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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 8, 2021

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A burnt prison cell is seen at Ketziot Prison following rioting by Palestinian security prisoners there, on September 8, 2021. (Courtesy)

Security prisoners riot in jails as terror groups protest new curbs on inmates

By Emanuel Fabian

Prisoners at Ketziot set fire to cells after attempts to move PIJ members between facilities; unrest reported at other facilities; new restrictions come after Monday’s jailbreak

Israeli Border Police in the village of Nau'ra search for six Palestinian fugitives who escaped from a high security prison in northern Israel, on September 7, 2021. (Flash90)

Islamic Jihad threatens Israel over escaped prisoners, braces for IDF raids

An Israeli soldier stands guard near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on September 6, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israeli troops arrest family members of fugitives in West Bank raids

Clashes reported between IDF, Palestinians in Jenin area, where the 6 escapees are from; prisons service allegedly refraining from moving Islamic Jihad inmates after riot threats

Israeli Border Police in the village of Nau'ra search for six Palestinian fugitives who escaped from a high security prison in northern Israel, on September 7, 2021. (Flash90)

3 reportedly arrested on suspicion of aiding escaped security prisoners

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan's last Jew, seen after fleeing to a neighboring country (Screencapture/Kan)

Footage shows Afghanistan’s last Jew’s perilous escape from Kabul

By ToI Staff and JTA

Video follows Zebulon Simantov on 5-day journey across border as he’s rescued along with dozens of women and children; says he wants to go to New York

Zebulun Simantov is seen in a country neighboring Afghanistan, a number of hours after crossing the border, September 2021. (Screenshot/Kan)

Afghanistan’s last Jew finally leaves the country, reportedly headed to US

By ToI Staff and JTA

A child is tested for coronavirus at a testing facility in the Golan Heights town of Katzrin on September 6, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Expert says key measure of virus spread suggests Israel’s current wave receding

Eran Segal reports the R-number, which measures how many new cases each infection causes, has dropped below 1 in Israel for first time since early June

Taliban say willing to establish relations with all nations except Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Spokesman for extremist group that took over Afghanistan says it wants ties with all countries in the region, and even willing to cooperate with US, but not Israel

In this March 19, 2021 file photo, Suhail Shaheen, Afghan Taliban spokesman gestures while speaking during a joint news conference in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

A member of the Taliban Badri 313 military unit walks amid debris of the destroyed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) base in Deh Sabz district northeast of Kabul on September 6, 2021 after the US pulled all its troops out of the country. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

Victorious Taliban gloat over ruins of CIA’s last Afghan base

By Emmanuel Duparcq

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people move past him at a market with currency exchange shops in Kabul on September 5, 2021. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP)

CIA veteran: Al-Qaeda will rebuild within Afghanistan, seek to attack US again

By Matthew Barakat

An autonomous taxi, or robotaxi, pilot will be launched by Mobileye, an Intel company, in Tel Aviv and Munich in 2022, Mobileye announced in September 2021. Passengers will be able to hail a ride using Moovit, an Israeli company bought by Intel in 2020. (Mobileye/Intel)

Mobileye to launch pilot scheme for autonomous taxis in Tel Aviv, Munich in 2022

By Ricky Ben-David

Jerusalem-based Intel subsidiary partners with German mobility service provider Sixt to test ‘robotaxis’ next year; passengers will hail ride on Moovit or Sixt apps

Rachel Lipman, at 28 perhaps the youngest winemaker in Maryland, is pushing through boundaries in a traditionally male-dominated industry. (Jonna Michelle Photography/ via JTA)

'The people and the industry were destroyed by the Nazis'

A Jewish family, now in Maryland, has been making honey wine for 150 years

By Stacey Pfeffer

28-year-old Rachel Lipman grew up learning about mead production from her grandfather, whose family business was destroyed in the Holocaust. Now, she’s got an eye to the future

Footage of the Natanz nuclear facility aired by Iranian state TV, on April 17, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter video: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UN watchdog: Iran has quadrupled its stocks of 60%-enriched uranium since May

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IAEA also warns its ability to assess Iran’s nuclear activities is ‘seriously undermined’ because Tehran is blocking its access to monitoring equipment

My synagogue has no mask mandate. I’m brokenhearted.

After open-heart surgery, my doctors insist I attend Rosh Hashanah services only if all are masked. My longtime shul opted not to make it happen

Kenneth L. Marcus

If you are going to spell it ‘antisemitism,’ then remove the hyphen from ‘anti-Zionism’

That hyphen wrongly suggests that those who oppose Zionism are against what it really is, as opposed to what they imagine it to be

French Gendarmes escort a convoy understood to be transporting Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, upon its arrival at the Palais de Justice of Paris, September 8, 2021. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Marathon trial of 20 suspects in 2015 Paris Bataclan attacks begins

By Anne-Sophie LASSERRE and Marie DHUMIERES

Heavy security presence at court for proceedings, with only surviving attacker of terror rampage that left 130 dead put in the dock

French police forces guard the special courtroom in Paris on September 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Explainer2015 Paris attacks: What’s at stake in biggest trial in French history?

Uwe Dziuballa, owner of the Schalom restaurant in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, describes to a journalist on September 8, 2018, how he was hit in the shoulder with a rock when his Jewish restaurant was attacked by a group of masked men on August 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/John MacDougall)

Man found guilty of far-right attack on Jewish restaurant in Germany

By AP

20 years later, 9/11 survivors still cope with the trauma: ‘It never goes away’

By Jennifer Peltz

Guy Sanders, an EMT who was en route when the towers collapsed, killing his colleague, says ‘it’s not something to be gotten over’

As the decades pass, the act of remembering 9/11 evolves

In this September 11, 2001 file photo, the remains of the World Trade Center stands amid the debris following the terrorist attack on the building in New York. (AP/Alexandre Fuchs)

20 years later, two more victims of 9/11 attacks identified

By AFP

‘We made a promise to the families of World Trade Center victims to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to identify their loved ones,’ says top NYC medical official

People visit a monument made of dog tags of fallen US troops from the Global War on Terror at Liberty Park on the World Trade Center campus in New York City, August 31, 2021. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

More have died from 9/11-related illnesses than in attack — report

By AFP

Explainer

When does life begin? There’s more than one Jewish way to answer that question

With Texas banning abortions after six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant, Jewish texts offer multiple perspectives

In this May 23, 2019 file photo, demonstrators chant slogans during a rally in support of abortion rights in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Taliban fighters atop Humvees prepare before parading along a road to celebrate after the US pulled all its troops out of Afghanistan, in Kandahar on September 1, 2021, following the Talibans military takeover of the country. (Javed Tanveer/AFP)

Key players in Taliban government: A US-designated terrorist; Mullah Omar’s son

By AFP

Leaders of new hardline Islamist regime in Afghanistan includes numerous figures under UN sanctions, and a co-founder of group who led withdrawal agreement talks with US

In this undated and unknown location photo, the new leader of Taliban fighters, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada poses for a portrait. (Afghan Islamic Press via AP)

Taliban supreme leader tells new government to uphold sharia law

By AFP

In this photo from August 26, 1999, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif receives Afghan Foreign Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund (right) in Islamabad. The Taliban announced Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund as the leader of their new government in Afghanistan on September 7, 2021. (SAEED KHAN / AFP)

Cementing power, Taliban names interim PM who is on a UN blacklist

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. (AP/Collage)

Blinken invites Lapid for Washington visit next month

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

(L-R) Israel's defender Sun Menachem, Denmark's forward Andreas Skov Olsen and Israel's midfielder Dan Leon Glazer vie for the ball during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification Group F football match between Denmark and Israel in Copenhagen, on September 7, 2021. (Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP)

Denmark thrashes Israel 5-0 to dent World Cup soccer qualifying chances

By ToI Staff and AP

An image released by a hacker called Sangkancil claiming a breach of Israelis' personal information. (Courtesy)

Hacker claims to have stolen personal data of vast majority of Israelis

A general view of a petrol station on the main highway that links the Capital Beirut to south Lebanon as cars come from every direction to try and fill their tanks with gasoline, in the coastal town of Jiyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021 (AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar)

Arab ministers say Egyptian gas to reach crisis-hit Lebanon soon

By AP

Illustrative: German police officers wearing face mask walk past a flight board in a terminal at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 11, 2021. (AP/Michael Probst)

Germany admits police used spyware from NSO Group in ‘small number of cases’

By AFP

An Australian musk duck. (JJ Harrison, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

What the 'foo'Fowl language: Cursing Australian duck imitates human speech

By Natalie HANDEL

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