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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 17, 2022

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Right-wing activists and Likud supporters protest at Tel Aviv's Habima Square for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the Pegasus affair, on February 17, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu skips right-wing Tel Aviv rally calling for inquiry into police spy claims

Despite calling on his supporters to turn up to protest, opposition leader sends recorded video as thousands gather, saying that he cannot attend ‘for reasons I cannot get into’

7:22 pm

Sa'ar suggests 'no basis' for state inquiry into Pegasus affair
7:06 pm

MK Itamar Ben Gvir questioned by police over armed December standoff
6:51 pm

Jordan to lift COVID restrictions on international visitors

Ukrainian servicemen survey the impact areas from shells that landed close to their positions during the night on a front line outside Popasna, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, on February 14, 2022. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine, Russian-backed rebels trade accusations of shelling in potential escalation

By AFP

Ukrainian military says kindergarten was hit, accuses Russian-backed forces of ‘special cynicism’; Russian separatists claim Kyiv is escalating the conflict

Russian army tanks are loaded onto railway platforms to move back to their permanent base after drills in Russia, February 16, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

US says Russia still bolstering troops near Ukraine border, despite Moscow’s claims

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, YURAS KARMANAU and AAMER MADHANI

A Ukrainian serviceman carries an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Joint Forces Operation, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, February 15, 2022. (AP/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Israeli envoy: Russian invasion will remain a possibility until at least month’s end

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry opens consular office in western city of Lviv; Jerusalem has reportedly asked Moscow for assistance in evacuating its citizens in event of invasion

Passengers board El Al's flight from Kyiv to Tel Aviv, February 16, 2022 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookAs Israel works to get citizens out, El Al flight from Kyiv mostly empty

By Lazar Berman

A Ukrainian serviceman, seen through a camouflage mesh, stands at a frontline position in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Op-Ed

In Ukraine’s vulnerability, a reminder for Israel

One country invading another is ‘so 20th century,’ our foreign minister said. Except, as he went on to acknowledge, it’s all too plainly a threat in the here and now

Children talk with masked members of the military wing of Hamas, while marching along the streets of Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel commends Australia for ‘important step’ in declaring Hamas a terror group

By ToI Staff and AP

Bennett praises announcement as a move against global terrorism; Lapid thanks Australian envoy; Shaked lauds Canberra’s decision to be ‘on the right side of history’

Palestinian boys line up to register for a summer camp organized by Hamas's military wing, the Iz-Ad Din Al-Qassam Brigades, in Gaza City, on June 14, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Australia to designate Hamas as terror group: ‘No place for hateful ideologies’

By AFP and ToI Staff

A picture taken in January 2018 of a destroyed Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnel, leading from Gaza into Israel, near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Kissufim. (Jack Guez/AFP/POOL)

Hamas terrorist dies in Gaza tunnel collapse, latest in series of incidents

Israelis present their Green Pass vaccination certificates at the entrance of a cafe on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Clashes over funding for future strain early warning system

Ministers agree to scrap Green Pass from March 1, as PM says virus wave ‘breaking’

Bennett says time is right to ease COVID restrictions as number of seriously ill patients drops below 900; ministers to meet on travel regulations

Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on January 4, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/ Flash90)

Health Ministry recommends easing more COVID airport restrictions

A health worker prepares to give a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit Health Services center in Katzrin, Golan Heights, January 9, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

In first test outside US, Israeli hospital to trial Omicron-specific Pfizer vaccine

By Nathan Jeffay

In 1st, Israeli Navy joins huge US-led exercise; Saudi Arabia, Pakistan participate

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli, US officers hail growing cooperation between IDF and 5th Fleet; dozens of countries join IMX drill, focused on undersea warfare, including some Israel has no ties with

Israeli and American ships sail in the Red Sea during a US-led naval exercise, IMX, in February 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

'This 6th-generation American was still labeled an outsider'

The lost story of how a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s famous home – twice

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New documentary film ‘The Levys of Monticello’ shows how uncle and nephew fought antisemitism to rescue Monticello from ruin and preserve it for future generations to enjoy

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb. 17: Yiddish New Testament; virtual Chabad house; good COVID news

Health reporter Nathan Jeffay offers some rays of light from a waning Omicron wave; news editor Luke Tress dives into messianic Jewish missionaries and a virtual Chabad house

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link from a secret location through a giant screen, during a ceremony marking Prophet Muhammad's birthday, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, October 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Nasrallah said to make Iran trip to discuss response to any Israel hit on nuke sites

Hezbollah chief reportedly left secure Beirut bunker to visit Tehran, where Iranians told him they expect his Lebanese terror group to respond militarily if Israel hits facilities

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, January 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Nasrallah claims Hezbollah can turn rockets into precision weapons with Iran’s help

Illustrative: An explosion seen at the Syrian port of Latakia on December 28, 2021, after an alleged Israeli strike. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Israel said to target army base near Damascus used by Iranian forces

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a televised video conference with an audience in the city of Tabriz commemorating the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, on February 17, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei rejects ‘nonsense’ accusation Iran seeking atomic bomb

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Supreme leader insists nuclear research is for peaceful purposes to produce energy; senior Iranian negotiator at Vienna talks says parties are ‘closer than ever’

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani is seen leaving the Coburg Palais, venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) meeting aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, in Vienna, on December 3, 2021. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Iran’s top negotiator says nuclear deal ‘closer than ever’

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian speaks during a joint press conference with his Qatari counterpart in Qatar's capital Doha, on September 13, 2021. (Karim Jafaar/AFP)

France warns Iran must accept nuclear deal within days or face ‘serious crisis’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

The ongoing, alarming rise of antisemitism is terrorizing Jews in Europe

On the anniversary of Ilan Halimi’s murder, now more than ever we cannot allow the world to forget the lethal antisemitism that led to his death

Israel’s much-maligned citizenship law is fine

Rare is the country that allows unchecked immigration, even for marriage, and Israel has good reason not to want to naturalize Palestinians

Esther Hayut (L) and David Amsalem (R) (Flash90)

Sa'ar: 'The voice is Dudi but it's the hand of Bibi'

Supreme Court chief slams Likud MK for ‘poison’ remarks suggesting she is racist

By Stuart Winer

Hayut pens open letter to Amsalem rejecting accusation of bias against Sephardic Jews; Amsalem calls her response ‘nonsense’; Netanyahu: Amsalem’s words are ‘unacceptable’

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

Prosecutors say one witness in Netanyahu case spied on, but no reason to delay trial

Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting, in the Knesset on October 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Ra’am is toying with us’: 3 opposition bills advance amid Islamist party’s boycott

Outrage after Bulgarian politician gives Nazi salute in European Parliament

By AFP

President of bloc body says fascist gesture by nationalist Angel Dzhambazki ‘offends me and everyone else in Europe’; lawmaker may face sanctions

Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki makes a Nazi salute after addressing the European Parliament, February 17, 2022. (Screengrab/YouTube)

Illustrative: In this June 19, 1938, picture, the word Jude (Jew) is smeared on the windows of a shop in Berlin run by Jews. (AP Photo, FILE)

German dictionary changes ‘Jew’ definition after outcry over tie to Nazi use of word

By Kirsten Grieshaber

The University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Courtesy of the University of Amsterdam)

Dutch universities halt compliance with request for info on Jewish, Israel ties

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt and his wife, journalist Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, announced the name of their new congregation via social media on Feb. 16. (Screenshot from Instagram via JTA)

Rabbi ousted from Park East Synagogue announces new Manhattan congregation

By julia GERGELY

A protester at a demonstration against the high cost of living at Habima Square, in Tel Aviv, February 16, 2022. Poster read 'And what of our future???' (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against rising cost of living

Rally organizer Guy Lerer, host of current affairs show, says public ‘crying out’ and taking to the streets over skyrocketing prices; boxes of basic foodstuffs distributed at event

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on July 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli economy grew by 8.1% last year, surpassing all forecasts

By Tobias Siegal

Illustrative: The entrance to Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in the center of Tel Aviv, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Fitch affirms Israel’s A+ rating, citing strong 2021 economic performance

By Ricky Ben-David

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Jerusalem on February 17, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Bennett presses Pelosi on Iron Dome funding, thanks her for support

At Jerusalem meeting, pair discusses challenges facing Jewish state, including Iran; Pelosi had told Herzog that Congress likely to fund missile defense system as soon as March

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem on February 16, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Herzog hosts Pelosi in Jerusalem with widow of Israeli poet she quoted to Congress

Jamaal Bowman speaks during his primary-night party, June 23, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/ Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

NY Rep. Bowman withdraws support for bill to promote Abraham Accords

For design couple, quirky and clever creations all hinge on a tiny detail

By Jessica Steinberg

Adi Azar and Yotam Shifroni of Studio Knob present Tarantino-approved Perspex-carved light fixtures, desk-size rocking horses and upcycled products at Holon design exhibit

More Headlines

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and then-Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 24, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Honduran ex-president reportedly asked Israel to help prevent his extradition to US

Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni, Shimon Matalon, Elazar Mordechai Goldberg, Moshe Bergman and Daniel Morris; 5th row (L-R): Ariel Achdut, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Hanoch Slod, Yedidya Fogel, Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Moshe Tzarfati, Nahman Kirshbaum and Eliyahu Cohen.

Group that oversaw last year’s Meron festival, where 45 died, tapped to run it again

This January 2, 2022 photo provided by OurCalling, LLC shows Malik Faisal Akram, at a Dallas homeless shelter. (OurCalling, LLC via AP)

FBI says Texas synagogue hostage-taker tried to buy ‘machine gun’ and drugs

By Jake Bleiberg

Illustrative: Students walk to their classrooms at a public middle school in Los Angeles, California, Sept. 10, 2021. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Florida dad arrested after threatening to burn down Jewish school over mask policy

Moshe Hajbi. (Curtesy)

Man collapses, dies during driving test in southern Israel; tester tried to save him

Kathryn Kates was known for her role as the bakery clerk who perpetually disappointed Jerry Seinfeld. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Kathryn Kates, famed for her babka and rye scenes in ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 73

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