Yom Kippur 5782: Saving the shrine of a prophet * The dreadful hours before war * When the PoWs raged * Kushner: Don’t neglect our peace deals * NJ set to divest from B&J

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Presented by [Leket Israel]( Exclusive [Saving Iraq’s Tomb of Nahum, a secret mission resurrects Kurdistan’s Jewish past]( By [Tal Schneider]( [With IS just miles away, a US army vet, 2 Israeli engineers and the head of a preservation group carried out an audacious plan to restore an ancient shrine of the biblical prophet]( [Iranian guards accused of sexually harassing UN inspectors at nuclear plant]( By [TOI staff]( [WSJ reports security officers at Natanz facility inappropriately touched IAEA female auditors, ordered them to remove clothing]( [Gantz says Israel could accept new Iran nuclear deal]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu assails government after Gantz says open to new Iran deal]( By [TOI staff]( [When freed after Yom Kippur War, Israeli PoWs railed at army, transcripts show]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [A week after their release from capture in 1973 fighting, troops who had been on the Egyptian front met top general, demanded answers for the IDF’s failures]( [Booth camp / Rare photos show soldiers’ sukkot during Yom Kippur War]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( inside story [Abraham Rabinovich]( [Worse than the worst-case scenario: The dreadful hours before the Yom Kippur War]( [A leading chronicler of the 1973 war traces the harrowing final hours as Israeli leaders realized, far too late, that they’d refused to read the signs of imminent conflict]( From our sponsor [Ensure that no Israeli family goes hungry this holiday season.]( [Open your heart and donate a hot meal through Leket Israel.]( ToI podcast [Daily Briefing Sept. 15 – How are the Abraham Accords holding up a year on?]( By [TOI staff]( [Jacob Magid assesses the future of normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries, and Jessica Steinberg fills us in on the hottest cultural events coming up in Israel]( [Kushner warns against neglecting Abraham Accords at one-year anniversary event]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Former Trump senior adviser says the potential normalization deals offer to region could be wasted if they’re not nurtured; Blinken to host administration anniversary event Friday]( [Blinken to honor Abraham Accords with Israel, UAE, Bahrain and Morocco ministers]( By [AFP and Jacob Magid]( [Bennett to address UN General Assembly on September 27]( By [Lazar Berman]( Top Ops [Yuval Cherlow]( [Asking for long life is just the beginning]( [Modern medicine can prolong life despite physical and mental infirmities, but when does that stop being what we want for ourselves and our families?]( [Shira Pasternak Be'eri]( [A High Holiday embrace]( [My husband lay in the cardiac ICU, and of course my prayers were all for him, until I noticed a distraught young woman at our hospital service]( [Alan Abrams]( [A stone’s throw from the Temple Mount]( [On this holiest of days, when the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies, we can choose to avoid the battles, and share that holiness with our Muslim neighbors]( [Scott Lasensky]( [Jewish soft power and Yom Kippur at the United Nations]( [The story of how the world organization pegged the Jewish fast day as a holiday embodies the long history of the ‘shtadlan’s’ behind-the-scenes diplomacy]( [UAE seeks staggering $1 trillion in economic ties with Israel over next decade]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [A year into the Abraham Accords, trade between countries hits over $600m in 1st half of 2021; investors say big opportunities still ahead]( [Bahrain’s envoy joins Foreign Ministry’s record-breaking ‘interview marathon’]( By [Lazar Berman]( [New Jersey moves to divest from Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever over settlement ban]( By [Jacob Magid]( [State gives ice cream maker’s parent firm, which is headquartered there, 90 days to change course after review reaches preliminary conclusion company breached anti-BDS laws]( [Israeli research: 3rd vaccine dose produces 10 times more antibodies than 2nd]( By [TOI staff]( [Amid talk of 4th dose, serological study at Sheba hospital stokes optimism that booster shot may offer longer-lasting protection than previously thought]( [Israeli holiday travel to Europe largely ‘stopped dead’ due to entry ban fears]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Large-scale trips were expected over the High Holidays, but after Portugal and Sweden bar Israelis many fear further restrictions being implemented and rethink plans]( [Lawmakers expand quarantine surveillance program to cover all in isolation]( By [TOI staff]( [Trial for PA officers accused of killing critic delayed after lawyer a no-show]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Defense attorney for 14 officers claims he requested delay and then caught COVID; lawyer for late Nizar Banat’s family laments that mix-up doesn’t bode well for rest of case]( [Bennett says he won’t meet Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian state a ‘terrible mistake’]( By [TOI staff]( [Merkel said to reschedule farewell visit to Israel for October]( By [TOI staff]( [Jailbreak mastermind claims nobody aided escape from Gilboa Prison]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Islamic Jihad member Mahmoud al-Arida reportedly tells his lawyer that he and the 5 other fugitives followed the news coverage of their prison break using small radio devices]( [Jailbreak probe said to find 11 Gilboa prisoners started tunnel dig in November]( By [TOI staff]( [Heatwaves already causing more deaths, hospitalizations — researchers]( By [Sue Surkes]( [But Health Ministry not given funding to deal with crisis; expert warns Israelis unaware climate change is ‘already here and killing people’]( [CRM]( [Rival Koreas test missiles hours apart, raising tensions]( By [Hyung-Jin Kim and KIM TONG-HYUNG]( [South conducts its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test hours after North test fires two cruise missiles]( [Dubious of his sanity, general feared Trump would launch nuke war, book reveals]( By [Paul Handley]( [US denies carrying out strike on Iran-backed militia convoy on Syria-Iraq border]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( More Headlines [Grandfather grilled after spiriting child cable car crash survivor out of Italy]( By [TOI staff]( [Ohio man sentenced to 20 years for plot to attack synagogue]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [A look back / Dan David prize becomes largest history award in world]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Men dressed as Nazis apologize for mock arrest at Dutch COVID protest]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Polish Jewish leaders bury remains found in former Warsaw Ghetto]( By [Vanessa Gera]( [Jerusalem police clash with ultra-Orthodox locals defending hazardous sukkah]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Hebrew Hammer’ Ryan Braun retires from MLB after illustrious 14-year career]( By [jacob gurvis]( [Arab businessman, accused of spying for Iran, ordered released to house arrest]( By [TOI staff]( [Lawmakers okay revised California curriculum that roiled Jewish community]( By [Gabe Stutman]( [Obituary / George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95]( By [Hillel Italie]( [Europa Conference League kicks off with a victory for Maccabi Tel Aviv]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Egypt opens 4,500-year-old tomb of King Djoser following 15-year restoration]( By [MOHAMED WAGDY]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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