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What Matters Most On Friday, July 16, 2021

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US president Donald Trump (left) welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Netanyahu urged Trump to attack Iran after he lost the presidency — report

General Mark Milley said to have battled against former US president’s push for a missile strike, facing down his ‘circle of Iran hawks,’ including VP Pence and the then-Israeli PM

Iranians protest again water shortages in the Khuzestan province, July 15, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Protests rock restive Iran province over water shortages

By Jon Gambrell

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, on September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Facebook: Iran-based spies targeted US, European defense workers

By AFP

Tokyo Olympics 2020

From gymnastics to judo, Israel primed to strike Olympic gold in Tokyo

Israel’s 89-athlete delegation, its biggest-ever by far, includes top contenders, returning champions and no shortage of inspiring stories

Travelers seen at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, July 15, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel to bar travel to Spain as all arrivals start isolating for up to 24 hours

Travelers must now quarantine for a day or until negative test result; on July 23, Spain, Kyrgyzstan will enter no-go list while returnees from UK, Turkey will need full quarantine

Illustrative: People wear facemasks at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on June 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Daily COVID cases top 850, but serious cases appear to plateau

Gal Sade Knigsfild and Nofar Almakias pose for a picture with face mask before their wedding in Moshav Yashresh on April 6, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Ministers announce new ‘Revelry Pass’ for weddings, large events

Visitors sifting buckets of earth from the Temple Mount at the relaunch of the Temple Mount Sifting Project, June 2, 2019. (Yosef Huri)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: On 9 B’Av, find evidence of destruction at Temple Mount Sifting Project

What better way to commemorate the razing of the First and Second Temples than by ‘rescuing’ artifacts from Judaism’s most holy site that were dumped as garbage by the Muslim Waqf?

Leslie Ginsparg Klein

It’s #MyOrthodoxLife and I’m standing up for it

Hey, Netflix! My peers and I are not dowdy, backward, uneducated, or oppressed. We are Orthodox women leading happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives

When Orthodox Jewish players make it to baseball’s big leagues

With MLB accommodating their religious needs, Jacob Steinmetz and Elie Kligman are in uncharted territory; still, the real question is how well they’ll play

Just as God created the world using words, so we use words carefully to establish relationships, communication, education, and emotional connection

‘A voice called and I went’: Hanna Szenes’ centenary

The famous parachutist was a hero and a martyr, but those who loved her wish she’d been neither, and instead had come home to grow old with them on kibbutz

Students protesting outside of the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City, April 15, 2018. (Courtesy of Jewish Voice for Peace via JTA)

As more US Jews call Israel apartheid state, organizations struggle to counter

Mainstream groups say disconnect between Diaspora youth, reality in Israel result of ‘deficient education’; liberal counterparts argue Israel’s faults being glossed over entirely

Electronic musician Noga Erez seen in a music video for her single 'Dance While You Shoot'. (Screenshot: Youtube)

After causing uproar, Israeli musician Noga Erez clarifies she doesn’t back BDS

US envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Hady Amr meets with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, in Ramallah on July 13, 2021. (WAFA)

Biden’s Mideast point man said to urge Israel to aid a teetering PA

Hady Amr proposes several measures Jerusalem can take to strengthen governing body in Ramallah, which is at one of its lowest points yet due to pandemic and election postponement

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (L) during a press conference in France, December 7, 2020, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog (R) during a graduation ceremony at the National Security College in Glilot, central Israel, July 14, 2021. (AP/Michel Euler, Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In memo to President Herzog, Egypt’s Sissi hopes his election will bolster peace

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Plainclothes Palestinian security officers detain a protester during clashes that erupted during a demonstration against the death of Nizar Banat, a critic of the Palestinian Authority, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Shaken but steadfast, Palestinians not backing down as PA suppresses dissent

By Joseph Krauss

A man receives a dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine donated by the US, at a vaccination center in San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala, on July 15, 2021. (Johan Ordonez/AFP)

COVID infection rates up worldwide, top half a million in each of past 2 days

By AFP

AFP tally finds highest daily increases in new coronavirus cases since late May, with much of the rise attributed to the Delta variant

People register to get vaccinated at a mobile pop-up vaccination station at Hermannplatz square in Berlin's Neukoelln district on July 16, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)

EU disease agency anticipates Delta variant surge in coming weeks

By AFP

An Israeli girl receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, on July 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

COVID vaccine for kids under 12 expected in winter, FDA official reportedly says

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ashes make fashionably late return to Budapest for burial

By Yaakov Schwartz

In a festive memorial service five years after her death, remains of the Jewish-Hungarian actress are interred in one of her native country’s most prestigious burial grounds

File: Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid meets (center) with Joint List leaders Ayman Odeh (left) and Ahmad Tibi in the Knesset on April 19, 2021. (Courtesy)

Joint List said ready to consider helping government pass budget

Predominantly Arab party reportedly recognizes coalition is better than alternatives; willing to offer assistance to a Bennett-Lapid government desperate for extra votes

Illustrative: Likud supporters protest outside the home of Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2021. (Flash90)

Likud backers seen stabbing photos of Bennett, Lapid at anti-government protest

Members of the public stand next to a damaged boat after the floodings in Liege on July 15, 2021. (BERNARD GILLET / BELGA / AFP) / Belgium OUT

Death toll climbs to 118 in Germany, Belgium as devastating storms ravage Europe

By Michelle Fitzpatrick and Deborah Cole

Around 15,000 members of German emergency services, police and army on the ground in worst-hit areas; in battered Ahrweiler district, around 1,300 people unaccounted for

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot summer day, on July 6, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Intense heatwave to hit Israel over weekend, peaking on Sunday’s Tisha B’Av fast

German Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (public domain)

ProfileEinstein eulogized her as a 'creative mathematical genius'

Impact of mathematician who overcame Nazis, sexism still felt 100 years later

By Tamar Lichter Blanks

Colleague compared Emmy Noether’s premature 1935 death to ‘echo of a thunderclap’ but her contributions to the field through her paper on ring theory continue to reverberate

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens as he gives a joint press conference with Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, following a meeting of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, at the Fiera di Roma, in Rome, as part of Blinken's three-nation tour of Europe, on June 28, 2021. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP)

Following Hariri departure, US says Lebanese leaders ‘squandered’ last 9 months

Secretary of State Blinken calls resignation by PM-designate ‘disappointing,’ raps political class over failure to provide citizens with basic services as economy is in freefall

Lebanese Prime Minister-Designate Saad Hariri, center, arrives to his meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, on July 14, 2021. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP)

Lebanon PM-designate Saad Hariri steps down after months of deadlock

By Sarah El Deeb

A 'Matrice' drone, with night-vision capabilities, used by the IDF. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

IDF says drone crashed in Lebanon due to malfunction, no data leaked

By Emanuel Fabian

Observant Jewish residents of The Colony, a high-rise in Fort Lee, New Jersey, are suing the board for barring employees from pushing elevator buttons for those forbidden to do so on the Jewish Sabbath. (Screenshot from Google Maps/ via JTA)

NJ co-op owners sue board over refusal to allow Shabbat elevator

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Former prime minister David Ben Gurion, left, speaks as his wife, Paula, right, looks on during a press conference at the Plaza Hotel in New York on March 3, 1967. (AP/John Duricka)

Shelling outIn 1954, Israel’s 1st PM apologized to salesman for not paying for eggs

A worker waits to load his truck with debris from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South building, as removal and recovery work continues at the site of the partially collapsed condo building on July 14, 2021, in Surfside, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

92 of Florida condo’s 97 confirmed fatalities identified, as recovery nears end

By AP

Brig. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who was named the Israel Defense Forces' next military advocate general and second female major general on July 15, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi named IDF’s next top lawyer, 2nd female major general

By Judah Ari Gross

Microsoft blocks Israeli hacker-for-hire company’s spyware

By Alan Suderman

Leah, right, and Simcha Goldin, parents of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body was kidnapped by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attend a press conference in Ramat Gan, April 25, 2018. (Flash90)

Bennett meets with family of fallen IDF soldier held by Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the first session of the evidentiary stage of his trial at Jerusalem District Court on April 5, 2021.(Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Netanyahu’s trial delayed once again, won’t resume until mid-September

In this January 31, 2008 file photo, Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries reacts prior to attending a live TV show in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Renowned Dutch crime reporter dies days after being shot in Amsterdam

Illustrative: A man with a sign reading "strike here!" takes part in a strike of nurses at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem on July 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Non-clinical hospital staff suspend strike after 3 days

Then-director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico Tomas Zeron listens during a press conference at the Attorney General building in Mexico City, on October 27, 2014. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)

Israel said delaying extradition case of wanted Mexican over nation’s UN votes

A Polish nationalist holds a sign reading "We demand the truth about Jedwabne," at the site of a Holocaust pogrom in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2021. (Krzysztof Bielawski)

Polish nationalists disrupt commemoration for Jewish pogrom victims

By Katarzyna Markusz

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