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What Matters Most On Friday, October 29, 2021

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Illustrative photo of two F-16 Royal Jordanian Air Force jets (photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0, by Caycee Cook, US Air Force, Wikimedia Commons)

German photographer spills the beans: Jordan flew in IDF aerial drill

By Judah Ari Gross

Amman’s participation in the massive Blue Flag exercise had been a secret… until a German military cameraman posted a photo of a Jordanian fighter jet on Instagram

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) shakes hands with Swiss President Guy Parmelin in Jerusalem on October 28, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Bennett asks visiting Swiss president to act against Iran’s nuclear program

By Lazar Berman and Aaron Boxerman

(Left to right) IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, CENTCOM Commander Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., and Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Tel Aviv, on January 29, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

IDF liaison sets up shop in US CENTCOM offices in Florida, solidifying move

By Judah Ari Gross

Thousands march in Tel Aviv demanding more ambitious action on climate

Organizers describe event as biggest climate protest to date in Israel, estimate 12,000 taking part

Illustrative photo of carbon emissions from a power plant. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel joins growing number of countries pledging to be carbon neutral by 2050

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett boards a plane at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington, DC, on August 29, 2021. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Bennett to meet with British, French, Indian leaders at UN climate conference

By Lazar Berman

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Capturing nature, one photo at a time

Environmental reporter Sue Surkes speaks with award-winning Israeli photographer Roie Galitz about his love for polar bears and the coldest parts of the planet

‘Polar Night’ features the large male polar bear which looked through Galitz’s camera lens (above) walking across a frozen fjord in Svalbard at around midnight looking for seals’ breathing holes, summer 2018. (Roie Galitz)

Illustrative: A firefighter is silhouetted against a fire burning outside the village of Roqueiro, near Oleiros, Portugal, September 14, 2020 (AP Photo/Sergio Azenha, File)

Rabbis urge PM to make Israel full partner in global climate battle

A female polar bear with her cubs on a floating piece of ice, Svalbard, summer 2018. (Roie Galitz)

Award-winning Israeli photographer urges wildlife protection through his lens

Tel Aviv-based Roie Galitz, who is drawn to frozen landscapes, warns that the disappearance of polar bears is the world’s ‘canary in the coalmine’

Analysis

‘Playing with fire’: By building deep in the West Bank, Israel risks DC’s wrath

Latest settlement approvals have US officials doubting Gantz’s claim that he can limit scope of construction, and jeopardize ‘spirit of goodwill’ Biden hoped to build with Bennett

US President Joe Biden (right) meets with then-prime minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 27, 2021. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Lapid dismisses ‘background noise’ after PM quoted predicting coalition collapse

Foreign Minister says in a Facebook post that ‘leaks, slanders, and attempts to make us quarrel’ will not shift government from its goals

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid attend a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on September12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speak at the Knesset, on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett quoted predicting government likely to collapse before Lapid becomes PM

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accompanied by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyanin, right, appear at a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, October 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

TV report claims to identify 3 diplomatic blunders by Lapid with US and Jordan

US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Exclusive

Biden administration won’t prevent settlement expansion, says source close to PM

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

Official claims Americans ‘don’t care that much’ about new move to approve 3,000 West Bank homes; Bennett government doesn’t believe the US will reopen consulate to Palestinians

Vanessa Lapa. (Aline Frisch)

Interview'He charmed and manipulated everyone, including the courts'

Award-winning Israeli doc on camera-hungry Nazi Albert Speer opens in NYC and LA

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘Speer Goes to Hollywood,’ Vanessa Lapa uses uncovered audio and never-before-seen archival images to show how Hitler’s confidant tried to make a movie to whitewash his past

Sarah’s well-lived life

’Life’ in Hebrew is plural, hinting to the complex, composite nature of human existence, indeed greater than the sum of its parts (Chayei Sarah)

Israel’s fight against climate change needs urban public housing

Think of the investment as a social benefit, leading the country to better productivity, reduced carbon emissions, and greater financial returns for all

Was Rebecca a feminist?

Who asks a young bride-to-be what she wants?! In a matriarchy, women’s voices are welcome, and bringing that expectation into marriage changed Abraham’s family

A better café on the Place Dov Hoz

I shouldn’t be telling you about the idyllic Tel Aviv eatery I have found, where I can while away an afternoon, over a bowl of delectable overnight oats

President Isaac Herzog addresses the memorial for the victims of the 1956 massacre in Kafr Qasim, October 29, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

President attends Kafr Qasim memorial, apologizes for 1956 massacre

Illustrative: Arab politicians, mayors and others block Route 6 in protest of rampant violent crime within the community, October 28, 2021. (Joint List)

Arab politicians, mayors block major highways in protest of community crime

By Aaron Boxerman

One of the largest mosaic panels in the world has been unveiled following a multi-year restoration project at Hisham's Palace in the West Bank city of Jericho on October 28, 2021. (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Restored ancient mosaic, 1 of world’s largest, unveiled at Jericho desert castle

By AFP

Resembling a fine carpet, 9,000-square-foot mosaic unveiled after a $12 million Japanese-funded restoration at the 8th century Hisham Palace

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing that the company will change its name to Meta, on October 28, 2021. (Screenshot)

Embattled Facebook to rebrand as ‘Meta’ to emphasize virtual reality vision

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Launching ‘metaverse’ following weeks of devastating press, Mark Zuckerberg says new name represents a future beyond just social media network

In this Oct. 12, 2021 file photo, Hadrien Gurnel, software engineer at EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) explores with a virtual reality helmet the most detailed 3D map of the universe with the virtual reality software VIRUP, Virtual Reality Universe Project developed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in St-Sulpice near Lausanne, Switzerland. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

ExplainerWhat is the metaverse and how will it work?

By Matt O'Brien and Kelvin Chan

Facebook employees take a photo in front of new Meta Platforms Inc. sign outside the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. .(AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

‘Very… meta’: Facebook rebrand is fodder for internet humor

By AFP

Explainer

Which 6 Palestinian rights organizations has Israel declared as terror groups?

Gantz’s recent declaration that six Palestinian rights and civil society organizations are terror groups has triggered an international firestorm. Here’s what’s known about them

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)

Democratic US Representative Betty McCollum of Minnesota, in July 2020. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images via JTA)

Progressive Dems submit motion panning Israel for outlawing Palestinian groups

Illustrative image of pills (JayjunG via iStock by Getty Images)

Trials for Israeli COVID-19 vaccine pill set to kick off in South Africa

By Nathan Jeffay

Oral inoculation intended to be effective after just one dose, and could also provide easy-to-distribute solution to growing need for boosters, inventors say

A medical employee takes a COVID-19 rapid antigen sample in Lod on October 17, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Active COVID-19 cases in Israel drop below 10,000 for 1st time in 3 months

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A young girl receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary Clalit Health Services facility in Jerusalem, August 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry to open panel on vaccinating 5-11-year-olds to public

Illustrative image : a man suffering from severe pain (Aleksej Sarifulin via iStock by Getty Images)

‘Feels like dying’: Israel leads world by recognizing sorrow of chronic pain

By Nathan Jeffay

Israel now categorizing fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a disability; patients say it sets an important example to health policymakers internationally

US President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's social spending plans, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, on October 28, 2021. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Biden demands civilian-led government ‘must be restored’ in Sudan

By AFP

Following coup, US president voices backing for Sudanese civilians in ‘their non-violent struggle to advance the goals of Sudan’s revolution’

Sudan's head of the military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, speaks during a press conference at the General Command of the Armed Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on October 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudanese coup leader al-Burhan seen as a strongman with powerful allies

By Samy Magdy and Isabel Debre

Sudanese youths confront security forces amidst tear gas fired by them to disperse protesters in the capital Khartoum, on October 27, 2021, amid ongoing demonstrations against a military takeover that has sparked widespread international condemnation. (AFP)

New clashes rock Sudan’s capital; UN urges restoration of civilian government

By AFP

Holocaust novel 'Number the Stars,' is seen over a view of The Texas State Capitol rotunda. (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images/JTA)

Critical race debate'The Holocaust and slavery are not ideas or opinions'

Jewish critical race skeptics undeterred by Texas Holocaust education incident

After one administrator misinterpreted a new law to mean teachers must offer an ‘opposing’ view when teaching the genocide, US Jews debate whether the rule will really affect them

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Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP)

Ted Cruz defends using a Nazi salute to protest COVID-19 public health measures

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)

2 members of US neo-Nazi group get 9 years in prison under terrorism law

By Michael Kunzelman

Illustrative graphic of the Spike application running on the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset (Spike/Courtesy)

Israeli startup Spike partners with newly rebranded Meta, launches VR email app

By ToI Staff and Agencies

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation, August 10, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Formal sexual assault accusation against ex-New York Governor Cuomo filed

By Michael Hill

Celeno offers advanced Wi-Fi chipsets for connectivity beyond the realm of smart homes, smart cities, smart buildings and smart industry. (Screenshot)

From the webJapan’s Renesas buys Israeli Wi-Fi chipmaker Celeno for $315m

A man accused of murder by omission arrives in the courtroom before his trial begins, in Munich, Germany. Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

German man goes on trial for castrating men on his kitchen table

By AP

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the opening of the World Health Organization Academy in Lyon, central France, on September 27, 2021. (Denis Balibouse/Pool Photo via AP)

World Health Organization says its COVID plan needs $23.4 billion over next year

By AFP

View of the northern Israeli city of Ma'alot-Tarshiha, on February 7, 2019. (Courtesy Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Reel lifeAfter COVID break, documentary film festival returns to north

By Jessica Steinberg

The grave of Martin Davidovich, the man named by the Israel Defense Forces as the nation’s first fallen paratrooper, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, on October 28, 2021. (IDF)

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

Illustrative. A person in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police officer sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for rape by deception

In this June 21, 2017, file photo, a California condor takes flight in the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur, California. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

California condors can have ‘virgin births,’ study finds

By AP

Actor Alec Baldwin stands in a New York City court, for a hearing on charges that he slugged a man during a dispute over a parking spot in 2018, on January 23, 2019. (Alec Tabac/The Daily News via AP, Pool, File)

Prosecutor says Alec Baldwin not in the clear yet for fatal movie set shooting

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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