Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy Your Privacy Rights

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Bahrain's first-ever envoy to Israel Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma (R) presents his letter of credence to President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, September 14, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

'Brave states take brave steps'

‘A great honor’: Bahrain’s first-ever envoy to Israel presents credentials

By Lazar Berman

Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma wishes Israelis security and prosperity; President Herzog says he hopes other nations will follow Manama’s example

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)

‘We’ve only just begun’: Abraham Accords partners mark one year since signing

(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, stand on the Blue Room Balcony during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AnalysisA year after normalization, Israel-UAE ties continue to bear fruit

By AFP and ToI Staff

Health Minister Director-General Nachman Ash attends a press conference about the coronavirus, in Jerusalem on August 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health Ministry chief says coronavirus spread reaching record heights

By Stuart Winer

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

Police rescue COVID testing staff from dozens of rioters in northern town

Hai Shoulian. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Defiant to the end, prominent anti-vaxx activist dies of COVID

Prisoner of Zion Ida Nudel and her dog arriving aboard a private Boeing jet, owned by billionaire Armand Hammer, at Ben Gurion Airport, October 15, 1987. (Nati Harnik/GPO)

Former refusenik and Soviet Jewish activist Ida Nudel dies at 90

Known as ‘Guardian Angel’ for humanitarian work on behalf of Zionist prisoners held in Soviet Union, Nudel moved to Israel after receiving the exit visa she spent years pursuing

Israel's national baseball team at a team practice in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Designated Hitters

Israel’s first Olympic team in forty years was a baseball squad composed of all different types of dreamers

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

Bennett, after meeting Egypt’s Sissi: ‘We laid the foundation for deep ties’

By Aaron Boxerman and Lazar Berman

Egyptian leader tells PM calm between Israel and the Palestinians must be preserved; Iran also discussed, as well improving bilateral relations, says Israeli official

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during a Yamina faction meeting at the Knesset, on July 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top Bennett ally: PM won’t meet Mahmoud Abbas, he’s ‘not a partner’

The parents of Avraham Avera Mengistu protest outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, September 11, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

After Sissi summit, Bennett meets family of Israeli held by Hamas in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 14 – Bennett and Sissi: The messages behind the meeting

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discuss the Israel-Egypt summit and possible outcomes of ongoing budget debates

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) is seated during a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi at the Heliopolis Presidential Palace, on May 26, 2021, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Biden said due to freeze some military aid to Egypt over rights concerns

From the blogs

Joel C. Rosenberg

The secret, visionary decision that launched the Abraham Accords

UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed confided in me his plan to set the ambitious agreement in motion, and he ensured its success by making Israel an offer it couldn’t refuse

Haim Geron stands next to a light plane. (Facebook)

Prosecution witness in Netanyahu trial and his wife killed in Greek plane crash

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Haim Geron was a former deputy director of the Communication Ministry; light plane he was piloting went down after apparent technical fault

Former Walla news CEO Ilan Yeshua at the Jerusalem District Court on September 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s lawyers grill ex-CEO of news site over ties with other politicians

Illustrative. A Cessna 172 light aircraft. (Wikipedia/Alex Herbort/CC BY-SA 4.0)

2 Israelis aboard light aircraft killed in crash near Greek island

By AFP and ToI Staff

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

Iran could have enough enriched uranium for a nuke in a month – report

By Judah Ari Gross and AFP

But experts say Tehran would still need more time before actually creating a deliverable weapon; estimate comes with talks stalled between US and Iran over new nuclear deal

Yohanan Plesner

For this government, the true days of judgment will be in a year

The clock starts ticking after the holidays when the Bennett-Lapid coalition has to get to work doing far more than just survive. Here’s their to-do list

Dovid Kornreich

Trying to be Jewishly un-Jewish

Of all Rabbi Pass’s attempts to Judaize her abortion with traditional Jewish concepts, rituals and prayers, I believe calling it sacred is the most offensive

Anastasia Kennedy

Why do Christians fall for BDS?

If the Church can recant ’Replacement Theology,’ then those who seek a world with no Israel can repent this long-held spiritual envy of God’s Chosen People

Esther Orenstein Lapian

The Lady in Beige: A true story of forgiveness

The minute I said what I said, I regretted it. I knew I needed to apologize. Fortunately, so did she.

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Back-to-back stabbing attacks spark baseless row over ending West Bank closure

Despite claims to the contrary by Netanyahu, decision to reopen crossings would have likely played no role in Monday’s attacks

Israeli border police officers patrol the area near the site of a stabbing attack, in Jerusalem on September 13, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Israeli police officers gather outside the site of a stabbing attack, in Jerusalem on September 13, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Israel braces for escalation, with major attack said foiled in recent days

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset from a special COVID-19 quarantine area in the guest gallery during a plenum session on the state budget, September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu claims recent terror attacks a result of Bennett, Gantz’s ‘weakness’

Hamas ordered to pay NIS 38 million to families of 3 teens murdered in 2014

Legal group that filed suit for relatives of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach slams the sum as insufficient: ‘This is not how to deter a terror organization’

Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped on June 12, 2014 and whose bodies were found on June 30, 2014. (IDF/AP)

Israeli border police officers patrol the area near the site of a stabbing attack, in Jerusalem on September 13, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Hamas says ‘heroic’ stabbing inspired by jailbreak, threatens escalation

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A local town's volunteer security squad simulates an attack. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

IDF said to leave Gaza border towns’ security squads unarmed for past year

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Composite/AP)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett: I don’t see any logic in meeting with Mahmoud Abbas

In interviews with a range of news outlets, prime minister says he understands many Israelis are angry at him for forming government to oust Netanyahu, but he stands by decision

6:13 pm

Four recaptured prisoners to be allowed to meet with attorneys
5:56 pm

US officials: al-Qaeda could resurge in Afghanistan in 1-2 years
5:24 pm

IDF names first female commander of air defense battalion

Ebrahim Nonoo, the head of the Jewish Community in Bahrain, prays on the sabbath at the House of Ten Commandments Synagogue in the capital Manama on September 4, 2021.(Mazen Mahdi / AFP)

Bahrain Jews worship in public for 1st time in decades thanks to Abraham Accords

By Haitham el-Tabei

Leader Ebrahim Nonoo says he’s bringing Jewish traditions into plain view after community of several dozen had worshipped in private since 1947

Op-ed

A farcical jailbreak that isn’t funny at all

The Gilboa Prison escape was a colossal tactical failure. The danger is that it leads to a strategic success for the forces of terrorism

A guard keeps watch from an observation tower at Gilboa Prison in northern Israel on September 6, 2021, after the escape of six Palestinian security prisoners from the facility. (Jalaa Marey/AFP) Photo of terrorist leader Zakaria Zubeidi. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

Guard suspected of watching TV instead of cameras during jailbreak – report

IDF officers and soldiers from the Home Front Command conduct serological testing for antibodies in children aged 3 to 12 in Katzrin, in the Golan Heights, August 22, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Study: Even asymptomatic children can be affected

11% of Israeli kids who got virus now suffer from ‘long COVID’ – study

Health Ministry survey finds 30% of those with long-term effects have cognitive, mental health issues, but cautions these can also be attributed to lockdowns, school closures, war

An eosinophil white blood cell as a 3D illustration (wildpixel via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli scientists aim to mobilize allergy-causing cells to fight cancer

By Nathan Jeffay

Tumors in mice lost half their size when injected with eosinophils, best known for inducing allergies; promising results also seen in human tumor cells in vitro

'Only God can answer, but I'm not going to live in question'

For a Surfside-area rabbi, these High Holidays are for processing communal grief

Sholom Lipskar built his community from the ground up and keenly feels the loss of several members in a high-rise collapse in June. But that doesn’t stop him from moving forward

More Headlines

Ultra Orthodox Jews perform the Kapparot ceremony on September 13, 2021, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cry fowlEnvironment Ministry: Replace cruel chicken ‘kapparot’ with donations

Police set up a camera rig at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on September 10, 2021. (Lonny Goldsmith/TC Jewfolk via JTA)

Synagogue threat, cemetery vandalism shake Minnesota Jewish community

By Lonny Goldsmith and Lev Gringauz

The entrance to the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, November 27, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbinic court bomber, who sought to separate religion and state, gets 3 years

Algerian Judoka Fethi Nourine. (Screenshot)

Algerian judoka banned for 10 years for refusing Olympic bout with Israeli

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A secure laptop. (Anyaberkut, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli cybersecurity firm buys ExpressVPN for close to $1b

By Ricky Ben-David

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman (C) visits the scene of where a residential building in the central city of Holon collapsed. September 13, 2021.(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Holon says more buildings at risk of collapse; residents must inspect and report

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

Abduction probe opened against grandpa of boy who survived Italy cable car crash

The popular 'pop-it' fidget toy created by Theo and Ora Coster. (Wikimedia commons/ CC-SA 4.0/ RuslanABOBA)

Pop sensationAnne Frank’s Israeli classmate behind popular breast-inspired fidget toy

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Melio founders from left: COO Ziv Paz CEO Matan Bar and CTO Ilan Atias. Courtesy

Israeli fintech startup Melio soars to $4b valuation amid fresh $250m investment

By Ricky Ben-David

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, a woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Apple fixes security hole reportedly used by NSO Group to hack iPhone

'The Rainbow' mosaic on the Bezeq telephone exchange building on Hebron Road in Jerusalem. The mosaic was taken off the wall in July 2018 due to the demolition of the building. (Ranbar/ Wikimedia commons)

Iconic Jerusalem mosaic reconstructed in largest such operation in Israel

Fasting for climate outside the president's residence on September 10, 2021. From right: Michal Deutsch, Tamar Deutsch, Matanel Ciechanowski. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Activist goes on hunger strike to press president on climate crisis

View Edition by Date

August	September 2021					October
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
Your Privacy Rights
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.