PM: Vaccines weaker than hoped against Delta * ’Catastrophic’ Europe floods toll over 150 * Ethics row over Bourdain’s AI voice * Doesn’t suck: Noa Kirel’s English debut

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, July 17, 2021 [Bennett: ‘Vaccines on their own won’t solve the problem’]( By [TOI staff]( [Vaccine protection ‘weaker than we’d hoped’ against Delta, PM says; inoculations help, but ‘significantly less’ than with previous strains; gov’t seeks to approve home testing kits]( [Israel expected to add Greece to list of nations requiring quarantine]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Top immunologist: Douse Israel’s Delta ‘fire’ before it needs lake-full of water]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Cyrille Cohen talks Delta dynamics and booster shots, raises concerns and sounds warning alarm while also suggesting variant may further immunize some people for uncertain future]( [Vaccinated UK health minister tests positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms]( By [AP]( [UK pushes ahead with plan to end virus limits even as new daily cases top 50,000]( By [Pan Pylas]( [‘Catastrophic’: Europe reels from worst floods in years as death toll passes 150]( By [Agencies]( [Hundreds still missing in Germany, Belgium as rescuers work to find survivors; threat not yet over, with swollen Meuse river looking ‘very dangerous’ for nearby town]( [‘Like a war zone’: Stunned Germans count cost of floods]( By [Jean-Philippe LACOUR]( [Massive, erratic Oregon wildfire spreads miles a day, destroys dozens of homes]( By [Gillian Flaccus]( Analysis [Raf Casert]( [Experts warn Europe floods show need to curb emissions, adapt urban planning]( [Scientists can’t yet say for sure whether climate change caused the deadly flooding, but insist that it certainly exacerbates the extreme weather]( [Dutch PM blames climate change for deadly flooding in Europe]( By [AFP]( [1 killed at Iran water shortage protests in restive drought-hit province]( By [AFP]( [Mark Zuckerberg’s kippa-wearing dog gets hit with antisemitic comments]( By [JTA]( [Post also inundated with many pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel comments and photos]( [Jewish man beaten, robbed on his way to synagogue in Brooklyn]( By [TOI staff]( [BBC journalist fired for ‘Hitler was right’ tweet blames ‘pro-Israel mob’]( By [TOI staff]( Tokyo Olympics 2020 [How Israel became a global judo powerhouse and Olympic favorite]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [A combination of rare Olympic success in 1992, combined with an infusion of judo masters from the former Soviet Union, have helped spark a national love affair with the sport]( [1st case of COVID-19 diagnosed in Tokyo Olympic Village, 6 days ahead of games]( By [AFP]( [Biden: Social media platforms are ‘killing people’ with vaccine misinformation]( By [AP]( [US president responds to question about tech giants failing to stop misinformation, says it’s now ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’; Facebook: Accusations ‘aren’t supported by facts’]( [US warns COVID ‘becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated’ as case spike continues]( By [AFP]( Top Ops [Hannah Pressman]( [Jewish traditions celebrate the rhythm of nature, but it’s all off balance now]( [Last week’s Heat Dome was billed as a ’once-in-a-millennium’ convergence of factors, but it seems to be a grim harbinger of things to come]( [Ilan Manor]( [On memory, digitalization and Auschwitz]( [Based on 140 tweets this month by the Auschwitz Memorial, it is clear that the Memorial focuses on Polish suffering under the Nazis. Where are the Jews?]( [CRM]( [Ethical questions raised over use of AI to recreate Bourdain’s voice in new docu]( By [Matt O'Brien and Barbara Ortutay]( [Viewers concerned both by the audio fakery and the director’s seeming dismissal of any moral concerns]( [Israeli filmmakers to spend second Shabbat in Nigerian jail]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Still without legal representation and not charged with any crime, trio receiving support from Chabad, embassies]( [Israeli pop sensation Noa Kirel making a splash with first English hit]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Please Don’t Suck’ racks up more than 3 million views in first two days on YouTube; catchy, upbeat song hailed as ‘instantly memorable’]( Analysis [Shalom Yerushalmi]( [Maverick Yisrael Beytenu MK is in Liberman’s crosshairs]( [Party chair wants to declare Eli Avidar a rebel MK to stymie his parliamentary maneuverability — but doing so could risk toppling a coalition desperate for every vote]( [Gantz, Sa’ar agree to review potential state inquiry into submarine affair]( By [TOI staff]( [Woman to lead local religious council for only 2nd time in Israeli history]( By [TOI staff]( [US teachers’ unions increasingly debate Israel, and in some places back boycotts]( By [Andrew Lapin and Gabriel Greschler]( [With Jews spearheading initiatives on both sides of the issue, votes across America on whether to support the anti-Israel BDS movement ensnare prominent Jewish labor leaders]( [Israeli tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fated for culling]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Rehovot team finds ‘genetic modification’ to halt embryogenesis, stopping formation of males when they are just a cell cluster; males routinely killed because they can’t lay eggs]( Interview [Israeli-Canadian bioethicist: Return to pre-COVID normal would be wasted chance]( By [Robert Sarner]( [With myriad ethical issues prompted by the pandemic, Vardit Ravitsky has emerged as a prominent voice of morality and change in Canada’s public health debate]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Off her tree / Escaped orangutan causes stir at Ramat Gan zoo]( By [TOI staff]( [Man shot dead in southern Bedouin town of Hura; 15-year-old boy lightly hurt]( By [TOI staff]( [UAE, Israeli soccer clubs to face off in practice match in Serbia]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF fires flares near Lebanese border after suspicious movements]( By [TOI staff]( [Creditors cancel $14 billion of Sudan’s debt after reforms, Israel normalization]( By [AP]( [Judge says all options open as families debate future of Surfside collapse site]( By [AP]( [Syria’s Assad sworn in for 4th term after an election derided overseas]( By [Agencies]( [Erdan leads international ambassadors to US and UN on tour of Israel]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Rabbi Yoel Kahn, scholar who preserved Lubavitcher rebbe’s words, dies at 91]( By [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [Lebanon in freefall as France announces aid conference on port blast anniversary]( By [Hashem Osseiran]( [Biden invites Iraqi prime minister to White House]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Mary's dress does what? / ‘Oy Vey!’: Springsteen’s guitarist waves off a lyrical firestorm]( By [David Horovitz]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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