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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 12, 2021

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A satellite photograph of an alleged Iranian base that Defense Minister Benny Gantz says is used to train Iranian proxies to operate advanced drones on September 12, 2021. (Defense Ministry)

Gantz reveals Iranian drone base, says it is used to train terror groups

By Judah Ari Gross

In speech at counterterrorism conference, defense minister calls for immediate ‘snapback’ sanctions on Tehran over uranium enrichment

Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi (center) speaks with Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi (left) upon his arrival at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Iran, on September 11, 2021. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran to allow memory cards in nuclear site cameras, averting IAEA showdown

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Kurdish flag hangs in the Irbil International Airport, in Iraq, September 27, 2017. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

Explosives-laden drones target northern Iraq airport; no injuries

By AP

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry office in Jerusalem, September 12, 2021. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Bennett says Gilboa prison break a ‘wake-up call,’ blames previous policies

Prime minister says some state institutions have ‘deteriorated’ under past governments and have suffered due to political appointments

As manhunt continues, minister concerned remaining fugitives could stage attack

Officials hail capture of 4 Palestinian fugitives, stress 2 still at large

By Judah Ari Gross

Security forces search for last 2 fugitives, warn they are desperate, dangerous

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Rockets fired by Hamas terrorists in Gaza into Israel, seen over the central Israeli town of Kiryat Gat on May 18, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Rocket fired from Gaza intercepted by Iron Dome, in 3rd attack in 3 days

Man and child injured running to bomb shelter; uptick in violence comes amid high tensions after Israel captured 4 of 6 Palestinian fugitives and Gaza ceasefire deal breaks down

6:17 pm

Man and child injured running to bomb shelter
6:09 pm

Rocket fired from Gaza intercepted by Iron Dome, in 3rd attack in 3 days
6:09 pm

IDF troops conducting search near Metula on Lebanon border

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire near Givat Ye'arim, near Jerusalem, August 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI investigates

As Israel gets hotter and drier, it must prevent fires, not just fight them

By Haviv Rettig Gur

After the 2010 Carmel tragedy, Israel rebuilt its fire service bottom-up. But as last month’s Jerusalem Hills fire showed, firefighting can’t make up for a failed prevention policy

Zakaria Zubeidi, a notorious Fatah terrorist recaptured after breaking out of Gilboa Prison with five other security prisoners, arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Nazareth, on September 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Investigators believe escaped prisoners received no help while on the run

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

After questioning 4 of the fugitives, police and Shin Bet reportedly conclude they had no accomplices; 2 Palestinian security prisoners remain at large

Police and journalists gather around a hole used by six Palestinians to escape from the Gilboa Prison, in northern Israel, on September 6, 2021. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Amid fears of more escape attempts, all prisons to be examined by engineers

By Emanuel Fabian

Zakaria Zubeidi seen after being recaptured in northern Israel on September 11, 2021 (left) and in a doctored photo in which he is made to appear smiling. (Courtesy)

Palestinians rage at capture of fugitives, doctor fake grins onto their faces

Illustrative: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in a still image from a web posting by the terrorist organization's media arm, as-Sahab, on July 27, 2011. (AP)

Al-Qaeda’s leader, rumored dead, appears in video for 9/11 anniversary

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ayman al-Zawahiri speaks of ‘Judaization of Jerusalem,’ mentions US withdrawal from Afghanistan, but not Taliban takeover — suggesting the footage may not be recent

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

Lapid to Americans on 9/11 anniversary: ‘An attack on you is an attack on us’

By Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe

Hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, wearing a blue shirt, and his brother, Salem al-Hazmi, in the white shirt, wait at the security checkpoint at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, as a screener checks Nawaf's carry-on bag for explosives This image was taken from surveillance video obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/APTN)

Newly released FBI 9/11 papers detail support given to hijackers by Saudis in US

A man receives a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Meuhedet vaccination center in Jerusalem on August 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pfizer exec calls Israel ‘a sort of laboratory’ for COVID vaccines

Health officials deny country signed an exclusive deal with pharma giant, noting that Moderna shots are also administered; pharmaceutical company clarifies comments

Health care workers take test samples of Israelis in a drive-through complex in Modiin, on September 10 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Over 10,000 new virus cases on Saturday as transmission rate rises

Children living in a slum receive a free meal distributed by a voluntary organization during a coronavirus lockdown in Kolkata, India, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

UN chief: World is at a ‘pivotal moment,’ pandemic is a wake-up call

By Edith M. Lederer

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)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 12 – A farcical escape and a dramatic recapture

Science reporter Nathan Jeffay discusses effects of Rosh Hashanah’s Uman pilgrimage on COVID numbers, while founding editor David Horovitz handles Gilboa prisoner capture and Iran

Channel 13 reporter Ali Mograbi faces off with a group of angry protesters outside the Nazareth District Court on September 11, 2021. (Screenshot)

Arab Israeli reporter attacked over mistranslation of his post on prison break

Leader of the Joint List Ayman Odeh is seen carrying a sign which reads 'Against the Occupation' during a protest in Tel Aviv, on May 15, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Joint List chief: If 6 could escape, millions of Palestinians can end occupation

US President Joe Biden speaks as he visits the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2021. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

At site of 9/11 plane crash, Biden again defends Afghanistan pullout

By AFP

‘What’s the strategy? Every place where Al-Qaeda is, we’re going to invade and have troops stay in? C’mon,’ says US president on 20th anniversary of attacks

Former president Donald Trump visits the Engine Co. 8 firehouse where he praised first responders' bravery while criticizing President Joe Biden over the pullout from Afghanistan, Saturday Sept. 11, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Jill Colvin)

On 9/11 anniversary, Trump slams ‘horrible’ Afghanistan withdrawal

By AFP

From left, former US President Bill Clinton, former First Lady Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg's partner Diana Taylor, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, stand for the national anthem during the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, on Saturday, September 11, 2021 in New York. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP)

Commemorating 9/11 attacks, current and former US presidents call for unity

By Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe

After 9/11, a foolish line in the sand

In 2005, then-UK PM Tony Blair told me that after the attacks on the US, sitting idly by was no longer an option. Invading Iraq was an obvious way to go

Elchanan Poupko

The Texas abortion law is an assault on Orthodox Judaism

This ban is not really a pro-life stance; rather, it is forcing fundamentalist Christian beliefs on the many who do not share those beliefs

No apologies, just a kiss

No person in the Bible ever asks another for forgiveness and no one ever grants another person forgiveness. But why?

Howie Beigelman

The forgotten lessons of 9/11

After the attacks, we Americans came together as one, sharing in the American ideals and values that our enemies hated, with the unity that we sorely need today

Illustrative: After a rocket was fired toward Israel, a fireball rises following an air strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, in the early hours of September 11, 2021. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Israeli jets strike Gaza after 2nd rocket attack in 24 hours

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Uptick in violence comes amid high tensions, as Israel captures 4 of 6 Palestinian fugitives and Gaza ceasefire deal breaks down

Rockets are launched towards Israel from Gaza City, on May 20, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Rocket fired at south, intercepted, in second such attack from Gaza in 24 hours

By Judah Ari Gross

In this photo provided by Israel Police, Zakaria Zubeidi, left, and Mohammed al-Arida, two of six Palestinian security Prisoners who broke out of Gilboa Prison, are blindfolded and handcuffed after being recaptured in the Arab town of Umm al-Ghanam, northern Israel, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (Israeli Police via AP)

Live updates (closed)Court extends police detention for 4 inmates caught after prison break

A member of the Taliban Fateh, a "special forces" unit, stands guard outside the US embassy in Afghanistan displaying a Taliban flag in the outer concrete wall in Kabul on September 8, 2021. (Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

As world remembers 9/11, Taliban raises flag over Afghan presidential palace

By KATHY GANNON

Ceremony marks the official start of the work of the new interim government, weeks after shock takeover

Veiled students hold Taliban flags as they listen a speaker before a pro-Taliban rally at the Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul on September 11, 2021. (Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

Taliban says women can study only in gender-segregated universities

By KATHY GANNON

Afghan residents and family members of the victims gather next to a damaged vehicle inside a house, day after a US drone airstrike in Kabul on August 30, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker carrying water – report

By AFP and ToI Staff

James Maroon, left, cleans the bottom of the south pool of the 9/11 Memorial with a vacuum, Aug. 4, 2021, in New York (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

‘A privilege to be here’: Ground Zero as seen by those who live and work there

By MARK LENNIHAN, JOHN MINCHILLO and JULIE JACOBSON

For some people the memorial site to the victims of 9/11 is both a part of their daily routine and hallowed ground

Plastic waste in the sea. (dottedhippo/iStock by Getty Images)

Over 7,000 animals injured by plastic last year, says Nature and Parks Authority

Launching new drinking bottles with SodaStream, authority says birds feed plastic to their chicks; fish mistake it for edible crabs; gazelle bellies full of plastic bags, wet wipes

Measuring corals for the 2020 national monitoring study of the Gulf of Eilat. (Inbal Ayalon, Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat)

Government report sounds alarm over record Red Sea temperatures, marine trash

Israeli all-electric plane maker readies for 1st flight, new ‘age of aviation’

By Ricky Ben-David

Eviation signs deal with DHL to deliver 12 aircraft for cargo operations, set to reveal new customers for commuter planes

The Biran family, with Eitan on the right. (Courtesy)

Israeli boy who survived Italy cable car crash said abducted by grandfather

Steve Buscemi and David Arquette in 'The Grey Zone' (Screenshot via Lionsgate Entertainment; Photo illustration by Grace Yagel via JTA)

Inside storyDirector: 'Nothing I’ve done that’s more important to me'

Revisiting ‘The Grey Zone’: The barely-seen Holocaust movie that debuted on 9/11

By Rich Brownstein

Roger Ebert put film about the true story of the rebellion at Birkenau by the Sonderkommando on his list of great movies, but its success was doomed by its release date

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women work on computers at their desks in the Comax software company office in the central city of Holon near Tel Aviv, on April 17, 2016. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Inside story

Jessica Roda and Alexandra Stankovich

Netflix’s ‘My Unorthodox Life’ spurs Orthodox women to talk about their lives

The show has prompted a remarkable response from ultra-Orthodox women, participating in an unprecedented public social media campaign to tell their own stories

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The Biran family, with Eitan on the right. (Courtesy)

Family denies abducting boy who survived Italy disaster: We ‘brought him home’

Jamal Hakrush on February 11, 2016. (Israel Police)

Arab top cop whose home was shot at says it won’t deter him from fighting crime

Pope Francis greets faithful as he arrives in an open vehicle for a Holy Mass at the end of an International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest on September 12, 2021, during his papal visit to Hungary. (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Pope warns of ‘threat of antisemitism in Europe’ during Hungary visit

By AFP and ToI Staff

Barak Ben-Ami at a court hearing at Lod District Court on September 12, 2021. (Flash90)

Father jailed for life for murdering his baby daughter

A woman passes a wall with an image of the former Neolog Synagogue next to the Holocaust Memorial located in the center of Bratislava's Old Town on September 9, 2021.(VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP)

Slovakia Jewish leaders hope pope’s visit will heal Catholic ties

By Laszlo Juhasz

Eynat Guez, co-founder and CEO of workplace management platform Papaya Global. (Courtesy)

Israeli payroll management startup triples valuation after $250m investment

By Ricky Ben-David

Yiddishist Ruth Wisse will talk about Chaim Grade's seminal short story, 'My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner,' for Beit Avi Chai on September 12, 2021 (Courtesy TeleTime for the Tikvah Fund)

Yom KippurFamed Yiddishist Ruth Wisse discusses soul-searching in seminal short story

By Jessica Steinberg

This picture taken on June 4, 2021 shows a view of cloned camel calves in a pen at the Reproductive Biotechnology Center in Dubai (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

Clone warsCamel beauty pageants, races spur high demand for cloning

By Mohamad Ali Harissi

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