Study of million Israelis shows 3rd COVID shot’s potency * Bennett hails Abraham Accords * Dara Horn on attitudes to Jews, dead & living * US Nazi summer camp, on stage

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Friday, September 17, 2021 Presented by [Izzy Stream Israel]( [Study: COVID booster recipients 20 times more protected against serious illness]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [As US officials set to mull okaying Pfizer’s 3rd dose, data from a million Israelis shows it boosts protection from infection tenfold compared with eligible people who got 2 shots]( [COVID testing sites swamped as they reopen after Yom Kippur]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Frenchman fined for billboard depicting Macron as Hitler to protest COVID rules]( By [AFP]( [Bennett cheers ‘groundbreaking’ Abraham Accords on 1-year anniversary]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [PM says Israel will work to develop ties with other nations in region; Blinken hosting virtual event with Israeli and Arab leaders to celebrate the normalization deals]( [Trump ‘joked’ that Kushner ‘more loyal to Israel than to the US,’ book claims]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [‘People Love Dead Jews,’ says Dara Horn, but the living ones don’t fare as well]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [The acclaimed novelist pivots to non-fiction, explaining the myriad ways Jews have been — and still are — forced to erase their particularistic identity when living among non-Jews]( Promoted By [If you love ‘Fauda’ and ‘Shtisel,’ you’ll love IZZY – Stream Israel]( [IZZY gives you a “front-row seat” to Israel through unlimited Israeli movies, TV shows, and documentaries that you can watch anytime, anywhere, as much as you want!]( [Palestinian official praises Lapid’s ‘new vision’ for Gaza]( By [Dana Ben-Shimon]( [FM’s plan unveiled this week, which would give the Palestinian Authority some powers in Strip, is ‘the new Oslo [Accords],’ says PA source]( [Palestinians adopt spoons as ‘symbol of resistance’ following prison break]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [1,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israel call off planned hunger strike]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Israel has vastly boosted Red Sea presence to counter Iran — outgoing navy head]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [In rare interview days after ending his tenure, Eli Sharvit says missile frigates and submarines are now continuously deployed to protect ships from growing threats posed by Tehran]( [Israel won’t interfere with Hezbollah-run oil shipments from Iran to Lebanon]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( Top Ops [Sarit Zehavi and Eric R. Mandel]( [The dangerous impotence of UNIFIL’s mission in Lebanon]( [OPINION: The would-be peacekeeping force is ineffective and completely cowed by Hezbollah. It’s time to end the charade and stop wasting US tax dollars on this failed mission]( [Joe Wolfson]( [The day Michael K. Williams of the Wire made my NYU students think]( [What if justice were found not in punishment, but in atonement? What if high schools broke the cycle of violence? What if teshuvah were seen as an ongoing struggle?]( [Israeli ‘antibacterial weapon’ arms good germs to kill bad germs]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Helpful bacteria fire ‘poisoned arrows’ at infection-causing microbes in Tel Aviv University lab; they ‘permeate a neighboring cell by brute force and release toxins into it’]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Born in shadow of Holocaust, artist Mindy Weisel searches for beauty]( By [TOI staff]( [Weisel discusses her latest memoir, ‘After: The Obligation of Beauty,’ drawing on her experience as a daughter to Auschwitz survivor parents]( [Australia to get nuclear subs under new US defense pact, infuriating China]( By [AFP]( [Beijing calls new alliance between Washington, Canberra, and London an ‘extremely irresponsible’ threat to regional stability]( [Biden administration signs its first military deal with Saudi Arabia]( By [AFP]( [New London play tells real-life story of American Nazi summer camp]( By [Jill Lawless]( [‘Camp Siegfried,’ written by Bess Wohl, is based on the Long Island camp in the 1930s that indoctrinated young German-Americans into Nazi ideology]( Explainer [Christia Spears Brown]( [Instagram does harm to teenagers; Facebook has been suppressing these findings]( [Internal research by social media giant has been swept under the rug; experts have for years been documenting how the photo-sharing site damages body image and self-esteem]( Israel Travels [Around the country, picturesque memorials to fallen heroes of the Yom Kippur War]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Forests, parks, promenades and overlooks in Israel often feature monuments to soldiers or units who made the ultimate sacrifice for their homeland. Here are a few such tributes]( [CRM]( [Leave your Sukkot booths to view films, exhibits and shows]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [The week of Sukkot offers a cornucopia of events, with museums, festivals, sites and troupes prepared to entertain]( More Headlines [Driver arrested over death of 12-year-old boy has past drunk driving conviction]( By [TOI staff]( [US court says it won’t stop ‘Jewish Power Corrupts’ protests outside synagogue]( By [Ed White]( [2 Bnei Brak residential buildings evacuated over fears of collapse]( By [TOI staff]( [Siberian Jews inaugurate a huge new Jewish education center in Tomsk]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [‘Ebola is defeated,’ says Congolese professor who discovered virus]( By [AFP]( [In shakeup, UK’s Johnson demotes foreign secretary after Afghanistan fiasco]( By [Jill Lawless and Pan Pylas]( [Germany: Berlin memorial to Polish WWII victims to be built in coming years]( By [AP]( [US lawmakers backed by Jewish, Muslim groups push for kosher, halal food relief]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [EU commissioner urges action against abusers of NSO Group’s spyware]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Amnesty condemns Iran’s ‘impunity’ over suspicious prisoner deaths]( By [AFP]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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