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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 7, 2021

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Medical interns demonstrate for better work conditions outside the Tel Aviv District Health Office, October 7, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Minister: Reform plan isn't perfect, but starts change

Over 2,500 medical interns resign in labor dispute over 26-hour shifts

In letter to Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, intern organization says it is everyone’s interest that patients in hospitals not be treated by ‘exhausted’ and ‘unfocused’ doctors

The accused Josef S. covers his face as he sits at the court room in Brandenburg, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Ex-Nazi camp guard, 100, refuses to discuss atrocities at trial in Germany

By David Courbet

Josef Schuetz, the oldest person to stand trial for Nazi-era crimes, is accused of ‘knowingly and willingly’ assisting in murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen

Defendant Josef S (L) sits next to his lawyer Stefan Waterkamp and hides his face behind a folder as he waits for the start of his trial in Brandenburg an der Havel, northeastern Germany, on October 7, 2021. (Tobias Schwarz / AFP)

Germany puts 100-year-old concentration camp guard on trial for Nazi crimes

By David Courbet

Illustration of a human heart (magicmine; iStock by Getty Images)

Major Israeli study: Risk of heart inflammation after COVID shots is very small

Data from 2.5 million who got vaccine finds the illness afflicted only 0.002%, and was found to be serious in only 2% of the cases that did develop, though one patient died

Illustrative: Antibodies attacking a SARS-CoV-2 virus (Dr_Microbe;iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli research shows clear antibody drop 6 months after 2nd vaccine dose

Your new Israeli TV obsession, now streaming on ChaiFlicks

A hit Israeli police thriller, Asylum City takes audiences on a journey through Tel Aviv’s criminal underworld. Now streaming with English subtitles.

Then-consul general to New York Colette Avital looks on as then-foreign minister Shimon Peres addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, on May 23, 1994, in New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)

Ex-Labor MK says Shimon Peres sexually assaulted her in the 1980s

Colette Avital, a former senior diplomat, alleges the late statesman forcibly kissed her during a work meeting while he was PM, assaulted her at Paris hotel several years earlier

Prof. Aryeh Levin, suspected of sexual assault and rape of female patients, seen during a remand hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, October 04, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

More women file complaints against top doctor accused of raping patient

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Babi Yar massacre memorial in Kyiv, on October 6, 2021 (Haim Zach/GPO)

At Babi Yar massacre site, Herzog decries years of silence, ongoing denial

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens to a question while speaking about Afghanistan during a media briefing at the State Department, August 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Blinken says Jewish stepfather used Babi Yar to counter Soviet Holocaust denial

Screen capture from video of Gil Ofarim, a German-Israeli singer, explaining how he had been denied a hotel room in Leipzig, Germany, because he was wearing a Star of David necklace. (Screenshot from Instagram video via JTA)

Protests grow after singer says German hotel refused him over Star of David

By JTA and ToI Staff

'It was simple -- we did what had to be done'

BBC puts dramatic twist on true story of brawling Jews vs. fascists in ’60s UK

By Jenni Frazer

‘Ridley Road’ is a fictionalized look at the real-life antisemites who threatened British Jewry, and the Jewish toughs who beat some sense into them; will air on PBS in US

HBO picks up film about boxer who escaped Auschwitz death march

By Gabe Friedman

Arnon Milchan, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 28, 2005. (Flash90/File)

Live updates (closed)

Pandora Papers: Arnon Milchan hiding half a billion dollars offshore

Milchan, who allegedly gave Netanyahu gifts in exchange for pushing tax exemption legislation, is among the 565 Israelis reportedly named in the Pandora Papers

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Ron Arad's wife: I asked not to risk soldiers' lives for information about him
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Pandora Papers: Arnon Milchan hiding half a billion dollars offshore
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Merkel heir indicates he will leave party after German election failure

Eran Kolirin, director of the 2021 Ophir Award-winning film (Courtesy Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 7 – Opining on Iran, COVID-19 and Israel’s Oscar contender

ToI editor David Horovitz, Ops chief Miriam Herschlag and arts writer Jessica Steinberg discuss virus cases, US policy on Iran and a Palestinian drama that swept the Ophir awards

Hunger-striking former Georgian president pens letter from prison

By Simona Weinglass

Mikheil Saakashvili, who was arrested on return from Ukraine to Georgia, claims democracy in his country is moribund

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)

From the blogsFrom my prison cell, I appeal for help to save Georgian democracy

By Mikheil Saakashvili

Andrei Zeltzer stands with a hunting rifle behind the door of his home in Minsk, Belarus on Sept. 29, 2021. (Maria Uspenskaya)

Death of Jewish dissident in Belarus prompts protests and arrests

By JTA

The New Yorker’s botched circumcision article

Gary Shteyngart’s story, no matter how sad and painful, cannot undermine the data attesting to the safety of this ritual for baby boys

Thousands came together to save London’s Bevis Marks

Built in 1701, the synagogue is not a museum or a monument, but home to a living community, and a symbol of Jewish rebirth, survival, and hope for Britain’s Jews

Environmental protection is a Jewish matter of life and death

As long as rabbis see climate issues as marginal to their religious thinking, Israel’s policy will continue to neglect these critical threats to human lives

Rabbi David Eliach: A life of education

My grandfather saw the world as one large classroom in which we are all forever learning or teaching. Here are 5 of the lessons he taught me

Slams immigration wave and 'enclaves of foreign Islamists'

Far-right Jewish pundit Zemmour seen vaulting Le Pen in French presidential poll

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

Anti-Islam campaigner, who has yet to officially enter race, could advance to second round of next year’s vote, facing off against Macron, survey finds

France's far-right ideologue Eric Zemmour, on April 22, 2021, in Paris. (Joel Saget/AFP)

A foreign national married to an Islamic State member walks with their son at Camp Roj in north Syria, March 27, 2019. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Germany repatriates IS women and children, but mothers will be held to account

Israel starts pilot program for fast, swab-less PCR tests

Health Ministry says that for 2 weeks, some will take tests with both nasal swabs and new method; authorities will then decide whether to change how PCR testing is done

A technician collects swab samples for COVID-19 at a testing center run by the Tel Aviv municipality, on July 20, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

A medical worker prepares a vial of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at Clalit Health Service's vaccination center in the Cinema City complex in Jerusalem, September 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Majority of Jewish Israeli parents would give COVID shot to kids 5-11 — survey

People present proof of vaccination at the entrance to a Jerusalem bakery on August 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Green Pass’ won’t be required at outdoor venues, swimming pools from next week

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Gen. Hossein Salami, left, and the Guard's aerospace division commander Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh talk while unveiling a new drone called 'Gaza,' in an undisclosed location in Iran, in a photo released on May 22, 2021. (Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, via AP)

Echoing PM, Iran opposition group calls drones a pillar of Quds Force ops abroad

By AFP and ToI Staff

The exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran says UAVs increasingly used for airstrikes and supplying proxy terror groups; Bennett made similar assertion last week at UN

Illustrative: Russian police guard outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

Israel said to alert embassies worldwide of possible Iran threats

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) welcomes Foreign Minister Yair Lapid ahead of their meeting in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP)

Lapid to meet Blinken in US next week as fresh Iran talks brew

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A Gulf Air A320 airplane coming from the Bahraini capital Manama is welcomed as it arrives at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on September 30, 2021. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Israeli official hopeful for more normalization deals within year

Foreign Ministry’s Eliav Benjamin says Israel engaging with ‘basically all countries in the region’ to expand Abraham Accords, mentions Oman as one possible target

US President Joe Biden meets Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office of the White House, August 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

US discreetly pressing Israel to ease off settlement construction — report

Palestinian men gather to apply for work permits in Israel, at Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 6, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Tens of thousands in Gaza line up for Israeli work permits as rumors swirl

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed

Bennett says he’s here to do good. He could start by tackling the housing crisis

As prices keep on soaring, buying a home is becoming an impossible dream for ever more Israelis. Even rentals are exorbitant. Let’s have a strategy to put that right

View of the Holyland high-rise buildings next to older apartment buildings in the Gonen neighborhood of Jerusalem, January 19, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Guy Shapiro, suspected of murdering of his wife in Ma'ale Adumim the month before, is seen on a screen via a video link during a remand hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, October 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Man suspected of strangling wife, then faking her death as suicide

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Guy Shapiro attended Rachel’s funeral, fled after autopsy showed she was murdered; shot himself as police tried to arrest him, but survived, then confessed crime

Eliran Malul, charged with stabbing to death his wife Michal Sela at their home in Ramat Motza, seen after a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on October 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man convicted in 2019 murder of his wife in Jerusalem suburb

A farm worker cuts roses to be thrown away due to a pandemic market slump at Maridadi Flowers farm in Naivasha, Kenya, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi)

Interview'Israel's faced the same challenges as developing countries'

World Bank envoy: Israeli tech to help build greener future in pandemic recovery

COVID response in developing world opens doors to fight climate change, with startups well-positioned to make an impact and a profit; World Bank president meets Bennett, Lapid

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a statement on September 2, 2020, at the Chancellery in Berlin about tests carried out by the German army on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (Markus Schreiber/POOL/AFP)

After delay, Merkel expected in Israel for farewell visit on Sunday

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

‘I will protect you’: At Jewish museum, NY Gov. Hochul unveils $25M for security

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Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attends the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, FILE)

UK High Court: Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife’s phone with Israeli spyware

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Illustrative photo of a 'Lord of the Rings' orc (YouTube screenshot)

Dead ringer‘Lord of the Rings’ orc was made to look like producer Weinstein

Dave Chappelle arrives at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 22nd Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington, October 27, 2019. (Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)

Stars of DavidDave Chappelle jokes about world-conquering ‘Space Jews’

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Guy Grinberg in 2016 (Facebook screenshot)

2 of 26 Israelis arrested in forex raids named as Guy Grinberg and Snir Hananya

By Simona Weinglass

In this file photo taken on October 2, 2021, protesters take part in the Women's March and Rally for Abortion Justice at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas (Sergio FLORES / AFP)

Federal judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions

By Paul J. Weber

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman meet at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 15, 2021. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Anonymous letter alleging misconduct may snarl approval of new Shin Bet chief

The 104-seat theater built by Grant and Daniella Crankshaw for their Ra'anana Center Stage venue, is under threat of closure due to the pandemic (Courtesy Center Stage)

Curtain call?Ra’anana’s Center Stage theater under threat of closure

By Jessica Steinberg

A view of the interior of London's Bevis Marks Synagogue, August 17, 2015. (Peter Dazeley/Getty Images via JTA)

London councillors reject plan for high-rise building next to historic synagogue

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police officers stand at the civil police headquarter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 29, 2017. (Leo Correa/AP)

Brazil police find ‘monstrous’ Nazi material in home of suspected child abuser

By AFP and ToI Staff

Adam Sandler accepts the award for best male lead for "Uncut Gems" at the 35th Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 8, 2020, in Santa Monica, California. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Still happyAdam Sandler is Gen Z’s favorite celebrity

By Gabe Friedman

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