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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 8, 2022

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Palestinians carry the body of a man, one of three killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus, on February 8, 2022. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Soldiers kill 3 Palestinian terror suspects in West Bank operation

By Aaron Boxerman

Security forces say men were members of cell that carried out shooting attacks against Israelis in recent weeks; gunmen belonged to Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

Omar As'ad, a Palestinian-American who died after being violently detained by IDF troops in the West Bank on January 12, 2022. (Courtesy)

Herzog on death of Palestinian left bound by troops: ‘A warning light for us all’

Chief of Police Kobi Shabtai speaks during a ceremony in the northern city of Nazareth, on November 9, 2021 (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

NSO spyware firm said to freeze police use of its technology

Police chief again denies illegal use of spyware in face of explosive claims

By Tobias Siegal

Kobi Shabtai’s predecessor Roni Alsheich, who led investigations into Netanyahu, remains mum amid calls for scrutiny of actions committed under his watch

From left to right: Keren Terner Eyal, former director general of the Transportation Ministry; former Justice Ministry director general Emi Palmor; and Shai Babad, the former director general of the Finance Ministry. (Flash90)

Ex-ministry chiefs demand state commission to probe police wiretap claims

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, an Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Ministers back calls for state commission to probe police spyware allegations

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in his trial, November 16, 2021, in Jerusalem. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Court accepts prosecution request for delay in Netanyahu trial amid wiretap claims

Deferment granted until Sunday to allow completion of examination of allegations that police illicitly spied on witnesses, defendants

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Knesset plenum session on February 7, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu rails against cops over spyware claims: Like IDF bombing Israeli civilians

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb. 8: Spyware revelations & West Bank 2nd homes for Arab Israelis

Political writer Tal Schneider and US correspondent Jacob Magid discuss the latest NSO disclosures, coalition tremors, a Bennett-Biden call and Palestinian Authority real estate

Still from a Channel 12 news segment on February 7, 2022 on "how to try to protect your cellphone" from hacking. (screenshot)

Israeli TV gives viewers ‘helpful’ tips on how to prevent their phones being hacked

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)

ExplainerHow does Pegasus, the spyware at the heart of Israel police furor, work?

By Bhanukiran Gurijala

Mark Spitz champions a new cause

Service dogs-changing the lives of Israelis in need. Learn more at our FREE Zoom call: Feb. 23, 2022. Olympian Mark Spitz will be taking questions.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks alongside police officials and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, during a visit to Rahat on December 6, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett orders probe of alleged spyware targets before deciding on inquest

By Joshua Davidovich

Meeting with top judicial officials, prime minister asks that 26 people named in report be ‘checked’ as police claim they only managed to hack a single phone out of three tries

7:46 pm

Nasrallah: If Israel attacks Iran, Hezbollah won't necessarily join fight
7:29 pm

Germany united with France and Poland against war in Europe
7:22 pm

Pfizer says it raked in $36,800,000,000 in COVID-19 vaccine sales

Newly appointed Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara seen during a welcome ceremony for her in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa'ar, at welcoming ceremony, hails 'a day of new beginning'

Vowing to prioritize public trust, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara takes office

Acknowledges ‘worrying decline in confidence in public legal advice and law enforcement systems,’ promises to look into allegations of spyware abuse by police

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at the press conference announcing his decision to make then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stand trial, November 21, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Before he left office, Mandelblit ordered police to suspend use of spyware — report

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar leads a New Hope faction meeting at the Knesset on February 7, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Sa’ar: Alleged police phone hacking ‘not known’ to Justice Ministry

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) makes a 'cuckoo' sign as opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from the Knesset plenum, February 7, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Bennett signals Netanyahu ‘crazy’ during Knesset back-and-forth

PM makes gesture in response to opposition leader’s criticism of government’s ‘impotence’ in face of COVID

Andrew Silow-Carroll

‘Maus’ is not ‘Auschwitz for Beginners’ — and that’s why it needs to be taught

It is not just a book about ’man’s inhumanity to man,’ It is infinitely wilder and woolier and more unsettling than that

‘Is Israel an apartheid state?’ is not the right question

When we ask whether the country treats its Arab population fairly, the answer is not so simple

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz gives a press conference at Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Beersheba, on November 30, 2021. (Flash90)

Health minister blames COVID unvaccinated for strain on hospitals

Despite waning of coronavirus wave, Nitzan Horowitz says there’s no cause to rejoice; hospitals report blood shortages

A teacher wearing a face mask checks the temperature of her student at Maestro Padilla school in Madrid, Sept. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Children find it harder than adults to recognize people in face masks – Israel study

By Tobias Siegal

Polly Adler in Chicago for the 'Battle of the Long Count' heavyweight boxing championship, September 22, 1927. (Polly Adler Collection courtesy of Eleanor Vera)

Interview'Women of the night were like bootleggers, and she slid in'

How Jewish immigrant Polly Adler ended up running Prohibition’s hottest bordello

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Biography ‘Madam’ by Debby Applegate explores how the US alcohol ban brought high society and the underworld together – and how a young woman exploited this for fame and fortune

An undated photograph of Egoz soldiers taking part in an exercise. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF probe blames flawed culture at top of elite Egoz unit for friendly fire deaths

By Judah Ari Gross

Deputy commander and other officers removed from posts; detachment head to be suspended from command for 2 years over incident in which soldiers showed ‘no common sense,’ army says

People hold a protest against the 'Citizenship Law' outside the Knesset, on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With help from opposition, Citizenship Law passes first reading in Knesset

Controversial bill advances 44-5, after MKs from both sides of the aisle leave the plenum rather than vote; stricter version also approved

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (center) addresses a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 6, 2022. (Haim Zach/ GPO)

Iran deal or not, Biden supports Israel’s freedom of action, says Bennett

By Lazar Berman

The flag of Iran waves in front of the International Center building with the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, on May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter, File)

US says Iran nuke deal ‘in sight’ but must be swiftly finalized

By AFP and ToI Staff

Art Spiegelman during a remote speech about his book 'Maus' being removed from a Tennessee school board's curriculum on February 7, 2022. (Screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'What's going on now is about controlling' kids

Art Spiegelman blames ‘political headwinds’ for removal of ‘Maus’ from curriculum

Jewish author of iconic Holocaust book tells Tennessee religious groups that area school’s decision motivated by authoritarian bent, petty issues among parents

The aftermath of the 1927 earthquake in Jerusalem, with the Dome of the Rock in the background. (photo credit: public domain via Library of Congress)

Israel gets new earthquake warning system, sends alert within seconds of 1st tremor

TRUAA system, trialed since 2014 at Geological Survey of Israel, linked to Home Front Command late last month so that early earthquake warnings can be relayed to public

One of phosphate plants. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Government issues plan to cut red tape in environmental licensing, help business

The Poleg Swamp, seen onn March 9, 2010. (Chen Leopold/Flash 90)

Green groups warn planned road in central Israel will kill off crucial wetlands

US response to antisemitism is reactive, uncoordinated, report claims

By Lazar Berman

Ahead of Deborah Lipstadt’s confirmation hearing as antisemitism envoy, former senior Obama administration official calls for Biden to coordinate a whole-of-government approach

Then-US Vice President Joe Biden speaks after the national menorah was lit during a ceremony marking the start of the celebration of Hanukkah, on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, December 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Free Party presidential candidate Xiomara Castro acknowledges supporters accompanied by her running mate Salvador Nasralla, right, during a closing campaign rally, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

Honduras’ new vice president, wife have history of antisemitic remarks

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wears a 'Stop the Steal' mask while speaking with fellow first-term Republican members of Congress, on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, January 4, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Firebrand Taylor Greene faces GOP challengers back in Georgia

By Will Weissert

Senior Palestinian officials attend a rare Palestine Liberation Organization leadership conference on February 6, 2022. (WAFA)

PLO promotes Abbas loyalists to key posts at rare conference

By Aaron Boxerman

With many of the PA president’s opponents boycotting, his close advisers Hussein Al-Sheikh and Muhammad Mustafa are handed top spots in pan-Palestinian organization

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas adjusts his glasses as he listens during a joint statement with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on May 25, 2021, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File)

Despite controversy, Palestinians continue to defend prisoner payments

Palestinian protesters attend a demonstration against the Evyatar settlement outpost, south of Nablus, on June 4, 2021, in the West Bank. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Israeli, Palestinian public figures propose two-state confederation plan

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Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed when his car flipped over while being chased by police in the West Bank on December 21, 2020. (Courtesy)

Security forces demolish illegal outpost named for teen killed in police chase

Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy (L) welcomes Ali Rashid al-Nuaimi — chairman of the Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee in the United Arab Emirates' (UAE's) Federal National Council on a visit to Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on February 7, 2022. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

In first, UAE parliamentary delegation visits the Knesset

By AFP

Tel Aviv's Scrabble club returns to international tournaments for the first time in two years, starting February 11, 2022 (Courtesy Tel Aviv Scrabble Club)

Tile we meet againIsrael’s Scrabble wordsmiths plan first tournament in two years

By Jessica Steinberg

The building of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Bonn, Germany, July 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, File)

German broadcaster DW fires 5 staffers after probe on workplace antisemitism

By Toby Axelrod

Gal Gadot, left, and Ali Fazal in a scene from 'Death on the Nile.' (Rob Youngson/ 20th Century Studios via AP)

Film review‘Death on the Nile’ runs aground with Gal Gadot on deck

OCD Restaurant in Tel Aviv was voted the third best in the Middle East for 2022 (Courtesy OCD Restaurant

Beyond hummus6 Israeli restaurants ranked among top 50 eateries in Middle East

Teva reaches $150 million deal with Texas to settle opioid-related claims

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: An Israel Police car in Petah Tikva, August 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Mother accused of pimping daughter, 11, to man in exchange for financial support

Miep Gies displayed a copy of her book 'Anne Frank Remembered' at her apartment in Amsterdam in 1998. (Courtesy: Steve North)

Ordinary courageKeshet to make series on Anne Frank family protector for Disney+

By Jessica Steinberg

A student in Hartman secondary school in Jerusalem takes a matriculation exam in mathematics in 2010 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Major education reform will slash number of high school matriculation exams

By Tobias Siegal

Todd Gitlin speaks at Ryerson University in Toronto, October 23, 2012. (Keith Beaty/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

ObituaryTodd Gitlin, Jewish radical turned critic of left’s attacks on Israel, dies at 79

Jack Mikulincer was a one-time bakery owner in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and a gabbai, or sexton, at his synagogue. (Courtesy Mikulincer Family)

99-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in traffic on way to Brooklyn synagogue

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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