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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 15, 2021

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Photo illustration showing the tomb of Nahum during restoration work in 2018. (Photo courtesy Adam Tiffen; illustration by Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

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Saving Iraq’s Tomb of Nahum, a secret mission resurrects Kurdistan’s Jewish past

By Tal Schneider

With IS just miles away, a US army vet, 2 Israeli engineers and the head of a preservation group carried out an audacious plan to restore an ancient shrine of the biblical prophet

Footage of the Natanz nuclear facility aired by Iranian state TV on April 17, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Iranian guards accused of sexually harassing UN inspectors at nuclear plant

WSJ reports security officers at Natanz facility inappropriately touched IAEA female auditors, ordered them to remove clothing

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a counterterrorism conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, on September 12, 2021. (Ronen Topelberg)

Gantz says Israel could accept new Iran nuclear deal

Then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-defense minister Benny Gantz in September 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi, Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu assails government after Gantz says open to new Iran deal

Israeli captives land in Israel after a prisoners of war exchange following the Yom Kippur War on November 15, 1973. (Avi Simchon/Bamahane/Defense Archive)

'To keep fighting was suicide. Why didn't we get orders?'

When freed after Yom Kippur War, Israeli PoWs railed at army, transcripts show

By Judah Ari Gross

A week after their release from capture in 1973 fighting, troops who had been on the Egyptian front met top general, demanded answers for the IDF’s failures

A sukkah perched on an IDF vehicle during the Yom Kippur War (Courtesy Nathan Fendrich/Pritzer Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel)

Booth campRare photos show soldiers’ sukkot during Yom Kippur War

By Jessica Steinberg

Inside Story

Abraham Rabinovich

Worse than the worst-case scenario: The dreadful hours before the Yom Kippur War

A leading chronicler of the 1973 war traces the harrowing final hours as Israeli leaders realized, far too late, that they’d refused to read the signs of imminent conflict

Israeli troops rushing up to the northern frontier with the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, October 7, 1973. (GPO/Eitan Harris)

Ensure that no Israeli family goes hungry this holiday season.

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

US President Donald Trump, center, with from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on September 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 15 – How are the Abraham Accords holding up a year on?

Jacob Magid assesses the future of normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries, and Jessica Steinberg fills us in on the hottest cultural events coming up in Israel

Abraham Accords Peace Institute executive director Rob Greenway, Morocco's Ambassador to the US, Bahrain's Ambassador to the US Sheikh Abdullah bin Rashid al-Khalifa, UAE's Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba, former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, Israel's Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan, Egypt's Ambassador to the US Motaz Zahran, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert at a Washington event marking the one year anniversary of the Abraham Accords on September 14, 2021. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Sudan sends envoy after skipping event hosted by Israel

Kushner warns against neglecting Abraham Accords at one-year anniversary event

Former Trump senior adviser says the potential normalization deals offer to region could be wasted if they’re not nurtured; Blinken to host administration anniversary event Friday

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Qatari capital Doha, on September 7, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/AFP)

Blinken to honor Abraham Accords with Israel, UAE, Bahrain and Morocco ministers

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett departs for Washington, on August 24, 2021. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Bennett to address UN General Assembly on September 27

By Lazar Berman

Asking for long life is just the beginning

Modern medicine can prolong life despite physical and mental infirmities, but when does that stop being what we want for ourselves and our families?

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

A High Holiday embrace

My husband lay in the cardiac ICU, and of course my prayers were all for him, until I noticed a distraught young woman at our hospital service

A stone’s throw from the Temple Mount

On this holiest of days, when the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies, we can choose to avoid the battles, and share that holiness with our Muslim neighbors

Jewish soft power and Yom Kippur at the United Nations

The story of how the world organization pegged the Jewish fast day as a holiday embodies the long history of the ‘shtadlan’s’ behind-the-scenes diplomacy

Israeli and United Arab Emirates flags line a road in the coastal city of Netanya on August 16, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

UAE seeks staggering $1 trillion in economic ties with Israel over next decade

By Ricky Ben-David

A year into the Abraham Accords, trade between countries hits over $600m in 1st half of 2021; investors say big opportunities still ahead

Bahrain's ambassador Khaled Al Jalahma (right) speaks with Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat during a record-breaking interview marathon, on September 14, 2021 (Screenshot)

Bahrain’s envoy joins Foreign Ministry’s record-breaking ‘interview marathon’

By Lazar Berman

Pro-Israel demonstrators protest in New York City against Ben & Jerry's, over its settlement boycott on August 12, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

New Jersey moves to divest from Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever over settlement ban

An Israeli woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit health care maintenance organization vaccination center in Jerusalem, September 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli research: 3rd vaccine dose produces 10 times more antibodies than 2nd

Amid talk of 4th dose, serological study at Sheba hospital stokes optimism that booster shot may offer longer-lasting protection than previously thought

Travellers at the Ben Gurion International Airport on September 13, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Israeli holiday travel to Europe largely ‘stopped dead’ due to entry ban fears

By Nathan Jeffay

Large-scale trips were expected over the High Holidays, but after Portugal and Sweden bar Israelis many fear further restrictions being implemented and rethink plans

Police officers enforce COVID-19 emergency regulations in Jerusalem, August 11, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Lawmakers expand quarantine surveillance program to cover all in isolation

Palestinians hold posters depicting human rights activist Nizar Banat during a protest triggered by the violent arrest and death in custody of Banat, in his hometown of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (MOSAB SHAWER / AFP)

Trial for PA officers accused of killing critic delayed after lawyer a no-show

By Aaron Boxerman

Defense attorney for 14 officers claims he requested delay and then caught COVID; lawyer for late Nizar Banat’s family laments that mix-up doesn’t bode well for rest of case

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on September 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett says he won’t meet Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian state a ‘terrible mistake’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel wears a face mask as she arrives at the house of the Federal Press Conference, on July 22, 2021, in Berlin. (Stefanie Loos/AFP)

Merkel said to reschedule farewell visit to Israel for October

Mahmoud al-Arida, one of six security prisoners to escape Gilboa Prison, is seen at a hearing at the District Court in Nazareth, on September 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Jailbreak mastermind claims nobody aided escape from Gilboa Prison

By Emanuel Fabian

Islamic Jihad member Mahmoud al-Arida reportedly tells his lawyer that he and the 5 other fugitives followed the news coverage of their prison break using small radio devices

Investigators inspect the hole used by six inmates to escape Gilboa Prison, on September 6, 2021. (Israel Prison Service)

Jailbreak probe said to find 11 Gilboa prisoners started tunnel dig in November

The scene where a young boy was forgotten in his father's car, in Sdot Negev Regional Council, southern Israel, on August 31, 2021. The baby died of heat prostration (Flash90)

Heatwaves already causing more deaths, hospitalizations — researchers

But Health Ministry not given funding to deal with crisis; expert warns Israelis unaware climate change is ‘already here and killing people’

This combination of photos provided by the North Korean government on September 13, 2021, shows long-range cruise missiles tests held on September 11 -12, 2021 in an undisclosed location of North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Rival Koreas test missiles hours apart, raising tensions

By Hyung-Jin Kim and KIM TONG-HYUNG

South conducts its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test hours after North test fires two cruise missiles

US President Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, April 1, 2020, in Washington, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Dubious of his sanity, general feared Trump would launch nuke war, book reveals

By Paul Handley

A burning vehicle is seen following a reported airstrike in the al-Bukamal region in Syria, near the border with Iraq, September 14, 2021. (Twitter/screenshot)

US denies carrying out strike on Iran-backed militia convoy on Syria-Iraq border

By Emanuel Fabian

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

Grandfather grilled after spiriting child cable car crash survivor out of Italy

Damon Joseph, arrested on December 7, 2018, faces federal terrorism charges for plotting to attack a synagogue in Toledo, Ohio. (US Department of Justice)

Ohio man sentenced to 20 years for plot to attack synagogue

Philanthropist Dan David, for whom the Dan David Prize is named, and which now is considered the largest history prize in the world (Courtesy Dan David Foundation)

A look backDan David prize becomes largest history award in world

By Jessica Steinberg

Men wear Nazi uniforms during a COVID-19 protest in the Netherlands city of Urk, Sept. 10, 2021. ('Hart van Nederland' via JTA)

Men dressed as Nazis apologize for mock arrest at Dutch COVID protest

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Warsaw's Jewish community held a funeral for an unidentified Holocaust victim, after human remains were recently discovered in an area that belonged to the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, in Warsaw, Poland, on September 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)

Polish Jewish leaders bury remains found in former Warsaw Ghetto

By Vanessa Gera

Police outside a precarious-looking sukkah in Jerusalem slated for demolition, on September 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Jerusalem police clash with ultra-Orthodox locals defending hazardous sukkah

In this July 28, 2020, file photo, Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun warms up on deck during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

‘Hebrew Hammer’ Ryan Braun retires from MLB after illustrious 14-year career

By jacob gurvis

Bedouin businessman Yaqoub Abu al-Qia’an in court, on July 12, 2021. (Flash90)

Arab businessman, accused of spying for Iran, ordered released to house arrest

The California State Capitol building in Sacramento. (Mathieu Thouvenin/Flickr Commons via JTA)

Lawmakers okay revised California curriculum that roiled Jewish community

By Gabe Stutman

George Wein plays with a jazz band in New Orleans at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, December 16, 2008. (AP Photo, File)

ObituaryGeorge Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95

By Hillel Italie

Maccabi Tel-Aviv players celebrate after Stipe Perica scores the first-ever goal of the UEFA Europa Conference League (Video screenshot)

Europa Conference League kicks off with a victory for Maccabi Tel Aviv

By AFP and ToI Staff

Inscriptions adorn the wall of the southern cemetery of King Djoser, after its restoration, near the famed Step Pyramid, in Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt opens 4,500-year-old tomb of King Djoser following 15-year restoration

By MOHAMED WAGDY

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