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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 12, 2021

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Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, on May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

HRW: Gaza groups committed war crimes, killed Palestinians with failed launches

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Rights group condemns Hamas for attacks on Israeli civilian areas during May conflict, confirms some rockets killed Gazans when falling short in northern section of coastal enclave

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony in Jerusalem, on August 11, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

With rise in Palestinian deaths, IDF head says no room for troops’ ‘negligence’

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians carry the body of Dia al-Sabarini, 25, during his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 11, 2021. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian dies week after shot during clashes with troops

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jordan Soffer. (Courtesy)

ExclusiveSoffer: USY must ensure this can never happen again

Eye on statute of limitations, alleged victim of US youth group leader speaks up

Rabbi Jordan Soffer demands USY, the Conservative movement’s youth branch, explain why it turned blind eye to abuser for years, later allowed his employment as a synagogue director

Rabbi Mary Zamore, the executive director of the Women's Rabbinic Network (Steve Shawl via JTA)

Reform movement probing itself over history of bungling sex abuse allegations

ToI investigates

Haviv Rettig Gur

In Sheikh Jarrah, anonymous actors and an absent state have created a powder keg

Israel sees a real estate dispute hijacked by propagandists; Palestinians say it’s part of an Israeli policy to erase them in Jerusalem. Who’s right? And why does it resonate so?

Protesters demonstrate in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on July 30, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

New housing construction in the Nokdim settlement in the West Bank, south of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, on October 13, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israel set to approve new Palestinian and Jewish building in West Bank

By ToI Staff, AFP and Jacob Magid

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) inaugurates Israel’s Liaison Office in Rabat, Morocco, on August 12, 2021, alongside Moroccan Deputy Foreign Minister Mohcine Jazouli (center) and Welfare Minister Meir Cohen (left). (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Also says Israeli diplomatic office soon to open in Bahrain

Lapid: Israel, Morocco to upgrade to full diplomatic relations within two months

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Opening liaison office in Rabat, foreign minister says he agreed with Moroccan counterpart on upgrading missions to embassies; Herzog invites king to visit

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about infrastructure investment at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering on Aug. 9, 2021, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Blinken lauds ‘significant’ first post-normalization visit by Lapid in Morocco

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita (R) speak in Rabat, August 11, 2021 (Shlomi Amsalem, GPO)

In Rabat, Lapid holds lengthy talks with Moroccan FM, who urges 2-state solution

By Lazar Berman

Israelis aged 60+ receive their third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary Clalit health care center in Tel Aviv, on August 10, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM says 3rd COVID shot to be offered to under-60s starting next week

Hospital staff wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed on August 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Cabinet okays new restrictions on shops and venues, as cases spike further

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Magen David Adom worker carries out a serological test for COVID-19 in the ultra-Orthodox town of Kiryat Ye'arim, August 9, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education Ministry stalling bid to test kids for antibodies at school – report

Health workers in the coronavirus ward at Ziv hospital in Safed on August 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Hospital infusion plan welcomed, but some ask where more doctors will come from

By Nathan Jeffay

Experts say bringing in thousands more medical staff to deal with pandemic is a good idea, but finding fully trained professionals will be a challenge and scheme will take time

A health worker in the coronavirus ward at Ziv hospital in Safed on August 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Bennett rolls out plan to bolster hospitals ahead of expected COVID onslaught

In this May 19, 2021 file photo, a licensed practical nurse draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

US study: Moderna vaccine far better than Pfizer at preventing Delta infection

A Magen David Adom worker takes blood for a serological test for COVID-19 from a child in the ultra-Orthodox town of Kiryat Ye'arim (Telz-Stone), outside Jerusalem, on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF Home Front Command to test kids for COVID antibodies ahead of school year

Military will lead efforts after plans stall for serological testing at schools; vaccinations for pupils on school grounds still up in the air

A Home Front Command soldier guides residents to a COVID-19 testing tent in Netanya on February 7, 2021, following the easing of a nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

As government struggles with rising COVID cases, IDF rejoins fight

By Judah Ari Gross

A man waits for his turn to receive Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Iran Mall shopping center in Tehran, Iran, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As Iranians see vaccinated, maskless Westerners, anger at government grows

By Jon Gambrell

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Public Security Minister Omer Barlev and Chief of Police Kobi Shabtai during a ceremony marking the opening of a new police station in the northern Israel city of Kiryat Ata, August 11, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug 12 – Bennett pushes vaccination, anti-violence unit for Arabs

Military reporter Judah Ari Gross and Palestinian affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman delve into building permits in the West Bank and a new police unit to fight crime in Arab towns

Op-ed

Global warming, the story that matters most

We need to change habits that exacerbate the crisis, and demand that our governments take the strategic steps to offer coming generations a realistic prospect of, put simply, life

In this June 16, 2021 photo, firefighters work at the scene of a forest fire near Andreyevsky village outside Tyumen, western Siberia, Russia. Wildfires in Siberia are releasing record amounts of greenhouse gases, scientists say, contributing to global warming. Each year, thousands of wildfires engulf wide swathes of Russia, destroying forests and shrouding broad territories in acrid smoke. This summer has seen particularly massive fires in Yakutia in northeastern Siberia following unprecedented heat. (AP Photo/Maksim Slutsky, File)

A man refreshes himself in a fountain during a hot summer day in Messina, on August 11, 2021. (Giovanni ISOLINO / AFP)

Hottest day in European records, as ‘Lucifer’ anticyclone sweeps through Italy

By AFP

Illustrative: Israeli military drones fly in formation in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

IDF reveals it downed Hezbollah drone along Lebanon border

IDF says it was continually monitoring the drone as it approached the border yesterday, before knocking it out of the sky

6:33 pm

IDF reveals it downed Hezbollah drone along Lebanon border
6:30 pm

Ministers shoot down proposal for lockdown just for elderly
6:13 pm

Biden on 4th anniversary of Charlottesville march: Still work to be done

‘The face of Iran’s new terror government’: Israel blasts Raisi’s cabinet

By AP and ToI Staff

Foreign Ministry calls on international community to condemn appointment of Ahmad Vahidi, who is wanted by Interpol over alleged role in 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (L) and Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi. (Collage/ AP, YouTube/Screen capture)

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, arrives for a meeting at his office in Tehran, Iran, March 16, 2014. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Senior Iranian official tweets in Hebrew on Russia talks

Russian ambassador, Levan Dzhagaryan and the UK’s Simon Shercliff sit on the embassy porch where the Tehran conference was held. (Russian Embassy Iran/Twitter)

‘Big Three’ WWII-themed memorial sparks furor in Iran

By AP

Kenneth Jacobson

100 years of debunking The Protocols: The fight goes on

The London Times’ refuted the insidious antisemitic conspiracy a century ago, yet the poisonous message is still spread in Iran, the Arab world and beyond

Liel Leibovitz on the ‘progressive threat’ to Jews

’Israel scares the progressives because it is a country with basic ideas of community, family and faith. It is against their values.’ – 2 in a series on US Judaism and Israel,

File: The lower hose of Poland's parliament, or Sejm, filled with new lawmakers, and foreign diplomats as guests, during the gala inauguration of a new four-year term of the national parliamentin Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Israeli leaders pan ‘disgrace’ as Poland passes law curbing WWII property claims

By ToI Staff and Agencies

FM Lapid says Jerusalem will review 2018 joint statement on Holocaust remembrance; Knesset speaker cancels plans to form inter-parliamentary friendship group

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks off, after speaking during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 2, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)

US urges Poland’s Duda not to sign WWII restitution law passed by parliament

Jordanian troops ready a recoilless anti-tank gun on a jeep, in Jerusalem, May 31, 1967. In the background is the Notre Dame De France Church and Hospital, left, inside the then-Israeli sector of Jerusalem. (AP Photo)

54 years later, body suspected to be Jordanian soldier found in Jerusalem

By Emanuel Fabian

Corpse discovered during light rail construction work near Ammunition Hill, alongside a Jordanian Army helmet

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to right-wing opposition party members a day after a new government was sworn in, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

‘He cares about himself, not Likud’: Netanyahu attacked by senior party members

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Ex-ministers and MKs slam former PM for not relinquishing leadership, dooming them to opposition; Miri Regev says time for party to move away from Ashkenazi men as leaders

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara board the plane to Washington, DC, late on September 13, 2020, to sign normalization agreements at a White House ceremony with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. (Avi Ohayon / GPO)

Defying Health Ministry recommendation, Netanyahus said set to vacation abroad

From left: Amy Forsyth, Daniel Durant, Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur in 'CODA.' (Courtesy Apple TV+)

Interview'It's about working-class people who live in deaf cultures'

Deaf actress and activist Marlee Matlin on landing her ‘dream role’ in ‘CODA’

By Jordan Hoffman

Poignant, funny, and devoid of artifice, the film, streaming on Apple TV+ from August 13, realistically portrays a family with deaf parents through a true-to-life cast

Illustrative -- Police officers enforce COVID-19 regulations at Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

23 people caught trying to fly from Israel to New York with forged COVID tests

United Airlines passengers removed from flight and detained, then released on bail and fined, with possibility of further punishment under consideration; US authorities informed

A woman is caught driving with two of her children in the trunk in Jerusalem on August 10, 2021. (Israel Police/Screen capture)

Boot campWoman caught with kids in trunk claims ‘they’re in quarantine’

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An artist's illustration of an ancient Moa bird being hunted by humans (From the book 'Extinct Monsters,' 1897)

Humans wiped out hundreds of bird species in last 50,000 years — Israeli study

Reviewing scientific literature, researchers find at least 400 species that disappeared around the world shortly after humans arrived on the scene

Loggerhead turtles are seen on a beach in Eilat on August 10, 2021. (INPA, Omri Omsi)

Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles seen in Eilat for first time

View of a pool of toxic sludge near the Zin phosphate mining plant in the Negev Desert, August 11, 2021. (Screenshot/Kan public broadcaster)

Negev chemical plant’s storage pools at immediate risk of collapse, locals warn

Illustrative image of Binah.ai's technology in use on a phone, a tablet and a laptop. (Courtesy/Binah.ai)

Israeli startup lets users check vital signs by looking at their smartphones

Binah.ai turns mobile devices, laptops into medical monitoring tools that can measure heartrate, oxygen saturation, stress levels

A signage of Microsoft is seen on March 13, 2020, in New York City. (Jeenah Moon/ Getty Images/AFP)

Microsoft acquires Israeli startup Peer5 to improve video streaming software

Own employees, formerly known as OwnBackUp. (Courtesy/Buxa Photography)

Cloud protection startup OwnBackUp raises $240m, nearing $3.35b valuation

(L) David Schwimmer (Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File) and (R) Jennifer Aniston (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Just friends

Schwimmer denies rumors of Aniston romantic relationship

By ToI Staff and AFP

‘Friends’ star rejects UK magazine report that said recent reunion of sitcom stars ‘stirred up feelings for both of them’

Eboni Williams, left, convened her fellow cast members for a Shabbat dinner on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City," in an episode that aired Aug. 11, 2021. (Screen capture via JTA)

NY reality ShabbatReal Housewives host ‘Black Shabbat’ dinner on latest episode

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Mayim Bialik in her 'Jeopardy!' debut, May 31, 2021. (Screenshot from ABC)

No trivial pursuitMayim Bialik to host ‘Jeopardy!’ specials

By JTA

More Headlines

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Farah, capital of Farah province southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohammad Asif Khan)

Taliban complete northeast Afghan blitz as three more provincial capitals fall

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and Jon Gambrell

The Biran family, with Eitan on the right. (Courtesy)

Israel-based family fighting to adopt boy who survived Italy cable car crash

Taliban fighter (C) is seen surrounded by locals at Pul-e-Khumri on August 11, 2021 after Taliban captured Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province about 200 kms north of Kabul. (AFP)

US frustration mounts over Afghan failure to blunt Taliban’s advance

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI and Paul Handley

Prof. Oded Goldreich speaks at an 'alternative ceremony' for the Israel Prize, April 11, 2021 (Screen grab)

High Court overturns previous minister’s denial of Israel Prize to academic

File: This photo taken on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 shows a mailbox with swastikas covering the face of the late Holocaust survivor and renowned French politician, Simone Veil, in Paris, France (Mairie du XIIIth via AP)

Swastikas daubed on French memorial to Holocaust survivor Simone Veil

By AFP

Young Israeli men line up as they arrive at the IDF recruitment center at Tel Hashomer on July 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In recruiting revamp, IDF turns to data science, ends ‘one-dimensional’ scoring

By Judah Ari Gross

Otzma Yehudit party leaders Michael Ben Ari, left, and Baruch Marzel, in 2012. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90/via JTA)

Facebook bans far-right political figures Marzel, Ben Ari from its platforms

Luleseged Kassa (courtesy of Save a Child's Heart)

Addis Ababa man battling heart defect gets second free treatment in Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

Haifa bay, April 24, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

International bidders reportedly closing in on deal to acquire Haifa port

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, a woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)

UN experts urge freeze on surveillance tech sales amid Israeli spyware scandal

By AFP

Adi Peretz (Courtesy)

Police believe Bat Yam shooting victim was hit by errant fire in mob violence

Walking across a hanging bridge in the Tower of David Museum ropes course, August 2021 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

In the heightsClimbing the walls at Jerusalem’s Tower of David

By Jessica Steinberg

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