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What Matters Most On Monday, October 11, 2021

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Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist (Video screenshot)

Israeli-American Joshua Angrist among trio to win Nobel Prize in Economics

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Professor awarded prize for his work on unintended experiments; taught at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University and at Harvard before his current position at MIT

Joshua Angrist (Screen capture: YouTube)

Maimonides in the classroom: The research that led Angrist to the Nobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, seen during a visit at the COVID-19 vaccination center in Zarzir, northern Israel, on February 9, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Edelstein formally challenges Netanyahu for Likud leadership

Former Knesset speaker announces he’ll run for party leadership in future; primaries not currently scheduled to be held soon

6:05 pm

Launching think tank, former US envoy eyes bringing Muslim tourists to Jerusalem
6:04 pm

2nd woman steps forward to say Stern ignored her sexual harassment complaint
5:45 pm

Sadrists claim most seats in Iraq parliament after vote

Ancient alcohol: World’s largest Byzantine winepresses uncovered in Israel

Industrial complex dating back 1,500 years, found south of Tel Aviv, was capable of producing 2 million liters of wine a year that were marketed across region, archaeologists say

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Israel eyes making Facebook legally liable for content on its platform — report

Israeli TV: Team of experts to be appointed by communications minister will also seek to compel social media giants to reveal censorship policies, algorithms

In this June 4, 2012, file photo, an unidentified 11-year-old girl logs into Facebook on her iPhone at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Facebook unveils new controls to ‘nudge’ kids away from harmful content

By Anne D'Innocenzio

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 11 – Can NIS 35 billion effect change in the Arab community?

Arab affairs writer Aaron Boxerman and political correspondent Tal Schneider discuss planned funding for Arab cities and minister Elazar Stern’s document-shredding admission

In this handout photo from September 24, 2021, a police officer walks with a suspect who was arrested in a series of raids against organized crime elements in Arab and Druze towns across northern Israel. (Israel Police)

Israel could use detention without trial in bid to stem Arab crime — reports

Ghanim Jabareen, who died on October 10, 2021 after he was shot days earlier in Umm al-Fahm (Courtesy)

Succumbing to gun wounds, lawyer is 2021’s 98th victim of Arab communal violence

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (R) with MK Elazar Stern at a press conference in Tel Aviv, on January 18, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)

Lapid backs ally Stern amid outcry over sexual assault comments

By Raoul Wootliff

Intelligence minister sparked outcry by implying he’d trashed anonymous complaints; party leader says: ‘If Stern had said he’d shredded assault claims, we would say goodbye to him’

Knesset Member Elazar Stern speaks during an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 20, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-soldier says Elazar Stern threatened her for claiming sex assault by officer

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

New Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (L) with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on October 11, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Cabinet approves nomination of Ronen Bar as next Shin Bet chief

Name of agency’s current deputy head cleared for publication after ministers okay promotion; Bennett says he’ll lead domestic spy agency to ‘new heights of action and excellence’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at an event celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In rebuke of Bennett, Gantz says he opposed announcing Mossad’s Ron Arad op

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Makor Rishon Conference, October 11, 2021 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM set to lead Israeli delegation to UN climate talks in Glasgow

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Bennett expected to attend conference of global leaders at the end of the month, along with Environment Minister Tamar Zandberg and Energy Minister Karine Elharrar

View of the Ayalon Highway crossing central Tel Aviv at night, November 27, 2017. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Energy Ministry publishes electricity use index to encourage more efficiency

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends the Golan Heights Conference on Economics and Regional Development on October 11, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett announces major drive to quadruple population of Golan Heights

By Lazar Berman

PM says increasing Israeli presence on plateau captured from Syria is a ‘strategic goal,’ notes Biden administration hasn’t reversed US recognition of area as Israeli territory

Illustrative image of a brit mila in Jerusalem, December 12 , 2011. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'Families making this decision shouldn’t feel marginalized'

New US Jewish group aims to normalize not circumcising, wants synagogues to help

Bruchim says it is giving a voice to those who seek other ways to join the Jewish covenant; retorts a Conservative rabbi: Brit milah ‘is about as basic to Judaism as you can get’

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

Jump seen in hospitalization of kids with post-COVID syndrome that killed teen

Since the beginning of October, there have been 35 cases of PIMS, which shows up 2-6 weeks after children recover from the coronavirus

The AstraZeneca offices in Cambridge, England, July 18, 2020. (Alastair Grant/AP)

AstraZeneca logs encouraging results in trial of its COVID-19 drug

By AFP

Ruth Jolanda Weinberger

Comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi experiments is appalling

Even the most basic reading of the Nuremburg Code makes clear that Nazi medical crimes simply do not belong in any discussion about Covid vaccine mandates.

Joseph R. Black

The Texas anti-choice law and the Torah’s call to choose life

We had a 25% genetic chance of having a Tay-Sachs baby destined for a short, painful life. Knowing abortion was an option made it possible for us to create our family

Colette Avital: Who owns her story?

It’s understandable that the former diplomat kept her experience of sexual harassment quiet, but her speaking out now may just be a game-changer

Tamar Sternthal

Flushing the Israel out of ancient Israel

The AP’s report on the discovery of a First Temple era toilet omits Jewish references, while a NY Times Rosh Hashanah recipe evokes ’Canaanites,’ not Israelites

Bennett said to tell Merkel Israel wants to advance controversial submarine deal

By Raoul Wootliff

PM says he ordered review of deal after taking office; Merkel says countries agree that ‘there must always be a vision of a lasting democratic Jewish State of Israel’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) hosts German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a private dinner in Jerusalem on October 10, 2021. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

German chancellor Angela Merkel lays a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on October 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Laying a wreath at Yad Vashem, Merkel says museum is a ‘reminder’ and ‘warning’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mark and Erica Gerson help fund Christian missionary hospitals in Africa, but religion has little to do with it. (Michael Gerson/ via JTA)

Interview'Saving a single life is saving a world'

Meet the Jewish couple funding Christian missionary hospitals in Africa

Rabbi Erica Gerson and husband Mark often get strange looks when people hear about their charity work, but they say they’re following the Jewish tenet of protecting life above all

Defense Minister Benny Gantz addresses the media in Jerusalem on May 31, 2021. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Gantz said considering more Israeli work permits for Gazans

Defense minister reportedly weighing proposal to allow several thousand additional workers into country, citing pre-coronavirus plans to raise number from 7,000 to 10,000

Palestinian protesters flee as a stun grenade explodes during a demonstration in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 10, 2021. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

10 Palestinians said hurt in Old City clashes in dispute over unearthed remains

Jesus in Liverpool?

Found: Lennon and McCartney’s comedy about the messiah

By ToI Staff and AP

In BBC interview in which he insists it was John who split the Beatles, Paul says the long-lost play is ‘quite a funny thing, called Pilchard’

John Lennon, left,and Paul McCartney, announce the establishment of Apple Corps Ltd., in New York, NY, May 15, 1968. The new company, owned equally by all four Beatles, would make films, produce records, and own clothing stores in London. (AP Photo)

48 years after Yom Kippur War, letters to frontline soldier finally delivered

By Stuart Winer

Eti Snir wrote to her husband every day for months, but her missives were lost, only to be discovered in a kibbutz cupboard earlier this month

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The USS Virginia returns to the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, after its first sea trials, July 30, 2004. (AP Photo/ Jack Sauer, File)

US Navy nuclear engineer charged with trying to pass secrets to foreign country

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in one of the tanks at the Zahrani oil facility in southern Lebanon on October 11, 2021, sparking alarm as the country grapples with dire hydrocarbon shortages. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

Lebanon firefighters quell huge blaze at fuel storage depot

By AFP

Ben Cohen (L) and Jerry Greenfield (R) speak with Axios in an interview released on October 10, 2021 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))

Ben & Jerry’s founders: It’s a boycott of settlements, not of Israel

Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (C) arrives to meet Austria's President at Ballhausplatz in Vienna, on October 10, 2021. (Photo by ALEX HALADA / AFP)

After quitting amid corruption probe, Austria’s Kurz names FM as successor

By Julia ZAPPEI

Various sensors on a tank are listed in a mockup video demonstrating the potential capabilities of Israel's future tanks, released on October 10, 2021. (Defense Ministry)

Defense Ministry selects IAI to lead development of Israel’s tanks of the future

By Emanuel Fabian and Judah Ari Gross

A man stands inside the Riga Ghetto Museum in Riga, Latvia, January 11, 2014. (Fishman/Ullstein via Getty Images via JTA)

Latvia grants $46m in Holocaust restitution, but says state wasn’t at fault

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Screen capture from video of a suspect arrested during a drugs bust in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, October 2021. (Twitter)

Israeli nabbed in Dubai drug bust was allegedly smuggling half a ton of cocaine

By ToI Staff and AFP

Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of the southern city of Dimona protest against deportation orders given to some of their members, Habima Square, Tel Aviv, June 1, 2021. Th banner says, 'We are an integral part of the People of Israel.' (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Immigration police start looking for Hebrew Israelites with deportation orders

Iranian women cheer during a soccer match between their national team and Cambodia in the 2022 World Cup qualifier at the Azadi (Freedom) Stadium in Tehran, Iran, October 10, 2019. (AP Photo/ Vahid Salemi)

Iranian female soccer fans kept waiting as all spectators banned from match

By AFP

Israel’s ambassador to Morocco, David Govrin. (Courtesy)

Israel appoints David Govrin as permanent ambassador to Morocco

Army commanders tour the operations sectors of the Iraqi army Seventh Brigade, at the start of the eighth phase of the operation, in Anbar, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Iraqi forces arrest Islamic State moneyman, al-Baghdadi’s deputy

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

People cast their votes during the parliamentary elections in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraq’s parliamentary vote marred by boycott, voter apathy

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

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