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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 19, 2021

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Medical staff receive their third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem on August 17, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Panel backs booster for over-40s, as evidence grows it gives strong protection

Expert says those given 3rd shot 6-8 times less likely to have severe illness; officials assess without booster some 100 vaccinated individuals aged 40-49 will have serious cases

6:30 pm

Man who claimed to have bomb in truck near Capitol surrenders to law enforcement
6:07 pm

Labor MK Gilad Kariv released from hospital after serious COVID case
6:04 pm

Expert panel calls to give booster shot to all Israelis over 40

Illustrative photo (iStock)

More victims, lawsuits and mounting anger at USY after ToI report alleging abuse

Conservative movement vows probe, suspends 2 staffers, as more alleged victims of longtime official surface; Jordan Soffer, 1st to speak out, says USY, USCJ haven’t contacted him

US President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 18, 2021. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Biden: ‘Chaos’ was inevitable in US withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Shaun Tandon

President says US forces will remain on the ground until last Americans are retrieved from Taliban-controlled country

People wait to be evacuated from Afghanistan at the airport in Kabul on August 18, 2021 following the Taliban stunning takeover of the country. (AFP)

Afghans who worked for US army plead for faster evacuation from Taliban rule

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Lolita C. Baldor

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, hold a press conference about the situation in Afghanistan on August 18, 2021, at The Pentagon in Washington, DC.(Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Top US general: No one foresaw swift collapse of Afghani army

By AFP

Op-ed

Catastrophe in Afghanistan — for Afghans, Israel, the region… and for America

As the Taliban retake power, the imminent 20th anniversary of 9/11 underlines the horrific consequences of the US failing to reckon with this region’s darkest forces

Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi)

President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House on August 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via AFP)

Biden: US faces worse threats than Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

By Robert Burns, Ellen Knickmeyer and Zeke Miller

Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) await a flight to Kabul Afghanistan, at Al Udeied Air Base, Qatar Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021 (1st Lt. Mark Andries/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 19 – How the Taliban takeover affects US ally Israel

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman looks at the Afghan situation and a diplomatic crisis with Poland; US correspondent Jacob Magid describes developments in a USY sexual abuse report

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gives an address on official party al-Manar TV on September 29, 2020. (Screenshot: Al-Manar)

Daring Israel and US to act, Hezbollah says Iran fuel tanker to sail to Lebanon

By AFP and ToI Staff

Terror group’s chief Nasrallah doesn’t say how ship will deliver cargo in defiance of US sanctions

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, November 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah chief: Israel should learn from Afghanistan that US is unreliable

By Aaron Boxerman and AFP

A flier dropped on the Syrian side of the border on August 18, 2021. (Twitter)

Israel drops threatening flyers in south Syria following nighttime strike nearby

By Judah Ari Gross

A small fire near Givat Ye'arim, outside Jerusalem, August 19, 2021 (Courtesy)

Firefighters battle several rekindled blazes in Jerusalem area

Fresh conflagrations come days after huge wildfire that destroyed large forested area was brought under control; Environmental Protection Ministry lifts air pollution warning

5 Afghan lessons (‘the US as unreliable ally’ is not one of them)

Any nation expecting another to protect and save it, even when its citizens are unwilling to do so themselves, does so at its own peril – a truth Israel knows very well

We must not squander the opportunity for real change in Israeli schools

How many generations of Israelis will be educated without the tools they need to commit to the values of inclusion, respect for the other, and equality?

Zebulon Simantov reads a prayer book before celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 18, 2009. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images/File via JTA)

Afghanistan’s last Jew still won’t leave the country (or divorce his wife)

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Zebulun Simantov, 62, has refused for two decades to grant a religious divorce to his wife in Israel and could face legal repercussions if he flees to Jewish state

Screenshot from Israel's Kan TV interview with Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen, August 17, 2021 (Kan screenshot)

Taliban spokesman says he was duped into interview with Israeli TV

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A Magen David Adom medical worker takes a sample from a child at a COVID-19 test complex in Jerusalem, on August 18, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

Rapid virus test stations boosted amid complaints of slow service

With the start of new restrictions requiring children aged 3-11 to be tested before entering venues, many forced to wait hours to be swabbed; more testing sites, staff planned

Aviation industry workers protest against COVID-19 regulations at Ben Gurion Airport, August 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Aviation workers block runway, shut down Ben Gurion Airport, panning virus rules

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and US President Joe Biden. (composite image: AP, Flash90)

Bennett and Biden meeting in Washington set for August 26

Prime minister to make snap 48-hour trip to US due to COVID precautions; premier says visit will focus on Iran, but White House says sides will discuss Palestinian issue too

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) meets with Abbas Kamel, director of Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate, in Jerusalem on August 19, 2021. (Foreign Ministry)

Lapid to Egyptian spy chief: Israel won’t tolerate Gaza rocket fire

By Lazar Berman

New Moon Camp near Ras Sheitan in the Sinai Peninsula on April 4, 2021. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Israel scales back travel advisory for Sinai as Bennett invited to Cairo

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel's Paralympic delegation to Tokyo poses for a photo with then-president Reuven Rivlin on June 23, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Tokyo 2020

Rowing, shooting, wheelchair tennis: Israel sets its sights on the Paralympics

With 33 athletes in 11 sports, the Israel Paralympic Committee is hoping to improve on its Rio medal haul at the Tokyo Games this year

Israeli gold medalist Linoy Ashram competes in the individual all-around final of the Rhythmic Gymnastics event during Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, on August 7, 2021. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP)

World gymnastics group dismisses Russian complaints over Linoy Ashram’s gold

After an investigation, the International Gymnastics Federation rules that there was ‘no bias’ in the judging at the Tokyo Olympics

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A couple receives their third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, on August 17, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel reportedly set to offer COVID boosters to all starting next month

Speculation from health officials comes after US announces plans to roll out booster program, citing positive results from million who have already received third dose

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem on August 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett pushes vaccines over lockdown as serious cases hit 5-month high

By Alexander Fulbright

A medic holds up a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination centre at the Atid al-Najah High School for the Sciences at the city of Taibeh in northern Israel on August 19, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Study finds Pfizer COVID-19 shots’ effectiveness drops faster than AstraZeneca’s

By AFP

Illustrative: People wear facemasks at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on June 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab man seriously injured in stabbing by Jewish mob in Jerusalem

Police said to investigate possible terror motive; assault mirrors another knife attack in the same area in May

A Magen David Adom ambulance at the site of a domestic violence attack in Sderot on August 19, 2021. (MDA)

Sderot woman stabbed to death; son arrested

The scene of a deadly shooting outside a shopping mall in Rishon LeZion on August 18, 2021 (Magen David Adom)

Man shot dead in broad daylight outside mall, in suspected underworld hit

Illustration for demonstration of 3D printing of a tumor in a brain microenvironment according to a computed 3D model. (Tel Aviv University)

Israeli researchers tout ‘breakthrough’ 3D bioprints of active tumor

By ToI Staff and Nathan Jeffay

Scientists at Tel Aviv University boast development of technology will help find optimal treatments for each tumor and accelerate future treatments

Idit Silman at the Knesset, on June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The political neophyte whipping a Knesset cacophony into coalition harmony

By Tal Schneider

Working tirelessly to keep MKs from Israel’s diverse and fractious government in lockstep while facing down a powerful opposition, Idit Silman is proving she’s no ‘little girl’

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz speaks during a visit to Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer in Ramat Gan on August 3, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Health minister announces removal of all blood donation restrictions for gay men

Nitzan Horowitz hails ‘historic step forward for equal rights for the LGBT community in Israel’

Illustrative: advocates for victims of domestic abuse protest outside of state offices in downtown Chicago, October 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Sophia Tareen, File)

'We believe that it can't happen here'

Report finds US Jewish communities ill-equipped to aid domestic abuse victims

By Cathryn J. Prince

A study released by Jewish Women International says that shelter, acknowledgment, legal services and support for survivors of violence are inadequate across all denominations

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Yeshiva Toras Chaim is located in the West Colfax neighborhood of Denver and is part of the historic center of the city's Jewish community. (Wikipedia via JTA)

Yeshiva student shot and killed during late-night crime spree in Denver

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Children talk with masked members of the military wing of Hamas, while marching along the streets of Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza terror groups threaten ‘escalation’ as progress reported in Qatari aid deal

By Aaron Boxerman

Labor MK Gilad Kariv speaks to Channel 13 news from his hospital bed in the coronavirus ward of Sheba Medical Center, on August 18, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 13)

Labor’s Kariv released from hospital after serious COVID illness

Illustrative image: School buses lined up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 24, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images/JTA)

Census data shows Orthodox Jewish areas of NY, NJ are among fastest growing

By PHILISSA CRAMER

The Expo 2020 Dubai list of countries on its website, with Israel conspicuously absent (screenshot)

Weeks before Dubai expo, Israel still absent from event website

By Lazar Berman

Fake pill bottles with messages about Purdue Pharma are displayed during a protest outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy of the company is taking place in White Plains, New York, August, 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Ex-Purdue Pharma head Richard Sackler denies responsibility for opioid crisis

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

In this February 7, 2017 photo, terror suspect Beate Zschaepe sits in the court room waiting for her lawyers in Munich, Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Germany’s top court upholds life sentence in neo-Nazi murders case

By AP

Charred cars are pictured after a fire near the village of Achlouf, in the Kabyle region, east of Algiers, August 13, 2021. (Toufik Doudou/AP)

Algeria blames Israel for deadly forest fires it says were started by terrorists

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hodaya Monsonego, 24, who was later jailed in Lima, Peru, for her alleged involvement in a suspected drug smuggling operation. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Peru court frees disabled Israeli held for 2 years over suspected drug smuggling

Roman Zadorov arrives for a hearing at the Nazareth District Court on August 18, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

State to appeal release of convicted murderer to house arrest ahead of retrial

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