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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 16, 2021

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The scene where a 12-year-old boy was killed when he was hit by a car on Route 4 while riding on erev Yom Kippur, on September 15, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

12-year-old killed, 11-year-old seriously injured in Yom Kippur road accidents

Barak Houry hit by car a month before his bar mitzvah; 2nd boy hit near Kfar Shmaryahu; 20-year-old motorcyclist killed in north; medics treat over 2,500 people, deliver 8 babies

Police set up a temporary road block in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur eve, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 15, 2021. Israel came to a standstill for 25-hours during the high holiday of Yom Kippur (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur, but forces on high alert

Leonard Cohen performs for Israeli troops in the Sinai during the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Ron Ilan/ IDF archives)

Writer discovers original draft, clues on why it was changed

Rediscovered: Leonard Cohen lyrics of fighting with ‘brothers’ in Yom Kippur War

One verse of Cohen’s song ‘Lover, Lover, Lover,’ written while he played for troops battling Egypt, deeply moved the soldiers who heard it, then mysteriously disappeared. Until now

Police officers on guard in front of the entrance to the Jewish Community building in Hagen, Germany, on Thursday, September 16, 2021. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)

‘Islamist’ plot to attack German synagogue on Yom Kippur foiled; 4 arrested

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Services at Hagen synagogue called off; Syrian teen among those held for reportedly planning attack with explosives, two years after 2 were killed in Yom Kippur shootings in Halle

Cypriot women demonstrate on September 16, 2021 in front of Nicosia's supreme court, in support of a young British woman who alleged she was raped by up to 12 Israelis in a hotel room in the seaside party resort of Ayia Napa in July 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)

Cyprus appeal opens for Briton convicted of falsely claiming Israelis raped her

By Charlie Charalambous

Judge ignored basic legal principles, argues her lawyer; conviction for fabricating gang-rape claim against up to 12 Israeli tourists was a ‘travesty of justice,’ activist says

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett (L) talks with Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic Ra'am party, during a special session to vote on the new government at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Bennett makes the ‘TIME 100 most influential’ list; Mansour Abbas pens his entry

‘Someone courageous needed to make that change,’ writes Arab party leader and coalition ally, praising rightist PM for partnering with his Islamists to try to ‘unite’ Israel

Analysis

Bennett-Sissi meeting shows Egypt wants to expand Israel ties, but up to a point

Open nature of meeting sends encouraging message that cold peace could see a thaw, but Cairo remains very wary of provoking the public where anti-Israel sentiment dominates

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

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)

US okays some but not all military aid to Egypt, amid human rights concerns

The half-angel, half-demon connected to Yom Kippur

Jewish mystical tradition teaches that Azazel was a dangerous and destructive angel, who taught human beings some of history’s most horrible lessons

4 lessons from the Yom Kippur War

It may have taken miscalculations and missteps, but in the end, Israel could demonstrate that the Arab-Israeli conflict does not have to be a zero-sum game

A Palestinian man receives financial aid at a supermarket in Gaza City, on September 15, 2021, as part of the UN's Humanitarian Cash Assistance program, supported by the state of Qatar. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Qatar restarts distributing aid to needy Gazans, minus the suitcases of cash

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Money disbursed through supermarkets, money exchange shops and other stores; no final agreement on aid for Hamas’ government payroll

In this photo provided by Israel Police, Israeli security forces stand next to escaped Palestinian security prisoners Zakaria Zubeidi (left) and Mohammed al-Arida, blindfolded and handcuffed after being recaptured in the northern Arab town of Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam, on September 11, 2021. (Israel Police)

Lawyers for two Palestinian fugitives claim they were beaten during recapture

By AP and ToI Staff

Khaled az-Zawi (left) and Ahmad Amash (right). (Courtesy)

2 men shot dead in separate killings in Israel’s Arab community

By Emanuel Fabian

37-year-old Khaled az-Zawi and 42-year-old Ahmad Amash killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday night in Acre and Jisr az-Zarqa; another man seriously wounded on Thursday in Shfaram

The mother of Border Police officer Barel Hadaria Shmueli speaks at his funeral in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2021. Shmueli died nine days after being shot in the head during riots on the Gaza border. (Police spokesperson)

Mother of slain border cop backtracks after calling PM a ‘dog’ and ‘murderer’

Nitza Shmueli says she was ‘filled with pain and frustration’ and acknowledges her social media posts against Naftali Bennett should have been ‘worded differently’

This photo provided by the North Korean government, on September 16, 2021, shows a missile test firing launched from a train on September 15, 2021 in an undisclosed location of North Korea (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea says it successfully launched ballistic missiles from train

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and Hyung-Jin Kim

Military says projectiles hit targets as part of Pyongyang’s efforts to diversify launch options; South Korea reports 1st test of submarine-launched ballistic missile

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami (center) speaks during a joint press briefing with Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi (second right) in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, September 12, 2021. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran’s nuclear chief admits removing damaged IAEA monitoring cameras

By Nasser Karimi and Isabel Debre

A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel across the border from Syria into Lebanon arrives at the eastern town of al-Ain, Lebanon, on September 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah brings Iranian fuel deliveries to Lebanon, despite US sanctions

Supporters of terror group greet convoy with heavy celebratory gunfire, rocket-propelled-grenade; 80 trucks carrying four million liters enter the crisis-stricken country

Tourists take pictures in front of Sagrada Familia Basilica designed by architect Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, July 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

Israel, EU reach deal to mutually recognize vaccine certificates

By Nathan Jeffay and ToI Staff

Deal will give vaccinated travelers access to Green Pass programs to enter public venues, but will not allow entry to countries like Portugal that currently ban Israelis

Illustrative: A young man is seen wearing a headset and playing an online video game. (DisobeyArt/iStock by Getty Images)

Over 1 in 5 adult Jewish US gamers face online antisemitism, ADL survey finds

Harassment and bigotry is common among Americans who play multiplayer games in general; only 7% of Jewish teens say they were harassed over their identity

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration joint hearing on March 3, 2021, examining the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in Washington, DC.(Greg Nash/Pool Photo via AP)

Analysis

PHILISSA CRAMER

California governor recall fails, but scrutiny on Feinstein could be lasting

According to some reports, America’s 1st Jewish female senator is increasingly infirm; if she is unable to complete her term, the state’s governor would pick her replacement

Rabbi Ephraim Einhorn with members of the Taiwan Jewish Community group at his 99th birthday party in 2017. (Courtesy of Zoy Chang)

Obituary

Taiwan’s longtime rabbi, whose life brimmed with global intrigue, dies at 103

By Jordyn Haime

Vienna-born Ephraim Einhorn, who developed Taipei community after a lifetime of clandestine missions and a helping of self-publicity, passes away hours before Yom Kippur

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