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[The daily edition]( Saturday, September 18, 2021 [Mossad killed Iran’s top nuke scientist with remote-operated machine gun — NYT](
By [TOI staff](
[Safe in a command center thousands of miles away, Israeli team reportedly used AI-powered weapon built into abandoned-looking vehicle to take out Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last November](
[Israel said worried FDA limit on booster shots will hamper its 3rd shot campaign](
By [TOI staff and AP](
[Unfazed by Israeli data on vaccines’ fading effectiveness, FDA panel okays 3rd shot only for those over 65 or high risk; now Israel fears wariness, legal challenges at home](
[After FDA panel limits US boosters, minister says Israel proves 3rd dose works](
By [TOI staff](
[Over 3 million Israelis have now received COVID vaccine boosters](
By [TOI staff]( [FDA panel recommends COVID booster shots only for older or high-risk Americans](
By [MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD](
[Experts overwhelmingly reject proposal to okay 3rd dose of Pfizer vaccine for anyone over 16, questioning whether data presented on Israel’s booster campaign is applicable to US](
[Backing boosters, Israeli experts tell FDA panel vaccines wane after six months](
By [TOI staff and AP](
[Moderna beats Pfizer on long-term protection against hospitalization, study says](
By [AFP](
[Blinken pledges US backing to expand Abraham Accords between Israel, Arab states](
By [Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid](
[At US-hosted event marking a year since signing of historic agreement, Lapid notes anniversary of peace deal with Egypt; Morocco, UAE call for two-state solution](
[Lapid announces he will visit Bahrain later this month](
By [AP and TOI staff](
[Medieval manors to German villas: Jewish homes tell stories of royalty, tragedy](
By [Robert Philpot](
[An online tour of sprawling estates reveals the history of a segment of European Jewry seldom thought of today, despite its members’ opulence, philanthropy and political influence]( [French court acquits imam who quoted text commanding Muslims to kill Jews](
By [Cnaan Liphshiz](
[Jewish leader in Toulouse slams acquittal of Mohamed Tatai, likens it to decision not to try killer of Sarah Halimi because he used drugs](
[Jewish man in France beaten after confronting group that called him âdirty Jewâ](
By [Cnaan Liphshiz](
[Poway synagogue shooter avoids death penalty with guilty plea](
By [JULIE WATSON](
[John T. Earnest to serve life sentence without possibility of parole for killing Lori Gilbert-Kaye and wounding three others in 2019 attack](
[In Yom Kippur address, Jon Ossoff condemns antisemitism at Georgia high schools](
By [Ben Sales]( [Ohio synagogue outraged as city officials use PI to investigate COVID violations](
By [JANE KAUFMAN](
[University Heights sends hired detective to monitor Orthodox congregants entering and leaving Aleksander Shul during Rosh Hashanah services](
[DC rally to support those who stormed Capitol has Jewish officials on high alert](
By [Ben Sales](
[Saturday protest, organized by a former Trump campaign staffer, to demand an end to what it calls ‘tyrannical and inhumane treatment of the January 6 political prisoners’](
[Planned protest at US Capitol looks to rewrite history of January 6 violence](
By [BRIAN SLODYSKO](
Top Ops
[Alla Umanskiy](
[Yom Kippur in the rain⦠and nowhere to go](
[My preferred temple wouldnât let me in without paying a substantial fee, and I couldnât help compare: what church would turn anyone away on Christmas Eve?](
[Andrew Silow-Carroll](
[Don’t blame Ellis Island officials for Jewish immigrants’ changing last names](
[Name-changing wasnât a humiliation but a strategy, and one that, in the American context, has paid off handsomely — including for my own family]( [Colorado governor, partner tie knot in Jewish wedding](
By [PHILISSA CRAMER](
[Jared Polis, the first openly gay US governor, marries partner of 18 years: ‘We couldnât be happier to be married at last’](
[Taliban replace women’s ministry with notorious vice department restricting them](
By [KATHY GANNON](
[Afghan rulers set up ministry for ‘propagation of virtue and prevention of vice’ in building that housed Women’s Affairs Ministry; 3 explosions target Taliban in Jalalabad, 3 dead](
[Pentagon calls Kabul strike that killed 10 civilians a ‘tragic mistake’](
By [Robert Burns](
[UN Security Council calls for Taliban to form inclusive Afghan government](
By [Edith M. Lederer]( [For 1st time ever, France recalls envoy from US, in anger over nuclear sub deal](
By [Sylvie Corbet](
[Stunning rift between allies as Paris fumes at exclusion from security pact, scrapping of billion-dollar deal to supply Canberra with submarines; envoy to Australia also recalled](
[NY real estate heir Robert Durst guilty of murdering best friend Susan Berman](
By [brian melley](
[Millionaire ‘Jinx’ protagonist faces life in jail without parole; Durst shot Berman at point-blank range in 2000 as she was set to tell cops she helped cover up his wifeâs killing](
[Recaptured prisoners said to express surprise over how easy it was to escape](
By [TOI staff](
[Lawyer for one of the 4 prisoners says client had planned to reach West Bank, but got lost on the way; authorities release photos of makeshift tools used to dig way out of prison](
[Palestinian municipal elections in West Bank, Gaza scheduled for December](
By [AFP](
[New traditions help make Yom Kippur a safer time for Jews with eating disorders](
By [Ella Rockart]( [Grandfather defends taking child survivor of Italy cable car crash to Israel](
By [TOI staff and AP](
[Shmulik Peleg denies kidnapping Eitan Biran, 6; says his domestic violence conviction is irrelevant; paternal relatives visit boy in Israel: ‘Worrying to see signs of brainwashing’](
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By [AFP](
[Netanyahu said to again propose coalition deal to Gantz that would make him PM](
By [TOI staff](
[IDF troops nab 3 Gazans who tried to infiltrate through Israeli border fence](
By [TOI staff](
[Belgium charges 10 over 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels](
By [AFP](
[From our partner / UK’s Jewish News crowned Free Weekly Newspaper of the Year](
[Israel sends back Lebanese man who crossed northern border](
By [TOI staff](
[Obituary / Ex-Algerian president Bouteflika, ousted amid protests, dies at 84](
By [AP](
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