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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)

Border Police officer shot on Gaza border dies of wounds

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Barel Shmueli, 21, succumbs to wounds 9 days after point-blank shooting by rioter who rushed the fence; Bennett calls soldier ‘a fighter in his life and a fighter in his death’

Palestinian burn tires during rioting along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Gaza City, on August 28, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Gazans burn tires, set off explosives on border for second night in a row

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gives a dvar Torah address before Friday night Shabbat services in Washington, DC, August 27, 2021 (screenshot)

Reporter's notebookIn 'dvar Torah,' PM mused on failures, leadership, ethics

Getting to know the PM: Our unexpected Shabbat in a DC hotel with Bennett

By Lazar Berman

ToI’s diplomatic correspondent describes the weekend the media, Bennett and his team spent ‘capsuled’ together in Washington, after Biden summit was delayed by Kabul’s deadly blast

13-year-old Tomer Zarfati receives his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary Clalit health care center in Jerusalem, August 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel widens 3rd COVID booster shot to those aged 12 and over

Those who’ve had 3rd dose, or 2nd dose within past half-year, will be exempt from full 7-day quarantine when returning from abroad; ‘Green Pass’ to expire 6 months after last dose

Hadassah Ein Kerem team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of the Hadassah Ein Kerem medical center in Jerusalem on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett backs expanding virus restrictions to health, education workers

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A worker performs a COVID-19 rapid antigen test at a Magen David Adom testing center in Jerusalem, on August 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Positive COVID test rate hits 7.8%, the highest since February

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a meeting of the PLO executive committee and the Fatah Central Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

In first top-level meeting in a decade, Gantz holds talks with Abbas in Ramallah

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a meeting of Fatah's Revolutionary Council, in a speech that was broadcast on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (WAFA)

Hamas, Islamic Jihad condemn Abbas for ‘reprehensible’ meeting with Gantz

By Aaron Boxerman

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) attends a conference in the Eshkol region, southern Israel. on July 13, 2021; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech regarding COVID-19, at the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 5, 2020. (Flash90)

Official close to PM downplays Gantz-Abbas meeting: There won’t be peace talks

By Aaron Boxerman and Emanuel Fabian

Good Faith Effort

David Brooks on telling the American story

The New York Times columnist discusses the challenges and opportunities of the American narrative in coming generations — and why the Bible will be essential for it

Israeli swimmers Ami Dadaon (L) and Mark Malyar (R) compete in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, August 30, 2021. (Keren Isaacson/IPC)

Tokyo 2020

Winning streak continues: Israeli Paralympics swimmers pick up gold, bronze

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Israel’s medal haul now at 7; Ami Dadaon shatters his own world record, takes top prize; Mark Malyar wins his third medal, coming third in 100m backstroke

Sarah Bernstein

Do Jewish children need a Jewish teacher?

The demand by some parents that their children’s homeroom teachers share their Zionist values reflects a misunderstanding of how identity is actually shaped

What if Peter Beinart is wrong?

If his idea to replace Israel with a binational state in which Jews are the minority leads to genocide, he can simply apologize, as he has done for past mistakes

Palestinians burn tires along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, on August 29, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gazans hold border riots for third straight night

‘Calm and security will allow an improvement in civil conditions, but rioting and terror will lead to strong response or operation,” IDF chief warns

6:18 pm

Cyprus warns Syrian oil slick could reach its shores in next day
5:54 pm

Hasidic leader said to call off mass Rosh Hashanah event over COVID concerns
5:25 pm

Gov't said weighing expanded Green Pass rules for workers in numerous fields

Afghan refugees arrive at Dulles International Airport on August 27, 2021, in Dulles, Virginia, after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (Olivier DOULIERY/AFP)

Bennett weighs offering help to transport Afghan refugees to third countries

PM won’t resettle refugees in Israel, but, in gesture to Biden, may suggest assisting in airlifting fleeing Afghans out of US airbases, sources say

Taliban fighters patrol a street in Kabul on August 29, 2021, as suicide bomb threats hung over the final phase of the US military's airlift operation from Kabul, with President Joe Biden warning another attack was highly likely before the evacuations end. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

US drone strike stops IS suicide car-bombers trying to attack Kabul airport

By AFP

US President Joe Biden returns a salute as he and first lady Jill Biden arrive at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, August 29, 2021. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Biden at solemn ceremony to receive US troops killed in Afghanistan

By AAMER MADHANI

Jewish communal documents removed from book bindings, beginning of the 16th century (Bidspirit)

According to Jewish law, the auctions are legal. But moral?

Are online sales of pre-Holocaust communal records their doom or salvation?

By Matt Lebovic

After decades of silence about eastern European Jewish community documents ‘abandoned’ during World War II, the issue has started to ruffle feathers, from Brooklyn to Budapest

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah, on May 5, 2020. (Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing August 30 – Could the Jerusalem-Ramallah freeze be thawing?

Founding editor David Horovitz discusses the pros and cons of PM Bennett’s recent DC visit; Arab affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman summarizes outcomes of PA-Israel talks

A section of roof that was blown off of a building in the French Quarter by Hurricane Ida winds blocks an intersection, Sunday, August 29, 2021, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Hurricane Ida knocks out New Orleans power, claims its first fatality

By Rebecca Santana, Kevin McGill and Janet McConnaughey

Unidentified person found dead after a tree crashes down on a home in Prairieville; the 150-mph winds make it the 5th strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland US

The Orot Rabin power station, seen from the Hadera Stream Park, Hadera, northern Israel, on November 25, 2017. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Government report finds Israel methane emissions much higher than world averages

In annual report, Environmental Protection Ministry assesses emissions cost state NIS 12.9 billion ($4 billion) in damage to public health and environment last year

A wildfire nearing Givat Yearim outside Jerusalem, August 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government approves Jerusalem wildfire aid and rehab plan

By Emanuel Fabian

Actor Ed Asner arrives during the 82nd Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, on March 7, 2010. (AP Photo/ Matt Sayles, File)

ObituaryChild of Ashkenazi immigrants was raised Orthodox in Kansas

Ed Asner, TV’s blustery but lovable Lou Grant, dies at 91

By AP, JTA and ToI Staff

Prolific actor became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman on ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ and in later spinoff; once said he hoped to be buried on Mount Scopus

Analysis

Could Lapid’s harsh rebuke of Poland harm ties beyond repair?

Some experts question wisdom of foreign minister’s enraged response to Warsaw’s newly passed controversial restitution law

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

More Headlines

Illustrative: Students study at a yeshiva in Jerusalem, September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbi brothers suspected of sex abuse at their Jerusalem yeshiva

By Stuart Winer

Two of the three cars that were attacked by a number of Bedouin suspects on Route 6, May 11, 2021. (Video screenshot)

5 from Bedouin town charged over attacks on drivers in May

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon visit a restaurant in Jerusalem, March 7, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to dine in Hawaii with Larry Ellison, a witness in graft trial

Anuradha Mittal (Courtesy)

Ben & Jerry’s board chair said accused of self-dealing to fund Palestinian group

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Likud MK Avi Dichter arrives for a meeting with then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on May 6, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Likud MK Dichter says he’ll challenge Netanyahu for party leadership

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

5 charged for stabbing Palestinian while on way to Western Wall prayers

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

People watch a TV screen showing a file image of a North Korean missile in a military parade during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, August 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

UN watchdog: North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor

By AFP

The crocodile farm in Hamat Gader, a valley in north Israel, in the border with Jordan and Syria, October, 14, 2008. (Jorge Novominsky/File)

In a while?Israel hunts for crocodile on the run, after tip from Jordan

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, then-Minister of Road and Urbanization Mohammad Eslami, walks in the presidency compound, April 7, 2021, in Tehran, Iran. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran’s new nuclear chief was blacklisted by the UN

By Nasser Karimi

The wooden Mughrabi Bridge leading up from the Western Wall plaza to the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City. April 17,2012. (Noam Moskowitz/ Flash 90)

Work begins to partially renovate hazardous bridge to Temple Mount

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ultra-Orthodox young women in the Adva training program, which aims to teach them with tech skill (Courtesy)

Israel offers funding for innovative ways to train new candidates for tech jobs

By Ricky Ben-David

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen (R), in an interview with Channel 12's Ilana Dayan, broadcast on June 6, 2021. (Channel 12)

Attorney general ends probe into former Mossad chief’s TV interview

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