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What Matters Most On Friday, July 23, 2021

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Ankie Spitzer and Ilana Romano, widows of Andre Spitzer and Yoseff Romano, who were murdered in the 1972 Munich massacre, take part in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics opening ceremony, July 23, 221, at which a moment of silence was held for Israel's 1972 Olympic massacre victims (Courtesy)

Israeli official: 'IOC chief promised, and kept his word'

After 49 years, Israeli victims of 1972 Olympic massacre honored at Tokyo opener

By ToI Staff and Agencies

For first time, moment of silence held at start of Games for 11 Israeli athletes slain by Palestinian terrorists; victims’ widows: ‘This is the moment we’ve waited for’

Fireworks illuminate over the National Stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics launch with glitz and glamour for at-home audience

By AP and ToI Staff

Olympic fan Kyoko Ishikawa shows her cheering at her home, April 10, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

With fans kept out of venues, Olympic superfan brings the Games home

By Andrew MCKIRDY

Full schedule for Israel’s athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

By Michael Bachner

Want to know when your favorites are set to compete? Here are the dates and times for all 90 members of the Jewish state’s Olympic team

Then-president Reuven Rivlin hosts members of the Israeli Olympic delegation competing in the Tokyo 2020 Games at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Screen capture from video of Israeli judoka Tohar Bulbul, left, during the finals in the men's under-73kg category at the European Judo Championships, April 17, 2021. (YouTube)

Algerian judoka said to quit Olympics in order to not face Israeli opponent

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett: Vaccine refusers are endangering the entire country

PM warns another lockdown is possible if one million holdouts aren’t immunized, says aim is ‘to have an open and safe country’

Illustrative image: A woman shows her green pass as she arrives to watch a play at the Khan theater in Jerusalem, on February 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers okay return of Green Pass; plan to ban travel to UK, Cyprus, Turkey

Health care workers test Israelis for COVID-19 in a Jerusalem drive through complex, July 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Serious virus cases rise to 81, in highest tally since May

Illustrative: A pill is held in a hand (Rosifan19; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli COVID vaccine in pill form to start clinical trial in Tel Aviv

By Nathan Jeffay

As world talks of possible boosters, and with poorer countries struggling to get shots in arms, developer claims pill could be ‘game-changer’ by simplifying logistics

An Israeli receives coronavirus vaccine in Petah Tikva, on June 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Israeli, UK data offer mixed signals on vaccine’s potency against Delta strain

By Nathan Jeffay

A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China slams ‘arrogant’ WHO plan to investigate labs over COVID origin

By Jing Xuan Teng

Interview'I'm the curmudgeon who doesn’t like musicals'

Barry Sonnenfeld on filming ‘Schmigadoon!’: COVID was surreal; art imitated life

By Jordan Hoffman

New show airing weekly on Apple TV+ is an utterly enchanting take on the 1940s Broadway musical ‘Brigadoon,’ filmed at the height of the pandemic inside a ‘bubble’

How ‘Ted Lasso’ and Allen Iverson explain the uproar over Ben & Jerry’s

It’s all about practice. Political centrists who slammed the ice cream company’s settlement pullout see it as part of a long game that Israel will ultimately lose

You’d think BDS (and Ben & Jerry’s) would have learned from SodaStream

Singling out Israel for boycott is an ineffective marketing ploy at best, for it won’t sell more ice cream and it risks an international PR nightmare

Echoes from the canyon

Time slowed as we rowed the Grand Canyon river: the profound immensity around us was measured in eons and millennia – not tweets, hashtags, and 24-hour news

David-Seth Kirshner

The unspoken problem with BDS

How strange to blame only one party for all of the situational realities in the entire region: the Israeli government

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Pregnancy at 45 explained by Israeli high-risk maternal-fetal expert

When this podcast host found out she was pregnant at a ripe old age, she turned to the internet… and found almost nothing. Here is a conversation that sets the record straight

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, a woman walks outside the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israeli panel to review potential misuse of NSO spyware around world

By AFP and ToI Staff

The ‘Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror’ platform that details the operations of Israeli company NSO Group, as part of an investigation in July 2021 by Amnesty International and Citizen Lab. (Courtesy)

Israel democracy watchdog calls for ‘smart regulation’ for NSO spyware sales

By Shoshanna Solomon

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban leaves the building during departures at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, on October 16, 2020. (Johanna Geron, Pool via AP)

Hungary to probe whether own government used Israeli spyware to target opponents

By Géza Molnar

File: Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi, whose number was on a leaked list of phones reportedly being targeted by Israeli-made spyware, looks at his mobile phone on July 20, 2021, in Budapest (GERGELY BESENYEI/AFP)

Spyware for sale: The booming trade in surveillance tech

Israel’s NSO Group is in the eye of a storm over its Pegasus software, but is far from the only company helping governments with covert operations

Illustrative. An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, on August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Algeria launches probe of NSO spyware claim; Saudi Arabia, UAE deny allegations

By AFP and ToI Staff

France's then-ambassador to the US Gerard Araud speaks during the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance Ceremony, in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

French ex-diplomat saw ‘potential for misuse’ while consulting for NSO Group

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

Ice cream moves along the production line at Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, in Waterbury, Vermont. on March 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot/File)

Texas considers divesting from Ben & Jerry’s following settlement boycott

Comptroller orders office to probe whether announcement by ice cream giant violates state’s anti-BDS laws, which would require withdrawing state pension funds from Unilever

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) greets Israel's envoy to the US and UN Gilad Erdan in Jerusalem, July 22, 2021 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Bennett: US consumers don’t think taking Hamas’s side is ‘cool’

By Lazar Berman

Then-UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay speaks during a press conference in Rabat, Morocco, on May 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm, File)

Former head of UN rights council to lead open-ended probe of Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Navi Pillay tapped by body’s current leader to chair unprecedented commission of inquiry into ‘root causes’ of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Customers sitting at Cafe Kadosh in Jerusalem, May 2020. The restaurant is one of hundreds in Israel that has opted for kosher certification outside the auspices of Israel's Chief Rabbinate. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In religious revolution, restaurants dropping Rabbinate’s kosher certification

By Linda Gradstein

Alternative kashrut authority Tzohar has been the go-to for those trying to avoid Israel’s Chief Rabbinate; now new legislation may give it full government recognition

Justice Minister Gideon Saar speaks during a Conference of Heads of Local Authorities in Ramat Negev, southern Israel, July 22, 2021 (Flash90)

Sa’ar says he’s preparing bill to ban indicted person from forming government

Justice minister says he coordinated matter with PM Bennett, though coalition officials say Sa’ar was not promised bill would be advanced

A man rides in a mock submarine during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, on October 14, 2020. (AP/Oded Balilty)

High Court rejects petitions for state inquiry into ‘Submarine Affair’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar attend a plenum session in the Knesset, on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Wayward Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar to be appointed minister — report

IAF completes first multinational drone drill with 5 foreign militaries

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says UAVs played key role in May’s Gaza conflict, amassing over 6,000 flight hours during 11 days of fighting

Italian drone pilots fly a Hermes-450 unmanned aerial vehicle while an Israeli operator watches during an international exercise, dubbed Blue Guardian, which launched on July 12, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

People clean tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean sea in Gador nature reserve near Hadera, Israel, on Saturday, February 20, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Global fund agrees to compensate Israel for tar pollution by Syrian oil tanker

London-based International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund will now discuss how much to award, to whom and according to what timetable, Environment Ministry says

More Headlines

Outgoing-Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Tel Aviv, on June 29, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Attorney general to High Court: Denial of Israel Prize to academic was wrong

Abdu Yousef al-Khatib al-Tamimi, 43, who died under unclear circumstances while in police custody in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (Courtesy)

Palestinian dies in Israeli police detention, sparking inquiry

By Aaron Boxerman

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) greets Foreign Minister Yair Lapid ahead of their meeting in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP)

Report: At Israel’s behest, US pressing Poland on Holocaust restitution law

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a media conference at the end of an EU-Canada summit at the European Council building in Brussels, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Trudeau says Canada to spend $5M to strengthen security at Jewish institutions

By David Lazarus

The site of a paraglider crash near Kaduri on July 23, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Man killed in paraglider crash in the Galilee

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)

Mexico urges Israel to cooperate in extraditing fugitive ex-investigator

The Fleur de Passion research ship before it left Eilat in southern Israel for Port Sudan, July 19, 2021. ((Marcos Schonholz)

Ship taking coral research mission from Israel to Sudan runs aground

By AFP

In this May 8, 2014, file photo David Cohen, Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation testifies during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law oversight hearing on the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Joe Biden is nominating Cohen to serve as his ambassador to Canada, according to the White House. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Biden nominates David Cohen, ex-Jewish fed vice chair, as US envoy to Canada

By Gabe Friedman

Police search and rescue teams use a drone with a thermal camera to try and find two people who were swept out to sea in the Dead Sea on July 23, 2021 (Israel Police)

Two missing Palestinian youths found safe in the Dead Sea after lengthy searches

Illustrative: After the surrender of Nazi Germany, Chaplain Samuel Blinder is seen in the cellar of the former Institute for Racial Sciences in Frankfurt, July 6, 1945. Standing amid a collection of manuscripts and books taken from every Nazi occupied country in Europe, he examines one of hundredsTorah scrolls (AP Photo)

US seizes artifacts looted from WWII Eastern European Jewish communities

By AFP

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