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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 15, 2021

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Taliban negotiators head to presidential palace

Afghan government set to hand over power to Taliban in stunning collapse

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Interior minister says transfer will be ‘peaceful’; Afghan troops surrender at Bagram air base; American University employees burn documents to prevent identification of students

Taliban show off US-made Afghan military helicopters captured at Kandahar Airport, screen grab from video uploaded to Twitter on August 14, 2021.

Taliban show off US-made Afghan army helicopters captured at Kandahar airport

By AFP

A US Chinook helicopter flies near the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2021 (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban enter Kabul outskirts, say they won’t take Afghan capital by force

By ahmad seir, Rahim Faiez, TAMEEM AKHGAR and Jon Gambrell

People, some with face masks, shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on August 15, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel unveils series of new caps on gatherings, mask mandate starting Wednesday

By Michael Bachner

As COVID infections soar, ministry announces return of Green Pass to public events, social distancing in businesses, sweeping restrictions on event halls, sports and culture events

6:29 pm

Full control gained over blaze near Jerusalem, no danger remains to homes -- TV
6:19 pm

Bennett to get updates on Jerusalem-area fire at police's command center
6:17 pm

Lapid slams Poland's 'antisemitic threats,' casts Warsaw as 'anti-democratic'

Almost 20 shots fired in killing of father of four

Education minister’s aide for Arab society, a New Hope member, shot dead at home

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

Sahar Ismail, 17th on party’s election slate, killed outside his house in northern town of Rameh; Gideon Sa’ar says he was ‘a dear and beloved friend,’ Shasha-Biton expresses shock

New Hope member and education minister’s adviser on Arab affairs, Sahar Ismail, 50, was shot dead in Rameh on August 15, 2021. (courtesy)

A hospital worker treats a patient at Ziv Medical Center's coronavirus ward, in the northern city of Safed, on August 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases pass 500 for 1st time since March as outbreak surges

Magen David Adom staff test Israelis for COVID-19 at a Drive-In rapid antigen test complex in Glilot, on August 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett says ‘tough days’ ahead as Tel Aviv hospitals send patients to Jerusalem

Israelis stand in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile Magen David Adom center on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on August 14, 2021 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel expands nighttime vaccinations, as hundreds of reservists to join effort

View of the entrance to the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv, February 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

After Israel recalls envoy over restitution law, Poland plans reciprocal move

Polish foreign ministry cites ‘principle of symmetry’ in bilateral relations as ties fray following passage of legislation limiting post-Holocaust claims

Holocaust survivor Edward Mossberg with Polish president Andrzej Duda, at a ceremony in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 12, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90/ File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug 15 – Will restitution law make Poland Israel’s new frenemy?

Polish President Andrzej Duda announces his decision to sign legislation penalizing certain statements about the Holocaust, in Warsaw, Poland, on February 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Polish president approves WWII restitution law, defying Israel and US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Andrzej Duda rails against ‘reprivitization mafias’ as he signs legislation that will effectively prevent heirs to property seized by Nazis during Holocaust from reclaiming it

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) speaks at a ceremony in Rabat, on August 11, 2021. Poland's President Andrzej Duda (right) arrives for a NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO; Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool via AP)

Major crisis as Israel recalls envoy to Poland after WWII restitution law okayed

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

Live updates (closed)Israel said weighing axing 2018 deal with Poland on Holocaust complicity law

Palestinians set fire to a structure in the shape of a Star of David and a swastika near the town of Beita in the West Bank, on August 14. 2021. (Video screenshot)

With flaming Star of David and swastika, Palestinians protest illegal outpost

By Emanuel Fabian

Explosive device set off as Beita residents mark 100 days of protests against Evyatar, which have cost at least 7 lives

Paulo Casaca and Maurizio Geri

Saudi-hosted Islamic forum defangs Iran’s regional influence

The Saudi-based Muslim World League brokered an agreement between Iraq’s top Sunni and Shia religious leaders, establishing a bulwark against cross-sectarian hostilities

I feel empowered as an Asian-American Jew — but it sure took a while to get here

Growing up, I used my Jewishness as a stepping stone to whiteness, and berated myself for a jumbled collage of Asian stereotypes and failed expectations

An aerial view shows damaged buildings close to the Ezine Stream after deadly flash floods broke its banks in Bozkurt town in the district of Kastamonu, in the Black Sea region of Turkey on August 14, 2021. (STR / AFP)

Israel offers to dispatch team to Turkey as it battles major flooding

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

At least 55 people killed, dozens of homes collapse due to flash floods in the Black Sea regions in the country’s north

Palestinians from the Ministry of Health receive a shipment of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine doses sent by the United Arab Emirates, after the Egyptian authorities allowed entry to Gaza through the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 21, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

With millions unvaccinated, Palestinians fear school year coronavirus surge

By Aaron Boxerman

Recorded cases in West Bank, Gaza are on the rise but still low; health official in the Strip speculates it has seen enough infected to reach herd immunity

Illustrative: People wearing protective face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus stand inside a train in Tehran, Iran on July 8, 2020. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Hacker group, not Israel, behind cyberattack on Iran’s train system – report

Cybersecurity company Check Point names opposition group Indra, which it says inflicted ‘nation-state-level damage’ in July assault

Susi Kasper Leiter and Jacob Leiter hold family bible, August 12, 2021. (Jacob Leiter/Courtesy)

After nearly 80 years, Holocaust survivor and grandson reunite with family Bible

Book was hidden by Jewish German couple before they were deported and eventually killed by Nazis; it was found during renovation in 1990 and later made its way to their descendants

Illustrative: Students participate in outdoor activities at the Denver Jewish Day School, 2020. (Courtesy of Denver Jewish Day School/ via JTA)

Amid mask and vaxx debates, US Jewish schools prepare for a third year of COVID

Holocaust victim Anne Frank (top right) appears in a video of fans of the English soccer team Everton who died of COVID-19, August 14, 2021. (screenshot: Twitter)

In video, UK soccer team shows Anne Frank among fans who died of COVID

By AFP

Everton officials quoted saying they’re ‘appalled’ by those who saw fit to sabotage the tribute

Thousands protest vaccine passports in Montreal, Canada, August 15, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Yellow stars on display at Montreal protest against vaccine passport

By AFP

‘Nothing left’: Crisis-hit Lebanon faces growing bread shortages

By Christy-Belle Geha

Bakeries still able to operate amid electricity cuts are rationing output to make state-subsidized flour last longer, reducing supply and leading to long lines

A woman leaves a bakery with a bag of bread as people wait for their turn, in the neighborhood of Nabaa in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs, on August 13, 2021, amid a wave of shortages of basic items due to a severe economic crisis. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Lebanese soldiers are seen at a gas station in the capital Beirut, on August 14, 2021, after soldiers were deployed to force several stations to reopen their doors. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Lebanese army seizes hoarded fuel at gas stations amid financial crisis

By Bachir El Khoury

Fire burning in the aftermath of a fuel tanker explosion in Lebanon early on August 15, 2021 (screenshot: Twitter)

At least 20 killed in north Lebanon fuel truck explosion

By Hashem Osseiran

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-culture minister Miri Regev in the Knesset on February 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s Miri Regev faces backlash over claims ‘white DNA’ rules the party

Opposition MK also says Israel controlled by ‘a Western elite’; Likud MK Ohana says her statements appear to be a preliminary attempt to replace Netanyahu

Farzad Bazoft in his televised 1989 'confession' for spying (Youtube screenshot)

Mom of Iraqi reporter killed in 1990 as Israeli spy says he was lured into trap

Mother of journalist Farzad Bazoft says documents relating to UK connections to so-called supergun were stolen from him days before he traveled to Baghdad

More Headlines

A homeless man is seen pointing a M72 LAW toward a store in Tel Aviv, August 14, 2021. (Israel Police)

Homeless man aims empty missile launcher at Tel Aviv store, is arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

Several men work to rescue the body of a girl buried in the rubble of a house in the aftermath of an earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, August 14, 2021. (AP Photo / Duples Plymouth)

More than 300 killed as 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Haiti

By EVENS SANON and TAMMY WEBBER

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks during a press conference at Pfizer's factory in Puurs, Belgium. (John Thys/Pool/AFP)

Pfizer CEO: I’m sure Netanyahu’s desire for vaccine deal also linked to politics

Hundreds of small sharks are seen off the coast of Tel Aviv, according to an August 11, 2021 report. (University of Haifa, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Ben Gurion University, and Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat)

Massive deep-water shark nursery discovered off Tel Aviv coast

MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi attends a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meretz MK speaks of ‘complex’ coalition after warning she wouldn’t back war

Yael Gavrielov is seen at the Bnei Brak district court, on July 3, 2017. (Video screenshot/Ynet)

Jailed for raping minors, boarding school counselor gets early release — report

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