Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Thursday, April 7, 2022

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

MK Nir Orbach reacts during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina MK issues ultimatum to Bennett on remaining in coalition

By Tal Schneider and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Nir Orbach puts forth series of right-wing demands as government teeters on brink of collapse; PM’s party reportedly considering labeling Chikli a defector in message to Silman

MK Idit Silman, center, MK Abir Kara, left, and others vote on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AnalysisAfter Silman mutiny, all eyes on who might jump coalition ship next

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Former PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a right-wing rally in Jerusalem on April 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

At rally of supporters, Netanyahu calls on right to unite and ‘return home’ to Likud

By Tobias Siegal

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Even if the Bennett government survives, Israel’s political paralysis has returned

Silman didn’t want and couldn’t handle the powerful position she was in. Her resignation brings back the hobbled governments of 2019-2021, and ordinary Israelis will pay the price

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, at the Knesset on February 7, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-prime minister Naftali Bennett. (Menahem Kahana/AFP; Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Bennett tells Yamina members Silman ‘broke’ under pressure, Israel needs stability

Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing Yamina party, and his wife Galit vote in the city of Ra'anana, Israel, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

As coalition teeters, polls show Likud rise, but election might again yield gridlock

Medical vehicles are seen on Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Street following a reported shooting, April 7, 2022. (United Hatzalah)

Live updates (closed)

Chaos in central Tel Aviv as cops, army forces hunt for shooter on Dizengoff Street

Security forces flood scene of attack that killed 2 people; police tell the public to remain indoors as terrorist remains at large

10:00 pm

Police minister Barlev arrives at scene of Tel Aviv shooting
9:51 pm

Police reportedly angry at IDF for allowing media access during searches
9:34 pm

Police look to expand search for shooter outside Tel Aviv

Kosher in the Bahamas

Inspired by Israeli cooking techniques, Atlantis’ Kosher dining service offers contemporary fare with an array of classic and novel dishes. For events and group functions.

Bread and butter (iStock)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Annual ‘hametz’ wars at center of crisis that could end Israel’s 36th government

Though it’s highly unlikely Idit Silman’s resignation from the coalition truly hinged on a battle over bread, her approach reflects a very real fight over Israel’s public character

Naftali Bennett, head of Yamina, with Yamina MKs and supporters at the party headquarters in Petah Tikva, on election night, March 23, 2021. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Op-Ed

How Naftali Bennett doomed his own coalition

The Yamina PM’s fatal political failure was in choosing a Knesset slate that, unlike those of all his 7 coalition partners, has proved unwilling to follow its leader

Ayelet Shaked (L) and Idit Silman (R) at the Knesset on March 10, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing April 7 – Anatomy of a breakup: What made Silman leave the coalition

Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren finds answers in the days before coalition whip Idit Silman’s dramatic resignation; health reporter Nathan Jeffay offers optimistic headlines

Inside story

As coalition scrambles for stability, sources warn divisions with testy Gantz remain

Blue and White head says he’s working to maintain the government, but he has tussled with other leaders and is accused of holding back settlements, bringing coalition to the brink

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right), Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (center) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Knesset, on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Shas chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, forward right, and Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman, left rear, at the plenum hall during the opening of the 22nd Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

After suggesting political partnership, Deri insists Liberman can never be forgiven

Analysis

Terror attack bared West Bank barrier’s gaps, but some say holes help keep the peace

Experts say despite tough talk from army, unspoken policy of allowing Palestinian laborers to enter Israel illegally for work will remain as a vital pressure release valve

In this September 6, 2020 photo, Palestinian laborers cross illegally into Israel from the West Bank through an opening in a fence, south of the West Bank town of Hebron. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Defense Minister Benny Gantz gives a press conference at IDF Central Command headquarters, on March 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz approves administrative detention for Islamic State suspect from Nazareth

Ukrainian refugees and Israel’s ‘Jewish’ character

The religious right opposes welcoming those fleeing the conflict, the middle-left supports it – stances that reveal how each group defines a Jewish state

Why Orban matters

Hungary’s re-elected prime minister is now the role model for illiberal nationalists and wannabe authoritarians across the globe, including in Israel

Op-ed

When Putin used chemical weapons in England

4 years ago, in a deadly attack for which he paid no real price, Russia’s president showed he has no compunction in doing the unthinkable, unless or until he is denied the capacity

Lighter paving stones at the site in Salisbury, England, where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned on March 4, 2018 (DH / Times of Israel)

Workers line up bodies for identification by forensic personnel and police officers in the cemetery in Bucha, north of Kyiv, on April 6, 2022, after hundreds of civilians were found dead in areas from which Russian troops have withdrawn around Ukraine's capital, including the town of Bucha. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

In Bucha, devastated residents search for the missing and identify the dead

A view of the Mariupol theater damaged during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP/Alexei Alexandrov)

‘The new Auschwitz’: Russians accused of burning bodies to hide Mariupol atrocities

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Officials say mobile crematoria and heavy machinery being brought into city to remove thousands of dead, rubble, as mayor claims stark parallel with infamous Holocaust death camp

A Ukrainian serviceman walks on an abandoned Russian army tank in Andriivka, Ukraine, April 5, 2022 (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Ukraine warns civilians of ‘last chance’ to flee Russian attacks in east

A man holds up a placard which reads "I am Mariupol!!" as pro-Ukrainian activists stage a "Die-in" during a protest under the slogan "Stop promising, start acting!" to call for an immediate embargo on oil, gas and coal imports from Russia in front of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin, April 6, 2022. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Mariupol says 5,000 civilians killed, as Ukraine braces for Putin’s east offensive

By Adam Schreck and Andrea Rosa

(L-R) Reps. Juan Vargas, Dean Phillips, Josh Gottheimer, Donald Norcross and Elaine Luria speak at a press conference on Capitol Hill on April 6, 2022. (Courtesy)

A handful of Democrats raise qualms over Iran nuke deal, as odds of revival shrink

5 House members hold press conference to voice concern about possible IRGC delisting, backed by over a dozen other likeminded lawmakers; Blinken expresses pessimism on Vienna talks

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

Iran has moved centrifuge work from site allegedly hit by Israel to Natanz — IAEA

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran says it gave answers on suspect uranium traces to UN nuclear watchdog

By Nasser Karimi

Miriam Adelson speaks at the Israeli-American Council conference in Hollywood, Florida, November 30, 2018. (Perry Bindelglass/Israeli-American Council/via JTA)

30 Israelis make Forbes 2022 billionaires list, led by Miriam Adelson

Israel Hayom publisher named world’s 50th-richest; Roman Abramovich loses over half his fortune as sanctions bite; Trump ranks 1,012 on list topped by Elon Musk, with $219 billion

Joshua Kushner and Karlie Kloss attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2019, in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic/ via JTA)

Forbes cites Joshua Kushner, not his brother Jared, as family’s first billionaire

Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, gives a statement to the media on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, in Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Ukraine’s envoy walks out of Israeli briefing over Gantz’s comments

By Lazar Berman

Yevgen Korniychuk incensed by defense minister supposedly referring to Russian invasion as a ‘conflict’; minister’s office says he discussed mediation efforts with both sides

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas speaks during a press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the occasion of their meeting, in Tallinn, Estonia, March 8, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/Pool Photo via AP)

Estonian PM: Putin ‘undermining the sufferings’ of Jews with ‘denazification’ claims

Images from devastation in Ukraine are displayed during a meeting of the UN Security Council, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP/John Minchillo)

UN to vote Thursday on booting Russia from Human Rights Council

By Edith M. Lederer

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Court curbs chief rabbi’s power to name judges after conflict of interest complaints

By Judah Ari Gross

Move forces David Lau to consult with legal adviser, who has raised concerns over method top rabbi used to extend term of brother-in-law on religious bench

Ariella Daniels photographed for the 'Periphery' exhibition at UJA Toronto. (Liat Aharoni)

'People don’t look at me and think I’m Jewish. Never'

Multi-media exhibit ‘Periphery’ brings marginalized Canadian Jews into focus

By Robert Sarner

Exhibition by Ontario Jewish Archives and No Silence on Race organizations amplifies a broad spectrum of unheard Jewish voices, teaches about Jewish diversity at home and outside

Independent candidate Al Gross (Gross for Senate Campaign via AP)

Bear-killing Jewish doctor takes on Santa Claus, Sarah Palin in Alaska House race

By Andrew Lapin

Onetime gold prospector is 1 of 50 candidates in special election, alongside Trump-backed former governor and Bernie Sanders-loving Saint Nicholas

More Headlines

Burial plots at the historic Jewish cemetery in the Bassatine district in Cairo. (Courtesy)

US senator presses for answers after Egypt seizes buried trove of Jewish documents

Cast members of "The Lesson" celebrate as they receive the Best Series award during the closing night of the 5th Cannes International Series Festival (Canneseries) in Cannes, southern France, April 6, 2022. (Valery HACHE / AFP)

Lesson learnedIsraeli drama ‘The Lesson’ win top prize at Canneseries film festival

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Border Police officers with the Yamam counterterrorism unit during an operation. (Israel Police)

Police counterterror chief to light torch on Independence Day — in disguise

US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with Cyprus' president Nicos Anastasiades at the Presidential Palace in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, Cyprus, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

EastMed pipeline that would send Israeli gas to Europe not viable, says US official

By AP and ToI Staff

Moshe Kantor, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

UK sanctions EJC chief Moshe Kantor in latest round of measures against Russia

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Chabad emissary distributes matzah in a remote Jewish community ahead of Passover. (Courtesy of Chabad House Spokesman)

Isolated Jewish communities from Namibia to Japan to receive Passover boon

By Michael Horovitz

This file photo taken on February 21, 2010 shows an Israeli Heron TP surveillance drone, known as the IAI Eitan, during a presentation to the media at the Tel Nof Air Force base, south of Tel Aviv. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)

Turning to Israel, Germany to get weaponized drones for the first time

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Health Ministry office in Nazareth damaged in an explosion, November 2021. (Israel Police)

2 arrested over November explosion at Health Ministry office in Nazareth

Sara Netanyahu at a voting station in Jerusalem, during national elections, on March 23, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

High Court rejects petition seeking civil lawsuit against Sara Netanyahu

Illustrative: A screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

US investment firm buys Israeli security company Tufin for $570 million

Culture and Sports Minister Chili Tropper at the Khan theatre in Jerusalem on February 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Main Independence Day event to forgo fireworks this year, due to veterans with PTSD

Yitzhak Gabai (right), a member of the extreme-right Lehava organization, at the Jerusalem District Court on November 10, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Member of extreme-right Lehava group indicted for sexually harassing minor

View Edition by Date

March	April 2022					May
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.