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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 30, 2021

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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif al Zayani open Israel’s embassy in Manama, on September 30, 2021. (Shlomi Amsallem/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Lapid officially inaugurates Israeli embassy in Bahrain

At ceremony in Manama, foreign minister says ‘Israel made a major, historical step today in the Gulf’

6:34 pm

96-year-old who attempted to flee Nazi crimes trial held in detention
6:11 pm

Israeli intelligence firm claims 'secret missile base' in Iran severely damaged
5:56 pm

Senate votes to avert US government shutdown before midnight deadline

Illustrative -- The chairman judge Dominik Gross, third from right, arrives with the judge for a trial against a 96-year-old former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration at the Landgericht Itzehoe court in Itzehoe, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

96-year-old former Nazi camp secretary caught after skipping trial

By MARKUS SCHREIBER and Kirsten Grieshaber

Police apprehend Irmgard Furchner hours after she was declared a fugitive by court; Nazi-hunter: ‘If she is healthy enough to flee, she is healthy enough to be incarcerated’

A judicial officer in the courtroom prior to the trial of Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, skips trial opening, is declared fugitive

By Yannick Pasquet

Barbed wire fence and a watch tower are seen at the former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, July 21, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

Former Nazi death camp secretary, a 96-year-old woman, stands trial

By Yannick Pasquet

Victims of a crash between a bus and multiple vehicles in the Upper Galilee on September 30, 2021, from top left: Bus driver Asher Basson, Liam Ben-Eli, Moran Ben-Eli, Dekel Ben-Eli and Annael Ben-Eli.

Officials mourn ‘unfathomable tragedy’ of family, bus driver killed in crash

Funerals of Moran Ben-Eli and her 3 kids to be held Thursday as father remains in ICU; bus driver Asher Basson remembered as ‘a hard-working and loving father and grandfather’

The scene of a fatal accident between a bus and two vehicles on Route 89 in the northern Galilee, September 29, 2021. (Eyal Merom / Ichud Hazala)

Before fatal crash, bus driver allegedly drove wildly to silence teen passengers

By Michael Bachner

The scene of a fatal accident between a bus and two vehicles on Route 89 in the northern Galilee, September 29, 2021. (Eyal Merom / Ichud Hazala)

At least 5 killed, dozens injured in Galilee collision between bus, van, cars

A Gulf Air A320 plane coming from the Bahraini capital Manama arrives at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on September 30, 2021. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

First commercial flight between Israel and Bahrain lands at Ben Gurion Airport

By Lazar Berman and AFP

As Foreign Minister Lapid tours Manama and meets top officials ahead of embassy inauguration, Gulf Air plane is welcomed in Israel, kicking off regular air service

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) is received by his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif Al Zayani at the airport in Manama, Bahrain, September 30, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Lapid lands in Bahrain on landmark trip to open embassy, sign agreements

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaking at the annual Herzliya Conference, September 12, 2021. (Ronen Toppleberg)

Lapid set to inaugurate Israeli Embassy in Bahrain on Thursday

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to students about voting rights, at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, September 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kamala Harris doesn’t reject US student’s ‘ethnic genocide’ claim against Israel

In class at George Mason University, vice president tells woman who decries American military aid for the Jewish state that ‘your truth should not be suppressed’

Young Israeli students arrive for their first day of school after the holidays, at Gabrieli school, in Tel Aviv. September 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Analysis

As Israeli kids go back to school (again), will COVID cause chaos?

Virus rates are falling, making some experts optimistic, but others say infection could quickly spike and mass quarantines could put the kibosh on classes

Young Israeli students have their antigen test results checked as they arrive for their first day of school after the holidays, at Aseh Hayil school in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, September 30, 2021 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Students return to schools after holidays, with new COVID measures at forefront

An Israeli receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary Clalit Health Services facility in Jerusalem, September 26, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israelis who haven’t gotten booster to lose quarantine exemption — TV

Iraqis attend a conference of peace and reclamation organized by US think tank Center for Peace Communications in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region, on September 24, 2021. (Safin Hamed/AFP)

After death threats, Iraqis who attended pro-Israel normalization summit recant

By Aaron Boxerman

Speaker says he didn’t mean to call for peace with Israel, others say they were misled about conference’s content; pro-Iran militia says normalizers are ‘legitimate targets’

People walk past the official Expo 2020 sign at the Dubai Expo in the United Arab Emirates, January 16, 2021. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)

With Israeli pavilion, Dubai set to open Expo, world’s biggest event since COVID

By AFP

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

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 30 – Israel’s COVID policy: Where does the buck stop?

Editor David Horovitz and health correspondent Nathan Jeffay discuss the implementation of new COVID restrictions and the role of medical professionals in shaping government policy

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, listens during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing on the federal government response to COVID-19 Capitol Hill on September 23, 2020, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)

Fauci: Data will eventually show Israel doing right thing with 3rd vaccine shot

By Stuart Winer

Israeli police stand guard at the scene of stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City, September 30, 2021 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian woman tries to stab cop in Jerusalem Old City, is shot dead – police

By Judah Ari Gross

Alleged attack occurs at the Chain Gate entrance to Temple Mount; no Israeli injuries

Islamic Jihad gunman killed in clash with Israeli troops near Jenin

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF troops shoot dead Gaza man, say he had ‘suspicious bag’ as he neared border

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian teen charged over Jerusalem Central Bus Station stabbing

My militant sister campaigns against intermarriage. I’m engaged to a gentile.

It’s painful to hear her say my actions are a threat to the Jewish nation, but hating her for saying hateful things will result in nothing but more hate

Not just ‘good Arabs’

Real education involves confronting difficult narratives, being exposed to challenging ideologies and being ready to really hear the Other

Police arrest 3 Jewish suspects in attack on Palestinians in South Hebron Hills

By Aaron Boxerman and Amy Spiro

Yair Lapid condemns Israelis hurling rocks at Palestinians near Hebron as ‘terror,’ and says perpetrators must be ‘brought to justice’

Masked settlers near the Palestinian hamlet of al-Mufaqara in the South Hebron Hills, on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. (Courtesy)

L-R: Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, sports minister Hans von Tschammer und Osten and field marshal Werner von Blomberg observe the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany in August 1936. (AP Photo)

Maccabi Haifa to be 1st Israeli team to play in Berlin stadium built by Nazis

By ToI Staff and AP

Europa Conference League match against Union Berlin will be about much more than soccer, at venue where Adolf Hitler launched notorious 1936 Olympics

Italian boxer Michele Broili is seen sporting neo-Nazi tattoos in a 2018 fight (video screenshot)

Tit for tatItalian boxer with Nazi tattoos beaten by fighter of Moroccan origin

Police guard outside a vocational high school (EPAL) following clashes in the western suburb of Stavroupoli, in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 29, 2021. (Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP)

Far-right youths make Nazi salutes, throw firebombs at protest in Greece

By AFP

Early efforts in the 1960s to locate and identify remains at Babi Yar, where some 100,000 people were murdered just 20 years earlier. (Joseph Schneider via the National Library of Israel)

A slaughter long ignored

Newly revealed photos from 1966 show early efforts to document Babi Yar massacre

President Herzog slated to travel to Kyiv next week to speak at commemoration of 80th anniversary of the massacre of close to 35,000 Jews

People light candles at Minora memorial in Kyiv, on September 29, 2021, on the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the largest mass slaughters of Jews during World War II. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

US, Israeli officials commemorate Babi Yar massacre’s 80th anniversary

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden after a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 10, 2010. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

Biden said to reject meeting with Abbas during UN General Assembly

White House reportedly told Palestinians the US president would not be available in DC either, contributing to PA leader’s decision not to fly out for United Nations confab

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, seated second right, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and their delegations at the Foreign Ministry, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In Cairo, top Biden aide discusses Gaza reconstruction with Egypt’s Sissi

By Amy Spiro and AP

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, left, and Minister for Regional Cooperation Issawi Frej, right attend a Meretz faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Two left-wing Meretz ministers to meet with Abbas in Ramallah

Short film review'This suburban woman is living in a new country with trauma'

‘Downton Abbey’ actress ‘maid’ for film on Holocaust survivor trauma in 1960s UK

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘Ganef,’ streaming via the Manhattan Short Film Festival through Oct. 3, Sophie McShera plays a London housekeeper challenged by her employer, who survived Auschwitz

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John T. Earnest appears for his arraignment hearing in San Diego, April 30, 2019. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

In plea deal, shooter to be sentenced to life for fatal Poway synagogue attack

By Elliot Spagat

Though agreement means outcome of sentencing is forgone, court session gives victims and families their first opportunity to directly address killer John T. Earnest

Raymond Duda, US special agent in charge in Seattle, speaks as he stands next to a poster that was mailed earlier in the year to the home of Chris Ingalls, an investigative reporter with KING-TV in Seattle, during a news conference in Seattle, February 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

US jury convicts leader of neo-Nazi campaign to threaten Jews, journalists

By Gene Johnson

More Headlines

Zohar Argov (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Ramle to name square after legendary singer despite his rape conviction

Illustrative: Hezbollah and Amal supporters wave Hezbollah and Iranian flags as they shout slogans against Israel and the US during a protest in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, June 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

US, Qatar announce joint sanctions against Hezbollah financing

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. (Wikipedia, Shekko, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Norway charges professor with violating nuclear sanctions on Iran

By AP

The area of Jaffa Port where a missile was discovered, September 30, 2021 (Israel Police)

Diver finds missile under the water near Jaffa Port

Attorney Lea Tsemel in a trailer for the documentary "Advocate." (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israeli biopic about lawyer representing Palestinians wins Best Documentary Emmy

The new BMWi Vision show car incorporates smart glass tech into the headlight systems by Israeli company Gauzy. (Courtesy)

BMW, LG unveil new products using smart glass tech by Israeli company Gauzy

By Ricky Ben-David

A case containing 17th century editions of plays attributed to William Shakespeare at the Boston Public Library, in Boston, Massachusetts, October 11, 2016. (Steven Senne/AP)

UK court to review ‘unduly lenient’ sentence of neo-Nazi told to read classics

Then-Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell, left, and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, right, attend a press conference after holding talks during the former's visit to Rabat, Morocco, June 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

EU’s top court scraps trade deals with Morocco over Western Sahara exports

By AFP

US Senator Lindsey Graham arrives at the US Capitol for votes, September 29, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

With Democrats split, US Senate set to vote on bid to avert government shutdown

By Frankie TAGGART

Carmel Mauda, former owner of a daycare center who was convicted of physically abusing toddlers, is seen arriving in Neve Tirtza to serve being her 9.5 years prison sentence on September 30, 2021. (Flash90)

Daycare manager convicted of child abuse starts 9.5-year prison sentence

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

An illustrative photo of a scientist in protective gear working in a lab. (gorodenkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Japanese pharmaceutical firm taps Israel’s CytoReason for AI drug development

By Ricky Ben-David

French former president Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, November 11, 2019. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP, file)

Ex-French president Sarkozy sentenced to a year in campaign financing case

By Sylvie Corbet

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