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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 29, 2021

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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a vaccination center in Jerusalem on January 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel among first countries in world to roll out measure

Israelis age 60 and up to start getting third coronavirus vaccine dose next week

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Health Ministry director-general tells HMOs to ready for Sunday launch after PM Bennett accepts expert panel’s recommendation

Opposition head Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on July 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu urging 3rd COVID dose after test shows his own antibodies low – report

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for packaging at the company’s facility in Puurs, Belgium, March 2021. (Pfizer via AP)

Pfizer expects $33.5 billion revenue this year from its COVID-19 vaccine

By LINDA A. JOHNSON

New Minister of Education Yifat Shasha-Biton speaks at a ceremony as she takes over from Yoav Gallant, at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Israel media review

Vax on, vax off: What the press is saying about Shasha-Biton and the third shot

By Joshua Davidovich

The education minister’s pro anti-vaccination leanings are raising hackles among some, and a booster dose gets the go-ahead

Bennett said to rebuke education minister for feuding with health officials

School opening feud ratchets up with education minister branded COVID ‘denier’

‘Nazi murderer’: Anti-vaxxers protest outside senior health official’s home

Jerry Greenfield, left, and Ben Cohen, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s, shown in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)

Ben and Jerry say they ‘support Israel,’ reject its ‘illegal occupation’

By Jacob Magid and JTA

In NY Times op-ed, founders of ice cream giant say decision to boycott settlements one of the most important in firm’s 43-year history, dismiss accusations of antisemitism

Trucks are parked at the Ben & Jerry's ice-cream factory in the Be'er Tuvia Industrial area, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

6 MKs walk back support for letter urging Unilever to undo Ben & Jerry’s boycott

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

90 members of Knesset urge Unilever to reverse ‘shameful’ Ben & Jerry’s decision

Analysis

How McDonald’s took the same stance as Ben & Jerry’s but avoided public backlash

By not openly announcing its policy against opening branches beyond Green Line, the fast-food chain has been able to fly mostly under the radar and avoid branding as ‘antisemitic’

Signs placed in front of McDonald's branches in Tel Aviv on June 4, 2019, accusing the fast-food chain of boycotting West Bank settlements, and urging Israelis to boycott the restaurant giant in return. (Channel 12 screen capture)

Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale in a shop in Yavne, on July 20, 2021. (Flash90)

Illinois threatens divestment over Ben & Jerry’s West Bank settlement boycott

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

NSO Group affair is latest in Israel’s long history of arming shady regimes

Aversion to arming human rights violators often trumped by political expediency; only new legislation can keep Israeli firms from selling wares to bad actors, activists say

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)

Illustrative: In this February 17, 2016 photo an iPhone lock-screen is seen. (AP /Carolyn Kaster, File)

US senator says simple step of rebooting can thwart top phone hackers

By Alan Suderman

Defense Minister Benny Gantz is greeted by his French counterpart Florence Parly in Paris on July 28, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz said to assure France that Macron’s phone not hacked with NSO spyware

During Paris visit, defense minister tells French counterpart that espionage allegations against Israeli firm being taken seriously; ministers also discuss Iran, weapons in Lebanon

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)

Defense Ministry officials ‘visit’ NSO Group in first probe following spy exposé

By Judah Ari Gross

Brett McGurk, then-US envoy for the global coalition against Islamic State, at a news conference at the US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, June 7, 2017. (Hadi Mizban/AP)

White House raises concerns with Israel over NSO spyware affair — report

Employees of JMRB Media recruit new employees at an "Israel Multilingual Job Fair" in Tel Aviv, January 29, 2016 (Facebook screenshot)

2 North American ‘idealistic immigrants’ charged with close to $50 million fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Illustrative: Israeli security forces and a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance at the Tapuah junction near the West Bank city of Nablus, October 30, 2015. (Flash90)

Palestinian boy, 12, killed by apparent IDF gunfire near Hebron

By Aaron Boxerman

IDF says troops opened fire while pursuing suspects in a vehicle that had apparently tried to bury the body of a newborn near an army post

A young Israeli receives a coronavirus vaccine shot at a Clalit vaccination center in Petah Tikva, July 19, 2021. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Initial data said to indicate vaccinated teens experience no major side effects

By Michael Bachner

Analysis of 200,000 Israelis aged 12-15 dispels fears of myocarditis link, report says, stressing more data still needed

7:01 pm

Poll: Third of Americans back linking arms supplies for Israel to its treatment of Palestinians
6:28 pm

Report: No major side effects among vaccinated teens, initial data suggests
6:18 pm

Israeli mayor orders vaccination centers in schools, defying education minister

Israeli farmers block junctions all over Israel to protest the Finance and Agriculture ministries' plan to open up the fruit and vegetable market for import, at the Bilu Junction, on July 29, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 29 – Contentious reform-filled budget to get 1st read Sunday

Political correspondent Tal Schneider gives an update on a lively week in the Knesset and looks ahead to another, as Haviv Rettig Gur dives into the history of antisemitism

Farmers block the Bilu Junction as part of protests around the country against the finance and agriculture ministries plan to open up the fruit and vegetable market for import, on July 29, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Smashing produce on road, farmers block highways over planned agriculture reform

By Stuart Winer

People shop for groceries at the Rami Levy supermarket in Modiin as Israel entered a new major coronavirus lockdown September 24, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

In bid to lower prices, Liberman said targeting ‘cynical’ supermarkets

By Stuart Winer

Only bad people use drugs, right?

Those who struggle with substance use are not bad, they’re ill, and stigmatizing language isolates and discourages them from seeking help

Leon Wiener Dow

More moral shades than flavors of Ben & Jerry’s

Life in Israel presents a constant challenge to navigate between competing values and yet it is crucial to draw ethical distinctions and live them out

David E. Bernstein

Israel shouldn’t force citizenship on non-Israeli children

’We want our teenage daughter to be able to visit when she wants without fear of being drafted into the military of a country she’s never lived in’

At the Auschwitz Memorial, historical truth is our life’s mission

Claims that museum tweets underrepresent Jewish victims show a failure to grasp the complexity involved. And as the museum’s social media manager, I take it personally

Interview

Regional Affairs minister shifts focus to expand ties between Israel, PA

Meretz politician Issawi Frej hopes to end years of deadlock in ties, with Health Minister Horowitz, Environment Minister Zandberg meeting Palestinian counterparts in Jerusalem

Meretz MK Issawi Frej attends an Economic Committee meeting at the Knesset on July 12, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz with MK Tamar Zandberg and Meretz party member Esawi Frej during a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 4, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli, PA health and environment ministers boost medical ties in rare meeting

By Aaron Boxerman

Ra'am MK Mazen Ghanaim, seen at the Knesset on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)

Ra’am MK offered deputy minister post on condition he quits Knesset — report

Israeli swimmers (from left) Andi Murez, Anastasia Gorbenko, Gal Cohen Groumi and Itay Goldfaden at the mixed 4x100 medley relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on July 29, 2021. (Simona Castrovillari/Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020

Israel’s mixed swimming team makes finals of medley relay race

Aviv Barzelay advances to the semifinals of the women’s 200m backstroke, as Tomer Frankel falls short in the men’s 100m butterfly

Peter Paltchik of Israel, left, and Aaron Wolf of Japan compete in the men's -100kg quarterfinal round judo match of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, July 29, 2021. (AP/Vincent Thian)

Tokyo 2020Judoka misses out on bronze, keeping Israel’s Olympic medal tally at 1

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israel's Olympic baseball team jump on a bed in the Tokyo's Olympic Village, in a video released on TikTok. (Video screenshot)

Home runIsraeli baseball players sorry for breaking Olympic bed for TikTok

Three Israeli filmmakers held in Nigeria for 20 days prepare to board a flight from Abuja to Istanbul on their way home, July 28, 2021. From L-R, Andrew Leibman, Rudy Rochman, Deputy Ambassador Yotam Kreiman, David Benaim (Israel Embassy in Nigeria)

Israeli filmmakers arrive home after 20 days in Nigerian prison

By Lazar Berman

Lapid thanks his staff, Nigerian authorities for working to free trio suspected of contact with Biafran separatists, says Israel worked with French, US embassies to secure release

(L-R) Deputy French Ambassador to Nigeria Olivier Chatelais, David Benaym, Andrew Leibman, Acting Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria Yotam Kreinman, US Embassy in Nigeria FBI Legal Attaché Ahmadi Uche, Deputy US Ambassador to Nigeria Kathleen FitzGibbon, Abuja Chabad Rabbi Mendy Sternbach; US citizens services representative in Nigeria, Rudy Rochman and Gabbi Kreinman pose for a photo at Chabad Lubavitch in Abuja, Nigeria on 28 July, 2021, after Leibman, Rochman and Benaym were released from detention. (Courtesy)

Israeli filmmakers leave Nigeria after nearly 3 weeks in prison

By Lazar Berman

Health care workers take test samples from a caregiver a at Migdal Nofim retirement home in Jerusalem, July 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Study: 20% of vaccinated health workers who test positive suffer from long COVID

By Nathan Jeffay

Majority of 39 ‘breakthrough’ cases among 1,497 monitored were mild, but research author says persistence of symptoms among minority ‘raises concern’

The crowd cheering during a concert in Raanana, on June 12, 2021 (Yahav Gamliel/Flash90)

As cases rise, Green Pass system kicks back in for large events and venues

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli musician Matti Caspi performs in Gush Etzion on December 10, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/Flash 90)

Israeli singer cancels shows due to ‘fascist’ COVID vaccine restrictions

Illustrative: Arab and Jewish students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem on the first day of the academic year, October 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Government set to implement 5-year, NIS 500 million tech plan for Israeli Arabs

Ra’am, Blue and White lawmakers reportedly agree to sweeping outline to boost science and high-tech participation in Arab community

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with officials to discuss plans to address violence and crime in Arab Israeli communities, at his office in Jerusalem, July 28, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM vows to present national plan to tackle ‘calamity’ of Arab community violence

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Lapid said weighing Israel’s return to UNESCO, over 2 years after it left

Foreign minister reportedly instructs officials to review situation; source says any move will be coordinated with Washington, which also left agency in 2019 over apparent bias

A Moroccan army vehicle drives past car wreckage in Guerguerat, in Western Sahara, on November 24, 2020, after an intervention of the royal Moroccan armed forces in the area. (Fadel Senna/AFP/File)

US official says Biden not changing position on Western Sahara

By AFP

More Headlines

Masked Hamas members parade with Qassam rockets through the streets of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on May 27, 2021. (AP/Yousef Masoud)

Hamas warns terror groups may resume rocket fire unless Qatari funds enter Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Steven Berghuis of the Netherlands during the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Group C match between North Macedonia National Team and Netherlands National Team at Johan Cruijff Arena in in Amsterdam, Netherlands on June 21, 2021. (Marcel ter Bals/BSR Agency/Getty Images via JTA)

Antisemitic mural drawn of Dutch soccer star after he signs with ‘Jewish’ team

New Hope MK Sharren Haskel speaks with Blue and White MK Eitan Ginzburg who is managing the Knesset plenum, July 28, 2021. (Noam Moskowitz/ Knesset spokesperson's office)

Snap vote to decriminalize marijuana fails in Knesset due to Ra’am opposition

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)

Antisemitism in London soared during Gaza fighting, police say

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

Netanyahu’s cousin and benefactor Nathan Milikowsky dies at 78

The Reading Power Station and the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90/File)

Tel Aviv’s iconic power station to close, become apartments — report

US Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner speaks in Jerusalem on December 21, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / AFP)

Kushner quitting politics to set up investment firm with Israel focus – report

A wreath is laid at the monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, on January 27, 2021, to recognize Holocaust victims. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

US steps up pressure on Poland to scrap bill to prevent Holocaust restitution

The scene of a fire in Sheparivtsi, Ukraine after a plane crashed into a house, on July 28, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Three yeshiva students killed in Ukraine small plane crash — report

The unrecognized Bedouin villages around the Ramat Hovav industrial area in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chemical evaporation ponds and an Israel Electric Company power plant, December 28, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Environment minister slams plan to weaken pollution regulations to help business

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)

Macron sues billboard operator for Hitler comparison poster over vaccine drive

By ToI Staff and AP

Hannah Senesh with chickens on Moshav Nahalal, part of the Hannah Senesh Collection that is now part of Israel's National Library (Courtesy National Library of Israel)

National Library digitizes poet-soldier Hannah Senesh’s literary estate

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