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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 14, 2022

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Tamar Kaduri, left, and husband Yehuda, who were found murdered in their Jerusalem home on January 13, 2019. (Courtesy)

IS-linked Palestinian nabbed for 2019 killing of elderly couple that stumped police

By Emanuel Fabian

Wasim a-Sayed to be indicted for allegedly stabbing to death Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri at their Jerusalem apartment, as well as Moldovan Ivan Tarnovski in the capital last month

The 'Iron Beam' laser-based air defense system is seen intercepting a target over southern Israel, March 2022. (Defense Ministry)

In ‘game changer,’ Israeli laser-based air defense shoots down drones

By Emanuel Fabian

Officials hail Iron Beam system after successful interceptions of guided and unguided projectiles; Gantz says all efforts being made for early deployment

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj. Gen. Esmail Ghaani is seen in this undated photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran Revolutionary Guard says it will confront Israel ‘wherever it feels necessary’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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)

UN atomic agency installs cameras at new Iranian centrifuge workshop

By Jon Gambrell

Palestinians carry the body of one of the men killed during clashes with IDF in Jenin, on April 14, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

6 Palestinians killed in West Bank as extensive Israeli military operation continues

2 deaths in Jenin Thursday morning, after 4 fatally wounded Wednesday during IDF raids in major West Bank cities and towns; Ramallah announces general strike in protest

The scene where a Palestinian man was shot after allegedly throwing a firebomb at troops in Husan on April 13, 2022. (Itzik Itach/Rescuers Without Borders)

Palestinian teen shot dead after allegedly hurling firebomb at troops in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF soldiers are seen operating in the West Bank on April 13, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli forces near Ramallah nab terror cell suspected of planning imminent attack

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Olga (65) and her daughter Svetlana cry after watching a Russian missile destroy their apartment in Podill district, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 18, 2022.

(Photo credit: AG)

Image may be used in any HIAS materials, print and digital, until March 24, 2023. After this date, additional usage must be re-negotiated directly with photographer. No affiliate rights granted.

Support Ukrainian Refugees this Passover

HIAS is providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainian refugees, working with partners in Ukraine, Poland, Israel, and throughout Europe. Support HIAS’ emergency response to the conflict.

Thousands of Muslim worshipers attend the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 8, 2022. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Six extremist Jews arrested for planning animal sacrifice atop Temple Mount

Goat found at suspect’s home, following Facebook post offering cash prize for animal sacrifices at locale; police vow to work 24/7 against anyone violating order at flashpoint site

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

Hamas calls for an escalation against Israel as tensions spike over Temple Mount

AnalysisWhile West Bank tensions rise, Jerusalem sees quiet Ramadan. But big test lies ahead

By Aaron Boxerman

Shuly Rubin Schwartz

A discourse that is as flat as matzah

MK Stilman’s exit from the coalition and Tzedek Chicago’s shift to anti-Zionism both run counter to the Seder’s modeling of a nuanced approach to real-life challenges

This holiday of heritage is planted in our identity by our experiences and the stories we’ve been told. What of us is left when all that is gone?

Illustration: Avi Katz

TOI investigates

‘Father unknown’: A dread biblical status leads to modern problems

By Judah Ari Gross

Amir has been fighting for years to be recognized as his daughter’s father, squaring off against an archaic law aimed at preventing children from being labeled ‘mamzers’

Head of the Blue and White party and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz speaks during an event of the Blue and White party in Tel Aviv, March 21, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing April 14: Where is Defense Minister Gantz in the coalition crisis?

US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses political paralysis and Palestinians in Abraham Accords as Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben-David looks at first quarter tech exits and robotaxis

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) attend a departure ceremony for an Israeli delegation flying out to set up a field hospital in Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 21, 2022. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Gov't is 'answer to dangerous alliance of Smotrich, Odeh'

Lapid claims political crisis is under control and government will remain in power

Foreign minister assails Netanyahu, allies for lack of support during terror wave; maverick coalition MK Eli Avidar calls on Bennett to step down and allow Lapid to take over as PM

Police officers seen outside a mall in Hadera, April 14, 2022. (Screenshot: Telegram, used in accordance with Clause 27 of the copyright law)

Live updates (closed)

Police searching for suspect who fled Hadera mall, leaving behind knife

Amid terror fears, security guards attempt to question suspicious man near shopping center; large forces scanning area in northern city

5:55 pm

IDF soldier said to apologize for shooting unarmed Palestinian to death
5:35 pm

Senior US official calls family of unarmed Palestinian woman shot dead by IDF troops
5:15 pm

Islamic State 'Beatle' guilty of all charges in US hostage deaths

Herzog: Ramadan shows 'beautiful face of the Islamic spirit'

In shadow of terrorism and political crisis, Herzog stresses tolerance at Iftar meal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

President hosts a traditional Ramadan dinner, reading from the Quran and praising the holiday, but violence and political tensions compete with his well-received goodwill message

President Isaac Herzog (L) speaks with a religious leader at an Iftar dinner hosted at Herzog's official residence, April 13, 2022. (The President's Office)

President Isaac Herzog speaks in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

As tensions rise, Herzog says he hopes to meet soon with PA President Abbas

United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right, makes remarks at the Negev Summit, with from left, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, March 28, 2022, in Sde Boker, Israel. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Inside story

US aims to fold Palestinians into expanded cooperation between Israel, Arab states

Effort an uphill battle as PA welcomes effort to boost regional standing, but not in context of Abraham Accords; UAE and Bahrain less enthusiastic and Israel not fully on board

Security forces work to repair holes in the West Bank security barrier on April 13, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Amid terror warnings, security forces begin to patch holes in West Bank barrier

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: The American guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul in the Red Sea, April 15, 2019. (US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nick Bauer)

US Navy says new force to patrol Red Sea amid attacks by Iran-backed Yemen rebels

By Jon Gambrell

Men walk in a street destroyed by shelling in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Moscow threatens to strike Kyiv after Russian flagship ‘seriously damaged’

By Joris FIORITI

ExplainerWhy accusations of Russian genocide in Ukraine carry more heft than mere words

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Tax haven Jersey seizes $7 billion in suspected Abramovich-linked assets

Biden talks to Zelensky, approves $800 million in military aid for Ukraine

By AFP

Departing travellers at Ben Gurion Airport ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

‘It’s a madhouse’: Ben Gurion Airport reports record traffic ahead of Passover

Approximately 73,000 passengers making their way through packed airport on Thursday — highest daily number since COVID began; Sinai crossing also expects rush

Ukrainians who fled the fighting in Ukraine land at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv on March 17, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

High Court orders state to clarify entry cap on Ukrainian refugees

The traditional Passover 'Seder' table at the President's Residence in Jerusalem for 2022. (Courtesy)

Herzog to host lone soldiers, Ukrainian refugees for Passover Seder

Sex therapist Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus, who is the clinical director at New York’s Maze Women’s Sexual Health. (Nusrat Mulla)

Sexual harassment allegations rock Orthodox Jewish feminist group

By Andrew Lapin

Range of accusations against Bat Sheva Marcus, sex therapist and former board chair of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, were kept quiet for years due to employees’ NDAs

'There is a new momentum in our relations in this moment'

Turkish foreign minister says ties with Israel dependent on Palestinian rights

By Lazar Berman

Speaking to Israeli journalists, Mevlut Cavusoglu says Ankara expects Jerusalem to respect international law for ‘sustainable’ relationship, hopes for return of Israeli tourists

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks to the media, in Ankara, Turkey, November 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Author Omer Friedlander and his new book, 'The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land.' (Yam Traiber)

Interview'When I wrote them, I didn't think anyone would read them'

Israeli writer brings his homeland to life in new English story collection

27-year-old debut author Omer Friedlander, now living in New York, paints vivid pictures of characters, tales and times gone by in ‘The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land’

A rabbi and his students from Oholei Torah in Crown Heights, Brooklyn prepare to hand out shmura matzah to passersby near Lincoln Center in Manhattan, April 12, 2022. (Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)

Chabad stages worldwide celebrations to mark late leader’s 120th birthday

By PHILISSA CRAMER

After street parties, Hasidic movement’s emissaries fan out across NYC in ‘mitzvah tanks’ to give out matzah as part of festivities memorializing Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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The stone slab, once a Crusader-era altar, in Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre Church, April 11, 2022. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/TOI)

ArchaeologyResearchers rediscover original medieval altar of Church of the Holy Sepulchre

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An autonomous taxi powered by Mobileye's driving tech with Moovit's ride-hailing app in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, September 2021. (Mobileye/Intel)

Mobileye gives sneak peek into ‘robotaxi’ ride ahead of Israel, Germany launch

By Ricky Ben-David

New York City Police and law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank R. James, 62, center, away from a police station, in New York, on April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Brooklyn subway shooter tipped police off to his location before arrest

By Michael R. Sisak, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Jennifer Peltz

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2-R) and his wife Sara, wait in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, on 10 January 2022, for a preliminary hearing in the Netanyahus' defamation lawsuit against Olmert, who called them "mentally ill" in interviews. (Avshalom SASSONI / POOL / AFP)

Olmert calls Miriam Adelson, Yair Netanyahu as defense witnesses in defamation suit

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)

Controversial Israel Prize winner to donate grant money to human rights NGOs

In this Friday, Oct. 15, 2021 file photo, an image of murdered British Conservative lawmaker David Amess is displayed near the altar in St Peters Catholic Church before a vigil in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

IS supporter who murdered British lawmaker sentenced to life in prison

A minefield in southern Israel where two young girls -- one in red at left, and the other in blue at right -- accidentally entered on April 13, 2022. (Arava Rescue Services)

Sisters aged 6 and 13 rescued after walking into minefield near Dead Sea

A child is given an oral vaccine for polio in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, on September 10 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Polio vaccine campaign expanding across country amid fears of spread

Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in his trial, at the District Court in Jerusalem on March 28, 2022. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Prosecutors ask court to add new witnesses in Netanyahu’s Case 1000

Jeremy Cohen, a French Jew, who was killed after being hit by a train, apparently while trying to escape an antisemitic attack near Paris in February. (Courtesy)

Two men in police custody in France over suspicious death of Jewish man

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the Royal Castle in Warsaw on March 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

63% of US Jews approve of Biden, in drop from 80% last year, poll shows

A teacher holding up his cellular phone certificating that it is a 'kosher' one, at the entrance to at an Ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem, on May 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Despite Haredi ire, minister OKs full number mobility on kosher phone lines

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