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What Matters Most On Friday, February 4, 2022

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Former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber arrives for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on February 18, 2018. (Flash90)

Court orders state to respond by Tuesday to alleged police hacking in Netanyahu case

Jerusalem District Court says trial can proceed after reports investigators drained data from key witness’s phone without approval

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) sitting with then-PMO chief of staff Shlomo Filber, on February 21, 2018 (Screenshot/Channel 12 news)

Police phone hacking of key witness in Netanyahu case could force trial delay

Second Israeli company exploited Apple flaw to hack into iPhones – report

A mother gives her child vitamin D drops. (iStock via Getty Images)

Israeli study offers strongest proof yet of vitamin D’s power to fight COVID

By Nathan Jeffay

Bolstering previous research, scientists publish ‘remarkable’ data showing strong link between vitamin deficiency, prevalent in Israel, and death or serious illness among patients

A health care worker takes a nasal swab sample from a Palestinian woman in a COVID-19 testing center, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on February 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

‘The worst is yet to come’: Palestinians confront Omicron-fueled winter COVID surge

By AP and ToI Staff

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev (L) speaks during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, January 31, 2022. IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (R) speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem, November 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police minister criticizes IDF chief for military nonintervention in settler attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Hundreds of left-wing Israeli activists arrive to help Palestinians plant trees near the village of Burin in the West Bank, February 4, 2022. (Hamutal Sadot, Rabbis for Human Rights/Courtesy)

400 Israeli activists plant olive trees near Palestinian West Bank village

By Emanuel Fabian

PA President Mahmoud Abbas attends a leadership meeting at his headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 3, 2020. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool Photo via AP)

PLO to fill key posts as Abbas succession struggle heats up

By Aaron Boxerman

Interview

‘Our trip created a stronger bond’: Kraft shares memories of Tom Brady in Israel

Days after legendary QB retires, Patriots owner tells Times of Israel about their 2006 visit, on which the GOAT fired a gun, was baptized in the Jordan River, and danced the hora

Robert Kraft (left) and Tom Brady at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, 2006. (Courtesy)

A three-dimensional virtual model of Chabad's MANA Jewish Center ahead of its placement in Decentraland. (Courtesy)

'We're new age, but old school'

Enter the metaverse: Chabad pioneers the first Jewish outpost in a virtual world

Movement’s MANA house will offer education and other services in the Decentraland digital realm, combining new technology and traditional outreach

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on a phone call with UAE leader Mohammed Bin Zayed on August 13, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/PMO/File)

Israel media review

Rang up: What the press is saying about phone hacks, price hikes and IS hits

By Joshua Davidovich

The cops are in trouble for misleading about phone spyware, people are unhappy that goods are overpriced, and Israelis want a role in the assassination of Islamic State’s leader

‘We do not agree’: UK rejects Amnesty report accusing Israel of apartheid

By Lazar Berman

Britain joins US and Germany in denouncing findings of British HQ-ed organization that accuses Israel of systematically oppressing Palestinians

A journalist holds a copy of Amnesty International's report 'Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians,' in Jerusalem, February 1, 2022. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Cyril Ramaphosa (right) is sworn in as South African President by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday, February 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Mike Hutchings / Pool)

South African ex-chief justice ordered to apologize for pro-Israel comments

By AFP

Egyptian protesters shout slogans against the then ruling military council during a rally in support of then member of Parliament Zyad el-Elaimy outside the Egyptian parliament in Cairo, Egypt, on February 21, 2012. (AP/Amr Nabil, File)

EU lawmakers urge scrutiny of Egypt’s ‘devastating’ human rights record

By AP

Six things to do before the next wave

National defense planning must extend to fighting a virus that has killed more Israelis than were slain by Hamas in the past 20 years of warfare

A modern Gypsy folktale

Nearly half a century after we met in Germany, Philomena, the first to write about the Nazi persecution of the Roma people, is still going strong at 100

Remembering the great aliyah of Soviet Jewry

What a privilege to be at a Passover seder singing songs of freedom with a refusenik and Jewish activist who had been released from jail just 24 hours earlier

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

GNP = Gross National (statistical) Perversions

Estimates of the total value of products and services turned out by Israel’s residents don’t add up. Here are a few hidden numbers that tell the real story

Yemeni Rabbi Youssef Moussa, left, and his brother Salem sit in an apartment in Sanaa, Yemen, Nov. 10, 2009, after fleeing a conflict in the northern part of the country. (Marwan Naamani/AFP via Getty Images/JTA)

Houthi persecution, civil war emptying Yemen of nearly all Jews, UN says

Report details dangers faced by the few Jews left in areas controlled by Iran-backed rebel group, which preaches antisemitic violence to children

Defense Minister Benny Gantz meets with Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at his palace in Manama, on February 3, 2022. (Courtesy/Kingdom of Bahrain)

Gantz defends offering aid to Lebanon

Gantz’s Bahrain visit signals to Iran the alliance against it is growing and public

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister says Israel looking to work with Manama and other ‘moderates’ in the region to combat shared threats, as US shifts focus to Ukraine and Russia

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

US said to believe Iran’s breakout time will be well under a year if JCPOA revived

A THAAD missile defense system. (US Army Europe)

US okays F-16 sales to Jordan, air defense boosts for Saudi Arabia, UAE

'Activists need someone to be their center of gravity'

A new kind of chaplain? US Jewish clergy train to support social justice activists

By Danielle Ziri

T’ruah partners with the Faith Matters Network on a new course in ‘movement chaplaincy,’ which seeks to provide a spiritual anchor for protesters who face the ‘pain of the world’

Congresswoman accused of adopting anti-Israel stance as bribe to would-be opponent

Chicago-area Democrat Marie Newman being probed by ethics office over allegations she hired Palestinian-American as an adviser in deal to get him to drop out of primary

Democrat Marie Newman during an election campaign event in the Archer Heights neighborhood of Chicago, March 9, 2020. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

A still from 'Camp Confidential.' (Netflix via JTA)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Will Netflix’s Nazi prisoner animated short become an Oscar nominee?

Filmmaker Daniel Sivan talks about the discovery and making of ‘Camp Confidential,’ currently shortlisted for the Academy Awards

People check a destroyed house after an operation by the US military in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, Syria, on Thursday, February 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

US reportedly notified Israel ahead of raid that killed Islamic State leader

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A man walks through the house where Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed by US forces the night before, February 3, 2022. (Aaref Watad/AFP)

50 US commandos encountered baby toys, suicide bomb during lethal raid on IS leader

By GHAITH ALSAYED, Zeke Miller, Lolita C. Baldor and Calvin Woodward

ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi (US Justice Department)

Thought he was a cab driver: Syrians shocked to find Islamic State head was neighbor

By Abdelaziz Ketaz

Illustrative: Brooklyn College students walk between classes on campus in New York, on February 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Federal probe to investigate alleged antisemitic harassment at Brooklyn College

Title VI civil rights complaint claims Jewish students in graduate program were harangued by peers and faculty, told to ‘get your whiteness in check’

Illustrative: A Jewish area of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, on April 24, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)

Complaint filed against Brooklyn yeshiva for dropping all 8th grade secular studies

A view of Kolmar Park in Chicago. (Screenshot via JTA)

Chicago residents seek to rededicate park to Jewish writer killed in Holocaust

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

Explainer

‘The View’ Holocaust controversy: Are Jews white? Is Whoopi Goldberg Jewish?

Host’s comments strike nerve among many Jews, but also bring to fore questions about identity that have never been easy to answer

Whoopi Goldberg attends a benefit event in New York City, Sept. 13, 2021. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images via JTA)

The Goldenblatt family gathers with Rabbi Jen, played by Hari Nef, on the finale of HBO's "Sex and the City" reboot. (Screen capture via JTA)

A ‘they mitzvah’ challenges Jewish traditions on HBO’s ‘And Just Like That’ finale

By PHILISSA CRAMER

‘Sex and the City’ reboot features gender-neutral coming-of-age ritual, with rainbow kippahs and transgender rabbi, in line with how many communities have reframed the rite

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People shop for groceries at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on February 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Israel could do more to curb price hikes long-term, says former central bank chief

By Ricky Ben-David

State should open up food market for imports, encourage price transparency, and consumer can be more proactive, suggests Dr. Karnit Flug

More Headlines

Osem products are seen on a shelf in a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on February 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Food giant Osem nixes planned price hike after public uproar

Evgeni Krasnopolski and Noa Szollos, of Israel, carry their national flag into the stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Beijing Olympics opening ceremony starts under cloud of COVID and human rights fears

By Peter Stebbings

Ukraine's Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniichuk in Jerusalem, on December 21, 2021. (Facebook photo)

Foreign Ministry summons Ukrainian envoy for reprimand over angry Facebook post

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) and Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to their talks in Beijing, China, on February 4, 2022. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia, China hit out at US influence as leaders meet in Beijing ahead of Olympics

By AFP

Israeli security forces inspect the scene of a shooting attack near Homesh, in the West Bank, on December 16, 2021. (Hillel Maeir/Flash9)

Palestinian minor charged over deadly West Bank terror shooting

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A colorized electron microscope image shows a single human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as it buds from a human immune cell, which the virus had infected. (NIAID via AP)

Scientists find new, more virulent strain of HIV, but say no cause for alarm

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

UN Special Rapporteur Calin Georgescu speaks in Majuro, Marshall Islands, March 30, 2012. (Giff Johnson/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Romanian politician praises 1930s antisemitic fascist leader on primetime TV

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces in the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, May 10, 2021. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Attorney general defends use of surveillance tech against Palestinian protesters

By AP and ToI Staff

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the technology center at Hopwood Hall College, in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England, on Thursday, February 3, 2022. (Jason Cairnduff/Pool via AP)

Four of Johnson’s most senior aides quit in latest blow to British PM

By Jitendra Joshi and Phil HAZLEWOOD

Meta value crashes by $200 billion as Facebook dip turns traders bearish

By John BIERS and Joshua MELVIN

A dusty haze settles in over the city of Beersheba in southern Israel, February 4, 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/The Times of Israel)

Environment Ministry warns against outdoor exercise as dusty haze engulfs Israel

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Erdogan reportedly says Turkey and Israel could cooperate on gas shipments to Europe

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