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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 5, 2021

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People shop at the Alrov Mamilla Avenue in Jerusalem on August 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s population rises to over 9.3 million on Rosh Hashanah eve

Officials figures show number of people in country grew by 146,000 since last Jewish new year, including 20,000 immigrants

Jewish men praying for forgivness (Selichot), at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on September 5, 2021, prior to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Number of Jews worldwide hits 15.2 million; 6.93 million of them are in Israel

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'It's inappropriate, stop it'

With criticism rife, Bennett slams ‘politicization’ of border guard’s death

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

PM says ‘some are trying to use the IDF as a tool to advance cynical political goals,’ following censure of army after shooting of Barel Hadaria Shmueli by Gaza gunman

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi pays a condolence call on September 5, 2021, to the home of Barel Hadaria Shmueli, a Border Police officer who was shot dead by a Gaza gunman at the border last month (Via Facebook: צועדים בדרך בראל)

IDF chief visits home of slain Border Police officer amid criticism from family

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony on the Israel Navy's Haifa Base, on September 2, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Fighting criticism, IDF chief says Israel must support troops or won’t have any

By Judah Ari Gross

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash at press conference about the coronavirus, in Jerusalem on August 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health Ministry chief predicts drop in coronavirus caseload in coming days

With serious cases decreasing, Nachman Ash says ‘there is hope’ virus spread has been curbed and ‘vaccines will outweigh the effect of the start of the school year’

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz visits Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed, on August 24, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Health minister optimistic as daily COVID infections fall below 10,000

Coronavirus czar Prof. Salman Zarka attends a press conference about the coronavirus in Jerusalem, on August 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus czar calls to begin readying for eventual 4th vaccine dose

Prof. Hagai Eisenberg, world-renowned expert on quantum computing and Chief Scientist at QuantLR, explains the principles of quantum to an audience at the Hebrew University. (Hebrew University)

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Securing information in the age of supercomputers

An ‘Iron Dome for data’ from Israeli startup QuantLR protects information using Einstein’s principles of quantum mechanics

A health worker takes a swab sample from a man at a coronavirus testing site in the northern city of Safed, August 31, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Health Ministry urges Israelis take COVID tests before Rosh Hashanah festivities

Top health official defends decision not to impose lockdown over Jewish new year and other upcoming holidays, citing ‘clear’ signs of declining morbidity

6:13 pm

Most COVID patients in serious condition aren't fully vaccinated, a 1st in current wave
5:52 pm

State asks top court to further delay demolition of West Bank Bedouin village
5:41 pm

Businessman back in Israel after being jailed in Jordan, getting sick with COVID

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 5 – Do recent regional talks portend anything peaceful?

Aaron Boxerman and Haviv Rettig-Gur talk about the trilateral summit between the Palestinians, Egyptians and Jordanians, followed by President Herzog’s unexpected trip to Jordan

President Isaac Herzog (left) speaks during a conference in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2021; Jordan's King Abdullah II (right) listens during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Amman, Jordan, on May 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; AP/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Herzog secretly visited Jordan for meeting with king

A 2,000-year-old stone quarry discovered in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Hotzvim. (Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Quarry that may have been source of Second Temple stones uncovered in Jerusalem

Archaeologists say find provides ‘clear demonstration’ of various phases of stone preparation, and can help them recreate and test ancient methods described in biblical sources

In this Wednesday, January 17, 2018 file photo, Eritrean migrants wear chains to mimic slaves at a demonstration against the Israeli government's plan to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum seekers from Israel to Uganda and Rwanda, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem. (AP/Oded Balilty)

'Politicians say things about us and people believe them'

Offered little hope, African migrants despair of Israel as a refuge

Unable to deport asylum seekers, Israel has instead left them in limbo with few rights; the new government has signaled it has no plans to change those policies anytime soon

This sabbatical year, the politicians are giving the land (dispute) a rest

By putting aside the deeply divisive question of final borders, the ‘Change Government’ is finding plenty of common ground

I haven’t repented. Can I come into the king?

At a human coronation, subjects stand in their thousands, faceless, but we pass before God one by one, subject to His scrutiny. What if we’re not prepared?

Then-chief of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, General Hasan Firouzabadi, center, delivers a speech, as Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, right, and army commander Ataollah Salehi, listen, during armed forces parade marking the 31st anniversary of the start of the Iraq-Iran War, in front of the mausoleum of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Former Iran army chief, who accused West of using lizard spies, dies of COVID-19

By AFP

Hassan Firouzabadi was a trained doctor who served in administrative roles before rising to lead the Islamic Republic’s military for 27 years

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks before parliament in the capital Tehran, on August 25, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Raisi: Iran ready to resume nuclear talks, but without Western ‘pressure’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Secretary-General of the Syrian-Lebanese Higher Council, Nasri Khoury, speaks during a joint press conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad (2nd right) and other cabinet members alongside his Lebanese counterpart Zeina Akar (3rd left) leading an official delegation, following a meeting in the capital Damascus, on September 4, 2021. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Syria says will help Lebanon get gas from Egypt as Iran fuel shipment en route

Israel's proposed open banking reforms signal more services, better rates and digital infrastructure for customers. (Ipopba on iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s fintech community readies for ‘dramatic’ changes in banking sector

By Ricky Ben-David

Though banking giants are kicking and screaming about open-banking reforms, non-bank entities stand ready to offer services at competitive rates

Illustrative. The Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, on March 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State asks High Court for further delay in razing of West Bank Bedouin village

Government files request to put off Khan al-Ahmar demolition by another six months

A collage of kids' books for this Jewish holiday season. (Apples & Honey Press; Kalaniot Books; Kar-Ben Books/ via JTA)

High Holidays 5782

New kids’ books for the Jewish New Year: Kangaroos, Jonah and 2 guys named Max

By Penny Schwartz

This array of colorfully illustrated books will enliven the High Holidays, which begin this year with Rosh Hashanah on the evening of September 6

Over 24 hours in Kabul, brutality, trauma — and moments of grace

By TAMEEM AKHGAR, Matthew Lee, Lolita C. Baldor, Rahim Faiez and Calvin Woodward

Longtime enemies the US and the Taliban re thrust into a bizarre collaboration, and both sides had a stake in making America’s last 24 hours in the country work

Women gather to demand their rights under the Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 4, 2021. (AP/Kathy Gannon)

Taliban special forces violently break up women’s rights rally in Kabul

By KATHY GANNON

Ahmed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen appears in the High Court in Auckland, New Zealand, August 7, 2018, after he was found possessing a series of images which depict extreme violence, cruelty, death and graphic war scenes. (Greg Bowker/New Zealand Herald via AP)

Islamic State-inspired terrorist stayed in New Zealand despite immigration fraud

Promo pic for The Champion of Auschwitz, based on the life of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski (Courtesy)

‘Champion of Auschwitz’: New book tells the story of a boxer who brought hope

By Anna Maria Jakubek

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Police charge 16-year-old with premeditated murder of pedophile

Israel's forward Eran Zahavi (L) shoots to score the third goal during the 2022 Qatar World Cup European Qualifiers football match between Israel and Austria at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa, on September 4, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel beats Austria 5-2 in ‘amazing’ soccer World Cup qualifier

A man in traditional Muslim garb is seen punching an ultra-Orthodox man in the street, in the heavily-Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Muslim suspect charged with assaulting 5 Jews in London’s Stamford Hill

Michael Herzog is interviewed by VOA Persian on August 11, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Cabinet approves nominations of ambassadors to US, Canada

Doctors and nurses strike outside a Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Seven hospitals end strike after government agrees to increase funding

The new UAE embassy in Tel Aviv, on July 14, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel’s trade with Arab states has surged since 2020 peace deals, data shows

President Reuven Rivlin addresses a group of UN ambassadors in New York on June 29, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Rivlin joins Israel Democracy Institute as honorary chairman

Mark Ronson arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, February 24, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Uptown girlMusic producer Mark Ronson ties knot with Meryl Streep’s daughter

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