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Baca, who stepped down in 2014, was convicted of thwarting an investigation into his department’s troubled jail system and then lying to federal investigators about it.

The irony is that while Washington and its allies still call for two-state negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts of “thwarting” that goal for decades.

Key to thwarting that threat is the availability of updated vaccines, which have been formulated to boost protection against recently dominant circulating coronavirus strains — the same approach used to develop the annual flu shot.

Fungi cause less human disease than bacteria or viruses for two reasons: The human immune system is very adept at thwarting them, and they generally don’t grow well at mammals’ high body temperatures.

Authorities have reported thwarting attacks, with Israel’s Mossad spy agency helping Brazil arrest alleged Hezbollah recruits last November.