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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 15, 2022

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Illustrative image: an Israeli woman receives a coronavirus vaccine at the Hadassah Medical Center, in Jerusalem, on January 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israelis to start getting new variant-tailored shots by end of month — COVID czar

By Nathan Jeffay

Second-generation vaccines being distributed to healthcare providers, as scientific community waits expectantly to see how much they help

Illustrative image: Nanoparticles, like those used in research to develop nano medicine (peterschreiber.media via iStock by Getty Images)

Nano drugs dosed via skin could become easier to develop, thanks to Israeli research

By Nathan Jeffay

Members of the Hadash and Ta'al factions in the Joint List speak to the media after breaking off from Balad on September 15, 2022 (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Balad splits from Joint List, throwing political map into disarray ahead of election

Fresh squabbling over electoral slate prevents majority-Arab alliance from reuniting, as midnight deadline looms for parties to register slates for November 1 vote

4:37 pm

Rebel MK Chikli claims deal to join Likud made 'only weeks ago'
10:12 pm

Blinken says US 'committed to advancing and expanding' Abraham Accords
8:23 pm

Balad submits independent slate, finalizing Joint List breakup

Interview

Nides: Biden administration taking Abraham Accords ‘from start-up to real operation’

On 2nd anniversary of signing ceremony, US ambassador says Washington is working to deepen and broaden Israel’s normalization with Arab neighbors

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US President Donald Trump gives a press conference with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Book: Trump offered West Bank to Jordan; king: ‘I thought I was having heart attack’

Then-US president Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, on July 7, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)

New book says Trump feared assassination by Iran in revenge for Soleimani killing

Op-ed

Why we’ll all miss the queen

She came to symbolize what was ultimately acceptable and what was not, at a time when that cardinal distinction is being challenged in democracies other than Britain as well

Queen Elizabeth II and Paddington Bear in a video released by the Royal Family ahead of a London concert held as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, June 4, 2022. (YouTube/The Royal Family)

King Charles III was seen losing his temper at a leaking pen while he was signing a visitors' book in front of cameras in Northern Ireland, where he was visiting on the latest leg of his royal tour of the UK’s four nations, September 13, 2022 (youtube)

King Charles criticized for ‘callous’ staff cuts, losing temper over leaky pen

People wait in line to pay their respects to late Queen Elizabeth II lying in state at Westminster Hall in London, Sept. 14, 2022. (Bernat Armangue/AP)

Tears through the night as British public pays respects to Queen Elizabeth II

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May addresses members of the United Synagogue at a memorial ceremony for Queen Elizabeth ll ,held at St. John's Wood Synagogue, northwest London, on September 15, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Weekly audiences were 'oasis of calm amidst the hurly-burly'

‘Always a spark about her’: Ex-PM May shares Queen stories at Jewish memorial event

May offers a series of warm insights, and then stresses, above all, that Elizabeth II ‘believed in the importance of faith, and recognized the value of other faiths’

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, accompanied by the Prime Minister of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, right, arrive to visit the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi, as part of their visit to the Gulf, Nov. 25, 2010. (Arthur Edwards/AP)

AnalysisQueen Elizabeth II’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy

By Isabel Debre

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

A Holocaust reckoning: Exposing America’s moral failures

Ken Burns’ powerful documentary calls on us to understand the patterns of American neglect during the Shoah, and the sobering reality that they could occur again

10 shopping tips to avoid the holiday hangover

When you want to make sure the extra expense of festive meals doesn’t break the bank, but you still want to celebrate in style

Ahmed Abed (right) and Abdul Rahman Abed, who opened fire at IDF troops, killing one, and were killed in the subsequent firefight on September 14, 2022 (Composite image: Twitter)

Lapid: PA serviceman’s involvement in killing of IDF officer ‘an escalation’

PM suggests Palestinian Authority weakness to blame for incident in which Maj. Bar Falah was killed by Palestinian gunmen near Jenin; Gantz: Ramallah must ‘self-examine’

IDF probes why slain officer attempted risky arrest of Palestinian gunmen

By Emanuel Fabian

Senior Biden official: US aiming to boost Israel-PA security ties amid violence wave

Palestinian teen killed in clash as IDF maps homes of gunmen for demolition

By Emanuel Fabian

An Emirati government official, center, greets Lea Hadad, left, and UAE Rabbi Levi Duchman during their wedding in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Sept. 14, 2022. (Sami Sasso)

Chabad couple holds UAE’s largest Jewish wedding on Abraham Accords anniversary

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Around 1,500 guests, including Emirati royals, take part in wedding of UAE Chabad emissary Rabbi Levi Duchman; celebration considered largest Jewish event in UAE history

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid shakes hands with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 29, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/Government Press Office via AP)

UAE foreign minister lands in Israel ahead of meeting with Lapid in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: A pregnant woman at a hospital. (iStock via Getty Images)

Woman discovers fetus she’s carrying after IVF is not genetically hers

Health Ministry vows to immediately establish panel to probe rare incident; hospital says it’s looking for embryo’s biological parents

In this image circulated to Israeli media, Jonathan Pollard and Rivka Abrahams-Dinon, who are engaged to be married according to their announcement September, 14, 2022.

Former spy Jonathan Pollard engaged to be married

This will be Pollard’s third marriage after he lost his late wife Esther earlier this year; bride-to-be is a mother of 7 from Jerusalem

Defense minister calls to reevaluate rules of engagement

Gantz warns Nasrallah: ‘Lebanon will be the price’ if maritime talks are sabotaged

By Emanuel Fabian

Speaking at same event, National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata says US-mediated negotiations are ‘excuse’ for Hezbollah to ramp up threats

File: Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (right). (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Hussein Malla/ AP Photo)

Repair works are seen at Syria's Damascus International Airport, after an airstrike attributed to Israel, June 12, 2022. (SANA)

UN says Israeli strike on Damascus airport halted aid deliveries

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The glass facade of a bank in the Lebanese capital Beirut is broken, after a woman stormed it demanding access to her sister's deposits to allegedly pay for her hospital fees, on September 14, 2022. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

In crisis-hit Lebanon, woman robs bank for own savings to treat sister’s cancer

By Hashem Osseiran

US Supreme Court decision says Yeshiva University must recognize LGBTQ club

Justices say in 5-4 opinion that flagship Modern Orthodox university in New York must exhaust other appeals before turning to nation’s highest court

An American flag waves in front of the US Supreme Court building, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Members of the New York state Board of Regents vote in favor of the P-12 consent agenda including the adoption of revised statewide rules that private schools, including Jewish yeshivas, face stricter enforcement of long-standing requirements that they provide academic instruction 'substantially equivalent' to that in the public sector, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, in Albany, NY (AP/Hans Pennink)

New York political leaders offer muted response to uproar over yeshivas

Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu poses with candidates he added to the Likud Knesset slate: (from left) Yossi Fuchs, Tsega Melaku, Idit Silman, Moshe Saada, and Amichai Chikli, September 14, 2022. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu adds former rebel MKs who downed Bennett government to his Likud slate

By Ash Obel and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Ex-justice official who attacked prosecutors over Netanyahu charges is also given spot; new faces have not stymied criticism over lack of female representation in Likud’s list

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett, right, with Ayelet Shaked at the first government conference, at the Israeli parliament, on June 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Bennett seems to snap at Shaked: ‘Those who regret [my] government have post-trauma’

Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich submit their joint electoral list to the Central Election Committee at the Knesset on September 14, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

National Unity, Religious Zionism and Yisrael Beytenu submit final candidate lists

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

This still image from video shows Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, at left, being escorted from the stage as people tend to author Salman Rushdie, center right, at the Chautauqua Institution, in Chautauqua, New York, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP)

US said to mull sanctions on Iran-linked entities over Rushdie attack

Report says US officials taking nuke deal talks into consideration; 15th Khordad Foundation, semi-official Fars news agency named as groups that offered money for bounty on author

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a joint press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan on September 9, 2022. (Ghulam Rasool/AFP)

UN chief urges Iran to hold ‘serious dialogue’ on nuclear inspections

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand on September 15, 2022. (Alexandr Demyanchuk / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Iran’s Raisi tells Putin cooperation makes US-sanctioned countries ‘stronger’

By AFP

Illustrative: Policemen patrol Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens, June 15, 2020. (AP/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Israeli arrested at Greek airport over alleged million-euro scam ring

By Simona Weinglass

Ori Nagar, 37, accused of large-scale investment fraud by Germany, latest in string of alleged Israeli investment scammers targeted by prosecutors in Bavaria and elsewhere

Tshuva Kabra, left, director of the national welfare system at the Chasdei Naomi charity, embraces Holocaust survivor Freida Rovenchim, in her family apartment in Jerusalem, January 26, 2022 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Germany to boost funding for Holocaust survivors’ nursing costs

By Stuart Winer

14,000 people in Israel will receive additional NIS 1,200 per month as part of deal with Claims Conference to provide 130 million euros for survivors around the world

Illustrative: Holocaust survivor and refugee Tatyna Ryabaya, 99, and her daughter sit on a bed in a hotel room in Moldova after fleeing Ukraine before flying to Israel on a special medical transport flight on April 27, 2022. (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)

As Holocaust compensation deal turns 70, survivors face new challenges in Ukraine

Party leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson gives a speech during the party's election watch at the Elite Hotel Marina Tower in Nacka, near Stockholm, Sweden, September 11, 2022. (Stefan Jerrevång/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Far-right leader declares victory for bloc in Swedish election; center-left PM quits

Head of Sweden Democrats, which has surged in popularity after being long-shunned over neo-Nazi roots, says it’s ‘time to put Sweden first’

Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz at the band's September 14 show in Ra'anana, Israel (Courtesy Shlomi Pinto)

Concert review

Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz vows to return after 1st-ever Israel show

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Maccabi Haifa's Surinamese midfielder Tjaronn Chery celebrates with teammates after scoring the opener during the UEFA Champions League group H football match between Israel's Maccabi Haifa and France's Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at the Sammy Ofer stadium in the city of Haifa on September 14, 2022. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

SoccerHaifa downed by French giant PSG in Champions League after briefly taking shock lead

By Joshua Davidovich and AFP

An illustrative photo of young ultra-Orthodox girls wearing clothing similar to girls in the Lev Tahor cult, walking in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Three more members of Lev Tahor cult sentenced over 2018 kidnapping

US President Joe Biden speaks about the American Rescue Plan during an event in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, September 2, 2022, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden to host anti-extremism summit at White House

By AFP

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu delivers an election campaign speech from inside a modified delivery truck with a side wall replaced with bulletproof glass, in Beersheba, southern Israel, September 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Driving seatWooing voters, Netanyahu campaigns aboard a bulletproof ‘Bibibus’

By Ilan Ben Zion and Sam McNeil

Car hangs over a hole after teen driver drove through a fence, September 13, 2022 (Screen grab via Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Car crashes through fence, dangles in mid-air over hole

A proposed site for an amphitheater in the Negev's Ramon Crater, next to the Selina firm's glamping site. (Courtesy, Lev Hamidbar)

Desert council again seeking to build amphitheater in Ramon Crater

By Omer Sharvit and Sue Surkes

An aerial view of the Azrieli compound area. (Oren Kfir via iStock by Getty Images)

Funding fears lessen as Israeli startups find footing in downturn, survey finds

By Ricky Ben-David

President Joe Biden speaks outside Independence Hall, Thursday, September 1, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Poll: Biden’s approval rises but concerns over his handling of the economy remain

By Josh Boak and HANNAH FINGERHUT

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference in Kyiv on September 9, 2022. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Ukraine’s Zelensky unhurt after car collides with motorcade in Kyiv

By AFP

Mossad chief David Barnea attends a ceremony marking Remembrance Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror in Jerusalem on May 3, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Report: Mossad chief’s media consultant also advises Emirati businessman

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi looks on during a press conference after talks with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic at the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, July 20, 2022. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)

US frees up some annual aid for Egypt, withholds $130m over rights abuses

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird puts her hands over her heart as she acknowledges fans chanting her name after her team was eliminated from the playoffs by the Las Vegas Aces in Game 4 of a WNBA basketball playoff semifinal, making it her last career game, September 6, 2022, in Seattle. The Aces beat the Storm 97-92 to advance to the WNBA Finals. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

End of an eraA timeline of Jewish basketball star Sue Bird’s legendary career

By jacob gurvis

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