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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 5, 2022

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An Israeli man receives a second booster of the COVID-19 vaccine in Modi'in, on January 6, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli data shows 4th vaccine dose improves COVID protection for older people

By Joshua Davidovich

Additional vaccination shot helps protect against severe disease for individuals over 60, gives limited defense against infection, new research says

10:23 pm

4th vaccine dose protects against severe COVID in people over 60, Israeli data shows
8:51 pm

Police detain 6 during 4th night in a row of clashes at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate
7:32 pm

Russia's Lavrov says claims of Bucha killings aim to 'torpedo' Ukraine talks

A dead body lies on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022 (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Labor MKs urge option of joining Russia sanctions amid alleged massacres in Ukraine

Lawmakers cite Bucha killings, say there’s ‘no two sides,’ in apparent rebuke of Liberman’s equivocation; senior Kyiv officials reportedly in Israel to discuss refugees, sanctions

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, with microphone, speaking to staff of Israel's field hospital near Lviv, Ukraine on April 4, 2022, in a handout photo provided by the Health Ministry. (Sharon Yaniv/Health Ministry)

On visit to Israeli field hospital in Ukraine, Horowitz blasts Russian ‘war crimes’

President Isaac Herzog speaks in Jerusalem, March 7, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Herzog said to pardon jailed Ukrainian man who wants to go home to fight

This handout satellite image released by Maxar Technologies shows a view of Yablonska Street in Bucha, Ukraine, on March 19, 2022, when bodies of civilians were on the street and found by Ukrainian officials weeks later when Russian forces withdrew. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies/AFP)

Refuting Moscow’s claim, satellite images show bodies were in Bucha for weeks

By AFP

Analysis of aerial close-ups indicates corpses lay in war-torn town for at least three weeks, while Russia continues to insist they appeared after its forces withdrew

Motyzhyn Mayor Olga Sukhenko (left), her son Alexander and her husband Igor. (screenshot)

Ukraine village mayor, 4 others found dead with hands tied behind their backs

By AFP

Tanya Nedashkivs'ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband, killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

UN says signs point to civilians being ‘targeted’ in Bucha

By AFP

Fidaa Kiwan. (Courtesy)

UAE sentences Israeli woman to death over half-kilo of cocaine

Fidaa Kiwan, arrested in March 2021, claims drugs did not belong to her; officials anticipate reduction in punishment after appeal

Indispensable Companion to Torah Scrolls and Tikkun Kor’im

Easily find upcoming Shabbat Parashahs. Confidently know where the Scroll is rolled to. Published by Mosaica Press.

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing April 5: Anti-Zionism, antisemitism brewing in US

US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses settlements and a Chicago synagogue’s new core value; New York reporter Luke Tress reviews a pro-Palestinian rally and antisemitic attacks

President Volodymyr Zelensky, center, walks in the town of Bucha, just northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 4, 2022. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Visiting Bucha, Zelensky says atrocities proof of Russian genocide

Ukrainian troops walk past a body, following fighting against Russian forces and Russia-backed separatists near the village of Zolote, Lugansk region, March 6, 2022. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP)

After Russians retreat from Kyiv area, Ukraine’s east girds for major assault

By AFP and ToI Staff

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on December 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Sanctions-hit Abramovich is a surprise mediator in Russia-Ukraine talks

By Stuart Williams

Maintaining contacts on both sides, the Russian-Israeli tycoon has their blessing in ‘ensuring certain contacts’ between the warring factions; sanctions have cost him $7 billion

Members of Congress give Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a standing ovation before he speaks in a virtual address to Congress in the US Capitol Visitors Center Congressional Auditorium in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Zelensky to address Security Council as evidence grows of Russia’s civilian killings

Brooklyn Nets former owner Mikhail Prokhorov, of Russia, holds a news conference before an NBA basketball game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Brooklyn Nets in New York, April 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Russian billionaire Prokhorov said to receive Israeli citizenship

Jeremy Cohen, a French Jew, who was killed after being hit by a train, apparently while trying to escape an antisemitic attack near Paris in February. (Courtesy)

French Jew killed by tram likely a target of antisemitic attack, family says

By Tobias Siegal and JTA

Jeremy Cohen, 31, died two months ago in what police deemed a traffic accident; new video released by his family suggests the incident was triggered by a mob assault

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, alongside military and local security forces in the settlement of Avnei Hefetz in the northern West Bank, April 5, 2022. (Samaria Regional Council )

Northern West Bank settlement comes under gunfire, in latest in series of attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Members of the Zaka voluntary organization are seen at the scene of an attack in Hadera, March 27, 2022 (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Police ask Gantz not to return terrorists’ bodies; Shin Bet, IDF disagree – report

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas said to have stopped Islamic Jihad from firing rockets to avenge dead members

IDF soldiers are seen operating in the West Bank, in an image published by the military on April 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

At least 10 terror attacks foiled in past two weeks, IDF chief says

By Emanuel Fabian

Military head says ‘This is the IDF’s main mission at the moment,’ amid string of deadly attacks, West Bank gun battles with terror suspects

Israeli border police officers detain a protester during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

14 said arrested in Jerusalem over past 3 days for alleged attack plans, incitement

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A young Israeli holds a tear gas gun he just bought in a Jerusalem store for self-protection (File photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After terror attacks, poll finds bleak security outlook among Israelis

Illustrative: A woman stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinic Court. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

In rare ruling, rabbis uphold woman’s divorce, but deem her ex still married

By Judah Ari Gross

After a ‘chained’ woman’s ex-husband claims he deliberately botched divorce ritual, rabbinic court say she’s still single, but he must issue another ‘get’ if he wants to remarry

Konstanty Gebert

For a Polish Jew like me, the war on Ukraine is about our shared futures

Given the history of antisemitism, it is legitimate to be skeptical, but it’s clear to me that resistance to Russia is a shared fight for freedom

Aileen Weintraub

I could never cover my wild hair

I was becoming Orthodox, but when I realized that I needed my curls to stay free, I lost my best friend – and gained a husband

A Jewish family from Kharkiv and their chihuahua on the bus organized by Israel's Ukraine embassy to take citizens from Lviv to Poland, March 11, 2022 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

'All they have left is me, the dog, and the hamsters'

Refugee’s best friend: As Ukrainians flee war, dogs, cats and other pets come too

By Lazar Berman and Sue Surkes

Many Ukrainians are refusing to leave their beloved animals behind, bringing four-legged companions with them on cramped, harrowing journeys to safety

A doctor prepares a chemotherapy drug (iStock via Getty Images)

Israeli 2-in-1 cancer drug shows promise in boosting chemo and immunotherapy

By Nathan Jeffay

Encouraging results seen in mice study for world’s first RNA-based drug of its kind; it helps chemotherapy attack tumors and assists immunotherapy in strengthening immune system

People on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on January 2, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top health official says Israel heading toward ‘normalization’ with COVID-19

Israel-UK researchers to map whales, dolphins in area set for oil, gas exploration

Species in little-explored section of deep sea will be documented by scientists from Greenpeace and University of Haifa using visual, acoustic equipment

Greenpeace International's newest sailing boat, Witness, arrives at the Ashkelon marina in southern Israel on March 31, 2022. (Dor Nevo)

In this photo provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife, a Dixie Valley toad sits atop grass in Dixie Valley, Nev., on April 6, 2009. The US Fish and Wildlife Service temporarily listed a rare northern Nevada toad as endangered on an emergency basis partly because of threats a geothermal plant in the works poses to its habitat in the only place its known to live in the world about 100 miles east of Reno. (Matt Maples/Nevada Department of Wildlife via AP, File)

Nevada toad declared endangered at site of Israeli-owned geothermal plant

By SCOTT SONNER

Coalition whip MK Idit Silman (L) and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz attend a press conference at the Knesset, October 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

With hametz brouhaha, some see bread and circuses rather than coalition clash

Attacking Health Minister regarding Passover food in hospitals, coalition whip Idit Silman seems to be attempting to mollify the traditional party’s base and not start a fight

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (center), Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and Jerusalem District Commander Doron Turgeman at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, April 3, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Gantz pans Lapid’s ‘provocative’ Damascus Gate tour, in fresh coalition tiff

Jewish youth collect books in the Kaunas Ghetto, 1942 (Yad Vashem)

How 80 years ago, Jewish teens rescued the Kaunas Ghetto’s holy books

By Matt Lebovic

In the Nazis’ Feb. 1942 ‘Books Aktion,’ Jews were ordered to hand over all books. Now, the history of resistance efforts that saved countless works is in danger of being forgotten

Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman at a rehearsal for their musical 'Harmony' in New York City. (Julieta Cervantes/ via JTA)

Interview

Iconic singer Barry Manilow dishes on bringing his Nazi-era musical to NYC

With a new production of ‘Harmony’ opening April 14, Manilow and his writing partner Bruce Sussman discuss the show’s – and their – Jewish roots, along with their legendary careers

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Wind turbines stand in front of the rising sun in Frankfurt, Germany, March 11, 2022. (AP/Michael Probst, File)

UN report warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’

By Frank Jordans and Seth Borenstein

Illustrative: View of the Hukok Beach, Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, as rain begins to fall, on December 18, 2021. (Tzachi Gavish/Kinneret Cities Association)

Sea of Galilee nears maximum capacity for first time in 30 years

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, February 19, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/File)

In victory speech, Orban says he beat Soros, Zelensky; Netanyahu congratulates him

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)

US, Iran trade blame over impasse holding up signing of nuclear deal

By AFP

Shlomo Filber, former director general of the Communications Ministry, at a court hearing in the trial of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on April 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial prosecutors question state witness Filber over changes in testimony

Israeli analog astronauts on their mission on the D-MARS Project on February 18, 2018. (AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Negev space sim center becomes Mars for new Israeli-German teen show

By Jessica Steinberg

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at an event in Detroit, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya/File)

Former Israeli envoy to US Dermer joins Jerusalem investment firm Exigent Capital

Salah Hamouri. (Wikimedia Commons/Alain Bachellier)

Detained Palestinian lawyer sues Pegasus spyware maker NSO in France

By AFP

The chair and the teacup from the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue hostage crisis will be entering the American Jewish history museum in Philadelphia. (Images courtesy of Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and Emil Lippe/Getty Images; Photo illustration by Mollie Suss)

Seat of historyThe chair a Texas rabbi threw at his captor is headed to a museum

By Andrew Lapin

Madison Cawthorn speaks at an American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) event on Capitol Hill, March 30, 2022. (Eliau Piha/American Friends of Lubavitch Chabad/via JTA)

US Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who’s riled Jews and others, quotes Torah at Chabad event

A still from 'The United States of Elie Tahari,' directed by David Serero (left). (Courtesy/ via JTA)

InterviewThe New York Sephardic Film Festival returns this year

By julia GERGELY

Actor June Brown as Dot Cotton on 'EastEnders' (screenshot/used under clause 27a of the copyright law)

June Brown, ‘EastEnders’ icon Dot Cotton, dies at 95

By Jill Lawless

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