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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 10, 2022

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Head of the Religious Zionist Party MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a rally against the government in Tel Aviv, November 2, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Top UK Jewish body tells visiting far-right MK Smotrich to ‘get back on a plane’

In a Hebrew tweet, the Board of Deputies of British Jews says it rejects Religious Zionism lawmaker’s ‘abominable views and hate-provoking ideology’

MK Bezalel Smotrich visits the illegal outpost of Evyatar, in the West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Under fire from mainstream UK Jews, Smotrich says ‘small group’ wants to silence him

By Tobias Siegal

Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters burn an Israeli flag as they demonstrate in support of the Palestinian cause outside the Israeli Embassy in central London on May 22, 2021. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

UK Jews record 2,255 antisemitic incidents in 2021 — the highest tally in Europe

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former police commissioner Roni Alsheich, left, with former attorney general Avichai Mandelblit during a farewell ceremony in Alsheich's honor, in Beit Shemesh, on November 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Breaking silence, ex-top cop says NSO misuse claims ‘unconnected to reality’

By Tobias Siegal

Alsheich firmly denies reports of widespread spying on citizenry, says he supports thorough inquiry; Bennett: If allegations substantiated, ‘I’ll go all-in on broadest probe’

Motti Cohen, then acting police chief, speaks at a Ministry of Public Security Award Ceremony, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on January 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police used NSO spyware 240 times under chiefs Alsheich and Cohen – report

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

A general view of UNESCO prior to the opening of General Conference in Paris, France, November 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Benjamin Girette, file)

Israel tells Biden administration it won’t oppose US returning to UNESCO — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Both countries left United Nations cultural organization in 2019 due to alleged anti-Israel bias; Washington is now looking to counter Beijing’s influence in agency, Axios reports

An Israeli Navy Sa'ar 5 corvette defends a natural gas extraction platform off Israel's coast, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

US envoy calls on Lebanon to end maritime border dispute with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Miriam Anzovin posts her reactions to the Daf Yomi page-a-day Talmud study regimen on TikTok, and people either love it or hate it. (Courtesy)

Interview'A love of our heritage' or 'Crude and a disgrace'?

Raunchy TikTok Talmud tidbits spark slut-shaming and heated discourse

By Cathryn J. Prince

Miriam Anzovin’s ‘Daf Reactions’ cause as many disputes as their source material; some find them sacrilegious, others refreshing, but their creator says they’re simply heartfelt

Bedouin youth during a protest against tree planting by the Jewish National Fund, outside the Bedouin village of al-Atrash in the Negev desert, southern Israel, January 13, 2022 (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Police arrest 4 suspected of torching reporter’s car during protests last month

Suspects from Bedouin town of Segev Shalom allegedly assaulted journalist during mass unrest over forestation in southern Israel

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Daily Briefing Feb. 10: US envoy says he’s a Zionist, and other local tremors

David Horovitz discusses ToI’s interview with US envoy Tom Nides, NSO revelations and Smotrich in UK; environment reporter Sue Surkes reviews recycling and earthquake warnings

A teacher holding up his cell phone at the entrance to at an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on May 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘Dumb’ phone sales jump in Israel amid fears of NSO’s Pegasus

A pregnant woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection at a Clalit vaccination center in Or Yehuda, on Purim, February 25, 2021. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

NY Times: House panel finds gaps in White House call logs from Capitol riots

Report says currently no evidence that logs were destroyed; committee checking if Trump violated Presidential Records Act, after presidential records found at his Florida estate

7:33 pm

NY Times: House panel finds gaps in White House call logs from Capitol riots
7:30 pm

Report: In first, senior IDF official to be posted in Arab country — Bahrain
7:18 pm

Education minister said promoting plan to start teaching English in preschool

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C), Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (R), and Economy and Industry Minister Orna Barbivai share the government's plan to address cost of living in a Jerusalem press conference, February 9, 2022. (Government Press Office)

Bennett, Liberman promise vexed public to tackle living costs, help families

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Plan to add tax benefits, lower tariffs on various products and increase competition expected to cost state coffers some NIS 4.4 billion in 2022

Barnabas Szollos, of Israel, celebrates after finishing the slalom run of the men's combined at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 10, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Beijing 2022

Israeli skier Szollos surprises with 6th-place finish at Winter Olympics

After best-ever showing for Israel in Olympic ski competition, Szollos says ‘it’s an honor to be here, to represent Israel, and I’m really, really happy’

Blacks and Jews have unfinished business

Despite good reasons to be allies, our communities have been struggling with the relationship. Exploring Biblical stories together can help

Suddenly, the soldier noticed the woman’s kippah

We went to plant olive trees in the name of peace, and encountered an unexpected reaction to women rabbis

An ultrasound examination for a pregnant woman in Tel Aviv, on November 3, 2009. (Photo: Chen Leopold / Flash 90)

Peer-reviewed study by Ben Gurion U., Soroka Medical Center

Prenatal ultrasound can spot early signs of autism, Israeli research finds

Diagnosis from scans could enable starting treatment at birth rather than waiting years, possibly boosting the results

Biblical plague explained? Israeli study suggests why locusts form massive swarms

Researchers find a bacterial species that proliferates in the insects’ guts when they join a group; the finding could lead to new means for combating outbreaks

Illustrative: Swarms of desert locusts fly up into the air from crops in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya January 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Scientists working at the entrance of the Mandrin cave, near Montelimar, southern France. (Ludovic Slimak via AP)

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals alternately lived in the same cave, study says

By Pierre CELERIER

A worker in the COVID ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 9, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious cases, transmission rate fall further as Omicron ebbs

1,123 hospitalized in serious condition; 36,835 new cases diagnosed Wednesday, bringing active cases to 324,802

Doctors administer the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Bronxville, New York (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).

Fauci says ‘full-blown’ pandemic in US nearly over, as England to scrap quarantines

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, September 14, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

'Torah violation'Citing religious beliefs, lawsuit challenges NYC vaccine mandate

By julia GERGELY

Foriegn Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

FM director visits Turkey ahead of possible Erdogan-Herzog meeting — reports

Foreign Ministry’s Alon Ushpiz reportedly meets Ibrahim Kalin, a consultant and right-hand man to Turkish leader, to prepare for a potential visit by Israeli president

This combination of pictures created on October 23, 2020, shows an Israeli flag during a rally in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on September 19, 2020; and a Sudanese flag during a gathering east of the capital Khartoum on June 3, 2020. (JACK GUEZ and ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)

Sudanese official said to be in Israel on secret visit

Yad Vashem: ‘Auschwitz tattoo stamps’ likely not used on Jewish prisoners

By ToI Staff and AFP

But Holocaust memorial, in report for court on a controversial sale, notes it ‘cannot be determined with absolute certainty’ that dies weren’t used on Jewish inmates at Nazi camp

A teacher at Mountain Brook High School is seen giving a Nazi salute, in a video published on February 8, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Alabama Jewish student reprimanded for outing class’s Nazi salute

By AP

Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at a news conference in Washington, DC, December 7, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Spoons out

Marjorie Taylor Greene mixes up Nazis with Spanish soup

Gazpacho for Gestapo: Georgia Republican congresswoman is mocked and condemned for again using mangled Holocaust comparisons

Illustrative: The campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

US campus antisemitism survey: University of Vermont had most reported cases in 2021

Artist Beverly Barkat working on her latest work, 'Earth Poetica,' at the Jerusalem aquarium starting on February 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Leopold Chen)

Earth Poetica

Artist Beverly Barkat creates globe from miles of plastic waste

By Jessica Steinberg

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South African activist, lawyer, writer and a former judge appointed by Nelson Mandela to serve on the first Constitutional Court of South Africa, Albert 'Albie' Louis Sachs, poses for a portrait inside of the Constitutional Court of South Africa building in Johannesburg on February 8, 2022 (GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP)

Anti-apartheid hero Albie Sachs: South Africa isn’t fair, but people can speak out

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah attends the graduation ceremony of a batch of Libyan army cadets, in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Libyan prime minister survives assassination attempt – report

By ToI Staff and AP

Bob Saget on Dec. 8, 2021, in Los Angeles (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Bob Saget died after accidental blow to the head, family says

By AP and ToI Staff

Israelis gather at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to mark the international marijuana smoking day, in a demonstration to legalize the drug, on April 20, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Justice minister proposes further decriminalizing recreational cannabis use

Emma Saltzberg, a Jewish activist from Brooklyn (by way of Philadelphia), won nearly $60,000 on 'Jeopardy!' in February 2022. (Screenshot/ via JTA)

Interview‘Jeopardy!’ winner and left-wing Israel activist Emma Saltzberg expected online hate

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Israel Police commander Jamal Hakrush attends a Knesset event on February 5, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Report: When cop falsely said he stayed at murder scene, police didn’t probe further

View of the barrier along the Israel-Gaza border, on December 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Palestinians enter Gaza border zone and set fire to truck before running back

By Judah Ari Gross

Then-Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin at the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on March 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition bill on connecting illegal West Bank outposts to power grid shot down

Anne Frank (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Controversial Anne Frank book named ‘buyer’s pick’ by Costco

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Various spreads made with Israeli food tech startup InnovoPro's chickpea protein product. (InnovoPro)

Israeli chickpea protein startup InnovoPro pulls in new investment

By Ricky Ben-David

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