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What Matters Most On Friday, February 18, 2022

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A general view of Palais Coburg, the site of a meeting where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, on February 8, 2022. (Lisa Leutner/AP)

Report: Under draft nuke deal, Iran to first cut enrichment to 5%; get $7b in assets

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Outline detailed by Reuters provides for Iran’s release of Western prisoners, subsequent gradual waiving of sanctions

The flag of Iran waves in front of the International Center building with the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, on May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter, File)

US says nuclear deal possible within days if Iran ‘shows seriousness’

By AFP

In this photo taken from a footage distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sept. 26, 2020, Russian rockets launch from missile systems during the main stage of the Kavkaz-2020 strategic command-and-staff exercises at the Kapustin Yar training ground, Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia to stage massive nuclear missile drills Saturday, at height of Ukraine crisis

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, YURAS KARMANAU and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Military says Putin will monitor the large-scale exercise, as tensions with West escalate to highest level since Cold War

This February 15, 2022 satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows attack helicopters deployed at Zyabrovka airfield in Belarus. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Satellite photos provide bird’s-eye view of unfolding Ukraine crisis

By Robert Burns

Bricks and debris mixes with toys below a damaged wall after the reported shelling on a kindergarten in the settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine on February 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

Shellfire shakes eastern Ukraine, as separatists announce evacuation to Russia

By AFP and ToI Staff

Putin warns ‘situation deteriorating’ as US accuses Moscow of trying to provoke an incident to falsely justify invasion; US envoy says up to 190,000 Russian troops massed on border

A Ukrainian National guard soldier guards the mobile checkpoint together with the Ukrainian Security Service agents and police officers during a joint operation in Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Western allies watch Russia for invasion pretext, dismiss unverified troop pullback

A photograph taken on February 17, 2022 shows Belarus' armored personnel carrier (APC) during joint exercises of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus as part of an inspection of the Union State's Response Force, at a firing range near a town of Osipovichi outside Minsk. (Maxim GUCHEK / BELTA / AFP)

‘Very high’ risk Russia will invade Ukraine within days, Biden warns

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, YURAS KARMANAU, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and LORNE COOK

Ukraine upbraids Israeli ambassador after Jerusalem seeks Russian guarantees

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Kyiv has ‘tough conversation’ with Michael Brodsky over Foreign Ministry director-general asking Moscow to help evacuate its citizens in case of invasion

Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky. (Israeli Embassy in Ukraine)

A man stands in a crater from an artillery shell in eastern Ukraine, on February 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Jewish refugee aid group readies for possible humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) listens to French President Emmanuel Macron during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on February 7, 2022. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

ExplainerAre DNA hacking fears behind leaders opting for Putin’s long table over COVID tests?

A picture taken on April 9, 2018, shows an Iron Dome missile defense battery, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, deployed on the Golan Heights near the border with Syria. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Drone from Lebanon triggers sirens across north, evades Iron Dome

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says jets scrambled and missile fired at UAV, but it missed, amid rash of recent drone incidents; no injuries or damage reported

In this photo released by Lebanese government, Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, center, and US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, left, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, February 9, 2022. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP)

Lebanon sees ‘positive proposals’ to settle maritime dispute with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

David Horovitz, editor, The Times of Israel. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Mazel tov! A behind-the-scenes look at The Times of Israel as we turn 10

Editor David Horovitz shares his motivations for launching our increasingly resonant site a decade ago, and charts its progress and goals

Young visitors enjoy clambering over an old engine at ICL's new Moshe Novomieski Visitors and Heritage Center at Sdom, southern Dead Sea, on January 20, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

At Dead Sea museum, chemical firm evokes past pioneers as it bids to keep mining

With movies and virtual reality, guided tour through reconstructed huts combines Zionist history with ICL’s push for renewal of mineral extraction license

When the Golden Calf meets the TikTok Daf

At the heart of the Tabernacle lies the Golden Calf, for all divine worship involving creativity and human interpretation holds the potential for idolatry

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Conservative Judaism: The beginning of the end?

Religion pushes toward the extremes of liberal universalism and dogmatic particularism – the once-largest branch declined because it takes the middle road

Left-wing activists and lawmakers march near the illegal West Bank outpost of Evyatar, February 18, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Left-wing activists march on West Bank outpost in rally against legalization plan

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Right-wing demonstrator detained for trying to snatch banner from protester near Evyatar, which is designated a closed military zone

Israeli troops stand guard as bulldozers demolish a house in Hegrah Village in the West Bank, South Hebron, September 25, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel permitted 33 Palestinian structures, razed over 1,100 since 2017 — ministry

By Aaron Boxerman

Israel Police officers disperse protesters and residents in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, February 17, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Israel girding for feared Friday flare-ups in tense Jerusalem, West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on December 1, 2020. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP)

Tesla’s Elon Musk slammed for comparing Canada’s Trudeau to Hitler in tweet

By AFP

Post likening prime minister to Nazi leader over COVID rules deleted after outcry; tycoon also raises hackles with claim regulators ordering ‘unfounded’ probes into his company

Illustrative: Some 5,000 US Jewish worshipers join in a Friday night service, on December 13, 2019. (Rob Dicker/Union for Reform Judaism/JTA)

Reform movement’s longtime youth director named in report on sexual misconduct

Investigators hired by Union for Reform Judaism reveal dozens of incidents of sexual abuse, including 17 involving minors, that took place over past 50 years

Palestinians inspect the damage to their homes following a ceasefire between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel rejects cooperation with ‘morally bankrupt’ UN rights probe into May fighting

By Lazar Berman

In scathing letter, ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar says commission headed by Navi Pillay is biased and will not treat Israel fairly; ‘We expect such bodies to act in good faith’

Illustrative: Palestinians are seen on the Israeli side of the Erez Crossing near the border with the Gaza Strip, on September 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gazan used medical entry permit to scout for Hamas recruits in Israel — Shin Bet

By Judah Ari Gross

People browse bookshelves at the Samir Mansour Bookstore during a re-opening ceremony in Gaza City, on February 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Demolished during 2021 Israel-Hamas conflict, an iconic Gaza bookstore reopens

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Right-wing activists and Likud supporters protest at Tel Aviv's Habima Square for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the Pegasus affair, on February 17, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu skips right-wing rally demanding state inquiry into police spyware affair

Some 1,500 people show up at Tel Aviv protest hyped by opposition leader; justice minister backpedals on need for major inquest

Netanyahu’s refusal to back MK who lashed judge said to fluster Likud

State comptroller says ‘in-depth’ investigation under way into police spying claims

Netanyahu lawyers demand prosecution disclose info hacked from former aide’s phone

Mark and Felice Feldstein with their family, on their wedding day in 1955 and later in life. (Courtesy Mark Feldstein; collage by Mollie Suss)

ObituaryHe led a boycott of segregated barbershops

Marrying at Nazis’ old resort, Alan Feldstein’s life was a ‘middle finger’ to Hitler

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Feldstein and Felice Jacobs held defiant nuptials at the Eagle’s Nest a decade after WWII, but that symbolic act was just the beginning of a lifelong fight against bigotry

Jewish Louisville mayor candidate ‘traumatized’ as shooting suspect released

By PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN and DYLAN LOVAN

Black Lives Matters-affiliated group pays $100,000 cash bond to free Quintez Brown, 21, days afer he was arrested for attempted murder for trying to shoot Craig Greenberg

Miriam, a new Israeli restaurant on the Upper West Side, seen here in a photograph shared by Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti, Feb. 17, 2022. (Twitter via JTA)

‘F*ck’ Jews’ daubed outside Israeli restaurant in NYC

A view of new apartment buildings in the city of Yavne, in central Israel, on January 31, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel to market 30,000 affordable housing units in 2022

By Adina Cooper

First batch of 10,000 units will available to eligible buyers under lottery system by April, says Housing Ministry

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Druze Israeli athlete Karawan Halabi seen after setting a new Israeli 1000 m record on February 16, 2021 (Israeli Athletic Association)

Druze athlete breaks Israeli barrier with record-breaking 1,000-meter run

By Tobias Siegal

Biomedical engineering student Karawan Halabi beats time that stood for 25 years, becoming first Druze to set an Israeli best; starts training for the Olympics

Israel's Hailey Kops and Evgeni Krasnopolski compete in the pair skating short program of the figure skating event during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on February 18, 2022. (Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)

Beijing 2022Israeli ice skaters Kops, Krasnopolski advance to free skate at Beijing Olympics

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Cans of Zyklon B on display at Auschwitz. (photo credit: CC BY Jaysmark, Flickr)

Arizona Jews sue to stop the state from using Zyklon B in executions

By Nicole Raz and Mala Blomquist

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) speaks with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Ramallah, West Bank, on February, 17, 2022. (WAFA)

PA’s Abbas hosts US House Speaker Pelosi for rare West Bank meeting

By Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid

Turkish and Israeli officials meet in Jerusalem on February 17, 2022, to prepare for President Isaac Herzog's upcoming visit to Turkey. From left Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz, Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sadat Onal, head of the President’s Office Eyal Shviki and Senior Adviser to the Turkish President İbrahim Kalın (Courtesy)

Turkish officials hold preparatory talks in Israel ahead of Herzog trip to Ankara

By Lazar Berman

A rare public meeting between the mayor of Eilat and the governor of Aqaba in Eilat on February 16, 2022. (Courtesy)

Leaders of Eilat, Jordan’s Aqaba hold rare public meeting to renew ties

Benteler EV Systems, Beep Inc. and Mobileye, on February 14, 2022, announced a strategic collaboration to develop and deploy automotive-grade, fully electric and autonomous movers across public and private communities in North America. (Benteler)

Mobileye, mobility partners to launch autonomous shuttles in US by 2024

By Ricky Ben-David

A view of the crowd at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, November 10, 2015. (JTA)

Refocused US Federations agenda leaves LGBT rights, gun control off priority list

MK Itamar Ben-Gvir (front), head of the Jewish extremist Otzma Yehudit party, with Bentzi Goptein, head of the extreme-right Lehava group, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, on May 6, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Firebrand lawmaker questioned by police for pulling gun on Arab guards

Far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour reacts after his speech at a campaign rally, on February 5, 2022, in Lille, northern France. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

Far-right French presidential candidate Zemmour adopts racist conspiracy as mantra

By Elaine Ganley

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi speaks during a ceremony for graduates of the Israeli Air Force's pilot course, at the Hatzerim airbase in southern Israel, on December 22, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Army chief heads to Singapore in rare public visit

By Judah Ari Gross

Weapons seized by Israeli security forces during a gun-smuggling attempt along the border with Jordan on February 17, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF, police seize dozens of weapons being smuggled in from Jordan

By Emanuel Fabian

Julie Flaherty, acting police chief of Arlington, MA, addresses a news conference at the town's police station as Rabbi Avi Bukiet (second from left) looks on, on May 17, 2019. (Penny Schwartz via JTA)

Antisemitic Boston arsonist set fires while target of federal probe, FBI admits

From left, Ivanka Trump, Eric and Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr., Tiffany Trump, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump and Barron Trump stand on stage on the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump, two of his children, ordered to testify in NY business fraud case

By Michael R. Sisak

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