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What Matters Most On Friday, September 15, 2023

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Security forces at the scene where two suspects were arrested on the Route 431 highway, near Ramla, September 15, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Some details surrounding incident barred from publication

2 suspects detained on central Israel highway after blast in Tel Aviv park

By Emanuel Fabian

Masked plainclothes officers detain men on Route 431 near Ramle; Shin Bet says at least one linked to explosion in Hayarkon Park; security forces on high alert during High Holidays

File: Israeli soldiers guard the Rantis Checkpoint, in the West Bank, April 23, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

IDF imposes West Bank, Gaza closure during Rosh Hashanah amid terror alerts

By Emanuel Fabian

Ammonium chloride, used in the construction of rocket fuel, is found in containers destined for Gaza in July 2023. (Tax and Customs Authority)

Israel intercepts 16 tons of chemicals used in rocket fuel headed to Gaza from Turkey

US National Security Adviser: Biden meeting set for Wednesday

Netanyahu heads to US after Rosh Hashanah on a trip more marginal than he’d hoped

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

With judicial overhaul fight raging and tense security situation at home, PM to spend 6 days in US, meet with Biden in NY, address UNGA, see series of world leaders and Elon Musk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Joe Biden (R). (Flash90/AP)

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Right: Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

Netanyahu, Musk meeting confirmed, said part of push to end antisemitism controversy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets local Jewish leader ahead of Rosh Hashana, September 14, 2023 (FJCU)

Zelensky meets Chabad rabbis ahead of Rosh Hashanah, calls for more Israeli support

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Air Force stages major drill in Greece practicing potential long-range strike on Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says fighter jets flew thousands of kilometers, successfully hit targets with live fire, despite ‘particularly challenging’ weather conditions

Israeli Air Force and Hellenic Air Force fighter jets fly over Greece during a drill, September 13, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and members of the IDF General Staff forum attend a Jewish New Year's greeting at the military headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 14, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

In rare remarks, Gallant appears to confirm alleged Israeli strikes in Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami addresses during the funeral ceremony for five members of the Guard killed in Syria, in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Revolutionary Guards chief warns Israel’s life ‘will be cut short’ if it attacks Iran

Inside Story

Renee Ghert-Zand

As patients suffer, long COVID remains a collection of symptoms with no single cure

With COVID wards and post-COVID clinics in hospitals now closed, the 10-20% of COVID sufferers who have long-term debilitating condition seek help through community health services

Among key symptoms that together define long COVID are brain fog, memory loss, and malaise or fatigue (iStock illustration)

Illustrative: An Israeli family celebrates together on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on September 25, 2022, in Rananna. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Health Ministry advises some to don masks again as Jews gather for Rosh Hashanah

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The expansive interior of the Chicago Loop Synagogue is conducive to social distancing. (Paul Harding/FAIA via JTA)

Some US synagogues adopt COVID measures for holidays, but ‘business as usual’ for most

By jacob gurvis

Rabbi Mendel Zarchi helps Howard Rother lay tefillin at his cotton farm in Cecil Plains, in the Australian state of Queensland. (Courtesy of Rabbi Menachem Aron via JTA)

'It's not just far away from Jews, it's far from everything'

How roving rabbis help the few Jews of rural Australia celebrate Rosh Hashanah

By Nomi Kaltmann

Known for its religious outreach, the Chabad movement often sets up outposts in towns with small Jewish populations, but this effort in the outback takes the (honey) cake

Saudis co-hosting UN event aimed at revamping Israeli-Palestinian peace process

Next week’s General Assembly confab organized with Arab League, EU is latest Riyadh effort to engage in Palestinian issue amid normalization talks; Israeli, PA missions not invited

Saudi King Salman, right, receives Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after he arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 20, 2017. (Al-Ekhbariya via AP)

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jeddah on June 7, 2023. (Amer Hilabi/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken weighs October trip to Middle East, as US maintains normalization push

Yasser Abbas is interviewed on February 24, 2017. (Screen capture/Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))

Abbas’s son was part of PA delegation to meetings in Riyadh on Israel normalization

Chana Tannenbaum

The holy occasion of a shofar’s blast

There’s no New Year’s Day or Judgement Day in the Torah, but why was such an important day as Rosh Hashanah kept under wraps?

Hindel Schwartz Swerdlov

Breaking for falafel in Jerusalem before Rosh Hashanah

The handwriting on the wall reminds me that God is with me when times are hard, and a tucked-away food joint makes it all taste better

ToI Presents

Webinar: Diaspora Jews & Israel’s judicial overhaul: Differing stances

REGISTER NOW: Join former United States ambassador to Israel David Friedman, former MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh and Prof. Gil Troy on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. Israel / 12 p.m. ET. Hosted by ToI’s Amanda Borschel-Dan.

Participants in the September 20, 2023 webinar (L-R) Prof. Gil Troy, former MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh and former United States ambassador to Israel David Friedman. (Times of Israel/Courtesy/Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI WebinarNo vote, no voice? Diaspora Jews’ influence on Israel’s judicial overhaul crisis

In this photo provided by Turkey's IHH humanitarian aid group, rescuers retrieve the body of a flooding victim in Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (IHH via AP)

Flooding death toll soars to 11,300 in Libya’s coastal city of Derna, aid group says

By AP

Search efforts underway following massive flood in coastal city fed by breaching of two dams in heavy rains caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows flooding in Derna, Libya, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite images show flood devastation that killed more than 11,000 in Libya

By YOUSEF MOURAD

Illustrative: All 15 High Court justices preside over a court hearing on petitions against the government's 'reasonableness law' at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court pushes off Tuesday hearing on Levin’s refusal to convene judicial panel

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Judges reject justice minister’s request to annul injunction, but give him time to submit further response to ruling demanding he explain decision not to assemble committee

President Isaac Herzog in an English-language message to Jews around the world for Rosh Hashanah, September 15, 2023 (Video screenshot)

Herzog to world Jewry: After year of ‘struggle,’ time for all to open hearts, listen

File: An activist against the government's judicial overhaul waves a national flag during a demonstration in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv on August 17, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

On eve of Rosh Hashanah, poll shows more Israelis feel pessimistic about coming year

IDI think tank finds 42% of respondents say this year will be ‘worse than year now ending,’ in levels of gloom last seen at height of COVID pandemic

Jews praying for forgivness (Selichot) in the lead up to Rosh Hashana, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, early on September 15, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Global Jewish population hits 15.7 million ahead of new year, 46% of them in Israel

File: US President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's economic agenda during an event at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md., September 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘I have your back’: In Rosh Hashanah message, Biden vows to combat antisemitism

By Michael Horovitz

In hour-long call with rabbis, US president vows to fight hatred of Jews ‘at every turn,’ asserts antisemitism at ‘a record level, echoing the worst chapter in human history’

Illustrative: Police stationed outside a synagogue in New York City, November 4, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

‘A little more alert than usual’: Dogs, security checks at US synagogues for festivals

By Ron Kampeas and jacob gurvis

7 Israelis on pilgrimage to Uman arrested in Ukraine over drug possession, car crash

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Four said detained at crossing near Moldovan border; separately, three taken in for questioning by local police after fatal car collision kills Ukrainian woman

Hasidic Jewish men seen in the street of Uman, ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday marking the Jewish new year, September 14, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo attends a Knesset committee meeting on June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK makes Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Uman despite Netanyahu’s warning

Screen capture from video of Rabbi Eliezer Berland urging his followers to travel to Uman, August 2022. (Via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sex offender rabbi turned away from Ukraine border crossing ahead of Uman pilgrimage

Hebrew University Jewish Law Prof. Benny Porat, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. (IDI)

ToI podcast'Jewish legal tradition can be relevant to our modern life'

What Matters Now to Jewish Law Prof. Benny Porat: Common ground as titans clash

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A resident of a West Bank settlement city, the Hebrew U prof. is a vocal opponent of the coalition’s judicial overhaul. Hear how 2,000 years of Jewish law shapes his thinking

Air taxis fly over Jerusalem for 1st time as Israel builds airspace network of drones

By Sharon Wrobel

Dronery, a subsidiary of Israeli drone delivery fleet operator Cando, operates demo flights of China’s Ehang two-seater air taxi taking off from Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital

Israel's National Air Drone Initiative (INDI) unveils a drone air taxi at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem on September 13, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Natan Slifkin, director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History, with one of the many shofars from the museum collection ahead of Rosh Hashanah 2023 (Courtesy PR)

At biblical fauna museum, a blow-by-blow of all things shofar, and more horns to toot

By Jessica Steinberg

Beit Shemesh Biblical Museum of Natural History director Natan Slifkin’s collection features everything from rams to kudus to African buffalo and even a unicorn

Russian War Prisoner, Egon Schiele (Art Institute of Chicago)

Authorities seize from US museums 3 artworks worth millions said stolen by Nazis

By AFP

Paintings by Egon Schiele are sought by heirs of Jewish art collector who died in the Holocaust

A reinforced platoon of soldiers ready for battle moves out, in search of 'suicide squad' in Santiago, Chile, allegedly formed by government sympathizers, September 13, 1973, after the coup two days prior against president Salvador Allende. (AP Photo)

Interview'It's what could have happened in Chile, but did not'

What happened in Chile on the ‘other’ 9/11? A novel weighs a quasi-fictional scenario

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘The Suicide Museum,’ Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman pens an alternate history with himself and his family, along with a driven Holocaust survivor, as protagonists

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File: US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden leaves after a court appearance, in Wilmington, Delaware, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

After plea deal collapse, Hunter Biden charged with illegally purchasing gun

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