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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 23, 2021

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A Palestinian flag waves in front of the White House on December 8, 2017, in Washington, DC, at a protest against US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AFP PHOTO / mari matsuri)

In rebuke, US demands Israel explain terror listing for Palestinian NGOs

State Department says it was not informed of move ahead of time, appears to join others casting doubt on Jerusalem’s stance that rights organizations served as fronts for terror

Pro-Palestinian protesters march outside the White House, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2021 in Washington. (AP/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Israeli ‘terror’ designation of Palestinian NGOs sparks furious int’l backlash

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian employees at the offices of Addameer in the West Bank city of Ramallah, after IDF forces raided 3 Palestinian NGOs, on December 11, 2012. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

Gantz declares six Palestinian rights groups ‘terror organizations’

By Aaron Boxerman

Film review

Move over Tenenbaums, ‘French Dispatch’ is Wes Anderson’s most Jewish film yet

Movie starring Jewish heartthrob Timothée Chalamet has chapters focusing on Jewish protagonists and characters based on Jewish journalists from The New Yorker

Benicio del Toro, center, as painter Moses Rosenthaler, and Léa Seydoux, right, as the prison guard Simone in "The French Dispatch." (Searchlight Pictures via JTA)

Medics and police officers are seen near the scene of a shooting at Jaffa's port, on October 23, 2021; Insert: Abed Qazaz. (Magen David Adom; Courtesy)

Man chased down and shot dead in broad daylight at Jaffa port

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Eyewitnesses say 40-year-old Abed Qazaz ran from gunmen through nearby parking lot, near a COVID-19 testing facility, and jumped into the sea

Syrian air defenses respond to alleged Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

Israel says Russia agreed to not hamper IDF air campaign over Syria

Ze’ev Elkin, present at Sochi talks, says Putin and Bennett decided to preserve so-called deconfliction mechanism allowing Israel to carry out attacks without Moscow responding

An MQ-9 drone. (Screen capture/YouTube)

US says it killed senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria drone strike

By AFP

Analysis

Expanded Israel-India ties start taking shape, after the Netanyahu-Modi bromance

Four-way Zoom call between US, UAE, Israel, and India underlines potential for a regional economic network to counter China’s designs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi visit the water desalination plant at Olga beach, on July 6, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Illustrative -- A healthcare worker injects a boy with a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, during a vaccination drive for children between the ages of 12-17, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, Oct. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

FDA says Pfizer COVID vaccine looks highly effective for children 5-11

By AP and ToI Staff

US says benefit outweighs any risk, no unexpected side effects; panel to vote Tuesday before decision made on authorization; Israel said planning to inoculate kids from December

Gravediggers carry a coffin with a body of a patient who died of coronavirus at the Novo-Yuzhnoye cemetery, which serves as one of the burial grounds for those who died of the coronavirus outside Omsk, Russia, Oct. 22, 2021 (AP Photo)

Russia sets new death, infection records as COVID-19 surge persists

Chavi Eisenberg

The secret magic of folding laundry

The perpetual mountain of laundry was my nemesis, until I learned to take my successes in small doses – or colorful piles of folded clothes

It took years for the apple tree to bear fruit, but this was the year, and I was looking forward to my apple-related culinary adventures. Then I lost my chance

Drugs and guns that Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces say were smuggled from Lebanon, October 23, 2021 (Israel Police)

IDF, police foil gun, drug smuggling operation; Hezbollah involvement suspected

2 pistols and 9kg of hashish worth $110,000 seized near northern border, believed to have been brought into Israel from Lebanon

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link from a secret location through a giant screen, during a ceremony marking Prophet Muhammad's birthday, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, October 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Nasrallah warns Israel against searching for gas in disputed maritime region

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A screen capture from video shows a car burning near the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, after it was allegedly set ablaze by settlers from a nearby outpost, October 23, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Settlers reported to assault Palestinian olive harvesters, burn car

Group from Adei Ad outpost said to mace at least one man with pepper spray; incident comes days after 2 arrested over alleged settler attack in area

Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann, a former French politician whose popularity grew when he spread QAnon-style conspiracy theories, appears in court in Nancy, France on June 16, 2021, on charges he orchestrated the kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl whose mother had lost custody of her. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

French ex-politician tied to QAnon abduction plot charged with far-right terror

By AP

Authorities say Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann connected to extreme-right plot to attack vaccination centers, masonic lodge; he’s already jailed for masterminding kidnap of child

In this file photo conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020 (Kyle Grillot / AFP)

Facebook fed QAnon conspiracy theories to its own security researchers – reports

By AFP

New whistleblower accuses Facebook of mishandling Russian election interference

By AFP

Interview

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

As the FDA prepares to approve shots for children, pediatric diseases expert Galia Grisaru-Soen warns new variants could prove ‘more serious’ for them

A health worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, on October 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In this Sept. 21, 2015 file photo, actor Alec Baldwin attends a news conference at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Alec Baldwin ‘heartbroken’ after fatally shooting cinematographer with prop gun

By Anne Lebreton and Andrew MARSZAL

US actor says he’s ‘fully cooperating’ with police investigation, as law enforcement officials carry out search warrant and reports emerge of allegedly unsafe conditions on set

(L) In this Sept. 21, 2015 file photo, actor Alec Baldwin attends a news conference at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) and (R) filmmaker Halyna Hutchins attends the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Official Kickoff Party in Park City, Utah on January 18, 2018 (Sonia Recchia / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Baldwin didn’t know prop weapon in fatal shooting contained live rounds

By Anne Lebreton and Andrew MARSZAL

Interview'It's easy to make Brighton Beach look like the 1980s'

Director Eric Steel on Jewish-LGBTQ film ‘Minyan,’ one of this year’s top 10

By Jordan Hoffman

A surprisingly true to life depiction of Russian-Jewish immigrants in 1980s Brooklyn doesn’t hinder the universal message in the movie, opening Oct. 22 in NY and streaming Oct. 29

Katie Couric reveals Jewish, Confederate ancestry in new autobiography

TV star theorizes that mother’s ambivalence toward — and sometimes discomfort with — Judaism was a coping mechanism for avoiding antisemitism she encountered while growing up

In this Friday, June 18, 2021, file photo, journalist Katie Couric attends a screening during the 20th Tribeca Festival at The Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, in New York. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash addresses The Road to the Green New Deal Tour final event at Howard University in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2019. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Sunrise Movement censures DC branch, says singling out Jewish groups antisemitic

Local chapter that had quit voting rights rally over inclusion of Zionist organizations indicates it has been rethinking move after backlash, as national leadership sharpens stance

Ibraheem Samirah appears in a undated campaign video. (Screen capture via JTA)

Virginia Democratic delegate accuses Mossad of creating ‘fossil fuel wars’

Sarah Podemski in 'Reservation Dogs.' (Shane Brown/FX via JTA)

Interview'I could have Shabbat dinner and then a powwow with my mom'

For Jewish Indigenous actress Sarah Podemski, it’s a miracle just to exist

By EVELYN FRICK

The star of the hit FX series ‘Reservation Dogs’ talks about her dual identities, growing up with a Holocaust survivor grandfather, reparations, and why she loves matzah ball soup

Then prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then public security minister Amir Ohana in Tel Aviv, on December 1, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Exclusive

Once a key member of Netanyahu’s inner circle, Amir Ohana on outside looking in

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

Opposition chair’s silence as Likud MK tears into former minister indicates that longtime loyalist who became one of party’s most popular figures has fallen from favor

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Swastikas graffitied in the northern West Bank on October 22, 2021. (Yitzhar settlement)

IDF nabs Palestinian suspected of daubing swastikas on West Bank road barriers

The scene of a deadly crash in the Negev on October 22, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Man in his 20s killed, 2 seriously hurt as car falls from bridge in Negev

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Oct. 22, 2021 (Aris Oikonomou, Pool Photo via AP)

‘You are a monument’: Merkel gets standing ovation at her final EU summit

Illustrative -- Under the images of UAE leaders, Brazil's players train during a practice session in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 12, 2019 (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

UAE reporter detained for leaked pre-game comments before World Cup qualifier

Lev Parnas arrives at a US federal court for an arraignment hearing on October 23, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Giuliani associate Parnas convicted of making illegal political donations

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

New York real estate scion Robert Durst, 78, sits in the courtroom as he is sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole, on October 14, 2021, at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles. (Myung J. Chung/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)

Fallen scion Robert Durst charged with murdering wife who vanished in 1982

By Karen Matthews

Blurred photos of three the 15 alleged Mossad agents are published by the Turkish Sabah daily. Background: Pro-Palestinian Turkish demonstrators holding Turkish and Palestinian flags take part in a rally to protest in Istanbul, Febuary 9, 2020. (Screenshot: Sabah; AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Alleged Turkish Mossad spy describes unwitting recruitment, training in Zurich

Martin Davidovich (Courtesy)

IDF’s 1st fallen paratrooper to be buried in Israel, 73 years after his death

In this May 26, 2021 file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during the Presidential elections in Douma, Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syria lined pockets with millions in aid using distorted exchange rate — study

By Sarah El Deeb

In this October 19, 2021 file photo Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, greet guests at a reception for the Global Investment Summit in Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

UK’s Queen Elizabeth II back at castle following brief hospitalization

By DANICA KIRKA

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