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What Matters Most On Monday, April 4, 2022

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Members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group's military wing in the city Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 2, 2022. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas said to have prevented Islamic Jihad rocket fire after West Bank shootout

TV report says terror group wanted to launch projectiles from Gaza as response to gun battle in which 3 of its members killed

9:04 pm

Police detain 8 over rioting at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate amid Ramadan celebrations
8:51 pm

Gunfire heard near Gush Etzion and northern West Bank settlement
6:37 pm

France announces expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats

Ukrainian servicemen attach a cable to the body of a civilian while checking for booby traps in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Lapid says scenes from Ukraine’s Bucha ‘horrific,’ targeting civilians a ‘war crime’

Hundreds of bodies found in Kyiv suburb after Russian retreat; asked earlier if Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine had accused Russia of crimes, Foreign Ministry was hesitant

Neighbours gather next to a mass grave in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

430 bodies: Ukraine accuses Russia of massacre, city strewn with corpses

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and Nebi Qena

A lifeless body of a man with his hands tied behind his back lies on the ground in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

ExplainerWhat we know about what happened in Ukraine’s Bucha

By AFP

A man walks on a street with several dead bodies on the ground in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 2, 2022. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Liberman refuses to condemn Russia over Bucha, citing ‘mutual accusations’

Ukrainian ambassador rebukes finance minister, says he’s welcome to ‘see for himself the bodies,’ Gantz calls killing of civilians in city near Kyiv a war crime

A man walks on a street with several dead bodies on the ground a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a 'rapid retreat' from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv, on April 2, 2022 (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Russia ‘categorically rejects’ accusations over Bucha killings

By AFP

A man walks on a street with several dead bodies on the ground in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 2, 2022. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Zelensky accuses Russia of genocide after alleged atrocities in Kyiv suburbs

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Daily Briefing, April 4: How Israel reacted to Bucha and concerns over Ramadan

Political correspondent Tal Schneider on delayed Israeli response to Ukraine killings, and the PM-King Abdullah meeting; environmental reporter Sue Surkes on climate change funding

The lifeless body of a man lies in the staircase of a building in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Associated Press journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Bucha residents: Russian troops went house-to-house, took people away or shot them

By AP

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a media conference after an EU summit in Brussels, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Macron calls for further sanctions against Moscow over ‘war crimes’

By AFP

Ukraine’s Eurovision act arrives in Israel for joint tour, live show in Tel Aviv

Kalush Orchestra granted permission to leave country amid fighting, for promotional events including ‘Israel Calling,’ a 4-day tour culminating in a concert Thursday

Ukraine's 2022 Eurovision act, "Kalush Orchestra." (Maxim Fesenko)

President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, speaks on screen at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Zelensky makes Grammys appeal: ‘Support us in any way you can’

By AP

Ukrainian evacuees queue as they wait for further transport at the Medyka border crossing, after they crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border, southeastern Poland, on March 29, 2022. (Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)

Over half a million people have returned to Ukraine since invasion, government says

By AFP

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi seen after a meeting with Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the IDF Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem, on March 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

IDF chief tells commanders to ready for month or more of heightened alert – report

Kohavi said to also warn that Islamic Jihad could fire rockets from Gaza after three of its operatives were killed in West Bank shootout

Yamam officers detain a Palestinian suspect on the Route 6 highway near the Nahshonim Junction, April 3, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Counterterrorism police arrest Palestinian on Route 6 suspected of planning attack

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF soldiers operating near the West Bank city of Jenin, on March 31, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Condition of police commando seriously wounded in West Bank raid improves

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Leonard Matanky

Minister Kahana, we American Orthodox rabbis can’t support your reform

Decentralizing the authority for conversion to local rabbinic courts means potentially contradictory standards that we in the US are glad to be rid of

A special effort to calm tempers and quell violence

Israel’s shifting norms may mean the conscious creation of a value-driven shared society is possible, somewhere between a one-state and two-state solution

Police carry out an arrest during clashes with young Palestinian men at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on April 3, 2022. (Israel Police)

Clashes break out between Palestinians, cops in Jerusalem on second Ramadan night

Rioters again hurl glass bottles, other objects at police; officers respond with riot dispersal measures, using stun grenades and batons while arresting 10

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (center), Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and head of the police Jerusalem District Doron Turgeman visit the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, April 3, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

‘Provocative incursion’: Palestinians condemn Lapid’s visit to Damascus Gate

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Jordan's King Abdullah. (Composite/AP)

Bennett speaks with Jordan’s king, amid concerns of Ramadan violence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russian opposition figure and former owner of the Yukos Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Vilnius, Lithuania, Aug. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky urges fellow oligarchs to speak out: ‘Take the risk’

Former jailed dissident calls on his peers, Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, to ‘step up to the microphone and say that Putin is a war criminal’

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, December 19, 2015. (AP/Matt Dunham)

Embassies warned not to accept Independence Day donations from oligarchs

A Civil Guard stands by the yacht called Tango in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Ubilla)

US government seizes oligarch Viktor Vekselberg’s yacht in Spain

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Aritz Parra and FRANCISCO UBILLA

Demonstrators gather at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2022, to watch a televised video address by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

Interview

Diaspora minister: Ukraine war is showing Israelis that ties with Jews abroad matter

By Judah Ari Gross

As ‘Diaspora Week’ kicks off, Nachman Shai says he’s fighting to keep rightward-moving Israeli Jews connected to leftward-moving American ones

Israeli cities offered money for renovating buildings to house Ukrainian migrants

By Danielle Nagler

‘Shocked at the viciousness’: Six assailants beat Jewish man on New York City street

Police investigating assault in Brooklyn as a hate crime, make one arrest; ADL offers $10,000 reward for information; governor ‘outraged,’ as antisemitic attacks surge

A group that allegedly assaulted a Jewish man in New York City on April 1, 2022, in footage released by the New York Police Department. (Screenshot)

A view of the Columbus Torah Academy in Columbus, Ohio. (Google Maps via JTA)

Security guard at Ohio Jewish school arrested for threats against students, parents

'A victory so big that you can see it from the moon'

Orban claims ‘huge victory’ for his right-wing party in Hungary elections

By Justin Spike

In victory speech, pro-Putin leader says results are a message to EU that his brand of Christian, conservative, and ‘patriotic’ politics ‘is not the past, this is the future’

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban greets cheering supporters during an election night rally in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a joint news conference after their talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on September 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Putin congratulates Hungary’s Orban on election win, hopes to further build ties

By AFP

Serbian President and presidential candidate Aleksandar Vucic gestures during a news conference after claiming victory in the presidential election in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Vucic and his populist right-wing party appeared headed to victory in Sunday's national election, extending a decade-long authoritarian rule in the Balkan country, according to early pollsters' projections. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Populist Serbian leader Vucic claims landslide election win, extends his rule

By Miodrag SOVILJ and David Stout

Olympic gold medalist Linoy Ashram speaks during a press conference on April 4, 2022 in Tel Aviv announcing her retirement from competition. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Olympic gold medalist Linoy Ashram announces retirement: ‘I achieved my dream’

Tearful gymnast, 22, tells reporters that ‘athletes need to know when to retire,’ says she will continue her career as a coach

Yiddish actor Hy Wolfe runs CYCO, the Yiddish Book Center in Long Island City, Queens. (Julia Gergely/ JTA)

'Yiddish organizations have come and gone by the hundreds'

A Yiddish book center in Queens lives on, just like the language it celebrates

By julia GERGELY

After a foundation funding the Central Yiddish Cultural Organization since 1956 halted its donations, the institution was in peril – until a couple of good Samaritans stepped in

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Yamina MK Idit Silman and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz during a hearing of the Knesset's Labor, Welfare, and Health Committee in Jerusalem, on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition at odds over allowing visitors to bring hametz into hospitals on Passover

Illustrative: Artillery reserve soldiers take part in a drill in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on March 28, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israel ranked world’s 10th-largest weapons exporter in past five years

International Atomic Energy Organization director general Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, speaks with with Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, during their meeting in Tehran, on March 5, 2022. (AP)

Iran says it will return to Vienna only to finalize nuclear deal, not to negotiate

By AFP

Eitan Wertheimer attends a conference at Jerusalem's International Convention Center, on May 8, 2012. (Uri Lenz/FLASH90)

Billionaire businessman Eitan Wertheimer dies at 70

By Steve Leibowitz

Josh Mandel, a Republican former Ohio treasurer running for an open US Senate seat in Ohio, speaks during a debate against Morgan Harper, a progressive Democrat, January 27, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

Texas Sen. Cruz endorses fellow pro-Trump conservative Mandel in Ohio primary

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and Jill Colvin

Composite photo: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and MK Bezalel Smotrich (Flash90)

Bennett blasts Smotrich over tweet blaming government for terror attacks

Michael Bloomberg, former New York City mayor and philanthropist. (Courtesy Bloomberg Philanthropies)

Bloomberg announces Tel Aviv University program to upskill Israeli municipal leaders

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

A coronavirus testing center in Jerusalem, on March 22, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Coronavirus transmission rate dips below 1 as pandemic in retreat again

Yamina's Abir Kara at the Knesset on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)

Yamina MK Abir Kara questioned by police over Knesset double vote

Jordan's Prince Hamzah Bin Al-Hussein, in 2015. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

A year after alleged plot, Jordan’s Crown Prince Hamzah gives up royal title

By AP

Miami-Dade police spokesperson Alvaro Zabaleta talks to reporters after a fatal shooting at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center on April 3, 2022 (Scrrencapture/Twitter)

Woman killed in ‘domestic’ shooting at Miami-Dade Jewish center, suspect in custody

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)

Activists urge FIFA to eject Iran from World Cup for banning women spectators

By Stuart Williams

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