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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 13, 2021

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A medic prepares a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on October 7, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top virologist says Delta defeated, predicts 6+ months of COVID quiet for Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

New variants will be held at bay for now, says Rivka Abulafia-Lapid, whose optimism comes as number of new serious COVID cases per day almost halves over two weeks

Clowns wearing protective equipment entertain a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care ward for coronavirus patients at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Nov. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 13 – Can Israel celebrate the end of the Delta wave?

Some of the millions of coronavirus antigen testing kits that arrived in Israel on October 12, 2021. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Millions of coronavirus test kits for schoolchildren arrive in country

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington on October 12, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

‘Iran becoming a nuclear threshold state,’ Lapid tells Biden aide in Washington

Foreign minister also stresses ‘need for alternative’ to JCPOA during meeting with Jake Sullivan, though US still says it hasn’t exhausted efforts to revive the accord

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

In this undated picture released by the official website of the Iranian Army on October 1, 2021, a helicopter fires in a maneuver near Iranian border with Azerbaijan. (Iranian Army via AP)

Azerbaijan and Iran, divided over Israel, agree to mend ties ‘through dialogue’

By AFP

Travelers are seen at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on September 20, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel may allow vaccinated tourists in from November 1 — though US in question

A number of countries may be initially excluded from potential framework for non-group travelers, due to absence of deals to recognize vaccination certificates

A mother tests her son with a coronavirus rapid antigen home test kit in Haniel, central Israel on September 27, 2021. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Health Ministry cancels quarantine for parents caring for COVID-infected kids

By Stuart Winer

Yair Lapid (L) speaks with Tzipi Livni in the Knesset on December 3, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tzipi Livni could join race to head Jewish Agency, potentially backed by Lapid

By Shalom Yerushalmi and Tal Schneider

If ex-foreign minister throws hat into the ring, she’s expected to get support of Michaeli and other ministers; nominating panel considering selecting woman for 1st time

Top row (L-R) Omer Yankelevich (FLash90), Michal Kotler-Wunsh (Rami Zarenger), Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (AFP); Bottom row (L-R) Irina Nevzlin (Courtesy), Yaffa Zilbershats (Flash90), Elazar Stern (Flash90)

With Elazar Stern out of running, Jewish Agency eyes first-ever female chair

By Tal Schneider

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

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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)

US: Blinken to warn Lapid of risks of cooperating with China in ‘candid’ talk

Ahead of secretary’s meeting with Israeli and UAE foreign ministers, senior official says sides will also unveil trilateral working groups on religious coexistence, water, energy

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington on October 12, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Lapid to Harris in DC: Even when we have differences, we share a common goal

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on October 13, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Meeting Lapid, Blinken says time running out for Iran to rejoin nuclear deal

Israel’s FM meets US secretary of state, UAE foreign minister in Washington, warns Jerusalem could use force to counter Tehran’s nuclear program

6:20 pm

Islamic Jihad threatens 'war' if prisoners' conditions not improved
5:53 pm

UAE foreign minister says he plans to visit Israel
5:38 pm

Israel's COVID death toll nears 8,000

Church ‘mistake’ sees German neo-Nazi’s ashes buried in Jewish musician’s plot

By Stuart Winer

Authorities say they are reviewing moving remains of Holocaust-denier Henry Hafenmayer from spot where Max Friedländer had been interred

Bishop Christian Stäblein visits the burial site of Max Friedländer, a Jewish Protestant musicologist.(Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia)

Michael Laitman

The just protest of the medical residents will not heal healthcare

The problem goes far beyond assembly-line medicine – Everything is motivated by money and it’s time to establish a care-based society

A German Talmud translation on Sefaria

After so many terrible years of nearly no call for this work, it’s in demand in the digital world – and as a model for Talmud translations into other languages too

Illustrative -- Lev Tahor women and girls in Canada (Screen grab/YouTube)

Haredi cult tries to go to Iran, sparks fears it may be used as bargaining chip

Relatives ask Israel, US to intervene as extremist Lev Tahor members seek to leave Guatemala for Iraq, apparently en route to Islamic Republic

Illustrative: A supporter of Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi walks next to his posters during an election campaign rally in the capital Tehran, on June 10, 2021. (STR / AFP)

Iran arrests 10 suspects who worked as accomplices for ‘hostile countries’

By AP and ToI Staff

Sant' Anna di Stazzema massacre memorial sculpture, February 22, 2008. (Wikimedia Commons/ Hans Peter Schaefer)

Interview'It epitomizes the enormous failures of justice'

After killing hundreds of Italian civilians, a brutal SS division evaded justice

By Robert Philpot

UK author Christian Jennings’ new book ‘Anatomy of a Massacre’ examines the infamous murders at Sant’ Anna di Stazzema to highlight Nazi war crimes that went unpunished

Interview

Frustrated with US, but reluctant to fight, PA envoy looks elsewhere for help

Ramallah’s man in New York, UN ambassador Riyad Mansour, tells ToI he appreciates what Biden administration has done but recognizes that Washington won’t push Jerusalem into talks

Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour addresses the United Nations Security Council, at UN headquarters, January 22, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)

Illustrative: One of five Netzah Yehuda soldiers convicted of beating two Palestinian detainees arrives for a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court, on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)

Four IDF soldiers held over alleged abuse of Palestinian detainee

By Emanuel Fabian

Combat troops from religious ‘Netzah Yehuda’ battalion suspected of beating and sexually assaulting man they had arrested

Palestinian standing in front of slogans written in Hebrew in the village of Marda in the West Bank, on October 13, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Vandals attack Palestinian village, daubing walls and puncturing car tires

Poll shows scant support for Edelstein in Likud leadership battle with Netanyahu

Former Knesset speaker would be wiped out in potential primaries, with support of just 6%, survey finds, though options for potential partners would open up under new party head

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yuli Edelstein are seen in the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

MK Moshe Gafni (left) alongside Yaakov Litzman in the Knesset, on July 26, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett calls to limit ultra-Orthodox political influence, drawing Haredi ire

The Tel Aviv skyline at night. (Shai Pal on Unsplash)

Israeli tech firms raised staggering $17.8b this year, almost double 2020 total

By Ricky Ben-David

Funding rounds of over $100m account for more than half the total sum for first 3 quarters of 2021; tech exits reach over $18b

From left: Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, Eran Feigenbaum, country manager, Oracle Israel, and Economy Minister Orna Barbivai attend the inauguration of Oracle's new cloud center region in Jerusalem, October 13, 2021. (Ezra Levy)

Oracle inaugurates regional cloud center in Jerusalem, plans to open 2nd site

By Ricky Ben-David

Colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, in an undated photo. (AP/Google, Connie Zhou)

Anonymous Google, Amazon workers decry deal with Israel

In letter, hundreds of employees protest agreement for Nimbus project ‘to sell dangerous technology to the Israeli military and government’

Sally Rooney takes part in a panel during the Winter 2020 Television Critics Association Press Tour on January 17, 2020, in Pasadena, California. (Richard Shotwell/ Invision/ AP)

Writer boycotting Israeli publisher still open to Hebrew translation of novel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Interview

Ricky Ben-David

Regulation takes time but it’s coming for Facebook, says Israeli law expert

Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler of the Israel Democracy Institute says that big shifts in data protection and privacy in recent years signal change for social media platforms

In this October 23, 2019 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Illustrative photo of a child in a tulip field in Holland. (iStock/ FamVeld)

'I feel proud when Jews hear my name and react positively'

Why are non-Jewish Dutch parents giving their children Jewish names?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Monikers like Aron and Thirza are common in the Netherlands and almost nonexistent in neighboring Belgium. They may correlate with locals’ positive associations with Judaism

More Headlines

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

Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

Israeli hospital hit with ransomware attack

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: A giant Lubavitch Hanukkah Menorah is set up in central Berlin, Tuesday, December 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Creator of iconic Chabad menorah posthumously accused of sexually abusing girl

FILE -- A motorcyclist police officer escorts and guards a police van, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 24, 2019 (Petros Karadjias/AP)

2nd suspect arrested over alleged Cyprus plot targeting Israelis – report

New Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar on October 11, 2021. (Shin Bet)

New Shin Bet chief: Agency won’t stand idly by as crime rises in Arab community

By Emanuel Fabian

View of a statue in honor of "Women who fight" placed by feminist collectives at the roundabout of Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, from where the effigy of Christopher Columbus had been removed, in Mexico City, on October 7, 2021. (PEDRO PARDO / AFP)

Removal of Columbus statue by Mexico mayor sparks debate on indigenous people

By Samir TOUNSI and Natalia Cano

Mahmoud al-Arida, one of six security prisoners to escape Gilboa Prison, is seen at a hearing at the District Court in Nazareth, on September 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Gilboa prison break mastermind details escape, bungled flight to freedom

Pvt. Abeba Darsakh (Courtesy)

IDF soldier dies after jumping out of moving car on highway

By Emanuel Fabian

Police arrest a suspect in the kidnapping of a woman from a battered women's shelter on October 12, 2021. (Courtesy)

Police arrest 4 suspected of kidnapping sister from battered women’s shelter

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Police suspect 90-year-old woman murdered by her caregiver

Israel's forward Eran Zahavi (C) celebrates his record-breaking 33rd national goal with teammates during the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian Qualifiers football match between Israel and Moldova, at the Turner Stadium in Beersheba, on October 12, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel defeats Moldova, but another Scotland win means World Cup hopes vanishing

By ToI Staff and AP

This undated photo made available by Blue Origin in October 2021 shows, from left, Chris Boshuizen, William Shatner, Audrey Powers and Glen de Vries. Their launch was scheduled for October 13, 2021. (Blue Origin via AP)

Beam me up, BezosAt 90, William Shatner heads to final frontier

By Marcia Dunn and RICK TABER

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