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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) speaks to reporters as he leaves a House Democratic Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on September 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

Cut out of US spending bill, Iron Dome funding to be brought to a vote this week

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announces intention to call standalone vote for $1 billion supporting Israel’s missile defense system: ‘It will be done’

Left: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, meets with reporters to discuss President Joe Biden's domestic agenda at the Capitol in Washington, on September 8, 2021 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite); Right: An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from Gaza Strip in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel, on July 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Dems nix $1 billion for Iron Dome from budget bill after progressive pressure

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden speaks during the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, on September 21, 2021. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

At UN, Biden says he’s committed to preventing Iran from getting nuclear arms

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai arrives at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Diaspora minister urges ‘long-term fix’ of Israel’s ties with Democrats

As Progressive lawmakers force delay in Iron Dome funding, Nachman Shai says US party’s ‘anti-Israel axis’ growing stronger, blames Netanyahu for ‘clearly’ siding with Republicans

Kulanu MK Michael Oren, on June 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-ambassador calls for rethink on US military aid amid Iron Dome controversy

By Lazar Berman

Iron Dome in action, on May 13, 2021. (Avichai Socher/IDF)

Lapid downplays removal of Iron Dome funding from US budget bill

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

(From left) Democratic representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts respond to remarks by US President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their 'broken' countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, on July 15, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Analysis

‘Squad’ wins symbolic victory on Iron Dome funding – with help from Republicans

$1 billion in missile defense still certain to be okayed, but progressives’ ability to block its inclusion in budget bill shows bloc has more influence than critics assumed

A long-exposure picture shows Iron Dome anti-missile system fire to intercept rockets launched from the Gaza Strip at Israel, as seen from the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, May 16, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

AIPAC raps ‘extremists in Congress’ after Iron Dome funding struck from bill

An Israeli missile is launched from the Iron Dome defense missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, on November 12, 2019, to intercept rocket launched from the nearby Palestinian Gaza Strip. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Op-Ed

The immorality of Democratic ‘progressives’ targeting Iron Dome

Those US legislators doing their utmost to deprive Israel of its first line of missile defense are opposing our civilians’ right to a shield against murderous terrorism

US President Joe Biden (right) meets with then-prime minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 27, 2021. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel, US said to discuss ‘plan B’ if Iran nuclear talks don’t resume

News site quotes Israeli official saying main message from American side was that Biden administration will impose more sanctions if negotiations aren’t held again soon

6:10 pm

Israeli woman moderately hurt in suspected West Bank ramming attack
6:04 pm

Cabinet to soon discuss Shin Bet involvement in fighting Arab society violence -- TV
5:34 pm

Israel, US said to discuss 'plan B' if Iran nuclear talks don't resume

An Israeli receives the COVID-19 vaccine on September 20, 2021 in Jerusalem (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hospital chief: Unvaccinated are 'playing Russian roulette'

Israel will wait for FDA approval before vaccinating kids 5-11, says official

Sharon Alroy-Preis says issue distinct from booster shots, where Israel didn’t wait for US regulator; positivity rate lowest in 1.5 months; veteran basketball coach dies of COVID

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

Israel said asking US, EU: Apply our new rules on boosters to Israeli arrivals

Hadassah Ein Kerem medical staff are seen wearing safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward, in Jerusalem, on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

WHO reports worldwide decline in new COVID-19 cases

In UN debut, Iran’s new president rails against US sanctions, denounces Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In video address to GA, Ebrahim Raisi heaps criticism on America while expressing backing for renewed nuclear talks; claims Israel behind ‘biggest state terrorism’

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks in recorded video message to the UN General Assembly, on September 21, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami speaks at Tehran's Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense museum, during the unveiling of an exhibition of what Iran says are US and other drones captured in its territory, on September 21, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Revolutionary Guards chief: Iran has ‘built power’ to confront ‘failed’ US

Iran's Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency Kazem Gharib Abadi, Political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Abbas Araghchi, and Deputy Secretary General and Political Director of the European External Action Service Enrique Mora stand in front of the Grand Hotel Vienna, where where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, on June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

Iran announces it will resume Vienna nuclear negotiations in coming weeks

By AFP

The seats reserved for Israel's delegation sit empty at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 21, 2021 in New York (EDUARDO MUNOZ / POOL / AFP)

UN set to commemorate controversial Durban conference, with 31 states boycotting

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli envoy has hailed record number of countries set to shun Wednesday’s marking of 20th anniversary of anti-racism conference, after past antisemitism

Taliban fighters patrol along a street in Kabul on August 29, 2021, as suicide bomb threats hung over the final phase of the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP)

Taliban say they should be allowed to address UN General Assembly

By Edith M. Lederer

Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga stands next to the mascot promoting the vaccination campaign as he gives shots of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

In New York for UN confab, Brazil’s health minister contracts COVID

The sukkah and living with uncertainty

For 5 years, I wandered from one dorm to the next, rootless like our forebears before we each came to our homeland, where we belonged, and could lay down roots

We who are about to die salute you

We die again every year, for the past 48 years, around this time. What could we have done differently? What advice would we have given to Dayan? To Golda?

Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel's Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva. (Israel's Mission to UN and International Organizations in Geneva)

Abraham Accords partners issue joint UN human rights statement on women, peace

By Lazar Berman

In first such initiative, Israel joins with Bahrain, UAE and Morocco for statement at meeting of international body’s Human Rights Council in Geneva

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok chairs a cabinet meeting in the capital Khartoum, on September 21, 2021. (AFP)

Sudanese PM blames coup attempt on ‘remnants from previous regime’

By Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali and MENNA ZAKI

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the annual gathering in New York City for the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on September 21, 2021, in New York City. (Pool/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

Erdogan: Mideast peace impossible if Israel continues ‘oppressing’ Palestinians

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a meeting of the PLO executive committee and the Fatah Central Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Poll: Nearly 80% of Palestinians want Mahmoud Abbas to resign

By Aaron Boxerman

Hamas sees a slight drop in support, but remains more popular than its Fatah rivals; majority of Palestinians approve of confidence-building measures between Israel, PA

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, addresses the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 (Timothy A. Clary/Pool Photo via AP)

In UN speech, Qatar emir lashes Israeli ‘violations’ in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli security forces stand guard at the Gilboa/Jalama checkpoint, located north of the West Bank town of Jenin, on October 24, 2015. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Israel reopens West Bank crossing for first time since jailbreak

By AP and ToI Staff

(From left to right) Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on August 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 22 – How the new government is faring in first 100 days

Political correspondent Tal Schneider and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discuss the successes and challenges of the Bennett-Lapid coalition as it passes the 100-day mark

Worshippers pray in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, during the priestly blessing for the festival of Sukkot, on September 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Photo Essay

Thousands gather at Western Wall for traditional Sukkot priestly blessing

Throngs of Jewish worshipers make pilgrimage to Jerusalem for ceremony, with hundreds of police officers securing the area

Nasim Sah, the suspect in a Nahariya car-ramming that killed a police volunteer, covers his face during a hearing at the Haifa Magistrate's Court, on September 22, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Suspect remanded for 8 days over Nahariya ramming that killed police volunteer

Driver named as Nasim Sah, contractor from Arraba and former owner of local soccer club; police accuse him of negligent homicide and abandonment of his victims

Security forces at the scene where a driver rammed two police officers, killing one of them, in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, September 21, 2021 (Alon Nadav/Flash90)

Suspect said to have confessed to Nahariya ramming that killed police volunteer

A traffic jam seen due to temporary roadblocks set up by police at the entrance to Jerusalem, following a car ramming in northern Israel earlier in the day, on September 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police arrest 2 suspected Palestinian accomplices in Nahariya police death

Israeli forensics and police officers at the scene where three men found dead at a forest in northern Israel in suspected triple murder, November 1, 2020 (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israel recruiting hundreds of police in fight against violence in Arab community

Amid #Arab_Lives_Matter campaign, police minister says Shin Bet will be involved in effort to root out murderers; 2021 death toll expected to be the highest for years

Police at the scene of the murder of Sahar Ismail, the education minister's aide for Arab society, in the northern Israeli town of Rameh, on August 15, 2021. (Flash90)

#Arab_Lives_Matter gains traction online amid epidemic of Arab violence

Police at the scene of a murder in the Negev, on September 21, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man found shot dead in Negev, 3rd Arab victim of gun violence in two days

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Undated photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. (AP Photo, File)

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Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Israeli cultured meat startup Aleph Farms

By Ricky Ben-David

Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky (center), his wife Olena and members of his crew react during a presidential election debate with Ukraine's then-president at The Olympic Stadium in Kyiv, with the chief aide to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Sergei Shefir, pictured on the right. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Gunmen target Ukrainian president’s aide in ‘assassination attempt’

By AFP

A Yemeni soldier takes a selfie as others surround body bags containing the corpses of newly executed men, convicted of involvement in the assassination of Houthi political leader Saleh al-Sammad three years ago, at a public square in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on September 18, 2021. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

UN, US and Britain condemn public executions by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators assault Jews at a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles, on May 19, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

2 charged with hate crime for May attack on Jewish diners in Los Angeles

Hodaya Monsonego, 24, who was later jailed in Lima, Peru, for her alleged involvement in a suspected drug smuggling operation. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Disabled Israeli said set to return home after 2-year detention in Peru

Chris Christie speaks at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, on September 23, 2019. (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit via JTA)

COVID outbreak at Chris Christie’s nephew’s bar mitzvah makes school go virtual

Illustrative: Ancient artifacts, smuggled into the US in violation of federal law and shipped to Hobby Lobby stores, are shown at an event returning the artifacts to Iraq, on May 2, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

US to formally return 3,500-year-old ‘Gilgamesh’ tablet to Iraq

By AFP

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