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What Matters Most On Friday, September 17, 2021

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A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pennsylvania, September 14, 2021. (AP/ Matt Rourke)

Study: COVID booster recipients 20 times more protected against serious illness

By ToI Staff and Agencies

As US officials set to mull okaying Pfizer’s 3rd dose, data from a million Israelis shows it boosts protection from infection tenfold compared with eligible people who got 2 shots

A Magen David Adom coronavirus testing station in Katsrin, Golan Heights, on September 15, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

COVID testing sites swamped as they reopen after Yom Kippur

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech next to a life-size replica of the next TGV high-speed train at the Gare de Lyon railway station, on September 17, 2021 in Paris. (Michel Euler/Pool/AFP)

Frenchman fined for billboard depicting Macron as Hitler to protest COVID rules

By AFP

In 2020, Bennett slammed Netanyahu for giving up annexation

Bennett cheers ‘groundbreaking’ Abraham Accords on 1-year anniversary

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PM says Israel will work to develop ties with other nations in region; Blinken hosting virtual event with Israeli and Arab leaders to celebrate the normalization deals

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, then-US president Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan react on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, September 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US President Donald Trump, left, listens as Jared Kushner speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, September 11, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Trump ‘joked’ that Kushner ‘more loyal to Israel than to the US,’ book claims

Dara Horn (Michael B. Priest)

Interview'The obsession is a profound affront to human dignity'

‘People Love Dead Jews,’ says Dara Horn, but the living ones don’t fare as well

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The acclaimed novelist pivots to non-fiction, explaining the myriad ways Jews have been — and still are — forced to erase their particularistic identity when living among non-Jews

If you love ‘Fauda’ and ‘Shtisel,’ you’ll love IZZY – Stream Israel

IZZY gives you a “front-row seat” to Israel through unlimited Israeli movies, TV shows, and documentaries that you can watch anytime, anywhere, and as much as you want!

File: A view of Gaza City's Al-Hassayna Mosque at night, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian official praises Lapid’s ‘new vision’ for Gaza

By Dana Ben-Shimon

FM’s plan unveiled this week, which would give the Palestinian Authority some powers in Strip, is ‘the new Oslo [Accords],’ says PA source

Arab-Israeli protesters lift spoons, reportedly the digging tool used by six Palestinian prisoners who escaped from Israel's Gilboa prison, as they demonstrate in the mostly Arab city of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, on September 10, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Palestinians adopt spoons as ‘symbol of resistance’ following prison break

By AFP and ToI Staff

Cells are seen at Ketziot Prison following rioting by Palestinian security prisoners, on September 8, 2021. (Courtesy)

1,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israel call off planned hunger strike

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit arrives on board the Israeli Navy Ship Atzmaut in the Mediterranean Sea, September 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Navy stops many Hezbollah arms shipments, won't block fuel

Israel has vastly boosted Red Sea presence to counter Iran — outgoing navy head

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In rare interview days after ending his tenure, Eli Sharvit says missile frigates and submarines are now continuously deployed to protect ships from growing threats posed by Tehran

Israel won’t interfere with Hezbollah-run oil shipments from Iran to Lebanon

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Sarit Zehavi and Eric R. Mandel

The dangerous impotence of UNIFIL’s mission in Lebanon

OPINION: The would-be peacekeeping force is ineffective and completely cowed by Hezbollah. It’s time to end the charade and stop wasting US tax dollars on this failed mission

The day Michael K. Williams of the Wire made my NYU students think

What if justice were found not in punishment, but in atonement? What if high schools broke the cycle of violence? What if teshuvah were seen as an ongoing struggle?

Illustrative image: 3D rendering of bacteria

Israeli ‘antibacterial weapon’ arms good germs to kill bad germs

By Nathan Jeffay

Helpful bacteria fire ‘poisoned arrows’ at infection-causing microbes in Tel Aviv University lab; they ‘permeate a neighboring cell by brute force and release toxins into it’

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Born in shadow of Holocaust, artist Mindy Weisel searches for beauty

Weisel discusses her latest memoir, ‘After: The Obligation of Beauty,’ drawing on her experience as a daughter to Auschwitz survivor parents

Artist Mindy Weisel in her Jerusalem home, prior to the September 2021 launch of her memoir, "After" (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

This combination of file photos shows Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (L) speaking during a press conference in Canberra on August 17, 2021; and China's President Xi Jinping (R) speaking at Macau's international airport on December 18, 2019. (AFP)

Australia to get nuclear subs under new US defense pact, infuriating China

By AFP

Beijing calls new alliance between Washington, Canberra, and London an ‘extremely irresponsible’ threat to regional stability

An Apache helicopter firing during a military exercise in Hafr al-Batin, Saudi Arabia on March 10, 2016. (AFP / FAYEZ NURELDINE)

Biden administration signs its first military deal with Saudi Arabia

By AFP

Actors Patsy Ferran, right and Luke Thallon, stars of the play Camp Siegfried, pose for a photographer in front of the Old Vic theatre in London, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

New London play tells real-life story of American Nazi summer camp

By Jill Lawless

‘Camp Siegfried,’ written by Bess Wohl, is based on the Long Island camp in the 1930s that indoctrinated young German-Americans into Nazi ideology

Illustrative: the Instagram app icon on the screen of a mobile device in New York, August 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Explainer

Christia Spears Brown

Instagram does harm to teenagers; Facebook has been suppressing these findings

Internal research by social media giant has been swept under the rug; experts have for years been documenting how the photo-sharing site damages body image and self-esteem

Jacob Rayman, an American immigrant from Seattle, Washington, who fell in the Yom Kippur War. (Courtesy of the Rayman family)

Israel Travels

Around the country, picturesque memorials to fallen heroes of the Yom Kippur War

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Forests, parks, promenades and overlooks in Israel often feature monuments to soldiers or units who made the ultimate sacrifice for their homeland. Here are a few such tributes

Leave your Sukkot booths to view films, exhibits and shows

By Jessica Steinberg

The week of Sukkot offers a cornucopia of events, with museums, festivals, sites and troupes prepared to entertain

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Barak Khoury, 12, was killed when riding his bicycle and hit by a car on Yom Kippur, September 15, 2021 (Courtesy)

Driver arrested over death of 12-year-old boy has past drunk driving conviction

Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been the site of a weekly anti-Israel protest since 2003. (WIkimedia Commons via JTA)

US court says it won’t stop ‘Jewish Power Corrupts’ protests outside synagogue

A Bnei Brak building is evacuated on September 16, 2021 after cracks appear on the walls (Fire and Rescue Service)

2 Bnei Brak residential buildings evacuated over fears of collapse

Siberian Jews celebrate the opening of a new Jewish education center in Tomsk, Russia, Sept. 12, 2021. (Levy Kaminetzky via JTA)

Siberian Jews inaugurate a huge new Jewish education center in Tomsk

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A child is vaccinated against Ebola in Beni, DRC, July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

‘Ebola is defeated,’ says Congolese professor who discovered virus

By AFP

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at 10 Downing Street, in London, September 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

In shakeup, UK’s Johnson demotes foreign secretary after Afghanistan fiasco

By Jill Lawless and Pan Pylas

People with Polish flags attend a wreath laying ceremony to commemorate the Nazi German invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II at the British War Cemetery in Berlin, Germany, September 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Germany: Berlin memorial to Polish WWII victims to be built in coming years

By AP

Using part of the Pittsburgh International Airport parking lot that has been left vacant by the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers from the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank load boxes of food into cars during a drive-up food distribution, on April 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

US lawmakers backed by Jewish, Muslim groups push for kosher, halal food relief

European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders speaks during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, September 15, 2021. (Yves Herman, Pool via AP)

EU commissioner urges action against abusers of NSO Group’s spyware

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this undated frame grab taken from video shared with The Associated Press by a self-identified hacker group called "The Justice of Ali," guards drag an emaciated prisoner, at Evin prison in Tehran, Iran. (The Justice of Ali via AP)

Amnesty condemns Iran’s ‘impunity’ over suspicious prisoner deaths

By AFP

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