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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 9, 2021

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Israel Prisons Service Commissioner Katy Perry (Screenshot/YouTube)

Prisons Service chief rebuffs calls for her ouster in wake of escape

Inmates evacuated from Gilboa Prison following Monday’s escape of 6 convicts will be dispersed among other facilities, and Islamic Jihad members will be kept apart from each other

Israeli police border special ops seen in the Nau'ra village as they search for the six Palestinian fugitives who escaped from a high security prison in northern Israel. September 7, 2021. (Flash90)

Prisoner manhunt enters 4th day as minister vows to catch ‘terrorist fugitives’

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

Palestinian demonstrators burn tires during confrontations with Israeli security forces following a rally in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, at the Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank town of Nablus, on September 8, 2021. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH/AFP)

Hundreds riot in West Bank, East Jerusalem after jailbreak; IDF extends closure

By Judah Ari Gross and Emanuel Fabian

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

Police increasingly suspect jailers aided security prisoners escape — TV

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers stand guard near a damaged section of the border fence, near the West Bank village of Jalameh, September 6, 2021. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

IDF boosts forces aiding prisoner manhunt, as searches focus on northern towns

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 9 – Prison break and fintech reforms in first week of 5782

David Horovitz discusses the implications of the Gilboa Prison escape and Iranian nuclear enrichment, while Ricky Ben David looks at possible changes in financial tech sector

Cells are seen at Ketziot Prison following rioting by Palestinian security prisoners, on September 8, 2021. (Courtesy)

As Israel quells prison riots, PA’s prisoner office accuses it of ‘Nazism’

By Emanuel Fabian

Children are tested for COVID-19 at a Clalit Medical Center in Katzrin, September 6, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

145,000 schoolkids in quarantine as transmission rate drops to 4-month low

41,816 kids infected with COVID-19; R-value falls to 0.83, signaling outbreak slowing

Health care workers take test samples at a drive-thru complex in Jerusalem, on September 09, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Coronavirus testing sites across Israel overwhelmed for 2nd day in a row

Coronavirus testing in Katzrin in the Golan Heights, September 6, 2021 (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

20,000 new COVID cases diagnosed over Rosh Hashanah; 55 deaths

In this photo provided by Israel's Prisons Service, a hole in a floor is seen after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the Gilboa prison in northern Israel, on September 6, 2021. (Israeli Prisons Service via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Escaped security prisoners dug a tunnel from their cell’s shower basin — report

By Michael Bachner

Prisons Service said to have reinforced toilet area after attempted 2014 jailbreak, but failed to do the same with the shower area

6:13 pm

Escaped prisoners dug a tunnel from their cell's shower basin - report
6:01 pm

White House says Taliban was 'businesslike and professional' in new evacuation
5:48 pm

Prosecutors say they're renewing criminal enforcement of quarantine rules

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) makes comments to the press alongside his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow, on September 9, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Lapid in Moscow: If the world doesn’t stop a nuclear Iran, Israel will act

Foreign minister tells Russian counterpart that while Israel recognizes Moscow’s interests in Syria, ‘we’ll maintain our ability to defend ourselves’; Lavrov to visit Israel soon

Blinken warns US ‘getting closer’ to giving up on Iran nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IAEA says its equipment in Iran was damaged in blast associated with Israel

Iran’s president insists country is ‘transparent’ about nuclear activities

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The abortion I had while a rabbinical student was a sacred choice

As Jews, the Texas abortion ban violates our religious freedom, which demands that we have access to abortion care when it is needed and wanted

Jewish schools must obey the law

The demand in some NY Hasidic circles that boys engage in full-time Torah study to the exclusion of basic educational literacy is illegal, immoral and un-Jewish

Author and comedian David Baddiel and his new book, 'Jews Don't Count.' (Courtesy)

Interview'Jews are allies to other minorities. Where are our allies?'

Jewish UK comedian’s message that ‘Jews Don’t Count’ rings true across the pond

David Baddiel originally wrote his book on how the left dismisses antisemitism for a British audience, but his US coreligionists identified so strongly he’s releasing a new version

Abdellatif Ouahbi, president of Morocco's Authenticity and Modernity party (C), after his party came in second in parliamentary and local elections, in Rabat early on September 9, 2021. (FADEL SENNA/AFP)

Morocco’s long-ruling Islamists suffer crushing defeat to liberals

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH

With nearly all votes in, results show unexpected win for liberal parties, collapse of support for Justice and Development Party, with ruling faction dropping from 125 seats to 12

Pedestrians flee the area of New York's World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

Photo Essay

Ahead of 20th anniversary, 20 images that captured the enormity of 9/11

By Jennifer Peltz

Street scenes chart escalating horror as people stare and weep at burning skyscrapers, then run from billowing dust cloud after one of them crumbles

In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, leads New York Gov. George Pataki, left, and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., on a tour of the site of the World Trade Center disaster (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

They were some of 9/11’s biggest names. Where are they now?

By JERRY SCHWARTZ

Visitors peek into the museum at the 9/11 Museum & Memorial, Thursday, April 29, 2021, in New York (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

9/11 museum to retool its restrictive research rules after criticism

By Jennifer Peltz

Analysis

9/11 conspiracy theories metastasized, led to misinformation on COVID, elections

Spread by the internet and nurtured by pundits and politicians, corrosive falsehoods have prompted one dangerous hoax after another: birtherism. Pizzagate. QAnon…

The internet and social media have allowed the kind of skepticism and suspicion that fueled 9/11 conspiracy theories to spread farther and faster than ever before. (AP Illustration)

Franklin Anchahua-Herrera sits for a portrait in a room that he shares with his father, August 17, 2021, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP/John Minchillo)

Immigrant 9/11 cleanup crews seek residency as compensation for health problems

By Claudia Torrens

Construction continues on St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine across the street from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 08, 2021 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

20 years on, shrine to church destroyed on 9/11 nears completion

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Illustrative: Taliban fighters stand guard inside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the US withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Kathy Gannon)

Under Taliban’s watch, dozens of foreigners board commercial flight from Kabul

By KATHY GANNON

First large-scale evacuation since US and NATO forces left Afghanistan marks significant breakthrough in coordination with country’s new rulers

Taliban has reportedly banned women’s sports in Afghanistan

By AP and ToI Staff

Pentagon chief says al-Qaeda may seek comeback in Afghanistan

By Robert Burns

Anti-Taliban leader says resistance fighters could return at ‘any time’

By AFP

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Medics are seen at the scene of an accident near Uman, Ukraine, on September 9, 2021. (United Hatzalah)

Israeli father of 10 killed in car accident in Ukraine, en route home from Uman

A burning car is seen by the entrance of Sajur on Sepetember 8, 2021. (Video screenshot)

Woman’s body found in burning car in north, after apparent bombing

By Emanuel Fabian

Shopify founder Tobias Lutke, left, and Yotpo founder and CEO Tomer Tagrin, right. (Courtesy, Mor Shani)

Shopify invests in Israeli e-commerce marketing firm Yotpo

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: Slovak state police, the Hlinka Guard, march through Bratislava, Slovakia on March 14, 1939. (AP Photo)

Slovakia’s government apologizes for WWII antisemitic laws

By AP

This court sketch made on September 8, 2021 shows Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving member of the jihadist cell of the November 2015 Paris attacks, during the first day of the trial of the November 2015 Paris and Saint-Denis attacks taking place in a temporary courtroom set up at the Paris' Palais de Justice historic courthouse on September 8, 2021. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP)

In court, surviving Paris attacker shouts defendants are ‘treated like dogs’

By Anne-Sophie LASSERRE and Marie DHUMIERES

A man receives a coronavirus vaccine booster at a Meuhedet vaccination center in Jerusalem, on August 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

WHO urges COVID vaccine booster moratorium until 2022

By AFP

Reconstruction of Titanokorys gainesi in a frontal view. (Lars Fields/Royal Ontario Museum)

Larger than lifeScientists discover new 500 million-year-old ‘giant’ of the seas

Russian Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev is pictured aboard a helicopter as he surveys damage from wildfires in some areas of the Chelyabinsk Region on August 6, 2021. (Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Russian minister dies trying to save filmmaker during Arctic drill

By Anna SMOLCHENKO

Ra'am MK Walid Taha attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting, on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am MK selected to head Knesset Internal Affairs Committee

The research team from Chulalongkorn University's chemistry department collects sweat samples from vendors in a fresh market on September 8, 2021, as they develop a novel device that detects the COVID-19 coronavirus through specific odors, in Bangkok. (Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)

99% perspirationThai device tests for coronavirus in armpit sweat

By AFP

Crews remove one of the country's largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, September 8, 2021. (AP/Steve Helber)

Former Confederate capital removes statue of Gen. Lee after years of protests

By Sarah Rankin and Denise Lavoie

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

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