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What Matters Most On Friday, August 27, 2021

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks as he meets with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, on Friday, August 27, 2021, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett says he has invited Biden to visit Israel ‘after Delta variant defeated’

PM tells reporters he ‘found a leader who loves Israel, is attentive to our needs’; praises president’s commitment to curb Iran but warns: ‘there isn’t a lot of time’

8:23 pm

Bennett says he's invited Biden to Israel 'immediately after Delta variant defeated'
7:36 pm

Biden after Bennett meet: We strengthened the partnership between our countries
7:19 pm

Turkey holds first talks with the Taliban in Kabul

Wounded Afghans lie on a bed at a hospital after a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August 26, 2021. (AP/Mohammad Asif Khan)

Kabul airport attack death toll rises to 108, as evacuation flights resume

By AP and ToI Staff

People gather to check on missing relatives a day after a twin suicide bombs attack, which killed scores of people including 13 US troops outside Kabul airport, at a hospital run by Italian NGO Emergency in Kabul on August 27, 2021. (Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

Desperate Afghans search hospitals for loved ones missing after Kabul attack

By AFP

Volunteers and medical staff bring an injured man on a stretcher for treatment after two powerful explosions, which killed at least six people, outside the airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

Survivors describe pandemonium, bloodshed as Kabul bombers unleashed carnage

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Willard Hotel in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

Israel said to be worried US forces may leave Iraq and Syria

Biden calls Bennett after Kabul attack pushes their meeting to Friday morning

PM offers condolences over attack; new summit scheduled for 10:25 a.m. Washington time, Bennett’s office says, with stay extended to Saturday night

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2021. (Olivier DOULIERY / POOL / AFP)

Israeli leaders condemn ‘horrific’ Kabul airport bombings

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and US President Joe Biden. (Composite/AP)

Bennett-Biden meeting delayed to Friday due to deadly Kabul attacks

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Analysis

Kabul blasts shatter illusions of Bennett-Biden honeymoon on Iran

The prime minister rode a wave of successes before heading to Washington for his big meeting, but the embattled US president has far more pressing matters on his mind

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 14, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a plenary session at the Bundestag in Berlin on August 25, 2021. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Germany’s Merkel cancels upcoming Israel trip over Afghanistan crisis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks about the bombings at the Kabul airport that killed at least 13 US service members, from the East Room of the White House, August 26, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Emotional Biden vows to finish Kabul evacuation, hunt down airport attackers

US president says deadline for Afghanistan pullout remains August 31, confirms bombing and shootings that killed 60 Afghans and 12 US troops carried out by local IS affiliate

US President Joe Biden bows his head in a moment of silence as he speaks about the situation in Kabul, Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House on August 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Biden takes fire from Republicans after Kabul attack deepens morass

By AFP

US Army flight medic SGT Jaime Adame, top, cares for seriously wounded Marine CPL Andrew Smith following an insurgent attack on board a medevac helicopter, May 15, 2011, from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment north of Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Kabul airport attack causes worst single-day US loss in Afghanistan since 2011

By AFP

In the file photo dated August 16, 2021, provided by the Ministry of Defence, the first flight carrying evacuated personnel of British Embassy staff and various British Nationals, arriving from Kabul at RAF Brize Norton in England. (Sharron Flyod/Ministry of Defence via AP, FILE)

Details of Afghan staff, applicants were left behind at UK Kabul embassy

By AP

Journalist finds identifying papers scattered on ground, amid fears of Taliban reprisals; Britain’s defense secretary promises to ‘get to the bottom’ of the incident

Members of Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade arrive in Kabul as part of a 600-strong UK force sent to assist with Operation PITTING to rescue British nationals in Afghanistan amidst the worsening security situation there, on August 15, 2021. (Leading Hand Ben Shread/Ministry of Defence via AP)

UK, NATO to continue Afghanistan airlift after deadly Kabul bombings

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A member of Islamic State Khorasan is seen in Afghanistan, in a video shared by the group on September 20, 2020. (Twitter screenshot)

Explainer

What is Afghanistan’s Islamic State, which survived to carry out Kabul bombings?

By KATHY GANNON and Ellen Knickmeyer

Islamic State Khorasan is more extreme than the Taliban and has long fought against it; terror group has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s deadly airport attack

Wounded women arrive at a hospital for treatment after two deadly blasts outside the airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

Now in power, Taliban faces challenge of securing Kabul after deadly bombings

By David Fox and David Stout

US President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Israel media reviewMatch game: What the press is saying about Bennett pushing Biden on Iran

By Joshua Davidovich

Times Will Tell

Podcast: How Jewish was Alexander Hamilton?

US founding father had Jewish roots and a Jewish day school upbringing in the Caribbean, experiences that influenced him in colonial America, says author Andrew Porwancher

The excavation of the Great Synagogue of Vilna in Lithuania showing the area of the Torah ark and two flights of stairs destroyed by the Nazis and the Soviets, August 2021. (Jon Seligman/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeologists expose Torah ark of Vilna synagogue destroyed by Nazis, Soviets

By Michael Bachner

Joint Israeli-Lithuanian six-year excavation in ruins of centuries-old Jewish community center unearths prayer platform, silver pointer used when reading the Torah

Director Quentin Tarantino at the opening of the Jerusalem Film Festival, on August 24, 2021. (Courtesy: Jerusalem Cinematheque)

Tarantino: Hollywood snubbed ’80s Israeli directors ‘in an antisemitic way’

By Jessica Steinberg

Acclaimed film director heaps praise on filmmakers Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus during Jerusalem Film Festival, says he had admired them at the time

There’s no ogre in the sky

A marriage works not because a husband and wife are perfect, but when they each accept the other. It’s true of the Jewish people and God too

Reason without a cause

If Archduke Ferdinand hadn’t been in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time, would the Holocaust even have happened? (Ki Tavo)

Researcher Brittany Robertson with a so-called 'Heisenberg cube' that she is analyzing to determine its origins. (Courtesy/Andrea Starr/PNNL)

US researchers work to trace mystery uranium cubes back to Nazi nuclear program

Hundreds of radioactive ‘Heisenberg cubes’ were lost to history after war, but new forensic analysis on the material could fill historical gaps, boost nuclear safeguards

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R), his wife Elke Büdenbender and wife of Czech President Milos Zeman, Katerina Zemanova attend a welcome ceremony, ahead their meeting on August 26, 2021, in Prague, Czech Republic. (MILAN KAMMERMAYER / AFP)

German president pays tribute in Prague to assassins of top Nazi Heydrich

By AFP

A man in his 30s receives a third COVID-19 vaccine dose, at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, on August 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Experts say current COVID outbreak being curbed thanks to booster vaccines

Hebrew University researchers say serious cases on the decline, but expect daily cases to slightly rise again as school year opens

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman attends a cabinet meeting at the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Treasury sends NIS 100 million to hospitals in bid to end partial strike

The once extinct Hula painted frog, native to Israel’s north, was declared extinct and then rediscovered and dubbed a 'living fossil.' (courtesy, Sarig Gafny)

Humans speeding the extinction of species, study claims

Data science expert Gil David finds that human exploitation of Earth has led to 5,800 years-worth of extinctions from natural causes condensed into just 100 years

A houbara bustard in flight. (Shmulik Ya'ari, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Dancing feetIsraeli population of endangered dancing bird seen leveling off

Israelis enjoy boating on the Hatzbani River in northern Israel on June 2, 2010. (Edi Israel/ Flash90)

Nature groups deploy cattle troughs in bid to cut pollution near Sea of Galilee

'It hurts me a lot because we followed all the requirements'

Why is Spain suddenly turning down many Jews who apply for citizenship?

By Orge Castellano

In the last quarter, thousands of applications have been rejected due to fear of fraud and what some experts call retroactively implemented bureaucratic standards

Jews from Morocco arrive by ship at Haifa port, September 24, 1954. (COHEN FRITZ/GPO)

Supreme Court rules Morocco’s Jews can’t be compensated as Holocaust victims

Justices say that while community did face antisemitism from the French regime during WWII, it does not meet the conditions set out in Israel’s Nazi persecution law

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Israeli Paralympic swimmer Mark Malyar receives the gold medal in the men's 200-meter individual medley in the Tokyo Games, August 27, 2021. (Lilach Weiss/Israel Paralympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020

Israeli Paralympic swimmer Mark Malyar wins gold, breaks world record

21-year-old is second gold medalist in Tokyo pool in 2 days, after no Israeli swimmer had achieved such a feat since 2004

More Headlines

Illustrative: Two adult skulls lie next to each other at an archaeological excavation site in London, March 6, 2015. (AP/Matt Dunham)

7,200-year-old skeleton unearthed in Indonesia reveals unknown human group

By AFP

The burnt corpse of a Belgian Malinois dog that was tied up with adhesive tape and found near Komemiyut interchange, near Bat Yam, August 26, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man arrested on suspicion of tying up and burning his dog

These composite photos provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show Sirhan Sirhan from left, in Oct. 29, 2009, Sept. 20, 2012, and Nov. 22, 2013. For nearly 50 years, Sirhan has been consistent: He says he doesn't remember fatally shooting Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a crowded kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The Jerusalem native, now 71, has given no inkling that he will change his story at his 15th parole hearing set for Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, in San Diego. He is serving a life sentence that was commuted from death when the California Supreme Court briefly outlawed capital punishment in 1972. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)

In first, prosecutor won’t seek to keep RFK assassin Sirhan in US prison

By JULIE WATSON and brian melley

In this August 13, 2019 file photo, an employee checks a visitor outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer, File)

US to close troubled NYC jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself

By Michael R. Sisak and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Spike Lee at the 57th New York Film Festival, October 4, 2019. (Roy Rochlin/WireImage via JTA/ File)

Spike Lee to re-edit documentary featuring antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy theorist

By Andrew Lapin

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

5 arrested over stabbing of Palestinian at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Officers uncovered a number of firearms and dozens of weapon parts in Hebron, August 27, 2021. (Israel Police)

Police seize large arms cache, dozens of firearm parts in West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

View of the Haifa Bay in northern Israel, on April 24, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Environment Ministry frees tanker on $100,000 bail during probe of benzene leak

Then-Lebanese prime minister Hassan Diab, speaks during a press conference, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, on January 21, 2020. (AP/ Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanon’s outgoing PM subpoenaed over deadly Beirut port blast

By AP

Guitarist Berry Sakharoff, one of the Israeli musicians chosen by Apple Music to share his current playlist for the Jewish New Year. (courtesy, Apple Music)

SingdownApple Music marks Rosh Hashanah with Israeli artists’ playlists

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Supreme court justices arrive for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court tells coalition to agree on ‘more balanced’ Knesset committee makeup

Members of Palestinan security forces stand guard at the closed off Rafah border crossing to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 23, 2021 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Egypt reopens Gaza crossing after 4 days, as Israel eases restrictions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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