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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 19, 2021

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Iham Kamamji (L) and Munadil Nafiyat (R), the two last Palestinian fugitives from the Gilboa Prison jailbreak, are arrested on September 19, 2021 (Courtesy/Shin Bet security service)

Escaped inmates offer no resistance; 2 accomplices detained

Israeli forces nab final 2 Palestinian fugitives in Jenin, ending jailbreak saga

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Iham Kamamji and Munadil Nafiyat, both members of the Islamic Jihad terror group, arrested in West Bank city nearly 2 weeks after escaping Gilboa Prison

Police officers and prison guards inspect the scene of a prison escape by six Palestinian prisoners, outside the Gilboa prison in northern Israel, September 6, 2021. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Fearing discovery, escapees left Gilboa jail a day earlier than planned – report

Munadil Nafiyat in an image from the Shin Bet (left) and one doctored for social media (right). (Shin Bet/Screenshot)

Palestinians again doctor images, showing last 2 fugitives grinning post-capture

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev attends a ceremony at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem, on September 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police minister lied in TV interview ahead of arrest raid, spokesman confirms

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Public Security Minister Omer Barlev meet with police commanders about the efforts to track down six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from prison in northern Israel, Saturday, September 11, 2021. (Israel Police)

Bennett hails ‘sophisticated’ operation that caught last 2 Palestinian fugitives

By Amy Spiro and Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli security officer arrests a Palestinian fugitive following a nearly two-week manhunt in the northern West Bank on September 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Bloodless, efficient recapture of 6 fugitives won’t obscure the jailbreak fiasco

Jenin raid ends two-week jailbreak manhunt, potentially staving off major violence; now comes the probe into how the escape was allowed to happen

President Isaac Herzog (left), Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (center) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a memorial ceremony for the fallen Israeli soldiers of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, at the National Hall of Remembrance, Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, September 19, 2021. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Israeli leaders mark 48 years of lessons learned since Yom Kippur War

MK Meir Porush attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A week after attempted beard-cutting attack, Haredi MK says he is still fearful

By Shalom Yerushalmi

‘I managed to push the man away and he didn’t reach my beard, but if the scissors had gone into my eye? What then?’ says United Torah Judaism lawmaker Meir Porush

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 19 – Israel and FDA debate virus booster shot

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on Blinken’s Zoom summit and Bennett’s trip to the UN; science reporter Nathan Jeffay on pros and cons of Israel’s booster campaign

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!

Schoolkids required to show negative COVID antigen test after Sukkot vacation

Teachers vow to fight measure; serious coronavirus cases hit a high not seen for almost three weeks, 10 days after the end of Rosh Hashanah

A father tests his daughter with a COVID-19 rapid antigen home kit test ahead of the first day of school, in Jerusalem on August 31, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks ahead of receiving his third COVID-19 vaccine shot at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, on August 20, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett defends booster shots, says US to soon follow Israel with widespread use

A Magen David Adom volunteer takes a swab sample from an Israeli woman at a coronavirus testing site in the Golan Heights town of Katzrin, on September 15, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)Fall in transmission rate suggests morbidity receding; serious cases up to 717

Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in 'Scenes From a Marriage.' (Jojo Whilden/HBO/ via JTA)

Interview'I took some of Jonathan's details from my own diaries'

‘Scenes From a Marriage’ is Hagai Levi’s most personal HBO series yet

The Israeli writer and director channels his inner ‘old world Jew’ in his 5-episode remake of the Ingmar Bergman classic, now airing Sundays

A nurse monitors an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) machine connected to a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, May 8, 2020. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

Live updates (closed)

Hospital chiefs warn of shortage in ECMO machines for critical COVID cases

With number of serious infections climbing, top Health Ministry official said to acknowledge manpower problems for treating hospitalized coronavirus patients

6:23 pm

IDF rebukes officer filmed shoving left-wing activist at West Bank rally
5:36 pm

Security footage shows 2 Palestinian fugitives in northern town hours after escape
5:22 pm

Police release video from arrest of final Palestinian fugitives

Tali Kaplinski Tarlow

If Jerusalem’s stones could speak…

The coronavirus has brought my tour-guiding industry to its knees, but the rebuilt Old City gave me a shred of optimism – for this too will pass

I thought I was the only Jew in the entire UAE

When I moved to the Emirates, I passed myself off as Catholic. Looking back, I was crazy to ever feel the slightest fear about being my Jewish self here

Israeli soldiers take positions along the border between the northern West Bank near Jenin and Israel as they search for two Palestinians who broke out of a maximum-security prison last week, on a road leading to the West Bank town of Jenin, near Gan Ner Israel, September 12, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media review

Boosted and busted: What the press is saying about 3 shots and 2 caught escapees

By Joshua Davidovich

And perhaps bested… as questions continue to dog officials following the Gilboa escape and a US rebuff of Israel’s vaccine booster blitz

Left-wing activist Tuly Flint is arrested by Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of al-Tuwani in the south Hebron hills, on Friday, September 18, 2021. (Courtesy)

IDF soldiers injure left-wing activists at West Bank protest, drawing outcry

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli children going into 1st grade, on their first day of the new academic year, at the Pola school in Jerusalem, September 1, 2021. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli classrooms more crowded than OECD average, teachers paid less – report

By Stuart Winer

Israel has 26.3 students per class compared to 21.1 in other developed countries; pandemic shut Israel’s middle and high schools for longer periods

Ambassador Erdan slams Ocasio-Cortez for her bid to block arms sale to Israel

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Israel’s envoy in Washington says amendment by progressive US congresswoman ‘legitimizes’ Hamas’s ‘heinous attacks against innocent civilians’

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan and US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (Shahar Azran; AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York attends a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Ocasio-Cortez submits amendment to block arms sale to Israel

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Technicians work at the Arak heavy water reactor's secondary circuit, as officials and media visit the site, near Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran’s new nuclear chief wants fast overhaul of Arak reactor

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Under 2015 deal, Tehran agreed to modify site so that it could not produce military-grade plutonium

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on April 14, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei vows to back athletes from Muslim states who won’t face Israelis

By AFP

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Police and Jerusalem city workers take apart a sukkah in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood that was deemed a safety hazzard, September 19, 2021. (Israel Police)

Amid scuffles with police, hazardous sukkah taken down in Jerusalem

Israeli security forces spray protesters with skunk water during clashes in Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, on May 19, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

2 Umm al-Fahm men indicted for alleged attack on ambulance during May’s unrest

By Emanuel Fabian

The founders of Lightricks (Benny Gamzo)

Israeli developer of popular apps for creators nabs $130m investment

By Ricky Ben-David

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

Relatives suspect ‘brainwashing’ of boy who survived Italy cable car crash

By ToI Staff and AP

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)

Rwanda believed to have used NSO spyware against Belgian journalist, wife

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrives at a cabinet meeting in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, September 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese PM says oil shipments from Iran were ‘not approved’ by his government

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Women march to demand their rights under the Taliban rule during a demonstration near the former Women's Affairs Ministry building in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 19, 2021. (AP Photo)

Taliban tells Kabul’s female municipal workers to stay home

By KATHY GANNON

Matt Braynard, a former Trump campaign staffer who organized a rally near the US Capitol in Washington, addresses the participants, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Despite fears of violence, DC rally for US Capitol rioters remains peaceful

By Colleen Long, MICHAEL BALSAMO, NATHAN ELLGREN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

This Sept. 1, 2021, satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex. (Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Satellite photos show North Korea expanding uranium enrichment plant

By Hyung-Jin Kim

(L-R) Ted Lasso's Brendan Hunt, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster, and Jeremy Swift attend the Television Academy's Reception to Honor 73rd Emmy Award Nominees at Television Academy on September 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images/AFP)

Outdoor EmmysIn-person Emmy Awards return, for first time since pandemic began

By Andrew MARSZAL

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