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What Matters Most On Friday, September 24, 2021

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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)

Floor debate heats up after Tlaib calls Israel 'apartheid'

US House overwhelmingly advances Iron Dome funding initially scotched by ‘Squad’

420 vote in favor of $1b for Israeli missile defense system; 8 progressive Dems and 1 Republican oppose it, 2 Dems vote ‘present’; legislation moves on to Senate; PM lauds approval

Illustrative: A flag of Israel and an American flag are displayed on a table during a meeting between Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Pentagon in Washington, August 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Israeli leaders, US Jews laud House approval of $1 billion for Iron Dome

By Amy Spiro and Jacob Magid

AnalysisTwo bills in Congress reflect split among Democrats, and Jews, on Israel funding

Pro-Israel demonstrators protest in New York City against Ben and Jerry's over its settlement boycott on August 12, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

Texas takes steps to divest from Ben & Jerry’s following settlement boycott

Ice cream giant, parent company added to state’s list of companies that boycott Israel, which will likely see Texas divest $100 million in state pension funds within 90 days

Rep. Andy Levin speaks at a press conference introducing his 'Two-State Solution Act' on Capitol Hill in Washington on September 23, 2021. He is flanked by, from left: Hadar Susskind, the president and CEO of Americans for Peace Now; Rep. Alan Lowenthal; Rep. Sara Jacobs; Rep. Peter Welch; and J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Progressive Dems introduce bill they say aims at keeping 2-state solution alive

Bill, which would widely bar use of US defense aid in territories, faces uphill battle; moderate Dems group calls it counterproductive, bad policy that asks nothing of Palestinians

(L-R) Reps. Brad Schneider, Joe Wilson and Stephanie Murphy. (Composite/AP)

Bipartisan Congressional bill seeks to boost US-Israel military cooperation

Defense Minister Benny Gantz arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on September 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid Iron Dome funding spat, Gantz says US remains Israel’s closest ally

People, some wearing face masks, shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, on September 20, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett, health officials said to tussle over further COVID restrictions

Report says PM questioned expert panel’s call for tighter caps on gatherings already subject to Green Pass rules

A coronavirus ward at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Number of COVID patients on ventilators hits highest level since March

Medical staff wear safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government COVID experts push strategy rethink as infections spread

Arriving Afghan refugees need your help

Help us help them. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is at the forefront of helping Afghan refugees. Click here to learn more.

Portrait of author Isaac Asimov taken in February 1979 at his home in New York City. (AP Photo/Marty Reichenthal)

'I'm tired of being told by Jews that I'm not Jewish enough'

Judaism was complex for Isaac Asimov, whose ‘Foundation’ series is now a TV show

By Stephen Silver

Proudly and unapologetically Jewish, yet equally vocal as an atheist with no formal religious training or ties, the visionary author shattered 20th-century stereotypes

Taliban leader Mullah Nooruddin Turabi poses for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Taliban cofounder says dismemberments, executions to return

By KATHY GANNON

‘No one will tell us what our laws should be,’ says Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, insisting that Afghanistan’s revived legal code will again be guided by the Quran

Interview

In Washington, ex-Jerusalem mayor lobbies against consulate reopening

Likud MK Nir Barkat says reviving mission to Palestinians would be major mistake that would signal support for dividing capital

Likud MK Nir Barkat speaks at the opening of an ancient road at the City of David archaeological site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, June 30, 2019. (Flash90)

The Durban legacy of hate, 20 years later

Many countries have recognized the increased antisemitism that Durban wrought, but it must still be exposed, redressed, and combated with a global action plan

Laura Ben-David

PHOTO ESSAY: A priestly blessing

When you don’t like traffic or crowds or early mornings, rushing to the Western Wall for Sukkot prayers doesn’t sound like a good way to spend your vacation…

Rachel B. Posner

The missing pole

When we moved house, it took longer to settle in than I’d expected. Then we built our temporary dwelling of a sukkah, and I finally began to feeling at home

In Gilboa Prison, a glimpse of Israel’s impending disaster

In not working for a real solution to conflict with the Palestinians, the country is simply playing warden to a population liable to eventually erase the Zionist dream

Barry Levenson (left) and his mustard museum. (Courtesy of Levenson/Wikimedia commons/via JTA)

'I heard the mustards saying, collect us and they will come'

Meet the Jewish mustard maven who founded a museum for his favorite condiment

By Rachel Román

Chief Mustard Officer of the Middleton, Wisconsin institution, Barry Levenson says the spicy seed is culturally ubiquitous, and he has 6,090 varieties from 70 countries to prove it

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joins a Fridays for Future global climate strike in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Israelis join worldwide rallies to call for action on climate

By AP and ToI Staff

Protesters, many of them students, stage protests inspired by Greta Thunberg, amid warnings of temperature rises if carbon emissions aren’t slashed

Then-Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, right, meets with then-Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir in Khartoum, Sudan, August 2008. (AP/Abd Raouf)

Sudan seizes assets of Hamas-linked firms, amid move toward West

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Khartoum, which last year began normalization process with Israel, is shedding elements linked to longtime leader Omar al-Bashir, denying a safe haven to Gaza-ruling terror group

Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, September 18, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Senior Hamas official says progress made in prisoner swap talks with Israel

TV cameras in front of the 'Grand Hotel Vienna' where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, June 20, 2021. (AP/Florian Schroetter)

US presses Iran for swift return to languishing nuclear talks

Foreign diplomats have been meeting Iran’s foreign minister on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly to gauge Tehran’s willingness to return to the talks in Vienna

This image released by Apple TV+ shows Niv Sultan as Tamar Rabinyan in a scene from 'Tehran.' (Apple TV+ via AP)

Prized intrigueIsraeli thriller ‘Tehran’ nominated for International Emmy Award

Israel Prisons Service Commissioner Katy Perry speaks during a Knesset Public Security Committee meeting on September 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘I will not be a scapegoat’: Prisons head said to reject calls to resign

Katy Perry insists she won’t take blame for ‘years of neglect’ as she’s reported to seek firing of Gilboa jail chief over one of worst jailbreaks in Israeli history

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev (center) and Israel Prisons Service chief commissioner Katy Perry (left) visit Ketziot prison in southern Israel, on September 9, 2021. (Israel Prisons Service)

Police minister taps judge to head government panel probing Gilboa jailbreak

In this handout photo from September 24, 2021, a police officer walks with a suspect who was arrested in a series of raids against organized crime elements in Arab and Druze towns across northern Israel. (Israel Police)

Cops raid Arab, Druze homes across north in crime wave crackdown

Police arrest 15 suspects, seize money and weapons amid calls for more action against organized crime in Arab locales

Hosam Otman (Courtesy)

Video shows deadly drive-by shooting of Arab man at Haifa intersection

Gantz to form committee to consider universal conscription reform

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister advancing his plan to implement national service alongside military duty to address situation in which only half of Israelis currently serve

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right, shakes hands with an IDF soldier during an event for the Sukkot holiday at the military's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv on September 23, 2021. (Tal Oz/Defense Ministry)

Search-and-rescue forces extract an IDF soldier who fell in a hole during a nighttime training exercise in central Israel, on September 22, 2021. (Etzion Search and Rescue Unit)

IDF to probe why soldiers keep falling in pits during training

By Judah Ari Gross

A pharmacist prepares a syringe of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, at Queen Anne Healthcare, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Seattle, January 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

CDC endorses COVID booster shots for older Americans, those at high-risk

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and Mike Stobbe

US health agency’s director includes recommendation rejected by experts, for those under 65 in jobs with higher risk of exposure to get an extra vaccine dose

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)

EU drug agency to decide on COVID boosters in weeks

By AFP and ToI Staff

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El Al planes on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport on August 3, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

Israeli airlines demand government bailout for COVID losses

By Stuart Winer

This undated photo made available by the National Park Service in September 2021 shows fossilized human footprints at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. (NPS via AP)

New Mexico footprints show humans walked in North America some 23,000 years ago

Hodaya Monsonego, an Israeli woman who was jailed in Peru, is greeted by relatives upon her arrival at Ben Gurion Airport on September 24, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Disabled Israeli returns home after 2-year detention in Peru on drugs charge

In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Congressional January 6 panel subpoenas top Trump advisers, associates

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Eric Tucker

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan prepares to leave the Turkish Consulate General en route to the United Nations on September 21, 2021 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images N. America/Getty Images via AFP)

Erdogan says relations with Biden off to poor start, future ‘does not bode well’

View of neighborhoods in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, on June 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police probing suspected husband-wife murder and suicide attempt

Police secure the area near a bank in Haifa where a woman threatened to detonate an explosive vest, on September 2, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Haifa man indicted for allegedly kidnapping woman, forcing her to rob bank

Delivery service Wolt recruiting messengers in Jerusalem for start of business in October 2021 (Courtesy Wolt)

Delivery service Wolt expanding to Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on during a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, on August 10, 2021. (Christian Mang/Pool/AFP)

Fears of hole in EU’s heart as German ‘Queen of Europe’ Merkel departs

By Stephanie LOB

A man looks for a charger for his phone from a suitcase full of used chargers for sale in Los Angeles, on August 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

One shape fits all: EU to standardize smartphone chargers

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