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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 12, 2021

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Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern sits in the Knesset during a meeting of the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 14, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Elazar Stern drops Jewish Agency candidacy amid burgeoning controversy

By Raoul Wootliff

Intelligence minister withdraws candidacy, apologizes as outcry snowballs over his remarks about trashing anonymous harassment complaints

Elazar Stern of the Yesh Atid party attends a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Second ex-soldier accuses Elazar Stern of dismissing sex assault claims in 1990s

Knesset Member Elazar Stern. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Coalition members assail minister Stern over sexual harassment comments

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Former head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen attends the Jerusalem Post Conference, held in Jerusalem, on October 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Mossad chief says Iran ‘no closer than before’ to obtaining nukes

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Jerusalem Post conference in Jerusalem, October 12, 2021 (Kobi Gideon, GPO)

Bennett warns: There are non-peaceful ways to deal with Iran’s nuclear program

By Lazar Berman

Right: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 5, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky/ Pool) Left: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the 17th Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum via video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, September 30, 2021. (Evgeniy Paulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Bennett to travel to Russia next week to meet Putin, with Iran on agenda

Channel 13 CEO Aviram Elad, who was previously the editor of the Walla website, arrives for his testimony at the Jerusalem District Couty in the case against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, October 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Netanyahu-related stories were sent in advance for approval

Ex-Walla editor says he quit over ‘brutal’ intervention in coverage of Netanyahu

By Michael Bachner

With trial’s 1st witness, Ilan Yeshua, done testifying after 6 months, Aviram Elad takes the stand, says he agreed to return as editor if interference stopped, but it didn’t

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addresses the Knesset plenum on October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett defends state budget in Knesset; Netanyahu: He’s not a ‘real’ PM

By Michael Bachner

They’re Israel’s heroes. You’re their partner in saving lives

Help us save lives in Israel. Send your donation today!

File: Likud MK Yuli Edelstein during an interview with Channel 12, October 11, 2021. (Channel 12 News)

Yuli Edelstein announces he’ll challenge Netanyahu for Likud leadership

Former Knesset speaker warns that unless there is a change, the party will remain in opposition; says more and more in Likud internalizing that Netanyahu can’t win back power

Then-health minister Yuli Edelstein seen during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MKs pan ‘subversive’ Edelstein for challenging Netanyahu as party leader

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Riyad Mansour listens to speakers during a meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 12 – How the Palestinians are trying to engage with the US

US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses his recent interview with the PA’s ambassador to the UN and Emanuel Fabian assesses fresh violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank

Tony Shalhoub, playing Abe Weissman, with Rachel Brosnahan, playing Miriam Maisel, in season three of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.' (Amazon Studios)

And what of Jewish actors playing non-Jewish characters?

Who can play a Jew? Celebs claim double standard over onscreen representation

With the role of Golda Meir going to Helen Mirren and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg to Felicity Jones, more voices are asking why identity politics in casting doesn’t seem to apply to Jews

File: Then-foreign minister Yair Lapid meets with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington, DC, on October 12, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Lapid to Biden aide: Israel worried Iran is becoming a ‘nuclear threshold’ state

In Washington, foreign minister discusses alternatives to 2015 nuclear agreement with US national security adviser

6:25 pm

Edelstein: Poll shows I can form government, Netanyahu cannot
6:03 pm

Caregiver arrested on suspicion of murdering 90-year-old charge
5:58 pm

Bennett meets with FIFA president in Jerusalem

A picture taken on July 11, 2021, shows a pipe system used to transfer water from Israel to Jordan by Mekorot, Israel's national water company, near Kibbutz Masada by the border with Jordan (background), south of the Sea of Galilee, or Lake Tiberias, one of the main water sources in Israel. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israel signs deal doubling water supply to parched Jordan

By AFP

Energy minister says agreement underscores Jerusalem’s desire for ‘good neighborly relations’ with Amman; 50 million cubic meters a year to be delivered

A drone flies near the city of Tel Aviv on October 11, 2021, in a pilot run by the Israel Innovation Authority with partners to create a network of drone deliveries in Israel (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Drones deliver sushi, beer in Tel Aviv as Israel tests commercial UAVs

By Ricky Ben-David

Israel National Drone Initiative enters third phase as momentum builds for government-led drone delivery network

Drones flying near the city of Tel Aviv on October 11, 2021, in a pilot run by the Israel Innovation Authority with partners to create a network of drone deliveries in Israel. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Israel putting its security expertise behind new fleet of delivery drones

By Emanuel Fabian

Neurotic Jewish parents: A brief history & celebration

I’m an unabashed germaphobe, and that makes your life safer and better, because I’ll never put a kid with gastro symptoms in the jumpy castle to ruin the birthday party

Andrew Silow-Carroll

We may be talking about Gary Shteyngart’s botched circumcision for a long time

He raises challenging questions that rabbis and mohels will have to consider seriously when reluctant couples seek their advice

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

Lapid takes off for Washington ahead of likely restart of Iran nuclear talks

By Lazar Berman

Meetings with US vice president, secretary of state and UAE’s foreign minister expected to focus on Tehran’s nuclear program and Abraham Accords

Illustrative: Troops participate in a military drill in Iran, January 20, 2021 (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran kicks off annual air defense drill amid regional tensions

By AP

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, on September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Microsoft says Iran hackers targeting Israeli, US defense technology firms

A Border Police vehicle is seen after it was attacked with stones and buckets of paint, near Yitzhar in the West Bank, on October 11, 2021. (Israel Police)

Extremist settlers injure cop in clash near flashpoint West Bank settlement

By Emanuel Fabian

Police, Palestinians clash by Damascus Gate for third consecutive night

By Aaron Boxerman

Israel said to approve residency for hundreds of undocumented Palestinians

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli official denies army stopped, turned back PA premier near Jenin

By Aaron Boxerman

Winner of the Nobel prize for economics Joshua Angrist, left, speaks to a reporter with his granddaughter Bella, and wife Mira Angrist, from his home Monday, in Brookline, Massachusetts, October 11, 2021. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

US-Israeli Nobel laureate missed phone call telling him he had won

By Stuart Winer

Joshua Angrist, one of 3 winners of the economics prize, says he had to call Stockholm to confirm; plays down reports he left Israel over low wages

Nobuki Sugihara addresses participants at a ceremony in Jerusalem's Kiryat Yovel neighborhood dedicating Chiune Sugihara Square to his father, the WWII Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews when serving as consul-general in Kovno, Lithuania. (Times of Israel)

He didn't like to hear 'saved'; he just did what he could do

Jerusalem dedicates square to Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews

By David Horovitz

Chiune Sugihara, consul-general in Kovno, issued over 2,000 visas in breach of Japanese policy; his son Nobuki addresses event, having received last-minute visa after ToI report

Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

European countries with most antisemitic attitudes have fewest attacks – poll

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at the gala opening of the Friedman Center for Peace through Strength in Jerusalem, October 11, 2021 (Lazar Berman, Times of Israel)

Ex-US envoy Friedman: We’ll bring thousands of Muslim tourists to Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

At gala opening of Peace through Strength Center, former ambassador says Arab-Israeli conflict on cusp of ending; Pompeo swipes Biden over Afghanistan withdrawal

(L to R) FIFA President Gianni Infantino, former US secretary of the treasury Steve Mnuchin, and former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman attend the launch of the "Friedman Center for Peace through Strength" at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem on October 11, 2021. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

FIFA chief says Abraham Accords could lead to Israel co-hosting soccer World Cup

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

(Right to left) Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud MK Ofir Akunis at an event launching a Knesset caucus dedicated to the Abraham Accords, in Jerusalem, October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset launches Abraham Accords caucus, with Gantz claiming credit for deals

By Michael Bachner

Mars attracts

Alexandra Vardi

Six ‘astronauts’ on month-long mission in Israeli desert to prepare for Mars

Participants from Austria, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain simulating life on the Red Planet to perfect the survival skills needed for eventual voyage

Two Arab Israeli nurses at Kaplan hospital pose with Miqdad Qawasmeh, a Hamas member who is on a hunger strike to protest being held in administrative detention. (Screenshot/Kan)

Arab Israeli nurses pose for pic with Hamas prisoner, say sorry, won’t be fired

Hospital says the two nurses understand severity of posing with Miqdad Qawasmeh, who has been on hunger strike for over 80 days to protest being held without trial

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Sally Rooney speaks onstage during the Hulu Panel at Winter TCA 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 17, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu via JTA)

Sally Rooney won’t let her new novel be published in Hebrew

The Hailo team in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Israeli AI chip maker Hailo becomes newest ‘unicorn’ after $136m investment

By Ricky Ben-David

People with face masks in Jerusalem city center on October 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus czar ‘optimistic’ about COVID-19 decline, but says restrictions to remain

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr celebrate in Baghdad's Tahrir square following the announcement of parliamentary elections' results on October 11, 2021. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Pro-Iran groups, losing seats, denounce Iraq election as ‘scam’

By AFP

A 7-Eleven sign is shown in Palo Alto, California, July 1, 2008. (Paul Sakuma/AP)

7-Eleven to open hundreds of stores in Israel, but they’ll be closed on Shabbat

By Stuart Winer

Wiz's offices in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz raises $250m, soaring to $6b valuation

By Ricky Ben-David

Screen capture from an Israel Police video showing images and videos of hundreds of naked women and minors that were allegedly traded by a suspect on the Telegram app without their knowledge, October 2021. (Israel Police)

Man arrested for selling images of naked women, girls online without consent

By Stuart Winer

Bahrain's Jewish community celebrated its first Jewish wedding in the country in 52 years Sunday. (Houda Nonoo via JTA)

Golden anniversaryBahrain hosts first Jewish wedding in over 50 years

A forest in Ukraine. (Aisheyko, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Ukraine asks KKL-JNF to help it plant a billion trees over three years

Members of the Black Hebrews community protest against the deportation orders given to some members of the community, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, June 1, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In temporary injunction, court orders state not to deport Hebrew Israelites

Kfar Saba Mayor Yehuda Ben-Hamo appears at a remand hearing at Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on February 13, 2017, after he was arrested for suspected corruption. (Flash90)

Former Kfar Saba mayor convicted of making personal use of funds meant for needy

The center-right candidate for mayor of Rome, Enrico Michetti takes part in a press conference October 8, 2021. (Stefano Montesi - Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)

Candidate for Rome mayor apologizes for Holocaust remarks decried as antisemitic

By Simone Somekh

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