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What Matters Most On Friday, October 1, 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)

Lapid inaugurates Israeli embassy in Bahrain

By Lazar Berman

At ceremony in Manama with his Bahraini counterpart, FM says ‘Israel made a major, historical step today in the Gulf’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Bahraini King Hamid bin Issa al Khalifa at his palace in Manama on September 30, 2021. (Shlomi Amsallem/GPO)

Lapid holds landmark meetings with Bahrain’s king, crown prince

By Lazar Berman

This undated picture released by the official website of the Iranian Army on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, shows ground forces troops attending a maneuver near Iranian border with Azerbaijan (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran begins war games near tense Azerbaijan border, citing ‘Zionist’ presence

By AFP

Tehran moves forward with military drill over Baku’s criticism; Israel is a major supplier of arms to the country

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Bahraini King Hamid bin Issa al Khalifa at his palace in Manama on September 30, 2021. (Shlomi Amsallem/GPO)

Iran: Lapid’s visit leaves stain on Bahrain’s rulers that won’t be erased

In this photo released Jan. 8, 2021, commanders of Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps walk past missiles during a visit to a new military base in an undisclosed location. (Sepahnews via AP)

Op-Ed

Why Israel is stepping up its planning, and its rhetoric, for a strike on Iran

For perhaps 3 years after the JCPOA was inked, Israel essentially discarded its operational planning and capability to decimate Iran’s nuclear facilities. That’s all changed now

Before and after photographs from an explosion at an alleged Iranian missile base, on September 27, 2021. (ImageSat International)

Satellite images show alleged Iranian missile factory seriously damaged in blast

By Judah Ari Gross

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with local labor leaders, Sept. 30, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke, Pool)

Blinken: Ball is in Iran’s court on nuclear deal, but time is running out

By AFP

People shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on September 29, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Nearly 2 million set to lose Green Pass on Sunday

Health Ministry chief: Israel’s 4th COVID wave appears to be coming to an end

Serious cases fall to 607, lowest rate in a month; 78,000 get booster on Thursday, highest figure in weeks; hundreds of police to ensure QR codes scanned in new Green Pass system

People wearing face masks shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, on September 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases dip to lowest level in over a month

Myocarditis in teens found to be very rare and all recovered

3rd vaccine dose has lowest side effect rate, Israel Health Ministry data shows

Mild adverse reactions are significantly lower than to previous COVID shots; of 3.3 million boosted Israelis, just 19 report serious side effects, which may not all be tied to vaccine

A woman receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, September 30, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Prime Minister Naftali Bennet (right) and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz attend a press conference at a Maccabi vaccination center in Holon, on June 29 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

PM meets health officials, claims ‘no disagreement’ after feud on COVID response

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on September 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett postpones visit to Arab town scheduled on October 2000 riots anniversary

This undated image provided by Merck & Co. shows its new antiviral medication (Merck & Co. via AP)

Merck says it can produce 10 million doses by end of year

Merck says experimental antiviral pill halves COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations

By MATTHEW PERRONE

Pharma giant says will soon seek authorization for the medication’s use; if cleared, would be 1st pill shown to treat those infected with virus, a potentially major advance

The Biran family, with Eitan at front right. (Courtesy)

2 grief-stricken sides, divided over a child's best interest

A judgment more wrenching than Solomon’s: No imposters in the battle for Eitan

By Federica Sasso

The custody fight for Eitan Biran, 6, orphaned in May’s cable-car tragedy, is seen in opposite terms in Italy and Israel, for it goes to the very heart of national interpretations

In these polarized times, moderates are the heroes

Much of today’s extreme-right agrees with the extreme-left that Zionism equals racism — it’s just that the right sees that as a positive

My driving instructor Yossi and his Ethiopian pumpkins

He says, ’Look at how tall that tree was!’ I think this is part of the test and say, ’No, I can’t look at a phone, I’m driving!’ He says, ’Nu, I’ll take the wheel…’

Clean air used to be free; now you need to pay for it

Home pollutants like aerosol deodorants have led those who can foot the bill to purchase air purification systems, with frightening implications for the have-nots

Peta Jones Pellach

What if Eve’s curse was that she lost herself as a person when she became a mother? Too often, women are identified solely by their relationship to their children

Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.

Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, remanded in custody after going on the run

By Yannick Pasquet

Court orders Irmgard Furchner be held pending resumption of trial on October 19, after she left her retirement home near Hamburg and took cab to subway station, instead of hearing

Supporters of Haifa attend a group E Europa Conference League soccer match between 1. FC Union Berlin and Maccabi Haifa FC in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Maccabi Haifa fans get antisemitic abuse at Berlin stadium built by Nazis

By Ciaran Fahey

This photo was taken from the body of a dead German officer killed in Russia, showing a German firing squad shooting civilians in the back as they sit beside their own mass grave, in Babi Yar, Kiev, 1942. (AP Photo)

'This is about atonement, about late justice'

80 years after Babi Yar, lawyer seeks trial for last living alleged perpetrator

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Case against Herbert Waller, 99, was previously dropped because he was at Ukrainian killing site as medic; lawyer isn’t buying it: ‘Why do you need paramedics in a massacre?’

Reuven Ben-Eli, the father who was severely wounded in a traffic accident, arrives at the funeral of his wife and three children in Ma'alot-Tarshiha, on September 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Galilee bus crash

Father who survived crash brought on stretcher to funeral of wife, 3 children

Reuven Ben-Eli arrives by ambulance at funeral for Moran, 35, Dekel, 15, Liam, 11, and Annael, 5, after being seriously injured in crash with bus

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

Galilee bus crash‘They made him out to be a murderer’: Bus driver involved in fatal crash buried

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

US Vice President Kamala Harris, center, holds up a "Mason Votes" sign toward students as she visits a voter registration drive at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US VP aides tell Jewish groups she’s pro-Israel after unrefuted ‘genocide’ claim

Harris’s staff reaches out to DMFI, ADL and pro-Israel congressman, insisting that her commitment to Israel is ‘unwavering’ after she didn’t push back against university student

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

California man gets life sentence for 2019 Poway synagogue shooting

By Elliot Spagat

Agreement with prosecution that spared John T. Earnest the death penalty left little suspense about outcome, but hearing gives 13 victims, families chance to address killer

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

US ‘strongly condemns’ settler assault on Palestinians in South Hebron Hills

State Department official expresses appreciation for ‘unequivocal condemnations’ by Lapid, other Israeli officials, urges both sides to refrain from unilateral steps

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

Two suspects in West Bank stone-throwing attack on Palestinians released

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

Police arrest two more suspects in stone-throwing attack on Palestinians

An illustrative image of AI (artificial intelligence) and facial recognition technologies (KENGKAT; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli researchers bypass facial recognition using AI-generated makeup patterns

Ron Gura, left, and Yonatan Bergman, the co-founders of the Israeli-US startup Empathy (Courtesy)

Fiverr, Lemonade founders back Israeli startup that helps mourners manage loss

By Ricky Ben-David

Facebook Global Head of Safety Director, Antigone Davis, testifies remotely before a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security to examine protecting children online, focusing on Facebook, Instagram, and mental health harms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 30, 2021. (Tom Brenner / POOL / AFP)

US lawmakers grill Facebook on Instagram’s negative impact on teen mental health

By Joshua MELVIN

Interview

Willing Israel into life: As Expo Dubai opens, a look at Zionism and World Fairs

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The owner of the largest private collection of Herzl memorabilia shows how advocates of Jewish statehood advanced the cause through pavilions at international exhibitions from 1904

Dubai opens $7B Expo, including Israeli pavilion, with extravagant show of glitz

By Talek HARRIS

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Home chef Shaily Lipa describes the power of an active kitchen

The lifestyle personality talks about her latest book ‘Hakol Beseder,’ translated in English as ‘KitcheNeat’

Democratic Representative Andy Levin of Michigan speaks as the US House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against then-president Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, December 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)

Interview

Andy Levin says friendship with Rashida Tlaib gives him hope for Mideast peace

Detroit-area representative sets himself apart from father, uncle who proceeded him in Congress by taking more progressive stances on Israel and making it a front-and-center issue

Refusing to ‘hotline’ Iron Dome bill, Republican slows its passage in Senate

With hours to spare, Biden signs bill to avert partial government shutdown

By KEVIN FREKING

More Headlines

A flier distributed by a Republican candidate for Virginia's statehouse in the 2021 elections depicts the Jewish incumbent with piles of gold coins. (Ron Kampeas)

GOP flier in Virginia House race depicts Jewish Democrat with pile of gold coins

An Israeli drone that the Hezbollah terror group claims it downed over southern Lebanon, on September 30, 2021. (Central Media)

IDF drone crashes in Lebanon; Hezbollah claims to shoot it down

By Judah Ari Gross and Emanuel Fabian

Beach Bum's backgammon game. (Screenshot)

From the webFrance’s Voodoo buys Israeli gaming company Beach Bum for $300m

Members of the Taliban patrol on a pickup truck in Kabul, on September 30, 2021. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)

Taliban order their fighters to leave Afghan homes they seized

By SAMYA KULLAB

Lawyer Steven Donziger, right, speaks to Huaorani women during the first day of the trial against Chevron-Texaco, in Lago Agrio, on October 21, 2003. A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the US petroleum giant went on trial in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

UN group blasts ‘staggering’ bias of judge against lawyer fighting Chevron

Illustrative: Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signs the United Nations guest book, October 2015, at UN Headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

The book of BibiNetanyahu said to be writing book about his time in office, worldview

Rabbi Moshe Tendler, who died September 28, was a strong proponent of the view that brain death, rather simply the cessation of a heartbeat, should be considered death according to Jewish law, thus allowing organ donation. (Ben Harris)

ObituaryRabbi Moshe Tendler, who shaped Orthodox views on organ donation, dies at 95

Ahmad Zahran, who was killed in a fire-fight with IDF troops near Bidu on September 25, 2021. (Courtesy)

Hamas operative killed in IDF shootout was brother of slain soldier’s kidnapper

Anti-mask activist wearing a yellow star at the Anchorage Assembly meeting on mask mandates, September 20, 2021 (Screen grab/Twitter)

Anchorage mayor: Anti-maskers’ use of yellow stars as symbol is ‘credit’ to Jews

By AP

This May 12, 2005 file photo shows a visitor viewing the Impressionist painting called 'Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie' painted in 1897 by Camille Pissarro, on display in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. (AP Photo/Mariana Eliano, File)

US Supreme Court agrees to hear case on Nazi-looted Pissarro painting

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