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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 29, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to reporters in New York before boarding a plane back to Israel, September 29, 2021. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Fighting COVIDHealth Ministry CEO 'saddened' by Bennett's public criticism

Bennett says he ‘respects’ health officials, yet opposes nationwide restrictions

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Before heading home from US, PM calls for vaccination push in Arab towns, where inoculation rate is low and morbidity high; education chief backs idea of vaccines for ages 5-11

A girl performs a COVID-19 rapid antigen home kit test ahead of returning back to school, following the Sukkot holiday, in Haniel, central Israel on September 27, 2021. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Strikes, Green Pass chaos and testing hesitancy threaten return to school

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash speaks to Channel 12 news, on September 28. 2021. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Health officials bristle at PM’s criticism at UN: ‘Unnecessary and unpleasant’

Mohammad Bakr Hussein, 3, allegedly wounded by stones thrown by Israeli settlers in the south Hebron hills, on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. (Courtesy)

Masked settlers hurl rocks in south Hebron; 15 said injured, including toddler

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians claim settlers smashed cars, homes; Israel Police says 2 Palestinians and one Israeli arrested

View of the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on March 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court grants further delay in razing of West Bank Bedouin village

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A crane lowers a caravan to the ground in a new settlement meant to resettle the evacuees of the illegal Netiv Ha'avot outpost in the Etzion bloc in the West Bank, on May 9, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Report lists 670 European firms with alleged links to Israeli settlements

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

Live updates (closed)

Israel hits record COVID patients on ECMO machines

53 cases now reportedly connected to specialized apparatus that does the work of a person’s heart and lungs in order to allow them to recover from serious respiratory illness

6:28 pm

'This is terror': Lapid slams settler stone-throwing attack on Palestinians
6:17 pm

Russia labels media outlet, 2 rights groups 'foreign agents'
5:41 pm

Quarantine exemption to only apply to those with 3rd vaccine shot from Sunday

'If that's not a miracle, I don't know what is'

Wounded soldier’s father says a bullet hit his grenade, but it didn’t explode

By Judah Ari Gross

Conditions of both soldiers wounded during northern West Bank arrest raid improve, but one is still serious

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits one of the soldiers hurt in the West Bank raid against a Hamas cell, at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center, September 27, 2021. (courtesy)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 29 – Did Bennett make his mark at the UN?

US correspondent Jacob Magid and political correspondent Tal Schneider, both speaking from New York, discuss the PM’s first UN speech and his 2nd visit to the US as premier

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with UN General-Secretary Antonio Guteress at UN headquarters in New York, on September 27, 2021. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

In meeting with Guterres, Bennett raps UN institutions for ‘anti-Israel bias’

Republican congressman Thomas Massie walks down the House steps after a vote at the Capitol, September 17, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/JTA)

GOP Rep. lashes AIPAC for ‘foreign interference’ after Iron Dome vote attack ad

Mahmoud al-Arida, one of six security prisoners to escape Gilboa Prison, is seen at a hearing at the District Court in Nazareth, on September 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Five prisoners to be charged with aiding Gilboa jailbreak

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: In this May 26, 2019 photo, a teacher supervises while Palestinian schoolchildren take a final exam during the last day of the school year, at the UNRWA Hebron Boys School, in the West Bank city of Hebron. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

European Parliament moves to condition UNRWA funds over PA textbook incitement

Skinless in Netanya

I am in love with this place. Sometimes it brings me extreme joy, my heart full like the very ripest pomegranate at the fruit vendor’s stall

James M. Dorsey

UAE nation branding encounters early headwinds

Israeli activists’ opposition to the pipeline deal and European censure over human rights offenses are among the factors tarnishing Emirati prestige

Archaeology

Ancient text said to solve mystery of why Dead Sea Scrolls were placed in Qumran

Israeli researchers believe 1,000-year-old document from Cairo Geniza shows site hosted an annual event where Essene sect gathered, bringing religious scriptures they left behind

The Damascus Document Scroll, found in Cave 4 at Qumran (Library of Congress / Wikipedia)

Former prime minister Benajmin Netanyahu's attorney Boaz Ben Tzur (R) and lawyer Jack Chen arrive at the Jerusalem District Court for a court hearing, September 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Netanyahu trial resumes, defense says news reports also altered for other MKs

By Michael Bachner

Lawyers say moves benefiting ex-PM weren’t unique; witness counters that new evidence boosts prosecution’s case since the other favors were also pushed by Netanyahu for his allies

Illustrative: HaOgen Cafe, in central Tel Aviv, is an outpost of a Messianic Jewish organization. (Abby Seitz/ JTA)

'If asked what we believe, we tell, but we don't missionize'

Baristas at this Tel Aviv cafe serve up espresso — and let you know about Jesus

Trendy HaOgen coffee house in the White City’s central Dizengoff Square is outwardly unassuming, causing some to ask why it feels the need to hide its mission of Messianic outreach

Afghan Jew Zebulon Simentov blows a shofar horn at a synagogue housed in an old building in Kabul, April 5, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

'If there is peace, of course I will go back to Afghanistan'

Last Jew out of Afghanistan warns Israel: ‘Don’t rely on the United States’

Despite criticism, Zebulon Simantov, who was rescued from his homeland after Taliban takeover, says he’s heading to live in the US if he can get the paperwork sorted out

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 28, 2021. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

US Joint Chiefs chairman calls Afghan war a ‘strategic failure’

By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations, on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Milley: Al-Qaeda may rebuild under Taliban, pose threat to US in 12 months

By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor

Taliban fighters take a selfie while enjoying a boat ride in the Qargha dam, outskirt of Kabul, Afghanistan, September 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Photo-bombing

Stop taking selfies and having fun, Taliban tells its members

By ToI Staff and AFP

New Afghan defense minister slams fighters for cavorting in amusement parks and zoos and adopting Western fashion, saying it damages Islamist group’s image

Afghans sit outside a mosque in a poor neighborhood where hundreds of internally displaced people from the eastern part of the country have been living for years, in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Taliban issue no-shave order to barbers in Afghan province

By AP

Permaculture and shmitta expert and teacher Talia Schneider (far left) with some students in the garden, before the earth's sabbatical began on Rosh Hashanah 2021. (Courtesy: Talia Schneider)

Gardeners give land a sabbatical, as composting (and other activities) continue

By Jessica Steinberg

Shmitta, a year of rest for earth, arrived with Jewish New Year, along with opportunities for learning about planet Earth, say permaculturists

Illustrative: This photo released January 19, 2021, by the Iranian Army, shows tanks moving during a military drill. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran holds military drill near Azerbaijan border due to ‘Zionist presence’ there

By AFP

Tehran dismisses Azerbaijan’s concerns and protests over surprise military maneuvers close to frontier, says it is a ‘question of sovereignty’

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Mohammad Eslami, walks in the presidency compound, April 7, 2021, in Tehran, Iran (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran spurns calls to allow inspection of nuclear site allegedly struck by Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei greets participants in an endorsement ceremony to give his official seal of approval to newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi, in Tehran, Iran, August 3, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran appoints another hardliner to head state broadcaster

By AP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Screen capture from a June 2020 video of Najla Bouden who was selected to become prime minister of Tunisia, September 29, 2021. (YouTube)

In ‘honor’ to country, Tunisia appoints first woman as prime minister

By AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi massacres, at Babyn Yar, in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, on September 29, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP/File)

Ukraine marks 80 years since Nazi massacre of Jews at Babi Yar

By AP

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden security adviser heads to Egypt as Israel-Hamas tensions rise

By AP and ToI Staff

Teva reaches $15m deal with Louisiana to settle opioid-related claims

By Ricky Ben-David

Ido Nehushtan (Gideon Markowicz/Flash 90)

Boeing Israel taps former air force chief as next president

By Judah Ari Gross

Isaac Perlmutter, an Israeli-American billionaire, and then CEO of Marvel, walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, February 6, 2017. (Susan Walsh/AP)

US-Israeli former head of Marvel cleared of hate mail campaign against neighbor

By Stuart Winer

Guardicore founders from right: Dror Sal'ee, Pavel Gurvich and Ariel Zeitlin. (Courtesy)

US firm to acquire Israeli cybersecurity company Guardicore for $600m

By Ricky Ben-David

Actor Moshe Ivgy arrives at the Hermon Prison in northern Israel to serve out his sentence, September 29, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Actor Moshe Ivgy enters prison to serve 11-month sentence for indecent assault

Israeli Shimon Hayut is the subject of 'Tinder Swindler', a true crime documentary on Netflix. (Screenshot)

Tinder KingIsrael’s ‘Tinder swindler’ to feature in upcoming Netflix film

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Woman found dead in home in south; husband arrested

Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in a promotional poster image for "Licorice Pizza." (MGM via JTA)

Sister actAlana Haim makes acting debut in Paul Thomas Anderson film

By Gabe Friedman

Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, hold a bed-in for peace in room 902, the presidential suite at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, on March 25, 1969. (AP Photo)

A costly casetteUnheard Lennon tape sells for nearly $60k at Danish auction

By AFP and ToI Staff

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