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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 30, 2022

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Israeli police officers and medics are seen at the scene of a terrorist shooting attack in Bnei Brak, on March 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Palestinian terrorist kills five in Bnei Brak shooting spree

By Emanuel Fabian

Terrorist opens fire at passersby in city near Tel Aviv, is shot dead by cop who dies of injuries; Bennett holds security consultation after third deadly terror attack in 8 days

Mourners attend the funeral of Avishai Yehezkel, one of the five people killed in a terror attack in Bnei Brak, on March 30, 2022 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Hundreds attend funerals for two fathers shot dead in Bnei Brak terror attack

File: Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, March 29, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Gantz orders deployment of 1,000 soldiers to reinforce police after terror attacks

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Israeli security services struggle to stop deadliest terror wave since 2nd Intifada

Police and the military look to restore calm by increasing deployments and crackdowns, without causing unnecessary friction in the process

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand guard at the entrance to the Efrat settlement in the central West Bank on March 29, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israeli police and rescue personnel at the scene of a deadly terrorist attack in Bnei Brak, on March 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bennett says Israel facing ‘wave of Arab terror’ as security chiefs meet on crisis

Three of the victims of the deadly attack in Bnei Brak on March 29, 2022 from left to right Amir Khoury, Ya’akov Shalom and Avishai Yehezkel (Courtesy)

Police chief hails slain officer for 'saving many lives'

Victims of Bnei Brak terror attack: 2 local fathers, Christian Arab cop, 2 Ukranians

Victims named as police officer Amir Khoury, 32, Ya’akov Shalom, 36, and Avishai Yehezkel, 29; two Ukrainian workers not immediately identified

Mourners at the funeral of Avishai Yehezkel, who was killed in a terror attack in Bnei Brak, March 30, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2 Ukrainian nationals among Bnei Brak dead; embassy decries ‘heinous’ attack

Brother, other relatives of Bnei Brak terrorist detained as IDF raids West Bank home

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

In pre-demolition move, IDF maps residence of gunman Diaa Hamarsheh in Ya’bad; Hamas chief Haniyeh praises attack; separately, 6 detained on suspicion of links to Islamic State

Soldiers detain a suspect in the West Bank town of Ya’bad near Jenin, following a deadly terror attack in Bnei Brak, March 30, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

An injured man is loaded into an ambulance after an altercation in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem during which police shot two men, injuring them, March 30, 2022. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Amid terror jitters, police shoot and injure two during arrest in Jerusalem market

An overturned vehicle lies on the road at the scene of a terror attack on March 29, 2022 in Bnei Brak. - Five people were killed. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Amid angry protests, security chiefs put forces on alert, vow to quell terror wave

Op-ed

Defeating the new terror wave: The challenge, the temptation, the precedent

With 11 people killed in three attacks in eight days, the fear is that Israel is facing a fresh, intifada-style onslaught. It isn’t… at least, not yet

Israeli security forces and emergency personnel at the scene of a terrorist attack on March 28, 2022, in Bnei Brak in which five people were killed. (Jack Guez / AFP)

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Terrorism is here again, but I refuse to live in terror

We are the children of the Second Intifada who measured the passage of time with ’was it before the Sbarro attack? Was it after the Gavish family?’

Lion’s share of the new Jerusalem

To build on this gargantuan scale, the mayor needs more talent and better decision-making than he realized, and the results are anti-social, sterile, and dull

President Isaac Herzog (L) and Jordanian King Abdullah II at the Al Husseiniya Palace in Amman, Jordan, March 30, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Hosting Herzog, Jordan’s king condemns ‘tragic attacks that target civilians’

By Lazar Berman

Amid pre-Ramadan spate of Arab terror in Israel, Hashemite ruler warns Israel against restrictions on Muslim worshipers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque

PA official: Bennett has never issued similar condemnation

Gantz pressured Abbas to condemn attack, threatened to pull planned Ramadan gestures

Shooting jeopardizes bid to grant more entry permits for elderly Palestinians to pray at al-Aqsa; silence by PA leader would have put such measures at further risk, official says

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP/Collage)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Ramallah, on February 10, 2022. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool Photo via AP)

Breaking silence, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas condemns Bnei Brak terror attack

By Aaron Boxerman

Members of the Zaka emergency organization remove a body from the scene of a terrorist attack in Bnei Brak, March 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

International community condemns Bnei Brak shooting, other recent terror attacks

By ToI Staff and AFP

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Mar. 30: Deadly terrorist attack as region tries to shore up security

Political correspondent Tal Schneider and Arab affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman on the victims and perpetrator of last night’s shooting spree, as well as Negev Summit endnotes

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej speaks to Jewish community representatives in New York, March 29, 2022. (Gili Getz)

Exclusive'Don't let this extremist, this murderer, win'

‘We want to live together’: Arab minister calls for unity in face of terror attacks

Meretz’s Esawi Frej, minister for regional cooperation, tells New York Jewish community members after deadly Bnei Brak attack that extremists want to derail progress in Israel

Live updates (closed)

Ukraine-Russia ceasefire talks to resume by video Friday

Ukrainian president says he does not believe Russia is actually withdrawing troops, girds for fight over Donbas; US says Russian troops appear to be redeploying

10:56 pm

Biden speaks to Bennett, offers support amid terror wave
10:48 pm

Zelensky dismisses Russian claims of pullback; US says Moscow repositioning troops
10:27 pm

Zelensky aide says Ukraine now understands Israel's terror fight

Collection of 6th century BCE wine jars after the restoration process. (Dafna Gazit/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

6th century BCE Jerusalemite oenophiles had a taste for exotic vanilla-spice wine

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

New research based on First Temple City of David pottery sherds dating to the Babylonian destruction shores up theories of international trade with Kingdom of Judah

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Despite Palestinian hopes, Russia-style Western sanctions won’t be applied to Israel

Palestinians and their supporters are watching the West’s astounding mobilization for Ukraine and demanding the same against Israel. Here’s why it probably won’t work

Illustrative: Palestinians and anti-Israel Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel, end the occupation and support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp)

An Israeli F-15 fighter jet is seen in the skies over Israel, ahead of the Blue Flag exercise in October 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel reportedly working on air defense pact with regional allies

Air force officials say prospective deal would counter Iranian drone and missile threat; reveal Israeli aircraft carried out 408 missions around northern border in recent years

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves on arrival, March 30, 2022, in Algiers, Algeria. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Blinken visits Russia ally Algeria in shadow of Ukraine invasion and energy concerns

By AFP

Illustrative: Ukrainian refugees wait for a transport at the central train station in Warsaw, Poland, March 27, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

UN: Ukrainian refugees top 4 million, surpassing initial prediction

By AFP

As chief arrives in Lviv, refugee agency says ‘senseless war’ has driven 4,019,287 to flee; another 6.5 million displaced within country with UN feeding 1 million of them

Ukrainian servicemen stand in trenches at a position north of the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Russian promise to scale back assault on Kyiv met with skepticism in US

By AP

In this image taken from a video provided by the Turkish Presidency, Russian Roman Abramovich, top center, 3rd from right, listens to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting for talks in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

Abramovich spotted at Ukraine-Russia talks after suspected poisoning

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustration artist Hilla Havkin's illustrated ostrich eggs at the Israel Museum Illustration Library through June 2022 (Courtesy Ella Zimmer)

A children’s book illustrator finds a new canvas for her whimsy – ostrich eggs

By Jessica Steinberg

It’s no yolk: Prizewinning artist Hilla Havkin plays a shell game with her egg drawings — now on exhibit at the Israel Museum’s Illustration Library

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Participants in the first post-COVID Birthright Israel trip, after landing in Israel after a year-long hiatus for the organization, on May 24, 2021. (Erez Uzir/Courtesy)

Government launching ‘Diaspora Week’ to highlight links with Jews abroad

By Judah Ari Gross

The new David Kempinski Hotel in Tel Aviv, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and open for business in April 2022 (Courtesy Kempinski)

On the boardwalkTel Aviv welcomes latest luxury hotel, David Kempinski

By Jessica Steinberg

Filmmaker Gal Uchovsky at the Knesset, on June 4, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/ File)

Leading LGBTQ activist back in hot seat over fresh sexual assault claim

The head of a pig at the doorstep of the home of Alexei Venediktov in Moscow, March 24, 2022. (Alexei Venediktov via JTA)

Pig’s head, antisemitic slogan left outside Russian-Jewish journalist’s Moscow home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

People stand between wreaths after a wreath laying ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, April 11, 2021. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Buchenwald Nazi camp memorial says Russian officials unwelcome at ceremony

By AFP and ToI Staff

German Soldiers at the Bundeswehr airbase in Wunstorf, Germany, on August 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

How Germany, shaken by Russia’s Ukraine invasion, plans to rebuild its military

By Mathieu FOULKES

Jewish sculptor Moses David Ezekiel (left) in his Rome studio with his statue 'Religious Liberty' (back center), 1909. A planned Princeton University exhibit of Jewish American artists in 2022 was to feature Ezekiel and a statue based on 'Religious Liberty,' but was scrapped owing to his lifelong support of the Confederacy. (Public domain via JTA)

Outrage as Jewish art exhibit at Princeton is canceled over ties to the Confederacy

By Andrew Lapin

Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, on 34th and Lexington. The all-male campus counterpart is in Morningside Heights. (Julia Gergely/JTA)

Rape allegation at Yeshiva University stirs reforms — and skepticism

By julia GERGELY

Suha Mondar Zabhana. (Courtesy)

14-year-old girl dies during school trip in Galilee

Illustrative: Iranian players, in white, during a qualifying soccer match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, on March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/ Ahn Young-joon)

Iran blocks women from attending World Cup qualifier soccer game — report

By AP

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