FDA booster limit no snub to Israel * Head-down Netanyahu mocks Biden * Sweden ties revived * Late but long-lasting? Israel’s vaccine * From NY to promised land: Florida

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, September 20, 2021 Presented by [Izzy Stream Israel]( [Pfizer says COVID vaccine works in kids 5-11, will seek emergency OK]( By [lauren neergard]( [Company announces it will submit shot for FDA approval by the end of the month; dose for children is far lower than for adult immunization]( [Education Ministry: Half of teachers haven’t received COVID booster shots]( By [TOI staff]( [Teachers’ unions blast COVID-19 test requirement for schoolkids after Sukkot]( By [Amy Spiro and TOI staff]( Analysis [Nathan Jeffay]( [The FDA’s decision to limit COVID boosters was no snub to Israel]( [US panel rejected the boosters-for-all approach pioneered in Israel — for now. But approval for the most vulnerable shows it is embracing the Jewish state’s example]( [Senior US health official predicts booster access to be expanded in coming weeks]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Lapid speaks with Sweden FM, renewing high-level contacts after 7 years]( By [TOI staff]( [Ann Linde condemns terrorism and backs Israel’s security; ties had soured in 2014 after Stockholm recognized Palestinian state and its former FM censured IDF]( [Repeating debunked claim, Netanyahu mocks Biden for sleeping during Bennett meet]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [‘I heard that Biden was very attentive,’ former premier chuckles, as he drops his head and closes his eyes in an apparent imitation of the US president broadcast live on Facebook]( [Bennett taps new public affairs chief at PM’s office, a post unfilled since 2015]( By [TOI staff]( [Climate crisis, COVID-19, Arab community: Government lays out its policy goals]( By [Lazar Berman]( From our sponsor [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, and as much as you want!]( [Truth trumps fiction in family mythbuster on quirky turn-of-the-century sisters]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [In ‘The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters,’ Julie Klam travels the globe to separate the truth from the lore about her grandmother’s 4 philanthropic chain-smoking millionaire cousins]( [London pro-Palestinian activists charged after urging rape of Jewish women]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Police say the 4 suspects likely had intent ‘to stir up racial hatred’; drove in convoy with loudpeakers through Jewish area during May fighting between Israel and Gaza terrorists]( [IDF officer seen shoving, injuring left-wing demonstrator let off with ‘censure’]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [At Israel’s prodding, record 31 nations to boycott Durban conference anniversary]( By [TOI staff]( [Envoy says dozens of countries will shun Wednesday’s anti-racism conference at UN after past antisemitism; Bennett to deliver debut address at General Assembly next week]( [Dutch king, PM unveil Amsterdam memorial naming nation’s 102,000 Holocaust dead]( By [Mike Corder]( [Though lagging far behind, Israel’s COVID jab aims to ‘find its place in market’]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Chairman of NRx, pharmaceutical company completing trials for BriLife, suggests vaccine may even work better against variants]( [‘Let them fight’: Bennett slammed for pushing parents to vax-shame each other]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll]( [Under my lemon tree]( [In the holiday rush, bemoaning the days with no school and the many meals to cook, I pause and breathe deep, for nothing inspires me like the air of the Land of Israel in Tishrei]( [Tzachi Fried]( [Shemitah: The redemption of ‘being’]( [I have been so busy pulling weeds and propping up new growth that it’s taken a real shift in my mindset to accept the coming year of leaving the garden to nature]( [COVID has sent Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers to the promised land: Florida]( By [Shira Hanau]( [From Miami all the way north to Boca Raton, South Florida’s Orthodox Jewish communities have experienced a major pandemic-driven population boom]( [Rate of positive COVID tests drops to lowest level since mid-August]( By [TOI staff]( [6,456 new coronavirus cases diagnosed Sunday; 70% of serious cases are among the unvaccinated; most new infections among school-age children and in Arab community]( [Recently recovered from COVID now exempt from virus test before entering Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Hospital chiefs warn of shortage of ECMO machines used for critical COVID cases]( By [TOI staff]( [AstraZeneca announces ‘groundbreaking’ results in new breast cancer drug trial]( By [TOI staff]( [72% of trial patients administered Enherthu showed no progression in their cancer after 12 months, compared to 34.1% of those treated with the current standard of care medication]( Photo essay [Great-grandson of Hasidic leader ‘redeemed’ in ancient Jewish ceremony]( By [Oded Balilty]( [Yaakov Tabersky presents his firstborn child, descendant of chief rabbi of the Lelov dynasty, on a silver platter, as a priest takes 5 silver coins instead of the boy]( [Hamas pans Ra’am MK who signaled party may not bolt coalition if Gaza war erupts]( By [TOI staff]( [After Walid Taha says no good would come from toppling the government, terror group says the ‘hesitant’ remarks ‘attest to a disconnection from the Palestinian Arab identity’]( [New Lebanese PM vows to take back land it sees as occupied by Israel]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Najib Mikati says ‘Lebanese citizens have the right to oppose Israel’s occupation, and to respond to its attacks’; he also demands UNIFIL end Israel’s ‘invasions’]( [Analysis / Hezbollah cements role as Lebanon’s real ruler after ‘unauthorized’ fuel imports]( By [AFP]( [Iran says will sell fuel to Lebanon gov’t, after Hezbollah arranged 1st delivery]( By [Agencies]( ToI Podcast [Daily Briefing Sept. 20 – A finale to the Gilboa Prison jailbreak fiasco]( By [TOI staff]( [Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross reports on the recapture of all six escaped prisoners while environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at climate change markers and reactions]( [Officials surprised by ‘easy’ recapture of jailbreak fugitives who fled to Jenin]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Palestinian escapee was close to plea deal release before jailbreak – report]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Prison official warned of possible Gilboa jailbreak, days before escape – report]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [CRM]( More Headlines [At least 6 killed in mass shooting at Russian university]( By [Agencies]( [UN chief warns China and US to avoid new Cold War]( By [Edith M. 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