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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 24, 2021

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An Israeli man receives a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, at a Maccabi healthcare services vaccination center, on August 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry expands COVID booster shot drive to ages 30 and up

Nitzan Horowitz pledges there are enough vaccines for everyone; experts say 3rd dose ending surge of serious cases, though daily infections still climbing

Medical workers wear safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on August 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel passes 1 million total COVID cases, approaches one-day record

Interview

Delta surprised Israel, which dropped the ball on vaccination, admits COVID czar

Despite massive surge in cases, Salman Zarka says he’s determined to keep Israel open over holidays, warns virus here to stay

In this March 2, 2021, file photo, pharmacy technician Hollie Maloney loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine. (AP/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

FDA gives full approval to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for ages 16 and up

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE

Anti-vaccine protesters break into the London headquarters of UK broadcaster ITN on August 23, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Anti-vaccine protesters storm HQ of British news broadcaster

By AFP

Illustrative: A kindergarten teacher seen at the 'Kobi kindergarten' in Moshav Yashresh, on February 8, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Unvaccinated teachers threaten to sue if they are forced on unpaid leave

Teachers Union head Yaffa Ben David warns there will be a huge shortage if thousands of educational staff are compelled to stay home

IDF officers and soldiers conduct serological testing in Katzrin, August 22, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Back-to-school serology testing of children limited to high-infection zones

Israelis stand in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a Magen David Adom mobile vaccine unit in the town of Kafr Qasim on August 23, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Minister dispatches mobile vaccine units to towns with low inoculation rates

A healthcare worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Live updates (closed)

Experts believe COVID cases will plummet when 5 million boosters given — TV

Health Ministry data indicates third dose of the vaccine could be 10 times more effective than first two shots alone, report says

6:49 pm

Bennett to meet with Blinken, Austin, Sullivan on Wednesday
6:06 pm

G7 demands Taliban 'guarantee' safe passage from Kabul after Aug. 31
5:27 pm

TV: Booster shot increases protection from COVID tenfold, data shows

Taliban fighters in a vehicle patrol the streets of Kabul on August 23, 2021 (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

US sends helicopter into Kabul neighborhood to extricate stranded Americans

By Robert Burns and Ellen Knickmeyer

Afghan women in burqas walk on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

UN rights chief says Taliban treatment of women will be a ‘red line’

By AFP

In this image provided by the US Air Force, US Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, prepare to load qualified evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 21, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Afghan soldier killed by gunfire at Kabul airport amid chaotic evacuations

By ahmad seir, Rahim Faiez and Joseph Krauss

CIA Director William Burns speaks during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 15, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

CIA director William Burns meets Taliban leader in Kabul

By AP and ToI Staff

Meanwhile, UN human rights chief warns that she has credible reports of ‘summary executions’ in areas of Afghanistan under Taliban control

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the full FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, August 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden fights to regain control of Afghanistan narrative

By Sebastian Smith

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

In this September 11, 2001 file photo, as seen from the New Jersey Turnpike near Kearny, New Jersey, smoke billows from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York after airplanes flown by Al-Qaeda terrorists crashed into both towers. (AP Photo/Gene Boyars, File)

Taliban takeover prompts fears of a resurgent al-Qaeda

The terror group’s capabilities have been severely diminished by 20 years of war, but it still has hundreds of operatives in Afghanistan shielded by their Taliban allies

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier, right, and Taliban fighters stand guard on their respective sides at a border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Torkham, in Khyber district, Pakistan, August 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

AnalysisTaliban takeover could open new chasm in US-Pakistan ties

By Shaun Tandon

Afghan National Army recruits listen to the explanations of their instructor during a training session at the Kabul Military Training Center in Afghanistan, July 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

ExplainerHow and why did the Afghan army fall so quickly to the Taliban?

By Todd Lehmann

'We inherited an Iran that's working extremely aggressively'

Bennett to present Biden with strategy for stopping Iran without nuclear deal

By Lazar Berman

When he meets US president on Thursday on 1st official visit, PM will argue that 2015 accord is no longer relevant; no major concessions to Palestinians expected to be announced

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

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)

Iranian official admits abuse in notorious Evin prison

By Jon Gambrell

What Afghanistan taught us about Israel-Palestine

The progressive US Democrats who slammed the Jewish state over a Jerusalem real estate dispute stayed mum for days when the Taliban crushed Kabul

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch sees no future for Reform Judaism without Israel ties

With rabbinical students accusing Israel of apartheid, this top New York rabbi fears a split over whether or not Jewish peoplehood is a central priority

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 24 – Has Israel lost its deterrence against Hamas?

David Horovitz and Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman examine rising tension on the Gaza border and Israel’s attempts to battle the raging spread of the Delta variant

Palestinians clash with Israeli troops during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza City, on August 21, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

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

Blue and White MK Ruth Wasserman Lande (Courtesy)

Interview

For South African-raised MK, Jewish-Arab coexistence is urgent and close to home

Blue and White’s Ruth Wasserman Lande is hoping her third time being sworn into the Knesset will be the charm

Some parents in wealthy Tel Aviv suburb oppose appointment of Arab teacher

3 more arrested over Jewish mob’s beating of Arab man in Bat Yam

A fireball rises following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip in response to arson attacks from the enclave on August 23, 2021. (Said KHATIB / AFP)

Israeli jets strike Gaza following fires set by arson balloons

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Israel hits Hamas weapons factory, tunnel entrance and underground rocket launcher next to a school; raids after incendiary devices from enclave ignite blazes in southern Israel

Firefighters respond to a fire at Kissufim Forest in southern Israel, on August 23, 2021. (Moshe Baruchi/KKL)

Gaza arson attacks spark 9 fires in Israel; terror groups plan border protests

By Judah Ari Gross

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left); Border Police officer Barel Shmueli (center) who was critically wounded in a shooting on the Gaza border on August 21, 2021; Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right). (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90; Border Police; Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu blasts Bennett for botching injured soldier’s name, then backtracks

Illustrative image of the IDF 931 Nachal Brigade seen during search patrols in Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank, on the night of June 16, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Palestinian teen killed by IDF, allegedly while throwing heavy object from roof

By Emanuel Fabian

Incident near Nablus occurs amid a gun battle between troops and Palestinians; no soldiers injured

Palestinians hold posters depicting human rights activist Nizar Banat during a protest triggered by the violent arrest and death in custody of Banat, in his hometown of Hebron in the West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (MOSAB SHAWER / AFP)

UN, EU denounce Palestinian Authority for arresting activists

By AFP

Athletes from Israel enter the stadium during the opening ceremony for the 2020 Paralympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Tokyo 2020

Israeli athletes parade in empty Tokyo stadium as Paralympic Games kick off

By Amy Spiro and Agencies

Rower Moran Samuel and boccia player Nadav Levi serve as flag bearers for 33-member delegation set to compete in 11 sports as Games begin under pandemic’s shadow

A plant based burger developed by SavorEat (Courtesy)

Israel’s SavorEat to launch US pilot offering 3D-printed, plant-based burgers

By Ricky Ben-David

Israeli food tech startup partners with French conglomerate to roll out kosher, vegan, gluten-free products at American universities in trial run

Upstream Security founders Yoav Levy, CEO (right) and Yonatan Appel, CTO. (Photo: Yarin Taranos)

Japan’s Mitsui insurance ups investment in Israel’s Upstream Security

By Ricky Ben-David

More Headlines

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

15-year-old arrested in stabbing death of 17-year-old

A Chabad of the Beaches synagoge in Long Beach, New York was vandalized on August 21, 2021. (Eli Goodman/Twitter via JTA)

Man arrested over vandalism and stolen Torahs at Long Island shul

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Eli Friend, manager of the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, arrives to testify before the Meron Disaster Inquiry Committee, in Jerusalem, on August 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Manager of Rashbi gravesite tells Meron probe his authority is ‘limited’

Illustrative. An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, on August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Bahrain used NSO spyware to target activists, says cybersecurity watchdog

By Alan Suderman

Illustrative: A plane takes off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 4, 2021. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Ukraine denies rescue plane hijacked from Kabul to Iran

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

Illustrative: Men wearing kippas are seen at the synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany, on October 10, 2019, one day after the antisemitic attack where two people were shot dead. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)

Man wearing kippa beaten by a group of 10 in Cologne, Germany

By Toby Axelrod

Israeli artillery batteries are seen along the border with Lebanon on January 28, 2015. (Basal Awidat/Flash90)

IDF launches artillery exercise in disputed land on Lebanese border

By Emanuel Fabian

New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, left, swears in Kathy Hochul, right, as the first woman to be New York's governor while her husband, Bill Hochul, holds a bible during a swearing-in ceremony in the Red Room at the state Capitol, early Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, Pool)

Kathy Hochul sworn in as New York’s first female governor

By MARINA VILLENEUVE

In this September 27, 2017 photo, Larry David attends the premiere of HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' at the SVA Theatre in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Pretty, pretty good‘Enthusiasm’ uncurbed: Larry David’s 11th season returns in October

Torrance police chief Jeremiah Hart addresses a press conference in Torrance, California on Aug. 20, 2021. (CBS2/screenshot)

Two former California police officers charged with painting swastika on car

Mayim Bialik, in Los Angeles, May 23, 2017. (AP/Damian Dovarganes/ File)

Mayim Bialik to host ‘Jeopardy!’ for 3 weeks after Richards bows out

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