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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 9, 2022

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Times of Israel Editor David Horovitz (R), political correspondent Tal Schneider (second from L), diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman (L) and US correspondent Jacob Magid (via Zoom) interview US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides (second from R) at the US Embassy in Jerusalem on January 7, 2022. (David Azagury / US Embassy to Israel)

Interview'My north star is to strengthen the democratic Jewish state'

US envoy to Times of Israel: ‘My job is to calm things down, not to jazz things up’

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Tal Schneider and David Horovitz

Two months in, Ambassador Thomas Nides sets out his approach to the role, explains why he won’t visit settlements, hails the ‘beautiful’ government, insists Biden ‘gets it’ on Iran

A Syrian anti-aircraft missile is fired near Damascus during an alleged Israeli airstrike on February 9, 2022. An errant anti-aircraft missile exploded over northern Israel. (SANA)

IDF: Syrian anti-aircraft missile explodes over Israel, no interception needed

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Nasrallah: If Israel attacks Iran, Hezbollah won’t necessarily join fight

Prime Minsiter Naftali Bennett walks with the head of the Israeli Navy David Salama during a visit to the navy's Haifa Base, on February 8, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershon/Government Press Office)

PM warns of growing threats at sea, hails efforts to combat them

By Judah Ari Gross

The surface-to-surface 'Khaibar-buster' missile is displayed in an undisclosed location in Iran, February. 9, 2022. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran unveils new missile said to put Israel, US regional bases within range

By AP

Manufactured entirely domestically, solid fuel-powered ‘Khaibar-Shekan’ reportedly able to reach 1,450 kilometers with great accuracy

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walks past American flags, Tuesday, Feb., 1, 2022, after attending a weekly Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republican senators warn Biden they could block new Iran nuclear deal

By Lazar Berman

Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani arrives at the Coburg Palace, venue of the talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, in Vienna, on February 8, 2022. (Alex Halada/AFP)

Iran nuclear talks resume amid mounting pressure for results

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.

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman (L) speaks during the Kohelet Forum Conference at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on January 8, 2020. Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 31, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Trump envoy tried to convince Liberman to join Netanyahu after first 2019 election

With US peace plan awaiting a stable Israeli government, David Friedman says in new book that he tried to break ‘logjam’ preventing former PM from forming coalition

Analysis

As Abbas packs PLO with loyalists, succession struggle looms in Palestinian politics

The PA president appears to be backing rise of Hussein al-Sheikh, who has good ties with Israel, but critics decry backroom deals, saying next leader must be chosen by elections

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a rare meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council, on February 6, 2021. (WAFA)

Mourners attend the funeral of three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during a raid against what Israel described as a terrorist cell, on February 8, 2022, in the West Bank city of Nablus. (Jaafar Ashitiyeh/AFP)

Vowing revenge, thousands attend funeral of terror suspects killed by Israeli forces

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians inspect a bullet-riddled car belonging to three Palestinian terror suspects killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus, February 8, 2022. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Bennett vows ‘no safe harbor for terrorists’ following West Bank raid

A copy of the New Testament in Yiddish at the New York Public Library. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

ToI investigates'If it doesn't look kosher, they don't even open it'

Seeking converts, Christian missionaries pitch Yiddish Bibles to NY ultra-Orthodox

Missionary group is revamping New Testament in Yiddish for the first time in 80 years, part of a broader outreach effort aimed at the most insular Jewish communities in the US

A piece of paper found in a cell at the Ofer Prison in the West Bank on February 7, 20222 which the Israel Prison Service says details an escape plan (Israel Prisons Service)

Escape plan found in Palestinian security prisoners’ cell in Ofer Prison

Public security minister makes revelation as he testifies in probe into Gilboa jailbreak, says last year’s escape showed ‘serious deficiencies’ and multiple failures

A taxi damaged after a driver was attacked in Nablus, on February 8, 2022. (Police spokesperson)

Israeli driver detained after being attacked in Nablus while taking taxi for repairs

Coins that were among antiquities seized from a Palestinian suspected of stealing and trading in antiquities and who was arrested in Kafr Qallil, February 8, 2022 (IDF Civil Administration)

Suspected antiquities looter arrested in West Bank with thousands of coins

By Stuart Winer

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb. 9: The 1st female attorney general & IDF unit’s tragic reckoning

Legal correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn updates us on NSO and a brouhaha in Ra’anana; military correspondent Judah Ari Gross reports on an inquiry into recent friendly fire deaths

I’m a Catholic friar and also a Jew; the Law of Return should work for me

Antisemites don’t distinguish between Orthodox Jews, secular Jews, and Jews who became ’members of another religion.’ Israel shouldn’t either

Avidan Freedman

And then the spyware came for us…

Israelis didn’t blink at the damage that the Pegasus program was causing against human rights activists, journalists, and dissidents. Until it attacked us too

Interview

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Emi Palmor: Police hacked my phone for retribution

As director-general of the Justice Ministry, she was tasked with investigating the police; now it’s alleged that the police illegally investigated her back

Then Justice Ministry director-general Emi Palmor speaks at the Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin)

Gideon Sa'ar speaks in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar: Alleged police spying took place under Likud’s watch, not ours

Justice minister says opposition party ‘apparently very worried’ by a potential investigation into the matter, and claims Netanyahu is seeking to delegitimize probe

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks with Public Security Minister Omer Barlev at the Knesset, on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police say only 1 of 26 people allegedly spied on was hacked, with judge’s okay

MK Miri Regev holds a phone to her ear in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 7, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Political hackRegev ‘answers call from mom’ in Knesset stunt over police spyware

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (left) and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wife, Sara, and son, Yair, in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, January 10, 2022, during a preliminary hearing in a defamation lawsuit. (Avshalom Sassoni/Pool Photo via AP)

Court rejects Olmert request for psychiatric evaluation of Netanyahus in libel case

Former PM sought access to successor’s family medical records to shore up his claim that they are ‘mentally ill’

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar attends a ceremony for the new attorney general, on February 8, 2022, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill restricting prime ministers to 8 years in office cleared for final votes

CCTV footage shows the moments a bus driving through Jerusalem was allegedly attacked and had its windows shattered, on February 2, 2022 (video screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Police investigating after bus driver lightly wounded in Jerusalem attack

Unclear if vehicle targeted with gunfire or rocks; police say they are investigating the incident and searching for a suspect who fled the scene

7:33 pm

Police investigating after bus driver lightly wounded in Jerusalem attack
7:23 pm

British Jewish organization tells far-right MK Smotrich he is unwelcome
7:13 pm

Kosovo stops renovation of house linked to Nazi collaborator

A person walking through a revolving door. Illustrative.(AnkiHoglund via iStock by Getty Images)

A cooling-off period full of loopholes

Over half of Israeli publicly traded firms employ ex-officials, regulators – study

By Shoshanna Solomon

Analysis unpacks ‘revolving door’ in which public servants transition to private sector, sheds light on need to balance public trust with market freedom

Deborah Lipstadt, nominated to be the US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, with the rank of ambassador, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden antisemitism envoy nominee faces GOP criticism at confirmation hearing

Sens. Rubio and Johnson raise old tweet by Deborah Lipstadt calling out Republicans for bigotry; Holocaust scholar insists she speaks out against both sides of the aisle

Deborah Lipstadt, US President Joe Biden's nominee to be antisemitism monitor, testifies in the Dirksen Office building near the US Capitol, on February 8, 2022. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Vowing to be ‘equal-opportunity foe’ of antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt woos senators

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker speaks to reporters outside of Whites Chapel United Methodist Church following a special service, on January 17, 2022, in Southlake, Texas. (Emil Lippe/Getty Images/AFP)

‘I welcomed terrorist into my shul’: Texas rabbi urges Congress to up security funds

Cantor Yisroel Leshes filmed his first music video for his song 'Younger World' while on vacation in Venice, teaming up with local Venetian directors and cinematographers. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

'There's over 50,000 albums of material nobody performs'

This New York City cantor is making modern Yiddish music that swings

By julia GERGELY

When he’s not leading prayers at the Lincoln Square Synagogue, Yisroel Leshes loves jazz – so it’s only natural that he’s doing a fusion of old, new and the swingin’ era in between

Inside story

A new BDS battlefront emerges in investing world, with spotlight on Morningstar

Multibillion-dollar Chicago-based investment research firm accused of steering investors away from Israel, and is now being investigated by Illinois Investment Policy Board

Attendees of a Morningstar investment conference walk beneath banners at the McCormick Center in Chicago, on June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

More Headlines

Ghazi Abu Sbeitan and Ahmad Ziyad al-Sayyad (Courtesy)

2 construction workers fall to their deaths from 40th floor of Tel Aviv building

Screen capture from video allegedly showing secuirty forces at the illegal Homesh outpost, February 9, 2022. (Twitter)

Security forces demolish structures at Jewish outposts in West Bank, Negev

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

View of the Kishon River that overflowed following heavy rain near Emek junction in northern Israel, on January 9, 2020. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

Defense Ministry to recognize soldiers who swam in toxic river as disabled veterans

By Judah Ari Gross

In this illustrative photo from February 2019, an Oscar statue appears at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California. (Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File)

Spielberg, Gyllenhaal, Garfield among Jewish nominees for Oscars

By Andrew Lapin

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej attends a Meretz faction meeting at the Knesset Jerusalem, on February 7, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Meretz minister hospitalized in ICU after suffering stroke

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks during a ceremony in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Oct. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, File)

Pfizer sees COVID-19 vaccine, therapeutic sales topping $50 billion in 2022

Bruno Aiub during a podcast, February 2022 (Screen grab/Twitter)

Calling to create Nazi party, Brazil podcast star sparks outrage, may face charges

By AFP

A specially constructed chickpea greenhouse that will head into space. (Avivlabs via JTA)

Paste: The final frontierIsrael-NASA project aims to grow hummus chickpeas in space

By Rachel Ringer

President Isaac Herzog poses for a photo with the winners of the 2022 Wolf Prize, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on February 8, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

US architect behind New York’s High Line among winners of Israel’s Wolf Prize

By AP and ToI Staff

Photos of 15 men alleged to be Mossad agents, published by the Turkish Sabah daily on October 25, 2021. (Screenshot)

16 alleged Mossad spies go on trial in Turkey — reports

By AP and ToI Staff

The exterior of Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School, which will receive backing from Netflix for its series incubator. (Courtesy: Sam Spiegel)

TV talentNetflix backs Jerusalem film school’s new ‘Series Lab’ for young creatives

By Jessica Steinberg

Mel Mermelstein recalls the horrors he experienced as a prisoner of the Aushwitz concentration camp (Getty Images via JTA)

ObituaryMel Mermelstein, survivor who beat Holocaust deniers in court, dies at 95

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