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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 28, 2021

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A picture taken on November 19, 2019 shows a new housing construction site in the Israeli settlement of Elazar, near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, in the West Bank. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

13 European states call on Israel to halt plans for 3,000 settlement homes

By ToI Staff and AFP

A day after US rebuke, UK, France and Germany are among countries saying Israel should ‘immediately’ scrap project

This file photo from October 13, 2021, shows construction in the Israeli settlement of Rahalim, located near the Palestinian village of Yatma, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Coalition discord as some 3,000 settler homes okayed amid left-wing, US ire

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) gestures to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, on June 3, 2021, at the State Department in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

In call with Gantz, Blinken said to protest ‘unacceptable’ settlement building

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, center, of the Tree of Life/Or L'Simcha Congregation, is comforted after saying a prayer for the souls of the deceased during the one-year commemoration of the Tree of Life synagogue attack, at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, October 27, 2019, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

Interview

Tree of Life rabbi: ‘We can’t let evil win, and it won’t go away on its own’

By Danielle Ziri

3 years after the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh that claimed 11 lives, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers speaks about grieving, life after the tragedy and serving as an example to the world

Illustrative: Members of the National Socialists Movement and the White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan salute during a rally April 21, 2012, at the Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky. (AP Photo/John Flavell)

US AG says Nazi salute protected under First Amendment

By MICHAEL BALSAMO

Merrick Garland reaffirms right while defending memo aimed at combating growing threats against school officials; Republicans criticize directive, call for it to be rescinded

US President Joe Biden speaks about the evacuation of American citizens, their families, SIV applicants and vulnerable Afghans in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 20, 2021, in Washington. US Vice President Kamala Harris listens at left. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden vows to combat antisemitism in honor of synagogue shooting victims

Analysis

With tourists set to return November 1, are Israel’s COVID gains at risk?

One virus expert is worried about importing new cases and new mutations; another says extra infection will be minimal — and that variants will enter with or without tourists

The departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport during one of its quiet moments when travel was largely banned due to. the pandemic, April 19, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

A child receives a coronavirus test at a health clinic in Katzrin, September 6, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

COVID positivity rate hits 4-month low as Israel prepares to allow in tourists

Coronavirus czar Prof. Salman Zarka attends a press conference about the coronavirus in Jerusalem, on August 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus czar says kids’ tests may stop being free, as inoculation set to begin

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Join an elite tech training boot camp to work in the high tech industry

Israel Tech Challenge is opening additional courses to students of all ages in English as a gateway into the startup world. Learn more here

A gas station is seen standing empty because the pumps are out of service, in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

‘Enemy’s goal’ thwarted, Iran general tweets in Hebrew 2 days after cyberattack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki calls on reporters during the daily news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on October 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

US reacts warily after Iran says nuclear talks will restart next month

By AP

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdoulahian (2nd-L) and First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber (2nd-R) speak during the multilateral conference on Afghanistan, in the Iranian capital Tehran on October 27, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

At regional meeting, Iran urges Taliban to adopt ‘friendly’ approach

By AFP

Shayna Abramson

Is ‘Never Again’ simply an empty mantra?

Israel’s abstention from a UN statement condemning the Chinese government for its genocide of the Uighurs fills me with shame

Are you racist, or just anti-anti-racist?

Jews who have jumped on the anti-Critical-Race-Theory bandwagon are not only paving the way for racism – they are also opening the door to Holocaust denial

Jonathan Weinkle

After 3 years: Lessons the Tree of Life shooting taught me

I now know that everything breaks down – body, mind, soul, society – and have stopped screaming, ’Why can’t things just work?’ Instead, I marvel when they do

Francesca Reznik

When you’re a Mexican Jew, Halloween and Day of the Dead are complicated

The true magic of inheriting two cultures in the 21st century is that I get to pick and choose, without being bound by the ideological shackles of my ancestors

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 28 – On being Jewish in Israel

Ops and blogs editor Miriam Herschlag and reporter Amy Spiro discuss the new head of the Reform movement in Israel and the ongoing issue of non-Orthodox marriages

View of the US Consulate building in Jerusalem on October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US State Dept. official acknowledges Israel must approve consulate reopening

By Amy Spiro and Jacob Magid

Deputy secretary of state tells senators ‘we need the consent of the host government to open any diplomatic facility,’ including a Jerusalem office to serve Palestinians

US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm raises the Pride Flag for the first time outside the Department of Energy on June 2, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File)

In milestone for nonbinary Americans, US issues 1st passport with ‘X’ gender

By COLLEEN SLEVIN

Anna Kislanski (Courtesy)

Interview'We can be the bridge between Israel and world Jewry'

The new head of Israel’s Reform movement is cautiously optimistic

Anna Kislanski, who took the helm of the organization after Rabbi Gilad Kariv was elected to the Knesset, believes the new government could revive the Western Wall compromise deal

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in the Knesset, on June 13, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett in closed meeting: Government will likely fall before Lapid becomes PM

By Michael Bachner

‘I estimate that the rotation will not happen,’ TV quotes premier as saying during past month; PM’s office appears to confirm details but says Bennett will honor power-sharing deal

6:26 pm

Facebook rebrands as Meta to emphasize ‘metaverse’ vision
6:18 pm

IDF sends 1st representative to US CENTCOM, in change meant to help counter Iran
6:02 pm

Biden: Sudan's civilian-led government 'must be restored'

Steam comes out of the chimneys of the coal-fired power station Neurath near the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine in Luetzerath, Germany, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

World failing to make crucial climate change advances, report finds

By ToI Staff and Agencies

As countries submit new data, UN warns that Earth is on ‘catastrophic’ course for global warming by 2100

Illustrative: Activists and demonstrators hold placards as they take part in a Global Climate Strike in Tel Aviv on September 27, 2019, against inaction on climate change. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Thousands expected at Tel Aviv climate protest Friday

Sex offender rabbi Berland begins fraud sentence as followers mass outside jail

Shuvu Bonim leader goes to prison for selling fake cures to desperate members of community; supporters hold all-night prayer session; lawyers hope term will be shortened

Police guard followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland waiting for his arrival at the Nitzan Prison in Ramle, on October 28, 2021 (Flash90)

Coalition MKs Yael Ron, Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, Alex Kushnir, Nira Shpak, Vladimir Beliak and Meir Yitzhak Halevi pose for a photo after advancing the government's budget proposal through the Knesset's Finance Committtee on October 28, 2021. (Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Tens of millions to haredi education, Jewish identity causes

Knesset panel advances budget, with opposition allocated millions

Finance Committee approves package to fund government for 2021-2022 for a 2nd, 3rd reading in the plenum after 6-hour session that sees opposition withdraw thousands of challenges

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas, left, holds a press conference at the Knesset, October 25, 2021; Opposition head and Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu, right, leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, October 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am chief: Netanyahu read me the wonderful speech he’d give on our partnership

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, right, and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked are seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 6, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In leaked recording, Shaked calls Lapid ‘shallow,’ doesn’t commit to PM rotation

Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis (right), head of public health services at the Health Ministry, at a press conference in Jerusalem on August 29, 2021, alongside Nachman Ash, director-general of the Health Ministry. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top health official’s husband chides police for inaction on death threats

Police say they’ve launched a probe into threats against Sharon Alroy-Preis; partner Meir Preis tweets: ‘Act now, before it’s too late!’

Patients affected by COVID-19 at a field hospital set up at a sports gym, in Santo Andre, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on March 26, 2021 (Miguel SCHINCARIOL / AFP)

Cheap anti-depressant may reduce severe COVID-19, research finds

Illustrative image: A live concert by Israeli rock band T-Slam during the annual arts and crafts festival held at Jerusalem's Hutzot Hayotzer Artists' Colony near the Old City walls in Jerusalem, August 10, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Government set to lift cap on outdoor gatherings as COVID ebbs

Illustrative - Intel's 12th-generation Intel Core processors, named Alder Lake. (Ohad Palik)

Intel officially launches ‘most significant’ chip lineup sired in Israel

By Ricky Ben-David

Semiconductor giant’s new offerings include ‘world’s best gaming processor’; over 1,000 Israeli engineers worked on ‘largest-ever’ chip hardware development project

The Immunai team in Israel. (Eliad Golan)

Israeli biotech startup Immunai raises $215m for drug discovery platform

By Ricky Ben-David

This January 16, 2019 photo shows a a first lab-grown steak during a presentation by the Israeli company Aleph Farms, in Jaffa, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel Innovation Authority earmarks $69m for food, medical tech projects

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative image of a demonstration of a ritual goat slaughter for ultra-Orthodox Jewish students in Zichron Moshe, on April 26, 2011. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Greece’s top court nixes ritual slaughter permit, calls for alternative solution

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish watchdogs had warned of ‘downstream consequences’ following EU decision last year upholding Belgian bans

Nasser Suleiman, head of Hamas's military court in Gaza speaks to the press in Gaza City on May 21, 2017. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Hamas sentences six Gazans to death for ‘spying for Israel’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Military court run by Palestinian terror group says other ‘informants’ have been given life in prison or hard labor; 130 people have been sentenced to death in Strip since 2007

A new West Bank power station which Israel has transferred to Palestinian control (IDF Coordinator of Government Activity in the Territories)

Israeli electrical company to cut power to West Bank Palestinians over debts

More Headlines

Meretz MK Issawi Frej, left, speaks during a plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill to memorialize Kafr Qasim massacre toppled as Arab MKs trade accusations

By Aaron Boxerman

Sudanese youths confront security forces amidst tear gas fired by them to disperse protesters in the capital Khartoum, on October 27, 2021. (AFP)

Death toll in Sudan rises to 7 as anti-coup protests enter fourth day

By AFP

A statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, former head of Iran's Quds force, stands in front of a branch of the Hezbollah-run Al-Qard al-Hassan Association, in Ghobeiry, Lebanon, January 20, 2021. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Saudi Arabia puts Hezbollah financial arm on terror blacklist

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (left) meets with German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz in Berlin, October 27, 2021 (Via Twitter)

Health minister has ‘excellent meeting’ with prospective German chancellor

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hasan Abu Ghariba, a psychiatrist arrested for allegedly raping a patient. (Israel Police)

Psychiatrist indicted for sexual abuse of patient in Beersheba

Cars travel under a bridge criticizing Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi in Jerusalem on October 26, 2021. (Courtesy of organizers via JTA)

Visiting Israel, Congolese leader faces billboards accusing him of antisemitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations on September 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Top US general: Chinese weapon test ‘very concerning,’ close to a Sputnik moment

By Robert Burns

A woman walks past a SoftBank mobile store in Tokyo on August 11, 2020 (Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Japan’s Softbank buys $25m stake in Israeli investment firm OurCrowd

By Ricky Ben-David

Enjoying the Dead Sea on March 10, 2017 (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Woman drowns in Dead Sea

In this July 20, 2021 file photo, Congress party workers shout slogans during a protest accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of using military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists and activists in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India’s top court orders probe into use of spyware by Israel’s NSO

By AFP

Yamina's Abir Kara at the Knesset on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)

‘A party of idiots’: MK angrily leaves Yamina’s WhatsApp group, then returns

Sherry Ansky (left), namesake and founder of the Tel Aviv sandwich shop Sherry Herring, clowns with a bit of herring, the main ingredient in her signature sandwich (right). (Courtesy/via JTA)

Red herringIsraeli noshery Sherry Herring opens in NYC — with ‘no Sherry and no herring’

By Rachel Ringler

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