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What Matters Most On Monday, August 9, 2021

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Newly appointed Minister of Environmental Protection Tamar Zandberg at a handover ceremony at the Environmental Protection Ministry in Jerusalem on June 15, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Environment minister: UN report shows Israel must declare climate emergency

By Raoul Wootliff

Zandberg says global warming findings must act as ‘wake-up call’ for the world and the Jewish state: ‘The intensity and urgency of the climate crisis can no longer be denied’

In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, a floating dock sits on the lakebed of the Suesca lagoon, in Suesca, Colombia (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

ExplainerHumanity almost entirely to blame for hotter Earth: The key UN report findings

By Marlowe HOOD and Patrick Galey

Deer pass a Greenville building destroyed by the Dixie Fire, on Aug. 7, 2021, in Plumas County, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

California’s ‘Dixie Fire’ now second-worst in state history, authorities say

By Josh Edelson

In this photo taken on October 18, 2018, young men sit in stationary engineless boats that lie idle at the dried inland Lake Chilwa's Chisi Island harbor in Zomba District, eastern Malawi (AMOS GUMULIRA / AFP)

‘Code red for humanity’: UN report warns of unprecedented global warming

By Seth Borenstein

Expert: ‘I don’t see any area that is safe. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide’ * Temperatures will rise past 1.5° Celsius threshold in the 2030s * Changes unprecedented in millennia

Marine life in the Achziv Rosh Hanikra marine reserve in northern Israel. (Omri Omessi, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Illegal fishing taking toll on world’s marine protected areas — Israeli study

This picture taken on Evia island, the second largest Greek island, on August 8, 2021 shows a wildfire moving towards the village of Gouves. (Photo by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP)

Firefighters try to stop Greek island blaze from reaching thick forest

By Alexandros Kottis and Chantal Valery

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on July 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman comes out against lockdown, warning of economic harm

Treasury chief says talk of possible lockdown ‘hurts certainty’ in the economy; Health Ministry director: We’ll soon assess if more restrictions needed

6:21 pm

Herzog: We're at a critical point in terms of threats against Israel
6:02 pm

Police planning to up enforcement of indoor masking, will reportedly use undercover cops
5:49 pm

Jewish funeral planned for prominent COVID skeptic who died of virus

Job Opening [Sponsored]

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Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 5, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

List of banned countries reduced to only 6

As of August 16, Israelis can return from just 10 countries without quarantine

However, most of those destinations don’t allow Israeli travelers to visit; Austria, Czech Republic, Moldova only places it’s possible to go without needing to isolate upon return

A paramedic with Israel's Magen David Adom medical service performs a rapid COVID-19 antigenic test in Jerusalem on August 8, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Results in 15 minutes: Rapid COVID-19 test stations set up across Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Reservist soldiers take part in an IDF drill on March 21, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF restricts callup of reservists to COVID-vaccinated or recovered only

By Emanuel Fabian

Mohamed Agbariyah receives a coronavirus vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination center in the northern Arab Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm, January 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Bennett urges Arab Israelis to get vaccinated: ‘Rates are too low’

By Aaron Boxerman

Minority lags with some 51% inoculated, compared to 66% of all Israeli citizens; though only one Arab town among 26 in country designated as ‘red’ area

Medical staff in the coronavirus ward of the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, on July 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM said mulling plan to relieve pressure on hospitals, thereby avoiding lockdown

An elderly Israeli receives a third COVID-19 vaccine dose at a retirement residence in Jerusalem on August 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

TV: 14 Israelis who got 3rd shot later infected with COVID-19

Health care workers take test samples of Israelis in a drive through complex in Rehovot to check if they have been infected with the coronavirus, on August 8, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Testing, testing and more testing: Israel lays out plan for reopening schools

Under framework, students with a classmate who tests positive will be allowed to stay in school as long as they test negative every day for a week

Ultra-orthodox Jewish children at a school founded by Rabbi Shmuel Stern in Jerusalem on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Uncertainty and confusion as 250,000 ultra-Orthodox kids return to school

Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on February 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sex offender rabbi Eliezer Berland hospitalized, on ventilator with COVID

Bahrain's Undersecretary for International Relations Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmad al Khalifa (c) shakes hands with JCPA President Dore Gold (l) at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, August 8, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

In Israel, top Bahrain diplomat says Iran nuke deal fueled violence, chaos

By Lazar Berman

Kingdom’s undersecretary for international relations says JCPOA has caused instability and deaths of innocents; blames Iran for conflicts across the region

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a media conference in Brussels, June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

European Union says evidence ‘clearly points to Iran’ in deadly attack on tanker

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this June 25, 2021 file photo, released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei receives a shot of the Coviran Barekat COVID-19 vaccine in Tehran, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

In new high, Iran records over 500 daily COVID-19 deaths

Likud MK David Bitan at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud MK indicted on graft charges after forgoing parliamentary immunity request

David Bitan accused of bribery, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and tax offenses for allegedly accepting bribes while in office

Likud MK Israel Katz speaks during a Conference of Heads of Local Authorities, in Ramat Negev, southern Israel, July 22, 2021. (Flash90)

Katz slams own party leader Netanyahu, Gantz for last coalition’s lack of budget

By Raoul Wootliff

(L) Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at a Cyber conference at Tel Aviv University, on June 24, 2019; (R) James Packer at a news conference of the Studio City project in Macau, on October 27, 2015. (Flash90; AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

State prosecutors reportedly to probe ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen

Then-minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett unveils a temporary platform built for pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in August 2013. (Ezra Landau/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 9 – A new platform for Israel-Diaspora relations?

Editor David Horovitz discusses government’s new support for pluralism (but not civil marriage); health reporter Nathan Jeffay weighs up the chances of yet another COVID lockdown

Israeli gold medalist Linoy Ashram (C) carries the national flag during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, at the Olympic Stadium, in Tokyo, on August 8, 2021. (Adek BERRY / AFP)

Tokyo 2020

As Olympics come to an end, Israel celebrates its best Games ever

With just six months until the 2022 Winter Games and three years until Summer Games return in Paris, the Jewish state is ready to keep its eyes on the prize

Bulgaria's rhythmic gymnastics' team, Simona Dyankova, Stefani Kiryakova, Madlen Radukanova, Laura Traets and Erika Zafirova, perform during the rhythmic gymnastics group all-around final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Tokyo 2020Russia’s rhythmic gymnastics dynasty topples as Israel, Bulgaria get gold medals

By CLAIRE GALOFARO

Dina Averina, of the Russian Olympic Committee, waits for her final score after competing in the individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Saturday, August 7, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Averina won the silver medal in the event. (AP/Ashley Landis)

Grumbling Russian gymnast also once won gold after dropping ribbon

She’s complaining now, but at the 2018 World Championships in Sofia, Dina Averina took home a gold to Linoy Ashram’s silver despite fumbling her apparatus

Israel's Linoy Ashram celebrates winning the individual all-around final of the rhythmic gymnastics event during Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics center in Tokyo, on August 7, 2021. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP)

Tokyo 2020Linoy Ashram: My win proves gymnastics isn’t only for Eastern Europeans

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (R) apologizes to ultra-Orthodox MKs after releasing a statement on the Sabbath, August 8, 2021. (Video screenshot)

Netanyahu apologizes to Haredi MKs after phoning Olympic medalist on Shabbat

Peter Beinart: ‘The Palestinians are suffering more than the Israelis’

In the first in a series on progressive US Judaism and Israel, the writer insists the American pro-Palestinian movement is not, by and large, antisemitic

Moshe Etzion – On his own terms

I never heard my fellow kibbutz member – a Holocaust survivor and bereaved father – say an angry word or raise his voice or even respond with sarcasm

Chaim I. Waxman

Restore us to You, oh God – but where to?

If not for the Delta variant, outdoor prayer services would mostly be back inside, but maybe we should continue them, even when the pandemic is over

5 ways Israel’s government ignores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

A value-based approach would lay the groundwork for a lasting political accommodation – if only Bennett and Lapid dared to try it

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, gives his official seal of approval to newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi in an endorsement ceremony in Tehran, Iran, August 3, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Analysis

With world watching, Raisi’s cabinet will indicate where he’s taking Iran

Hardline president to reveal conservative cabinet in coming days, as nuclear talks expected to pick up in September

Chairman of Iran's Setad foundation, or the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order, Mohammad Mokhber speaks during a press conference to announce the launch of the second and third phases of human trials of a locally made COVID vaccine, in Tehran, on March 15, 2021. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)

Iran’s Raisi taps US-sanctioned Mohammad Mokhber as first vice president

By AFP

The Jews of Key West are making a home again in Margaritaville

By Larry Luxner

1,000-strong Jewish community at southernmost point in the continental United States embraces tourists after a 2020 hit by COVID

Moshe Etzion speaks before an image of his son, Ze'ev Etzion, who died from Gaza rocket fire in 2014. (Eshkol Regional Council)

Father dies by suicide on grave of son killed by Gaza rocket fire in 2014

By Emanuel Fabian

Moshe Etzion, 88, takes his own life on anniversary of death of son Ze’ev, a local security chief in Kibbutz Nirim killed in the final hours of the war

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel attends a meeting of Egyptian and Sudanese foreign ministers and heads of intelligence at Tahrir Palace, in Cairo, Egypt, February 8, 2018. (Khaled Elfiqi/Pool photo via AP)

Incoming, outgoing national security advisers meet Egyptian intel chief in Cairo

Hezbollah operative Ali Kajak is seen on the border with Israel (L) and while being confronted by local Druze villagers in southern Lebanon after rocket fire at Israel (R). (Israel Defense Forces / Video screenshot)

IDF says Hezbollah man who launched rockets seen near border in plain clothes

By Emanuel Fabian

Arabic spokesperson says Ali Kajak’s presence near frontier in civilian dress shows group’s ‘disregard for Lebanon’s sovereignty, international resolutions’

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan (L) and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on November 12, 2020. (UN Photo/Mark Garten)

Israeli envoy slams UN chief for turning ‘blind eye to Hezbollah’s war crimes’

Families of the August 4 victims joined by protestors march with imitation coffins and portraits of their loved ones during a symbolic funeral procession from Beirut port on August 8, 2021, days after the first anniversary of a vast dockside explosion that left more than 200 people dead. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

‘We deserve the truth’: Beirut blast bereaved demand justice at symbolic funeral

By AFP

More Headlines

A High Court discussion of a petition by opposition lawmakers against the makeup of Knesset committees, in Jerusalem, August 9, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

‘Putsch’: High Court pans Likud MKs’ petition over ‘unfair’ Knesset panel makeup

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative image of Amazon Kindle e-readers, April 28, 2016, in New York. (AP/Kathy Willens)

Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point uncovers Amazon security flaw

Illustrative -- A protester holds a banner depicting French President Emmanuel Macron as a 'puppet' during a demonstration, part of a national day of protest against the mandatory COVID-19 health pass to access most of the public space, in Lille, northern France, on August 7, 2021. (Francois Lo Presti/AFP)

French prosecutors open probe into antisemitic sign raised at anti-vaccine rally

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The opening of the annual Jerusalem Film Festival is on August 24, screening Ari Folman's 'Where is Anne Frank?' at Sultan's Pool, as in years past (Courtesy Dor Kedmi)

Drawing a crowdAri Folman’s animated Anne Frank film to open Jerusalem Film Fest

By Jessica Steinberg

A La Compagnie Airbus A321neo on final approach to Newark Liberty International Airport, June 27, 2019. (Adam Moreira/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Boutique airline to launch all-business class Tel Aviv-Paris-New York flights

Aa simulation of Facebook's prayer request feature. (Facebook via AP)

‘I prayed’: Facebook faces praise and doubts as it rolls out new prayer tool

By holly meyer and David Crary

Artist and performer Ilona Royce Smithkin poses in her house in Provincetown, Massachusetts, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

From the webFashion and art muse Ilona Royce Smithkin dies at 101

People walk by a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, California, on September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/ Jeff Chiu, File)

New Google project in Israel aims to use AI to help detect colon cancer

Police forces at the scene of the alleged murder of a 46-year-old woman from Nof Hagalil, near the Yarden Haharari section of the Jordan River, on August 7, 2021 (Israel Police)

Police arrest 3 brothers suspected of murdering mother, hiding her body

By Emanuel Fabian

A screenshot from the trailer for Super Stylist, a leading game from Israeli studio CrazyLabs. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Leading Israeli gaming firm CrazyLabs acquired by Swedish company

The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, June 27, 2006. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Coemgenus/Wikipedia)

Group huddleHall of Fame unveils exhibit dedicated to NFL’s founding owners

By Berry Wilner

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