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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 14, 2021

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Emirati Ambassador Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah (R) and President Isaac Herzog at the official opening of the UAE embassy in Tel Aviv, July 14, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Herzog: Blessed process cannot stop; Lapid: Historic day

‘Just the beginning’: UAE opens Tel Aviv embassy as sides hail ties

By Tal Schneider

President Isaac Herzog attends opening of mission at Stock Exchange building following agreement last year to normalize diplomatic ties

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ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 14 – UAE’s Israel embassy is open for business in Tel Aviv

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 20, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/Pool/AFP)

Israel, Morocco in talks to hold official Lapid visit to Rabat

By Lazar Berman

An alleged Hezbollah weapons depot (outlined in red) is seen across the street from a school (outlined in yellow) in the central Lebanese town of Ebba in a satellite image from June 1, 2020. (Google Earth, outlines added by The Times of Israel)

IDF: Hezbollah storing massive weapons depot next to a school

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli military releases location of alleged arms stockpile in central Lebanese town containing huge amount of explosives, in apparent attempt to ‘name and shame’ terror group

The excavation directors sitting on the exposed section of the First Temple-era protective wall on Jerusalem's eastern perimeter. (Yaniv Berman/ Israel Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyScholars reconstruct run of the wall that encircled capital

First Temple-era walls, razed in biblical account, found unbreached in Jerusalem

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Missing section of 8th-7th century BCE fortification puts in question narrative of 2 Kings in which conquering Babylonians ‘tore down Jerusalem’s walls on every side’

Illustrative photo of an Israeli F-15 fighter jet. (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Iron Dome almost knocked out Israeli jet during recent Gaza conflict

IDF says incident in which interceptor missile locked onto F15 plane, mistaking it for Hamas rocket, under investigation

6:24 pm

French artist Christian Boltanski dies aged 76
6:10 pm

Gantz: Israel must prepare for a nuclear Iran
6:04 pm

Iron Dome missile almost knocked out Israeli F-15 during recent Gaza conflict

Cabinet okays cutting virus quarantine to seven days

By Stuart Winer

Health Ministry proposal would once again limit access to some public venues; government prepares to set up rapid virus test sites across the country

People wear protective face masks against the coronavirus inside the Sarona market in Tel Aviv, on July 13, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Director of Ziv Medical Center Salman Zarka attends a ceremony at the hospital in the northern city of Safed, on February 25, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Director of Safed hospital appointed coronavirus czar

By Stuart Winer

People wear protective face masks as they shop at Azrieli Mall in Tel Aviv on July 13, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Over 750 COVID cases recorded for 2nd day, amid alarm over spread of Delta Plus

By Michael Bachner

God doesn’t wear a Borsalino

God may be in Bnei Brak, but God is also in Israel’s policy-making government offices, pushing justice, fairness, and well-being for the entire Jewish people

Omondi on Medine Cohen: ‘White…Jewish American Princess’

The fashion podcaster wanted to call out the white privilege of a New York, Jewish Ramaz grad. Now she’s being accused of antisemitism.

Former Yisrael Beytenu MK Faina Kirshenbaum arrives for her sentencing at the Tel Aviv District Court on July 14, 2021, charged with corruption crimes including bribery, fraud and money laundering. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ex-Yisrael Beytenu MK Kirshenbaum sentenced to 10 years in bribery case

By Michael Bachner

Tel Aviv court says misuse of government funds by former deputy minister was unique in scale; defense pans ‘disproportionate, cruel’ ruling, vows to appeal

Illustrative: Teachers clean a classroom at a daycare center in Modiin on May 7, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Liberman delays cut to daycare subsidies for children of yeshiva students

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman says axed daycare subsidies will fund efforts against domestic violence

By Raoul Wootliff

Joshua Henkin's new novel, 'Morningside Heights,' is set in the Manhattan neighborhood of the same name. (Author photo: Michael Lionstar/ via JTA)

Book was inspired by author's academic father's Alzheimer's

Novel portrays how no one is too young, or too smart, for early onset dementia

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Joshua Henkin’s ‘Morningside Heights’ examines devastating emotional and physical ripple effects after a person loses ability to think, communicate and function before age of 65

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hosts a Congressional delegation at his Ramallah office on July 8, 2021. (WAFA)

US lawmakers castigated Abbas for terror payments during ‘tense’ Ramallah meet

He said families would be penniless without ‘welfare’ money; they asked if PA also pays cancer victims; opposed his call for Israel-Arab deals to wait ’til Palestinian issue solved

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a conference in the Eshkol region, southern Israel, on July 13, 2021. (Flash90)

IDF, Shin Bet, Gantz balked at seizing PA taxes over terror stipends — report

2021 Emmy nominees: From left: Brett Goldstein, Jurnee Smollett, Michael Douglas, Hannah Einbinder and Tracee Ellis-Ross. (Apple TV, Netflix, HBO via JTA)

2021 Emmys: All the Jewish nominees, from Jurnee Smollett to Michael Douglas

By Emily Burack

While there are no obviously Jewish shows nominated, there’s no shortage of potential winners, with Black Jewish women leading the way

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Departing Rutgers’ Hillel director worried about school’s Jewish student life

Andrew Getraer says that during his 20 years on the job, Judaism has blossomed on US campuses like never before — but the same goes for antisemitism masking itself as anti-Zionism

Rutgers University-Camden in Camden (AP Photo/Matt Rourke); Rutgers Hillel director Andrew Getraer. (Sabrina Szteinbaum Photography/ via JTA)

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Oval office of the White House on October 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Olivier Douliery)

Ivanka’s in-laws fundraise for Nikki Haley, push her for 2024 presidential run

Jared Kushner’s father Charles hails ‘the first woman president’; things could get interesting in the family if former president Donald Trump also throws his hat in

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says US democracy threatened by Republican ‘subversion’

By Saul Loeb and Sebastian Smith

Foreign ministers sit around the table at the Palais Coburg Hotel, where the Iran nuclear negotiations were being held in Vienna, Austria on July 6, 2015. (AFP/POOL/CARLOS BARRIA)

In 2015, new national security adviser saw Iran nuclear deal as ‘lesser evil’

By Tal Schneider

Eyal Hulata, tapped for the job this week, suggested, while as a Mossad official, that Israel should not forcefully reject pact backed by US but rather learn to live with it

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, July 14, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Rouhani warns Iran could enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels

By Nasser Karimi

Illustrative: US Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division board a C-17 aircraft at Baghdad International Airport as they begin their journey to the United States, on July 13, 2010. (Maya Alleruzzo/ AP/ File)

Iranian commander said to encourage increased attacks on US forces in Iraq

Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov arrives to the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tourism minister wants visitors to be treated differently by their vaccine type

Yoel Razvozov says travelers inoculated with shots Israel are familiar with, such as Pfizer and Moderna, will not need blood test; those with Russian, Chinese vaccines will

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrives for a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels on July 12, 2021. (JOHN THYS / AFP)

Lapid goes into quarantine as aide tests positive for COVID-19

By Stuart Winer

Yesh Atid MK Vladimir Beliak (Screen capture: YouTube)

Yesh Atid MK contracts COVID, says ‘unreasonable’ to prevent him voting

Revital Nadiv (left) and Viktoria Kanar, founders of textile innovation organization Re-Fresh Global, with designer Doron Ashkenazi jacket made from recycled fabric (Courtesy Re-Fresh Global)

Say clothing industry too closed-minded, needs tech upgrade

Something old, something new? Fashionistas urge industry to use recycled rejects

By Jessica Steinberg

The women behind Re-Fresh Global aim to find new ways to embrace tons of new and secondhand clothing

An Israeli man smokes marijuana at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv during a demonstration calling to legalize cannabis, on April 20, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Marijuana decriminalization bill takes a hit as Ra’am snuffs out support

TV report says coalition trying to convince New Hope MK to pull proposal until other sources of legislative backing can be found

The sun goes down in Bir Hadaj, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

Israel freezes building enforcement in Ra’am stronghold

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

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A screenshot of security camera footage shows suspects vandalizing posters of the victims of the Mount Meron disaster. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Ultra-Orthodox men tear down victims’ pictures at memorial for Meron victims

Illustrative: Participants singing and clapping during an event in Umuahia, Nigeria, May 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)

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A guard is treated a the Qalandia checkpoint in the West Bank after being wounded in a drive by shooting (United Hatzalah)

Israeli guard lightly wounded in West Bank shooting, attacker arrested

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, an English literature professor at Linfield University, says he has been targeted with antisemitic attacks after calling out sexual harassment at the school. (Courtesy via JTA)

Professor who alleged antisemitism sues Oregon university for $4m after firing

Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Church of England. (Wikimedia Commons)

Church to apologize to UK Jews 800 years after laws that led to their expulsion

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Former CEO of Walla news website Ilan Yeshua arrives for his testimony at in the case against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial on criminal allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, at the District Court in Jerusalem, June 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: New texts from ex-Walla CEO’s phone strengthen case against Netanyahu

The Nasdaq building in Times Square in New York. (littleny, iStock by Getty Images)

Human rights groups call for halt to phone-cracking Cellebrite’s share listing

By Shoshanna Solomon

(Elie Kligman/Instagram via JTA)

Second Orthodox baseball player drafted into MLB in 2 days

By Gabe Friedman

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on February 9, 2021. (Evaristo Sa/AFP)

In first phone call, Bennett and Brazil’s Bolsonaro invite each other for visits

Illustrative image of hacking, hackers, ransomware and a cybersecurity attack. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel launches anti-ransomware campaign as attacks become more daring

By Shoshanna Solomon

This combination of file photos shows actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. on March 4, 2018, left, and former Alabama Chief Justice and then U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore at a news conference in Birmingham, Ala., on Nov. 16, 2017. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 3, 2021, dismissed failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore’s $95 million lawsuit targeting comedian Sacha Baron Cohen filed after Moore complained he was tricked into an interview that lampooned sexual misconduct accusations against him. (AP Photo/File)

Judge tosses Roy Moore’s $95 million lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen

By Kim Chandler

Illustrative image of a race; Israeli tech firms raised a record $6.52 billion in the second quarter of 2021, bringing the capital raised in the first half of 2021 to more than what was raised in the full year 2020, according to data compiled by IVC and Meitar (Tomwang112; iStock by Getty Images).

Israeli tech firms raise record $6.52b in Q2, led by fintech and cybersecurity

By Shoshanna Solomon

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