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What Matters Most On Friday, September 10, 2021

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People run from the collapse of World Trade Center towers in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

Interview

When ash fell like snow: 20 years on, a fire warden’s 9/11 memories still haunt

By Marissa Newman

Volunteer fire warden Alan Fromm rushed into 5 World Trade Center to evacuate his office building; after the South Tower collapsed, he was found unconscious under an ambulance

The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, center, is nearing completion, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, at the World Trade Center in New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Two decades after 9/11, Ground Zero still being rebuilt

By Karen Matthews

Anita McBride, left, Chief of Staff to first lady Laura Bush, right, looks on as Mrs. Bush makes opening remarks during a video teleconference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

First Person‘Get out now’ — the view from inside the White House on 9/11

By Anita McBride

Police respond to an attempted stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on September 10, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Police: Assailant shot attempting to stab cops in Jerusalem Old City, later dies

By Judah Ari Gross

Attacker was Arab medical college director, 51; officer hit by ricochet, lightly injured; clashes reported in West Bank, but Temple Mount prayers pass peacefully

A Palestinian youth carries a tire before setting it ablaze, 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. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Army, police on high alert for Hamas ‘day of rage’ in support of escapees

IDF cancels leave in West Bank units, police put on second-highest level of alert amid threats of violent clashes, prison riots as manhunt continues for six prisoners on the run

AnalysisTensions ‘ready to explode’: Palestinian jailbreak sparks fears of escalation

By Aaron Boxerman

Ensure that no Israeli family goes hungry this holiday season.

By opening your heart and donating a hot meal through Leket Israel Donate Now >>

A child is given a coronavirus test in Jerusalem on September 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

COVID spread appears to ebb, fueling optimism for end of Delta blitz

Over half of new cases are among school age kids, though, and worries grow about high number of infections among pilgrims from Uman, including some trying to falsify test results

Jewish men wait outside a COVID-19 testing facility in Uman at the end of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, on September 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Dozens of infected pilgrims caught returning from Uman with faked negative tests

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House, on Thursday, September 9, 2021, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden says ‘patience wearing thin,’ mandates vaccines for 100 million Americans

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)

Israel media review

Prison of the absurd: What the press is saying about jailbreaks and test fakes

By Joshua Davidovich

Pressure builds in Israel as more stories of the jumbles and fumbles that allowed six inmates to escape proliferate, and in the West Bank, as they remain on the loose

In this September 15, 2020, file photo, from left; former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former US president Donald Trump, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, sit during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden, Trump officials to attend DC event marking anniversary of Abraham Accords

Initiative’s co-architect Jared Kushner will offer opening remarks, followed by panel with UAE, Bahrain and Israel envoys to US; representatives from Egypt, Jordan will also attend

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 25, 2021. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Biden officials privately pushed Abbas to shelve ICC probe against Israel

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM meets settler heads, said to tell them he won’t freeze West Bank construction

A man receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy while nurse is checking his mask. (Drazen Zigic via iStock by Getty Images)

Oxygen therapy may slow Alzheimer’s, say Israeli researchers after mice study

By Nathan Jeffay

Plaque fell away from brains of mice after oxygen chamber stints, and scientists say it may ‘significantly slow progression and severity’ of Alzheimer’s; but others are skeptical

Toby Perl Freilich

‘Holy to God’ – A Holocaust survivor saved melodies from the old world

My father brought the loving memories of his childhood home and the music he heard there through 5 concentration camps. Decades later, my brother preserved them on video

When I was 9, John Lennon gave me back my dad

It wasn’t easy to come to terms with his song, ’Imagine,’ as I do believe in heaven and I don’t believe in living just for today. But, it turns out, I can imagine too

David-Seth Kirshner

Cut your rabbi some slack

The clergy that counsel the suffering and console the bereaved also love, laugh, hurt, and are confused by challenges with no easy solutions

With so many sources of information these days, it’s hard to know what is true – a far cry from when the Israelites got their facts direct from Moses (Vayelech)

Volunteers pick trash off the beach at the first-ever Reverse Tashlich event in 2018. (Courtesy/ Bob Fryer)

'We're reflecting on what we want to bring to the new year'

Reversing an old tradition, eco-activist Jews cleanse waters of humanity’s sins

By Danielle Ziri

As many perform a Rosh Hashanah ritual in which last year’s sins are symbolically cast onto the water, Reverse Tashlich participants make amends by cleaning litter from waterfronts

Ice cream containers at the Ben and Jerry's factory near Kiryat Malachi, on July 21, 2021. (Flash90)

Arizona divesting all state funds from Ben & Jerry’s due to settlement boycott

By ToI Staff, JTA and Jacob Magid

State treasurer says won’t allow taxpayer cash to go to ‘anti-Semitic, discriminatory efforts against Israel’; move includes $143m of investment in parent company Unilever

A Jewish man blows the shofar at the Rashbi gravesite in Meron, northern Israel, on September 9, 2017, prior to the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Congregational rabbis share high holiday plans, and thoughts

Rabbis Seth Farber, Aaron Brusso and Toby Manewith discuss the logistical and spiritual elements of their 5782 Jewish holidays

Israelis at the beach in Tel Aviv, on June 8, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Party powerhouse

Time Out ranks Tel Aviv as world’s ‘funnest’ city, 8th-best overall

Global culture magazine’s survey puts Israel’s second-largest city at No.2 in food & drink category, says it is metropolis most likely to be described as ‘good for people like me’

Crude oil fanned out into the streambeds at the Evrona Nature Reserve following a leak from a pipe on December 3, 2014. (Environmental Protection Ministry spokesperson/Roi Talbi)

Study: Ecosystem could collapse at nature reserve hit by oil spill 7 years ago

Wildlife, as well as seedlings of acacia trees, essential to ecosystem, not recovering, 5-year monitoring program in Evrona Nature Reserve concludes

Ripe fruit and a view of the modern city of Modiin seen from the Givat Titora archaeological garden. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Modiin expansion plan divides green organizations from residential groups

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)

Gantz tells troops not to let hunt for fugitives harm other Palestinians

By Judah Ari Gross

In West Bank, defense minister hails security forces searching for escaped security prisoners and vows they will eventually collar the six who broke out of Gilboa Prison

Demonstrators take part in a protest in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Ramallah, on September 8, 2021. ( ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Report: Palestinians agree to help Israel track down escaped inmates

Zakaria Zubeidi, then-leader in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in the West Bank, is carried by supporters during a presidential elections campaign rally in support of Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank town of Jenin, on December 30, 2004. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Theater kid who became notorious terrorist leads in real life Israeli jailbreak

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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)

Escaped security prisoners said to have dug tunnel from their cell’s shower

Prisons Service reinforced toilet areas after attempted 2014 jailbreak, but failed to do same in shower; authorities reportedly believe some escapees hiding in West Bank

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev (center) and Israel Prisons Service chief commissioner Katy Perry (left) visit Ketziot prison in southern Israel, on September 9, 2021. (Israel Prisons Service)

Security minister seeks to form government commission to probe prison break

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)

Guards say tower overlooking tunnel used in prison break was unmanned

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Tareq Zubeidi, 15, rests at his house, in the West Bank village of Silat ad-Dhahr, Tuesday, August 31, 2021. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian teen recalls alleged beating, torture at hands of settlers

By jack jeffery and IMAD ISSEID

The leaning Tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, central Italy, on August 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli assaulted by souvenir seller in Pisa who yelled ‘Jews are murderers’

People look at a memorial that has pictures of some of the missing from the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on July 7, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Four arrested for stealing identities of Surfside victims

By AP

Ray-Ban Stories. (Facebook)

Throwing shade at Google? Facebook and Ray-Ban roll out smart glasses

By Glenn Chapman

Motorcycle drivers wait to get fuel at a gas station in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. (AP/ Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon breaks deadlock for new government, first since 2020 port blast

By AP

The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pictured in 2013. (Wikimedia Commons/Dario Alpern)

More than 100 headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Argentina

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Moshe Hogeg, Beitar Jerusalem owner, seen during the Israeli Premier League match between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Beersheba at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, on August 25, 2019. (Flash90)

Beitar Jerusalem owner Hogeg to sell soccer team, cites ungrateful, racist fans

By ToI Staff and AP

Officers stand guard outside Jordan's State Security Court in Amman, where two former officials, accused of helping Jordanian Prince Hamzah try to overthrow his half-brother King Abdullah II, await a verdict in their trial, on July 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

Jordanian court upholds conspiracy convictions in alleged plot against king

By AP

From 'Sister of Mine,' a Maaleh Film School short featured in the school's digital tour of Jerusalem (Courtesy Maaleh)

Movie guideJerusalem film school offers camera’s-eye view of the holy city

By Jessica Steinberg

Vernon Jones declares his intention to run for governor of Georgia as a Republican in Atlanta, on Friday, April 16, 2021. Jones, a former Democrat, is looking to ride a wave of Trump supporters' discontent with Gov. Brian Kemp to the Republican nomination. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)

Atlanta Jewish Times removes essay by politician associated with extreme right

A Taliban fighter stand guards in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, September 4, 2021. (AP/Wali Sabawoon)

UK spy chief warns terrorists emboldened by Afghanistan takeover

By AFP

Judge Merrick Garland testifies at his confirmation hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Committee, on February 22, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

US Justice Department sues Texas over state’s new abortion law

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and Paul Weber

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