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What Matters Most On Monday, September 13, 2021

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The scene of a stabbing attack outside the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem on September 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

2 moderately hurt in terror stabbing in Jerusalem; attacker shot

Incident near Central Bus Station follows attempted stabbing of 2 soldiers in the West Bank earlier in the day; police say stabber a 17-year-old Palestinian

Israeli security forces near the scene of an attempted stabbing attack in the the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, on September 13, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

IDF: Palestinian man attempts to stab soldiers at Gush Etzion junction

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi meet, on September 13, 2021, in Sharm el-Sheikh. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Exuding warmth, Egypt’s Sissi hosts PM for talks, in first such visit in decade

By Amy Spiro and Aaron Boxerman

Sissi welcomes Bennett in Sharm el-Sheikh, poses with both countries’ flags in background; trip comes amid high Gaza tensions; EgyptAir is set to publicly fly Tel Aviv-Cairo route

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaking at the annual Herzliya Conference, September 12, 2021. (Ronen Toppleberg)

Lapid proposes ‘new vision’ for Gaza, promises economic steps for Hamas quiet

By Aaron Boxerman

An EgyptAir Airbus A320 takes off from Vienna International Airport on August 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Thomas Ranner)

ExclusiveEgyptAir to launch direct Tel Aviv-Cairo flights next month

By Tal Schneider

UN Ambassadors from Israel Gilad Erdan, from the UAE Lana Nusseibeh, from the US Linda Thomas-Greenfield, from Morocco Omar Hilale, and from Bahrain Jamal Al Rowaiei at a New York event marking the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords, September 13, 2021. (Jacob Magid/ Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Erdan: Biden administration recognizes 2-state solution ‘not on the table’

At event marking one-year anniversary of Abraham Accords, Israeli ambassador to UN says US and Israel now ‘focused on what unites us rather than what divides us’

6:22 pm

7,781 new coronavirus patients diagnosed in past day
6:14 pm

Ultra-Orthodox MK given personal security guards after attack outside home
5:56 pm

Erdan: Biden administration recognizes 2-state solution 'not currently achievable'

A long exposure picture shows Iron Dome anti-missile system fire as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, Ashkelon, May 10, 2021. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Terrorists fire one rocket from Gaza, then another as IDF strikes Hamas targets

By Aaron Boxerman, Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Both rockets, fired hours apart, intercepted by Iron Dome; 3 injured running to bomb shelter; third successive night of rocket fire amid increase in tensions

Palestinians receive financial aid from Qatar at a post office in Gaza City, November 27, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

UN to begin dispensing Qatari cash to needy Gazan families Monday under new deal

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli soldiers take positions along the border between the northern West Bank near Jenin and Israel as they search for two Palestinians who broke out of a maximum-security prison last week, on a road leading to the West Bank town of Jenin, near Gan Ner Israel, September 12, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Palestinians said to shoot at IDF troops searching for fugitives in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli security forces inspect identification cards at a checkpoint in northern Israel near the West Bank town of Jenin, on September 12, 2021. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Recaptured fugitives said cooperating in interrogation

Palestinian escapees begged for ride from Arab town to West Bank but were denied

By Emanuel Fabian

Searches for final 2 fugitives focus on Jezreel Valley and Jenin; officials concerned West Bank raid would complicate efforts to capture them alive, possibly provoke escalation

Israel Prisons Service Commissioner Katy Perry speaks during a Knesset Public Security Committee meeting on September 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prisons chief: We’ve foiled 300 escape attempts in the past decade

An Israeli soldier takes position along the border between the northern West Bank near Jenin and Israel as they search for two Palestinians who broke out of a maximum-security prison last week, on a road leading to the West Bank town of Jenin, near Gan Ner Israel, September 12, 2021. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Israeli security forces said to arrest brother, cousin of fugitive Palestinian

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Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush of United Torah Judaism arrives for a meeting of the party's Council of Torah Sages over the military draft law, in Jerusalem on October 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox MK attacked in Jerusalem; assailant tries to cut his beard

By Stuart Winer

United Torah Judaism’s Meir Porush, 66, unharmed in the incident outside his home; police search for 2 attackers who fled on scooter

Israeli soldiers visit the Western Wall Complex during a 'Selichot tour' of Jerusalem in September 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Tens of thousands of IDF soldiers flock to Jerusalem for ‘introspection’

By Judah Ari Gross

Over the course of a month, during the penitential period ahead of Yom Kippur, over 30,000 troops visiting the capital for ‘Selichot tours,’ Education Corps officer says

Shira Lankin Sheps

A change of heart

It took an unwanted cardiac exam to make me realize that I needed to be kind to myself, to forgive myself, and to reach out to God with this new repentance

Stand on your head this Yom Kippur

Those who come to synagogue on the Day of Atonement because they ’have to’ are doing something truly difficult. Now that’s dedication!

Bringing suicide out of the dark

Those who think of suicide have a better chance of staying alive when they connect to others, which is reason enough for each one of us to let them know we care

Security without hope is no security at all

The post 9/11 world, Israel included, found that military superiority alone does not lead to victory. The question is how each of us can help build a society worth living in

Scrubbed in for first time on such an operation outside UK

UK Muslim doctor delights in helping separate Jewish Israeli conjoined twins

By Nathan Jeffay

Kashmir-born Dr. Noor Ul Owase Jeelani, a world authority on conjoined twins, says he worked for months with Israeli team: ‘All children are the same, whatever color or religion’

‘A miracle’: Holon apartment building collapses a day after it was evacuated

Residents hail rescue service, complain of insufficient aid from municipality, as 36 families are saved from jeopardized condo after reporting sound of blast and cracks in walls

The scene of a collapsed apartment building in Holon, on September 12, 2021. (Flash90)

‘We have nowhere to go’: Residents of collapsed Holon building left destitute

Palestinians burn tires during rioting along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Gaza City, on August 28, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 13 – Can Israel change the Gaza dynamic? Does it want to?

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross and political reporter Tal Schneider discuss Gaza, the Israeli attitude to Iran and a dramatic, secret Iraqi mission

Travelers arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on September 10, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Bennett says Israel to genetically scan all arrivals for the coronavirus

By Stuart Winer

No details of program immediately available; PM says patience running out for the unvaccinated; cabinet backs proposal for classmates of infected kids to avoid automatic quarantine

For 1st time in 3 weeks, key measure of virus spread suggests wave still growing

Health minister on hot mic: Some COVID restrictions are to incentivize vaccines

Rapid COVID test results reportedly to be accepted for 48 hours, instead of day

Israel Aerospace Industries' semi-autonomous four-wheel-drive 'REX MKII' is seen at an IAI facility near the central Israeli city of Lod, September 9, 2021. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Israeli firm unveils autonomous armed robot to patrol battle zones, borders

But life-or-death decision to open fire will remain in the hands of human controllers for the time being, Israel Aerospace Industries says of its ‘REX MKII’ vehicle

An illustrative photo showing the 2021 Digital Quality of Life Index on a mobile phone, September 2021. (Surfshark, CC BY NC SA, 3.0)

Israel rises to 4th in world for digital quality of life

By Ricky Ben-David

Ezra Furman performs at the O2 Forum, Kentish Town on November 14, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Robin Little/Redferns/ via JTA)

'I think it’s a spiritual act to make music'

Indie rocker Ezra Furman sings about God – now she’s going to rabbinical school

By Ella Rockart

The ‘transfeminine psalmist’ strives to combine music and spirituality. With a to-do list including religious study and a year of cryptic ‘musical activity,’ she’s doing just that

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

TV: Israel may have to return ‘kidnapped’ boy who survived Italy cable car crash

Former CEO of the Walla news website Ilan Yeshua arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for his testimony in the corruption trial of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, June 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trial resumes with fresh evidence from Walla CEO’s messages

Pope Francis, flanked by Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova, right, attends a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis to visit Holocaust memorial in Bratislava

By Nicole Winfield and Karel Janicek

Defense Minister Benny Gantz left, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, 2nd right, and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Blue and White, Labor mulling future merger, officials say

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi addresses the media after his arrival at the Vienna International Airport, in Schwechat near Vienna, Austria, on September 12, 2021. (ALEX HALADA / AFP)

IAEA chief says agreement with Iran ‘gives time for diplomacy’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Author Saul Friedlander during the Leipzig Book Fair award ceremony in Leipzig, eastern Germany, March 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz, File)

Holocaust historian Saul Friedlander wins $815,000 Balzan Prize

By Colleen Barry

California gubernatorial recall candidate Angelyne poses with her iconic pink Corvette in Hollywood, California, on September 5, 2021. (Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)

LA billboard queen Angelyne on ballot in California governor race

By Huw Griffith

Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of Dimona dance during festivities marking the Shavuot festival in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, May 26, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

51 members of Hebrew Israelites Community ordered to leave Israel by Sept. 23

Police stand in front of demonstrators from the Lehava Jewish extremist group at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, on April 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prominent rabbis protest planned designation of far-right Lehava as terror group

Police officers clash with Arab Israeli rioters in Ramle in central Israel, on May 10, 2021.(Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Minister admits officials were ‘very surprised’ by Arab Israeli violence in May

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Malka Leifer appears in Australia court for hearing on child sex abuse charges

By AP

An elevated storage space listed as a place to sleep, instead of a regular room, in a Tel Aviv apartment-share. (Facebook/courtesy)

Close quartersTel Aviv would-be tenants invited to live in crawl space below ceiling

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