Message to Iran in Israel-Bahrain photo op at US Navy base * Jewish spy helped Soviets get bomb * Did Gilboa jailbreakers use the real thing? * World COVID toll 5 million

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, October 2, 2021 Analysis [On Lapid’s Bahrain visit, a photo op at a US Navy base meant for Iranian eyes]( By [Lazar Berman]( [There were many encouraging signs from Yair Lapid’s trip to Manama Thursday, but the tripartite display of unity at the US Fifth Fleet base is what Tehran will notice]( [Small protests held in Bahrain against opening of Israeli embassy]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Lapid’s visit to Bahrain includes a trip to a US Navy base, off Iran’s coast]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [How a Jewish Manhattan Project scientist quietly helped the Soviets get the bomb]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [New book ‘Sleeper Agent’ follows George Koval, a little-known US-born Russian spy posthumously honored by Putin – and possibly one of the 20th century’s most influential operatives]( [Cabinet scraps remaining ‘red’ countries, allowing Israelis to travel anywhere]( By [TOI staff]( [Amid global COVID decline, government takes Turkey, Bulgaria and Brazil off banned list; ministers argue over requirement to scan QR codes in new Green Passes]( [Serious COVID cases drop below 600 for first time since mid-August]( By [TOI staff]( [Poll: Plurality prefers top health official’s pandemic policies over Bennett’s]( By [TOI staff]( [All students to get multiple home COVID tests for regular screening — TV]( By [TOI staff]( [Accelerating toll: COVID-19 deaths hit 5 million as world battles variants]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [It took just over a year after disease emerged to reach toll of 2.5 million, but next 2.5 million deaths occurred in under 8 months, according to Reuters analysis]( [US COVID cases are falling, but country on brink of 700,000 dead]( By [Amy Forliti and Carla K. Johnson]( [US looks to Israeli military data to weigh safety of booster shots]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [TV: Israeli-made COVID vaccine at least 80% effective, initial results show]( By [TOI staff]( [Survivor’s photo wrongly used as pic of the Nazi suspect she testified against]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( [Numerous outlets publish picture of Dita Sperling, erroneously identifying her as Irmgard Furchner; in fact Sperling, 99, has testified in the case against ex-death camp secretary]( [Berlin soccer club sorry for antisemitism at Maccabi match in Nazi-era stadium]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Fans threatened, pelted with beer; Union Berlin supporter tried to burn small Israeli flag; another repeatedly shouted ‘Sieg Heil’; home club slams shameful, intolerable behavior]( Photo essay [From Tashlich by the sea to Mass on the Mexican border: The faces of prayer]( By [AP]( [Images captured by AP photographers around the world last month show worship’s diverse manifestations across faith traditions and human-drawn frontiers]( Top Ops [Karen Galatz]( [Torn jeans and tattoo taboos]( [How I stopped resenting my parents’ fashion rules, and came to impose them on my own children]( [Yakov Nagen]( [Who are the ‘children of God’?]( [If all humanity is created in the divine image, why does God call the Israelites His ’firstborn son’?]( [The real thing: Gilboa jailbreakers may have used cola to weaken slab under cell]( By [TOI staff]( [6 recaptured Palestinian security prisoners said dispersed to 5 jails; engineers believe they may have weakened concrete, 8 inches thick, with help of acidic liquid, possibly cola]( [Talking trash: Young Nigerian-Israeli activist sparks litter-picking movement]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Sharona Shnayder grew up in Africa and the US before moving to her dad’s native Israel. Along the way she started Tuesdays for Trash, a grassroots effort now seen in 23 countries]( [Lawyer who fought Chevron gets 6-month sentence for contempt]( By [AP and Sue Surkes]( [Jewish Steven Donziger, under house arrest for the past 2 years, faces prison for violating federal judge’s orders related to his battle against the energy giant]( [‘This is not Kabul’: Israel struggles with extremists defacing images of women]( By [Laurie Kellman]( [Billboards showing female soccer players, musicians and Holocaust survivors repeatedly vandalized by religious extremists in Jerusalem and other cities]( [CRM]( [As Jon Stewart returns to TV, here’s a look back at his most Jewish moments]( By [Stephen Silver]( More Headlines [No ‘Nice Guy’: 8 teens hospitalized after using illegal synthetic cannabis drug]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF troops apprehend two Gaza men with hand grenades near border]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli star soccer agent Zahavi charged in Belgian fraud investigation]( By [AP]( [From our partner / Bristol University fires Professor David Miller ‘with immediate effect’]( [Taliban say they have raided Islamic State hideout north of Kabul]( By [AP]( [Georgia holds vote after exiled ex-president Saakashvili returns, is arrested]( By [Irakli METREVELI]( [UN agency for Palestinian refugees says it will seek $800m at November confab]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [3 faiths come together to paint over swastikas in Argentinian Jewish cemetery]( By [JTA]( [Former ‘Big Brother’ contestant arrested for alleged armed robbery]( By [TOI staff]( [A rolling stone / Bob Dylan heading back out on tour — through 2024]( By [AP]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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