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What Matters Most On Friday, April 15, 2022

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Palestinian rioters clash with Israeli police at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound atop the Temple Mount on April 15, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

Over 150 injured, 400 arrested as Palestinians clash with cops on Temple Mount

By Emanuel Fabian, Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Officers enter flashpoint holy site on 2nd Friday of Ramadan after morning prayers, as Muslim worshipers throw stones at Western Wall; 3 Israeli police also hurt in skirmish

Israeli security forces stand guard as Palestinian men pray on the second Friday of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Afternoon Ramadan prayers end peacefully at Al-Aqsa following morning melee

Illustrative: Palestinian women cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 15, 2022. (Flash90)

IDF closes off West Bank, Gaza for Passover after skirmishes in Jerusalem

By Emanuel Fabian

Svetlana Niselevitch receives a haggadah for Passover from a JDC staff member outside her home in Odesa, Ukraine, April 8, 2022. (JDC via JTA)

Despite the danger, Ukrainian Jews prepare to celebrate Passover in public seders

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The threat of violence, curfews and supply-chain disruptions are complicating the holiday efforts, but thousands still plan to partake in festivities

UK freezes over $13 billion in assets from pair of Abramovich lieutenants

Police officers and medics at the scene of a stabbing in Haifa, April 15, 2022. (Israel Police)

Haifa man moderately hurt in suspected terror stabbing; teen girl arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

47-year-old found wounded in park near city hall; police say assault likely a nationalistic attack after questioning 15-year-old; father says she planned attack in Jerusalem

MK Ghnaim threatens to quit coalition over police actions

Amid violence on Temple Mount, Ra’am warns coalition in danger; PM holds assessment

‘Continued harm to al-Aqsa is red line for us,’ Islamist party head says after 100 hurt, 400 arrested at Jerusalem holy site; PA, Palestinian terror groups, Jordan condemn police

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on April 15, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's leader in Gaza, gestures on stage during a rally in Gaza City, on May 24, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/File)

Hamas leader Sinwar sent a Hebrew letter to Netanyahu during 2018 truce talks

People surround the body of Ghada Sabateen, moments after she was shot dead in the West Bank village of Husan on April 10, 2022. (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with Caluse 27a of the copyright law)

Senior US diplomat calls family of Palestinian woman shot dead by IDF

Chief of embassy’s Palestinian Affairs Unit expresses condolences to Ghada Sabateen’s family in rare decision to weigh in on killing of Palestinian who isn’t a US citizen

President Isaac Herzog, left, and US Vice President Kamala Harris. (Collage/AP)

In holiday call with Herzog, US VP expresses solidarity with Israel amid terror wave

A Palestinian protester picks up a stone during clashes with Israeli police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on April 15, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Israel media review

Timing bomb: What the press is saying about fights and flights

By Joshua Davidovich

Tensions in Jerusalem are boiling over, to nobody’s surprise, and an oft-jailed suspect nobody ever suspected becomes the center of a cold case, shining a harsh light on police

Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinowitz. May 21, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Western Wall rabbi: Bringing sacrifices to Temple Mount is barred by Chief Rabbinate

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch reiterates ban after several extremists nabbed for planning to sacrifice goat at Jerusalem holy site; also urges Muslim leaders to call for end of clashes

Poet, translator and liturgist Marcia Falk (Cathleen Maclearie)

Interview

Jewish feminism ‘foremother’ Marcia Falk publishes lyrical haggadah

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Pathbreaking poet and liturgist offers innovative take on text by highlighting biblical Exodus over rabbinic commentary. Here, she discusses her feminist and spiritual awakenings

Op-ed

A Passover prayer, to safeguard the modern miracle of Israel

May our leaders find the wisdom to thwart the threats and ensure Israel’s future as a thriving Jewish, democratic nation, utilizing the moral and practical compass Judaism provides

A fish swallows an Egyptian soldier in a mosaic scene depicting the splitting of the Red Sea from the Exodus story, from the 5th-century synagogue at Huqoq, in northern Israel, unveiled in 2017. (Jim Haberman/University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

Chana Tannenbaum

What is Abraham doing in the Passover haggadah?

Lot’s escape from Sodom and the Israelites’ departure from Egypt have enough in common that the patriarch’s example for his nephew is a lesson for the nation

A world of wine-stained haggadot

These manuscripts, hailing from Amsterdam to Persia and now housed in the National Library of Israel, are old, rare and, yes, full of splotches

After meeting for the Negev Summit, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaks with United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Monday, March 28, 2022, in Sde Boker, Israel. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

'We are ready to engage whenever the Palestinians are open'

UAE insists it welcomes regional initiatives that include Palestinians

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

After ToI reported Abu Dhabi is unenthusiastic about bringing PA into Abraham Accords, Emirati diplomat say his country is happy to work with US, Ramallah

Wasim a-Sayed, 34, a Palestinian from Hebron with Islamic State ties, suspected of carrying out three murders in Jerusalem in 2019 and 2022. (Israel Police)

‘I looked for Jewish victims,’ suspect in 2019 Jerusalem killings told investigators

Wasim a-Sayed, named by police this week as the killer of Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri and a Moldovan worker, told police he was inspired by Islamic State, reports say

Asael Shabo speaks to Channel 12 news, April 14, 2022. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

Para-athlete who survived 2002 terror attack to light torch on Independence Day

The remains of a Russian missile lies on the ground in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak)

Russia threatens to ramp up missile attacks on Kyiv

By AFP

Moscow issues warning after alleged Ukrainian helicopter strikes on Russian border towns, which Ukraine has denied; claims to kill ‘up to 30 Polish mercenaries’

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, April 14, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky hails Ukraine’s resolve after 50 days of invasion, as Russia loses key ship

By Adam Schreck

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) servicemen enter a building during an operation to arrest suspected Russian collaborators in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Russia’s Black Sea flagship sinks after blast Kyiv says was a missile strike

By Joris FIORITI

Law enforcement officers lead subway shooting suspect Frank James, 62, out of the New York City Police Department's 9th Precinct in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, on April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

ADL: NY subway shooting suspect raged against Jews and others, had no clear ideology

Frank James unusual for a terror suspect in that he has no consistent outlook, extremism researchers say; he said in one video that Jews will ‘stab you in the back in a heartbeat’

Law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank R. James, 62, center right, away from a police station and into a vehicle, in New York, on April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Brooklyn subway shooter held without bail on federal terror charges

Times Will Tell Podcast

Amanda Borschel-Dan

What does archaeology say about the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?

Ahead of Easter, we walk in the Jerusalem Old City church compound with top archaeologist Prof. Jodi Magness in this audio tour of the history and controversy of a unique holy spot

Prof. Jodi Magness in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on April 11, 2022. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/The Times of Israel)

A Magen David worker takes a COVID-19 rapid antigen test from Israelis, at a Magen David Adom drive through complex in Jerusalem, on March 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases dip below 200 for first time in over 3 months

Official figures show pandemic further receding in wake of Omicron-fueled outbreak that pushed morbidity to record levels

A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is seen in Silver Spring, Maryland, on December 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

In first, US authorities authorize COVID breathalyzer test

By AP

Yad Mordechai honey. (Courtesy)

Health Ministry warns lactose intolerant of milk traces found in popular honey brand

Illustrative: An explosion seen at the Syrian port of Latakia on December 28, 2021, after an alleged Israeli strike. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Israeli strikes launched at targets near Damascus for 2nd time this week, Syria says

Attacks attributed to Israel in Russia-dominated airspace continue amid Putin’s Ukraine war; no reports of casualties

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian gives a press conference after meeting his Iraqi counterpart at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran, on April 13, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran says preliminary deal reached to release funds frozen abroad

By AFP

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) receives his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein (L) during a welcome ceremony in the capital Tehran, on April 13, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran warns Iraq against any ‘disruptive presence’ after hitting alleged Israeli base

By AFP

Pesach story

Kerri Steinberg

How a coffee company and a marketing maven brewed an iconic American Haggadah

The Maxwell House Haggadah’s slim text, which in 1932 began being distributed for free at grocery stores as an advertising gimmick, has become a lodestar for Jewish life in the US

A collection of Maxwell House Haggadahs from 1965, seen on March 11, 2011. (AP/Alan Diaz)

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Fears Le Pen could ban ritual slaughter unite French Jews, Muslims

By John Leicester

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, in the United Kingdom, on board a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel, April 13, 2022. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

Israel precedent prompts outrage as UK plans to send refugees to Rwanda

By Jill Lawless

File - El Shafee Elsheikh, one of the Islamic State Beatles,' speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria March 30, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Islamic State ‘Beatle’ convicted by US for beheading hostages

By Matthew Barakat

A screenshot from an interview conducted by local journalist Mustafa Sarsour in the central Arab Israeli town of Kafr Qasi, on April 14, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Local journalist in Kafr Qasim shot during live interview

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach addresses the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, on February 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Germany arrests anti-vaxxer neo-Nazis for plot to kidnap health minister

By Femke COLBORNE

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev chairs a meeting on saving businesses and jobs in foreign companies via video link at Gorki state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, on March 16, 2022. (Yekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)

Russia warns it will deploy nukes near Finland, Sweden if they join NATO

By AFP

Former US president Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Stephen Miller gives a thumbs up to a member of the audience as he attends the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday, April 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Top Trump aide Stephen Miller to give testimony to January 6 panel

By Eric Tucker and Farnoush Amiri

US President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, third from right, participate in a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, on March 26, 2022, in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US said to mull sending top administration official to Kyiv

(L) Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at a Cyber conference at Tel Aviv University, on June 24, 2019; (R) James Packer at a news conference of the Studio City project in Macau, on October 27, 2015. (Flash90; AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Report: Ex-Mossad head Cohen returns $20,000 he got illicitly from Australian tycoon

An illustrative image of a smart robotic farming concept. (sarawuth702 via iStock by Getty Images)

Israel, South Korea launch new program for robotics tech cooperation

By Ricky Ben-David

A large group of Jewish celebrities participate in "Recipe for Change: Standing Up to Antisemitism." (Courtesy of SpringHill Company via JTA)

Food for thoughtAt dinner, Jewish celebs discuss antisemitism in YouTube special

By EVELYN FRICK

Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman and the cast of 'Harmony.' (Julieta Cervantes/via JTA)

Barry Manilow to miss NYC debut of his musical ‘Harmony’ after contracting COVID

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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