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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 28, 2021

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Prof. Eitan Mor removes a kidney of Israeli woman Shani Markowitz at Sheba Medical Center, for transplantation in the United Arab Emirates (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

3 women receive kidneys in Israel-UAE organ exchange, 1st with Arab state

By Nathan Jeffay

An X-ray showing the stomach of a newborn baby girl who was found to have an embryo inside her, July 2021. (Assuta Medical Center)

One in half a million: Girl born in Israel with twin inside her stomach

Israeli archer Itay Shanny competes in the men's individual eliminations during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field in Tokyo on July 28, 2021. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP)

Tokyo 2020

Bullseye: Israeli archer Itay Shanny scores big upset to reach last 16 in Tokyo

By Michael Bachner

Israel’s first-ever Olympic athlete in the sport, who placed 60th in ranking round, beats 5th seed and then another rival; judoka Kochman loses; cyclist Shapira finishes 15th

Olympic bronze medalist Avishag Semberg is greeted by the press, family and friends as she arrives at Ben Gurion Airport, on July 27, 2021. (Flash90)

New Olympic medalist Semberg gets hero’s welcome upon return to Israel

Israeli swimmer Andi Murez competes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on July 28, 2021. (Simona Castrovillari/Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020Despite record efforts, Israeli Olympic swimmers come up short in latest races

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 28 – Pride and prejudice against Israel on Olympics judo mat

Catch an update on Team Israel in the Olympics with Amy Spiro while Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman introduces the five-member Palestinian delegation

Illustrative: A Soroka Medical Center staff member works in the coronavirus ward on September 15, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israeli hospitals reopen their coronavirus wards as serious cases mount

Experts: COVID boosters for at-risk groups may help avert new variants

By Nathan Jeffay

Vaccine effectiveness in preventing serious illness falls to 80% – Israeli study

Israel to start vaccinating kids aged 5-11 who have severe background illnesses

Cargo ships idle in the Gulf of Suez, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohamed Elshahed)

Secret files show alleged Iranian plans to sink ships using cyberattacks

Documents, reportedly by secret Revolutionary Guard unit, name Israel, US, UK and others as potential targets; also say attacks could be used to blow up fuel pump at gas station

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a conference in the Eshkol region, southern Israel, on July 13, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel is acting against Iranian ‘existential threat,’ Gantz tells BBC Persian

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US President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Virginia, July 27, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP)

After swastika carved at State Department, Biden vows no place for antisemitism

Responding to hate symbol near office of special envoy on antisemitism, US president says society must give ‘no safe harbor’ to hate and stand up to bigotry wherever it is found

A Twitter sign is shown outside of the social media giant's headquarters in San Francisco, October 26, 2016. (Jeff Chiu/AP)

UK watchdog accuses Twitter of turning blind eye to antisemitic posts

In this March 9, 2009 file photo, The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Swastika carved near office of antisemitism envoy at US State Department

A promotion video for a game called 'Heal Hitler' in which players are asked to identify the Nazi leader's psychological issues, July 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube)

‘Heal Hitler’ video game simulates therapy for Nazi leader, drawing outrage

Critics say game asking players to identify Hitler’s psychological issues and ‘avoid’ the Holocaust is in ‘super poor taste’ and trivializes the tragedy

Anuradha Mittal (Courtesy)

‘I am not anti-Semitic,’ says Ben & Jerry’s board chair amid boycott controversy

In first reaction since decision not to sell ice cream in West Bank settlements, Anuradha Mittal says she is proud of stance and was subjected to ‘vile hate’

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

Israeli campaign aims to whip up US protests against Ben & Jerry’s — report

Amid Ben & Jerry’s uproar, Unilever chief tells Jewish groups firm opposes BDS

Manya Brachear Pashman

Ben and Jerry’s not-so-sweet surrender

The ice cream company caved to the activists who embrace BDS because they oppose the settlements, but BDS wants more: to eliminate Israel

The night Jeremy didn’t make it home

If I worried that he was lost and alone and that nobody would help him, a brief Facebook post showed me how wrong I was

Manfred S. Green

I voted against the third COVID-19 vaccine dose. Here’s why

Before we introduce shots haphazardly, we need a comprehensive data review to establish clear policy for when, how, and to whom the boosters should be given

The cabinet blinks on an ambitious climate strategy

The government diluted a crucial, carefully vetted proposal to meet the daunting climate challenges. Foot dragging could spell disaster in the coming decade.

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg attend a Meretz faction meeting at the Knesset on June 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Health, environment ministers meet PA counterparts for 1st time in years

Meretz’s Issawi Frej, who is encouraging renewed contacts between Israeli and Palestinian ministers, says ‘there is will and commitment on both sides — we are going to talk’

6:10 pm

Google mandates COVID vaccine as it delays return to office
5:49 pm

US ratchets up pressure on Poland over Holocaust restitution law
5:33 pm

Ra'am MK slated to be appointed deputy minister if he resigns from Knesset -- TV

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

New budget bill shows coalition launching sweeping reforms despite fragility

The Bennett-Lapid government is advancing a host of major long-delayed reforms with unexpected ease. Is its very instability the secret to its resolve?

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center wearing black mask, during a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on July 25, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

From right, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman attend the first cabinet meeting, at the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett, Gantz, Liberman agree on defense budget: NIS 58 billion for 2022

By Judah Ari Gross

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on July 25, 2021. (Lazar Berman/ Times of Israel)

Lapid to visit Morocco in two weeks, in first for Israeli FM

By Lazar Berman

After 20-year lull in relations, foreign minister to open mission in Rabat ahead of expected visit by Moroccan counterpart

Palestinian workers from the West Bank city of Hebron carry personal belongings as they cross into Israel through a hole in security fence near the West Bank city of Hebron, January 31, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel to give work permits to 16,000 more Palestinians in bid to strengthen PA

By Aaron Boxerman

Around 122,000 Palestinians currently work legally in Israel and the settlements, and their incomes are important to a PA economy that has taken tough hits during the pandemic

Palestinian protester hurls stones towards Israeli troops during clashes at a protest in the West Bank village of Beita, near Nablus on June 08, 2021. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90

Palestinian killed by Israeli fire near West Bank outpost

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fearing fresh unrest, Bennett gov’t weighing delay for verdict on Sheikh Jarrah

By Jacob Magid and Aaron Boxerman

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni attends a plenary session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, July 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK Gafni calls prime minister a ‘murderer’ due to recent COVID deaths

Ultra-Orthodox lawmaker later takes back the term, but insists Bennett ‘guilty’ of coronavirus fatalities

Likud MK David Bitan (L) speaks with coalition whip Idit Silman (Yamina) during a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud announces boycott of coalition whip, claiming she secretly recorded MKs

By Michael Bachner

Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy seen during a plenary session in Jerusalem, July 26, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Second time lucky: Knesset passes law for rabbinical court reform

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Shlomo Lipetz is vice president of programming at City Winery. (Ehud Lazin/ via JTA)

Tokyo 2020

This Team Israel Olympic pitcher has a day job booking talent like John Mulaney

By Gabe Friedman

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NaTang, left, and Jeffrey D. Schwartz inspect the rooftop plaza in Taiwan's new Jewish community center, currently under construction. (Glenn Leibowitz)

Taiwan to open its first-ever permanent Jewish community center

By Yaakov Schwartz

Detroit Jewish News columnist Danny Raskin was featured on Detroit Public Television last year at age 101. (YouTube screenshot)

ObituaryDanny Raskin, Jewish dining columnist who enjoyed an 80-year career, dies at 102

By Andrew Lapin

A syringe with which doctor Asaf Karpel allegedly tried to murder the partner of a woman he had a crush on, July 2021. (Israel Police)

Anesthesiologist accused of trying to murder crush’s boyfriend with anesthetics

The Bzigo mosquito detector in action (Courtesy)

With computer vision, Bzigo creates ‘Iron Dome’ against mosquitos

By Shoshanna Solomon

Hamas security officers stand guard on the main road of the Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, October 30, 2020. (Adel Hana/AP)

EU ‘appalled’ by alleged killing of 2 Gazans by Hamas security forces

By Aaron Boxerman

Yair Lapid, left, and Naftali Bennett seen during a plenary session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After all-day debate, Knesset cements Bennett-Lapid rotation in law

Illustrative: Ancient artifacts, smuggled into the US in violation of federal law and shipped to Hobby Lobby stores, are shown at an event returning the artifacts to Iraq, on May 2, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

US takes steps to return 3,500-year-old ‘Gilgamesh’ tablet to Iraq

By AFP

Fans and supporters of pop star Britney Spears protest at the Lincoln Memorial, during the "Free Britney" rally, on July 14, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Britney Spears’s lawyer wants accountant Jason Rubin as conservator

By AP and ToI Staff

Liliia Akhaimova, of the Russian Olympic Committee, performs on the vault during the artistic gymnastics women's final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP/Ashley Landis)

Jewish vaulter Lilia Akhaimova helps Russia to gymnastics gold medal in Tokyo

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of cash. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli fintech firms raised record $2.3 billion in first half of 2021

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