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Eastern US in emergency as ‘bomb cyclone’ unleashes powerful blizzard

By ed jones and Celine Gesret

The scene of a fire in a building in the Jerusalem Old City, January 29, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Elderly woman dies in apartment fire in Jerusalem Old City

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a press conference in Ankara, on January 20, 2022. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Erdogan to punish media for ‘harmful content,’ fires officials over high inflation

By Fulya Ozerkan

Mariana Zhaglo, mother-of-three, holds her Ukrainian Z-15 - Zbroyar rifle during an interview in the kitchen of her apartment in Kyiv, on January 28, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

‘A welcome they’ll remember’: Ukrainian mother vows to take up gun if Russia invades

By Ania TSOUKANOVA

French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot poses next to an oil painting by Gustav Klimt painted in 1905 called 'Rosebushes under the Trees,' during a ceremony at the Orsay museum in Paris, March 15, 2021. (Alain Jocard/Pool Photo via AP)

France votes to restore 15 works of art looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs

By AFP and ToI Staff

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