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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 24, 2021

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Israel's Avishag Semberg walks off the ring after defeating Turkey's Rukiye Yıldırım to win a bronze medal during the women's 49kg taekwondo match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe).

Semberg: 'An Olympic medal at 19, it's a dream come true'

First Tokyo medal: Avishag Semberg wins taekwondo bronze, Israel’s 1st in field

Semberg, 19, beats Turkey’s Rukiye Yıldırım to become Israel’s youngest ever medalist; earlier also became first Israeli to ever win a taekwondo match at the Olympics

Algerian Judoka Fethi Nourine. (Screenshot)

Algerian suspended from world judo for refusal to face Israeli at Olympics

By AFP and ToI Staff

Simone Biles and Sasha Farber on March 2, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Meet the Jewish choreographer Simone Biles hopes will ‘spice up’ Olympic routine

By EVELYN FRICK

Ethel Rosenberg smiles and waves as she leaves New York's Women's detention home in an automobile for the death house in Sing Sing Prison April 11, 1951. The 35-year-old Mrs. Rosenberg and her husband, Julius, 32, were sentenced to die for furnishing wartime atom secrets to a soviet spy ring. (AP Photo/Murray Becker)

Interview'People felt if you scratch a Jew you can find a Communist'

Was the Rosenberg trial America’s Dreyfus affair?

By Robert Philpot

British author Anne Sebba’s new biography of Ethel Rosenberg is a gripping and tragic tale of a complex case involving family betrayal, misogyny, and antisemitism

As return to class looms, Israel mulls plans to push vaccines, testing in school

Health and Education ministries to present dueling proposals for new school year on Sunday, including reimplementing pods and possibly requiring frequent tests for shot refusers

Illustrative: Israeli schoolkids wearing face masks return to school in Tel Aviv on February 11, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protesters arguing with police outside the home of Naftali Bennett in Ra'anana on July 23, 2021. (screen capture: Twitter)

Anti-vaccination protesters scuffle with police outside PM’s home, 5 arrested

Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar in the Knesset, on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ahead of cabinet appointment, Knesset’s vaccine holdout announces inoculation

Pedestrians walk past the Ben & Jerry's shop on Church Street, in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/ Charles Krupa)

Five US states take aim at Ben & Jerry’s over settlement boycott

By JTA and Jacob Magid

Officials in Florida, Texas, New York, New Jersey and Illinois reviewing whether move requires divestment from parent company Unilever under their various state laws

Tear gas canisters fired by Israeli forces land amidst Palestinian protesters during confrontations in the town of Beita, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on July 23, 2021, after a protest against the Israeli outpost of Eviatar. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP)

Palestinian teen said killed by IDF live fire during West Bank clashes

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli military says soldier fired towards stone-throwing rioter; Palestinian Red Crescent says 21 injured by live fire in separate protest near Israeli outpost

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during a protest in the northern West Bank on July 23, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Over 140 Palestinians, 2 soldiers injured in West Bank clashes

By AFP

Ekrima Muhanna, an official in the Palestinian Authority security services, shot dead by unknown gunmen on Friday, July 23, 2021 (WAFA)

Former Palestinian military prosecutor shot dead in West Bank home

By Aaron Boxerman

I was boycotted back home in Wisconsin

It didn’t matter to my friend’s son that I hate Donald Trump as much as he does or that I favor a two-state solution. What mattered was that I’m Jewish

Christians should fight against antisemitism

If we are to love our neighbors as much as we love our own skins, our spouses, our innocent children asleep on a summer’s afternoon, we must take risks for them

Illustrative: Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Russia, exasperated, moving to curtail Israeli strikes in Syria

Arab paper claims that after getting sense US does not back ongoing Israeli raids, Moscow has taken steps to upgrade Syrian missile defenses

Henry Cavill portrays Superman in 'Man of Steel.' (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos)

Interview'This was a dirty job but somebody had to do it'

Was Superman a hidden Jew? Author of new 400-page scholarly tome is certain

By Jordan Hoffman

Roy Schwartz’s recent, massive ‘Is Superman Circumcised?’ devotes serious thought to what a previous generation of thinkers may have shrugged off as nonsense

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with 26 EU foreign ministers in Brussels, July 12, 2021. (European Union)

Lapid warns Poland ties ‘seriously’ harmed as Holocaust restitution law advances

Amnesty urges moratorium on surveillance technology in Pegasus scandal

By AFP

Rights group warns alleged widespread use of NSO Group’s software shows ‘devastating impact of poorly regulated spyware industry on human rights worldwide’

In this October 8, 2019 file photo, a woman types on a keyboard in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Congress party workers shout slogans during a protest accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of using military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists and activists in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP/Manish Swarup)

Indian government under fire as Israeli spyware accusations pile up

By AFP and ToI Staff

'Eva and Eve' by Julie Metz. (Courtesy); and a photo of Metz's mother Eva Singer as a child in January 1938, in Vienna. (Singer/Metz family collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York)

'She hid it where no one would look for it'

Mom’s hidden childhood scrapbook sends daughter on journey into pre-WWII Vienna

In her new book ‘Eva and Eve,’ New York Times bestselling author Julie Metz details a never-told family history uncovered through painstaking research after her mother’s death

This aerial photograph, taken on February 10, 2021, shows the oil storage containers of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) in the mountains near Israel's Red Sea port city of Eilat. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

UAE said spooked by Israeli plans to scrutinize controversial pipeline deal

Reports say Abu Dhabi surprised to hear that agreement to pipe Gulf oil through Israel could be in jeopardy, sparking tension between Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem

United Arab Emirates Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, Oct. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Bennett and UAE crown prince discuss bilateral ties in first call

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Julia Haart with her children Batsheva, Miriam and Shlomo in Atlanta in 2002. (Courtesy Elite World Group)

Interview

Julia Haart of ‘My Unorthodox Life’: ‘I love being a Jew, I hate fundamentalism’

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The unrecognized villages around Ramat Hovav in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chemical evaporation ponds, December 28, 2017 (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)

Israel announces plan to slash carbon emissions by at least 85% by 2050

By AFP

Search and rescue workers oversee an excavator dig through the rubble of the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on July 9, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Firefighters officially end search for bodies at collapsed Florida condo

By DAVID FISCHER and TERRY SPENCER

Iranians in Khuzestan, Iran's main oil-producing region protest severe water shortages with protests erupting in several towns and cities since July 15, 2020. (Screencapture/Twitter)

Iran protest death toll reportedly up to 8 as Khamenei acknowledges water woes

By AFP

Manager Terry Francona of the Cleveland Indians talks to members of the media during a press conference announcing the name change from the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field, on July 23, 2021, in Cleveland, Ohio. (Jason Miller/Getty Images/AFP)

ADL praises Cleveland Indians’ name-change to Guardians: ‘A welcome step’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives to a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked says she’d torpedo coalition if it agreed to settlement freeze

A patient rests on a bed in a hallway of the Rafic Hariri University Hospital in Lebanon's capital Beirut, on July 23, 2021. (STR/AFP)

Lebanon can’t handle next COVID wave, hospital chief says

By AFP

Illustrative: View of the border between Israel and Jordan, in the Jordan valley, in the West Bank, on June 17, 2020. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

IDF catches 5 border infiltrators from Jordan

Rush lead singer Geddy Lee with mother Mary Weinrib, an Auschwitz survivor, in an undated photo. (Instagram photo)

Top of the chartsRush rocker’s mom, an Auschwitz survivor, was his biggest fan

By JACQUELINE RODERICK

Illustrative: In this photo taken on July 16, 2012 documents coming from the Archives of Paris Police Prefecture and showing lists of Jewish people registered during WWII, are presented for an exhibition of French archives on Shoah in Paris. (AP/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Trove of Jewish artifacts stolen during Holocaust now in US custody

By AP

Can Facebook’s $1 billion gamble help it regain lost cool?

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