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ISRAELBRIEFS More COVID Cases Diagnosed in Israel in
January Than in All of 2021
MORE COVID-19 CASES were identified in Israel
this January than in all of 2021, The Times of Israel
reported, citing a Coronavirus National Information
and Knowledge Center report.

The report said 960,500 coronavirus cases were
identified during 2021, while through Jan. 26, more
than 1.16 million tested positive.

The increase was attributed to the omicron variant.

On Jan. 26 alone, 67,723 new cases were recorded,
with a positivity rate of 24.58%.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Israel
topped 3 million on Feb. 2, The Jerusalem Post
reported. As of Feb. 3, the nation’s death toll since the
pandemic’s start was 9,013.

China Surpasses United States as Israel’s
Largest Import Source
China became Israel’s largest importer in 2021,
surpassing the United States, according to data
released by Israel’s National Bureau of Statistics, JTA
reported. Israel imported $10.7 billion in goods from
China in 2021, compared with $7.7 billion a year
earlier. Israel also had a $6.6 billion trade deficit
with China.

Imports from the U.S. totaled 8.2 billion. The U.S.

did remain Israel’s largest destination for exports.

Israel recently vowed to keep the Biden admin-
istration in the loop on any major trade deals with
China to defuse increasing tensions. Haaretz reported
that the U.S. hadn’t made explicit demands, but
Israeli officials were discussing the state’s policy
toward China.

Both the Biden and the Trump administrations
have expressed concerns about the warming relation-
ship between Israel and China — as the latter’s ties
with Europe and the U.S. have soured.

El Al to buy Arkia
El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. said it signed a nonbinding
memorandum of understanding to buy all of the
shares of Arkia Israeli Airlines Ltd. in exchange for
10% of its own equity, Globes reported.

Options could bring that allocation up to 14%.

Arkia’s employees, who hold a 30% stake in the
company, must approve the agreement, as must the
Israel Competition Authority.

Under the arrangement, Arkia will continue to
operate as a separate brand — likely as the low-cost
arm of El Al — with its own staff. The deal values
Arkia at between $26.6 million and $37.6 million.

1.5 Million-Year-Old Bone Identified in Israel
International researchers discovered a vertebra from
a hominin species dating to 1.5 million years ago
that lived in the Jordan Valley, The Times of Israel
reported. The bone is from a child aged 6-12 who was tall
for his age and offers the most-ancient evidence of
humans living in Israel – along with the second-
oldest human remains found outside of Africa.

The vertebra was discovered while Israeli and U.S.

researchers examined fossils from previous excava-
tions kept at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

They identified it as a human lumbar vertebra, from
the lower back.

Scientific Reports journal said the findings offer
clues that multiple waves of hominin (consisting of
modern humans, extinct human species and our
immediate ancestors) left Africa. The first wave
occurred about 2 million years ago. l
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NEWSBRIEFS Son of a Jewish Judge Pleads Guilty to
Jan. 6 Charges
AARON MOSTOFSKY, a Jewish judge’s son
who wore fur pelts and a bulletproof vest when
he entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,
pleaded guilty to several charges in a federal
court on Feb. 2, JTA reported.

Mostofsky pleaded guilty to civil disorder,
theft of government property and entering and
remaining in a restricted building.

Because the civil disorder charge is a felony,
Mostofsky faces up to five years in prison,
although many of the 200 or so people convicted
so far in the insurrection received minimal
sentences. He will be sentenced in May.

Mostofsky is the son of Steven (Shlomo)
Mostofsky, a Kings County (Brooklyn) Supreme
Court Judge and former president of the
National Council of Young Israel, an Orthodox
synagogue association.

outbreak of World War II. Both of his parents
were killed in the Holocaust.

After arriving in the United States, Kohn
earned a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University
and taught physics at the University of California’s
Santa Barbara and San Diego campuses.

Dutch Publisher Stops Printing
Controversial Anne Frank Book
Amsterdam-based publishing house Ambo
Anthos, which printed the Dutch-language
translation of a controversial book alleging
that a Jew betrayed Anne Frank, apologized for
not reviewing the material more critically and
ceased printing new copies of it, JTA reported.

“The Betrayal of Anne Frank” by Canadian
author Rosemary Sullivan hypothesizes that the
teenage diarist and her family were turned over
to the Nazis by Arnold van den Bergh. He was a
notary and a member of the Jewish Council, which
the Nazis established to better control Dutch Jews.

Whoopi Goldberg Suspended for
Since its publication, several critics, including
Holocaust Comments
well-known historians who specialize in the
ABC suspended Whoopi Goldberg as co-host Frank family’s history, said the probe’s conclu-
of “The View” morning TV talk show for two sion was inconclusive and irresponsible.

weeks amid criticism of Goldberg’s characteri-
zation of the Holocaust, JTA reported.

Feds to Probe Harassment Complaints by
ABC News President Kim Godwin Jewish Students at Brooklyn College
announced the action on Feb. 1, hours after A federal investigation was launched into
the Anti-Defamation League that had criticized complaints by Jewish students at Brooklyn
Goldberg had welcomed her apology for saying College who said they were subjected to “severe
the Holocaust “isn’t about race.”
and persistent harassment” in the Mental Health
Goldberg’s initial comments came during Counseling master’s program, JTA reported.

a segment about a Tennessee school board’s
The Department of Education’s Office for
decision to remove “Maus,” the classic Art Civil Rights last week informed the Louis D.

Spiegelman graphic memoir, from its eighth- Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law,
grade curriculum. Goldberg described the which prepared the complaint, that it opened
Holocaust as reflecting not racism’s toxic conse- the probe.

quences, but “man’s inhumanity to man.”
The students allege they were “bullied and
“I should have said it was about both” race and harassed in class discussions and on social
inhumanity, Goldberg said. “I stand corrected.” media by student peers, who target Jewish
students using the same ethnic stereotypes,
Nobel Prize Won by Man Saved by
anti-Semitic tropes and divisive concepts that
Kindertransport Sells for $457K
faculty members promote in their courses.”
A Nobel Prize in chemistry won by a man saved
from the Holocaust by the Kindertransport sold Sixteen Orthodox Yeshiva Teachers in
at auction for $457,531, JTA reported.

France Arrested Over Student Conditions
Walter Kohn received the award in 1998 French police raided an Orthodox Jewish boarding
for his development of the density-functional school near Paris, arresting 16 teachers for alleged
theory. He died in 2016.

child abuse and placing dozens of teenaged boys
Kohn was born to Jewish parents in Vienna temporarily under state custody, JTA reported.

in 1923. When the Nazis invaded Austria in
Police began investigating Beth Yossef in July
1938 and declared the Anschluss, or the unifi- after a student left the institution and sought help
cation of Austria and Germany, he was kicked at the U.S. embassy in Paris.

out of school and his father’s business was
The prosecutor’s office of Meaux said in
confiscated. a statement that it raided the school, which
In 1939, Kohn was sent to England as part enrolls students from Israel, the United States
of the Kindertransport, a program in which and France, because investigators found that
Jewish children were brought from Europe to students were being mistreated. The entire
the United Kingdom on the eve of World War faculty was arrested. l
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