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What Matters Most On Monday, August 23, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Yossi Shmueli, the father of wounded soldier Barel Shmueli. (Flash90/Screenshot)

Bennett apologizes for mixing up name of critically wounded soldier

Border Police officer Barel Shmueli who was critically wounded in a shooting on the Gaza border, on August 21, 2021. He died of his injuries on August 30. (Border Police)

Mother of critically wounded soldier: My son was shot for nothing

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian protesters lifting national flags burn tires during a demonstration by the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City, on August 21, 2021. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF probe of Gaza shooting finds troops hampered by blind spots, poor planning

By Judah Ari Gross

Fifth grade students at the Alumot Elementary School in Efrat, on February 21, 2021 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Coronavirus cabinet rules school to begin September 1, with vaccines on campus

Teachers and staff will need Green Passes to enter schools; students 12 and over will get COVID shots during school hours, with parental approval

A healthcare worker examines a COVID test sample at a drive-through facility in Modi'in, on August 15 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

COVID positivity rate hits highest figure since February

Hospital directors hold a press conference protesting the lack of funding for the Israeli healthcare system, in Jerusalem, August 22, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)

7 hospitals threaten to turn away COVID patients Monday, allege official neglect

Israeli commandos in a black-painted Mercedes-Benz. (Defense Ministry archive)

Entebbe in person: A new oral history challenges official account of 1976 rescue

By Judah Ari Gross

Brimming with detail and at times looking to settle old scores, newly translated book ‘Entebbe Declassified’ brings voices of the commandos who took part in the legendary operation

Palestinians during a demonstration by the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City on August 21, 2021. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

LiveUpdated 61mo ago

Security officials believe Israel, Hamas on collision course in Gaza — TV

With more violent protests planned along the border, defense officials say conflict may be inevitable, Channel 12 reports

9:29 pm

Italy-Moroccan student freed after cartoon post satirizing Islam
9:28 pm

UN official says Afghan supplies low, seeks help
8:32 pm

Reports: Health Ministry approval of boosters for over-30s imminent

Medical staff at the Barzilai hospital, in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, wear protective gear, as they handle a coronavirus test sample on March 29, 2020. (Flash90)

$1.50-a-day lipid-lowering drug helps COVID patients in small Israeli trial

By Nathan Jeffay

14 out of 15 patients were removed from oxygen in a week after taking fenofibrate, America’s 73rd most prescribed medicine; none experienced cytokine storm

Medics with Magen David Adom transfer a coronavirus patient to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, due to full capacity in other hospitals, following a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus infections in Israel, on August 15, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Nearly 200 COVID deaths reported in past week, but booster data raises hopes

Israeli children undergo COVID-19 antibody testing in the coastal city of Netanya on August 22, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Tech issues cause chaos at serological, rapid COVID testing facilities

In this undated frame grab taken from video shared with The Associated Press by a self-identified hacker group called "The Justice of Ali," a guard beats a prisoner, at Evin prison in Tehran, Iran. (The Justice of Ali via AP)

Leaked video shows grim conditions at Iran’s notorious Evin prison

By Jon Gambrell

Purported hackers link release of security camera footage to election of new president, who was involved in executing thousands: ‘A stain on Raisi’s black turban and white beard’

US Army Captain Warren Gross (L) at an Afghan military hospital with an Afghan coalition force soldier who suffered an eye injury, August 2011 (courtesy)

Exclusive'You just knew the ugly end was coming'

In ToI interviews, Jewish veterans of Afghanistan speak of relief…and betrayal

By Lazar Berman

As America’s longest war ends in chaos, US officers recall fond memories of fellow soldiers, Afghan allies, and kiddush wine, but wonder what all the sacrifice was ultimately for

In this picture taken in the late hours on August 22, 2021, British and Canadian soldiers stand guard near a canal as Afghans wait outside the foreign military-controlled part of the airport in Kabul, hoping to flee the country following the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP)

Taliban threatens ‘consequences’ if US, allies stay beyond withdrawal deadline

Illustrative. A United Airlines Boeing 737 plane is seen at the gate at Washington's Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, on March 2, 2021. (Daniel SLIM / AFP)

Pentagon orders US airlines to assist with chaotic Kabul airlift

By Frankie TAGGART

US President Joe Biden speaks during an update on the situation in Afghanistan and the effects of Tropical Storm Henri in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on August 22, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)

Biden says Afghanistan evacuation accelerating, but vulnerable to IS attack

Ahmad Massoud, son of late Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, center, speaks to supporters as he is flanked by Chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, left, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on the sidelines of a commemoration to honor late Afghan anti-Taliban commander Massoud in an alley along the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris, March 27, 2021. (Christophe Archambault/Pool Photo via AP)

Afghan opposition leader warns civil war ‘unavoidable’ if Taliban refuse talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amid chaotic US withdrawal, Ahman Massoud, who leads force in only province yet to fall to Islamist group, vows ‘staunch resistance’ if power-sharing agreement rejected

Newly absorbed personnel in the Afghan security forces take part in a military training in Bandejoy area of Dara district in Panjshir province on August 21, 2021. (Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN / AFP)

Afghan resistance forces ready for fight, but hope for negotiations

By David Fox and Saad Sayeed

Illustrative: Afghans wait to board a bus to travel to Iran, in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 30, 2021. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Heartbreak as thousands desperate to flee unable to join Kabul airport convoy

By AFP

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 23 – Mr. Bennett goes to Washington

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman talks about the prime minister’s upcoming trip to the US while senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur examines Israel’s forestry policies

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem on Aug. 22, 2021. (Gil Cohen-Magen/POOL via AP)

Ahead of US visit, Bennett says he’ll tell Biden Iran deal ‘no longer relevant’

David Bernstein

You may be supporting an ideology that fuels antisemitism

It’s time for Progressive Zionists who align themselves with proponents of critical social justice theory to face reality: they just aren’t that into you

Merav Michaeli should have been up front about the surrogate baby

The minister, an outspoken champion of women’s right to opt-out of motherhood, could have averted a backlash with more transparency about her plans

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Latest flare-up of Gaza border violence leaves Israel with few good options

Hamas went ahead with mass rally and inevitable riots, even after deal to resupply Qatari funds; Bennett, just like his predecessor, has to carefully gauge Israel’s response

Palestinians during a demonstration by the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City on August 21, 2021. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Palestinians wait in line to have their documents checked before crossing the Rafah border with Egypt, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Egypt to close Rafah crossing into Gaza after weekend of violence

By ToI Staff and AFP

Fire and smoke rise from the al-Jalaa Tower, which housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, as it is destroyed in an Israeli airstrike after the IDF warned the occupants to leave a building it said was a Hamas asset, Gaza City, May 15, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Human Rights Watch says Israeli strike on Gaza high-rise broke international law

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch testifies before the Meron Disaster Inquiry Committee in Jerusalem, on August 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbi of holy sites tells Meron probe: I had no authority over Lag B’Omer events

Shmuel Rabinovitch testifies before commission into Israel’s worst peacetime disaster: ‘They didn’t tell us there was an issue with the passageway. Nobody brought it up to us’

Ultra-Orthodox men walk outside the IDF recruitment office in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ministers okay compromise to lower ultra-Orthodox IDF exemption age

By Emanuel Fabian

An Iron Dome battery is seen during a trial on the US military's White Sands test range in New Mexico, June 2021. (Defense Ministry)

US military completes first Iron Dome tests on American soil

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel’s Defense Ministry says trials conducted in New Mexico with assistance from Israeli firms, in first since batteries were delivered some 8 months ago

Palestinian man stabbed by Jewish mob recalls: ‘They chased me with a knife’

Ahmed Salima of East Jerusalem suffered multiple stab wounds; says he is afraid to return to work at the Mahane Yehuda market

Ahmed Salima, 20, describes being attacked recently by a group of Jewish thugs in Jerusalem. (Screenshot/Kan)

Uri Jeremias, owner of the famed Acre establishments Uri Buri and the Efendi Hotel, at his pop-up restaurant following the May 2021 firebombing at the original site that is currently being renovated.(courtesy, Uri Buri)

Historic Acre hotel to reopen after deadly firebombing during May riots

By Jessica Steinberg

Maryam Banat, 67, mother of Palestinian Authority critic Nizar Banat, holds a poster with his picture at a rally protesting his death at the hands of PA security forces, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

PA arrests 30 demonstrators protesting death of dissident in its custody

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian rights groups, Hamas condemn detentions; detainees range from anti-corruption activists to prominent members of Islamic Jihad

An illustrative image of a cloud concept for data. (Arkadiusz Warguła via iStock by Getty Images)

Open code software giant Elastic to buy Israeli startup, open Tel Aviv R&D site

By Ricky Ben-David

Cybersecurity startup Build.security was established just last year, will serve as key location for engineering and security talent

HyLabs' laboratories in Rehovot, Israel. (Courtesy)

Israel Innovation Authority forms synthetic biology R&D company with $5m funding

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: A typical shtetl-style house in Ukraine. (Sue Surkes)

Built for a film, a fake Ukrainian shtetl may become a museum to the real thing

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

A palm tree that collapsed killed a 66-year-old woman in Tiberias, on August 22, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Woman killed by falling palm tree in Tiberias

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: An ambulance outside the Soroka hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, December 23, 2013. (Flash90)

Soldier in critical condition after collapsing during run

By Judah Ari Gross

A ZAKA volunteer is seen at the scene of a deadly car crash near Miztpe Ramon in southern Israel, August 22, 2021. (ZAKA)

Woman and infant child killed in head-on crash; three others hurt

By Emanuel Fabian

Bradley fighting vehicles are parked at a US military base at an undisclosed location in northeastern Syria, on November 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

US forces down Iranian drone in eastern Syria — report

By ToI Staff and AFP

A photo of the bar mitzvah boy in Bahrain. (Courtesy of Association of Gulf Jewish Communities)

Manamazal tovBahrain’s Jews celebrate first bar mitzvah in 16 years

Former US president Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he finishes addressing a "Save America" rally at York Family Farms on August 21, 2021 in Cullman, Alabama. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump booed for telling rally to get vaccinated against COVID

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People queue to receive humanitarian aid packages at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate on August 18, 2021. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Millions in Syria and Iraq at risk of losing access to water, food, electricity

By Bassam Mroue

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, right, welcomes Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi for their meeting at the presidency office, in Tehran, Iran, on August 22, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Japanese foreign minister holds talks in Tehran, days after Israel visit

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An illustrative image of computer pop-up box screen warning of a system being hacked. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Education sector sees 29% global increase in cyberattacks, Check Point reports

By Ricky Ben-David

Barbra Streisand speaks onstage during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

A star is bornBarbra Streisand makes history with latest top 20 album

Illustrative: Police inspect the scene of a murder in the northern city of Nazareth on September 23, 2019. (Israel Police Spokesperson)

Man killed, another seriously injured in Nazareth shooting

Qanon 1972 jacket (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

Prominent QAnon antisemite outed as Florida evangelical

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