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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 29, 2021

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US President Joe Biden meets Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office of the White House, August 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Likud blasts Bennett over 'dangerous statement'

Bennett said to vow he won’t openly lobby against US return to Iran nuke deal

Israeli official tells news site PM stressed to Biden that despite disagreements, he wants them to work together ‘according to rules of honesty and decency’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett boards a plane at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington, DC, on August 29, 2021. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Heading home, Bennett says all goals ‘achieved and surpassed’ during US trip

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on August 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden: Another terror attack in Kabul ‘highly likely’ in next 24-36 hours

US president says drone strike that killed 2 ISIS-K members is ‘not the last,’ those involved in deadly airport bombing ‘will pay’; State Department urges US citizens to leave area

This undated photo provided by the US Department of Defense twitter page posted August 20, 2021 shows Sgt. Nicole Gee holding a baby at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (US Department of Defense via AP)

Americans slain in Kabul blast include women on front lines, troops born in 2001

By AP

In this handout photo provided by the Ministry of Defence, UK military personnel onboard a A400M aircraft departing Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. (Jonathan Gifford/Ministry of Defence via AP)

Last UK troops leave Afghanistan, ending 20-year military involvement

By Jill Lawless

Palestinian burn tires during rioting along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Gaza City, on August 28, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Gazans riot on border for second night in a row

Hamas-affiliated groups hold further ‘night confusion activities,’ as condition of soldier who suffered critical gunshot wound amid recent violence deteriorates

6:26 pm

Syrian FM: 'Thunderous' US defeat in Afghanistan only the first
6:21 pm

Bennett to hold meeting Monday on final preparations for school year
6:11 pm

Footage shows several Gazans wounded by IDF fire amid border riots

Palestinians protest in front of the Civil Affairs Commission in Ramallah on June 14, 2021 (courtesy)

Stuck in limbo, undocumented Palestinian spouses live shadow lives

By Aaron Boxerman

Those seeking permits to reside in the West Bank face a strict Israeli system and a PA that may be burying their applications, making them prisoners in their own adopted homes

Family of Abbas critic, who died in PA custody, seeks international justice

By AFP

US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 29 – Bennett heads home from longer-than-expected DC trip

US correspondent Jacob Magid fills in details of Bennett’s meeting with US President Biden, while military correspondent Judah Ari Gross explains Gaza and IDF plans regarding Iran

Israeli swimmer Mark Malyar poses with his gold medal in the 400m freestyle at the Tokyo Paralympics on August 29, 2021. (Keren Isaacson/Israel Paralympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020

Shattering another world record, swimmer Mark Malyar wins his second Tokyo gold

Israel’s Paralympic Games medal count stands at 5, surpassing its Rio haul with several medal opportunities still on the horizon

FILE: Rower Moran Samuel after winning a silver medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, August 29, 2021. (Lilach Weiss/Israel Paralympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020Israel snags 4th Paralympics medal as rower Moran Samuel wins silver

Afghan refugees' luggage sits at the Torrejon de Ardoz air base in Madrid, Spain, on August 24, 2021. (Jesus Hellin/Europa Press via Getty Images)

'They are scared for their lives'; 'Give me 10 hours'

Last Afghanistan Jew’s would-be Jewish rescuers save Afghan women soccer team

An ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn fixer and an Israeli-American businessman rescue athletes, prosecutors and judges from Taliban rule after Zebulon Simantov refuses to leave

Afghan health facilities said running out of medical supplies, staff

By AFP

Biden in the ‘loneliest job,’ a presidency driven by crisis

By Calvin Woodward

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai seen during a visit to the southern city of Ashkelon, May 18, 2021. (Flash90)

Police scramble to curb violence after 4 murders in 48 hours in Arab community

By Emanuel Fabian

‘We have lost control of the streets,’ warns police official; Segev Shalom man found shot in a torched car, in latest apparent homicide

Abed Qurmata. (Courtesy)

3 killed over weekend in Arab community as gun violence surges

Why schools must open and stay open

If months of protecting our children at home with ample screen time, schnitzel, and brownies has taught us anything, it’s that kids need to be around other kids

Keep funding the hatefest or demand a Palestinian peace curriculum

The EU will soon decide whether to re-up its support for teaching that even its own (woefully flawed) investigation found to be riddled with antisemitism

Raja Koduri, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group, displays a wafer with Intel Arc high-performance discrete graphics hardware as part of a presentation during Intel Architecture Day 2021. The virtual event was held in August 2021. (Intel Corporation)

Intel previews biggest chip shifts ‘in generation,’ some developed in Israel

By Ricky Ben-David

The semiconductor giant is rolling out new processors for PCs, named Alder Lake and built on hybrid architecture designed locally

Palestinian protesters burn tyres following a demonstration along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel east of Gaza City on August 28, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF strikes Gaza after violent border riots, airborne arson attack

A Magen David Adom medical worker takes a COVID-19 rapid antigen test at a coronavirus test complex in Jerusalem, on August 18, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

COVID positivity rate passes 7%, but expert says infection rate dropping

Health Ministry director expects no more lockdowns this year; with school year set to start in 3 days, government advisers say there’s no reason it won’t

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)

Israel said expected to soon offer COVID boosters to all eligible for vaccine

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)

We’ll soon see positive effects of booster campaign, says health expert

Middle East reporter Josh Mitnick (Courtesy FB page)

Veteran Mideast correspondent Josh Mitnick dies at 50

Israel-based, US native’s work appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor and Foreign Policy; he is mourned as ‘an incredible journalist’

Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a conference in Jerusalem on August 1, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu accused of pocketing dozens of gifts he received as PM — report

Prime Minister’s Office said to tell opposition leader to return unaccounted-for items, including presents from Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

Avi Alkalay, former editor at Walla news, arrives for a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, on March 10, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Witness in Netanyahu trial summoned for further questioning after phone search

Yair Netanyahu, son of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on March 10, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Court rejects Yair Netanyahu claim he doesn’t have money to pay his libel fines

Illustrative: Researchers from University of Haifa's Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences examine a huge swarm of jellyfish appeared off Haifa's coast. (Hagai Nativ/University of Haifa)

Israeli boy, 9, dies in Thailand after jellyfish sting

Toxin believed to have come from the ultra-venomous box jellyfish; some reports say boy didn’t receive immediate first aid

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Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton attends a New Hope faction meeting at the Knesset on August 2 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education minister Shasha-Biton receives boosted security amid death threats

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi (R) receives France's President Emmanuel Macron ahead of a meeting at the parliament in the capital Baghdad, on August 28, 2021. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Macron vows French troops will remain in Iraq even if US withdraws

By Laurence Benhamou and Guillaume Decamme

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton at a handover ceremony at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Education minister revises comment branding COVID-19 shots in schools a ‘crime’

US residents drive north (L) on Interstate Highway 55 near Magnolia, Mississippi, as they evacuate away from New Orleans on August 28, 2021, before the arrival of Hurricane Ida. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)

Evacuations, fear as ‘extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Ida grows to Category 4

Twitch gamers protest ‘hate raids’ suffered by LGBTQ, Black, Jewish streamers

By Julie JAMMOT and Katy Lee

In this image provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Sirhan Sirhan arrives for a parole hearing Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in San Diego. Sirhan faces his 16th parole hearing Friday for fatally shooting U. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)

Six of Robert Kennedy’s kids condemn decision to parole assassin Sirhan Sirhan

By ToI Staff and AP

Avishai and Naomi Weinberger sing 'The Anti-Vaxxer's Lament,' a satirical response to activists comparing COVID restrictions to the Holocaust. (YouTube screenshot)

Cathartic chordsNew Yorkers fight anti-vaccine Holocaust comparisons via song

By PHILISSA CRAMER

With a model of the COVID-19 virus displayed, US President Joe Biden listens as Dr. Barney Graham, left, speaks during a visit at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), on Thursday, February 11, 2021, in Bethesda, MD. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says China still withholding ‘critical’ info on COVID-19 origins

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