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What Matters Most On Friday, January 27, 2023

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Palestinians gather in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount before the Friday noon prayer in Jerusalem on January 27, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for rocket fire

Tense calm in Jerusalem, Gaza border after a night of rocket fire, Air Force strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Schools in border communities given go-ahead to open normally in a sign that both sides seem intent on avoiding a major escalation; Friday prayers at Temple Mount subdued

Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launched airstrikes following rocket fire aimed at Israel from the Hamas-run Strip early on January 27, 2023. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

Gazans fire rockets at south as Israeli jets hit Strip in retaliatory strike

By Emanuel Fabian

A long exposure shows a light trail from a projectile fired from Gaza City at Israel as the IDF launched air strikes on the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave early on January 27, 2023. (Mohammed Abed / AFP)

2 rockets fired from Gaza intercepted over south after deadly West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, attends a Christmas midnight Mass in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, December 25, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/Pool Photo via AP)

PA announces halt to security coordination with Israel; US cautions against move

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Biden administration says security ties should deepen; previous Palestinian moves to suspend coordination have been short-lived

CIA Director William Burns listens during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 14, 2021. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP, File)

Amid escalation, CIA chief said visiting Israel, West Bank

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference at the State Department, January 17, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US ‘working the phones’ as Israel-Palestinian ties take hit ahead of Blinken trip

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with the cabinet via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on January 24, 2023 (Mikhail Klimentyev / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Putin blasts ‘neo-Nazis’ in Ukraine on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By AFP

Russian leader says ‘forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies’ as he continues to compare war against Hitler with current conflict

People walk next to the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) gate at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2023 (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Auschwitz liberation marked without Russia, as European peace again shattered by war

By Vanessa Gera

Fredy Hirsch, a gay German Jew who saved children in the Holocaust, is seen smiling in an undated photograph. (Beit Terezin Archive)

'The most moving screening I've ever had'

An Israeli city nixed an LGBTQ Holocaust docu showing; residents screened it instead

By Judah Ari Gross

Harish was meant to show ‘Dear Fredy,’ the story of an openly gay Jewish man who saved kids in Auschwitz, for Holocaust Remembrance Day, but called it off due to Haredi objections

In a first, German parliament spotlights Nazis’ LGBTQ victims

By Deborah Cole

A magnified image of the new 'nano needles' invented by scientists at Ben Gurion University in a bid to overcome antibotic resistance. (Courtesy/Ariel Kushmaro)

Antibiotic resistance a major threat to global health

Israeli find shown to combat antibiotic resistance by ‘pricking bacteria to death’

By Nathan Jeffay

Ben Gurion University scientists develop substance containing ‘nano needles’ that lab tests indicate can overpower 90% of superbugs by physically destroying the pathogen

File: A nurse prepares a vaccine at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

FDA adviser: Israel’s fast actions, big data, gave US a ‘window to future of COVID’

By Nathan Jeffay

German lawmaker: We're so nearby, but nobody comes here

At concentration camp once used for Nazi propaganda, European Jews fight ‘fake news’

By Yaakov Schwartz

Ahead of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an EJA delegation gathers at Theresienstadt to honor the victims and stop the spread of antisemitic misinformation

Marseille determined to remember ‘forgotten’ WWII roundups of Jews

By Sandra Laffont and Coline DACLIN

MK Almog Cohen (L) at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 22, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

After IDF raid, far-right MK suspended from Twitter for call to ‘keep killing them’

Almog Cohen of the Otzma Yehudit party was praising IDF for operation in Jenin in which 9 Palestinians were killed, says it’s clear he was referring to terrorists, not bystanders

Israeli forces fire tear gas to disperse Palestinian demonstrators during clashes near Ramallah on January 26, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

UN Security Council to hold emergency meet following lethal Jenin sweep

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

A man fires his gun into the air as Palestinians carry the body of one of the 9 reported victims killed during an Israeli raid on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, as they begin his funeral procession in the city of the same name on January 26, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

UN envoy ‘alarmed’ after deadly Jenin raid; PA calls for international intervention

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bank chiefs, tech leaders, El Al, Mobileye heads participate

Israeli business leaders warn US envoy legal overhaul could spell ‘end’ of democracy

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides met on Thursday with over a dozen leading Israeli business and tech executives, most of whom warned him that the Netanyahu government's planned overhaul of the judicial system would likely harm Israel’s economy, according to an Israeli TV report. The meeting included... Continue Reading

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem on December 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli startup GreenOnyx showcases fully-automated technological platform for growing fresh green vegetables. (Courtesy)

Agriculture 4.0: Israeli startup sets up smart urban farm for fresh green superfood

By Sharon Wrobel

MK Yuli Edelstein attends a Likud party meeting at the Knesset on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s Edelstein says judicial overhaul won’t pass without compromise

Netanyahu ally/rival cites past experience in predicting that sides will back off stubborn positions, negotiating plan that will win wide purchase beyond just 64-MK ruling majority

Illustrative: Israeli singer Shlomo Artzi sings in front of President Shimon Peres (C) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former US President Bill Clinton (L) at a celebration in honor of Peres's 90th birthday, in Jerusalem, June 18, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Leading music stars join protest against government plan to shut public broadcaster

In first media appearances since firing, Deri pledges to return to government office

Shas leader Aryeh Deri said Thursday that he intends to return to the government soon, making the declaration during his first series of interviews since he was fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday after the High Court of Justice ruled last week that the recently convicted lawmaker could not serve... Continue Reading

Shas leader Aryeh Deri outside his home in Jerusalem on January 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From right, MK Ze'ev Elkin, One Million Lobby CEO Alex Rif, manager of the alternative Orthodox conversion program Giyur K'Halacha Yael Belenky, Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu, Afula Chief Rabbi Shmuel David and journalist Yair Sherki discuss the Law of Return at a conference in Ramat Gan on January 25, 2023. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Even among its advocates, changing the Law of Return proves trickier than expected

By Judah Ari Gross

Lobbying group for Russian-speaking Israelis holds fierce debate on cutting the ‘grandchild clause,’ with all sides acknowledging that it won’t happen fast

Douglas Emhoff and Deborah Lipstadt

We’re visiting Auschwitz because ugly antisemitism is acceptable again

We must condemn antisemites and call out those who do not, for silence in the face of this evil allows the malicious hatred to grow

Freedom, or why we need Hasidic teachings

Liberate yourself from expending energy to avoid prohibited actions, negative thoughts, destructive desires, and a constant state of self-denial (Bo)

'Holocaust Namenmonument' founder Jacques Grishaver at the memorial, Amsterdam, December 27, 2022 (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

'I did this to bring back all the names'

Dutch Holocaust survivor, memorial founder Jacques Grishaver to address UN

By Matt Lebovic

Founder of acclaimed ‘Namenmonument’ in Amsterdam will deliver remarks for International Holocaust Remembrance Day in New York on January 27

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons at the United Nations in New York, January 26, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

UN chief Guterres visits 'Book of Names' installation

Kiss frontman Simmons wants to rock Holocaust memorials with Never Again concert

Music icon, whose mother survived Nazi death camps, says at ‘boring’ UN commemoration that Jewish community needs to get more groups involved in remembrance activities

Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, center, and Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, far right, look at the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

UN chief: Exhibit of book of names of Nazi victims is call to fight cruelty

By Edith M. Lederer

Curator Tali Sharvit (from left) with artist Zohar Gotesman and co-curator Sally Haftel Naveh clown around next to the first of seven contemporary art sculptures inspired by the Israel Museum's archaeology wing. (© Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Zohar Shemesh)

Times Will Tell Podcast

Podcast: At the Israel Museum, touring 7 new wonders of the ancient world

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Hear our host find spots on the treasure map that is the new archaeologically inspired exhibit Disrupted Layer, and match her impressions with the artist’s intentions

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (R) shakes hands with President Isaac Herzog prior to their meeting at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on January 26, 2023. (Photo by John Thys/AFP)

Pointing to Ukraine war, Herzog urges ‘strongest possible’ NATO stance against Iran

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Briefing alliance in Brussels, president avoids explicitly condemning Russia, but warns of Iran’s threat on Europe’s doorstep as Tehran transfers drones to Moscow to aid war effort

Israeli and American fighter jets fly alongside an American B-52 bomber over the Mediterranean Sea during the Juniper Oak 2023 drill, January 25, 2023. (CENTCOM)

Israel, US wrap up largest-ever joint drill in message to Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

Police stand guard in front of the Azerbaijan embassy in Tehran, January 27, 2023, following an attack by a man armed with a Kalashnikov rifle who shot dead an official in charge of security at Azerbaijan's embassy in Tehran. (Photo by AFP)

Gunman kills security chief at Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran

By Jon Gambrell

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Israeli doughnuts sold at the Roladin bakery outside the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, on December 7, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

London gets a taste of Roladin with new gourmet doughnut shop in city center

By Danielle Nagler

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People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Chemical weapons watchdog blames Syria’s air force for deadly 2018 chlorine attack

Kiryat Yovel, April 2022. (By Bar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124376597)

Jerusalem moves forward with urban renewal plans in key neighborhoods

By Danielle Nagler

Anti-government protesters scuffle with riot police outside the Ministry of Justice, in Beirut, Lebanon on January 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Anger soars in Beirut after prosecutor orders release of all suspects in port blast

By FADI TAWIL and Kareem Chehayeb

Illustrative. A view of Haifa's Hadar Hacarmel neighborhood and downtown area in northern Israel, on May 28, 2022. (RnDmS via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

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