Terror chief, 5 other highly dangerous Palestinians on run after jailbreak * ’Unbelievable joy’ after op separates conjoined twins * Israel to reopen to some tour groups

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, September 6, 2021 [Six security prisoners escape from Gilboa Prison in northern Israel]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [The six, all highly dangerous, dug their way out of the high-security facility; Israeli forces searching for fugitives in one of the worst escapes in country’s history]( [Terror charges and life sentences: The 6 Palestinians who escaped Gilboa Prison]( By [TOI staff]( [Police on high alert over possibility of attack by escaped Palestinian prisoners]( By [TOI staff]( [‘We’re not ruling out possibility they could attempt to carry out an attack,’ says police official, noting the escaped terrorists could have reached anywhere in Israel by now]( [Security officials believe fugitives exploited structural flaw in prison escape]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Unbelievable joy’: In Israeli 1st, doctors separate heads of conjoined twins]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Physician tells Times of Israel of ‘beautiful’ moment when formerly connected twins first looked at each other and cooed after ‘massively complex, life or death’ 12-hour procedure]( ToI podcast [Daily Briefing Sept. 6 – On Rosh Hashanah eve, a look back at a year of COVID]( By [TOI staff]( [Nathan Jeffay surveys how the Jewish state and its citizens coped with the virus over 5781, and Amy Spiro fills us in on Israel’s achievements at the Paralympics in Tokyo]( [20% of COVID cases among Haredim, fueling fears of holiday surge at synagogues]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Health Ministry: Only those with vaccine booster should blow shofar in synagogue]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Israel to reopen borders to some vaccinated tourist groups in two weeks]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Incoming tourists from select countries must be fully vaccinated with a recent negative COVID test; must also undergo antibody testing upon arrival in order to skip quarantine]( [Health officials said to believe Israel can reach herd immunity within 2 months]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Israeli ill with COVID-19 freed from Jordanian jail after $312,000 bail raised]( By [TOI staff]( [PA says 14 officers to be charged for beating Abbas critic to death]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Men to be accused of aggravated assault in case that has rocked the West Bank; no senior officers or politicians have been charged in Nizar Banat’s death]( [Palestinian caught with knife near Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs]( By [TOI staff]( [Pre-Holocaust Jewish communal records saved from the auction block]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [Documents detailing births, deaths and marriages dating back to the 19th century are purchased by the National Library of Israel and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives]( [18th-century porcelain seized by Nazis to be auctioned in restitution effort]( By [Amy Spiro]( Top Ops [Elizabeth Brenner Danziger]( [How do I tell my unvaccinated friends they’re not invited?]( [Will they think I am judging them for not getting the jab? Well, I do judge them a little, but that’s not the reason I’m not inviting them.]( [Idit Shafran Gittleman]( [The silence of the commanders]( [An ugly, false and increasingly widespread claim chalks up an IDF soldier’s death to overly stringent open-fire orders. Why isn’t the army setting the record straight?]( [Sivan Rahav Meir]( [First hush, then listen, then change]( [When we spend our time arguing politics and worrying about the suffering across the globe, we risk being all talk. Real change comes with our own self-improvement]( [Erica Brown]( [Why centrist Orthodox living doesn’t make good TV]( [This year has taught us the importance of taking responsibility for our own vigilance, so that when things go wrong, we ask not, ’where was God,’ but, ’where are we?’]( [Israeli company unveils electric vehicle battery that can recharge in 10 minutes]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [StoreDot reveals cylindrical cells prototype that uses a 4680 format favored by global carmakers, specifically Tesla]( [In care home mix up, misidentified COVID-19 victim buried by live woman’s family]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Chaya Freeman’s relatives only found out about her death days later, after her identity was switched with that of another patient as they were transferred between facilities]( [A rabbi and rescue dogs helped this US prison lifer find freedom and redemption]( By [Alix Wall]( [Jon Grobman was given a life sentence without parole, but after dedicating himself to helping fellow inmates through a canine training program, he’s been granted an early release]( [Iran condemns Taliban for assault on holdout fighters in Panjshir Valley]( By [AFP]( [Leader of Afghan resistance forces calls for a ‘national uprising’ against the Taliban]( [Taliban report seizing last holdout Afghan province]( By [Agencies]( [Taliban stop planes of evacuees from leaving Afghanistan]( By [KATHY GANNON]( [Amid Afghanistan chaos, Islamic State seizes opportunity for resurgence]( By [Didier Lauras]( [Terrorist group’s reach is felt through affiliates in Yemen, Nigeria and Mali, which continue to plot attacks]( [US general warns that Afghanistan faces a ‘broader civil war’]( By [David Fox]( [Taliban orders female students to cover up as academic year set to begin]( By [Emal Haidary]( [France set to open biggest trial in its modern history over 2015 Paris attacks]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Court case over terror attacks that killed 130 to begin Wednesday, will see 20 defendants tried, including one of the gunmen who has so far refused to cooperate with proceedings]( [Report: UK missed 14 chances to stop jihadi ‘Beatles’ before they joined IS]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Potsdam’s stylish new synagogue is the German city’s first since WWII]( By [Toby Axelrod]( [Futuristic house of worship is part of the newly inaugurated European Center for Jewish Learning at the University of Potsdam, and seats about 40 in its minimalistic sanctuary]( [CRM]( [Arab, Jewish men unite in grief over losing loved ones in Lod violence]( By [Daniella Cheslow]( [The brother of Yigal Yehoshua, killed by Arab rioters, and the father of Mussa Hassuna, shot dead by Jewish suspects, have found some solace in their friendship]( [Suspect in deadly Acre hotel firebombing charged with terror offenses]( By [TOI staff]( [Arab soccer star’s brother on Al-Aqsa fracas: ‘He didn’t mean to hurt anyone’]( By [TOI staff]( More Headlines [Biden makes Rosh Hashanah ‘cheshbon nefesh’ plea: What type of world do we want?]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Sissi calls Herzog for New Year, as Cairo said pushing for new Palestinian talks]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Veteran singer Miri Aloni undergoes partial leg amputation due to infection]( By [TOI staff]( [New charges filed in retrial of man convicted of 2006 murder of 13-year-old girl]( By [TOI staff]( [Lapid to meet Russian foreign minister in Moscow this week]( By [TOI staff]( [SpaceIL issues call for scientific research proposals on 2nd moon mission]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [ADL CEO apologizes ‘without caveat’ for opposing Islamic center near Ground Zero]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [Gaddafi’s son freed after 7-plus years in Libyan prison]( By [AP]( [Swedish firm buys Israeli video analytics company Agent Vi]( [Tokyo 2020 / Israel celebrates trove of 9 Paralympic medals as Tokyo Games wrap up]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Soldiers in Guinea overthrow government, detain president]( By [BOUBACAR DIALLO and Krista Larson]( [Belarus hits opposition activists with lengthy prison sentences]( By [YURAS KARMANAU]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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