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What Matters Most On Friday, October 22, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C) speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) while accompanied by Housing Minister Ze’ev Elkin who acted as a translator at Putin's residence in Sochi, Russia on October 22, 2021. (Kobi Gidon/GPO)

Leaders stroll through grounds along Black Sea after talks

Bennett extends Russia trip over Shabbat after ‘warm’ Putin talks run long

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

First meeting between leaders seen as key in keeping Russia-Israel ties on track following departure of Netanyahu; talks said to have focused on Syria, Iran

File: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, on October 22, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Meeting Bennett, Putin says he aims to continue warm ties forged under Netanyahu

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Muni Expo 2021 conference in Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bennett lands in Russia for lightning talks with Putin on Iran, region

Construction work is seen in the West Bank settlement of Yakir, on June 11, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Israel set to okay 3,000 new settlement homes, 1,300 Palestinian homes

This screenshot from video released by Peace Now on October 21, 2021, shows construction on new settlement units in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Settlers begin work on new neighborhood in Hebron

By AFP and ToI Staff

Masked settlers near the Palestinian hamlet of al-Mufaqara in the South Hebron Hills, on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. (Courtesy)

2 settler youths indicted in stone-throwing attack on Palestinian village

By Alexander Fulbright and Aaron Boxerman

Reporter's Notebook

The day I got to see Van Gogh’s Nazi-seized ‘Wheatstacks,’ from both sides

A work of great art has been on public display in London this week for the first time since 1905. On Thursday, I inspected it up close — front and rear…

This image, provided by Christie's, shows Vincent van Gogh's 1888 work 'Wheatstacks,' sold as part of sale of 'The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism,' in New York, November 11, 2021. The watercolor, seized by the Nazis during World War II, sold to an undisclosed buyer of $35.9 million (Christie's)

Illustrative image: nerve cells. Technion scientists report that they have slowed tumour growth in mice by attacking nerve cells. (ktsimage via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli scientists halve growth of cancer tumors in mice, using ‘GPS particles’

By Nathan Jeffay

Hoping to establish a new method for fighting cancer, a team from the Technion attacked nerve cells that help tumor growth, reporting significant success in peer-reviewed research

Fatemeh Rezaei, a retired teacher, stands next to a Marilyn Monroe portrait by American artist Andy Warhol at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, on October 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Warhol in Tehran: Iranians flock to American pop art exhibit

By Nasser Karimi

While country’s hardliners scoff at Western culture, visitors are enthralled by US artist’s paintings of Marylin Monroe and Mao Zedong, with museum promising more such displays

Iran grants scientific award to 2 US-based physicists

By AP

A few hundred naked people covered in white paint pose for a group picture taken by Spencer Tunick, outside Arad in southern Israel, October 17, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Overlooking the Dead Sea, with Spencer Tunick and 200 nude models

Arts and culture editor Jessica Steinberg travels down to Arad to witness the American artist’s photoshoot

Would Avraham have been vaccinated?

If you understand the patriarch at all, you know you can’t second-guess him according to your own biases; he aligned his beliefs with G-d’s demands (Vayera)

Ariel Jerozolimski

PHOTO ESSAY: Hadassah’s COVID warriors

Visiting the coronavirus ward at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, I observed doctors, nurses, and other staff. They are truly heroic – and very tired

Before the Abraham Accords, there was Madrid

Israeli-Palestinian peace isn’t a prerequisite for Arab states’ normalization with Israel, but clashes with the Palestinians have a way of derailing things

It was a worry: What if R. Jonathan Sacks didn’t measure up?

I was in the hospital having delivered my first-born, and the rabbi called with his congratulations. That was just the beginning of his thoughtful kindness

US Vice President Joe Biden during a press conference at the residence of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not seen, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.(Ariel Schalit/AP)

Analysis

Dragging out consulate reopening, Biden does Israel a favor, but not himself

After early indications that his demurral was only due to timing, Lapid insists gov’t will never be able to withstand move; some US officials fear it’s an effort to drive up cost

From Palestinian filmmaker's Hany Abu Assad's 2013 film 'Omar,' now streaming on Netflix from October 2021 as part of the new Palestinian collection (Courtesy 'Omar' PR)

Netflix says it backs authentic storytelling in its Palestinian film collection

By Jessica Steinberg

An Israeli Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and F-16 fighter jets perform during an air show over Tel Aviv, on May 9, 2019, as Israel marks its 71st Independence Day. (Jack Guez/AFP)

IDF said to resume practicing potential strike on Iranian nuclear sites

Rob Malley, US special envoy for Iran (R) and Stephan Klement, EU ambassador and European external action service special advisor on Iran, talk in front of the Hotel Imperial near the Grand Hotel Vienna where closed-door nuclear talks took place in Vienna, Austria, June 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter)

US Iran envoy to meet European officials in Paris on renewing Iran nuclear talks

By AFP

Travelers are seen at Ben Gurion Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tourists will have to have been vaccinated in last 180 days

Israel to allow vaccinated or recovered tourists to enter starting November 1

But government says no entry for travelers coming from ‘red’ countries or from places seeing outbreak of new AY4.2 strain; Russian vaccine not okayed, for now

InterviewTop doctor says receding COVID means parents won’t rush to vaccinate their kids

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: In this May 14, 2021, file photo, an adolescent gets a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 at the First Baptist Church of Pasadena in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine over 90% effective for kids 5-11

By AP

Interview'They might have overthrown the government'

How Nazi sympathizers in WWII Cape Town spied on the Allies and evaded justice

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘Hitler’s South African Spies,’ Evert Kleynhans uncovers ‘suppressed’ evidence that members of an ultimately ineffective effort to harm Allied ships escaped prosecution

A view of salt covered land at the Dead Sea, on September 2, 2016. Many facilities and beaches have closed in recent years as the sea shrinks (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Now’s the time to save the Dead Sea

A natural wonder is being destroyed on Israel’s watch. But falling desalination costs, technical advances, and new avenues of regional cooperation offer a chance to change that

View of the Ashalim solar power station in the Negev desert, southern Israel, on August 21, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s ‘vibrant’ climate tech sector shows promise amid challenges

By Ricky Ben-David

In this Oct. 4, 2016 file photo, oil fields in the town of Qayyarah burn, nearly a month after fleeing Islamic State militants set fire to the oil. (Bram Janssen/AP)

In first, US intel agencies warn climate change driving security threats

By AFP

Suspect in British MP’s slaying backs IS, plotted attack for years — prosecutors

UK authorities say Ali Harbi Ali began planning to kill two other lawmakers two years ago, ended up targeting Amess because he supported airstrikes in Syria

Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations Matt Jukes preparing to update the media on the investigation into the murder of Conservative Party lawmaker David Amess, outside New Scotland Yard in south west London on October 21, 2021. (Daniel Leal-Ollivas/AFP)

Illustrative: IDF soldiers stand guard during a search in the West Bank village of Yatta, on June 15, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Members of thwarted terror cell are linked to PA security forces — report

Illustrative: A prison guard is seen in a watchtower at Gilboa prison, in northern Israel, September 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Islamic Jihad prisoners claim to end hunger strike after reaching deal

By Aaron Boxerman and Amy Spiro

The Conservative Movement's Rabbinical Assembly 2014 convention. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Conservative movement publishes list of rabbis it has expelled or suspended

Rabbinical Assembly says move part of review of its handling of misconduct allegations; 9 listed, including rabbi arrested in Israel for performing non-Orthodox wedding

Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

NYC’s Park East Synagogue fires popular assistant rabbi, sparking protest

Malek Hassuna (L) carries a picture of his late son Mussa, who was shot dead on May 10, as he sits with Effi Yehoshua, brother of Yigal Yehoshua, killed on May 11, in Lod on August 18, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Prosecutors clear suspects in deadly shooting of Arab Lod man during May riots

Four suspects ruled out as culprits in death of Mussa Hassuna, while a fifth is off the hook due to uncertainty and claims that he was acting in self-defense

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a conference in Tel Aviv, on June 29, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

AG on bill that would bar Netanyahu from becoming PM: It’s not personal

Avichai Mandelblit appears to give legal backing to proposal to ban any lawmaker charged with a serious crime from forming a government

In this file photo released October 13, 2020, on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad (center left), wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, speaks with people during his tour of areas that suffered heavy damage from deadly wildfires, in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia. (Syrian Presidency via Facebook via AP, File)

Syria executes 24 for allegedly sparking deadly wildfires

By AP

Amnesty International researcher says executions show ‘the Syrian government’s disregard for international law, especially right to life’

The defaced façade of the synagogue of Graz, Austria, on August 19, 2020. (Christian Jauschowetz via JTA)

Austria jails Syrian for vandalizing synagogue, threatening Jewish leader

By AFP

Ari'el Stachel accepts the award for featured actor in a musical for 'The Band's Visit' at the 72nd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in New York. (Michael Zorn/Invision/AP)

Jewish actor bows out of role as Syrian migrant in Off-Broadway show

By Emily Burack

More Headlines

Police officials operate at the scene of a suspected murder in Beit Shemesh on October 22, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man arrested for allegedly killing his mother in Beit Shemesh

File: Alec Baldwin watches the men's singles final of the US Open tennis championships in New York on September 12, 2021. (John Minchillo/AP)

Alec Baldwin fires prop gun on movie set, killing director of photography

By MORGAN LEE and Walter Berry

Israelis at a Red Sea beach close to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in Eilat, southern Israel, February 10, 2021. (Menaham Kahana/AFP)

UAE says nixing pipeline agreement won’t damage ties with Israel

A spokesperson from the Sunrise Movement engages with a protester at the Art Mural #SealTheDeal for Climate, Jobs, Care, and Justice in San Francisco, on August 19, 2021. (Thos Robinson/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)

Sunrise distances itself from, but doesn’t condemn, boycott of Zionist groups

This photo from Oct. 16, 2021, shows the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue with the fencing showing artwork submitted by Pittsburgh area school students in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Three years on, Pittsburgh synagogue attacker still not on trial

By Peter Smith and MARK SCOLFORO

Former US president Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters in New York, on August 20, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP/File)

House votes to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

A guard tower and barbed wire fence surround a detention facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. AP found that the Chinese government was carrying out a birth control program aimed at Uighurs, Kazakhs and other largely Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, even as some of the country's Han majority was encouraged to have more children. The measures included detention in prisons and camps, such as this facility in Artux, as punishment for having too many children, Dec. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Dozens of countries, but not Israel, urge China to respect Uighurs’ rights

By AFP and ToI Staff

First responders at the scene of a car explosion in the northern coastal city of Nahariya, on October 21, 2021, in which two people were seriously hurt. (Magen David Adom)

2 men seriously hurt in apparent car bombing in Nahariya

A woman throws a bottle into a recycling bin in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Wasting no timeJerusalem promises not to leave residents without bottle recycling cages

Israel said trying to mend France ties strained over NSO phone hack

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin gestures as he talks with supporters during a rally in Culpeper, Virginia, on October 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Republican nominee in Virginia: Soros ‘inserting’ activists into school system

The Jerusalem Street Orchestra performing at the city's Clal Building, a classical musical festival returning October 26-28, 2021 (Courtesy Jerusalem Street Orchestra)

Sonic experienceJerusalem Street Orchestra brings back Clal Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

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