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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 27, 2021

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah, on May 5, 2020. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Mahmoud Abbas decries Israel’s advancement of new settlement homes

Palestinian Authority chief says Israeli plans to build some 3,000 housing units in West Bank ‘convey disdain’ for US efforts

6:08 pm

PM, health minister agree to ditch cap on outdoor events as COVID cases plummet
5:57 pm

Health chief meets head of Germany's Social Democrats, tapped to form next gov't
5:51 pm

In recordings, Shaked lashes out at coalition partners Lapid, Gantz

Israelis protest at the Gush Etzion junction against Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's visit to US president Joe Biden and on what they claim to be the freeze on settlement development, on August 24, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Biden administration issues harshest critique yet on Israeli settlement building

State Dept. spokesman says recently announced plans for new homes ‘completely inconsistent’ with efforts to maintain calm; ‘We are deeply concerned’

Construction work for new housing in the settlement of Modi'in Illit. January 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Planning committee meets to okay 2,800 settlement homes, despite US condemnation

By AP and ToI Staff

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

UN rights chief slams ‘arbitrary’ Israel decision to outlaw Palestinian groups

By ToI Staff and AFP

Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana speaks during a conference in Jerusalem on August 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Plan for major kashrut reform advances through Knesset committee

Ultra-Orthodox lawmakers fume over proposal, which would open up kosher certification to private agencies

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 27 – Will Israelis agree to vaccinate their young children?

Health correspondent Nathan Jeffay on COVID shots for kids 5-11; senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on coalition infighting; and Raoul Wootliff on a new stage in the Netanyahu trial

An Israeli youth receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a vaccination center in Petah Tikva, July 19, 2021. (Flash90)

After FDA nod, Israel gears up to start vaccinating 5- to 11-year-olds

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

FDA advisers back Pfizer shot for ages 5-11, paving way for Israel to follow

By ToI Staff and AP

The departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on August 16, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Exclusive

Planned law will let Israel collect personal info on all airline passengers

By Tal Schneider

Passengers arrive at Miami International Airport before they are screened by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) using facial biometrics to automate manual document checks required for admission into the US on November 20, 2020, in Miami, Florida. (AP Photo/ Lynne Sladky)

Israel a candidate for visa waiver program, says top US official

Joan Rivers (left), and daughter Melissa Rivers at the 2013 Matrix New York Women in Communications Awards, in New York, April 22, 2013. (AP/Evan Agostini/Invision)

Joan Rivers series that sparked ‘Jewface’ debate scrapped by Showtime

Plans for ‘The Comeback Girl’ starring Kathryn Hahn dropped by the network after it failed to secure rights from daughter Melissa Rivers

Actresses Helen Mirren (left) and Mila Kunis (AP)

Helen Mirren, Mila Kunis join letter rejecting boycott of Tel Aviv film fest

Sponsored

Amy Chua – Liberalism’s Story (In Memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks)

To commemorate Rabbi Sacks’ life and legacy, Rabbi Lamm speaks with one of the last people to ever be in public conversation with him: Professor Amy Chua of Yale Law School

Analysis

Sudan coup puts Israel ties on backburner, but unlikely to derail normalization

Military leaders who pushed ties with Jerusalem are now in control. But with bigger issues to deal with, the already torpid normalization process is expected to slow even further

A Sudanese demonstrator carrying a national flag walks by roadblocks set up by protesters on a street in the capital Khartoum, on October 26, 2021. (AFP)

President Isaac Herzog (right) meets with Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, October 27, 2021 (Haim Zach/GPO)

In Israel, Congolese president says seeking ‘closer security, agriculture ties’

By Lazar Berman

(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 15, 2021 Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok holds a press conference at the Council of Ministers in the capital Khartoum. (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)

Amid international outcry, Sudan PM detained after coup allowed to return home

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, hugs Nitza Shmueli, whose border guard son Barel was shot dead by a Palestinian gunman on the Gaza border in August, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 27, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/PMO)

Bennett meets fallen border guard’s relatives, who had railed against him

By Judah Ari Gross

Barel Shmueli’s mother apologizes for calling PM a ‘dog’ after son was shot dead on Gaza border; asks him to support law that would let Barel’s sperm be used to produce grandchild

Larry David and my own thoughtless, stupid, insensitive remarks

There should be limits to humor, I suppose, but then who can determine what is offensive and what is appropriate without becoming Orwell’s thought police?

Of Star Trek and Jewish identity

I use one episode to teach denominational differences, another to assess Cain and Abel’s brotherly love, one more on the temptation to sin, and another about God

Vials containing Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 are seen at the San Marino State Hospital, in San Marino, April 9, 2021. (Antonio Calanni/AP)

Bucking FDA standards, Israel to allow entry for tourists with Russian vaccine

Health Ministry director says arrivals who have received Sputnik V shots will need to take a serology test to confirm antibodies

Israelis, wearing a protective mask against the coronavirus (COVID-19), pay their respects over the grave of a soldier at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on April 26, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Anti-vaxxer’s gravestone accusing hospital of murder edited amid legal threat

Esther Horgen, 52, was found dead in the northern West Bank in a terror attack on December 20, 2020. (Courtesy)

Military court convicts Palestinian terrorist in Esther Horgen’s murder

Muhammad Mruh Kabha convicted of killing in the Reihan forest last year; family says he should ‘rot behind bars till the end of his days’

A woman suffering from chronic muscle pain (iStock via Getty Images)

Israel to recognize fibromyalgia, a chronic muscle pain illness, as a disability

By Nathan Jeffay

Patients once sidelined by skeptical doctors now given right to claim state allowance; decision impacts many in south whose illness is thought to be brought on by Hamas rockets

Screen capture from video of Iran's top nuclear negotiator Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri, 2020. (YouTube)

Iran offers to talk to Europeans about restarting nuclear negotiations

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Iranian source tells state media country formally notified Britain, France, and Germany it is willing to meet with reps on their turf or in Tehran, but so far has had no response

Cars and motorbikes queue to fill up at a service station in Iran's capital Tehran on October 26, 2021, amid a nationwide disruption of the petrol distribution system. (Atta KENARE / AFP)

Iran blames fuel shutdown on cyberattack from unnamed country

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Vladimir Friedman and Maria Belkin in 'Golden Voices.' (Music Box Films/ via JTA)

Film review

In ‘Golden Voices,’ Russian movie dubbers struggle with new roles in Holy Land

By Andrew Lapin

Poignant and funny, film follows two famous voiceover actors who move to Israel in the post-Soviet era as they try to fit, socially and professionally, into their new homeland

The three Jewish stars of the 2021 World Series, from left: Joc Pederson, Max Fried and Alex Bregman. (Getty Images via JTA)

3 Jewish baseball players are key figures in the 2021 World Series

By jacob gurvis

Mort Sahl, comedian, during taping at WRC studios in Washington December 6, 1978. (AP)

Mort Sahl, satirist who brought politics to comedy, dies at 94

By AP

Credited as the first to give stand-up acts an iconoclastic edge, Sahl skewered presidents from Eisenhower to Trump, paving the way for comics like George Carlin and Jon Stewart

Pop group Jay And The Americans perform on the NBC TV music show 'Hullabaloo' in New York City, February 1965. Jay Black is second from right, holding the microphone. (Hullabaloo Archive/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)

Jay Black of ‘Jay and The Americans’ dies at 82

More Headlines

Avi Berger, the former director-general of the Communications Ministry, appears at the Jerusalem District Court to testify in one of the corruption cases against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, October 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Case 4000Netanyahu trial turns to alleged benefits he provided Bezeq telecom company

By Raoul Wootliff

The United States Consulate in Jerusalem, March 4, 2019. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Republican senators introduce bill to block reopening of Jerusalem consulate

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

An illustration of IAI's SatGuard’s simulation (Courtesy)

IAI sets up $40m fund to adapt military drone, energy tech to civilian market

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative: An Israeli policeman walks near cement cubes placed as a roadblock by Israeli security forces on a road linking the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina with West Jerusalem on September 15, 2021 (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Israel shuts down culture festival in East Jerusalem, claiming PA funding

By AFP and ToI Staff

A student bikes across campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images/JTA)

US study: 1/3 of Jewish college students experienced antisemitism last year

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Scren capture from video of a dead griffon vulture found in the Judean Desert, October 27, 2021. (Srugim)

Three more dead vultures found in Judean Desert, bringing poisoning toll to 12

French President Emmanuel Macron (R), flanked by president of the Maison Zola-Musee Dreyfus association Louis Gautier (C) and journalist Emile Zola's great-granddaughter's Martine Le Blond-Zola (L), visits the Dreyfus Museum, on the property of the Emile Zola house in Medan, near Paris, on October 26, 2021. (Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)

France opens world’s first museum dedicated to Dreyfus affair

By Cnaan Liphshiz

FILE - In this June 27, 2019, file photo, then US president Donald Trump's Twitter feed is shown on a computer, in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Facebook sat idling as online hate raged after Trump post, leaked documents show

By AMANDA SEITZ

An illustrative photo of a Porsche (Panamera Turbo S-E Hybrid Executive) on a city street. (Porsche)

Porsche, Goodyear invest in Israeli smart car firm Tactile Mobility

By Ricky Ben-David

Head of the Shas party Aryeh Deri and Likud's Yariv Levin, at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, on October 18, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Opposition drops boycott of Knesset committees after court ruling

Illustrative: A Red Cross vehicle in Gaza (Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)

Red Cross says settlers maced personnel in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, center, announcing that Maghar had become the first Druze city in Israel, October 26, 2021. (Twitter)

Maghar becomes Israel’s first Druze city

By Stuart Winer

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