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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 2, 2021

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From left, US Fifth Fleet commander Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, US charge d'affaires in Bahrain Maggie Nardi, and Bahrain's FM Abdullatif al Zayani in front of the USS Pearl Harbor in Manama, September 20 2021 (Shlomi Amsalem GPO)

AnalysisThe 3 nations most adversarial to Iran, standing together

On Lapid’s Bahrain visit, a photo op at a US Navy base meant for Iranian eyes

By Lazar Berman

There were many encouraging signs from Yair Lapid’s trip to Manama Thursday, but the tripartite display of unity at the US Fifth Fleet base is what Tehran will notice

Protesters face-off with the police during an anti-Israel rally in Sitra island, south of the Bahraini capital, on October 1, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi / AFP)

Small protests held in Bahrain against opening of Israeli embassy

By AFP and ToI Staff

From left, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif al Zayani, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, and US Fifth Fleet commander Vice Admiral Brad Cooper aboard the USS Pearl Harbor, September 30, 2021 (Shlomi Amsalem, GPO)

Lapid’s visit to Bahrain includes a trip to a US Navy base, off Iran’s coast

'Sleeper Agent,' by Ann Hagadorn; George Koval as a professor at the Mendeleev Institute in Moscow in the 1950s. (Courtesy)

Interview'He was Red Army-trained and had full US security clearance'

How a Jewish Manhattan Project scientist quietly helped the Soviets get the bomb

By Rich Tenorio

New book ‘Sleeper Agent’ follows George Koval, a little-known US-born Russian spy posthumously honored by Putin – and possibly one of the 20th century’s most influential operatives

Travelers are seen at Ben Gurion Airport on September 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet scraps remaining ‘red’ countries, allowing Israelis to travel anywhere

Amid global COVID decline, government takes Turkey, Bulgaria and Brazil off banned list; ministers argue over requirement to scan QR codes in new Green Passes

Serious COVID cases drop below 600 for first time since mid-August

Poll: Plurality prefers top health official’s pandemic policies over Bennett’s

All students to get multiple home COVID tests for regular screening — TV

Accelerating toll: COVID-19 deaths hit 5 million as world battles variants

By ToI Staff and Agencies

It took just over a year after disease emerged to reach toll of 2.5 million, but next 2.5 million deaths occurred in under 8 months, according to Reuters analysis

In this image provided by the University of Utah Health, medical professionals look after a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit on July 30, 2021, in Salt Lake City. (Charlie Ehlert/University of Utah Health via AP)

US COVID cases are falling, but country on brink of 700,000 dead

By Amy Forliti and Carla K. Johnson

US looks to Israeli military data to weigh safety of booster shots

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

TV: Israeli-made COVID vaccine at least 80% effective, initial results show

99-year-old Holocaust survivor Yehudit (Dita) Sperling, who has given evidence in the case against Stutthof concentration camp secretary Irmgard Furchner. This picture of Sperling has been widely misused as purportedly showing Furchner (Courtesy)

Survivor’s photo wrongly used as pic of the Nazi suspect she testified against

By ToI Staff and AFP

Numerous outlets publish picture of Dita Sperling, erroneously identifying her as Irmgard Furchner; in fact Sperling, 99, has testified in the case against ex-death camp secretary

1st game ever for Israeli team at Hitler's '36 Olympic arena

Berlin soccer club sorry for antisemitism at Maccabi match in Nazi-era stadium

By AFP and ToI Staff

Fans threatened, pelted with beer; Union Berlin supporter tried to burn small Israeli flag; another repeatedly shouted ‘Sieg Heil’; home club slams shameful, intolerable behavior

Israel's Maccabi Haifa fans display Israeli flags in the stands, during the UEFA Conference League Group E first leg football match between FC Union Berlin and Maccabi Haifa in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, on September 30, 2021. (Matthias Koch/DPA/AFP/Germany Out)

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man of the Kiryat Sanz Hasidic sect prays on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony, in Netanya, Israel, on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Photo essay

From Tashlich by the sea to Mass on the Mexican border: The faces of prayer

By AP

Images captured by AP photographers around the world last month show worship’s diverse manifestations across faith traditions and human-drawn frontiers

Torn jeans and tattoo taboos

How I stopped resenting my parents’ fashion rules, and came to impose them on my own children

Who are the ‘children of God’?

If all humanity is created in the divine image, why does God call the Israelites His ’firstborn son’?

Zakaria Zubeidi, a notorious Fatah terrorist recaptured after breaking out of Gilboa Prison with five other security prisoners, arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Nazareth, on September 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

The real thing: Gilboa jailbreakers may have used cola to weaken slab under cell

6 recaptured Palestinian security prisoners said dispersed to 5 jails; engineers believe they may have weakened concrete, 8 inches thick, with help of acidic liquid, possibly cola

'Instead of dwelling on sadness and fear, we can fuel hope'

Talking trash: Young Nigerian-Israeli activist sparks litter-picking movement

By Cathryn J. Prince

Sharona Shnayder grew up in Africa and the US before moving to her dad’s native Israel. Along the way she started Tuesdays for Trash, a grassroots effort now seen in 23 countries

Steven Donziger, in 2018. (video screenshot)

Lawyer who fought Chevron gets 6-month sentence for contempt

By AP and Sue Surkes

Jewish Steven Donziger, under house arrest for the past 2 years, faces prison for violating federal judge’s orders related to his battle against the energy giant

In this September 22, 2021, file photo, a street sign with defaced faces of Ultra-Orthodox women hangs in Jerusalem's Old City. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

‘This is not Kabul’: Israel struggles with extremists defacing images of women

By Laurie Kellman

Billboards showing female soccer players, musicians and Holocaust survivors repeatedly vandalized by religious extremists in Jerusalem and other cities

Jon Stewart during a taping of 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,' November 30, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Brad Barket, File)

As Jon Stewart returns to TV, here’s a look back at his most Jewish moments

By Stephen Silver

More Headlines

Police find bags of an illegal cannabis synthetic cannabinoid in the Haifa area, on September 26, 2021. (Israel Police)

No ‘Nice Guy’: 8 teens hospitalized after using illegal synthetic cannabis drug

Illustrative: A picture taken from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip shows Israeli soldiers inspecting the area around their observation post next to the border fence with the coastal enclave on August 1, 2019, following a firefight with a Palestinian gunman. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF troops apprehend two Gaza men with hand grenades near border

Israeli soccer agent Pini Zahavi (Screen Capture/ YouTube)

Israeli star soccer agent Zahavi charged in Belgian fraud investigation

By AP

University of Bristol lecturer David Miller. (YouTube screenshot)

From our partnerBristol University fires Professor David Miller ‘with immediate effect’

A Taliban fighter guards the entrance of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021 (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Taliban say they have raided Islamic State hideout north of Kabul

By AP

Georgian Police officers escort former President Mikheil Saakashvili after he was arrested in Rustavi, Georgia, on Friday, October 1, 2021. (Georgian Interior Ministry Press Service via AP)

Georgia holds vote after exiled ex-president Saakashvili returns, is arrested

By Irakli METREVELI

UNRWA's Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, speaks during a press conference at the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, Nov. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UN agency for Palestinian refugees says it will seek $800m at November confab

By AFP and ToI Staff

Volunteers paint over swastikas in a Jewish cemetery in Santa Fe, Argentina. (Screenshot from Facebook livestream via JTA)

3 faiths come together to paint over swastikas in Argentinian Jewish cemetery

By JTA

Zvi Portal in 2012 (video screenshot)

Former ‘Big Brother’ contestant arrested for alleged armed robbery

This July 22, 2012 photo shows US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing on stage at "Les Vieilles Charrues" Festival in Carhaix, western France. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

A rolling stoneBob Dylan heading back out on tour — through 2024

By AP

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