Lapid opens Bahrain embassy * Why Israel is talking up Iran plans * ’4th COVID wave ending’ * The battle for orphaned Eitan * A Babi Yar trial? * VP Harris ’unwavering’

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Friday, October 1, 2021 [Lapid inaugurates Israeli embassy in Bahrain]( By [Lazar Berman]( [At ceremony in Manama with his Bahraini counterpart, FM says ‘Israel made a major, historical step today in the Gulf’]( [Lapid holds landmark meetings with Bahrain’s king, crown prince]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Iran begins war games near tense Azerbaijan border, citing ‘Zionist’ presence]( By [AFP]( [Tehran moves forward with military drill over Baku’s criticism; Israel is a major supplier of arms to the country]( [Iran: Lapid’s visit leaves stain on Bahrain’s rulers that won’t be erased]( By [TOI staff]( Op-Ed [David Horovitz]( [Why Israel is stepping up its planning, and its rhetoric, for a strike on Iran]( [For perhaps 3 years after the JCPOA was inked, Israel essentially discarded its operational planning and capability to decimate Iran’s nuclear facilities. That’s all changed now]( [Satellite images show alleged Iranian missile factory seriously damaged in blast]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Blinken: Ball is in Iran’s court on nuclear deal, but time is running out]( By [AFP]( [Health Ministry chief: Israel’s 4th COVID wave appears to be coming to an end]( By [TOI staff]( [Serious cases fall to 607, lowest rate in a month; 78,000 get booster on Thursday, highest figure in weeks; hundreds of police to ensure QR codes scanned in new Green Pass system]( [Serious COVID cases dip to lowest level in over a month]( By [TOI staff]( [3rd vaccine dose has lowest side effect rate, Israel Health Ministry data shows]( By [TOI staff]( [Mild adverse reactions are significantly lower than to previous COVID shots; of 3.3 million boosted Israelis, just 19 report serious side effects, which may not all be tied to vaccine]( [PM meets health officials, claims ‘no disagreement’ after feud on COVID response]( By [TOI staff]( [Bennett postpones visit to Arab town scheduled on October 2000 riots anniversary]( By [TOI staff]( [Merck says experimental antiviral pill halves COVID-19 death, hospitalization]( By [MATTHEW PERRONE]( [Pharma giant says will soon seek authorization for the medication’s use; if cleared, would be 1st pill shown to treat those infected with virus, a potentially major advance]( [A judgment more wrenching than Solomon’s: No imposters in the battle for Eitan]( By [Federica Sasso]( [The custody fight for Eitan Biran, 6, orphaned in May’s cable-car tragedy, is seen in opposite terms in Italy and Israel, for it goes to the very heart of national interpretations]( Top Ops [Paul Gross]( [In these polarized times, moderates are the heroes]( [Much of today’s extreme-right agrees with the extreme-left that Zionism equals racism — it’s just that the right sees that as a positive]( [Idit Codish]( [My driving instructor, Yossi, and his Ethiopian pumpkins]( [He says, ’Look at how tall that tree was!’ I think this is part of the test and say, ’No, I can’t look at a phone, I’m driving!’ He says, ’Nu, I’ll take the wheel…’]( [Galit Palzur]( [Clean air used to be free; now you need to pay for it]( [Home pollutants like aerosol deodorants have led those who can foot the bill to purchase air purification systems, with frightening implications for the have-nots]( [Peta Jones Pellach]( [I am woman]( [What if Eve’s curse was that she lost herself as a person when she became a mother? Too often, women are identified solely by their relationship to their children]( [Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, remanded in custody after going on the run]( By [Yannick Pasquet]( [Court orders Irmgard Furchner be held pending resumption of trial on October 19, after she left her retirement home near Hamburg and took cab to subway station, instead of hearing]( [Maccabi Haifa fans get antisemitic abuse at Berlin stadium built by Nazis]( By [Ciaran Fahey]( [80 years after Babi Yar, lawyer seeks trial for last living alleged perpetrator]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Case against Herbert Waller, 99, was previously dropped because he was at Ukrainian killing site as medic; lawyer isn’t buying it: ‘Why do you need paramedics in a massacre?’]( Galilee bus crash [Father who survived crash brought on stretcher to funeral of wife, 3 children]( By [TOI staff]( [Reuven Ben-Eli arrives by ambulance at funeral for Moran, 35, Dekel, 15, Liam, 11, and Annael, 5, after being seriously injured in crash with bus]( [Galilee bus crash / ‘They made him out to be a murderer’: Bus driver involved in fatal crash buried]( By [Michael Bachner and TOI staff]( [US VP aides tell Jewish groups she’s pro-Israel after unrefuted ‘genocide’ claim]( By [TOI staff]( [Harris’s staff reaches out to DMFI, ADL and pro-Israel congressman, insisting that her commitment to Israel is ‘unwavering’ after she didn’t push back against university student]( [California man gets life sentence for 2019 Poway synagogue shooting]( By [Elliot Spagat]( [Agreement with prosecution that spared John T. Earnest the death penalty left little suspense about outcome, but hearing gives 13 victims, families chance to address killer]( [US ‘strongly condemns’ settler assault on Palestinians in South Hebron Hills]( By [Jacob Magid]( [State Department official expresses appreciation for ‘unequivocal condemnations’ by Lapid, other Israeli officials, urges both sides to refrain from unilateral steps]( [Two suspects in West Bank stone-throwing attack on Palestinians released]( By [TOI staff]( [Police arrest two more suspects in stone-throwing attack on Palestinians]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli researchers bypass facial recognition using AI-generated makeup patterns]( By [TOI staff]( [After conventional cosmetics applied to the most identifiable areas of the face, 20 test subjects are detected just 1.22% of the time]( [Fiverr, Lemonade founders back Israeli startup that helps mourners manage loss]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [US lawmakers grill Facebook on Instagram’s negative impact on teen mental health]( By [Joshua MELVIN]( Interview [Willing Israel into life: As Expo Dubai opens, a look at Zionism and World Fairs]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [The owner of the largest private collection of Herzl memorabilia shows how advocates of Jewish statehood advanced the cause through pavilions at international exhibitions from 1904]( [Dubai opens $7B Expo, including Israeli pavilion, with extravagant show of glitz]( By [Talek HARRIS]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Home chef Shaily Lipa describes the power of an active kitchen]( By [TOI staff]( [The lifestyle personality talks about her latest book ‘Hakol Beseder,’ translated in English as ‘KitcheNeat’]( Interview [Andy Levin says friendship with Rashida Tlaib gives him hope for Mideast peace]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Detroit-area representative sets himself apart from father, uncle who proceeded him in Congress by taking more progressive stances on Israel and making it a front-and-center issue]( [Refusing to ‘hotline’ Iron Dome bill, Republican slows its passage in Senate]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [With hours to spare, Biden signs bill to avert partial government shutdown]( By [KEVIN FREKING]( [CRM]( More Headlines [GOP flier in Virginia House race depicts Jewish Democrat with pile of gold coins]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [IDF drone crashes in Lebanon; Hezbollah claims to shoot it down]( By [Judah Ari Gross and Emanuel Fabian]( [From the web / France’s Voodoo buys Israeli gaming company Beach Bum for $300m]( [Taliban order their fighters to leave Afghan homes they seized]( By [SAMYA KULLAB]( [UN group blasts ‘staggering’ bias of judge against lawyer fighting Chevron]( By [Sue Surkes]( [The book of Bibi / Netanyahu said to be writing book about his time in office, worldview]( By [TOI staff]( [Obituary / Rabbi Moshe Tendler, who shaped Orthodox views on organ donation, dies at 95]( By [Shira Hanau]( [Hamas operative killed in IDF shootout was brother of slain soldier’s kidnapper]( By [TOI staff]( [Anchorage mayor: Anti-maskers’ use of yellow stars as symbol is ‘credit’ to Jews]( By [AP]( [US Supreme Court agrees to hear case on Nazi-looted Pissarro painting]( By [Agencies]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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