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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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Agnes Callamard, the Secretary General of Amnesty International (left) holds a press conference together with activist Orly Noy in Jerusalem, on February 1, 2022. Amnesty International labelled Israel an "apartheid" state that treats Palestinians as "an inferior racial group." (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Israel decries 'false, biased, and antisemitic' report

Amnesty: Israel practices apartheid against Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza, Israel

By Agencies and Lazar Berman

Rights group says ‘Palestinians treated as inferior racial group’; does not compare Israel to S. Africa, but evaluates policies based on int’l conventions; urges ban on arms sales

Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard poses in Paris, April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Amnesty to release ‘apartheid’ report despite Israeli call to withdraw it

By AFP and ToI Staff

Spanish aid worker Juana Rishmawi at Ofer prison in the West Bank, on November 17, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel to free Spanish aid worker jailed for funding Palestinian terror group

By AFP

Omar As'ad. (Courtesy)

Soldiers left elderly Palestinian American to die in ‘ethical failure’ — IDF probe

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says troops abandoned the unconscious 78-year-old Omar As’ad at a construction site after zip-tying his hands together and gagging him at an impromptu checkpoint

Palestinian relatives carry the body of Omar As'ad, at his funeral; As'ad was found dead after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid, in Jiljilya village in the West Bank, on January 13, 2022. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

General: Troops were too mission-focused when they left elderly Palestinian to die

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian relatives carry the body of Omar As'ad, at his funeral; As'ad was found dead after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid, in Jiljilya village in the West Bank, on January 13, 2022. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Wisconsin lawmakers demand probe of elderly Palestinian-American’s death

By AP and ToI Staff

Actress Whoopi Goldberg speaks during the opening of the "Planet or Plastic?" exhibit, Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Whoopi Goldberg causes uproar, saying ‘Holocaust isn’t about race’; apologizes

By JTA and ToI Staff

During discussion on ‘The View,’ actress says Nazis and Jews ‘are two white groups of people’; co-hosts point out that Nazis clearly regarded Jews as being a different race

Neo-Nazi demonstrators with swastikas and 'National Socialist Movement' banners, stomping on an Israeli flag, in Orlando, Florida on January 29, 2022. (screen capture: Twitter/Luke Denton)

DeSantis shies away from condemning Florida Nazis, blames Democrats

Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican-Kentucky, stops to speak with reporters as he leaves the Capitol, March 27, 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/JTA)

Republican House representative uses quote from neo-Nazi to criticize Fauci

Kosher in the Bahamas

Inspired by Israeli cooking techniques, Atlantis’ Kosher dining service offers contemporary fare with an array of classic and novel dishes. For events and group functions.

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Why a coalition best suited to fulfill the Kotel compromise has been unable to do so

Previous lofty promises to finally resolve the dispute have encountered opposition by the government’s more religious members, as well as other realpolitik considerations

Then-minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett unveils a temporary platform built for pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in August 2013. (Ezra Landau/Flash90)

Members of Women of the Wall gather around a Torah scroll the group smuggled in for their Rosh Hodesh prayers marking the new month at the Western Wall, where women are forbidden from reading from the Torah, December 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Liberal Jewish movements ‘feel betrayed’ by Israel’s freezing of Western Wall plan

By JTA and ToI Staff

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (left) with Gideon Sa'ar at a ceremony in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Justice minister warns at AG’s farewell: Threat to Israeli democracy is not yet over

Mandelblit says office faced ‘unprecedented challenges’ in his term; PM, FM back Baharav-Miara to succeed him; candidate selection process under fire for alleged politicization

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Public trust in police, attorney general sinks to lowest ever in poll

By Stuart Winer

Shas leader Aryeh Deri leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 1, 2022 after his conviction on tax offenses. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court sentences Deri in plea bargain conviction on tax offenses

Chief of Police Kobi Shabtai attends a ceremony of the Israeli police in the northern city of Nazareth, November 9, 2021. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

In about-face, police admit misuse of NSO phone hacking tech

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Police say new evidence ‘changes the state of affairs,’ after initially denying unauthorized use of Pegasus spyware; Justice Ministry taps committee to probe bombshell claims

Illustrative: An F-35 fighter jets comes in for a landing during a surprise exercise, 'Galilee Rose,' in February 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Israeli Air Force drill simulated ‘massive’ attack on Iran, as US observed

TV network says exercise included various scenarios, including mid-air refueling, long-range strikes and responses to anti-aircraft missiles

7:32 pm

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7:03 pm

British PM warns any Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a 'disaster'
6:53 pm

US envoy to Israel on Amnesty claims of Israeli apartheid: 'Come on, this is absurd'

Jennifer Caplan

You can’t just swap out ‘Maus’ for another Holocaust book

The pictures teach what loss and grief and horror felt like to a child of survivors, showing readers a range and depth of emotion that words cannot convey

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Sex and the holy city

’Just smell the air in the Old City: Bread and spices and sh*t when the pipes burst. And behind the walls, you can hear everything – I do mean EVERYTHING’

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb. 1 – Who scuttled the Western Wall deal; a price hike backlash

US reporter Jacob Magid discusses what really happened with the ‘Kotel compromise’ and political correspondent Tal Schneider looks at a Knesset vote on yeshiva student exemptions

Medical staff wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on January 20, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases show signs of drop-off as Omicron wave ebbs

By Stuart Winer

Turnaround marks first time figure has fallen since the beginning of the year; daily caseload, deaths also down; ministers to meet on abolishing Green Pass rules

Illustrative -- A child receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Sacramento, California, Jan. 25, 2022 (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Pfizer COVID vaccine could be available for under-5s in US by end of February

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on a counter at a pharmacy in Portland, Oregon, December 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

US grants full approval to Moderna’s COVID vaccine

By AP and ToI Staff

A journalist takes images of pictures of Anne Frank at the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 21, 2018. (AP Photo/ Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch publisher apologizes over controversial Anne Frank book, halts printing

Ambo Anthos says it should have taken a more ‘critical stance’ before publishing book that said a Jewish notary betrayed Jewish diarist, in findings criticized by experts

A woman watches Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO's director-general, speak during an online commemoration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Dublin, Jan. 27, 2021. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images/JTA)

Poll: German teens, young adults eager to learn about Holocaust, but in new formats

By Toby Axelrod

New Israeli imaging technique gives ‘unprecedented window’ into genes deep in body

By Nathan Jeffay

Team at Weizmann Institute publishes study on method it says could help detect cancers, aid in organ transplants and help monitor cell therapy

An fMRI scanner. (CC-BY-SA, JanneM, Flickr)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, on January 26, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)

Blinken speaks with Lapid, Abbas about Israel-Palestinian issues

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

In phone call with foreign minister, US secretary of state reiterates security commitment; speaking to Palestinian leader, he urges ‘reform’ in PA

The demolished home of Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, February 1, 2022 (Israel Police)

Israel razes home of Hamas terrorist who killed Eli Kay in Jerusalem attack

Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a Blue and White faction meeting at the Knesset on January 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz on meetings with PA chief Abbas: We need to maintain a diplomatic horizon

An Iron Dome missile defense system fires an interceptor at a target during an exercise in early 2021. (Defense Ministry)

Israel said ready to sell Iron Dome to UAE, build regional defenses against Iran

Report says Israel may sell warning and interception equipment to Abu Dhabi amid mounting attacks from Tehran-backed separatists

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog tour the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, January 31, 2022 (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

At Abu Dhabi Grand Mosque, Herzog says region has a choice: Peace or Iranian terror

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: US soldiers near a Patriot missile battery at Al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on May 5, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Jao'Torey Johnson/US Air Force via AP)

US fired Patriot missiles to intercept Houthi attack on UAE during Herzog visit

By Jon Gambrell

A police officer patrols outside the Hotel Palais Coburg in Vienna, where talks are being held on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, December 27, 2021. (Alex Halada/AFP)

US official urges direct nuclear talks with Iran, warns time running out

By AFP

Unnamed senior source says ‘critical political decisions’ must be made by all sides in negotiations to save 2015 pact, stresses Washington wants to reach an understanding quickly

The alleged Karaj centrifuge parts plant near Karaj, Iran, seen in a photo posted online by Google user Edward Majnoonian, in May 2019. (Screenshot/Google Maps)

Iran shifts centrifuge work away from site allegedly struck by Israel — UN watchdog

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a gallows (raw206; iStock by Getty Images)

Amnesty reports Iran executed 2 gay men over sodomy charges

Photos of the mikvah at the Synagogue of Water in Úbeda, Spain. (Joaquín Fruiz/ via JTA)

'Spain underwent an enormous transformation since the '80s'

Spanish towns unearth ancient synagogues to bring back Jewish history — and tourists

By Orge Castellano

Expelled in 1492, the once-prosperous Sephardic Jews left a striking medieval architectural legacy. Now, landowners are digging it up, along with a possible gold mine of tourism

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with his wife Gilat in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2021. (Ariel Zandberg/Yamina)

‘I’m not her boss’: Bennett defends wife over trip abroad at outset of Omicron wave

Illustrative: An El Al plane lands at Ben Gurion Airport, on October 13, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Russian jammer in Syria said to cause interference with flights to Israel

Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Israel Hayom editor Boaz Bismuth speak at the Israel Hayom forum in Jerusalem on June 27, 2019. (Gideon Markovitz)

Israel Hayom editor Bismuth leaves; paper seen shifting a little away from Netanyahu

File: A member of the Jewish Lev Tahor cult in Bosnia and Herzegovina in television footage broadcast by the N1 BiH news outlet on January 28, 2022. (Screenshot/ YouTube)

Several dozen members of extremist Jewish Lev Tahor cult turn up in Bosnia

Jonathan Pollard eulogizes his wife Esther during her funeral in Jerusalem, January 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At wife’s funeral, tearful Pollard says it’s ‘not how I expected’ to come to Israel

Cybereason co-founders, left to right, Yonatan Striem Amit, Lior Div and Yossi Naar. (Cybereason)

Israel’s Cybereason, backed by Softbank and Alphabet, files for IPO at $5b valuation

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: Police tape marks off a Chicago street as officers investigate the scene of a fatal shooting in the city's South Side on June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/ Teresa Crawford/File)

Chicago synagogue, Jewish school vandalized with antisemitic graffiti

By AP

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, center, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz during a vote on the ultra-Orthodox draft bill at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 31, 2022. (Flash90)

After previous failure, Haredi army draft bill passes its first reading

By Michael Bachner

Andy Levin, Democrat of Michigan, arrives for member-elect briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ex-head of AIPAC calls Jewish Michigan congressman ‘corrosive’ to US-Israel ties

Palestinian boys play in an ancient cemetery reportedly dating back to the Roman-era which was unearthed during construction work in Gaza City on January 31, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

Gaza bulldozers uncover ancient Roman-era burial site; some antiquities carted off

By AP

The Israeli Navy trains with foreign navies in response to a simulated massive earthquake that strikes northern Israel in the 'Mighty Waves 2019' naval exercise in August 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel to join massive US-led naval exercise in Red Sea for first time

By Judah Ari Gross

Avram Grant, then Chelsea head coach, considers a question during a news conference at the Chelsea training ground, in Cobham, Britain, May 9, 2008. Grant has been accused in a new investigative report of sexually harassing multiple women. Israel's Channel 12 TV on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, broadcast a series of interviews with women saying that Grant had made unwanted advances while offering to help promote their careers. (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi, File)

FIFA to investigate soccer coach Avram Grant after sexual harassment claims

By Josef Federman and Rob Harris

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