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What Matters Most On Monday, September 20, 2021

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An Israeli receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit health care maintenance organization, on September 9, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Vaccine is safe, with few side effects, says firm

Pfizer says COVID vaccine works in kids 5-11, will seek emergency OK

By lauren neergard

Company announces it will submit shot for FDA approval by the end of the month; dose for children is far lower than for adult immunization

View of a classroom in a girls school in Tzfat, August 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Education Ministry: Half of teachers haven’t received COVID booster shots

Kids at a school in Tel Aviv hold up antigen coronavirus testing kits, on August 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Teachers’ unions blast COVID-19 test requirement for schoolkids after Sukkot

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Analysis

The FDA’s decision to limit COVID boosters was no snub to Israel

US panel rejected the boosters-for-all approach pioneered in Israel — for now. But approval for the most vulnerable shows it is embracing the Jewish state’s example

Illustrative image: In front of an American flag, nurse Lillian Wirpsza (left) administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Shylee Stewart, a labor and delivery nurse at George Washington University Hospital. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, a pharmacist administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a nursing home resident at Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, New York (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Senior US health official predicts booster access to be expanded in coming weeks

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) and Sweden's foreign minister, Ann Linde, (right). (Alexander Nemenov/Pool via AP, AP/Darko Vojinovic))

Lapid speaks with Sweden FM, renewing high-level contacts after 7 years

Ann Linde condemns terrorism and backs Israel’s security; ties had soured in 2014 after Stockholm recognized Palestinian state and its former FM censured IDF

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu imitating a sleeping US President Joe Biden, in a Facebook Live video, September 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Repeating debunked claim, Netanyahu mocks Biden for sleeping during Bennett meet

By Raoul Wootliff

‘I heard that Biden was very attentive,’ former premier chuckles, as he drops his head and closes his eyes in an apparent imitation of the US president broadcast live on Facebook

Public Diplomacy Director Elad Tene. (courtesy)

Bennett taps new public affairs chief at PM’s office, a post unfilled since 2015

The unrecognized Bedouin villages around the Ramat Hovav industrial area in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chemical evaporation ponds and an Israel Electric Company power plant, December 28, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Climate crisis, COVID-19, Arab community: Government lays out its policy goals

By Lazar Berman

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!

From left: Marcella Morris as a young woman; Ruth Morris in her high school yearbook; Selma Morris as a young woman (Courtesy of Julie Klam)

'Don't worry about remembering the history - it's 90% wrong'

Truth trumps fiction in family mythbuster on quirky turn-of-the-century sisters

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters,’ Julie Klam travels the globe to separate the truth from the lore about her grandmother’s 4 philanthropic chain-smoking millionaire cousins

A convoy of cars filmed on London's Finchley Road, with passengers yelling antisemitic obscenities, on May 16, 2021. (Screenshot)

Four UK pro-Palestinian activists charged after calling for rape of Jewish women

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police say suspects likely intended ‘to stir up racial hatred’; drove in convoy with loudpeakers through London Jewish area during May fighting between Israel and Gaza terrorists

Israeli activist Eli Ziv, from the Combatants for Peace movement, lies injured on the floor after he was pushed by an Israeli soldier during a demonstration in the southern area of the West Bank town of Hebron, on September 17, 2021. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

IDF officer seen shoving, injuring left-wing demonstrator let off with ‘censure’

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: People gather at the General Assembly, prior to a vote, on December 21, 2017, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

At Israel’s prodding, record 31 nations to boycott Durban conference anniversary

Envoy says dozens of countries will shun Wednesday’s anti-racism conference at UN after past antisemitism; Bennett to deliver debut address at General Assembly next week

Holland's King Willem-Alexander, right, officially unveiling a new monument in the heart of Amsterdam's historic Jewish Quarter honoring the 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, September 19, 2021, (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch king, PM unveil Amsterdam memorial naming nation’s 102,000 Holocaust dead

Anar Ottolenghi receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, November 1, 2020 (Courtesy)

Initial stdy indicated it may offer longer-term protection

Late but longer-lasting? Israel’s COVID jab aims to ‘find its place in market’

By Ricky Ben-David

Chairman of NRx, pharmaceutical company completing trials for BriLife, suggests vaccine may even work better against variants

‘Let them fight’: Bennett slammed for pushing parents to vax-shame each other

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Under my lemon tree

In the holiday rush, bemoaning the days with no school and the many meals to cook, I pause and breathe deep, for nothing inspires me like the air of the Land of Israel in Tishrei

Shemitah: The redemption of ‘being’

I have been so busy pulling weeds and propping up new growth that it’s taken a real shift in my mindset to accept the coming year of leaving the garden to nature

Young Israel of Hollywood synagogue in Hollywood, Florida. (Shira Hanau via JTA)

COVID has sent Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers to the promised land: Florida

From Miami all the way north to Boca Raton, South Florida’s Orthodox Jewish communities have experienced a major pandemic-driven population boom

Healthcare workers take COVID-19 test samples of Israelis at a Maccabi healthcare test center in Modiin, on September 13 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Rate of positive COVID tests drops to lowest level since mid-August

6,456 new coronavirus cases diagnosed Sunday; 70% of serious cases are among the unvaccinated; most new infections among school-age children and in Arab community

Travelers are seen at Ben Gurion Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Recently recovered from COVID now exempt from virus test before entering Israel

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)

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

A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, on May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/ Damian Dovarganes, File)

AstraZeneca announces ‘groundbreaking’ results in new breast cancer drug trial

72% of trial patients administered Enherthu showed no progression in their cancer after 12 months, compared to 34.1% of those treated with the current standard of care medication

Yaakov Tabersky, carries his 30-day-old son Yossef, the great grandchild of the chief rabbi of the Lelov Hassidic dynasty, during the "Pidyon Haben" ceremony in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on September 16, 2021. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Photo essay

Great-grandson of Hasidic leader ‘redeemed’ in ancient Jewish ceremony

By Oded Balilty

Yaakov Tabersky presents his firstborn child, descendant of chief rabbi of the Lelov dynasty, on a silver platter, as a priest takes 5 silver coins instead of the boy

MK Walid Taha (Ra'am) attends an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas pans Ra’am MK who signaled party may not bolt coalition if Gaza war erupts

After Walid Taha says no good would come from toppling the government, terror group says the ‘hesitant’ remarks ‘attest to a disconnection from the Palestinian Arab identity’

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati speaks during a parliament session to confirm Lebanon's new government at a Beirut theater known as the UNESCO palace, so that parliament members could observe social distancing measures imposed over the coronavirus pandemic, on September 20, 2021. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon’s new PM vows to take back land it sees as occupied by Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Najib Mikati says ‘Lebanese citizens have the right to oppose Israel’s occupation, and to respond to its attacks’; he also demands UNIFIL end Israel’s ‘invasions’

Lebanese people wave a Hezbollah flag as tankers carrying Iranian fuel arrive from Syria at al-Ain in east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, on September 16, 2021. (AFP)

AnalysisHezbollah cements role as Lebanon’s real ruler after ‘unauthorized’ fuel imports

By AFP

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/ Bilal Hussein)

Iran says will sell fuel to Lebanon gov’t, after Hezbollah arranged 1st delivery

Pro-Palestinian activists hold a "Globalize the Intifada" protest against Israel and in support of Palestinian security prisoners in New York City, on September 17, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 20 – A finale to the Gilboa Prison jailbreak fiasco

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross reports on the recapture of all six escaped prisoners while environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at climate change markers and reactions

Officials surprised by ‘easy’ recapture of jailbreak fugitives who fled to Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian escapee was close to plea deal release before jailbreak – report

By Emanuel Fabian

Prison official warned of possible Gilboa jailbreak, days before escape – report

By Emanuel Fabian

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Students evacuate a building of the Perm university campus in Perm, Russia on September 20, 2021 following a shooting. (Olga Yushkova / AFP)

At least 6 killed in mass shooting at Russian university

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses media representatives at a European Union summit in Brussels, on June 24, 2021. (John Thys/Pool/AFP)

UN chief warns China and US to avoid new Cold War

By Edith M. Lederer

People vote during the last day of the three-day parliamentary and local elections in Saint Petersburg on September 19, 2021. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)

Putin’s party on track for parliamentary majority after crackdown on opposition

By Michael MAINVILLE

US President Joe Biden, right, speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron during a plenary session during a NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, June 14, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski, Pool via AP)

Biden seeks to make amends with Macron amid escalating submarine spat

By Stuart Williams and Holly Robertson

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

Aunt of Italy cable car crash child survivor arrives in Israel ahead of hearing

By ToI Staff and AP

Israel's national baseball team poses while at the European Championships, September 19, 2021. (Israel Association of Baseball/courtesy)

Israeli baseball team wins silver in European Championship, its best result ever

A Syrian-Jordanian border crossing that was closed for more than three years after a takeover of the Syrian side by rebels, on September 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Top Syrian, Jordanian defense officials discuss border security

By AP

An aerial view of the Israel Museum, in Jerusalem. July 10, 2017. (Gidi Avinary/ FLASH90)

Big dealIsrael Museum listed as world’s 17th largest art institution

Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In court, ex-school counselor claims Malka Leifer’s accusers motivated by money

By AP

Then-deputy commander of Iran's army air force Gen. Hamid Vahedi chants slogan during a meeting of army's air force and air defense staff with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, on February 7, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader appoints new chief for country’s air force

By AP

In this video grab issued September 19, 2021, by the Television Academy, Olivia Colman accepts the award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for "The Crown" during the Primetime Emmy Awards. (Television Academy via AP)

Streaming success‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Queen’s Gambit’ top Emmys

Mount Cumbre Vieja erupts in El Paso, spewing out columns of smoke, ash and lava as seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma on September 19, 2021. (Photo by DESIREE MARTIN / AFP)

Volcano erupts on Spain’s Canary Islands, forcing evacuation of thousands

By AFP

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