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A worker leans against a gasoline pump that has been turned off, at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian gas stations hit by outage in widespread cyberattack

Those trying to buy fuel receive a message reading ‘cyberattack 64411,’ mirroring July attack on country’s railroad system

Rooftops are seen under an overcast sky of Tehran, Iran, May 8, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Tehran suffering worst drought in 50 years, says water supply official

By AFP

In this photo released by the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a live interview in Tehran, Iran, broadcast on state-run TV on Monday, October 18, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

480 killed in 2020-21: Iran carrying out executions ‘at alarming rate,’ UN told

By Edith M. Lederer

'Israel is not prepared for the climate crisis'

Ahead of world climate meet, watchdog says Israel over-polluting, underpreparing

In report described as ‘warning light,’ ombudsman slams lack of government focus, failure to budget and implement decisions, rising emissions and too-modest targets

Israelis attend a rally calling for action against climate crisis and the ecological crisis in Tel Aviv on November 29, 2019. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Flanked to the right by his wife, Michal, and to the left by Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg, President Isaac Herzog tastes chicken made from laboratory generated cells without harm to the birds, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, October 25, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

Israel sending 120-strong delegation to Glasgow climate talks

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, right, attend a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 1, 2021. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel announces hard-fought deal with EU on joining flagship R&D program

By Lazar Berman

Horizon Europe will allocate a total of over €95 billion for research in 2021-2027, but not to settlements; Israelis allowed to bid on quantum computing, but not space, tenders

Zhang Jun, permanent representative of China to the United Nations, speaks during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, Pool)

In effort to placate China, Israel refrains from signing UN statement on Uighurs

Hallel Silverman

Yes, you heard me right: I am a progressive Zionist.

In vilifying a movement that seeks justice and Jewish self-determination, Sunrise DC seems to care more about promoting hate than about solving real issues

Prime Minister Bennett, Israel’s climate policy can be your legacy

With more and more countries setting net-zero emission targets for 2050, Israel can no longer claim we’re too small to make an impact

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

On smelting and the sabbatical year

Today, standing in the produce aisle, I think about finding my teachers and apologizing for my constant refrain of ’Why do we have to learn this?’

Andrew Yang’s cynical antisemitism card

The Forward Party founder offers Jews no real solutions – unless they happen to belong to an Orthodox group that supported him for mayor of New York

(courtesy)

Fighting anti-semitism through jazz

Watch the jazz philosophy founder Albert Murray, who worked to reduce racial tension by promoting the values of a multicultural society through music.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, speaks as he meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, on Friday, August 27, 2021, in Washington, DC. (GPO)

Live updates (closed)

US said to protest to Bennett’s office against settlement construction plans

News site reports that charge d’affaires at American embassy phoned PM’s diplomatic adviser to say the Biden administration views Israel’s advancement of new settler homes severely

6:28 pm

Greek PM tells Turkey to halt 'aggressive posturing'
6:03 pm

British queen cancels attendance at climate conference 'on medical advice'
5:38 pm

As FDA meets, Bennett set to discuss vaccines for kids with health officials

The Oct. 24, 2021 edition of Chile's El Mercurio newspaper featured an article on Hermann Göring. (Screenshot via JTA)

Chilean newspaper draws outrage with tribute to Nazi leader Hermann Göring

By Orge Castellano

Jewish organizations call article marking 75 years since his death ‘an apology for Nazism’; political leaders also condemn newspaper, express solidarity with community

A photograph of murdered Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll is placed along with flowers on the fence surrounding her building in Paris on March 28, 2018. (Francois Guillot/AFP)

Trial opens in murder of French Holocaust survivor

By Marie DHUMIERES

Swedish Education Minister Anna Ekström. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Swedish agency suggests exercise in which students argue Holocaust didn’t happen

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Iron Dome defense missile systems are pictured in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, on April 24, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Eyeing drone threat from Iran, Israel working to boost radars, air defenses

By Judah Ari Gross

Military hopes to have full coverage of northern airspace within two years, as part of plan to establish a nationwide air defense umbrella

US officials say Iran behind recent drone attack on American base in Syria

By Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns

Iran expanding uranium enrichment at Natanz site, says UN nuclear watchdog

Iran’s excuses to avoid nuclear talks are ‘wearing thin’ – US official

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: A young woman holds a sign toward oncoming traffic, October 15, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Antisemitism fears made 40% of US Jews change their behavior last year – survey

By PHILISSA CRAMER

New AJC study helps understand how Americans perceive Jew-hatred, which has caused many to mask their Judaism on- and offline as well as avoid places and events

Illustrative: A sign bearing the slogan, 'Honk if you know the Jews want a race war' placed on an overpass on route I-405 in Los Angeles by Jon Minadeo Jr. of the Goyim Defense League. (Siamak Kordestani/Twitter via JTA)

Neo-Nazis hang ‘Vax the Jews’ banner near Texas JCC, synagogues

This image taken from a September 14, 2019 video and released in a US Attorney detention memorandum, shows Brian Mark Lemley Jr, driving, and Patrik Mathews, passenger seat, passing through a toll booth near Norfolk, Virginia., en route to Georgia. (US Attorney)

US judge to sentence neo-Nazi group members under terrorism law

By Michael Kunzelman

Emirati air force chief Ibrahim Nasser Muhammed al-Alawi, left, shakes hands with Israeli Air Force chief Amikam Norkin after he lands in Israel to observe to observe the IAF's Blue Flag exercise on October 25, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

British and Indian jets fly over Israel for 1st time

In landmark visit, UAE air chief in Israel to observe ‘Blue Flag’ exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Military’s largest, most advanced aerial exercise to date pits fourth- and fifth-generation aircraft against fictional ‘Dragonland,’ which looks not unlike Syria

Illustrative: Sept. 2, 2019, file photo, Spanish UN peacekeepers patrol along the Lebanese-Israeli border, with the Israeli village of Metulla in the background. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Amid economic crisis, Israel opens border to let Lebanese villagers pick olives

By AFP

Israeli tourists arrive at the Marrakech-Menara International Airport on the first direct commercial flight between Israel and Morocco, on July 25, 2021. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Israel lifts travel warning to Morocco after more than a decade

Sudanese security forces keep watch during protests against a military coup that overthrew the transition to civilian rule, on October 25, 2021, in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman. (AFP)

Sudanese diplomat to Israeli TV: Coup won’t dramatically impact normalization

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Unnamed official quoted saying arrested PM Hamdok had intended to travel to Washington soon to sign the deal; US says agreement ‘will have to be evaluated’

Sudanese security forces keep watch as they protect a military hospital and government offices during protests against a military coup that overthrew the transition to civilian rule, in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, on October 25, 2021. (AFP)

US says it is halting $700 million in aid to Sudan after military takeover

By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Pro-democracy protesters flash the victory sign as they take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials, in Khartoum, Sudan, October 25, 2021. (Ashraf Idris/AP)

Deaths of Sudan protesters mount as international community condemns coup

By AFP

Diabetes reversed in mice for 4 months, after one-time implant from Israeli lab

By Nathan Jeffay

Blood glucose levels drop by an average of 26% after tissue grown at the Technion is transplanted; researchers hope to develop method for humans

A diabetic woman checking blood sugar level at home. (iStock via Getty Images)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 26 – Why the delay in reopening Jerusalem’s US consulate?

US correspondent Jacob Magid on the consulate, Uighurs and Sudanese diplomacy, plus environmental reporter Sue Surkes on Glasgow, solar energy and the UAE pipeline

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)

US insists it wasn’t given heads-up before Israel blacklisted Palestinian groups

Dismissing Israeli claim, State Department spokesman says it didn’t receive notification of any ‘specific designations,’ but looks forward to hearing from visiting officials

Screen capture from video of a man pepper-spraying volunteers helping Palestinian olive farmers, October 25, 2021. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

Settlers pepper-spray rights activists in West Bank

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

EU, France condemn Israel over plans to build 1,300 new settlement homes

Oumie Nyassi shows a video circulating online and that has been debunked of a woman claiming she was magnetized after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, in a doctor's office at Serrekunda, Gambia hospital on Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ignoring its own staff, Facebook failed to act against anti-vax misinformation

By David Klepper and AMANDA SEITZ

Critics suggest social media giant was slow to move because it worried internal proposals to deal with misleading info might impact profits

A demonstrator poses with an installation depicting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg surfing on a wave of cash and surrounded by distressed teenagers, during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament in central London as Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was set to testify to British lawmakers, on October 25, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)

Facebook profits rise 17% amid accusations it values success over user safety

By Barbara Ortutay and Kelvin Chan

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (L) leaves the Houses of Parliament in central London on October 25, 2021 after giving evidence to members of the UK parliament on the Joint Committee on the draft Online Safety Bill. - Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told UK lawmakers Monday that posting content featuring anger and hate "is the easiest way to grow" on the social media platform as she urged better regulation. The ex-Facebook employee, who earlier this year shared a trove of internal documents alleging it knew its products were fueling hate and harming children's mental health, argued the platform was "unquestionably" fuelling hate. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP)

Facebook ‘unquestionably’ fueling hate, whistleblower tells UK lawmakers

People receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a health clinic, in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Positive COVID-19 test results at lowest rate in 4 months

By Stuart Winer

Health Ministry figures show just 0.88% of swabs on Monday found coronavirus carriers; number of seriously ill patients down to level last seen in August

This October 2021 photo provided by Pfizer shows kid-size doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in Puurs, Belgium. (Pfizer via AP)

FDA expected to authorize Pfizer COVID vaccine for kids 5-11

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Chester County, Pennsylvania, Health Department worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, before administering it at the Chester County Government Services Center in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on December 29, 2020. (AP Photo/ Matt Slocum, File)

Moderna says its low-dose COVID shot works for kids 6-11

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

IDF launches ‘Southern Storm’ training exercise on Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

Drill meant to ‘improve preparedness’ and check that forces internalized the takeaways from May’s 11-day conflict, military says

Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border near Sderot on August 24, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Pro-Israel demonstrators protest in New York City against Ben & Jerry's, over its settlement boycott on August 12, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

Florida to start divesting from Ben & Jerry’s parent firm over West Bank boycott

Deadline enacted in July comes into effect on Tuesday, 3 months after ice cream company announced policy against selling in West Bank

Zev Zalman Ludwick, once a denizen of the heavy metal music scene, poses in his luthier studio in Silver Spring, Maryland on May 23, 2021. (Ron Kampeas/ JTA)

Jews, drugs, and rock 'n' roll

The Jewish stories behind a heavy metal cult classic documentary

The 1986 short film ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ was beloved not just by fans, but stars like Dave Grohl; 35 years later, the filmmakers – and one subject – weigh in on how it’s aged

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Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai seen during a visit to the southern city of Ashkelon, May 18, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel Police chief reportedly uses gun to point during presentation

The Biran family, with Eitan on the right. (Courtesy)

Israeli court orders boy orphaned in cable car crash go back to family in Italy

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians sit in a courtroom hearing on evictions in East Jerusalem at Israel's High Court on Monday, October 25, 2021 (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

High Court hears potentially decisive East Jerusalem eviction case

By Aaron Boxerman

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu points at his hair during a speech at the Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, on October 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Splitting hairsNetanyahu exaggerates post-haircut reception

Illustrative: A bowl of cashew nuts. (etiennevoss/iStock)

Nut caseIran man gets jail, lashes for stealing cashews

By AFP

Ultra-Orthodox representatives of the Chief Rabbinate cross Jaffa Road in Jerusalem as they deliver a kosher certificate to a local restaurant, on December 31, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel’s ‘inefficient’ kashrut system costing taxpayers millions — study

First Lady Jill Biden speaks at the Yeshiva Beth Yehudah fundraiser dinner in Detroit, Oct. 24, 2021. (Screenshot from C-Span)

At yeshiva fundraiser, Jill Biden pays tribute to Jonathan Sacks

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a crime scene in Netanya, October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Man seriously injured in Jaffa stabbing

Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi arrives to speak at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Egypt lifts state of emergency in force since 2017 bombings of Coptic churches

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hadera Mayor Zvi Gendelman arrives for extension of his remand at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Letzion, June 4, 2018. (Flash90)

Hadera mayor indicted on corruption charges over ties to contractor

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Britain's Prince Charles, left, and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, arrive for the World premiere of the new film from the James Bond franchise 'No Time To Die,' in London, September 28, 2021. (Chris Jackson/Pool Photo via AP)

Britain’s Prince Charles to visit Jordan, Egypt next month

By AFP and ToI Staff

L-R: Jon Hamm and Larry David discuss Yiddish words during the first episode of Season 11 of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (Screenshot from HBO via JTA)

Pretty, pretty good‘Curb’ is back and Jon Hamm gets a Yiddish lesson

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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