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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 17, 2021

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

Top health official denies holiday lockdown considered

Bennett: ‘Vaccines on their own won’t solve the problem’

Vaccine protection ‘weaker than we’d hoped’ against Delta, PM says; inoculations help, but ‘significantly less’ than with previous strains; gov’t seeks to approve home testing kits

A worker cleans the balcony of a hotel room in Agios Prokopios village, on the Aegean island of Naxos, Greece, May 12, 2021 (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Israel expected to add Greece to list of nations requiring quarantine

Family members wearing safety gear visit a family member at the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Top immunologist: Douse Israel’s Delta ‘fire’ before it needs lake-full of water

By Nathan Jeffay

Cyrille Cohen talks Delta dynamics and booster shots, raises concerns and sounds warning alarm while also suggesting variant may further immunize some people for uncertain future

Vaccinated UK health minister tests positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms

By AP

UK pushes ahead with plan to end virus limits even as new daily cases top 50,000

Rescuers check for victims in flooded cars on a road in Erftstadt, Germany, July 17, 2021 (AP/Michael Probst)

'Within minutes, a wave was in the house'

‘Catastrophic’: Europe reels from worst floods in years as death toll passes 150

Hundreds still missing in Germany, Belgium as rescuers work to find survivors; threat not yet over, with swollen Meuse river looking ‘very dangerous’ for nearby town

A man walk on a road amid destroyed houses after the floods caused major damage in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 16, 2021 (CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP)

‘Like a war zone’: Stunned Germans count cost of floods

By Jean-Philippe LACOUR

In this photo provided by the Bootleg Fire Incident Command, the Bootleg Fire burns at night near Highway 34 in southern Oregon on July 15, 2021 (Jason Pettigrew/Bootleg Fire Incident Command via AP)

Massive, erratic Oregon wildfire spreads miles a day, destroys dozens of homes

By Gillian Flaccus

People use rubber rafts in floodwaters after the Meuse River broke its banks during heavy flooding in Liege, Belgium, July 15, 2021 (AP Photo/Valentin Bianchi)

Analysis

Experts warn Europe floods show need to curb emissions, adapt urban planning

Scientists can’t yet say for sure whether climate change caused the deadly flooding, but insist that it certainly exacerbates the extreme weather

This aerial view taken in Brommelen, Netherlands, shows the flooded area around the Meuse after a levee of the Juliana Canal broke, July 16, 2021. (Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP)

Dutch PM blames climate change for deadly flooding in Europe

By AFP

Screen grab taken from video apparently showing protests against water shortages in Khuzestan, July 16, 2021 (Twitter)

1 killed at Iran water shortage protests in restive drought-hit province

By AFP

Mark Zuckerberg's dog Beast seen in a photo sporting a yarmulke and tallit (Facebook photo)

Mark Zuckerberg’s kippa-wearing dog gets hit with antisemitic comments

By JTA

Post also inundated with many pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel comments and photos

Two men assault a Jewish man on his way to synagogue, July 16, 2021 (Screen grab/Shomrim)

Jewish man beaten, robbed on his way to synagogue in Brooklyn

A screen capture of a tweet from 2014 by BBC journalist Tala Halawa in which she wrote 'Hilter was right' and that Israel is 'more Nazi than Hilter.' (Twitter via JTA)

BBC journalist fired for ‘Hitler was right’ tweet blames ‘pro-Israel mob’

Israel's Or Sasson celebrates after winning the bronze medal during the men's over 100-kg judo competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Tokyo Olympics 2020

How Israel became a global judo powerhouse and Olympic favorite

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A combination of rare Olympic success in 1992, combined with an infusion of judo masters from the former Soviet Union, have helped spark a national love affair with the sport

1st case of COVID-19 diagnosed in Tokyo Olympic Village, 6 days ahead of games

By AFP

US President Joe Biden tries to hear questions shouted by reporters as he heads to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, July 16, 2021, to spend the weekend at Camp David. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden: Social media platforms are ‘killing people’ with vaccine misinformation

By AP

US president responds to question about tech giants failing to stop misinformation, says it’s now ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’; Facebook: Accusations ‘aren’t supported by facts’

US First Lady Jill Biden encourages recently vaccinated patients to get unvaccinated friends and family to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations during a visit to a popup clinic site at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. on June 22, 2021. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

US warns COVID ‘becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated’ as case spike continues

By AFP

Hannah Pressman

Jewish traditions celebrate the rhythm of nature, but it’s all off balance now

Last week’s Heat Dome was billed as a ’once-in-a-millennium’ convergence of factors, but it seems to be a grim harbinger of things to come

On memory, digitalization and Auschwitz

Based on 140 tweets this month by the Auschwitz Memorial, it is clear that the Memorial focuses on Polish suffering under the Nazis. Where are the Jews?

FILE - In this March 13, 2016, file photo Anthony Bourdain speaks during South By Southwest at the Austin Convention Center, in Austin, Texas (Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)

Ethical questions raised over use of AI to recreate Bourdain’s voice in new docu

By Matt O'Brien and Barbara Ortutay

Viewers concerned both by the audio fakery and the director’s seeming dismissal of any moral concerns

Zionist activist Rudy Rochman pitches his project, 'We Were Never Lost.' (Screenshot)

Israeli filmmakers to spend second Shabbat in Nigerian jail

By Lazar Berman

Still without legal representation and not charged with any crime, trio receiving support from Chabad, embassies

Israeli pop star Noa Kirel in her first English-language song 'Please Don't Suck,' released by Atlantic Records on July 14, 2021 (Screencapture/YouTube)

Israeli pop sensation Noa Kirel making a splash with first English hit

‘Please Don’t Suck’ racks up more than 3 million views in first two days on YouTube; catchy, upbeat song hailed as ‘instantly memorable’

Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar at the Knesset on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

Maverick Yisrael Beytenu MK is in Liberman’s crosshairs

Party chair wants to declare Eli Avidar a rebel MK to stymie his parliamentary maneuverability — but doing so could risk toppling a coalition desperate for every vote

Left: Then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz, on July 14, 2021; Right: Then-Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, on March 7, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz, Sa’ar agree to review potential state inquiry into submarine affair

Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana, left, with Haya Kliger, on July 15, 2021 (Courtesy)

Woman to lead local religious council for only 2nd time in Israeli history

Randi Weingarten, with megaphone, marches in a New York City rally, June 27, 2018. (Courtesy Professional Staff Congress/via JTA)

Resigning teachers' union member: 'I feel unsafe as a Jew'

US teachers’ unions increasingly debate Israel, and in some places back boycotts

By Andrew Lapin and Gabriel Greschler

With Jews spearheading initiatives on both sides of the issue, votes across America on whether to support the anti-Israel BDS movement ensnare prominent Jewish labor leaders

Dr. Yuval Cinnamon, an embryo specialist who heads the NRS Poultry research group in Rehovot's Volcani Institute, showing the lab where he and his team are attempting to change the genetic technology of eggs (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Israeli tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fated for culling

By Jessica Steinberg

Rehovot team finds ‘genetic modification’ to halt embryogenesis, stopping formation of males when they are just a cell cluster; males routinely killed because they can’t lay eggs

Vardit Ravitsky in Ottawa, 2014. (Courtesy)

Interview'It was too easy to ignore these issues before COVID'

Israeli-Canadian bioethicist: Return to pre-COVID normal would be wasted chance

By Robert Sarner

With myriad ethical issues prompted by the pandemic, Vardit Ravitsky has emerged as a prominent voice of morality and change in Canada’s public health debate

More Headlines

Illustrative: An orangutan at the Oklahoma City Zoo (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Off her treeEscaped orangutan causes stir at Ramat Gan zoo

The scene where a man was shot dead in Hura, July 16, 2020 (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in southern Bedouin town of Hura; 15-year-old boy lightly hurt

Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona players (blue) during a match against Beitar Jerusalem at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium on January 4, 2020. (Flash90)

UAE, Israeli soccer clubs to face off in practice match in Serbia

Israeli soldiers stand guard after firing flares above the northern town of Metulla, by the border with Lebanon, following a pro-Palestinian protest across the border in the Lebanese Khiam area, on May 14, 2021 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

IDF fires flares near Lebanese border after suspicious movements

A demonstrator throws a tire on a fire during a protest over economic conditions, in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Creditors cancel $14 billion of Sudan’s debt after reforms, Israel normalization

By AP

A wooden heart at a makeshift memorial remembers the family of Vishal and Bhavna Patel, who died along with their 1-year-old daughter Aishani, in the collapse of the nearby Champlain Towers South building, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. Removal and recovery work continues at the site of the partially collapsed condo building, Wednesday, in Surfside. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Judge says all options open as families debate future of Surfside collapse site

By AP

In this photo released by the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad takes the oath of office for a fourth seven-year term, at the Syrian Presidential Palace in the capital Damascus, Syria, July 17, 2021 (Syrian Presidency via Facebook via AP)

Syria’s Assad sworn in for 4th term after an election derided overseas

Ambassador to the US and UN Gilad Erdan addresses diplomats from around the world on week-long Israel tour he organized, July 16, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Erdan leads international ambassadors to US and UN on tour of Israel

By Lazar Berman

Rabbi Yoel Kahn, left, circa 1979, led teams of young scholars in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in the arts of memorization, repetition and transcription. (Jewish Educational Media/The Living Archive via JTA)

Rabbi Yoel Kahn, scholar who preserved Lubavitcher rebbe’s words, dies at 91

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Supporters of Lebanon's prime minister-designate Saad Hariri, who stepped down saying he was unable to form a government, hurl stones at a Lebanese armored personnel carrier (unseen) in the capital Beirut on July 15, 2021. (AFP)

Lebanon in freefall as France announces aid conference on port blast anniversary

By Hashem Osseiran

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi arrives to the Vatican for a private audience with Pope Francis, Friday, July 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Biden invites Iraqi prime minister to White House

By AP and ToI Staff

The cover of 1975's 'Born to Run' album, by Bruce Springsteen. 'Thunder Road' is the opening track. (Courtesy)

Mary's dress does what?‘Oy Vey!’: Springsteen’s guitarist waves off a lyrical firestorm

By David Horovitz

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