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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 11, 2021

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Illustrative: A Magen David Adom worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Holocaust survivor Yaffa Balaban, 95, at her apartment in Beit Tovei Hair retirement residence in Jerusalem on January 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pfizer vaccine still protects against serious illness

Israeli data seems to show COVID vaccine protection starts fading after 6 months

Most of the vaccinated people who have been recently infected got the shot around January, figures given to Health Ministry show; some caution it’s too early to draw conclusions

Illustrative: Medical workers put on their protective gears before working on March 27, 2020, at the unit for coronavirus COVID-19 infected patients at the Erasme Hospital in Brussels. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

Belgian woman, 90, who died of COVID was infected with 2 strains at once

By AFP

MK Waleed Taha (L) and Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas and party members at the Ra'am headquarters in Tamra, March 23, 2021, at the end of voting on election day. (Flash90)

Ra’am MK: We’re boycotting Knesset votes and meetings until further notice

Walid Taha doesn’t specify why Islamist party is taking the step, but sources say Ra’am is upset about coalition’s outreach to Joint List, general disregard for its core demands

French Consul General in Jerusalem Rene Troccaz decorates Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani with his county's National Order of Merit, at the French Institute in Gaza City, on July 7, 2021. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

France gives high honor to lawyer who pushed Palestinian cause at ICC

By Lazar Berman

Consul general to Jerusalem gives National Order of Merit to Raji Sourani, who represented hundreds of Gazans at The Hague; Israel accuses him of maintaining close ties with Hamas

Orient House in East Jerusalem, October 14, 2007 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Palestinians said drafting list of demands if limited peace talks resume

In this December 13, 2017 file photo, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Extraordinary Summit in Istanbul. (Yasin Bulbul/Pool Photo via AP)

Hosting Abbas, Erdogan says he won’t stay silent on ‘Israeli oppression’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exits after a press conference about the coronavirus at the Prime Ministers office in Jerusalem on March 25, 2020. (Oliver Fitoussi/Flash90)

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A moving truck is seen outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on July 6, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Slightly later than agreed, Netanyahus move out of PM’s residence after 12 years

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem, July 11, 2021. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

Bennett: New vaccines to arrive August 1, allowing teen inoculation to continue

PM says vaccination of ages 12-15 can keep going uninterrupted, with new shots to arrive as existing supplies expire; report says Pfizer shipment will contain 200,000 doses

Travelers are seen in the arrival hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel said likely to delay reopening borders to most tourists until September

Illustrative: Israeli military drones fly in formation in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

In apparent world first, IDF deployed drone swarms in Gaza fighting

By Judah Ari Gross

Military used ‘flocks’ of small aircraft, all communicating with each other, to locate targets, direct airstrikes, highlighting advances in artificial intelligence-driven combat

Shulamit S. Magnus

Avigdor Liberman: Doing God’s work

The finance minister’s measure could break the Haredi parties’ political power and deal a blow to that whole theocratic, misogynistic, homophobic establishment

Manya Brachear Pashman

Max Solomon Lewis: May his memory be a revolution

The college student joins scores of sons and daughters across the US killed by gun violence. When will it end?

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Thousands of Israelis attend a protest against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for same-sex couples, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on July 22, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

High Court: Ban on surrogacy for same-sex couples, single men to end in 6 months

By Michael Bachner

After government said it was ‘unfeasible’ to change the law and asked justices to intervene, top court delivers landmark ruling that ends 11-year legal battle

Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the IDF's new deputy chief of staff, speaks during a handover ceremony at military headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 11, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

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Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi takes over as IDF deputy chief of staff

Former head of Southern Command and Military Intelligence replaces Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir

6:21 pm

Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi takes over as IDF's deputy chief of staff
6:06 pm

Rocks thrown at prominent national-religious rabbi's car in East Jerusalem
5:54 pm

Iranian ex-MP: Mossad behind all attacks in Iran, no 'serious thought' on how to cope

The Beresheet selfie during landing, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel’s SpaceIL shoots for the Moon for a second time, raises $70 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

Beresheet 2 mission hopes to launch in 2024 and will see double landing of two small crafts that will detach from mothership, one of them aiming for far side

This May 29, 2018, photo made available by Virgin Galactic shows the company's VSS Unity on its second supersonic flight. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson to blast into space on rocket plane

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and Marcia Dunn

Members of the Israel Defense Forces National Rescue Unit are given a send off by search and rescue personnel July 10, 2021 in Surfside, Florida (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

Departing IDF rescue team at Florida condo collapse gets medals, cheers

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rescue workers watch as excavators are used to dig through the rubble of the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on July 9, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)

Surfside death toll rises to 86; 43 others still missing

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians receive financial aid payments from Qatar at a post office in Gaza City, on June 27, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Ministers to review new plan for allowing Qatari funds into Gaza — report

Channel 12 says proposal would see $30 million enter each month through UN, banks and work programs, while ensuring money does not go to Hamas

Israeli military bulldozers are pictured clearing the buffer zone on Israel's border with Gaza, opposite the Palestinian city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 13, 2021. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Gazans nabbed after infiltrating into Israel armed with knives

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Staff Sgt. Bnaya Rubel, 20 years old, was killed in action during Operation Edge. (Photo credit: IDF)

Family of soldier killed in Gaza seeks to retrieve stolen hard drive of memories

Palestinian man walks past a building that belonged to Muntasir Shalabi, accused of killing an Israeli student in a May terror attack, after it was demolished by Israeli forces in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah in the West Bank on July 8, 2021 (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Israel vows to keep razing terrorists’ homes, as victim’s father pans US rebuke

Minister says Biden administration’s criticism won’t make Jerusalem change policy; family of Yehuda Guetta to file suit demanding seizure of killer’s assets in US, West Bank

Dozens of guns seized during a smuggling operation from Lebanon, on July 10, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Smuggled guns from Lebanon were meant for terror; largest bust in years — TV

By Emanuel Fabian

Officials say they can’t remember such a catch; believe Hezbollah prefers to facilitate attacks within Israel rather than on the border

Israeli president Isaac Herzog (L) and Jordan's King Abdullah II (R). (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90, Alex Brandon/AP)

President Herzog speaks with Jordan’s king as nations work to mend relations

According to Herzog’s office, Abdullah phoned to congratulate him on appointment, expressed satisfaction with recent improvement of diplomatic ties

Yamina MK Amichai Chikli at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked: Rebel Yamina MK misled me on Palestinian reunification law

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 11, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POO)

Interior Ministry said told to stop processing Palestinian reunification bids

'It was different than exciting... it felt right'

Olympics-bound Team Israel drives home Jewish identity for its American players

By Gabe Friedman

The baseball squad has four native-born Israelis and a diverse group of Jews from around the US with varying backgrounds, but a shared history makes this team closer than most

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A view of the Old City from Jerusalem's Goldman pathway, part of the Armon Hantaziv Promenade. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Turn of eventsJerusalem scraps plan for promenade Ferris wheel and slides

Likud party MK Yehudah Glick in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)

Former MK Yehudah Glick detained, suspected of trying to smuggle in Palestinian

MK Ahmad Tibi speaks during a protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Joint List’s Tibi undergoes emergency kidney stone surgery

A national flag and portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are pictured in the village of Maalula, north of the Syrian capital Damascus, on June 29, 2021. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Aramaic-speaking Syrian town prepares for return of pilgrims after years of war

By AFP

Iran's telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi is interviewed by The Associated Press at his office in Tehran, Iran, on July 7, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iranian transportation ministry’s website taken down by ‘cyber disruption’

A still from director Ari Folman's 'Where is Anne Frank.' (Purple Whale Films)

InterviewThe eight-year marathon to bring ‘Where is Anne Frank’ to the big screen

By Eric RANDOLPH

A man is seen carrying a peice of furniture, shortly before attacking a Jewish man in Brooklyn, on July 5, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Jewish man assaulted in Brooklyn in apparent antisemitic attack

Prof. Zeev Rotstein, CEO of Hadassah Hospital attends a conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Facing possible firing, Hadassah chief Rotstein announces he is stepping down

Illustrative: UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis gives a speech as he attends a Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at Central Hall Westminster, on January 27, 2015. (AP/Chris Jackson)

UK chief rabbi: Chilled meat ban could make Jewish life in N. Ireland ‘unviable’

Yoni Netanyahu, in a photograph taken shortly before his death in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976. (GPO, Wikimedia)

Yoni Netanyahu’s heroism was related to his emotional distress, researchers say

The settlement of Givat Ze'ev in the West Bank, June 25, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Synagogue vandalized in West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev

Workers remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 10, 2021.(Ryan M. Kelly / AFP)

‘An incredible day’: Charlottesville relieved as Confederate statues removed

By Sarah Rankin

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