’Save my baby’: Desperation at Kabul airport * More victims, lawsuits, anger at USY after report alleging abuse * Israel’s Paralympians * 3D tumor bioprints breakthrough

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Thursday, August 19, 2021 Live updates [LIVE: Desperate mothers reported to throw babies over Kabul airport barbed wire]( By [TOI staff]( [‘They shouted, ‘save my baby’ and threw the babies at us, some of the babies fell on the barbed wire. It was awful,’ one officer recounts to UK paper amid chaos at Afghan capital]( [More victims, lawsuits and mounting anger at USY after ToI report alleging abuse]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Conservative movement vows probe, suspends 2 staffers, as more alleged victims of longtime official surface; Jordan Soffer, 1st to speak out, says USY, USCJ haven’t contacted him]( [Biden: ‘Chaos’ was inevitable in US withdrawal from Afghanistan]( By [Shaun Tandon]( [President says US forces will remain on the ground until last Americans are retrieved from Taliban-controlled country]( [Afghans who worked for US army plead for faster evacuation from Taliban rule]( By [Ellen Knickmeyer and Lolita C. Baldor]( [Top US general: No one foresaw swift collapse of Afghani army]( By [AFP]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Catastrophe in Afghanistan — for Afghans, Israel, the region… and for America]( [As the Taliban retake power, the imminent 20th anniversary of 9/11 underlines the horrific consequences of the US failing to reckon with this region’s darkest forces]( [Biden: US faces worse threats than Taliban-ruled Afghanistan]( By [Robert Burns, Ellen Knickmeyer and Zeke Miller]( ToI podcast [Daily Briefing August 19 – How the Taliban takeover affects US ally Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman looks at the Afghan situation and a diplomatic crisis with Poland; US correspondent Jacob Magid describes developments in a USY sexual abuse report]( [Daring Israel and US to act, Hezbollah says Iran fuel tanker to sail to Lebanon]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Terror group’s chief Nasrallah doesn’t say how ship will deliver cargo in defiance of US sanctions]( [Hezbollah chief: Israel should learn from Afghanistan that US is unreliable]( By [Aaron Boxerman and AFP]( [Israel drops threatening flyers in south Syria following nighttime strike nearby]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Firefighters battle several rekindled blazes in Jerusalem area]( By [TOI staff]( [Fresh conflagrations come days after huge wildfire that destroyed large forested area was brought under control; Environmental Protection Ministry lifts air pollution warning]( Top Ops [Samuel Heilman]( [5 Afghan lessons – ‘the US as unreliable ally’ is not one of them]( [Any nation expecting another to protect and save it, even when its citizens are unwilling to do so themselves, does so at its own peril – a truth Israel knows very well]( [Tammy Hoffman]( [We must not squander the opportunity for real change in Israeli schools]( [How many generations of Israelis will be educated without the tools they need to commit to the values of inclusion, respect for the other, and equality?]( [Afghanistan’s last Jew still won’t leave the country (or divorce his wife)]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Zebulun Simantov, 62, has refused for two decades to grant a religious divorce to his wife in Israel and could face legal repercussions if he flees to Jewish state]( [Taliban spokesman says he was duped into interview with Israeli TV]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [Rapid virus test stations boosted amid complaints of slow service]( By [TOI staff]( [With the start of new restrictions requiring children aged 3-11 to be tested before entering venues, many forced to wait hours to be swabbed; more testing sites, staff planned]( [Aviation workers block runway, shut down Ben Gurion Airport, panning virus rules]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Bennett and Biden meeting in Washington set for August 26]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Prime minister to make snap 48-hour trip to US due to COVID precautions; premier says visit will focus on Iran, but White House says sides will discuss Palestinian issue too]( [Lapid to Egyptian spy chief: Israel won’t tolerate Gaza rocket fire]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Israel scales back travel advisory for Sinai as Bennett invited to Cairo]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Tokyo 2020 [Rowing, shooting, wheelchair tennis: Israel sets its sights on the Paralympics]( By [Amy Spiro]( [With 33 athletes in 11 sports, the Israel Paralympic Committee is hoping to improve on its Rio medal haul at the Tokyo Games this year]( [World gymnastics group dismisses Russian complaints over Linoy Ashram’s gold]( By [Amy Spiro]( [After an investigation, the International Gymnastics Federation rules that there was ‘no bias’ in the judging at the Tokyo Olympics]( [CRM]( [Israel reportedly set to offer COVID boosters to all starting next month]( By [TOI staff]( [Speculation from health officials comes after US announces plans to roll out booster program, citing positive results from million who have already received third dose]( [Bennett pushes vaccines over lockdown as serious cases hit 5-month high]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( [Study finds Pfizer COVID-19 shots’ effectiveness drops faster than AstraZeneca’s]( By [AFP]( [Arab man seriously injured in stabbing by Jewish mob in Jerusalem]( By [TOI staff]( [Police said to investigate possible terror motive; assault mirrors another knife attack in the same area in May]( [Sderot woman stabbed to death; son arrested]( By [TOI staff]( [Man shot dead in broad daylight outside mall, in suspected underworld hit]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli researchers tout ‘breakthrough’ 3D bioprints of active tumor]( By [TOI staff and Nathan Jeffay]( [Scientists at Tel Aviv University boast development of technology will help find optimal treatments for each tumor and accelerate future treatments]( [The political neophyte whipping a Knesset cacophony into coalition harmony]( By [Tal Schneider]( [Working tirelessly to keep MKs from Israel’s diverse and fractious government in lockstep while facing down a powerful opposition, Idit Silman is proving she’s no ‘little girl’]( [Health minister announces removal of all blood donation restrictions for gay men]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Nitzan Horowitz hails ‘historic step forward for equal rights for the LGBT community in Israel’]( [Report finds US Jewish communities ill-equipped to aid domestic abuse victims]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [A study released by Jewish Women International says that shelter, acknowledgment, legal services and support for survivors of violence are inadequate across all denominations]( More Headlines [Yeshiva student shot and killed during late-night crime spree in Denver]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [Gaza terror groups threaten ‘escalation’ as progress reported in Qatari aid deal]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Labor’s Kariv on his COVID hospitalization: It’s hard to breathe without oxygen]( By [TOI staff]( [Census data shows Orthodox Jewish areas of NY, NJ are among fastest growing]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [Weeks before Dubai expo, Israel still absent from event website]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Ex-Purdue Pharma head Richard Sackler denies responsibility for opioid crisis]( By [GEOFF MULVIHILL]( [Germany’s top court upholds life sentence in neo-Nazi murders case]( By [AP]( [Algeria blames Israel for deadly forest fires it says were started by terrorists]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Peru court frees disabled Israeli held for 2 years over suspected drug smuggling]( By [TOI staff]( [State to appeal release of convicted murderer to house arrest ahead of retrial]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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