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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 4, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) speaks via Zoom with the Conference of Presidents on September 3, 2021. (Screen capture/Courtesy)

PM says joint US-Israel team formed to combat Iran

Bennett to Jewish leaders: I won’t meet PA chief Abbas; he took Israel to ICC

In call with US Conference of Presidents, PM says he’ll take steps to ‘reduce friction’ with Palestinians, arguing that middle ground is worth pursuing even if conflict unsolvable

The US consulate on Agron Street in Jerusalem. (CC BY-SA, Magister/Wikimedia)

Visiting Democrats push for reopening US consulate in Jerusalem

Guantanamo detainee Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, also known as Abu Zubaydah, in an undated video. (Screenshot)

Al-Qaeda plotted multiple terror attacks in Israel after 9/11, FBI agent says

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)

Biden moves to declassify documents about September 11 attacks

Supporters of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group prepare balloon-borne incendiary devices to launch toward Israel, east of Gaza City, on June 15, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Hamas threatens more Gaza violence: ‘All means available to break the siege’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Incendiary balloon units reportedly set to resume attacks on Israel amid ongoing disagreements over improving living conditions in the enclave

In this Monday, September 30, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas says Egypt caused Gaza tunnel collapse, killing 3

Nitza Shmueli, mother of slain Border Police officer Barel Haderia Shmueli, speaks to Channel 12, September 3, 2021 (screenshot)

‘I tore up PM’s letter’: Family of slain border cop wades into politics

Father of Barel Hadaria Shmueli, shot on Gaza border, suggests Bennett should resign; his mother says coalition with Arab party Ra’am amounts to an ‘assassination of Israel’

Otto Warburg in his laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. (The German Federal Archives)

InterviewWarburg Effect: Cancer cells fuel growth through glucose

Why the Nazis allowed a Jewish cancer scientist to remain in Berlin during WWII

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Sam Apple’s new book ‘Ravenous’ tackles the fascinating scientific nexus between cellular metabolism and oncogenes, warning of a link between excessive sugar consumption and cancer

An Israeli woman receives a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit clinic on September 1, 2021 in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli researchers expect serious COVID cases to drop below 500 soon

Forecast from Hebrew University points to an optimistic trajectory for current wave of pandemic, finds recent case spike is due to increased testing among kids

Jewish youth from across the world attend the main annual Taglit-Birthright event at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Birthright trips to resume in October without quarantines for the vaccinated

By Gabe Friedman

In this April 26, 2021 file photo, a nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Pfizer’s Israeli data aiding US booster decision, but plan faces potential delay

Finding a place for my stuff

Studying a page of Talmud each day wasn’t going to making moving house easy, but Tractate Sukkah did show me how to dwell temporarily in a place

Tikkun olam begins at home

When I started working for a cause I knew intimately, fundraising stopped being a night out and became my own chance to repair the world

Afghan resistance movement and anti-Taliban uprising forces take part in a military training at Malimah area of Dara district in Panjshir province, on September 2, 2021, as the valley remains the last major holdout of anti-Taliban forces. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP)

Taliban yet to name government as resistance in Panjshir Valley holds

By David Fox and Emal Haidary

The province, which held out for nearly a decade against the Soviet Union and the Taliban’s first regime, is stubbornly fighting on

Afghan female singer Aryana Sayeed performs during a concert to commemorate Afghanistan's Independence Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Pop-artist who fled Taliban speaks to Israeli TV about the women left behind

Women gather to demand their rights under the Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

‘Freedom is our motto’: Afghan women demand rights as Taliban seek recognition

By KATHY GANNON

Matt Jaffe smiles at a baby at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan Friday, Aug. 20, 2021 in a photo that went viral. (U.S. Central Command Sgt. Isaiah Campbell/US Marine Corps)

Jewish Marine who went viral cradling baby got start keeping kids happy at a JCC

Matt Jaffe, a 27-year-old sergeant, was photographed smiling down at an Afghan baby during the chaotic evacuation at Kabul airport

Illustrative: Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal before boarding a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Virginia, August 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

At the chaotic Kabul airport, a Jewish group was this Afghan refugee’s lifeline

Prof. Dan Ariely (Channel 12 screenshot)

Behavioral researcher says he ‘undoubtedly made a mistake’ in false data scandal

Dan Ariely insists his actions were innocent, defends other controversial moves, believes his reputation will recover

Entering the newly restored Mount Zion tunnel from the top point near the Jerusalem University College. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Get into the trenches of Israeli history at the revamped Mt. Zion supply tunnel

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

When Jordanian snipers threatened supply lines before Israel unified Jerusalem, IDF engineers built a secret trench now renovated and open to visitors after lying dormant for years

Analysis

Montreal anti-vax leader drops yellow star, stands by Holocaust comparison

Director of city’s Holocaust museum Daniel Amar says many activists aren’t antisemitic and share a sense of victimhood — which is why further education is so important

Illustrative: A protester holds a Yellow Star reading 'Not Vaccinated = Jew' as protesters take part in a demonstration in Milan on July 24, 2021, against the introduction of a mandatory 'green pass' for indoor dining and entertainment area, in the aim to limit the spread of the coronavirus. (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)

The Luzzatto High Holiday Machzor is the oldest Hebrew prayer book to be put up for auction and is expected to fetch at least $4 million. (Courtesy of Sotheby's via JTA)

700-year-old Rosh Hashanah prayerbook on auction for $4 million

Luzzatto High Holiday Machzor is oldest Hebrew prayerbook ever to be sold at auction; French Jewish organization will use proceeds for education and scholarships

Michael Keaton as Kenneth Feinberg and Stanley Tucci as Charles Wolf in the Netflix film 'Worth.' (Monika Lek/Netflix/ via JTA)

Film review

Kenneth Feinberg helps 9/11 families find ‘Worth’ in Obama-produced Netflix film

By Andrew Lapin

In this file photo pro-life protesters stand near the gate of the Texas state capitol at a protest outside the Texas state capitol on May 29, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (SERGIO FLORES/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP)

Letting Texas ban most abortions, US top court deals major blow to choice camp

By Charlotte Plantive and Chris Lefkow

Abortion opponents celebrate law the prevents procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest; Biden lashes out at the court decision

A security guard opens the door of the Whole Woman's Health clinic in Fort Worth, Texas, on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, which has a sign informing the public that it is open. (AP Photo / LM Otero)

ExplainerWhat to know about the new Texas abortion law

By Paul J. Weber and DAVID A. LIEB

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Syrian Air defenses respond to alleged Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

Reports: Israel destroyed Syrian missile battery that fired toward Tel Aviv area

Armed police stand outside a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. New Zealand authorities say they shot and killed a violent extremist, Friday Sept. 3, after he entered a supermarket and stabbed and injured six shoppers. (AP Photo/Brett Phibbs)

New Zealand jihadist attacker was released from jail despite serious concerns

A mother hugs her son in front of a memorial at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2019. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Conservatives accuse Biden of lying about visiting Tree of Life Synagogue

In this file photo taken on April 7, 2016, Journalist Masih Alinejad speaks onstage at the 7th Annual Women In The World Summit at the Lincoln Center in New York City. (Jemal Countess / Getty Images North America / AFP)

US sanctions 4 Iranian intel operatives over plot to abduct American journalist

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A view of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, March 17, 2020. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images/JTA)

National Museum of American Jewish History emerges from bankruptcy

Illustrative: A teenager looks at her mobile phone while quarantining (Maria Casinos; iStock by Getty Images)

Knesset advances bill to allow quarantine monitoring via app

(Left to right) Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Diego Schwartzman and Eugenia De Martino at the US Open in New York. (@eugedemartino Instagram stories via JTA)

A night to rememberDiego Schwartzman wins storm-hit US Open match, meets Ben Stiller

By Emily Burack

Members of the Swedish group ABBA are seen on a display during their Voyage event at Grona Lund, Stockholm, on September 2, 2021, during their presentation of the first new song after nearly four decades. (Fredrik PERSSON / TT News Agency / AFP)

Mamma Mia!‘One of the biggest reunions ever:’ ABBA announces comeback

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