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What Matters Most On Friday, July 9, 2021

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Jordan's King Abdullah II gives a speech during the inauguration of the 19th Parliament’s non-ordinary session, in Amman, Jordan, on December 10, 2020. (Yousef Allan/The Royal Hashemite Court via AP)

Bennett met secretly last week with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman

Jordanian officials said to be unnerved by news of meeting leaking out, having agreed to summit under condition of strict secrecy

Illustrative: A Syrian man fills a bucket with water inside Zaatari, the largest camp for Syrian refugees in Mafraq, Jordan, on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. (AP/Raad Adayleh)

Israel agrees to dramatically increase water supply to parched Jordan

By Amy Spiro and Aaron Boxerman

AnalysisAmid signs of fragility, Biden and Bennett move to shore up Jordan’s Abdullah

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 30, 2021, heading for COVID-19 tests. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

All travelers entering Israel to be forced to self-isolate for up to 24 hours

And as of late next week, those arriving from 16 high-risk destinations, including the UAE, will be required to enter quarantine for up to two weeks

In this March 2021 photo provided by Pfizer, vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for packaging at the company’s facility in Puurs, Belgium. (Pfizer via AP)

Looking at delta variant, Pfizer to seek FDA authorization for 3rd vaccine dose

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

People are seen with and without face masks in Jerusalem on July 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

New virus cases dip slightly, as officials warn serious infections could surge

One of Sheba's innovation projects: the "hospital room of the future," built in the Israel Center for Medical Simulation at Sheba Medical Center (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

Israel media review

Feint by number: What the press is saying about hazy math and home demo friction

By Joshua Davidovich

Reports question the Health Ministry’s counting skills, and the media jumps on hints of frayed ties between the US and Israel, and Bennett and Lapid

Medical staff at Ziv hospital in Safed on February 4, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Government trims tally of seriously ill after denying COVID numbers inflated

An Israeli army unit demolishes the house of Palestinian American Muntasser Shalaby using controlled explosions in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, Thursday, July 8, 2021. Shalaby is accused of being involved in a deadly attack on Israelis in the West Bank in May. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

US now to ‘prioritize’ pushing Israel to stop demolishing terrorists’ homes

Blinken personally raised concern with Israel before Thursday’s destruction of family home of Palestinian-American man alleged to have killed Israeli teen in May

A Palestinian policeman waves on a truck as it enters through the Kerem Shalom crossing into the Gaza Strip on September 1, 2020, after a Qatari-mediated deal with Israel. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

UN pans Israel’s ‘narrow’ definition of humanitarian assistance for Gaza

Ghadanfar Abu Atwan is seen in the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, on July 8, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Palestinian hunger striker freed from Israeli custody after 63-day protest

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Manya Brachear Pashman

Elie Wiesel’s head is now in a cathedral. Should it be?

Given Christian complicity in the Holocaust, the bust’s installation at the iconic church raised questions. That might just be the whole point.

Nothing random about gun violence

Max Lewis faced a ventilator for the rest of his life or removing life support – it matters little that the bullet that forced that decision wasn’t premeditated

Sarah C. Rudolph

Sometimes, it’s all in how you ask

Miscommunication almost brought down the Jewish people before they even were the Jewish people (Matot/Masai)

Sheldon Kirshner

Israel’s irresponsible opposition leader

Netanyahu is playing childish games to score political points – at the expense of Israel’s security and its demographic well-being

A still from 'Aye Ko' by Dani Schoffman (courtesy)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: A goat, a girl & how a young Israeli director learns to be Zen in Burma

Straight from NYU film school, Dani Schoffman landed in newly opened Myanmar and quickly found himself making offerings at a Buddhist pagoda to ward off his film crew’s curse

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Prime Minister Menachem Begin (L) Egyptian First Lady Jehan Sadat at a dinner in the Dan Carmel Hotel, Haifa in September 1979 (GPO Photo Archive/Yaacov Sa'ar)

Arab-Israel peace will prevail in region, she said in 2009

Jehan Sadat, widow of Egyptian president who made peace with Israel, dies at 87

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli leaders pay tribute to wife of Anwar Sadat; she consistently defended husband’s historic decision to forge full ties with Israel in 1979 after decades of war

Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud Party election event in the northern Israeli city of Safed, March 8, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Netanyahu shuts down heckler who calls for Bennett and Lapid ‘to die’

At Likud event in Tel Aviv, former PM accuses activist of being either ‘a plant or stupid’; Shin Bet briefly questions him

Then-Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin at the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on March 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s Levin says he refused Netanyahu offer to become PM

Dani G. Waldman atop her horse with her 'flying feathers.' (Courtesy)

Tokyo Olympics 2020

With feathers flying, NY native guides Israel to its Olympic equestrian debut

Dani G. Waldman, known for her colorful fashion statements, will fulfill a lifelong dream when she represents Israel at the Games in Tokyo next month

Israeli guard to Tokyo Olympic delegation contracts COVID-19

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Fans banned from Olympics as Japan battles renewed COVID outbreak

By AP

Maria Perdomo becomes emotional as she visits the memorial that includes pictures of some of the victims of the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on July 08, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Surfside recovery workers vow not to let up search for victims; death toll at 64

By TERRY SPENCER

Body of Sophia López Moreira, the sister of Paraguay’s first lady, found in rubble; 76 people still unaccounted for

Gini Gonte visits the Surfside Wall of Hope Memorial on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, as she honors her friends Nancy Kress Levin and Jay Kleiman, who lost their lives after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)

In Surfside, sobbing and a moment of silence as rescue effort shifts to recovery

By TERRY SPENCER and Adriana Gomez Licon

'My kids were coming and all I had was an air mattress'

New York designer helps divorced dads turn bare-bones bachelor pads into homes

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Stacey Herman and her niche Stripe Street Studio offer every aspect of design, organization and set-up for fathers and their children into comfy, functional spaces

The robot developed by the Israeli startup Seamless Vision. (Courtesy Sheba Medical Center)

Drug-delivery robots deployed at Israel’s largest hospital to cut chemo wait

By Nathan Jeffay

The robots will whirr along a system of underground tunnels, use regular corridors, and even call and ride elevators, to race drugs to patients as fast as possible

Illustrative: Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky smells cannabis leaves in 2016 (YouTube); Israeli medical cannabis growing operations. (Courtesy Israeli Medical Cannabis Agency)

ExplainerIsraelis used 3,455 kg (7,617 lbs) of cannabis in May 2021

As Israel’s biblical farming sabbatical nears, medical cannabis is budding issue

By Yaakov Schwartz

Shmita, the divinely commanded halt to agricultural work in the Holy Land every 7th year, starts again in September. What does this mean for religious users of locally grown pot?

Illustrative: Pro-Israel demonstrators attend a rally denouncing antisemitism and antisemitic attacks, in lower Manhattan, New York on May 23, 2021. (Ed JONES / AFP)

Israel link keeps leftist Jewish groups from planned DC antisemitism rally

Organizers of Sunday’s Jewish solidarity rally say it’s critical to also focus on attacks on Israel, but some say that’s not a definition of antisemitism they can agree with

Gravestones vandalized with swastikas at Jewish cemetery in Baltimore

By Simone Ellin

Colorado Republican says Biden’s COVID vaccine staff are ‘Needle Nazis’

Prosecution adds hate crime charges to suspect in stabbing of Boston rabbi

By AP

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Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and justices arrive to hear petitions against the Jewish Nation-State Law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects petitions seeking to strike down nation-state law

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Rabbi Natan Slifkin holds Shayna, an albino Burmese python. (The Biblical Museum of Natural History)

Snake bitesSnakes at a kiddush: Museum’s baby pythons get a ‘haimish’ welcome

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: Palestinian youth throw stones at Israeli police during a clash in East Jerusalem, in July 2014. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

High Court overturns law halting benefits for parents of teen security prisoners

Defense Ministry starts seizing Bitcoin being used by Hamas

Denis Shapovalov celebrates after defeating Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut during the men's singles fourth round match on day seven of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, on July 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Rap game puts spin on rise of Israel-born Wimbledon semifinalist Shapovalov

By Pirate IRWIN

Parents and supporters protest outside a court hearing of Carmel Mauda in Lod on July 8, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Daycare head sentenced to 9.5 years for child abuse that sparked national fury

Facebook rolling out Holocaust education materials in 12 languages

President Joe Biden speaks about the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, in the East Room of the White House, July 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden sets date for full Afghanistan withdrawal as Taliban seizes key crossing

Three Ariel pride particapants are tended to after being doused with pepper spray on July 8, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Participants attacked during LGBT event in West Bank settlement

In this April 28, 2019 file photo, a San Diego county sheriff's deputy stands in front of the Poway Chabad Synagogue in Poway, California, following a shooting that left one woman dead and wounded three others. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

Judge rules Poway synagogue shooting victims can sue gunmaker

By AP

Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at a cyber conference at Tel Aviv University on June 24, 2019. (Flash90)

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen to head SoftBank’s Israel operations

Rockland County, New York -- home to New Square, an all-Hasidic village, above -- has the highest concentration of Jews of any county in the country, according to a 2020 survey released July 8, 2021. (Uriel Heilman via JTA)

US Jews getting younger on average, massive religions survey finds

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