3rd shots begin for at-risk Israelis * Ancient inscription may be 1st evidence of biblical judge * Bedouin tycoon charged as Iran spy * Racists target England soccer trio

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, July 12, 2021 [In world first, COVID boosters rolled out for some at-risk Israelis]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Decision to give third shot to those with weakened immune systems comes after government weighs ‘accumulating evidence’ that immunocompromised aren’t well enough protected]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing July 12 – As COVID numbers rise, is it time to get nervous yet?]( By [TOI staff]( [Pfizer to discuss COVID vaccine booster shots with US officials]( By [Hope Yen]( Archaeology [Five-letter inscription inked 3,100 years ago may be name of biblical judge]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Excavations in Judean foothills uncover small jug from 1,100 BCE that could be inscribed with ‘Jerubbaal’; first evidence of a name from Book of Judges on a contemporary artifact]( [Bedouin Israeli millionaire charged with spying for Iran]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [Businessman Yaqoub Abu al-Qia’an, who was briefly a Knesset candidate in right-wing Telem party, accused of providing information to Iranian intelligence via a contact in Lebanon]( [Amid mysterious explosions, Iranian ex-MP claims Mossad behind all attacks]( By [TOI staff]( [Iran fumes over American, European support for opposition group at Berlin rally]( By [AP]( Live updates [LIVE: Addressing EU foreign ministers, Lapid backs 2-state solution]( By [TOI staff]( [But foreign minister stresses that conditions are not ripe for a peace deal at this time]( [Health minister hits back at COVID airport criticism: ‘We didn’t make mistakes’]( By [TOI staff]( [Horowitz says increased testing at Ben Gurion helped officials ‘find the Delta variant and stop its intrusion’; testing positivity rate rises to 0.8%]( [With new Pfizer deal, Israel to restart vaccinations after 24-hour break]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Knesset panel approves fines for Israelis trying to visit banned COVID hotspots]( By [TOI staff]( [Amid calm on Gaza border, Israel expands fishing zone, imports and exports]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Move comes amid international pressure to increase assistance to the Strip, follows meeting between Israeli, Egyptian foreign ministers; Qatari envoy reaches Gaza on Sunday night]( [Undercover Border Police shoot 6 attackers in Jenin gun battle overnight]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Israel to withhold nearly NIS 600 million from PA over terror payments]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( Top Ops [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [Branching out, turning in, and the mulberry tree down the road]( [I watch my daughter grow and I miss the little girl she used to be, and I wonder at the wise young woman she is becoming]( [Francis Nataf]( [Why Israeli and Arab narratives are still at war (and how to change that)]( [We must model what we will likely have to demand from the Palestinians: namely, validating their heritage, at the same time that we cherish our own]( [Ophir Falk]( [End the experiment]( [Naftali Bennett’s ’disruptive’ government, which depends on anti-Zionist parties, undermines Israeli democracy and threatens the Jewish State]( [Gerard Heumann]( [Jerusalem’s mayor is building without a plan]( [It’s not that Moshe Lion is consciously trying to make Jerusalem ugly, but that is what is happening]( [Turning to crime-fighting, IDF steps up efforts against drug running from Sinai]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Military cracks down on marijuana smuggling, but core economic issues pushing Bedouin Israelis to crime remain, and campaign seems to have little effect on overall drug trade]( [CRM]( [After Ra’am demand, government moves Bedouin agency to Welfare Ministry]( By [TOI staff]( [Decision to move up transfer follows Islamist party threat to not cooperate with coalition until further notice; Islamist MK says wide-ranging agreements reached]( [Ra’am lawmakers warn they may trigger more coalition crises to achieve goals]( By [TOI staff]( [In Europe, Lapid tells NATO chief Israel wants to deepen ties]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Ahead of his address to EU ministers, Israeli FM offers assistance to alliance on intelligence, cybersecurity, missile defense and more]( [Meeting with Egypt’s FM, Lapid focuses on Israeli captives in Gaza]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Lapid meets top EU diplomat in Brussels as Israel looks to improve ties]( By [Amy Spiro]( Reporter's notebook [Ron Kampeas]( [At Capitol Hill rally, Jews united against antisemitism, more divided on Israel]( [‘No Fear’ event draws array of sponsors covering religious spectrum, many right-wing, central Jewish organizations, but left-wing groups opt out]( [‘We cannot be scared:’ Some 2,000 rally against antisemitism in DC]( By [TOI staff]( [Racist abuse targets 3 English players who missed penalties in Euro soccer final]( By [AP]( [London police investigating ‘offensive and racist messages’ to players, while English Football Association says it’s appalled and will do everything to assist them]( [Man who rescued 669 Czech children from Nazis is now the hero of a kids’ book]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Nicholas Winton helped organize Kindertransports that carried young people to safety on the eve of war. ‘Nicky & Vera,’ by author and illustrator Peter Sis, now honors his legacy]( [David Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor and restitution champion, dies at 92]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Austrian theater group reenacts a post-Holocaust escape in the Alps]( By [eva WACKENREUTHER]( [Beloved ‘Bitcoin Rabbi’ tends to religious, financial-minded flocks on Twitter]( By [Leigh Cuen]( [After Surfside disaster, Florida officials reexamine condo inspection policies]( By [BRENDAN FARRINGTON]( [With many buildings only checked after construction and then never again, calls mount for much tougher guidelines, particularly for older projects]( [Surfside death toll rises to 90 as IDF rescue unit departs condo collapse site]( By [FREIDA FRISARO and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN]( [Failed Louisiana Holocaust education bill was used to pan critical race theory]( By [Eleanor Stern]( [Jewish groups split over support; amid ongoing debate, bill’s founder posts photo of Hitler on official Facebook page with caption saying he was ‘everything today’s liberal craves’]( [CRM]( [Bennett names Avi Gil as his military secretary]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [In return to previous practice, Gil to be promoted to major general in order to receive his new position, will replace Brig. Gen. Avi Blot]( [Bennett taps former senior Mossad official as his new national security adviser]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Gantz said to weigh tapping Amir Peretz as IAI board chair]( By [Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff]( More Headlines [Attorney general freezes criminal probe into Meron disaster]( By [TOI staff]( [Two Jordanian ex-officials sentenced to 15 years over alleged royal plot]( By [OMAR AKOUR]( [New gas deal expected to slash electricity prices, but some say it’s not enough]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Actor Moshe Ivgy handed 11-month prison sentence for indecent assault]( By [TOI staff]( [UAE to open Israel embassy in Tel Aviv on Wednesday]( By [Lazar Berman]( [US Social Security boss, installed by Trump and fired by Biden, vows to stay on]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Antennas and sunlight-cooling nanoparticles win top Florida-Israel space prize]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [PA’s Abbas calls to congratulate Israel’s new president]( By [Amy Spiro and Aaron Boxerman]( [British billionaire Richard Branson reaches edge of space in own rocket]( By [SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and Marcia Dunn]( [Egypt court upholds life sentences for 10 Muslim Brotherhood members]( By [AP]( [Public display / ‘Out of the Cube’ takes sculptures out of museum and into Tel Aviv]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Hitting road to Madrid, Israel firm offers variety of shared vehicles with 1 app]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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