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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 20, 2022

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Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

PM: New, weaker deal would allow Iran to build stadiums of centrifuges in 2.5 years

Bennett says Israel will maintain its citizens’ security, and is getting ready for ‘day after’ the agreement; says Iran will use financial gain from deal to fund regional terror

Defense Minister Benny Gantz meets with US Vice President Kamala Harris during the Munich Security Conference, on February 19, 2022. (Courtesy/Defense Ministry)

Gantz to Kamala Harris: Iran nuke deal must include ‘consistent enforcement’ by IAEA

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Screen capture from video of Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian during an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, on Febraury 20, 2022. (Twitter)

Iran ‘very optimistic’ about nuke deal, but says West and US to blame if talks fail

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Ukrainian serviceman points to the direction of the incoming shelling next to a building which was hit by a large caliber mortar shell in the frontline village of Krymske, Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, Feb. 19, 2022 (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Russia is planning ‘biggest war in Europe since 1945,’ says UK’s Johnson

By ToI Staff and Agencies

British PM warns of potential ‘sheer cost in human life’; Zelensky proposes meeting with Russia leader; Putin, Macron to speak; Germany, Austria tell citizens to leave Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on February 19, 2022. (AP/Michael Probst)

‘What are you waiting for?’ Zelensky slams world’s ‘appeasement’; asks Putin to meet

By Jim Heintz, Dasha Litvinova and Lori Hinnant

Ukraine's interior minister and soldiers duck for cover outside Novoluganske, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, on February 19, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Ukraine minister takes cover from mortars as frontline with rebel-held area heats up

By Thibaut MARCHAND

People carry their belongings as they cross the Russian border check point in the region of Avilo-Uspenka, on February 19, 2022. (Andrey BORODULIN / AFP)

Live updates (closed

Israeli envoys in Ukraine border countries prepare for potential land evacuation

Diplomats stationed in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova visit border crossings to lay the groundwork to help Israelis and Ukrainian Jews flee potential war

7:25 pm

Netanyahu trial hearings canceled for the week after judge tests positive for COVID
7:00 pm

Sudanese man shot dead during anti-coup protests, say medics
6:34 pm

Iranian teachers hold protests over their salaries in more than 100 cities

The Church of the Russian Ascension, towering over the Mount of Olives, dates back to Helena, the mother of Byzantine emperor Constantine. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

ExclusiveWatchdogs warn against 'settler effort to encircle Old City'

In 1st, Israel advancing plan to expand national park onto E. Jerusalem church lands

Visiting US lawmakers raise concern with PM about move slated to clear preliminary hurdle next month; church leaders blast plan to ‘nationalize one of Christianity’s holiest sites’

Israeli hit comedy The New Black streams exclusively on ChaiFlicks.

Watch free episodes of the award-winning Israeli comedy with English subtitles.

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb. 20: Eerie calm in Kyiv; Israel sounds alarm over Lebanese drones

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses Ukraine and Turkey and military affairs reporter Judah Ari Gross looks at UAVs over Israel and talks to the Conference of Presidents

With Pegasus, we’re approaching democracy’s point of no return

The reported use of this extreme and invasive spyware is a violation of basic human rights – and before being used on Israelis, it was tested on Palestinians

What Smotrich got right: The Conversion Bill and Diaspora Jewry

New legislation would redefine who gets to decide ’who is a Jew’ – and while the law would apply only to Israelis, it would have implications for world Jewry

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at the Munich Security Conference on February 20, 2022. (Munich Security Conference)

Gantz warns of Iranian drones, says any new nuke deal must be enforced and built on

By Judah Ari Gross

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, defense minister also issues stern warning to Hezbollah after its UAVs penetrate Israeli airspace

An Iran-made drone is launched during a military drill in Jask port, southern Iran, in this picture released by Jamejam Online, on December 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Jamejam Online, Chavosh Homavandi, File)

Israel, neighbors weighing pact to defend against threat of suicide drones — TV

Foreign Ministry issues fresh call for Israelis in Ukraine to leave immediately

‘An eruption [of war] will be quick and severe,’ ministry says, amid growing Western warnings that Russia may soon launch invasion; Israeli embassy in Kyiv kept open for now

A Ukrainian soldier looks at a hole from a shell fired by pro-Russian separatists in the village of Novoluhanske, Luhansk region, Ukraine, on February 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

A satellite photo provided by ImageSat international (ISI) shows Russian military building in the annexed Crimean Peninsula, on February 19, 2022. (Courtesy of ISI)

Israeli satellite images show rapid Russian military buildup in Crimea

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Ukrainian service member listens to artillery shots standing in a trench on a position at the line of separation between Ukraine-held territory and rebel-held territory near Zolote, Ukraine, Feb. 19, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Intense shelling along Ukraine dividing line as Belarus says Russian forces to stay

France’s Macron phones Putin in last-ditch effort to stave off open conflict; European Council chief warns West can’t keep offering ‘olive branch’ to saber-rattling Moscow

A Ukrainian soldier enters a shelter near the line of separation between Ukraine-held territory and rebel-held territory near Zolote, Ukraine, February 19, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Europe on the brinkObservers report 1,500 ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine as thousands flee

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of a man who entered the crocodile enclosure at the Ramat Gan Safari, Febrauary 17, 2022. (Twitter)

Risking a snap

Selfie-seeker enters crocodile enclosure at Ramat Gan zoo

By Stuart Winer

Safari park says it filed a police complaint about man seen in video posing with the toothy reptiles

Hummus in space

28 chickpeas launched to ISS for Israeli-led ‘space hummus’ experiment

By ToI Staff and JTA

Legumes will be delivered in a mini-greenhouse to the International Space Station to check if they can grow in a zero-gravity environment

High-voltage pylons erected in Hulda Forest in the 1990s, alongside which an additional line of pylons and cables are to be put up. (Gezer Regional Council)

Electric company plans high-voltage cable, pylons in Israel’s oldest planted forest

Screen capture from video of a man using an orange recycling bin. (Twitter)

Orange recycling bins to finally debut in Jerusalem, city promises

'He's magnanimous on Jewish issues to seem more humane'

Under Erdoğan, Turkish authorities are leading a revival of Jewish heritage

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Some say the cultural rejuvenation is an act by the president to cover his inherent antisemitism, while others say it represents a genuine interest in the community’s past

Amid possible thaw in Turkey ties, Herzog announces visits to Greece, Cyprus

By Lazar Berman

Israelis wear protective face masks in Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv, on September 13, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

As virus cases continue to tumble, official says indoor face masks may be scrapped

Daily caseload lowest in over a month and a half, number of hospitalized patients down; senior Health Ministry official says mask requirement could end by Passover in mid-April

Queen Elizabeth II speaks during an audience at Windsor Castle where she met the incoming and outgoing Defense Service Secretaries, Feb. 16, 2022. (Steve Parsons, Pool via AP)

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II tests positive for coronavirus, but symptoms ‘mild’

Shoppers walk down Oxford Street, Europe's busiest shopping street, in London, Dec. 23, 2021 (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

UK to end isolation for those who test positive for virus, scrap all restrictions

By Jill Lawless

Beijing 2022

Israel wraps up Winter Olympics without medals, but with new achievements

Skier Barnabas Szollos makes history for Israel in his Olympic debut, while figure skating veteran Evgeni Krasnopolski decides to hang up his skates following his third Games

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Journalist who broke police spyware story defends reporting amid growing doubts

Jean-Luc Brunel. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Epstein-linked modeling agent found dead in French jail cell

By Guillaume DAUDIN

Photographers take photos near to the artwork Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1986, during a photocall for artworks from the Macklowe Collection at Sotheby's, prior to the collection being offered at auction in New York, in London, on February 18, 2022. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

2nd batch of art treasures from bitter divorce to hit auction block in NY

By AP

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 7, 2022.(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Amid criticism from some ministers, cabinet okays bill to slowly raise minimum wage

Labor MK Emilie Moatti in the Knesset, on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor MK claims progress in prisoner swap talks with Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian

An AK-type assault rifle and a bottle of flammable liquid is seized by officers in northern Israel, on February 19, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police arrest 5 allegedly on their way to commit murder in northern Arab village

By Emanuel Fabian

Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum of Dubai in a video aired by the BBC, on February 16, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Year after ‘hostage’ video, Dubai princess assures UN she is well

By Agnès PEDRERO

Illustrative: IDF soldiers near the West Bank city of Nablus, on February 18, 2022. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Shots said fired at IDF post in northern West Bank, no injuries reported

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