Fire warden’s 9/11 ordeal * Old City stabbing attempt * Biden & Trump officials set for DC peace event * Arizona divests from Ben & Jerry’s * ’Tashlich’ cleansing waters

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Friday, September 10, 2021 Sponsored by Leket Israel Interview [When ash fell like snow: 20 years on, a fire warden’s 9/11 memories still haunt]( By [Marissa Newman]( [Volunteer fire warden Alan Fromm rushed into 5 World Trade Center to evacuate his office building; after the South Tower collapsed, he was found unconscious under an ambulance]( [Two decades after 9/11, Ground Zero still being rebuilt]( By [Karen Matthews]( [First Person / ‘Get out now’ — the view from inside the White House on 9/11]( By [Anita McBride]( Breaking news [Police: Assailant shot after attempting to stab cops in Jerusalem’s Old City]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Officer hit by ricochet, lightly injured, during the incident by Council Gate, amid heightened tensions]( [Army, police on high alert for Hamas ‘day of rage’ in support of escapees]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF cancels leave in West Bank units, police put on second-highest level of alert amid threats of violent clashes, prison riots as manhunt continues for six prisoners on the run]( [Tensions ‘ready to explode’: Palestinian jailbreak sparks fears of escalation]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( From our sponsor [Ensure that no Israeli family goes hungry this holiday season.]( [By opening your heart and donating a hot meal through Leket Israel Donate Now >>]( [COVID spread appears to ebb, fueling optimism for end of Delta blitz]( By [TOI staff]( [Over half of new cases are among school age kids, though, and worries grow about high number of infections among pilgrims from Uman, including some trying to falsify test results]( [Dozens of infected pilgrims caught returning from Uman with faked negative tests]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Biden says ‘patience wearing thin,’ mandates vaccines for 100 million Americans]( By [Zeke Miller]( Israel media review [Prison of the absurd: What the press is saying about jailbreaks and test fakes]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Pressure builds in Israel as more stories of the jumbles and fumbles that allowed six inmates to escape proliferate, and in the West Bank, as they remain on the loose]( [Biden, Trump officials to attend DC event marking anniversary of Abraham Accords]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Initiative’s co-architect Jared Kushner will offer opening remarks, followed by panel with UAE, Bahrain and Israel envoys to US; representatives from Egypt, Jordan will also attend]( [Biden officials privately pushed Abbas to shelve ICC probe against Israel]( By [Jacob Magid]( [PM meets settler heads, said to tell them he won’t freeze West Bank construction]( By [TOI staff]( [Oxygen therapy may slow Alzheimer’s, say Israeli researchers after mice study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Plaque fell away from brains of mice after oxygen chamber stints, and scientists say it may ‘significantly slow progression and severity’ of Alzheimer’s; but others are skeptical]( Top Ops [Toby Perl Freilich]( [‘Holy to God’ – A Holocaust survivor saved melodies from the old world]( [My father brought the loving memories of his childhood home and the music he heard there through 5 concentration camps. Decades later, my brother preserved them on video]( [Mark Wildes]( [When I was 9, John Lennon gave me back my dad]( [It wasn’t easy to come to terms with his song, ’Imagine,’ as I do believe in heaven and I don’t believe in living just for today. But, it turns out, I can imagine too]( [David-Seth Kirshner]( [Cut your rabbi some slack]( [The clergy that counsel the suffering and console the bereaved also love, laugh, hurt, and are confused by challenges with no easy solutions]( [David Sedley]( [Truth be told]( [With so many sources of information these days, it’s hard to know what is true – a far cry from when the Israelites got their facts direct from Moses (Vayelech)]( [Reversing an old tradition, eco-activist Jews cleanse waters of humanity’s sins]( By [Danielle Ziri]( [As many perform a Rosh Hashanah ritual in which last year’s sins are symbolically cast onto the water, Reverse Tashlich participants make amends by cleaning litter from waterfronts]( [Arizona divesting all state funds from Ben & Jerry’s due to settlement boycott]( By [TOI staff, JTA and Jacob Magid]( [State treasurer says won’t allow taxpayer cash to go to ‘anti-Semitic, discriminatory efforts against Israel’; move includes $143m of investment in parent company Unilever]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Congregational rabbis share high holiday plans, and thoughts]( By [TOI staff]( [Rabbis Seth Farber, Aaron Brusso and Toby Manewith discuss the logistical and spiritual elements of their 5782 Jewish holidays]( Party powerhouse [Time Out ranks Tel Aviv as world’s ‘funnest’ city, 8th-best overall]( By [TOI staff]( [Global culture magazine’s survey puts Israel’s second-largest city at No.2 in food & drink category, says it is metropolis most likely to be described as ‘good for people like me’]( [Study: Ecosystem could collapse at nature reserve hit by oil spill 7 years ago]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Wildlife, as well as seedlings of acacia trees, essential to ecosystem, not recovering, 5-year monitoring program in Evrona Nature Reserve concludes]( [Modiin expansion plan divides green organizations from residential groups]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Gantz tells troops not to let hunt for fugitives harm other Palestinians]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [In West Bank, defense minister hails security forces searching for escaped security prisoners and vows they will eventually collar the six who broke out of Gilboa Prison]( [Report: Palestinians agree to help Israel track down escaped inmates]( By [TOI staff]( [Theater kid who became notorious terrorist leads in real life Israeli jailbreak]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Escaped security prisoners said to have dug tunnel from their cell’s shower]( By [TOI staff]( [Prisons Service reinforced toilet areas after attempted 2014 jailbreak, but failed to do same in shower; authorities reportedly believe some escapees hiding in West Bank]( [Security minister seeks to form government commission to probe prison break]( By [TOI staff]( [Guards say tower overlooking tunnel used in prison break was unmanned]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Palestinian teen recalls alleged beating, torture at hands of settlers]( By [jack jeffery and IMAD ISSEID]( [Israeli assaulted by souvenir seller in Pisa who yelled ‘Jews are murderers’]( By [TOI staff]( [Four arrested for stealing identities of Surfside victims]( By [AP]( [Throwing shade at Google? Facebook and Ray-Ban roll out smart glasses]( By [Glenn Chapman]( [Lebanon breaks deadlock for new government, first since 2020 port blast]( By [AP]( [More than 100 headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Argentina]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Beitar Jerusalem owner Hogeg to sell soccer team, cites ungrateful, racist fans]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Jordanian court upholds conspiracy convictions in alleged plot against king]( By [AP]( [Movie guide / Jerusalem film school offers camera’s-eye view of the holy city]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Atlanta Jewish Times removes essay by politician associated with extreme right]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [UK spy chief warns terrorists emboldened by Afghanistan takeover]( By [AFP]( [US Justice Department sues Texas over state’s new abortion law]( By [MICHAEL BALSAMO and Paul Weber]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved