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What Matters Most On Monday, November 15, 2021

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Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, chief rabbi of Iran, speaks at Chabad of NoVa, November 14, 2021 (screenshot)

US Jews get candid account of Jewish life under Iran regime

In US, Iran’s head rabbi says he condemned Soleimani killing to protect Jews

By Lazar Berman

Yehuda Gerami, speaking in Fairfax, VA, says he visited family of assassinated Quds Force general to relieve pressure on local community: ‘We have to use our wisdom, we are guests’

Illustrative: A supporter of the Hezbollah terror group uses her mobile phone to takes a picture of photo of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah leaders, Abbas al-Moussawi, Ragheb Harb and Imad Mughniyeh and the end of a 40-day Muslim mourning period for Soleimani, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, February 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah planned to murder Israeli in Colombia to avenge Soleimani – report

By ToI Staff and AFP

Target said to have been ex-diplomat and intelligence operative; Mossad officials reportedly visit country amid fears of rising terror activity

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, (left) speaks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on Monday, October 18, 2021, in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department in Washington, ahead of a meeting. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Iran invites UN nuclear watchdog head to Tehran for talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ronen Bar, the new head of the Shin Bet, leaves his home in Rishpon on October 11, 2021. (Flash90)

New Shin Bet chief visits Egypt for talks with spymaster — reports

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Mordy and Natali Oknin, arrested in Turkey for photographing Erdogan's palace. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Attorney of Israeli couple visits client in Turkish prison: I tried to bring hope

Lawyer Nir Yaslovizh says his client, Mordy Oknin, is in a state of despair and his detention conditions are poor

7:32 pm

Bennett to US envoy: The reality here is different from what you hear at the UN
6:51 pm

US envoy to the UN 'deeply moved' by visit to Yad Vashem
6:30 pm

Group of ex-IDF generals urges MKs to back US reopening of Jerusalem consulate

Op-ed

The Glasgow climate conference failed us, and the planet, big time

Without rich nations committing to phase out fossil fuels and without funding to help the developing world, humanity faces a grim future

Climate activists march through the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, on November 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

(L) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during an plenary session at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on November 11, 2021. (R) Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks to the crowd in George Square the end point for the Fridays For Future rally in Glasgow, Scotland on November 5, 2021. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

‘Blah, blah, blah’: Thunberg slams COP26, as UN chief warns ‘catastrophe’ close

By AFP

Analysis

Confronting Antisemitism

Deborah Lipstadt talks with Jay Ruderman about the history of antisemitism, why there has been an uprise in hate recently, and what we can do to combat it

Mordy Oknin, left, and Natali Oknin, right. (Courtesy/Facebook)

Israeli diplomats granted right to visit couple being held in Turkey

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says Israel is ‘working around the clock’ to ensure the release of Natali and Mordy Oknin, who are being detained for photographing Erdogan’s palace

Mordy and Natali Oknin were arrested in Turkey for photographing Erdogan's palace, November 2021. (Screenshot)

TV: Next 48 hours ‘critical’ for Israel couple held in Turkey as suspected spies

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 15 – Israeli tech gets into Time, is skewered by comedians

Health writer Nathan Jeffay discusses kids’ COVID vaccines, antibiotics research, while business editor Ricky Ben-David looks at housing and Time’s citing of 4 Israeli technologies

Finance Ministry officials headed by Avigdor Liberman host Wally Adeyemo, the deputy sectetary of the US treasury, and treasury officials in Jerusalem on Sunday, November 14, 2021. (Finance Ministry spokesperson's office)

US announces partnership with Israel to combat ransomware

David Breakstone

You really should have been there

After 20 years of false hope for those awaiting aliyah in Ethiopia; we must make their cause our cause, stop standing on ceremony, and bring them home

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Doubling Israel’s population? Actually, great news

The prophets of doom insisting the tiny Jewish state should aim for zero population growth are forgetting about an important human trait

Israel delays entry of tourists vaccinated with Russia’s Sputnik V

Visitors who received the shot will be allowed in starting December 1, two weeks later than scheduled; still subject to serological test

In this July 12, 2021 file photo, a medical worker administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Gostinny Dvor, a huge exhibition place in Moscow, Russia. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport on October 31, 2021. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Health chief warns travel restrictions possible for Europe amid COVID outbreaks

Illustrative: A girl, 6, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11 at Lurie Children's hospital in Chicago, November 5, 2021. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

Israel said set to begin vaccinating children aged 5-11 next week

IDF and Cypriot National Guard soldiers take part in a joint exercise at the Israeli army's Tzeelim training base in southern Israel on October 25, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces/ File)

IDF updates open-fire rules, letting soldiers shoot thieves, smugglers

By Judah Ari Gross

Expanded rules of engagement meant to help military crackdown on gun thefts from military bases, cross-border drug deals

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bank of Israel mortgage reforms signal more transparency for borrowers

Bank regulator rolls out measures meant to simplify mortgage-taking process for customers and give them better knowledge of options

A construction site for new residential housing in Be'er Yaakov, central Israel, on March 26, 2020. (Flash90)

From the webBOI instructs banks to offer uniform mortgage options

Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (right) meets with Wally Adeyemo, the deputy secretary of the US treasury, in Jerusalem on November 14, 2021. (Finance Ministry spokesperson's office)

Liberman hosts US deputy treasury secretary in Jerusalem

By Ricky Ben-David

Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ Flash90/ File)

Arab men attacked by Jewish gang in Bat Yam in apparent nationalist assault

Victims, one in wheelchair, were sitting with Jewish friends; group asked if they were Arab and then returned with weapons; 3 hospitalized, including one with head wound

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a ministerial meeting in Jerusalem on November 15, 2021, to discuss violent crime in the Arab community. (Haim Zach/GPO)

As violence surges in Arab community, PM says situation finally being dealt with

A police officer runs as shots are fired during a brawl outside Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, November 14, 2021. (Video screenshot)

4 hurt, 19 arrested in mass armed brawl at Beersheba hospital

By Emanuel Fabian

Orly Carmon, CEO of Orca Global Leadership and Networking, in her Toronto office in June 2018. (Photo by Ben Katan)

'Connecting people like this is my mission in life'

Money talks: Business network unites Israeli women at home and around the globe

By Robert Sarner

Former ultra-Orthodox Jerusalemite Orly Carmon’s Orca networking company is a one-stop shop for over 31,000 Hebrew-speaking professionals to share resources and practice self-care

Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane. (Screen capture: YouTube)

South Africa shuns its beauty queen for not boycotting Miss Universe in Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Government withdraws support from Miss SA Lalela Mswane, ahead of December 12 event in Eilat, citing Israel’s ‘atrocities against Palestinians’

Serbia's Trade and Tourism Minister Tatjana Matic (L) and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion (R) cut the ribbon at the Serbian Chamber of Commerce innovation office in Jerusalem, November 14, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

'They see real economic significance'

In a sign of thaw in tensions, Serbia opens trade office in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Israeli diplomats hope inauguration of innovation center in capital is sign that Belgrade has moved past its anger over Israel recognizing breakaway Kosovo

Robert Malley, US Special Envoy for Iran, in Vienna, Austria, on June 20, 2021. (AP/ Florian Schroetter)

US envoy arrives in Israel on Mideast tour; not expected to meet PM Bennett

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

A Boeing 777 aircraft. (Courtesy: IAI)

IAI signs deal with Emirates airline to convert passenger aircraft to cargo

By Judah Ari Gross and Ricky Ben-David

Israeli aerospace and aviation manufacturer to convert 4 Boeing passenger planes into cargo carriers at newly opened facility in Abu Dhabi

Military equipment is displayed at the Dubai Airshow in the Gulf emirate, on November 14, 2021. (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

Israeli arms contractor Elbit Systems launches new venture in UAE

By AFP

A doctor consults with a patient in order to prescribe her antibiotics (iStock via Getty Images)

35% fewer UTI patients given wrong medicine, thanks to Israeli AI tool

By Nathan Jeffay

Technion algorithm, designed to battle antibiotic resistance, massively boosts accurate prescribing for patients with urinary tract infection

Gideon Italiaander (right) charges a customer's debit card at his shop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on October 11, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

'I think my mercantile intuition has to do with my origins'

Jewish entrepreneur revives pre-Holocaust Amsterdam’s colorful retail spirit

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Though the city’s fabled Waterloo Market, once run by Jews, met its end due to WWII, Gideon Italiaander brings back the personal touch with his chain of thrifty home goods stores

More Headlines

Emergency services outside Liverpool Women's Hospital in Liverpool, England, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Taxi driver hailed as ‘hero’ for foiling Liverpool car bombing – reports

The Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour Street, Jerusalem, in an undated photograph. (Yaakov Saar/GPO)

Massive renovations said planned for Prime Minister’s Residence

Nationalist rally-goers burn a book representing a historic pact protecting the rights of Poland’s Jews in Kalisz, Poland, Nov. 11, 2021. (Screenshot from Karolina Pawliczak/Twitter)

Poland arrests 3 in connection with ‘Death to the Jews’ demonstration

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks with Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar in the Knesset, on June 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ministers approve bill setting term limits for prime ministers

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

General view of the Knesset n Jerusalem October 17, 2021 (Nati Shohat/Flash90 )

Ministers approve sanctions for government offices that don’t move to Jerusalem

A patient is vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus on the national holiday in the Vienna Imperial Palace in the marble hall in Vienna, Austria, October 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, File)

Austria orders nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated, starting Monday

By Kirsten Grieshaber

In this file photo taken on March 3, 2019, smoke and fire billow after shelling on the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province. (Photo by Delil souleiman / AFP)

US defends Syria airstrike investigated by NY Times as ‘legitimate’

By AFP

French far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour looks on as he visits the 'Made in France' fair at the Porte de Versailles, in Paris, on November 14, 2021. (Thomas Samson / AFP)

France’s far-right leader Zemmour under fire over Bataclan tirade

By AFP

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Police arrest woman suspected of killing 90-year-old mother

Meir Sheetrit at the Knesset, on October 27, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid outcry over past sexual harassment claim, ex-MK quits AG search committee

Former Jerusalem District commander Niso Shaham at the Tel Aviv District Court to appeal his sentencing on July 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-top cop to enter prison for sex offenses, fraud after court rejects appeal

In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, Qatar Airways planes are seen parked at the Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Malak Harb)

Women to sue Qatar over invasive airport searches

By AFP

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