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What Matters Most On Monday, September 6, 2021

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A guard keeps watch from an observation tower at Gilboa Prison in northern Israel on September 6, 2021, after the escape of six Palestinian security prisoners from the facility. (Jalaa Marey/AFP) Photo of terrorist leader Zakaria Zubeidi. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Six security prisoners escape from Gilboa Prison in northern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

The six, all highly dangerous, dug their way out of the high-security facility; Israeli forces searching for fugitives in one of the worst escapes in country’s history

The six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from Gilboa prison on Monday, September 6, 2021. Clockwise from top left: Yaqoub Qadiri, Mohammad al-Arida, Mahmoud al-Arida, Iham Kamamji, Zakaria Zubeidi, and Munadil Nafiyat (Screenshot: Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office)

Terror charges and life sentences: The 6 Palestinians who escaped Gilboa Prison

Police officers and prison guards stand at the scene of a prison escape of six Palestinian terrorists outside the Gilboa prison in northern Israel, on September 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Police on high alert over possibility of attack by escaped Palestinian prisoners

‘We’re not ruling out possibility they could attempt to carry out an attack,’ says police official, noting the escaped terrorists could have reached anywhere in Israel by now

Israeli security personnel gather outside the Gilboa Prison in northern Israel on September 6, 2021. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Security officials believe fugitives exploited structural flaw in prison escape

Conjoined twins, newly separated at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba, look at each other for the first time, on September 5, 2021. (courtesy of Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba)

Doctor: Now a 'high chance' they will live normal lives

‘Unbelievable joy’: In Israeli 1st, doctors separate heads of conjoined twins

By Nathan Jeffay

Physician tells Times of Israel of ‘beautiful’ moment when formerly connected twins first looked at each other and cooed after ‘massively complex, life or death’ 12-hour procedure

A person rides a bicycle on an empty street as the sun sets on the first day of a three-week lockdown in Tel Aviv, September 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 6 – On Rosh Hashanah eve, a look back at a year of COVID

Nathan Jeffay surveys how the Jewish state and its citizens coped with the virus over 5781, and Amy Spiro fills us in on Israel’s achievements at the Paralympics in Tokyo

Illustrative image: A Haredi man receives a COVID-19 test (David Cohen/Flash90)

20% of COVID cases among Haredim, fueling fears of holiday surge at synagogues

By Nathan Jeffay

A Jewish man blows a shofar in Meron, northern Israel, on August 9, 2021, ahead of the Jewish New Year. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Health Ministry: Only those with vaccine booster should blow shofar in synagogue

Travelers wear protective face masks inside Ben Gurion International Airport on August 5, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Israel to reopen borders to some vaccinated tourist groups in two weeks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Incoming tourists from select countries must be fully vaccinated with a recent negative COVID test; must also undergo antibody testing upon arrival in order to skip quarantine

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)

Health officials said to believe Israel can reach herd immunity within 2 months

Yehiel Hayavi. (Courtesy)

Israeli ill with COVID-19 freed from Jordanian jail after $312,000 bail raised

Maryam Banat, 67, mother of Palestinian Authority critic Nizar Banat, holds a poster with his picture at a rally protesting his death at the hands of PA security forces, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

PA says 14 officers to be charged for beating Abbas critic Nizar Banat to death

By Aaron Boxerman

Men to be accused of aggravated assault in case that has rocked the West Bank; no senior officers or politicians have so far been charged in Banat’s death

Border Police troops are seen deployed as Palestinian worshippers protest following Friday prayers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs denouncing Israeli construction plans at the site, in the city of Hebron in the West Bank on August 13, 2021. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Palestinian caught with knife near Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs

Burial society records from Miskolc, Hungary, between 1934-1942 that were saved from an August 24, 2021 auction by the National Library of Israel and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives. (Courtesy Kedem Auction House)

Pre-Holocaust Jewish communal records saved from the auction block

By Yaakov Schwartz

Documents detailing births, deaths and marriages dating back to the 19th century are purchased by the National Library of Israel and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives

A rare Meissen armorial tea and coffee service made for the Morosini family, dated 1731. (Sotheby's)

18th-century porcelain seized by Nazis to be auctioned in restitution effort

Elizabeth Brenner Danziger

How do I tell my unvaccinated friends they’re not invited?

Will they think I am judging them for not getting the jab? Well, I do judge them a little, but that’s not the reason I’m not inviting them.

Idit Shafran Gittleman

The silence of the commanders

An ugly, false and increasingly widespread claim chalks up an IDF soldier’s death to overly stringent open-fire orders. Why isn’t the army setting the record straight?

Sivan Rahav Meir

First hush, then listen, then change

When we spend our time arguing politics and worrying about the suffering across the globe, we risk being all talk. Real change comes with our own self-improvement

Why centrist Orthodox living doesn’t make good TV

This year has taught us the importance of taking responsibility for our own vigilance, so that when things go wrong, we ask not, ’where was God,’ but, ’where are we?’

StoreDot's new 4680 cylindrical battery cells for electric vehicles can be recharged in just 10 minutes, the company said in September 2021. (StoreDot)

Israeli company unveils electric vehicle battery that can recharge in 10 minutes

By Ricky Ben-David

StoreDot reveals cylindrical cells prototype that uses a 4680 format favored by global carmakers, specifically Tesla

An undated photo of Chaya Freiman with her grandson, Elian Fitusi (Facebook)

In care home mix up, misidentified COVID-19 victim buried by live woman’s family

By Stuart Winer

Chaya Freeman’s relatives only found out about her death days later, after her identity was switched with that of another patient as they were transferred between facilities

Jon Grobman (center) poses with a group of incarcerated men at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster. His own prison term behind him, Grobman now works as director of programs for Paws for Life K9 Rescue, which has incarcerated men train shelter dogs. (Courtesy of Rita Earl Blackwell, via JTA)

'We're a resilient people, and that connected to my story'

A rabbi and rescue dogs helped this US prison lifer find freedom and redemption

Jon Grobman was given a life sentence without parole, but after dedicating himself to helping fellow inmates through a canine training program, he’s been granted an early release

Afghan resistance movement and anti-Taliban uprising forces personnel stand guard at an outpost in Kotal-e Anjuman of Paryan district in Panjshir province, on August 23, 2021. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP)

Iran condemns Taliban for assault on holdout fighters in Panjshir Valley

By AFP

Leader of Afghan resistance forces calls for a ‘national uprising’ against the Taliban

Armored vehicles are seen in Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, August 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Jalaluddin Sekandar)

Taliban report seizing last holdout Afghan province

Passengers disembark as they arrive from Kandahar, at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. Some domestic flights have resumed at Kabul's airport, with the state-run Ariana Afghan Airlines operating flights to three provinces. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

Taliban stop planes of evacuees from leaving Afghanistan

By KATHY GANNON

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the August 26 twin suicide bombs, which killed scores of people including 13 US troops, at Kabul airport on August 27, 2021. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Amid Afghanistan chaos, Islamic State seizes opportunity for resurgence

By Didier Lauras

Terrorist group’s reach is felt through affiliates in Yemen, Nigeria and Mali, which continue to plot attacks

Afghan workers walk past a wall mural along a roadside in Kabul on September 5, 2021. (HOSHANG HASHIMI / AFP)

US general warns that Afghanistan faces a ‘broader civil war’

Afghan women walk past a Taliban fighter along a street in Kabul on September 2, 2021. (Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

Taliban orders female students to cover up as academic year set to begin

By Emal Haidary

A man looks at the memorial plaque for a November 2015 terror attack near the Bataclan theatre and Cafe in Paris on September 3, 2021. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

France set to open biggest trial in its modern history over 2015 Paris attacks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Court case over terror attacks that killed 130 to begin Wednesday, will see 20 defendants tried, including one of the gunmen who has so far refused to cooperate with proceedings

An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State (IS) and identified by private terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence Group on September 2, 2014 purportedly shows a masked militant holding a knife and gesturing as he speaks to the camera in a desert landscape before beheading 31-year-old US freelance writer Steven Sotloff. (AFP PHOTO/SITE Intelligence Group/HO)

Report: UK missed 14 chances to stop jihadi ‘Beatles’ before they joined IS

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jewish theological complex is housed on UNESCO heritage site

Potsdam’s stylish new synagogue is the German city’s first since WWII

By Toby Axelrod

Futuristic house of worship is part of the newly inaugurated European Center for Jewish Learning at the University of Potsdam, and seats about 40 in its minimalistic sanctuary

Malek Hassuna (L) carries a picture of his late son Mussa, who was shot dead on May 10, and Effi Yehoshua (R) carries a picture of his late brother Yigal, who was killed when a rain of stones hit his car on May 11, as they pose for a picture in Lod on August 18, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Arab, Jewish men unite in grief over losing loved ones in Lod violence

By Daniella Cheslow

The brother of Yigal Yehoshua, killed by Arab rioters, and the father of Mussa Hassuna, shot dead by Jewish suspects, have found some solace in their friendship

A view of Acre's Old City and its harbor from the roof of the Efendi Hotel. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Suspect in deadly Acre hotel firebombing charged with terror offenses

File: Israel's Moanes Dabour, left, fights for the ball with Scotland's Liam Cooper during the Euro 2020 playoff semifinal soccer match between Scotland and Israel, at the Hampden stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Arab soccer star’s brother on Al-Aqsa fracas: ‘He didn’t mean to hurt anyone’

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US President Joe Biden speaks from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, September 3, 2021. (AP Photo/ Susan Walsh)

Biden makes Rosh Hashanah ‘cheshbon nefesh’ plea: What type of world do we want?

Jordan’s King Abdullah II (left), Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (center) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attend a trilateral summit in Cairo, on September 2, 2021.

Sissi calls Herzog for New Year, as Cairo said pushing for new Palestinian talks

Israeli singer Miri Aloni, February 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Veteran singer Miri Aloni undergoes partial leg amputation due to infection

Roman Zadorov, center, seen outside the Shata Prison in northern Israel after being released to house arrest, on August 26, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

New charges filed in retrial of man convicted of 2006 murder of 13-year-old girl

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with 26 EU foreign ministers in Brussels, July 12, 2021. (European Union)

Lapid to meet Russian foreign minister in Moscow this week

One of the last photos taken by Beresheet before it crash landed into the moon, on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy SpaceIL)

SpaceIL issues call for scientific research proposals on 2nd moon mission

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

ADL CEO apologizes ‘without caveat’ for opposing Islamic center near Ground Zero

By PHILISSA CRAMER

In this undated file photo made available on Sept. 25, 2011, al-Saadi Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, watches a military exercise by the elite military unit commanded by his brother, Khamis, in Zlitan, Libya (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)

Gaddafi’s son freed after 7-plus years in Libyan prison

By AP

An illustrative photo of a security camera. (Oliver Peters via Pixabay)

Swedish firm buys Israeli video analytics company Agent Vi

Members of the Israeli Paralympic swimming team arrive from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Ben-Gurion International Airport on September 5, 2021. (Flash90)

Tokyo 2020Israel celebrates trove of 9 Paralympic medals as Tokyo Games wrap up

In this image from video, a military truck is seen near the presidential palace in the capital Conakry, Guinea, September 5, 2021. (AP)

Soldiers in Guinea overthrow government, detain president

By BOUBACAR DIALLO and Krista Larson

Belarus' opposition activists Maria Kolesnikova, right, and Maxim Znak attend a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus, September 6 2021. (Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA pool photo via AP)

Belarus hits opposition activists with lengthy prison sentences

By YURAS KARMANAU

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