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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 30, 2021

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Illustrative: A person speaks on their phone during an annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

LGBT group urges cyber directorate to act urgently

Suspected Iranian hack hits Israeli LGBT site; users fear leak of personal info

Black Shadow hacking group threatens to release data after targeting numerous websites through hack of internet hosting company in Israel

In this October 8, 2019 file photo, a woman types on a keyboard in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Iranian hackers take down servers of Israeli internet hosting company Cyberserve

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

Most Iran gas stations still offline three days after cyberattack

By AFP and ToI Staff

ToI investigates

Simona Weinglass

In major shift, Germany begins targeting platforms driving Israel’s online fraud

A rash of raids in 6 countries points to a new strategy: Going after the trading programs that allegedly allow scamsters to keep pushing crypto and other investment cons

Illustrative: German police carrying out a raid on a suspected money laundering ring in Duesseldorf, Germany on October 6, 2021. (AP/Martin Meissner)

Illustrative: An employee of the Bulgarian call center Dortome BG is handcuffed on October 6, 2021, during a Europol-coordinated raid (Source: Bulgarian Interior Ministry)

ToI investigatesOctober surprise: Who’s who in the unprecedented wave of investment scam raids

By Simona Weinglass

An Israeli woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at a Clalit clinic in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90 )

'Third dose of the vaccine is extremely efficient'

Israeli study: COVID booster shots 92% effective at preventing serious illness

Research published in Lancet also finds 3rd shot 81% more effective in preventing deaths compared to those who’ve had only 2 shots at least 5 months ago

A boy holds his mother's hand as he receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

FDA okays Pfizer coronavirus shots for kids 5-11, Israel expected to follow suit

By AP and ToI Staff

Smoke rises in the countryside of Damascus, Syria, on October 30, 2021, following what Syrian state media said was an Israeli strike. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Israel said to strike near Damascus in rare daytime raid, hitting Hezbollah arms

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Syria state media says surface-to-surface missiles fired from northern Israel; five pro-Iranian fighters reportedly killed; IDF mum on the alleged strikes

IDF soldiers arrest a Lebanese civilian near Metula after he illegally crossed into Israel on October 29, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Lebanese man nabbed by troops after crossing border into Israel

This combination of images provided by NASA on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021 shows the planet Jupiter seen by the Juno probe's microwave radiometer, left, and in visible light, captured by the Gemini Observatory. The Great Red Spot, a storm so big it could swallow Earth, extends surprisingly deep beneath the planet’s cloud tops, scientists reported Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Kevin M. Gill; Gemini Observatory via AP)

Israeli-US study reveals surprising depth of Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ storm

By AP and ToI Staff

New 3D images from Juno spacecraft show that cosmic cyclone hovering around planet is 200-300 miles deep, resembling a fat pancake

Thousands march through Tel Aviv to call for government action on climate change, on October 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

PM: Israeli tech must pivot from making cool apps to fighting climate change

Ahead of trip for COP26 climate talks, Bennett says government will cut red tape and increase funding; says Israel must work with neighboring countries on water and energy projects

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

Julian Schvindlerman

Mohammad Mahallati: A not so peaceful ‘peace professor’

Why did Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown and Oberlin open their doors to a representative of a monstrous regime like that of revolutionary Iran?

My friend Gita: Once Maltese star, forgotten today

When a young Jewish man from Malta’s tiny community was in search of a Jewish wife, he looked to Jerusalem. In no time at all, she was running the show

US President Joe Biden greets French President Emmanuel Macron (right), as Democratic Republic of Congo's President and African Union Chair Felix Tshisekedi looks on prior to a group photo of world leaders at the La Nuvola conference center for the G20 summit in Rome, on October 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

US, European leaders express ‘grave, growing concern’ over Iran

Biden, Macron, Johnson and Merkel say they’re determined ‘to ensure Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon,’ but restoration of nuke deal only possible if Tehran changes course

Illustrative: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Gen. Hossein Salami, left, and the Guard's aerospace division commander Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh talk while unveiling a new drone called 'Gaza,' in an undisclosed location in Iran, in a photo released on May 22, 2021. (Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, via AP)

US slaps sanctions on Iran drone commander behind attack on Israeli-linked ship

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron wave prior to a meeting at La Villa Bonaparte in Rome on Oct. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iran on agenda as Biden huddles with world leaders in Rome

Israel envoy to the United Nations rips up a Human Rights Council report at the podium, October 29, 2021 (Screen grab)

‘Obsessive anti-Israel bias’: Erdan rips up human rights report at UN podium

Envoy says report by UNHRC belongs in ‘the dustbin of antisemitism,’ notes Israel has been targeted in 95 resolutions compared to 142 against all other countries combined

Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan speaks during a press conference at the General Command of the Armed Forces in Khartoum, on October 26, 2021. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP)

Official: US unlikely to push Sudan on normalization with Israel following coup

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Pressing to restore civilian-led transitional government, Biden Administration turns to UAE to exert its influence over Sudanese military

Supporters of the Umma Party, Sudan's largest political party, chant slogans during a protest against a military coup that overthrew the transition to civilian rule, on October 29, 2021 in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman (Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)

‘We are no longer afraid’: Sudan anti-coup protesters gear up for mass rallies

By AFP

Illustrative photo of antisemitic graffiti on a building near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, 2016. (Courtesy: Michaela Brown)

'When smaller voices aren't heard, we need to pay attention'

Yearlong program helps US colleges find and fix overlooked campus antisemitism

By Cathryn J. Prince

Hillel’s Campus Climate Initiative assesses Jewish life at participating schools; whether kosher food is available, Jewish holidays accommodated, and if bigotry is tolerated

The last, last Jew? Simentov relative flees Afghanistan after Taliban takeover

By Ilan Ben Zion and LLAZAR SEMINI

Fearing for her safety, Tova Moradi, 83, escapes to Albania with family after getting help from IsraAid, office of President Herzog and two Israeli billionaires

Tova Moradi, 83, an Afghan Jewish woman who fled Kabul this month with her relatives with the assistance of an Israeli aid group, speaks to the Associated Press at a resort which is accommodated Afghan refugees in Golem, 45 kilometers west of the capital Tirana in Albania on Oct. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda)

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid wraps his arm around Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a coalition bonding event in Modi'in on October 29, 2021. (Courtesy)

Coalition holds bonding event to squelch infighting, as budget test looms

Bennett urges MKs to stop airing dirty laundry and solve differences behind closed doors; Shaked reported to apologize for trash talk aimed at Lapid and Gantz

Natural vegetation around Poleg. (Rivka Eidelman)

Activists fight Netanya hotel plan they say will harm nature reserves

Ecological corridor supposed to link Poleg reserve with wildflower hub and seasonal pool deemed too small, with court set to decide if city broke planning agreement

Rabbi Tamarah Benima (Malin G. Kundi/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Dutch Reform rabbi says COVID-19 policies remind her of Nazi Germany

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Tamarah Benima says ‘those in power all had the best of intentions. Also when they declared Jews a danger to public health’; Dutch Jewish groups condemn ‘offensive comparisons’

Kansas state Rep. Brenda Landwehr, R-Wichita, speaks with reporters following a legislative committee meeting on federal vaccine mandates, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Landwehr is chair of the House health committee and likened vaccine mandates to the Holocaust during the committee's meeting. (AP Photo/Andy Tsubasa Field)

Kansas labor leader compares Biden’s vaccine mandates to Holocaust

By John Hanna and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD

President Joe Biden delivers remarks about his proposed ‘Build Back Better’ social spending bill as Vice President Kamala Harris looks in the East Room of the White House, October 28, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Biden’s Tree of Life anniversary remarks use term worrying both left and right

Reference to ‘domestic terrorism’ has civil liberties groups concerned over impingement of freedoms; Republicans allege those against virus measures have been labeled as such

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A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Clocks in Israel to turn back overnight Saturday-Sunday

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

NY’s pension fund halts investments in Unilever over Ben & Jerry’s Israel stance

By julia GERGELY

Tyler Herron, right, pitched for Team Israel in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images via JTA)

Tyler Herron, former Team Israel baseball pitcher, dies at 35

By jacob gurvis

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right National Front party, gives a speech in Paris on February 17, 1996. (AFP Photo/Pierre Boussel)

French court clears far-right party founder Le Pen over antisemitic ‘oven’ quip

By AFP

Illustrative: In this May 22, 2021 file photo Union fans cheer for their team after the German Bundesliga soccer match between 1. FC Union Berlin and RB Leipzig in Berlin, Germany. (AP/Michael Sohn)

Berlin soccer club punished over antisemitic abuse during Haifa match

By AP

The scene where a man was stabbed to death in his home in Beit Shemesh, October 30, 2021 (Screen grab)

Man stabbed to death at home in Beit Shemesh; 17-year-old son arrested

Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Fired rabbi defends himself against charges of ‘insurrection’ at NY synagogue

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

In this file photo taken on January 19, 2020, Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York, arrives to attend a church service at St Mary the Virgin Church in Hillington, Norfolk, eastern England (Lindsey Parnaby / AFP)

Lawyers deny UK’s Prince Andrew sexually abused American teen

By Larry Neumeister

Bristol Rovers coach Joey Barton. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Coach of English soccer club apologizes for likening defeat to Holocaust

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