12-year-old killed, 11-year-old seriously injured in Yom Kippur road accidents By TOI staff Barak Khoury hit by car a month before his bar mitzvah; 2nd boy hit near Kfar Shmaryahu; 20-year-old motorcyclist killed in north; medics treat over 2,500 people, deliver 8 babies

Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur, but forces on high alert By TOI staff

Rediscovered: Leonard Cohen lyrics of fighting with ‘brothers’ in Yom Kippur War By TOI staff One verse of Cohen’s song ‘Lover, Lover, Lover,’ written while he played for troops battling Egypt, deeply moved the soldiers who heard it, then mysteriously disappeared. Until now

‘Islamist’ plot to attack German synagogue on Yom Kippur foiled; 4 arrested By Kirsten Grieshaber Services at Hagen synagogue called off; Syrian teen among those held for reportedly planning attack with explosives, two years after 2 were killed in Yom Kippur shootings in Halle

Cyprus appeal opens for Briton convicted of falsely claiming Israelis raped her By Charlie Charalambous Judge ignored basic legal principles, argues her lawyer; conviction for fabricating gang-rape claim against up to 12 Israeli tourists was a ‘travesty of justice,’ activist says

Bennett makes the ‘TIME 100 most influential’ list; Mansour Abbas pens his entry By Ron Kampeas ‘Someone courageous needed to make that change,’ writes Arab party leader and coalition ally, praising rightist PM for partnering with his Islamists to try to ‘unite’ Israel

Analysis Lazar Berman Bennett-Sissi meeting shows Egypt wants to expand Israel ties, but up to a point Open nature of meeting sends encouraging message that cold peace could see a thaw, but Cairo remains very wary of provoking the public where anti-Israel sentiment dominates

US okays some but not all military aid to Egypt, amid human rights concerns By Matthew Lee

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Chen Malul The half-angel, half-demon connected to Yom Kippur Jewish mystical tradition teaches that Azazel was a dangerous and destructive angel, who taught human beings some of history’s most horrible lessons   Aaron Jacob 4 lessons from the Yom Kippur War It may have taken miscalculations and missteps, but in the end, Israel could demonstrate that the Arab-Israeli conflict does not have to be a zero-sum game

Qatar restarts distributing aid to needy Gazans, minus the suitcases of cash By Agencies and TOI staff Money disbursed through supermarkets, money exchange shops and other stores; no final agreement on aid for Hamas’ government payroll

Lawyers for two Palestinian fugitives claim they were beaten during recapture By AP and TOI staff

2 men shot dead in separate killings in Israel’s Arab community By Emanuel Fabian 37-year-old Khaled az-Zawi and 42-year-old Ahmad Amash killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday night in Acre and Jisr az-Zarqa; another man seriously wounded on Thursday in Shfaram

Mother of slain border cop backtracks after calling PM a ‘dog’ and ‘murderer’ By TOI staff Nitza Shmueli says she was ‘filled with pain and frustration’ and acknowledges her social media posts against Naftali Bennett should have been ‘worded differently’

North Korea says it successfully launched ballistic missiles from train By KIM TONG-HYUNG and Hyung-Jin Kim Military says projectiles hit targets as part of Pyongyang’s efforts to diversify launch options; South Korea reports 1st test of submarine-launched ballistic missile

Iran’s nuclear chief admits removing damaged IAEA monitoring cameras By Nasser Karimi and Isabel Debre

Hezbollah brings Iranian fuel deliveries to Lebanon, despite US sanctions By Agencies Supporters of terror group greet convoy with heavy celebratory gunfire, rocket-propelled-grenade; 80 trucks carrying four million liters enter the crisis-stricken country

Israel, EU reach deal to mutually recognize vaccine certificates By Nathan Jeffay and TOI staff Deal will give vaccinated travelers access to Green Pass programs to enter public venues, but will not allow entry to countries like Portugal that currently ban Israelis

Over 1 in 5 adult Jewish US gamers face online antisemitism, ADL survey finds By Ben Sales Harassment and bigotry is common among Americans who play multiplayer games in general; only 7% of Jewish teens say they were harassed over their identity

Analysis PHILISSA CRAMER California governor recall fails, but scrutiny on Feinstein could be lasting According to some reports, America’s 1st Jewish female senator is increasingly infirm; if she is unable to complete her term, the state’s governor would pick her replacement

Obituary Taiwan’s longtime rabbi, whose life brimmed with global intrigue, dies at 103 By Jordyn Haime Vienna-born Ephraim Einhorn, who developed Taipei community after a lifetime of clandestine missions and a helping of self-publicity, passes away hours before Yom Kippur