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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 21, 2021

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Illustrative: Armed Taliban fighters stand next to an imam during Friday prayers at the Abdul Rahman Mosque in Kabul on August 20, 2021. (Hoshang Hashimi/AFP)

Taliban chiefs, including al-Qaeda-linked terrorist, in Kabul to talk new gov’t

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Afghan security forces stand next to a crater created by a massive explosion that killed over 150, according to the Afghan president, in front of the German Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 31, 2017. The Taliban's second in command and head of the Haqqani denied Afghanistan's accusation that it was behind the bombing. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Feared Haqqani network emerges as powerful force in Taliban takeover

By AFP

Taliban fighters pose for a photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, August 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Tales of targeted killings mount, fueling Afghan fears of Taliban

This image made available to AFP on August 20, 2021 by Omar Haidiri, shows a US Marine grabbing an infant over a fence of barbed wire during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 19, 2021. (Courtesy of Omar Haidiri / AFP)

Reunited: Viral clip of Marine lifting baby at airport wall captures Kabul chaos

By AFP

Child was unwell, was treated at airport hospital and later reunited with father; US military also releases series of photos of soldiers helping children of those fleeing country

In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, evacuees wait under the wing of C-17 Globemaster lll after arriving in an undisclosed location in the Middle East region on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, after being evacuated onboard a military aircraft from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, as part of Operation Allies Refuge. (Airman 1st Class Kylie Barrow, U.S. Air Force via AP)

US airlifts 169 stranded Americans to Kabul airport as evacuations resume

By AFP

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives to attend a cabinet meeting of senior government ministers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO in London, on September 1, 2020. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP, File)

Pressed to quit, British FM defends missing call to aid Afghan translators

By AFP

In this Jan. 15, 2018, file photo, US Marines watch during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Analyses

Why didn’t Biden leave 2,500 troops in Afghanistan?

Critics say retaining a small American force had proven sufficient to keep the Taliban from making major gains and preventing disintegration of Afghan military

An armed Afghan man supporting the Afghan security forces against the Taliban stands next to humvees at Parakh area in Bazarak, Panjshir province, on August 19, 2021. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP)

Afghan holdouts will struggle against a Taliban assault, analysts predict

By Lucie PEYTERMANN and Fabien Zamora

Illustrative: Taliban fighters stand guard along a road in Herat on August 19, 2021, following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. (Aref Karimi/AFP)

After takeover, Taliban kill relative of journalist for Germany’s DW

By AFP

US President Joe Biden speaks about the evacuation of American citizens, their families, SIV applicants and vulnerable Afghans in the East Room of the White House, on August 20, 2021, in Washington, DC. Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken listen. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden vows to bring all Americans home, and evacuate their Afghan helpers too

By Sebastian Smith

In White House address, president vows to mobilize ‘every resource’ to complete Afghanistan evacuation, claims he’s seen ‘no question of credibility from our allies’ over pullout

Afghans line up to board a US military aircraft to leave Afghanistan, at the military airport in Kabul, on August 19, 2021, after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. (Shakib Rahmani/AFP)

NATO chief: Some allies want more time to complete Afghan evacuations

In this image provided by the US Air Force, a US Air Force loadmaster, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of Operation Allies Refuge at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 20, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/US Air Force via AP)

Western groups desperate to save Afghan workers in danger after Taliban takeover

By Colleen Barry and Kerstin Sopke

Producer Mike Richards poses in the pressroom at the 43rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards, on May 1, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Mike Richards out as ‘Jeopardy!’ host amid backlash over remarks on Jews, others

Decision follows report that dug up past comments the producer made on a podcast in which he also mocked women, homeless people, Haitians and those with disabilities

When I faced antisemitism on campus in 1985, I felt alone. I’m glad today’s college students have each other.

At the age of 19, I lacked the words to explain to anybody that I was being targeted for harassment specifically because I was a Jew

3 days of rioting shattered Crown Heights. 30 years of peacemaking helped put it back together.

We have found a way to come together and have conversations about difficult issues. Sometimes we even discover we share the same concerns

Interview'I fought insecurity with hard work, trying to prove myself'

From Kindertransport to the White House, a British reporter’s remarkable journey

By Robert Philpot

In her memoir ‘Invisible Walls,’ Hella Pick describes arriving in the UK knowing one word of English and growing into a journalist who witnessed our era’s most impactful events

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)

2 unvaccinated women in their 20s hospitalized in serious condition

Far-right MK Ben Gvir infected with COVID taken to Jerusalem hospital after suffering deterioration in health

A health worker administers a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at a Maccabi Health Services clinic in Jerusalem, on August 20, 2021, soon after Israel approved booster shots for people over 40 - a decision that was later expanded to. the entire population. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Top health official ‘cautiously optimistic’ rise in serious cases being curbed

England fans cheer during the Euro 2020 final soccer match between Italy and England at Wembley stadium in London, July 11, 2021. (Facundo Arrizabalaga/Pool via AP)

Euro 2020 soccer final in London was a ‘superspreader event’ — UK data

Lorin Musrati ,28, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Ramle on August 20, 2021 (Courtesy)

Woman shot dead while driving in Ramle, 3 other shootings in Arab communities

Police believe 28-year-old victim targeted by family of slain husband in dispute over moving out of city with her children; 71st Arab Israeli killed in 2021

Slogans praising Hitler atop a monument for bodies of Jews that were burnt in Rudzica, Poland. (Magdalena Nowacka via JTA)

Symbolic grave for Jews in Poland defaced with slogans praising Hitler

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Desecration comes amid crisis in diplomatic relations with Israel over Holocaust restitution law

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau in Jerusalem, on March 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli chief rabbi calls to exhume wife of missionary who pretended to be a Jew

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Representative for Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau says woman’s body should be removed from Jerusalem cemetery, or her grave fenced off

Meyerson matriarch Celeste (Barbara Barrie) and her daughter Terri (Kate Mulgrew) discuss the meaning of life in "The Magnificent Meyersons." (Argot Pictures via JTA)

Film review

Not even aliens can shake up a clan of NYC Jews in ‘The Magnificent Meyersons’

By Andrew Lapin

An extraterrestrial cameo helps a family come to terms with their existential questions in this independent film written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer

The Hawaiian island of Lanai, 98 percent of which is owned by Jewish-American billionaire Larry Ellison. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Netanyahu on vacation at island owned by Larry Ellison, a witness in graft trial

Ex-PM insists he and his family are paying for trip to billionaire’s Lanai in Hawaii; transportation minister also in US despite government pleas against travel abroad

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett receives a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, on August 20, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

In TV poll, Israelis give new government negative marks on pandemic performance

Lebanese wait in a line outside a closed petrol station in Beirut's Hamra district on August 20, 2021.(Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

‘Hell on earth’: Lebanon unlivable as economic, fuel crises deepen

By Bachir El Khoury

Residents line up for days to get gas, while electricity only runs for 2 hours a day, and a lack of street and traffic lights creates a dystopian feel in the once vibrant country

Illustrative: Anti-aircraft fire rises into the sky as Israeli missiles hit air defense positions and other military bases around Damascus, Syria, on May 10, 2018, following what the Israeli military said was an Iranian barrage of rockets against Israeli bases on the Golan Heights. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP/ File)

Russia says Syria shot down 22 out of 24 Israeli missiles during air raid

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Reports say alleged Israeli strikes on Thursday killed four pro-Iranian fighters; no comment from IDF

An air defense missile, bottom center, streaks toward what appears to be a missile shot into Syria, in a video distributed by Syrian state news. (Screen capture: YouTube/SANA)

4 pro-Iran fighters said killed in alleged Israeli strikes on Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

More Headlines

The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish in Tabgha, northern Israel, February 12, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Vandals steal iron cross from altar at ‘Loaves and Fishes’ Galilee church

By AFP

Illustrative: Police officers at the entrance to the Emmanuel settlement in the West Bank during a coronavirus lockdown, on September 8, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

West Bank car thief ditches vehicle after realizing girls in backseat

Illustrative photo of Hijabs at a market place. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Top EU court rules employers can ban religious symbols in workplaces

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A woman places a stone with the name of a relative outside the Casa Rosada government house during the march of the stones in homage to COVID-19 victims, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 16, 2021. (Ronaldo Schmeidt/AFP)

Argentines use Jewish cemetery tradition to mark 100,000 COVID deaths

By JTA

Police are seen at the scene of the shooting in Haifa, August 21, 2021. (Israel Police)

Haifa man shot to death while allegedly trying to grab man’s gun

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks before parliament to defend his cabinet selection, in the capital Tehran, on August 21, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran’s Raisi seeks parliamentary approval of his hardline cabinet picks

By AFP and ToI Staff

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