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What Matters Most On Friday, April 8, 2022

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Supporters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad take part in a rally to celebrate the shooting attack in Tel Aviv, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

2 Palestinians hurt in clashes with police in Jerusalem as Israel remains on edge

Fighting breaks out at capital’s Damascus Gate, as it has nearly every night of Ramadan, as security forces struggle to respond to wave of deadly terror

9:45 pm

Police: 4 injured, including 1 seriously, in shooting in at Rahat coffee shop
9:19 pm

IDF force said operating near West Bank home of Tel Aviv terrorist
8:48 pm

Will Smith gets 10-year Oscars ban for slapping Chris Rock

Eytam Magini (left) and Tomer Morad (right) who were killed in a Tel Aviv terrorist shooting attack on April 7, 2022. (Social media)

Tel Aviv terror victims named as 27-year-olds Tomer Morad, Eytam Magini

Childhood friends from Kfar Saba were at bar on Dizengoff Street when gunman opened fire; President Herzog laments pair killed while ‘just wanting to spend a normal night out’

Tel Aviv terrorist, shot and killed near mosque, named as Ra’ad Hazem from Jenin

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Shin Bet says the 28-year-old was in Israel without permit; father, who is an ex-officer in the PA’s security forces, praises son: God, liberate Al-Aqsa

Ra'ad Hazem, 29, from the Jenin area, the terrorist who carried out a deadly shooting at a Tel Aviv bar on April 7 2022. (Courtesy)

Israeli soldiers search at the scene of a terror attack on Dizengoff street, central Tel Aviv, April 7, 2022. Two people were killed and several more injured in the attack. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

After massive manhunt, security forces find and kill Tel Aviv terrorist in firefight

The site where special forces killed a Palestinian terrorist who had killed two Israelis and wounded several others, in Jaffa, on April 8, 2022 (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Tel Aviv terrorist suspected of setting out for attack from Jaffa mosque — reports

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, April 8, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM warns media not to sow panic: 'This isn’t a reality show'

Bennett says Tel Aviv terrorist had help, vows ‘no restrictions’ on Israeli response

Gantz welcomes PA condemnation but urges it to expand ‘activities against the perpetrators of terrorism’; Barlev says no intention to disrupt Ramadan

Members of Israeli Zaka Rescue and Recovery team clean blood from the site of a shooting attack In Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Top foreign diplomats, envoys condemn ‘appalling’ terror attack in Tel Aviv

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

2 killed as terrorist opens fire on Tel Aviv bar; security forces hunting for gunman

By Emanuel Fabian, Carrie Keller-Lynn and Aaron Boxerman

A woman reacts at the scene of a terror attack In Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 7, 2022 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit).

Video shows likely shooter walking calmly before attack

Bullets, blood and shattered glass: Survivors describe horror of Tel Aviv bar attack

By Carrie Keller-Lynn, Nathan Jeffay and Emanuel Fabian

Amid carnage, stories of miraculous escapes, with 1 man hit in face by bullet that passed through his cheeks; another came face-to-face with terrorist who missed from close range

The tail end of a prayer session organized in Dizengoff Square on Friday morning, hours after a deadly terror attack on Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv, April 8, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn / The Times of Israel)

Makeshift memorial set up as Tel Aviv streets abnormally silent after terror attack

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Crowds gather for morning prayers at Dizengoff Square, a few hundred meters from bar where 2 people were killed and numerous others wounded in shooting the night before

PA’s Abbas condemns Tel Aviv terror shooting: ‘We’re all striving for stability’

By Aaron Boxerman

Second time PA has denounced Palestinian violence in recent weeks as attacks hit large Israeli cities; PA leader also warns against ‘provocative’ acts at Temple Mount

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks as he meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, March 27, 2022, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

A woman is treated near the scene of a terror attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Israeli health officials say two people were killed and at least eight others wounded in a shooting in central Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Palestinian terror groups praise ‘heroic’ Tel Aviv attack, but don’t claim credit

By Aaron Boxerman

Actors from Habima Theater address the crowd after news of a terrorist attack at a nearby Tel Aviv bar on April 7, 2022 (Screencapture/Twitter)

The shows go on: Tel Aviv theaters continue with locked doors amid terror attack

With terrorist still on the loose and people ordered to remain indoors, several shows continue with performances even as sirens wail outside

Palestinians attend afternoon prayers on the Temple Mount, which houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 8, 2022, during the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Friday Ramadan prayers end peacefully at Temple Mount amid heightened tensions

By Aaron Boxerman

Waqf estimates around 80,000 Palestinians worshiped at Jerusalem holy site; several dozen chant pro-Hamas slogans; additional forces deployed in city after Tel Aviv terror attack

Chairman of the Samaria regional council, Yossi Dagan (second from left) pictured with local Palestinian figures at an Iftar meal, on April 5, 2022. (From the Facebook of Yossi Dagan/used under clause 27a of the copyright law)

Ramadan meal brings together unlikely group of Jewish settlers and Palestinians

By Michael Horovitz

Close call no more – terror at home

We Israelis aim for calm as we check again that our doors are locked before trying to put this day behind us, praying for those who are fighting for their lives

American rabbis, convert yourselves

Those pushing to keep conversion centralized are ignoring a massive problem that threatens the fabric of Israeli society and bucking historical Jewish norms

Reentry comes in stages

The biblical figures who cannot reenter the camp before undergoing a series of intricate tasks teach the value of a ’slow and steady’ return to normalcy

Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz

The power to forget can make all the difference: Mamzerut

Nowadays, people are largely judged on their merits – except when technology preserves an inherited ’illegitimate’ status in ways Jewish law never anticipated

Analysis

Twenty years after Defensive Shield, Israel struggles to contain latest terror wave

As IDF marked anniversary of landmark success against Palestinian militants, Israelis were gunned down in Bnei Brak. Is Israel learning the right lessons?

An IDF soldier stands guard in Nablus during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. (IDF Spokeserson's Unit/Flickr)

Illustration of the space shuttle that will carry Eytan Stibbe (Axiom Space)

2nd Israeli to blast off to space, will perform experiments seeking health advances

By Nathan Jeffay

Eytan Stibbe boldly goes where no Israeli has gone before — the ISS — amid hopes of gaining insights into range of conditions, including immune problems and Alzheimer’s

Idit Silman, heads a committee meeting at the Knesset on November 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Exclusive

Yamina’s Silman denies Likud deal to defect, says Bennett offered her rival’s job

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

Former coalition whip pushes back against reports her decision to bolt came with pact promising plum postings from opposition, claims elections not inevitable

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, center and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on November 7, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Party leaders clamber to defend discordant coalition, head off mutiny

Yamina MK Amichai Chikli at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony, on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)

Yamina moves to label rebel Chikli a defector, in warning to party members

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Emergency personnel walk among injured people lying on the platform in the aftermath of a rocket attack on the railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, in the Donbass region on April 8, 2022. (Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)

Russian missile strikes packed Ukrainian train station, killing dozens

Attack comes as authorities urge people in eastern Ukraine to flee ahead of looming advance on Donbas; more gruesome discoveries predicted as Russians retreat from Kyiv region

UN votes to suspend Russia from Human Rights Council, with Israel’s backing

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

As evidence of atrocities mounts, NATO countries move to send more arms to Ukraine

By LORNE COOK and Matthew Lee

German intel said to intercept Russian communications confirming Bucha killings

By AFP

An Israeli family seen during the Passover seder on the first night of the eight-day long Jewish holiday of Passover, in Tzur Hadassah on April 22, 2016 (Courtesy Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Matzah as meditation: A dissident’s daughter thinks about Exodus

Two Jerusalem teachers, Rachel Sharansky Danziger and Sarah Yehudit Schneider, speak about Passover, the seder and their approach to the Haggadah

French far-right media pundit and 2022 presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, left, listens to his advisor Sarah Knafo after presenting the name of his new party "Reconquete!" at the end of a campaign rally in Villepinte, near Paris, December 5, 2021. (Julien de Rosa/AFP /Getty Images via JTA)

Young French Jew dating Zemmour is also managing the far-right candidate’s campaign

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sarah Knafo was deemed highly likely to thrive in France’s political scene, but has caused surprise by becoming the protege, lover and adviser of the Jewish presidential hopeful

More Headlines

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as first Black female US high court justice

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Mark Sherman

Linda Sarsour with Women's March calls out to other activists opposed to President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, on Monday, September 24, 2018.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Geico drops Linda Sarsour as a diversity speaker after backlash from Jewish groups

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 7, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

US military chief opposes terror delisting for Iran’s Quds Force

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Barney Greengrass in New York City. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Beloved Jewish deli on NYC’s Upper West Side hit by suspected arson

By julia GERGELY

Nehemiah Persoff has hundreds of screen credits from classic Hollywood films and TV shows. Clockwise from top left: "Some Like It Hot," "On The Waterfront," "Red Sky at Morning," "Yentl" and "Playhouse 90" (as Benito Mussolini). (Nehemiah Persoff/Photo illustration by Grace Yagel)

ObituaryNehemiah Persoff, Jewish character actor who played over 200 roles, dies at 102

By Andrew Lapin

Drugs seized during a smuggling attempt on the Egypt border, on April 8, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF captures 120-kilogram drug shipment on Egypt border

By Emanuel Fabian

Eyal Golan arriving at a concert in Tel Aviv on November 14, 2013. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Police question pop star Eyal Golan anew about underage sex claims

Screen capture from video of a crowd of Jewish protestors pulling an Arab man from his vehicle in Bet Yam, on May 21, 2021. (Twitter)

Court convicts second man in Bat Yam mob attack of Arab Israeli

Arnon Milchan (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in the Knesset, on March 28, 2005. (Flash90/ File)

State witness Filber says he advised billionaire Milchan on behalf of Netanyahu

A supporter of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group holds a poster of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman with Arabic words that read: 'Bin Salman is a terrorist,' during a conference for Saudi opposition in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, on January 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Saudi Arabia returns ambassador to Lebanon after diplomatic spat

By AP

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