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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 18, 2021

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The scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, in Tehran, Iran, on November 27, 2020. (Fars News Agency via AP); Inset: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Mossad killed Iran’s top nuke scientist with remote-operated machine gun — NYT

From command center far away, Israeli team reportedly used AI-powered weapon built into abandoned-looking vehicle to take out Fakhrizadeh; hit would have needed Trump’s ‘assent’

An Israeli woman over 60 receives a third coronavirus vaccine shot at a Clalit health clinic in Jerusalem on August 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel said worried FDA limit on booster shots will hamper its 3rd shot campaign

By ToI Staff and AP

Unfazed by Israeli data on vaccines’ fading effectiveness, FDA panel okays 3rd shot only for those over 65 or high risk; now Israel fears wariness, legal challenges at home

An Israeli man takes a selfie while receiving the third Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from medical staff at a coronavirus vaccination center in Ramat Gan on Aug. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

After FDA panel limits US boosters, minister says Israel proves 3rd dose works

A man receives a vaccine in Jerusalem, on August 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over 3 million Israelis have now received COVID vaccine boosters

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 Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

FDA panel recommends COVID booster shots only for older or high-risk Americans

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD

Experts overwhelmingly reject proposal to okay 3rd dose of Pfizer vaccine for anyone over 16, questioning whether data presented on Israel’s booster campaign is applicable to US

An Israeli woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit Health Services clinic in Jerusalem on September 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Backing boosters, Israeli experts tell FDA panel vaccines wane after six months

By ToI Staff and AP

A health official prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine prior to administering it during a mass Covid-19 vaccination drive in Nairobi on September 17, 2021. (Simon MAINA / AFP)

Moderna beats Pfizer on long-term protection against hospitalization, study says

By AFP

(Clockwise from top left) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, UAE diplomatic adviser Anwar Gargash, Bahrain’s Ambassador to the US Sheikh Abdullah bin Rashid al-Khalifa and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in a virtual event marking the one-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords on September 17, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Herzog calls Carter to thank him for Israel-Egypt accord

Blinken pledges US backing to expand Abraham Accords between Israel, Arab states

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

At US-hosted event marking a year since signing of historic agreement, Lapid notes anniversary of peace deal with Egypt; Morocco, UAE call for two-state solution

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Bahrain Ambassador to Israel Khaled Yousef al-Jalahmah in the Knesset on September 2, 2021. (Elad Gutman)

Lapid announces he will visit Bahrain later this month

By AP and ToI Staff

South Front, Waddesdon Manor. (Studio 8 (c) National Trust Waddesdon Manor)

'They testify to the triumps and tragedy of the Jewish past'

Medieval manors to German villas: Jewish homes tell stories of royalty, tragedy

By Robert Philpot

An online tour of sprawling estates reveals the history of a segment of European Jewry seldom thought of today, despite its members’ opulence, philanthropy and political influence

Imam Mohamed Tatai gives a sermon at the Grand Mosque in Toulouse, France, on December 15, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

French court acquits imam who quoted text commanding Muslims to kill Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jewish leader in Toulouse slams acquittal of Mohamed Tatai, likens it to decision not to try killer of Sarah Halimi because he used drugs

Pedestrians and cars cross Gebrial-Peri Square in Lyon, France, March 28, 2005. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Jewish man in France beaten after confronting group that called him ‘dirty Jew’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A photo of Lori Gilbert-Kaye at the Chabad of Poway, California, May 3, 2019. (Gabrielle Birkner/JTA)

Poway synagogue shooter avoids death penalty with guilty plea

By JULIE WATSON

John T. Earnest to serve life sentence without possibility of parole for killing Lori Gilbert-Kaye and wounding three others in 2019 attack

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during a Senate Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

In Yom Kippur address, Jon Ossoff condemns antisemitism at Georgia high schools

Rabbi Eric “Yitz” Frank addresses the City Council of University Heights, Ohio, on Sept. 9, 2021, saying women and children were traumatized by the presence of an unmarked SUV outside a local Orthodox synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. (Screenshot via Cleveland Jewish News/JTA)

Ohio synagogue outraged as city officials use PI to investigate COVID violations

By JANE KAUFMAN

University Heights sends hired detective to monitor Orthodox congregants entering and leaving Aleksander Shul during Rosh Hashanah services

Security fencing and video surveillance equipment has been installed around the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, ahead of a planned Sept. 18 rally by far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump who are demanding the release of rioters arrested in connection with the 6 January insurrection. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

DC rally to support those who stormed Capitol has Jewish officials on high alert

Saturday protest, organized by a former Trump campaign staffer, to demand an end to what it calls ‘tyrannical and inhumane treatment of the January 6 political prisoners’

In this Feb. 26, 2021, file photo, Look Ahead America sponsor Matt Braynard, center, talks to conference attendees at his booth in the merchandise show with a statue of former president Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Planned protest at US Capitol looks to rewrite history of January 6 violence

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

Yom Kippur in the rain… and nowhere to go

My preferred temple wouldn’t let me in without paying a substantial fee, and I couldn’t help compare: what church would turn anyone away on Christmas Eve?

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Don’t blame Ellis Island officials for Jewish immigrants’ changing last names

Name-changing wasn’t a humiliation but a strategy, and one that, in the American context, has paid off handsomely — including for my own family

In this photo provided by Jocelyn Augustino, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, center, officiates a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony attended by family and friends for Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, left, and his partner, Marlon Reis, in Boulder, Colorado, on September 15, 2021. (Jocelyn Augustino via AP)

Colorado governor, partner tie knot in Jewish wedding

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Jared Polis, the first openly gay US governor, marries partner of 18 years: ‘We couldn’t be happier to be married at last’

A man rides his bike past an entrance gate with a sign of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which replaced the ministry of women's affairs, in Kabul on September 17, 2021 (Hoshang Hashimi / AFP)

Taliban replace women’s ministry with notorious vice department restricting them

By KATHY GANNON

Afghan rulers set up ministry for ‘propagation of virtue and prevention of vice’ in building that housed Women’s Affairs Ministry; 3 explosions target Taliban in Jalalabad, 3 dead

In this Aug. 30, 2021, file photo Gen. Frank McKenzie, Commander of US Central Command, appears on screen as he speaks from MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, Fla., as he speaks about Afghanistan during a virtual briefing moderated by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Pentagon calls Kabul strike that killed 10 civilians a ‘tragic mistake’

By Robert Burns

A woman walks past beauty salons with window decorations which have been defaced in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 12, 2021 (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

UN Security Council calls for Taliban to form inclusive Afghan government

By Edith M. Lederer

In this Friday, Sept. 10, 2021 file photo, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian speaks in Weimar, Germany. France said late Friday, Sept. 17 it was immediately recalling its ambassadors to the US and Australia after Australia scrapped a big French conventional submarine purchase in favor of nuclear subs built with U.S. technology. (Jens Schlueter/Pool Photo via AP, file)

For 1st time ever, France recalls envoy from US, in anger over nuclear sub deal

By Sylvie Corbet

Stunning rift between allies as Paris fumes at exclusion from security pact, scrapping of billion-dollar deal to supply Canberra with submarines; envoy to Australia also recalled

Real estate heir Robert Durst sits during his murder trial at the Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles on March 4, 2020. (Etienne Laurent/EPA via AP, Pool)

NY real estate heir Robert Durst guilty of murdering best friend Susan Berman

By brian melley

Millionaire ‘Jinx’ protagonist faces life in jail without parole; Durst shot Berman at point-blank range in 2000 as she was set to tell cops she helped cover up his wife’s killing

Zakaria Zubeidi, a notorious Fatah terrorist recaptured after breaking out of Gilboa Prison with five other security prisoners, arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Nazareth, on September 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Recaptured prisoners said to express surprise over how easy it was to escape

Lawyer for one of the 4 prisoners says client had planned to reach West Bank, but got lost on the way; authorities release photos of makeshift tools used to dig way out of prison

Illustrative: A Palestinian man casts his vote in the municipal elections in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh on October 20, 2012. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian municipal elections in West Bank, Gaza scheduled for December

By AFP

Illustrative photo of the periwinkle blue ribbon, which symbolizes awareness for Acid Reflux (GERD), eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, esophageal and gastric disorders, pulmonary hypertension and stomach cancer. (iStock photos)

New traditions help make Yom Kippur a safer time for Jews with eating disorders

By Ella Rockart

Shmulik Peleg, the maternal grandfather of Eitan Biran, in an interview broadcast September 17, 2021 (Channel 12/Screen grab)

Grandfather defends taking child survivor of Italy cable car crash to Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Shmulik Peleg denies kidnapping Eitan Biran, 6; says his domestic violence conviction is irrelevant; paternal relatives visit boy in Israel: ‘Worrying to see signs of brainwashing’

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This March 1, 2003, file photo obtained by the Associated Press shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. (AP Photo)

Guantanamo trial of 9/11 mastermind suspended amid COVID scare

By AFP

Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz. (Yonatan Sindel, David Cohen/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to again propose coalition deal to Gantz that would make him PM

A picture taken on October 20, 2020, shows an Israeli observation post at the Gaza-Israel border, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF troops nab 3 Gazans who tried to infiltrate through Israeli border fence

A banner for the victims of the bombings reads 'I am Brussels' at the Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels, Wednesday, March 23, 2016 (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Belgium charges 10 over 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels

By AFP

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A picture taken from Lebanon's southern Marjayoun area shows an agricultural vehicle driving down a dirt road in the Israeli town of Metula along the border fence between the two countries, on August 6, 2021. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Israel sends back Lebanese man who crossed northern border

In this April 28, 2014, file photo, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, sitting in a wheelchair, applauds after taking the oath as President in Algiers. Former Algerian President Bouteflika, who fought for independence from France in the 1950s and 1960s and was ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after 20 years in power, has died at age 84, state television announced Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub, File)

ObituaryEx-Algerian president Bouteflika, ousted amid protests, dies at 84

By AP

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