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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 21, 2021

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Eliyahu David Kay, killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem on November 21, 2021. (Facebook)

Jerusalem terror attack fatality named as South African immigrant Eli Kay

26-year-old Western Wall guide and former lone soldier was shot dead by a Palestinian gunman in Old City; 4 hurt, including 2 border cops who have been released from hospital

Police officers at the scene of a shooting attack in Jerusalem's Old City on November 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas gunman kills 1, wounds 4 in terror shooting in Jerusalem Old City

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Rabbi Zeev Katzenelnbogen speaking from his bed at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital after being injured in a terror attack in Jerusalem's Old City, November 21, 2021. (Hadassah Medical Center/courtesy)

Rabbi was returning from prayers at the Western Wall when terrorist struck

Palestinian rioters clash with Israeli police at the entrance to Jerusalem's Shuafat Refugee Camp, November 21, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Live updates

Palestinian rioters clash with Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Shuafat Refugee Camp

By Michael Bachner

Dozens throw rocks at forces after hundreds march in support of Hamas terrorist who carried out deadly terror attack in capital’s Old City

7:26 pm

Arab woman found dead at home in suspected murder in north; husband arrested
7:02 pm

Health Ministry panel said leaning toward backing COVID booster shot for ages 12-15
6:41 pm

Palestinian rioters clash with police in Jerusalem's Shuafat Refugee Camp

National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata speaks during the IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama on November 21, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

National security adviser confirms solar, water swap deal with Jordan

By AP and ToI Staff

Energy ministers will sign agreement in the UAE on Monday; Eyal Hulata says pact enabled by the Abraham Accords

Itay Tagner, Israel's chargé d'affaires to Bahrain (left), speaks with Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto during the 17th IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama, on November 20, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

In rare meet, Israeli envoy to Bahrain seen talking with Indonesian defense minister

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 14, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Health officials: Half of parents expected to vaccinate kids

Urging parents to vaccinate kids, PM warns Israel ‘on verge’ of children’s outbreak

Ahead of Tuesday roll-out of vaccine campaign for ages 5-11, Bennett say COVID shots are the ‘safest and most effective way to keep our children healthy’

People wearing face masks take cover from the rain as they walk on Jaffa Road in the city center of Jerusalem, on October 31, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Some signs of COVID rise continue as reproduction rate climbs to 1.02

Israel’s #1 Comedy, Checkout, Now Streaming on ChaiFlicks

Checkout follows the daily antics of the staff and customers of a failing Israeli supermarket. Watch the award-winning comedy streaming exclusively on ChaiFlicks.

President Isaac Herzog at his official residence in Jerusalem, November 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog heads to UK for meetings with Prince Charles, Boris Johnson

President to also meet with British FM, Jewish community leaders during official visit; will urge a tougher line on Iran

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on October 19, 2019 (Tolga AKMEN / AFP)

Shin Bet intel instrumental in UK’s terror designation of Hamas – report

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Haaretz Democracy Conference in Jaffa, on November 9, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Heading to UK, Herzog in op-ed calls for wider Mideast dialogue, but not with Iran

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 21 – Israel and its new BFF, the United Kingdom

Editor David Horovitz and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discuss the UK designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization and President Herzog’s visit to London

Kahana: A way should be found for Jews to pray on Temple Mt.

Religious affairs minister appears to walk back support for Western Wall compromise

Labor MK Gilad Kariv, a Reform rabbi, condemns Matan Kahana for claiming ‘the vast majority’ of Jews in Israel are Orthodox

Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana speaks during a Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Engraved illustration of the 'chariot vision' of the biblical Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 1, made by Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650), for his 'Icones Biblicae.' (Public domain)

Interview'Angels helped with things that were beneath God's majesty'

Angels in antiquity: Judaism’s long relationship with heaven’s haloed helpers

By Rich Tenorio

While many Jews relegate the supernatural beings to the Christian realm, Prof. Mika Ahuvia reveals a deep cultural and religious connection in a new book

Chavi Eisenberg

Hey American businesses: Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas

Hanukkah celebrates Jewish freedom from assimilation; it doesn’t need Jewish-Christmas decorations or Jewish-Christmas movies or Jewish elfs-on-the-shelf

The 5G dilemma for Tamar Zandberg

The planned new broadband cellular standard is one of the least green technologies around and amounts to a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist

Joint List MK Osama Saadi at a Knesse committee meeting on July 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ethics Committee blocked from convening, as Joint List MK refuses to join

Osama Saadi, tapped as an alternate member of panel, says he won’t be ‘a tool in political games between the coalition and opposition’

Attorney Navit Negev (right) arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in Benjamin Netanyahu's trial, on December 6, 2020; Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) speaks at a conference in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister said to ask lawyer Navit Negev to submit her candidacy for AG

MK David Amsalem (Likud) speaks during a plenary session at the assembly of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Woman files police complaint against Likud MK who called to ‘trample’ coalition

Motta Brim, one of the participating artists in the 5th Jerusalem Biennale, which opened November 11 and runs through December 30, 2021, at various sites around the city (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

‘Four Cubits,’ the fifth Jerusalem Biennale, takes cue from pandemic

By Jessica Steinberg

Ancient two-meter measurement is theme of this year’s Jewish art exhibition, which explores personal spaces and isolation; event runs through December 30

People walk past a large poster of Iranian goalkeeper Zohreh Koudaei in the capital Tehran, on November 19, 2021. (AFP)

Not Amman

Iran’s women soccer goalie to sue Jordan for suggesting she’s a man

By ToI Staff and AFP

Zohreh Koudaei says Jordan ‘questioning her femininity,’ condemns ‘crude and inappropriate’ allegation; she helped her team qualify for the 2022 Women’s Asian Cup

A plane from the Iranian private airline Mahan Air lands at the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, March 1, 2015. (Hani Mohammed/AP)

Blacklisted Iranian airline targeted in cyberattack

People wait for their turn to receive COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Iran Mall shopping center in Tehran, Iran, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran, worst hit by COVID in region, says half its population fully vaccinated

By AP and ToI Staff

A scene from the Yiddish version of 'Waiting for Godot' staged at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, on November 13, 2021. (Magnus Swärd/Judisk kultur i Sverige/via JTA)

'Jewish culture should be a part of Swedish culture'

Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production

By Katarzyna Andersz

Though there are at most around 3,000 speakers in Sweden today, the three shows filled nearly to capacity reflect the popularity of the official minority language

Palestinians wait their turn to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 15, 2021. (AFP)

‘Path of humiliation’: Anger grows as Gazans lament arduous, costly travel to Egypt

By Agencies and ToI Staff

380-kilometer road trip from Rafah to Cairo passes through sweltering deserts of the Sinai peninsula, where the Egyptian army imposes checkpoints and nighttime curfews

A crane is used to deploy stilts for the construction of a new pier and restaurant building along the Mediterranean seashore in Gaza City on October 27, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Egypt makes ‘unexpected, unimaginable’ Gaza comeback with postwar reconstruction

Palestinians carry the body of Isra Khazimia who was killed by Israeli fire after allegedly trying to stab an officer in Jerusalem's Old City in September, during her funeral in the West Bank village of Qabatiya, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel returns remains of Palestinian teen alleged firebomber after bodies mix-up

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A grab from an AFPTV video shows Sudan's top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (L) and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok during a deal-signing ceremony to restore the transition to civilian rule in the country in the capital Khartoum, on November 21, 2021 (AFP)

Sudan military coup leaders reinstate deposed PM Hamdok but maintain oversight

Top general says Hamdok to lead an independent technocratic cabinet until elections held; other government officials and politicians arrested in October takeover to be released

Susan Alexandra opened a physical storefront, offering her trademark beaded products, on 33 Orchard Street on New York's Lower East Side, October 29, 2021. (Eric Petschek/ via JTA)

'There used to be barrels of pickles on the street'

First-ever Susan Alexandra store is a colorful homage to NYC’s Jewish history

By Shira Telushkin

As celebs and designers fawn over Susan Korn’s handbags, she doesn’t forget her roots, saying that opening her 1st shop in the Lower East Side’s former textile district was a must

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A new innovation lab in Beersheba will focus on fintech and cybersecurity, and will be operated jointly by MasterCard and Enel X, November 2021. The lab was formed by the Israel Innovation Authority, the Israel National Cyber Directorate, and the Ministry of Finance. (Israel National Cyber Directorate)

Mastercard opens fintech, cybersecurity innovation lab in Beersheba

By Ricky Ben-David

Drugs and ammunition seized during a smuggling attempt on the Lebanon border, on November 20, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF foils attempt to smuggle drugs, ammunition into Israel from Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at UN Headquarters in New York, on March 1, 2021. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

After Israeli ban, US envoy to UN expresses backing for Palestinian rights groups

A pickup truck with a Confederate flag-themed decal is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, the state's prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, Florida, on April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

White supremacist prison guards intimidate Black inmates with impunity in Florida

By JASON DEAREN

The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland, comprises the only synagogue that the Germans did not destroy there. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

A mile from Auschwitz, a restored synagogue recalls thriving Jewish life in Oswiecim

By Cnaan Liphshiz

French far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour (center) arrives at the ILEC Conference Centre in west London, on November 19, 2021, to attend an evening with members of London's French community. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

French far-right candidate Eric Zemmour said courting voters in London

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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