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What Matters Most On Monday, July 12, 2021

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A man receives a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine at Sheba Medical Center outside of Tel Aviv on July 12, 2021. (Courtesy Sheba Medical Center)

In world first, COVID boosters rolled out for some at-risk Israelis

By Nathan Jeffay

Decision to give third shot to those with weakened immune systems comes after government weighs ‘accumulating evidence’ that immunocompromised aren’t well enough protected

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 12, 2021. (Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 12 – As COVID numbers rise, is it time to get nervous yet?

The Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 is administered at the Arizona Department of Health Services State Laboratory in Phoenix, December 16, 2020. (Ross D. Franklin/AP)

Pfizer to discuss COVID vaccine booster shots with US officials

The 'Jerubbaal' inscription, written in ink on a pottery vessel, discovered at Khirbet el Rai. (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyNot all epigraphers are convinced of Bible-linked reading

Five-letter inscription inked 3,100 years ago may be name of biblical judge

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Excavations in Judean foothills uncover small jug from 1,100 BCE that could be inscribed with ‘Jerubbaal’; first evidence of a name from Book of Judges on a contemporary artifact

Yaqoub Abu al-Qia’an in May, 2021 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Bedouin Israeli millionaire charged with spying for Iran

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Businessman Yaqoub Abu al-Qia’an, who was briefly a Knesset candidate in right-wing Telem party, accused of providing information to Iranian intelligence via a contact in Lebanon

Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh speaks to reporters on November 3, 2018. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Amid mysterious explosions, Iranian ex-MP claims Mossad behind all attacks

People attend a protest rally as part of the 'Free Iran World Summit 2021' in Berlin, Germany, July 10, 2021 (Michael Sohn/AP)

Iran fumes over American, European support for opposition group at Berlin rally

By AP

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett says Netanyahu all talk, no action on Iran

PM and opposition leader go head-to-head in the Knesset plenum, with Likud leader blaming premier for latest COVID outbreak

6:01 pm

Poll: Month into new government, Israelis still divided on whether they support it
5:50 pm

Are recovered COVID patients more protected than the vaccinated?
5:47 pm

Israel Air Force launches 1st international drone drill

Health minister hits back at COVID airport criticism: ‘We didn’t make mistakes’

Horowitz says increased testing at Ben Gurion helped officials ‘find the Delta variant and stop its intrusion’; testing positivity rate rises to 0.8%

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (R) oversees medical technicians testing passengers for COVID-19 at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 12, 2021. (Flash90)

An Israeli youth receives the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center of Magen David Adom in Jerusalem on July 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

With new Pfizer deal, Israel to restart vaccinations after 24-hour break

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

Knesset panel approves fines for Israelis trying to visit banned COVID hotspots

Fisherman load a horse-drawn cart before delivering their haul to market after a limited number of boats were allowed to return to the sea following a ceasefire reached after an 11-day war between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, May 23, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Amid calm on Gaza border, Israel expands fishing zone, imports and exports

By Judah Ari Gross

Move comes amid international pressure to increase assistance to the Strip, follows meeting between Israeli, Egyptian foreign ministers; Qatari envoy reaches Gaza on Sunday night

Israeli forces during an arrest operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, July 12, 2021. (Israel Police)

Undercover Border Police shoot 6 attackers in Jenin gun battle overnight

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 11, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Israel to withhold nearly NIS 600 million from PA over terror payments

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Branching out, turning in, and the mulberry tree down the road

I watch my daughter grow and I miss the little girl she used to be, and I wonder at the wise young woman she is becoming

Why Israeli and Arab narratives are still at war (and how to change that)

We must model what we will likely have to demand from the Palestinians: namely, validating their heritage, at the same time that we cherish our own

End the experiment

Naftali Bennett’s ’disruptive’ government, which depends on anti-Zionist parties, undermines Israeli democracy and threatens the Jewish State

Jerusalem’s mayor is building without a plan

It’s not that Moshe Lion is consciously trying to make Jerusalem ugly, but that is what is happening

Israeli soldiers pretend to arrest a suspected smuggler during a simulation near the Egyptian border on July 8, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Turning to crime-fighting, IDF steps up efforts against drug running from Sinai

By Judah Ari Gross

Military cracks down on marijuana smuggling, but core economic issues pushing Bedouin Israelis to crime remain, and campaign seems to have little effect on overall drug trade

A view of houses in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Sawaneen in Israel's southern Negev Desert, on June 8, 2021. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

After Ra’am demand, government moves Bedouin agency to Welfare Ministry

Decision to move up transfer follows Islamist party threat to not cooperate with coalition until further notice; Islamist MK says wide-ranging agreements reached

Ra'am MK Mazen Ghanaim, seen at the Knesset on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)

Ra’am lawmakers warn they may trigger more coalition crises to achieve goals

In Europe, Lapid tells NATO chief Israel wants to deepen ties

By Lazar Berman

Ahead of his address to EU ministers, Israeli FM offers assistance to alliance on intelligence, cybersecurity, missile defense and more

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, July 12, 2021 (NATO)

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Brussels, July 11, 2021. (Gabi Farkash, GPO)

Meeting with Egypt’s FM, Lapid focuses on Israeli captives in Gaza

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) and the European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, in Brussels on July 11, 2021. (Twitter)

Lapid meets top EU diplomat in Brussels as Israel looks to improve ties

Reporter's notebook

At Capitol Hill rally, Jews united against antisemitism, more divided on Israel

‘No Fear’ event draws array of sponsors covering religious spectrum, many right-wing, central Jewish organizations, but left-wing groups opt out

A woman attends the 'NO FEAR: Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People' event at Capitol Hill in Washington, July 11, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP)

People attend the 'NO FEAR: Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People' event in Washington, July 11, 2021. (AP Photo/ Susan Walsh)

‘We cannot be scared:’ Some 2,000 rally against antisemitism in DC

England's Marcus Rashford reacts after failing to score a penalty during a shootout at the end of the Euro 2020 soccer championship final match between England and Italy at Wembley stadium in London, Sunday, July 11, 2021. Italy defeated England 3-2 in a penalty shootout after the game ended in a 1-1 draw. (Carl Recine/Pool Photo via AP)

Racist abuse targets 3 English players who missed penalties in Euro soccer final

By AP

London police investigating ‘offensive and racist messages’ to players, while English Football Association says it’s appalled and will do everything to assist them

'Nicky & Vera' by Peter Sis (Courtesy W.W. Norton and Company); Holocaust-era hero Nicholas Winton, who helped save 669 Czech children from the Nazi invasion. (AP/Petr David Josek, File)

'He, because of who he was, moved very, very quickly'

Man who rescued 669 Czech children from Nazis is now the hero of a kids’ book

By Rich Tenorio

Nicholas Winton helped organize Kindertransports that carried young people to safety on the eve of war. ‘Nicky & Vera,’ by author and illustrator Peter Sis, now honors his legacy

David Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor and restitution champion, dies at 92

Austrian theater group reenacts a post-Holocaust escape in the Alps

By eva WACKENREUTHER

Bitcoin Rabbi Michael Caras (photo courtesy/ via JTA) and a visual representation of Bitcoin, at the 'Bitcoin Change' shop in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Beloved ‘Bitcoin Rabbi’ tends to religious, financial-minded flocks on Twitter

A couple walk on the beach, June 29, 2021, in Surfside, Florida. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

After Surfside disaster, Florida officials reexamine condo inspection policies

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

With many buildings only checked after construction and then never again, calls mount for much tougher guidelines, particularly for older projects

Crews from the United States and Israel work in the rubble Champlain Towers South condo, June 29, 2021, in Surfside, Florida. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

Surfside death toll rises to 90 as IDF rescue unit departs condo collapse site

By FREIDA FRISARO and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

Louisiana state Rep. Valarie Hodges sits with author David Barton, who has been branded an 'extremist' by the Southern Poverty Law Center, during a May debate on a bill of Hodges' that would have mandated Holocaust education in the state. The bill, which Hodges ultimately declined to pursue after amendments, was backed by fringe figures such as Barton partially as a response to parallel efforts to legislate the teaching of other history lessons. (Screenshot from Louisiana House of Representatives/ via JTA)

'They want to teach the Holocaust but not racism in the US'

Failed Louisiana Holocaust education bill was used to pan critical race theory

By Eleanor Stern

Jewish groups split over support; amid ongoing debate, bill’s founder posts photo of Hitler on official Facebook page with caption saying he was ‘everything today’s liberal craves’

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Then-Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (L) speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (R) and Brig. Gen. Avi Gil, head of Northern Command's 36th Division, in the Golan Heights on December 18, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Bennett names Avi Gil as his military secretary

By Judah Ari Gross

In return to previous practice, Gil to be promoted to major general in order to receive his new position, will replace Brig. Gen. Avi Blot

Eyal Hulata, in an undated photograph. (Courtesy)

Bennett taps former senior Mossad official as his new national security adviser

By Emanuel Fabian

Amir Peretz meets with Benny Gantz at the Knesset, on October 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz said to weigh tapping Amir Peretz as IAI board chair

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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Illustrative: Israeli rescue forces and police at the scene of the fatal crush during Lag B'Omer celebrations on Mount Meron, in northern Israel, on April 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Attorney general freezes criminal probe into Meron disaster

Security forces stand outside the state security court where the trial of Bassem Awadallah, a former royal adviser, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a distant cousin of the king, takes place, in Amman, Jordan, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

Two Jordanian ex-officials sentenced to 15 years over alleged royal plot

Israelis protest against a controversial natural gas agreement, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on February 14, 2016. The sign says, "The gas belongs to us all." (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

New gas deal expected to slash electricity prices, but some say it’s not enough

Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy arrives at the Haifa Magistrate's Court for the verdict in his trial, January 9, 2020 (Flash90)

Actor Moshe Ivgy handed 11-month prison sentence for indecent assault

The UAE's first ambassador to Israel, Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah, arrives to presents his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on March 1, 2021. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

UAE to open Israel embassy in Tel Aviv on Wednesday

By Lazar Berman

Andrew Saul testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, October 2, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

US Social Security boss, installed by Trump and fired by Biden, vows to stay on

A SpaceX Falcon9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule attached, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39-A, November 15, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Antennas and sunlight-cooling nanoparticles win top Florida-Israel space prize

By Shoshanna Solomon

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with then-Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog in Ramallah on August 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser/File)

PA’s Abbas calls to congratulate Israel’s new president

By Amy Spiro and Aaron Boxerman

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership separate as they fly way above Spaceport America, near Truth and Consequences, New Mexico on July 11, 2021 on the way to the cosmos. (Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)

British billionaire Richard Branson reaches edge of space in own rocket

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and Marcia Dunn

Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohammed Badie waves from a defendants cage in a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, in eastern Cairo, Egypt, May 16, 2015. (Ahmed Omar/AP)

Egypt court upholds life sentences for 10 Muslim Brotherhood members

By AP

Head sculpture by Efrat Natan from 1973, performance courtesy of the artist, for 'Out of the Cube' exhibit from Tel Aviv Museum of Art, opening July 17, 2021 (Courtesy Yair Garbuz)

Public display‘Out of the Cube’ takes sculptures out of museum and into Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

GoTo vehicles by GoToGlobal in Madrid (Courtesy)

Hitting road to Madrid, Israel firm offers variety of shared vehicles with 1 app

By Shoshanna Solomon

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