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Israeli children going into 1st grade, on their first day of the new academic year, at the Pola school in Jerusalem, September 1, 2021. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

'The education system is the solution, not the problem'

With tests and masks, 2.5 million Israeli kids return to school amid COVID surge

Officials acknowledge reopening schools could see a further surge in already record virus numbers, but country determined to keep education system open; 250,000 will miss first day

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Education Minister Dr. Yifat Shasha-Biton sit with children at the Eli Cohen Meuhad School in Yeruham, at the start of the new school year, on September 1, 2021. (Haim Zach / GPO)

As kids head back to class, Bennett says no guarantees schools will stay open

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton speaks at a press conference at the Education Ministry in Tel Aviv, in preparation for the opening of the school year nationwide, on August 31, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Full text: The Education Ministry’s rules for opening schools

Illustrative close up of medical technician working on a bacterial culture (Credit: 10174593_258, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli study proves ‘silent mutations’ can help detect cancer, predict survival

Peer-reviewed research at Tel Aviv University shows previously overlooked genome alterations can be used to help identify cancer types and predict patients’ chances of survival

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)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz, IDF chief defend army amid pushback over border cop’s death

Defense minister rejects claims that overly restrictive open-fire regulations led to killing of Barel Shmueli on the Gaza border

6:21 pm

Qatar and UN to soon inform Gazan families they're eligible for subsidies
5:44 pm

New Iran FM says he's been invited to Paris
5:22 pm

Palestinians mourn man found shot in West Bank, blame Israel

US President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Commits to bringing home Americans still there if they want

Biden defends decision to end ‘forever war,’ calls exit ‘extraordinary success’

By Sebastian Smith

In address to nation as US completes Afghanistan withdrawal, president says he was not prepared for evacuation to become a ‘forever exit’

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid (C, with shawl) speaks to the media at the airport in Kabul on August 31, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Security, logistics, repair: What next for Kabul’s airport?

By AFP

Afghan residents and family members of the victims gather next to a damaged vehicle inside a house, day after a US drone airstrike in Kabul on August 30, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

US drone strike wiped out Kabul family of 10, brother says

By Emal Haidary

Young Israeli students on their first day back at school, at Gabrieli school, in Tel Aviv. September 01, 2021 (Courtesy Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 1 – Back to school for most, with or without rapid testing

Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren takes a broad look at the return to the school year, and military correspondent Judah Ari Gross examines Israel’s NIS 500 million loan to the PA

Health personnel take test samples on Israelis wanting to travel abroad, at a COVID-19 testing station in Safed, on August 31, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Schools to open Wed., with Israel’s per capita COVID rates among world’s worst

File: Then-Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Ze'ev Elkin attends Sukkot prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister slams Western Wall COVID limits for not also applying to Temple Mount

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

Decision-making on COVID was ‘defective’ under Netanyahu, ombudsman charges

By Raoul Wootliff

In scathing report, State Comptroller cites lack of preparation, sidelining of experts, incoherent decision-making, failure to learn from mistakes, vast enforcement discrepancies

Hadar Walz, who suffers from allergies, being vaccinated at Sheba Medical Center. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

Israeli study: Pfizer shot safe for highly allergic patients, with supervision

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative photograph of drilling oil on land. (bashta, iStock at Getty Images)

Israel to issue no further permits for terrestrial oil exploration

Energy Minister Karine Elharrar pledges a focus on renewable energy to combat climate change; lambasting predecessor, she also vows appointments on merit, not connections

Rotem Amfert factories in the Negev. (Screenshot)

Minister threatens to withhold chemical firm’s franchise over royalties probe

Workers repair a section of pipe in southern Israel owned by the Europe Asia Pipeline Company following a leak of crude oil, August 30, 2021. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

Environment Ministry opens criminal probe into pipeline company’s oil leak

American businessman Larry Silverstein gives an interview to Israeli TV from his Lower Manhattan office, August 2021. (Screenshot: Channel 13)

Larry Silverstein: I decided to rebuild World Trade Center just 2 days post-9/11

By Michael Bachner

Speaking to Israeli TV, American businessman describes how he bought Twin Towers 7 weeks before the 2001 terror attacks, and how a dermatologist appointment saved his life that day

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

At 12, she knew she wanted to join the IDF

I placed my hands on my daughter’s head, blessed her, and sent her off, with thick socks and a chunk of my soul, to serve as a soldier of Israel

The (non-)draft law for Haredim

Lowering the draft age for the ultra-Orthodox to let them leave the army at the usual age sounds like a good idea, but it might just bring down this people’s army

Melissa Hoffman

The shemitah year calls us to repair a broken food system

As industrialized nations produce more and more food each year, the earth itself is in peril, for true abundance requires rest

Good ideas taken too far: The updated Green Pass

I am a strong proponent of the vaccines, but these new regulations will inflate the demand for the booster among those who need it least

Prime Minister Nafatali Bennett (L) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim airbase in southern Israel, June 24, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

A government with 2 heads: Bennett and Gantz lead coordinated, opposing policies

PM has distanced himself from defense minister’s meeting with PA chief, but they seem okay with each taking a different approach to satisfy coalition’s rightist and leftist bases

At the unveiling of gravestone for Thomas LaRue Jones aka 'The Black Cantor' at Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, on August 29, 2021. Henry Sapoznik (in hat) is at center with hand on the monument. (David Sperling)

'A man who accomplished what he did should have a memorial'

Headstone for long-forgotten Black cantor unveiled in NJ cemetery

By Renee Ghert-Zand

With support of friends and interested strangers, researcher Henry Sapoznik dedicates memorial for lauded Yiddish performer Thomas LaRue Jones, who was buried in a potter’s field

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman meet at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 15, 2021. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Bennett picks new chief, ‘Resh,’ for Shin Bet security service

By Judah Ari Gross

Until he enters office, the current deputy head of the organization can only be identified by the first Hebrew letter of his name

Police at the scene of the murder of Sahar Ismail, the education minister's aide for Arab society, in the northern Israeli town of Rameh, on August 15, 2021. (Flash90)

New undercover police unit formed to clamp down on crime in Arab communities

Aviem Sella giving a lecture in Herzliya in 2012. (Screenshot: YouTube)

After 34-year delay, Pollard handler Aviem Sella promoted to brigadier general

By Judah Ari Gross

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)

Op-Ed

On DC trip, Bennett’s approach to Iran – and governing – took amorphous shape

Premier points at wisdom of his multi-faceted effort against Tehran and spirit of unity in his coalition, but he’ll have to show more boldness going forward if he intends to lead

Bahrain's first ambassador to Israel, Khaled Yousif al-Jalahmah (right) after arriving in Israel, on August 31, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

First Bahraini ambassador to Israel arrives in country to take up post

Both nations hail arrival of Khaled Yousif al-Jalahmah, the Gulf kingdom’s first envoy to Jewish state, as an important step in further developing ties after normalization

Ilan Sztulman Starosta, head of mission at Israel's consulate in Dubai, at his office on August 23, 2021. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

InterviewIsraeli envoy to Dubai says ties won’t be harmed if massive UAE oil deal is axed

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong in the upstairs den of his Corona, New York home on June 23, 1971. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

Hurricane Ida levels Jewish family home where Louis Armstrong found inspiration

Fisherman load a horse-drawn cart before delivering their haul to market after a limited number of boats were allowed to return to the sea following a ceasefire reached after an 11-day war between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, May 23, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Israel extends Gaza fishing zone, lets in more workers despite border riots

By Judah Ari Gross

Additional water and goods allowed into the Strip after Palestinians hold violent demonstration along security fence for fourth straight night

Palestinians burn tires during a protest along the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City in the central Gaza Strip, on August 30, 2021. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Palestinians riot along Gaza border for 4th night, after Israel allows goods in

By ToI Staff and AP

A section of Route 443. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Palestinian killed by IDF, allegedly after trying to attack cars in West Bank

Timna Nelson-Levy of Israel reacts after defeating Daria Mezhetskaia of the Russian Olympic Committee in their bronze medal match in team judo competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 31, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Interview

The Israeli Olympic medalist putting judo competition in a full Nelson-Levy

Timna Nelson-Levy, born in Jerusalem to American parents, says she felt she also represented the US when she won bronze along with her team at the Tokyo Games

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Alexanda Amon Kotey, allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Member of ‘Beatles’ IS cell set to plead guilty in US court on Syria beheadings

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Li-Yam Levy. (Courtesy)

Israeli boy who died from jellyfish sting in Thailand to be cremated

Mathias Doepfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE, at the opening of the Axel Springer Award ceremony broadcast on the Internet Thursday, March 18, 2021. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP, Pool)

New owners won’t make Politico employees sign pro-Israel mission statement

By Gabe Friedman

Warsaw Ghetto survivor Shalom Stamberg is interviewed in 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

One of last remaining Warsaw Ghetto survivors succumbs to COVID at 96

A Volvo car. Illustrative. Photo by Adam Cai on Unsplash,

Volvo invests in Israeli developer of testing platform for autonomous vehicles

By Ricky Ben-David

Producer Mike Richards poses in the pressroom at the 43rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards, on May 1, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Mike Richards now also out as producer of ‘Jeopardy!’ and ‘Wheel’

The Typhoon is a stabilized, remotely-controlled weapon system for naval ships developed by Rafael. (Courtesy)

Rafael wins $80m contract to provide naval warfare systems in Southeast Asia

Poway synagogue shooting suspect John Earnest during a preliminary hearing in Superior Court in San Diego, on September 19, 2019. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

US won’t seek death penalty for California synagogue shooter

By AP

Yehiel Hayavi. (Courtesy)

Jordan orders release of Israeli businessman who contracted COVID while jailed

A branch of the furniture chain Ikea in Wallau near Wiesbaden, Germany, March 17, 2020. (Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa via AP)

IKEA operator invests in Israeli ‘buy now, pay later’ fintech firm

By Ricky Ben-David

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