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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 14, 2021

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Supporters of a Shiite group allied with Hezbollah help an injured comrade during armed clashes that erupted during a protest in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, October 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

6 killed, 20 wounded by gunfire at Beirut protest over port blast probe

By AFP

Supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal groups chant slogans against Judge Tarek Bitar who is investigating last year's deadly seaport blast, during a protest in front of the Justice Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, October 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon court dismisses Hezbollah bid to remove Beirut blast judge

By AFP

Lebanese Army soldiers patrol the clashes area in the southern suburb of the capital Beirut, on October 14, 2021. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

US urges calm in Lebanon; nation’s army makes arrests after deadly violence

As many see street violence as reminiscent of country’s bloody civil war, President Michel Aoun says ‘we all agreed to turn this dark page of our history’

6:26 pm

Iran says it agreed to hold further dialogue with EU on resuming nuclear talks
6:03 pm

US urges calm in Lebanon, army makes arrests after deadly violence
5:53 pm

Air Force to host 7 other nations for massive biennial Blue Flag exercise

Hospital staff at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center log patient details with pen and paper, following a ransomware cyberattack, October 13, 2021. (Hillel Yaffe Medical Center)

Hadera hospital still offline a day after cyberattack

By Amy Spiro and Emanuel Fabian

Health Ministry says top experts working ‘around the clock’ to restore full functionality at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Hospital staff at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center log patient details with pen and paper, following a ransomware cyberattack, October 13, 2021. (Hillel Yaffe Medical Center)

Israel on heightened alert after hospital hit with ransomware attack

By Emanuel Fabian

An arrow left in a wall after an attack in Kongsberg, Norway, October 13, 2021. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Suspect named as Espen Andersen Brathen, 37

Norway says bow-and-arrow attack that killed 5 was act of terrorism

Danish national suspected of assault in small town is a Muslim convert flagged as radical who had raised concerns in the past, say police

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ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 14 – Tech successes notched, including beer-carrying drones

ToI editor David Horovitz and Startup Israel editor Ricky Ben-David discuss a WWII diplomat’s courage, massive capital-raising rounds, cybersecurity threats and drones that deliver

TripActions founders Ariel Cohen, CEO (left) and Ilan Twig. (Courtesy)

Israeli travel tech company TripActions raises $275m at $7.25b valuation

By Ricky Ben-David

Alan Feld, a Canadian-Israeli founder and managing partner of Vintage Investment Partners (Courtesy)

Israel’s Vintage Investment Partners raises $812m for two new funds

By Ricky Ben-David

Lev Tahor spokesman Uriel Goldman on February 28, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Exclusive

Praise of Israel may dent Iran asylum hopes for anti-Zionist Haredi cult

Clip shows Lev Tahor spokesman lauding IDF efforts to minimize civilian casualties, months before group, which includes Israelis, began heading from Guatemala toward Tehran

John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Lou Reed from archival photography in the new documentary 'The Velvet Underground' by filmmaker Todd Haynes (Courtesy Apple TV+)

Film review

Velvet Underground documentary omits band’s Jewish roots, but is still very cool

By Jordan Hoffman

Out on Apple TV+ October 15, ‘The Velvet Underground’ dives into the countercultural phenomenon started by queer Jewish musician Lou Reed and rocketed to fame by Andy Warhol

The scene of a car ramming attack near the Qalandiya checkpoint on October 8, 2021. (Border Police)

Border Police officer seriously hurt in suspected ramming at West Bank crossing

By Emanuel Fabian

Cops open fire at Palestinian suspect, moderately injuring him, and arrest him after he strikes officer operating near Qalandiya checkpoint

Gilboa Prison fugitives sought help from PA prime minister, were rebuffed — TV

Islamic Jihad threatens Israel over prisoner conditions

By Aaron Boxerman

250 Islamic Jihad prisoners in Israel set to launch hunger strike

By Aaron Boxerman

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Facebook is toxic in Hebrew too — Israelis must be protected

It’s up to lawmakers to enact privacy protection, outlaw predatory marketing and hold social media providers in Israel accountable for the harm they do

Too many Nazi criminals are convicted and sentenced, but do no time

Even if Irmgard Furchner is convicted of being an ’accessory to murder,’ she probably won’t see the walls of a prison cell, but running away got her a week in jail

IDF Intel chief: Iran enriching ever more nuke material, but we’ll constrain it

By Judah Ari Gross

Maj. Gen. Haliva tells intelligence officers Tehran is looking to challenge Israel’s military superiority, as Washington, Jerusalem consider how to confront its nuclear ambitions

Military Intelligence chief Aharon Haliva, right, presents ranks to a new intelligence officer during a ceremony on October 13, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Iran's UN Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the UN Security Council, August 20, 2020, at the United Nations. (Mike Segar/Pool via AP)

Iran warns Israel against ‘military adventure’ in letter to UN

By AFP and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, accompanied by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, speaks at a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Blinken and Lapid talk publicly of ‘other options’ to stop Iran nuke program

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows anti-aircraft fire in the sky after US-led airstrikes targeting different parts of the Syrian capital Damascus in retaliation for the country's alleged use of chemical weapons, April 14, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Pro-Iran militias vow harsh response against Israel over alleged Syria strike

By Judah Ari Gross

‘Syria Allies Operations Room’ says several killed, injured in overnight attack near Palmyra, which it says was conducted by Israel, US; Israel closes Golan airspace as precaution

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accompanied by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyanin, right, speaks at a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, October 13, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP))

US rules out normalization with Syria while Assad in power

Illustrative: A Syrian anti-aircraft missile is fired into sky near Damascus during an alleged Israeli airstrike on January 6, 2021. (Screen capture: SANA)

Israeli planes said to strike in central Syria, killing 1, injuring three others

By Emanuel Fabian

'I hope I never recover from this'

Kirk crosses final frontier: Shatner hails ‘most profound experience’ in space

By AP and ToI Staff

After flying on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket, becoming oldest man ever to leave Earth, Jewish actor who taught many to dream of the stars tears up over his ‘unbelievable’ trip

Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich addresses a Knesset plenum session on the state budget on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Smotrich at Knesset: Ben-Gurion should have ‘finished the job,’ thrown out Arabs

Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman decries the ‘fascist filth’ to which she says Arabs are regularly subjected

The Givat Hamatos neighborhood, Jerusalem (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

While Lapid in Washington, panel advances expropriation of East Jerusalem land

Op-ed

81 years later, Chiune Sugihara’s humanity continues to enable new lives

A Jerusalem ceremony highlights the ever-widening impact of the only Japanese citizen honored as Righteous Among the Nations… and the folly of obtuse adherence to bureaucracy

Nobuki Sugihara and family at a ceremony honoring his late father Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940 who issued transit visas that saved thousands of Jews (Times of Israel)

Far-right Israeli wedding-goers celebrate the killings of the Dawabsha family (screen capture: Channel 10)

Prosecution appeals acquittal of minors accused in infamous ‘hate wedding’

In objecting to ruling on 4 out of 5 defendants in celebration of the murder of a Palestinian baby., state argues judge misunderstood nature of crimes

Israeli settlers are seen surrounding an IDF vehicle near the settlement of Adei Ad, October 13, 2021. (Video screenshot/courtesy)

IDF troops maced by settlers while responding to alleged attack on Palestinians

By Emanuel Fabian

The community of Mitzpeh Ramon (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

IDF soldier fires in air during brawl with Arab men in Mitzpe Ramon

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: A child stands on a scale (Dmitriy Protsenko; iStock by Getty Images)

To fight childhood obesity, Israeli docs prescribe app that gamifies weight loss

By Nathan Jeffay

The pandemic has accentuated the problem; with kids struggling to follow health advice between doctor appointments, prize-driven software could help keep them committed

Illustrative image of an Israel Electric Corporation worker raised by a crane to a utility pole to perform maintenance works, outside Jerusalem on June 10, 2013. (Flash 90)

Shock of their life

Woman laughs off million dollar electric bill; husband ‘nearly had heart attack’

Yafit from Rosh Ha’ayin jokes that massive amount must have been from leaving on the AC for too long; electric company admits to ‘human error’

More Headlines

Knesset Member Elazar Stern. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Didn’t even own a shredder’: Stern’s wife says he used ‘metaphor,’ got raw deal

United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan speaks during a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at the State Department in Washington, on October 13, 2021. (AP photo: Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP)

UAE foreign minister says he plans to visit Israel soon

By Amy Spiro and Lazar Berman

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu seeking millions for 2nd office granted to former PMs

An Israeli man walks a dog near a trashcan installed next to a bus stop that applauds to those who use it, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Talking trashA Jerusalem garbage can thanks you for not littering

By AP

Washington, DC, Councilman Trayon White Sr. (Screen capture: YouTube)

DC councilmember who said Rothschilds control the weather to run for mayor

By Andrew Lapin

People walk with face masks in Jerusalem city center on October 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Number of seriously ill COVID cases drops to lowest level in 2 months

By Stuart Winer

Dilawar Syed, president of the software company Freshdesk, speaks during a Tech Stands Up rally outside City Hall in Palo Alto, California, March 14, 2017. (Eric Risberg/AP)

US Jewish groups blasts GOP for stalling nomination of Muslim man

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARIAM FAM

New Hope MK Sharren Haskel, center, seen during a vote on a law proposing reforms regulating medical marijuana, held in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset gives preliminary okay to bill to make medical cannabis more available

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli Consul General to New York Asaf Zamir speaks at a New York City event with the Jewish Federations of North America on September 27, 2021. (Shahar Azran)

Former minister Asaf Zamir takes up new role as consul general in New York

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rotman is seen during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition fells opposition’s immigration legislation in preliminary vote

Idan Ofer with his late father Sammy Ofer. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Pandora Papers: Teddy Sagi, Idan and Eyal Ofer named in latest documents

Death row inmate Randy Halprin, then 26, sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, December 3, 2003. (Brett Coomer/AP)

Texas Jewish death row inmate granted new trial due to judge’s antisemitism

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