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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 22, 2021

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President Isaac Herzog speaks at a ceremony in central Israel, on July 14, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After Ben & Jerry’s snub, Herzog calls Israel boycotts a ‘new kind of terrorism’

PA blasts president’s characterization, says ‘the occupation is terrorism itself’; left-wing MK protests use of loaded term to describe an ‘ice cream boycott’

Workers at the Ben and Jerry's factory near Kiryat Malachi, on July 21, 2021. (Flash90)

After ice cream settlement snub, Unilever chief says ‘fully committed’ to Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Ben & Jerrys 'Pecan Resist' ice-cream, launched October 2018. (Ben & Jerry's)

Settlement boycott latest in series of progressive stances by Ben & Jerry’s

A technician collects a swab sample for COVID-19, at a testing center in Tel Aviv (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli study claims major drop in vaccine protection; experts don’t believe it

By Nathan Jeffay

Report says protection against serious COVID-19 illness fell to 80%, or 50% for over-60s; government adviser, physician and health statistics expert all criticize research

In this April 21, 2021, photo, a man dons protective gear before entering a room at a hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Rare ‘breakthrough’ COVID cases among vaccinated cause alarm, confusion in US

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Shaare Zedek Medical Center staff wearing protective clothes move patients to the new coronavirus ward of the hospital in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Seriously ill COVID patients recovering faster than in earlier waves — report

Then-coronavirus czar Nachman Ash attends a press conference in Jerusalem on June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry head says no thanks after Netanyahu contacts Pfizer, Moderna

Nachman Ash says ministry has direct relationship with pharma companies, and booster decision should be left to experts; serious cases rise as cabinet set to meet on restrictions

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-education minister Naftali Bennett (left) at the annual Bible Quiz at the Jerusalem Theatre on Independence Day, April 19, 2018. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Netanyahu speaks with Pfizer, Moderna CEOs behind Bennett’s back

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during a press briefing on July 21, 2021. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Health minister warns ‘long months’ ahead in battling Delta variant

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 22 – Will massive Team Israel net 7 medals at Tokyo 2020?

Amy Spiro explains who is going for the gold (or silver or bronze); Jordan Hoffman highlights a new Barry Sonnenfeld musical series and a book convinced that Superman was Jewish

Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever announces fall in profit amid rising costs

By AFP and ToI Staff

Delegates attend the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 9, 2020. (AP Photo)

Israel to join African Union as observer after being kept out for 2 decades

By Lazar Berman

Jerusalem makes major stride in its burgeoning ties with the continent; ‘this is a day of celebration for Israel-Africa relations,’ says Foreign Minister Lapid

Andi Murez at the European Championships in Budapest in May 2021. (Israel Swimming Assocation)

Tokyo 2020'I strongly believe that she didn’t peak yet'

Israel’s fastest female freestyle swimmer is a medical student from Los Angeles

Andi Murez is heading to the Olympics in Tokyo this year, aiming for a redemption tour after she fell ill during the 2016 Rio Games

Jewish women’s basketball star to be US flag bearer at Olympics opening ceremony

By Emily Burack

This studio photographic illustration shows a smartphone with the website of Israel's NSO Group which features 'Pegasus' spyware, on display in Paris, on July 21, 2021. (Joel Saget/AFP)

Denying mass spying claims, NSO says it’s victim of ‘an orchestrated campaign’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli firm in spyware scandal says it won’t be responding further to ‘false allegations’ its surveillance was used on world leaders and hundreds of journalists

Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attends the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, FILE)

UAE said linked to listing of 400 UK phone numbers as targets for NSO spyware

Mexico's then-president Enrique Pena Nieto takes notes as an unidentified Mexican diplomat takes pictures with her mobile phone during the plenary session at the Americas Summit in Lima, Peru, Saturday, April 14, 2018. (AP/Karel Navarro)

Mexico alleges NSO kickback scheme in $300 million spyware deals

By AP and ToI Staff

A police officer enforces COVID-19 regulations at Ben Gurion International Airport on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel media review

We’ll cut it off at the pass: What the press is saying about virus curbs and NSO

By Joshua Davidovich

The press knows what ministers will do before they do it, and why it will or won’t solve rising morbidity rates. Plus NSO finds the bad guys behind its bad press: Ben and Jerry

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a farewell ceremony for the French armed forces chief of staff, Gen. Francois Lecointre, at the Invalides monument in Paris, on July 21, 2021. (Daniel Cole/AP)

France’s Macron calls national security meeting on alleged phone spyware attacks

By AFP

President taking ‘very seriously’ report that his number was among tens of thousands on leaked list purportedly targeted by clients of Israeli-made Pegasus malware

French parliamentarians meet President Isaac Herzog (right) in Jerusalem, July 20, 2021 (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Iran, terror concerns are changing France’s ties with Israel, say visiting MPs

By Lazar Berman

Moroccan King Mohammed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron, left, speak after inaugurating a high-speed line at Rabat train station, Morocco, November 15, 2018. (Christophe Archambault/Pool Photo via AP)

Morocco threatens legal action over claims it used Israeli spyware

By AFP

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

Live updates (closed)

Bennett: Vaccine refusers are endangering the entire country

Prime minister urges Israelis to reach out to the 1 million citizens who refuse to get vaccinated in an effort to sway them

7:08 pm

White House submits nomination of Israel envoy Nides for Senate confirmation
6:12 pm

Saudi Arabia and UAE deny Pegasus spyware allegations
6:08 pm

Biden nominates David Cohen as US ambassador to Canada

From left to right: Dr. Miriam Knoll, ICU nurse Chaya Milikowski, and Dr. Chana Weinstock Neuberger. (Courtesy)

Un-'Unorthodox'Saying you are Shabbat observant on an interview 'is huge'

In the US, some Orthodox women in medicine still plagued by discrimination

By Danielle Ziri

Despite naysayers in their communities and the medical field, these health workers manage to have kids, follow religious law and save lives doing the work they love

An illustrative image of computer pop-up box screen warning of a system being hacked. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Interview

Hackers are as dogged as Romans besieging Masada – US cybersecurity exec

By Shoshanna Solomon

The West has to work harder in war against increasingly bold cybercrooks, says Brandon Wales, executive director at the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

View of the Eshkol water filtration plant in northern Israel, on April 17, 2007. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

After alleged Iranian cyberattack, Israel’s Water Authority beefs up defenses

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel needs a Judaism that is more personal and accountable

Busting the kashrut monopoly represents a return to an age-old form of rabbinic authority, and heals the damage of public distrust in state religious institutions

At home in the Arabian Gulf, I’ve never felt unsafe as a Jew

While antisemitism is on the rise in the West, it is not an issue here in the region, including in Bahrain. That’s why more Jews are coming to the GCC.

The birthplace of egalitarian thought

Throughout the ancient world, the truth was self-evident: all men were not created equal. Sinai changed that

Illustrative: Missiles in the sky near the international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (SANA, Syria's official news agency, via AP/ FIle)

Israeli jets said to strike inside Syria for second time in days

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A part of Pardis petrochemical complex facilities in Assalouyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, Iran, Sept. 4, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran bypasses strategic Hormuz Strait to export crude oil via Gulf of Oman

An Iranian man walks past a shuttered store in the capital Tehran, on July 20, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran accused of throttling internet to keep lid on water protests

By Jon Gambrell

The United States Consulate in Jerusalem, March 4, 2019. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Biden pushing off Jerusalem mission reopening until coalition stabilizes

US wary of causing a rift in Israel’s nascent, politically diverse coalition and bringing about Netanyahu’s return before budget passes, sources say

Likud MK Nir Barkat speaks at a party conference in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

InterviewWould-be PM Barkat courts US bipartisan support while opposing Palestinian state

This undated photo released by Tokyo 2020 shows Kentaro Kobayashi, a key director of Tokyo Olympics’ opening ceremony (©Tokyo 2020 via AP)

Olympic opening ceremony director fired over Holocaust joke in 1998 comedy act

By AFP

Kentaro Kobayashi, the latest member of the opening event team to depart in disgrace, apologizes over ‘extremely inappropriate’ skit

Marchers at a rally in Glogow, Poland, July 18, 2021. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Polish anti-vaccine protesters chant Jews are to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic

By Katarzyna Markusz

Demonstrators gathered to protest against Islamic law, foreground, stand across from counter demonstrators Saturday, June 10, 2017, in New York. (AP/Craig Ruttle)

Muslim and Jewish lawmakers in US urge creation of Islamophobia monitor

Israel Antiquities Authority workers seen working under the Mughrabi bridge leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, December 31 2012. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Politics hamper replacing hazardous bridge to Temple Mount

By Ilan Ben Zion

Mughrabi Bridge was never intended to be a permanent walkway and engineering report says it is in danger of collapse, but sensitivities over holy site are foiling action

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech regarding the coronavirus pandemic, at PA headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2020.

Abbas speaks with Israeli minister Barlev in 4th recent high-level contact

By Aaron Boxerman

More Headlines

Illustrative: An Israeli rabbinical court reviews a conversion case. (Flash90)

Religious affairs minister said planning to liberalize Jewish conversions

By Raoul Wootliff

File: Nathan Milikowsky in 2013, in San Francisco (Drew Altizer Photography)

High Court says Netanyahu must explain why money from cousin not an illicit gift

Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni, Shimon Matalon, Elazar Mordechai Goldberg, Moshe Bergman and Daniel Morris; 5th row (L-R): Ariel Achdut, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Hanoch Slod, Yedidya Fogel, Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Moshe Tzarfati, Nahman Kirshbaum and Eliyahu Cohen.

Ombudsman suspends probe of Meron disaster to let state commission take lead

Over 50 US Congressmen from both sides of the aisle at a press conference in Jerusalem, August 8, 2017 /courtesy)

AIPAC-affiliated congressional trips to Israel delayed over COVID-19 concerns

The Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh as seen from the northern West Bank city of Nablus on December 7, 2016. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian arrested over June shooting attack near West Bank settlement

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)

After hours-long search, troops nab two migrants who entered Israel from Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Saeed Mousa, an Arab Israeli who was assaulted by a Jewish Israeli mob, at Ichilov Medical Center, May 14, 2021. (video screenshot)

4 more charged over Jewish mob attack on Arab man in Bat Yam

Since the early days of the pandemic, Rabbi Janise Poticha has kept up her shofar-blowing at 7 p.m. daily as a salute to health care workers. (Lydia Orias/via JTA)

Sound the trumpetNY rabbi still blows a shofar nightly at 7 to salute health workers

Col. Oren Simcha salutes during a ceremony on July 7, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF taps Oren Simcha to lead Nahal Brigade after predecessor’s sudden death

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian rescuers and onlookers gather at the scene of a blast in Gaza City, the cause of which has not yet been determined, on July 22, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

1 dead, 10 hurt in Gaza explosion; IDF says not involved

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of doctors performing brain surgery (iStock)

Israel-founded Theator to work with Mayo Clinic to bring AI to surgical rooms

By Shoshanna Solomon

Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London on March 26, 2018. (AFP Photo/Tolga Akmen)

UK Labour bans far-left factions in effort to change reputation on antisemitism

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