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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 9, 2021

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Haredi students pose wih Bahraini education official Mohammed Saleh in the Old City of Jerusalem, October 6, 2021 (Lazar Berman, Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook'Holding on to the grudges of our ancestors will destroy us'

From Western Wall to Old City alleys, curious Israelis embrace Bahraini visitors

By Lazar Berman

Activists and officials from new Gulf partner, hosted by NGO seeking to deepen ties created by Abraham Accords, revel in warm reception, shrug off Palestinian residents’ hostility

This combination of pictures created on October 23, 2020, shows an Israeli flag during a rally in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on September 19, 2020; and a Sudanese flag during a gathering east of the capital Khartoum on June 3, 2020. (JACK GUEZ and ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)

Sudanese security delegation said to secretly visit Israel

Illustrative: The capital city of Beirut remains in darkness during a power outage, on July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon left without power for days after state-run grid collapses

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Religious Jews on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, August 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Court reinstates police ban on Jewish man who prayed on Temple Mount

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Moves comes after US reaches out to Jerusalem on ruling denounced as violating arrangements barring non-Muslim worship at the flashpoint holy site

Aden Jamal Fayumi, 16, who died of post-COVID complications (Courtesy)

16-year-old Israeli dies from post-COVID complications

Teen’s death believed to be the first recorded fatality in Israel from PIMS, a rare condition that develops in some children after contracting coronavirus

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)

Confusion swirls around plan to end quarantine for schoolkids in ‘green’ cities

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hosts an American delegation led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr, who is flanked to his left by US Embassy Charge D'affaires Michael Ratney and Palestinian Affairs Unit Chief George Noll on October 5, 2021. (WAFA)

Despite formal boycott, PA engages with officials from US embassy in Jerusalem

Abbas has been meeting with senior embassy personnel, but Palestinian official says policy unchanged and Ramallah won’t meet local US diplomats until consulate reopened

Cast of Netflix's 'Jaguar' limited series (Manuel Fernandez-Valdes/Netflix)

Inside story

Netflix’s new series on Spanish Nazi hunters: Separating fact from fiction

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Spanish-language production ‘Jaguar’ provides entertaining action and emotion, at times adhering closely to history — and at others relying on a large dose of dramatic license

Sherwin Pomerantz

Long COVID: The economic effect

A lack of empty shipping containers is derailing the regular transportation of goods, across the world. Why? Blame the pandemic’s early days, when demand shrunk dramatically

Why God would rather just have the salad

The Tower of Babel’s destruction left the world with multiple languages, cultures, and practices of diverse peoples who come together in a unity that is not uniformity

'Resh,' the man slated to take over as the head of the Shin Bet security service, helps a motorist put out a fire while on his way to a meeting vetting him for the post, October 8, 2021 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Shin Bet chief nominee puts out burning car as he zooms toward clinching post

‘Resh’ reportedly not required to undergo lie detector test while appearing before vetting panel; government scheduled to approve his appointment on Monday

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre of Kyiv Jews perpetrated by German occupying forces in 1941 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

After 80 years and failed attempts, Ukraine inaugurates memorial to Babi Yar

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was joined by Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog to open memorial to 33,000 Jews murdered in massacre; project will be completed in 2026

Rabbi Asher Meza, in addition to supporting anti-vaccine activists, has bucked the wider Orthodox community in other ways. (Courtesy of Meza via JTA)

Proud Boys-sympathizing rabbi in Florida providing vaccine exemption requests

Asher Meza, who has been offering religious exemptions on social media to both Jews and non-Jews, says he has already written some 200 letters

Former Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Versailles, west of Paris, France, January 29 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Iran’s first president after Islamic Revolution dies, in Paris exile, at 88

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell

Abolhassan Banisadr helped facilitate Ayatollah Khomeni’s rise to power following shah’s deposal but was impeached after 16 months by hardliners, leading him to flee to France

A Shiite Muslim hijacker armed with a Soviet-made AK-47 rifle looks from the open door of the Trans World Airlines jet held at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon, Wednesday, June 19, 1985. (AP Photo/Herve Merliac)

Wanted Hezbollah terrorist behind 1985 TWA hijacking said to have died

By AFP

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a press conference in front of a painting of four missing Iranian diplomats who disappeared during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, at the Iranian embassy, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Iran says Saudi detente on right track, but more talks needed

By AFP

Illustrative: A photo released by Iranian media reportedly shows the T-4 air base in central Syria after a missile barrage attributed to Israel on April 9, 2018. (Iranian media)

2 foreign fighters killed in Israeli strike on Syrian airbase — monitor

By AFP and ToI Staff

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says attack late Friday targeted drone depot at T-4 base, which Israel has allegedly struck in the past

Illustrative: Missiles in the sky near the international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (SANA, Syria's official news agency, via AP/ FIle)

Israeli planes said to strike Syrian airbase near Homs, wounding 6

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: German police patrol in front of the 'New Synagogue' at Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Israeli wearing IDF hoodie in Berlin assaulted in alleged antisemitic incident

By AP

Ex-soldier, who lives in Germany, tells cops he was sprayed in face with irritant, knocked down after someone ‘addressed him about his faith’

Logos of US social networks Facebook, Instagram and mobile messaging service WhatsApp on the screens of a smartphone and a tablet in Toulouse, southwestern France, on October 5, 2020. (Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Facebook has second major outage in days

By AFP

Latest problems, also affecting Instagram and WhatsApp, resolved in hours and apparently not related to huge global shutdown earlier in week

People gather to view the rubble of the al-Jalaa building in Gaza City, Friday, May 21, 2021. The building housed The Associated Press bureau in Gaza City for 15 years. (AP/John Minchillo)

Rights group accuses Facebook of suppressing Palestinians’ posts

By AFP

Author Mark Oppenheimer profiled the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh in the aftermath of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting for his new book. (Lotta Studio via JTA)

'I felt afraid for the community. I felt a connection...'

New book on the Tree of Life shooting is an ode to an iconic Jewish neighborhood

Mark Oppenheimer recounts the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history via interviews with those impacted, in community where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather lived

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Illustrative: A man wearing a mask looks at his phone near Parliament Square, in London, March 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Israel’s NSO Group has disabled its spyware from hacking UK phones — report

By ToI Staff and AP

A woman holds a placard reading "You can't shut up everyone!" as journalists and supporters take part in a protest against the list of "foreign agent" media in central Moscow on September 4, 2021. (Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

Russia brands more media ‘foreign agents’ after journalist wins Nobel

By AP

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) headquarters is pictured in Paris, France, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Israel among more than 130 countries to reach deal on minimum corporate tax

By David McHugh and DANICA KIRKA

Aya Biran-Nirko, left, a paternal aunt of Eitan Biran, the boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy that killed his immediate family, arrives to court in Tel Aviv, October 8, 2021. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Custody hearing for Italy cable car survivor ends without ruling

By AP

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked visits Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, October 4, 2021. (Courtesy)

Shaked rails at anonymous minister after criticism of UAE trip

This file photo from March 11, 2019 shows the north entrance of the Trump International in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally, File)

Trump’s DC hotel lost $70 million during his presidency despite foreign business

By Bernard Condon

An NFT image of Adolf Hitler offered for sale on OpenSea (Screenshot/OpenSea)

OpenSea, world’s largest NFT marketplace, sells artwork praising Hitler

By Orge Castellano

Illustrative: Emirati police and other officials inspect a boat docked in a fishing harbor in the Jumeirah district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Almoutasim Almaskery)

Israeli man arrested in Dubai for suspected drug trafficking

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