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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 12, 2022

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An alleged bug found in a travel mug given as a gift by the Chinese embassy to an Israeli ministry. The mug and others like it proved not to contain anything untoward, the Shin Bet security agency said after investigation, on April 12, 2022. (Courtesy)

China fumes as Shin Bet admits mugs Beijing gave to ministers not bugged after all

Beijing pans reports of spying devices in cups sent to officials, accuses media outlets of trying ‘to drive a wedge’ between the two countries

An alleged bug found in a travel mug given as a gift by the Chinese embassy to an Israeli ministry. The mug and others like it proved not to contain anything untoward, the Shin Bet security agency said after investigation, on April 12, 2022. (Courtesy)

Suspected spy devices found in gifts given to ministers by Chinese embassy – reports

Police chief: Odeh’s comments against Arab servicemen will only boost recruitment

By Tobias Siegal

Police force includes 1,232 Muslim officers; Shabtai says: ‘I won’t let anyone smear our Arab officers’

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai speaks during an event held at the National Police Academy in Bnei Brak, April 12, 2022. (Screen grab from video released by Israel Police)

Leader of the Joint List Ayman Odeh is seen carrying a sign which reads 'Against the Occupation' during a protest in Tel Aviv, on May 15, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Doubling down, Odeh also calls on Jewish Israelis to refuse to serve in West Bank

Leader of the Ra'am party Mansour Abbas, left, April 5, 2021; leader of the Joint List party Ayman Odeh, right, March 7, 2021. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File); (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Mansour Abbas slams Joint List’s Odeh: ‘Their politics don’t have a purpose’

By Tobias Siegal

New York City Police Department personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Live updates (closed)

Cops find handgun at subway shooting scene, on lookout for shooter in U-Haul truck

Officials say they are not ruling out any motives for attack, and have an image of the gunman who shot at least 10 people and is suspected to be in vehicle with Arizona plates

8:59 pm

Biden appears to accuse Putin of 'genocide' in Ukraine
8:41 pm

FBI joining hunt for New York City subway shooter
8:05 pm

Cops recover handgun after subway shooting, looking for U-Haul with Arizona plates

Can you sponsor matzah for a poor Israeli family this Passover?

Thousands of Israelis will suffer from food insecurity this Passover. Lear how Meir Panim is giving you the opportunity to help feed them.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Judea and Samaria Division military base, near the West Bank settlement of Beit El, April 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Premier: Options are current government or endless elections

Conceding coalition management errors, PM vows more focus on politics moving forward

Bennett says he needs to do more to embrace right-wing base; lambasts Netanyahu, Smotrich for hounding renegade MK Silman; insists gov’t can function without majority in Knesset

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 12: MK Odeh hits out at Arab servicemen during terror wave. Why?

Political correspondent Tal Schneider and Arab affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman decipher a series of remarks by Joint Arab List head; Lazar Berman reports in from Turkey

Residents stand outside their apartments as shops burn after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ukraine unit accuses Russia of using chemical weapons; UN calls to probe rapes

UK says its working to verify allegations Russia used chemical agent in Mariupol; UN also calls for greater protection of Ukrainian children, says two-thirds are displaced

A woman holds her child as she speaks to a photographer in the basement of a building damaged during a fighting used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, on the territory which is now under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Mariupol mayor: Over 10,000 civilians dead; corpses ‘carpeted through the streets’

By YURAS KARMANAU and Adam Schreck

British armed forces minister James Heappey speaks to Sky News about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, April 12, 2022. (Screen grab/Twitter/Sky News)

Russian chemical attack in Ukraine will draw Western response, UK minister warns

By AFP

'Here, being refugees has its perks'

The surreal life: 200 Jewish refugees hole up at a 4-star resort in wartime Ukraine

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Despite the kosher kitchen, tennis courts, saunas and in-room jacuzzis, residents of the Illara resort near the country’s western border yearn for a return to normal life

Syrians seek to aid Ukrainians, citing shared suffering under Russian military

By LYNNE AL-NAHHAS

Teenage Russian kart racer fired over apparent Nazi salute

By AFP

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, center, gives instructions during preparations for the celebration of Jewish Passover at the Chabad Jewish Education Center in Berlin, Germany, April 7, 2022. Rabbis and Jewish organizations are working round the clock within Ukraine, Eastern Europe and other parts of Europe to make sure that Jews who remain in Ukraine and refugees who have fled as far away as Israel are able to celebrate Passover. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A festival of freedom, Passover takes on new meaning for Jews fleeing Ukraine

By DEEPA BHARATH

A sunflower for Ukraine? A tomato for farmworkers? I’m sticking to the seder plate basics

If we try to account for every tale of oppression, we risk leaving some out – or miss the universal truths of the Exodus

Today’s antisemitism, brought to you by the letters Z and V

When vandalism at Lithuania’s Ponar Holocaust memorial copies Russian tanks, it accuses the Jewish community of supporting Putin’s invasion

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends the reopening of Tel Aviv's Ilka bar days after it was hit in a terror attack, on April 11, 2022 (Courtesy)

Bennett, Barlev visit as Tel Aviv bar hit in deadly terror attack reopens

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Just 4 days after attack, 100 people attend reopening filled with music and drink as patrons vow terror won’t win; PM: ‘We will not let them, our enemies, stop our lives’

Israeli soldiers operate in the northern West Bank, April 12, 2022 (IDF)

IDF reports fresh clashes with gunmen during arrest raids in Jenin area

Palestinian stabs policeman at Ashkelon construction site, is shot and killed

Officer lightly wounded; was investigating the suspicious individual when he drew a knife and attacked

A police officer hospitalized after being wounded in a stabbing attack in Ashkelon, April 12, 2022 (Israel police)

View of the Israeli settlement of Vered Yeriho, in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, on July 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Palestinian officer attempted shooting attack in West Bank settlement

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Once it was F-15s on Shabbat; now, hametz: The religious issues that end governments

Bennett’s coalition clings to life, knowing conflicts over Jewish identity have caused governments to fall over the past 70 years

The newly sworn in Israeli government pose for a group photo at the president's residence in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A sign at the David Elliot Poultry stall at KosherFest 2021 reads: 'This year's chicken shortage has been stressful for us all.' (Courtesy of Philissa Cramer/ JTA)

'People are scrambling for any product they can find'

Can’t find poultry for Passover? America’s kosher chicken shortage, explained

By Jackie Hajdenberg

An unusual array of forces have conspired to depress production in the United States, and kosher plants have suffered alongside everyone else

Illustrative image: dietary supplements (iStock via Getty Images)

Israeli-made dietary supplement fights off viruses in lab tests, scientists say

By Nathan Jeffay

Mixture of 3 food supplements, each approved by the FDA, appears to be ‘very capable of inhibiting replication of RNA viruses in a remarkable way,’ says researcher behind study

The iconic Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 1, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

AnalysisWhat can mega climate conferences really achieve?

Lack of action at first MENA climate meet doesn’t bode well for Egypt’s COP27

Israel’s climate envoy calls on Egyptians to give tech solutions center stage at upcoming COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh; says ‘time for describing the problems is over’

An ariel view of Haifa, January 17, 2021. Illustrative. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Cities across Israel sign half-billion-shekel deal to fund urban renewal

By Danielle Nagler

Housing Ministry to finance infrastructure development — the streets, schools, services needed to serve a bigger population — in Ashdod, Jerusalem, Lod, Haifa and more

The Wohl Rose Park's French Garden in Jerusalem, April 2021. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Jerusalem’s Rose Garden to undergo renewal as public space

By Danielle Nagler

A SPYDER surface-to-air missile is fired in a test in an undated photograph. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.)

Israeli arms sales hit new record of $11.3 billion in 2021 — with 7% to Gulf

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Ministry officials say last year saw sharp increase in demands for Israeli defense goods

Israel’s NSO Group appeals to US Supreme Court for immunity in WhatsApp suit

By Josef Federman

More Headlines

Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron attends a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel raises interest rate for first time since 2018 to limit inflation

By Ricky Ben-David and Tobias Siegal

View of the Israeli Leviathan natural gas field gas processing rig as seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90/File)

As EU eyes stopping Russian fuel imports, Israel sees an opening for its natural gas

By Jonah Mandel

Current French President and centrist presidential candidate for reelection Emmanuel Macron campaigns in Denain, northern France, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool)

With final results of 1st round in, France’s Macron begins battle to defeat Le Pen

By Jurgen HECKER and Stuart Williams

Pope Francis delivers his homely as he celebrates a Mass for the solemnity of St. Mary at the beginning of the new year, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on January 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Report: Pope Francis may visit Israel in June, meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch

By ToI Staff and Agencies

File: Then-foreign minister Yair Lapid (left) and then-special envoy to combat antisemitism and delegitimization of Israel Noa Tishby at the Foreign Ministry on April 11, 2022. (Foreign Ministry)

Lapid taps Israeli-American actress-writer Noa Tishby as first antisemitism envoy

Weizmann Institute math and computer science professor Oded Goldreich (left) receives the Israel Prize at a ceremony at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mathematician Goldreich receives Israel Prize following year-long political saga

By Tobias Siegal and ToI Staff

FILE - Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, left, testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, about his plans for the new cryptocurrency Libra, October 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

After backlash, Zuckerberg won’t donate to US election offices in 2022

By Nicholas Riccardi

A new series of Forever stamps in honor of Shel Silverstein released by the United States Postal Service. (USPS)

A generous gestureUSPS honors Jewish poet Silverstein with ‘Giving Tree’ stamps

Illustrative: An ambulance of the Lebanese Red Cross in Beirut, Lebanon, March 11, 2020. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Explosion in possible arms cache in south Lebanon kills 1, injures several

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Canadian Jewish pair comfort each other during a ceremony at the fomer Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau during the March of the Living Sunday May 4,1997. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Canada set to outlaw Holocaust denial

An illustrative photo of Shufersal delivery trucks. (Sivan Faraj)

Israeli supermarket giant Shufersal taps Via’s mobility tech for delivery logistics

By Ricky Ben-David

From left: Actors Simon Helberg, Candice Bergen, Dustin Hoffman, writer-director Mayim Bialik and actor Dianna Agron, on the set of Bialik's feature directorial debut, 'As They Made Us.' (Screen Media/ JTA)

A blossoming filmmakerMayim Bialik assembles a very Jewish cast in her directorial debut

By Andrew Lapin

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