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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 7, 2021

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In this photo provided by Israel's Prisons Service, Israeli security personnel inspect a cell after six Palestinians escaped through a tunnel the Gilboa prison in north Israel, on Monday, September 6, 2021. (Israeli Prisons Service via AP)

Asleep in the tower: Behind prison escape, a farcical litany of Israeli blunders

Zakaria Zubeidi said allowed into cell with other 5 escapees day before jailbreak, blueprint of prison was available online, and watchtower guard slept through the whole episode

Police officers and prison guards inspect the scene of a prison escape outside the Gilboa prison in Northern Israel, on Monday, September 6, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Authorities scramble for clues, answers as escaped inmates evade massive manhunt

Israeli troops patrol along the security fence in the village of Muqeibila, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, on September 6, 2021, following the escape of six Palestinian security prisoners from an Israeli prison. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Palestinian terrorists who broke out of Gilboa evade capture

Manhunt for fugitives continues into 2nd day, with troops searching around Jenin

Palestinian reports say brother and father of convicted Islamic Jihad terrorist summoned for questioning, asked to turn him in; more soldiers sent to Jordanian border, seam line

A Palestinian man flashes a poster of the six Palestinians who escaped from an Israeli prison, as people celebrate in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, on September 6, 2021. (Jaafar Ashitiyeh/AFP)

Palestinians celebrate ‘heroic’ prison break, call to protect escapees

Then-opposition leader Isaac Herzog meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. on December 1, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90/File)

Abbas, Herzog express hopes for upped cooperation in holiday call

Police officers and prison guards inspect the scene of a prison escape outside the Gilboa prison in northern Israel, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

High-profile jailbreak exposes holes in prison security, sparks copycat fears

Israel Prisons Service emerges as a weak link in Israel’s security, with 6 inmates escaping through same structural defects used in a similar, failed attempt in 2014

Australian police outside a synagogue in Melbourne where worshipers were apparently holding Rosh Hashanah services in violation of local lockdown rules, September 7, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Aussie cops surround synagogue, fine Rosh Hashanah worshipers in lockdown breach

Group of Orthodox Jews hit with steep penalties after celebrating Jewish new year in violation of local COVID ordinances and refusing police orders to leave house of worship

Jewish men and women praying together for forgiveness (Selichot), at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 24, 2014. (Photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Book review'My therapist said you can be very right - and very alone'

Sorry not sorry: Author learns how not to let lack of apology sour a sweet year

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘The Forgiveness Tour,’ Susan Shapiro shares her experiences and those of 13 other diverse subjects across the US as she explores the tricky ins and outs of making amends

Daphne Lazar Price

American Orthodox rabbis: The complicity of silence

American political lines align Orthodox Jewish groups with Christians when it comes to abortion, taking an approach that contradicts their own rich rabbinic literature

Why a High Holidays prayer book is still going strong after 70 years

With so much rapid changes in today’s world, the things that stay the same provide solace; for many, the Birnbaum machzor has long been one of them

Afghan women shout slogans during an anti-Pakistan protest near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul on September 7, 2021. (Hoshang Hashimi/AFP)

Taliban use gunfire to break up protests in Kabul, arrest journalists

In show of defiance against new Islamist leadership, hundreds attend at least three separate rallies, including one outside Pakistan’s embassy over its alleged meddling in country

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Qatari capital Doha, on September 7, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/AFP)

Blinken: Taliban have renewed pledge to let Afghans ‘freely depart’

By Shaun Tandon

Students attend class after private universities were reopened in Kabul on September 6, 2021. (Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

Afghan universities, reopening under new Taliban-imposed rules, are almost empty

By Emmanuel Duparcq

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) greets Foreign Minister Yair Lapid ahead of their meeting in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP)

In call with Blinken, Lapid walks back criticism of US pullout from Afghanistan

US praises Israeli moves on Gaza, Jerusalem Foreign Ministry says, and two discuss Iran nuclear progress; pair to meet in US in October

An employee scans the eyes of a woman for biometric data needed to apply for a passport, at the passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

US-built databases risk becoming a tool of Taliban repression

IDF chief says Israel accelerating Iran strike plans, acting throughout Mideast

Aviv Kohavi also defends top brass amid anger over border cop’s death: ‘If we don’t back them up we’ll end up without commanders’

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi during a graduation ceremony at the National Security College in Glilot, central Israel, on July 14, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Explosions are seen in the Gaza Strip during an IDF strike, Septmeber 6, 2021 (video screenshot)

IDF strikes in Gaza in response to arson balloon attacks

Army says it hit sites in Khan Younis in southern Strip, after airborne explosive devices spark three fires near Israeli towns bordering Hamas-run enclave

Supporters of the Islamic Jihad movement distribute sweets to celebrate the escape of six Palestinians from an Israeli prison, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 6, 2021. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Qatar says ready to start Gaza cash infusion, including for Hamas employees

By AFP

Firefighters respond to a fire at Kissufim Forest in southern Israel, on August 23, 2021. (Moshe Baruchi/KKL)

Gaza incendiary balloons spark fresh fires in south

Amiram Moierman, 85, is a lifelong fruit farmer who's been fighting the battle against encroaching imports. In his Karmei Yosef orchards, June 2021. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

The fruit farmer who swears by his pomegranates (and loquats and apricots)

By Jessica Steinberg

Amiram Moerman says pomegranate juice saved him from the coronavirus, but rails against the Israeli government and its latest efforts to change the local farming industry

Pope Francis blesses faithful from the window as he delivers the Angelus prayer, on September 5, 2021 at St. Peter's square in the Vatican. (Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Pope tells Israeli rabbis his comments on Jewish law weren’t meant to disparage

Francis caused concern among Jewish officials when he said recently that the law of the Torah ‘does not give life’

A funeral for a Jordanian soldier killed in 1967, at Jerusalem al-Aqsa Mosque compound on September 6, 2021. (WAFA)

Remains of Jordanian soldier from 1967 war buried in Jerusalem

By AP

Body found during work on Ammunition Hill, site of major battle in Six Day War, reinterred after Jordanian ceremony on Temple Mount, reflecting warmer ties with Amman

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File: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) speaks with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar (left), during a ceremony unveiling the memorial to members of the Jewish resistance in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, on June 4, 2019. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/AFP)

On Rosh Hashanah, Putin lauds Jewish groups for ‘patriotic, charitable projects’

US military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba, June 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

Trial of accused 9/11 mastermind restarts, days before 20th anniversary

By Paul Handley

Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers guard the entrance to the Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport as they gesture to a photographer in south Sinai, Egypt, November 2015. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell, File)

Human Rights Watch calls to sanction Egypt over ‘extrajudicial executions’

By AFP

Illustrative image of a glowing quantum computer (sakkmesterke; iStock by Getty Images)

Quantum Machines nabs $50m investment to make quantum computers more accessible

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: Ambulances are seen at an undeclared beach near Zichron Yaakov, on July 24, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

4 men drown at beaches in central Israel over two days

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A young man watches an episode of the Iranian television series "Gando" at his home in Iran's capital Tehran on September 6, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranian TV show lauded by hardliners returns to air under new president

By Marc Jourdier and Ahmad Parhizi

Pedro Montano holds his daughter Roxana Montano, 3, while she is being vaccinated against COVID-19 with Cuban vaccine Soberana Plus, on August 24, 2021 at Juan Manuel Marquez hospital in Havana, as part of a vaccine study in children and adolescents. (ADALBERTO ROQUE / AFP)

In world first, Cuba starts COVID-19 shots for toddlers

By AFP

In this file photo taken October 5, 2015 a woman walks by the entrance to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU seeks daily fines against Poland over controversial judicial reforms

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