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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 23, 2021

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A teacher receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, on August 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry: Unvaccinated, untested teachers won’t teach or get paid

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Under new orders, staff who do not have a Green Pass showing they are inoculated or free of coronavirus will be denied entry to schools; teacher unions oppose move

Top health officials urge curbs on large gatherings as COVID-19 spread continues

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

We don’t want to raise zombies: PM clashes with health chiefs on kids quarantine

Heart patient dies as most ECMO machines taken by unvaxxed COVID cases – TV

Marcia Freedman in 2013. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Obituary

US-born ex-MK Marcia Freedman, a pioneer of Israeli women’s rights, dies at 83

By Michael Bachner

The only openly lesbian lawmaker in Israeli history, activist helped found Israeli feminist movement, discussed domestic violence in 1970s to male colleagues’ ridicule

Barak Houry, 12, sits next to a small-scale model of a fire-fighting robot concept he built on his own. Houry was killed while riding his bike on Yom Kippur on September 15, 2021. (Courtesy of the Houry family)

Unfinished prototype for life-saving robot sits on his bed

Family of boy killed on Yom Kippur fundraise for his ‘robot firefighter’ project

By Ricky Ben-David

The life of Barak Houry, 12, was tragically cut short when he was run over on his bike; his family is intent on fulfilling his dream: creating an automated fire-fighting device

Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, speaks to the media after Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker toured the Moderna facility, on May 12, 2021, in Norwood, Massachusetts. (Nancy Lane/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Moderna CEO predicts pandemic could be over in a year

Stephane Bancel says COVID shots will be okayed for infants and there will be enough doses by mid-2022 to inoculate everyone worldwide; thinks situation could come to resemble flu

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)

FDA backs Pfizer COVID-19 boosters for seniors, high-risk

By MATTHEW PERRONE, LAURAN NEERGAARD and Mike Stobbe

A vial of Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 vaccine is seen at a Clalit health clinic in Jerusalem on August 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel, Pfizer said to extend expiration date of some 60,000 vaccine doses

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Rockets from Gaza, on right, are seen in the night sky fired toward Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021, while Iron Dome interceptor missiles, on left, rise to meet them. (Anas Baba/AFP)

$1 billion in Iron Dome funding introduced in Congress as separate bill

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

After sum removed from larger spending bill due to progressive pressure, House Appropriations chair says ‘commitment to the security of our friend and ally Israel is ironclad’

US President Biden's Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 22, 2021. (Screen capture/Senate Foreign Relations Committee)

US nominee for Israel envoy tells confirmation panel he backs Iron Dome funding

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 15: (Left to right) US Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Democrat-Massachusetts), Ilhan Omar (Democrat-Minnesota) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat-New York) listen as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (Democrat-Michigan) pauses while speaking at a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. on July 15, 2019. (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

‘Squad’ intercepted Iron Dome with perfectly timed strike on US-Israel ties

The Democratic Party mainstream remains staunchly pro-Israel, but progressives use partisan gridlock to make the Jewish state a wedge issue

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)

ToI PodcastDaily Briefing Sept. 23 – Dem Squad jockeys for position on Iron Dome

Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system is launched to intercept a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, above the southern city of Ashkelon, on May 17, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

US lawmakers okay funding for Israel’s Iron Dome after controversy in House

In 420-9 vote, representatives approve $1 billion for missile defense system; Bennett, Lapid thank US after delay caused by opposition from progressive Democrats

6:31 pm

Bennett, Lapid thank US House for approving Iron Dome funding
6:27 pm

US House okays Iron Dome funding in 420-9 vote after delay caused by 'Squad'
5:52 pm

Family marks 2,000 days since British woman jailed in Iran first arrested

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delivers televised remarks at Ben Gurion Airport, on June 22, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

'No poster boards or drawings'

PMO: Bennett’s UN speech will be unlike Netanyahu’s; ex-PM: He can learn from me

By Lazar Berman

The premier will not use predecessor’s trademark visual aids as he seeks to project determination against Iran; will also address Jewish organizations in NY

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a high-level meeting to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, on September 22, 2021. (John Angelillo/Pool Photo via AP)

UN commemorates controversial Durban summit with no apparent mention of Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

South Africa's President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a prerecorded address to a high-level meeting to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, on September 22, 2021. (Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP)

34 countries shun UN’s commemoration of controversial Durban Conference

By ToI Staff and AP

Salvador Dalí (left) and Man Ray in Paris, on June 16, 1934, making wild eyes for photographer Carl Van Vechten. (Public domain)

Interview'He constructed his entire persona'

How Dada movement influencer Man Ray ran from the Nazis — and his Jewish roots

By Cathryn J. Prince

‘Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows’ by Arthur Lubow looks to the company kept by the cryptic surrealist artist for clues on a life touched by antisemitism, war and turbulent love

Paternal aunt Aya Biran-Nirko (left) and maternal aunt Gali Peleg arrive at a Tel Aviv family court for a hearing on custody over Eitan Biran, 6, the only survivor of a cable car disaster in Italy, on September 23, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Boy who survived Italy cable car crash to remain in Israel during custody fight

By ToI Staff and AP

Paternal aunt says Eitan Biran was abducted and must be returned to Italy; maternal family says parents had planned to return to Israel; Tel Aviv court sets next hearing for Oct. 8

The world’s future is in the hands of an Israeli Islamist — if we’re lucky

With creativity and pragmatism, MK Mansour Abbas is showing the nations how to bridge the realms of representative democracy and religion

Brad Rothschild

Yom Kippur on the Block

At a Yizkor service in the crime-ridden South Side, candles were lit for 787 Chicagoans murdered in a year, and I learned that repentance means not looking away

Ilai Z. Saltzman

America’s pivot to Asia raises major hurdles for Israel

Jerusalem will increasingly be pushed to pick sides — and to contend with growing readiness by the US to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal

Ari Morgenstern

The US is aiding Lebanon’s self-destruction

Even as the Lebanese Armed Forces prop up Hezbollah, the State Dept calls the LAF ’pillars of stability.’ Congress needs to stop the flow of US aid

Palestinian Central Election Commission workers register citizens in preparation for elections, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 10, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas rejects Palestinian Authority’s call for municipal elections

By Aaron Boxerman

Islamist terror group plans to boycott local Palestinian vote unless presidential, legislative elections also held; PA president indefinitely delayed national vote in April

Screen capture from video of King Abdullah II of Jordan, as he address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded message, at UN headquarters, on September 22, 2021. (UN Web TV via AP)

At UN, Jordan, Saudi kings back Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital

By AP and ToI Staff

A man walks through a heavily damaged hospital in the city of Afrin, Syria, on June 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

Middle East is still in shambles, but the UN’s attention has moved on for now

By Agencies and ToI Staff

'We just didn't have the talent to be competitive until now'

Beatbox champ drums up energy at home as 1st Israeli to compete for world title

Underdog Max Mirel represents growing talent from a local scene overlooked until recently, as he gears up to perform in the international Grand Beatbox Battle in Warsaw next month

US National Security AdviserJake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, August 23, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP)

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

By ToI Staff and Agencies

At video meeting of strategic group, officials in Jerusalem reportedly pressed for an alternative to relying on resurrected 2015 pact, Washington suggested more sanctions

European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell pauses while speaking to the press, in New York, September 20, 2021. (Brittainy Newman/AP)

EU says Iran ready to resume nuclear talks at ‘early date’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Melbourne court: Malka Leifer must face trial on 70 charges of child sex abuse

Trial of ex-school principal, extradited this year from Israel to Australia after 6-year fight, will start October 21 as judges deem evidence sufficient; she pleads not guilty

Israeli activists and demonstrators hold placards as they take part in a protest against inaction on climate change in Tel Aviv on September 27, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Israeli parents take part in broad call to join Global Climate Strike on Friday

In run-up to critical United Nations COP26 talks in Glasgow, worldwide youth protests will urge political leaders to take climate crisis more seriously

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US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands during a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit, in Carbis Bay, England, June 12, 2021. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

France to restore US envoy after Macron, Biden talk to defuse submarine row

By Stuart Williams and Sebastian Smith

An Uzi submachine gun is seen on the floor near the Tel Aviv promanade, after a suspect from Jaffa allegedly threatened passersby. (courtesy)

Jaffa man threatens beachgoers with gun at Tel Aviv promenade, is arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

The Palestinian car that allegedly hit an Israeli woman near Ma'ale Michmash in the West Bank is seen in security camera footage, September 22, 2021. (Local Security Officers' Organization, National Federation/courtesy)

Israeli woman moderately hurt in alleged West Bank ramming

By Emanuel Fabian

Police volunteer Hossam Zaghir is buried in the northern town of Yarka, September 22, 2021. (Fadi Amun/Courtesy)

‘One of the best:’ Police volunteer killed in Nahariya car-ramming buried

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A rare Meissen armorial tea and coffee service made for the Morosini family, dated 1731. (Sotheby's)

18th-century porcelain seized by Nazis smashes expectations in auction sale

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

A Palestinian pupil walks past United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA) and USAID humanitarian aid, on June 6, 2010 in the Shatie refugee camp in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Top Republican releases remaining Palestinian aid he held up for months

This undated photo shows Helmut Oberlander during his time as an interpreter for the Nazis. (CIJA)

Ex-Nazi interpreter facing extradition dies in Canada

By AFP

The Qwilt leadership team. (Berzi Goldblatt)

US giant Cisco invests in Israeli streaming software firm Qwilt

By Ricky Ben-David

Officers transfer human remains found in the Negev desert to be examined by the Institute of Forensic Medicine, September 22, 2021. (Israel Police)

Hikers find human remains in Negev desert

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Israelis walk next to Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Valley Bank to acquire Bank Leumi’s US unit in merger agreement

By Ricky Ben-David

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune delivers a speech during an inauguration ceremony in the presidential palace, in Algiers, Algeria, December 19, 2019. (Toufik Doudou/AP)

Algeria closes airspace to all Moroccan planes, civilian and military

By AFP

Aharon Abuhatzira (courtesy)

Former minister and MK Aharon Abuhatzira dies at 82

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