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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 2, 2021

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) greets Israel's Energy Minister Karine Elharrar prior to a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on the sidelines of the COP26 Climate Conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021.(Alberto Pezzali / POOL / AFP)

'I gather there was some confusion with the arrangements...'

Johnson apologizes to wheelchair-using Elharrar as she joins Bennett at COP26

By Lazar Berman

UK PM says he’s ‘very, very sorry’ to energy minister, who has muscular dystrophy, and was unable to enter environmental summit Monday because venue was not wheelchair-accessible

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson chat as they attend an evening reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 UN Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday, November 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)

Wheelchair-using minister to join Bennett-Johnson meet after COP26 entry farce

Knesset member Karine Elharrar speaks during a culture event in Kfar Yona on March 9, 2019. (Flash90)

Wheelchair-using Israeli minister excluded from Glasgow summit for entire day

By Tal Schneider

Illustrative: Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman during a first reading of the state budget at the assembly hall in the Knesset, September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

For first time in 3.5 years, Knesset begins session on passing a budget

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Marathon debates and voting process expected to continue throughout the week, with a final vote Thursday evening or Friday morning

Religious affairs minister said planning shakeup of religious councils

Poll predicts political deadlock if elections held, Joint List as kingmaker

Top ultra-Orthodox MK brands coalition leaders ‘dogs,’ drawing fury

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delivers a speech on stage during a meeting at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 1, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

PM in Glasgow: ‘Climate innovation nation’ ready to ‘pave way’ on solutions

‘As the country with the most start-ups per capita in the world, we must channel our efforts to saving our world,’ Naftali Bennett tells world leaders at COP26 climate conference

Israel headed in the right direction on climate, environment minister says

Teen climate activists fly to UN confab in Scotland, deliver letter to PM

Full text: At UN summit, Bennett says Israel can lead way in climate fight

Sustainable regional planning: Balancing Development & the Environment

KKL-JNF and the Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing will join forces at Expo 2020 Dubai with a hybrid event. Click here to take part ->

Right-wing activists and Likud supporters protest against the government led by PM Naftali Bennett in Tel Aviv, November 2, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against government as budget battle looms

Likud, Religious Zionism MKs vow to bring down coalition, as activists hold signs reading ‘You don’t have a mandate to erase the Jewish state’

9:05 pm

Hackers release stolen medical data of 290,000 Israeli patients
8:26 pm

Police shoot at driver in West Bank amid suspected car-ramming attempt
7:26 pm

Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against government as budget battle looms

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 2 – Is Benny Gantz playing coy with the US?

US correspondent Jacob Magid on administration dismay over building in West Bank, and investigative reporter Simona Weinglass on European efforts to crack down on financial scams

A general view of a Palestinian Bedouin camp, after Israeli soldiers demolished their tents and structures in an area east of the village of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank, on November 3, 2020. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

After green-lighting settlements, Israel advances 1,303 Palestinian units

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh addresses the Glasgow Climate Conference on November 1, 2021. (WAFA)

PA premier calls ‘Israeli occupation’ biggest threat to Palestinian environment

By Aaron Boxerman

An Israeli analog astronaut walks inside a simulated spacesuit next to a space rover in the Ramon Crater in the Negev on October 31, 2021. (Amy Spiro)

'What you see here is the first step'

Astronauts ‘touch down’ in Negev’s Ramon Crater after mission to ‘Mars’

In a collaboration between the Israel Space Agency and the Austrian Space Forum, 6 analog astronauts spent several weeks simulating life on Red Planet and conducting experiments

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 2, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Bennett meets India’s Modi, Bahrain’s crown prince for first time

By Lazar Berman

At COP26 in Glasgow, prime minister calls Modi ‘most popular person in Israel,’ holds highest-level talks with Bahraini official to date

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (R) (AP Photo)

PM meets with US national security adviser over Iran, West Bank construction

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) meets French President Emmanuel Macron at the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 1, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

In Glasgow meeting, Bennett and Macron agree to handle NSO scandal quietly

By Lazar Berman

One of the best-known people to suffer from ALS was the late Professor Stephen Hawking. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Israeli drug that slowed Alzheimer’s, ALS in mice gets funding to start trials

By Nathan Jeffay

Molecules ‘amazing’ in delaying onset and progression of the conditions in mice, says researcher; if they’re 10% as effective in humans they’ll become a ‘very good drug’

Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a court hearing in Jerusalem, November 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Berland remanded over Hasidic cult cold case murders: ‘He implicated himself’

Convicted sex offender and fraudster briefly collapses in court; detention extended for 9 days for questioning over cold case murder of man, suspected murder of missing teen

Illustrative: An ambulance at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, on November 4, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

East Jerusalem man killed in apparent brawl, several others injured

Bennett and Co. are the greatest threat to Zionism since Oslo

Like Rabin before him, Israel’s first religious prime minister has reneged on core security commitments, all the while receiving far too much applause from the right

A ‘victory’ for medical residents, but what about the patients?

Reduced work hours will harm the level of care unless the entire training process is reexamined and a series of drastic, essential changes introduced

An ancient gold ring found during excavations in Yavne, Israel. (Dafna Gazit/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Ancient ‘hangover cure’ gold ring found at Yavne winery excavation

By Stuart Winer

Band is adorned with semiprecious amethyst stone, which was believed to have power in dispelling the aftereffects of alcohol

Postcard with the Balfour Declaration in Hebrew translation, published by Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, Bezalel, Jerusalem, created by Shmuel Ben David (Davidov), c. 1917. (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

'Like my survival, the Declaration came against all odds'

Holocaust survivor publishes PhD dissertation on ‘serendipity’ of Balfour

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Paul Goldstein, whose studies were interrupted in WWII, became one of the oldest doctoral recipients in the world when he graduated last year from Israel’s Ariel University

Then-president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally for Senate Republican candidates in Valdosta, Georgia, on December 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump: Israel ‘literally owned Congress’ a decade ago, today it’s the opposite

Ex-US president reiterates claim that before he left office, countries were ‘lining up’ to join Abraham Accords; laments lack of support for him from US Jews

Welby is himself half-Jewish, on his father's side

Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes for comparing climate change to Holocaust

By AFP and ToI Staff

Justin Welby had warned the unfolding crisis would ‘allow a genocide on an infinitely greater scale’ than Nazi atrocities

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in Westminster Abbey, London, November 11, 2018. (Paul Grover/Pool photo via AP)

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech on stage during a meeting at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 1, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

At UN summit, Biden says decade will be decisive in climate fight

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Zeke Miller and Josh Boak

Highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, November 25, 2019. (Leo Correa/AP)

COP26 leaders to pledge 2030 target for end to deforestation

By Jitendra Joshi and Patrick Galey

French journalist and writer Eric Zemmour arrives at Paris Criminal Court, where he was prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred, November 6, 2015. (Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

France’s chief rabbi: Jewish presidential hopeful is an ‘antisemite’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Haim Korsia tells TV station that Eric Zemmour, a journalist and far-right provocateur, is ‘certainly’ a racist; remarks slammed as ‘nonsensical’ by mainstream French-Jewish paper

Illustrative -- A man stands on a platform at the Gare Saint Lazare train station, in Paris, June 2, 2016 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Man with knife shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ shot by Paris Metro guards

By AFP and ToI Staff

Germany's Holocaust memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe in the heart of Berlin (CC BY-SA Chaosdna/Wikipedia)

Berlin police chief sorry after cops seen doing push-ups at Holocaust memorial

By AP

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Relatives of Luis Enrique Rodriguez, who died of COVID-19, visit where he was buried on a hill at the El Pajonal de Cogua Natural Reserve, in Cogua, north of Bogota, Colombia, October 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

COVID-19’s global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years

By Carla K. Johnson

Filmmaker Gal Uchovsky at the Knesset, on June 4, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/ File)

Police probe sexual assault claims against LGBT activist Gal Uchovsky

People chant slogans inside a building under construction during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. Pro-democracy groups called for mass protest marches across the country Saturday to press demands for re-instating a deposed transitional government and releasing senior political figures from detention. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Israeli delegation said to visit Sudan, meeting with leaders involved in coup

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Dozens of mortar shells and other munitions are laid out on the ground next to a recently discovered Syrian bunker on the Golan Heights on November 2, 2021. (Defense Ministry)

Explosives-filled Syrian bunker from ’67 war uncovered in Golan

By Judah Ari Gross

Paternal aunt Aya Biran-Nirko (left) and maternal aunt Gali Peleg arrive at a Tel Aviv family court for a hearing on custody over Eitan Biran, 6, the only survivor of a cable car disaster in Italy, on September 23, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Maternal family of cable car crash orphan appeals ruling to send boy to Italy

Illustrative: A Gulf Air A320 airplane coming from the Bahraini capital Manama is welcomed as it arrives at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on September 30, 2021. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

El Al plane to Tel Aviv makes emergency landing in India with just one engine

Syrian refugees eat bananas to protest against discrimination in Turkey (Screencapture/TikTok)

Turkey to expel seven Syrians filmed ‘provocatively’ eating bananas

By AFP

Illustrative: An Israeli laboratory worker holds a blood sample during serological tests at the Leumit Health Care Services laboratory in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN/ AFP)

Health Ministry allows serological tests to prove recovery from COVID

In this photo released on June 10, 2021, by the Iranian army, an Iranian warship moves in the Atlantic Ocean. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran says it thwarted new pirate attack on one of its oil tankers

By AFP

Illustrative. Soldiers belonging to the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda unit. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

IDF finds two commanders abused ultra-Orthodox soldiers

Robber smashes a case at a jewelry store in Haifa, October 2021 (Screen grab/Channel 13 news)

Clean cut caseJewel thief ID’d after he slips, cuts himself on broken glass

Auschwitz prisoner tattoo stamp set goes on sale at Jerusalem auction house

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