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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 17, 2022

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Palestinians throw rocks at an Israeli bus outside Jerusalem's Old City on April 17, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Palestinians hurl rocks at Old City buses; cops enter Temple Mount to prevent riots

7 wounded as stones shatter windows of buses en route to Western Wall; 17 wounded, 9 arrested as police clear way for Jewish visitors atop holy site

Israeli police officers are seen during clashes outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett says Israeli forces have ‘free rein’ to maintain security

Illustrative: Israeli troops near the Beit El checkpoint in the West Bank, on May 15, 2021. (Flash90)

Attempted terror stabbing thwarted in West Bank settlement

Palestinians flash victory signs beneath the dome of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Senior Islamic Movement official urges Ra’am to quit coalition: ‘Do it for Al-Aqsa’

Sheikh Mohammad Salameh Hassan issues call in wake of Temple Mount clashes; TV report says party’s leader facing ‘heavy pressure’ to yank support for government

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas speaks to Channel 12 news, on April 16, 2022. (Screenshot)

Ra’am chief calls for calm in Jerusalem, insists party committed to coalition

Pope Francis celebrates the Easter mass on April 17, 2022 at St. Peter's square in The Vatican. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)

At Easter mass, pope calls for ‘free access’ to Jerusalem holy sites

By AFP

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 17: Riots on Temple Mount as Passover, Ramadan & Easter converge

Editor David Horovitz and military correspondent Emanuel Fabian update us on skirmishes at holy flashpoint, coalition calculations and new Iron Beam anti-missile technology

Op-Ed

Just look at their feet: The ‘defenders’ of Al-Aqsa are desecrating it

Tens of thousands of Palestinians dispersed peacefully on Friday afternoon after prayers in Jerusalem. The hundreds who clashed with police earlier, by contrast, had come to fight

Palestinian rioters hurl stones towards Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 15, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Detained Palestinian demonstrators are handcuffed following clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound between Palestinians and Israeli police, at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

At least 130 rioters remain detained after Friday’s Temple Mount clashes

Palestinian protesters face off against Israeli security forces during clashes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on April 15, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

UAE, Bahrain, Morocco join condemnation of police actions at Temple Mount clashes

Vice President Kamala Harris (R) and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff host a Passover seder in the Vice President's Residence, serving wine from the Psagot settlement winery, on April 16, 2022. (Doug Emhoff/Twitter)

Hitting the bottle

VP Harris serves wine made in West Bank settlement at Passover seder

Psagot Winery has named a blend after Trump envoy Mike Pompeo, challenged labeling laws; vice president’s aide says choice ‘not an expression of policy’

Illustrative: Workers prepare matzah, the unleavened bread eaten during the Jewish holiday of Passover, at the Aviv Matzah plant in Bnei Brak on April 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Matzah testChefs and culinary influencers rise to matzah challenge

By Jessica Steinberg

To my son, on duty in the IDF for Passover

We miss you, but you are doing what our ancestors did, when they took up arms and partnered with God to defend the people, and we are so proud

Anthony Bartaway

We need to talk about Russian oligarchs and Jewish philanthropy

What do Roman Abramovich Moshe Kantor, Lev Leviev, Victor Vekselberg, Mikail Fridman, German Khan and Berel Lazar have in common?

Masked Hamas members parade with Qassam rockets through the streets of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on May 27, 2021. (AP/Yousef Masoud)

Report: Egypt talked Hamas down from rocket fire after Temple Mount clashes

Israeli TV says Israel agreed to release those detained during Friday’s riots; no rockets were fired, but many Palestinians remain detained

View of the barrier along the Israel-Gaza border, on December 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Incoming rocket sirens sound in Gaza border community, in false alarm

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops secure a checkpoint used by Palestinian to cross from the West Bank into Jerusalem, for the first Friday prayers in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, at the Qalandiya checkpoint, west of Ramallah, on April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israel lifts West Bank, Gaza closure after calm first day of Passover

By Emanuel Fabian

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Oscar-nominated ‘When We Were Bullies’ looks back in shame on 1965 schoolyard attack

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In short documentary, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt interviews his 5th grade classmates and teacher as part of quest to come to terms with his own complicity in bullying another boy

Ukrainian Jews are hosted by the Jewish Agency for a Passover seder in Warsaw, Poland, on April 15, 2022. (Screenshot/Channel 12 news)

Zelensky hopes for ‘defeat of evil’ as Jewish Ukrainian refugees mark Passover

Israel’s Immigration Ministry hosts Ukrainians for Seder at over 40 hotels around country; Jewish Agency has holiday meal in Poland; volunteers help Jewish community in Chernivtsi

A ceremony to open an Israeli field hospital in Mostyska, Ukraine, on March 22, 2022 (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

Report: Only 16% of patients at Israel’s field hospital in Ukraine are refugees

Moscow-born linguist Olga Romanova poses for a picture at her son's home in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim on March 29, 2022. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Fleeing Putin’s regime, Russian dissidents join Ukrainian refugees in Israel

By Delphine Matthieussent

Ukrainians defy deadline to surrender in Mariupol or die

By Adam Schreck and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Russian military estimates that about 2,500 fighters holding out at a steel plant are the last pocket of resistance in the coastal city

Bodies of civilians lie on the ground as local residents walk past a destroyed part of the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant, the second largest metallurgical enterprise in Ukraine, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Zelensky warns situation in Mariupol ‘inhuman’ as Russia claims near full control

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Firefighters work to extinguish multiple fires after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Kyiv pauses civilian evacuations from eastern Ukraine amid ceasefire disagreement

By AFP

Illustrative: An El Al flight takes off at the Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, on October 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Inaugural direct flight between Tel Aviv and Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh takes off

El Al official says looking to expand the number of flights to the Egyptian resort beyond three a week, as large numbers of Israelis expected to visit Sinai over Passover

Illustrative: A meteor streaks through the sky, near Madrid, Spain, August 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Israeli astronomer and partner identify first interstellar meteor to hit Earth

Illustrative: People shop at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem, on February 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli consumer goods prices rose by 0.6% in March; housing costs continue to soar

Latest Central Bureau of Statistics data show cost of homes grew by 15.2% in past 12 months; decrease of 2.5% seen in fresh vegetables and fruits

Lumiweave, designed by Anai Green, is a self-lighting, solar-cell packed, outdoor fabric, that won one of four prizes in 2020's international Women4Climate Tech challenge. (Courtesy: Anai Green)

Tel Aviv pilots shade-giving, solar-powered fabric that lights up at night

By Ricky Ben-David and Sue Surkes

City installs award-winning Lumiweave system at Atidim Park, home to high-tech, finance, medical companies

Addionics batteries. (Courtesy: Addionics)

Israeli maker of smart 3D battery tech among 12 winners of BloombergNEF award

By Ricky Ben-David

In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran. (IRIB via AP)

Iran confirms moving centrifuge facility allegedly hit by Israel to underground site

By AP

Iranian atomic energy organization says Tehran ‘obliged to intensify security measures’ by shifting some machinery to Natanz, which was also a target of reported Israeli attacks

A Syrian anti-aircraft missile is fired near Damascus during an alleged Israeli airstrike on February 9, 2022. An errant anti-aircraft missile exploded over northern Israel. (SANA)

Russia claims Syria intercepted Israeli missile in attack near Damascus

A rock structure scientists at University College London believe could contain the earliest fossils of life ever found. (UCL)

Scientists believe they may have found Earth’s oldest life — 4.2 billion years old

If confirmed, microfossil study would show life on Earth might have emerged a mere 300 million years after planet’s formation

'The waves of the North Sea bring me fresh air and joy'

After 37 years, Magritte’s surrealist masterpiece still inspires at Israel Museum

By Jessica Steinberg

‘The Castle of the Pyrenees’ is at the center of a new exhibit telling the backstory of the work by the famed Belgian artist — as well as his art-loving friend who commissioned it

More Headlines

Outside the Columbiana Centre mall in Columbia, South Carolina, following a shooting, on April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

10 people shot at South Carolina mall; 3 suspects detained

By MICHELLE LIU

Saudi model Ziad al-Mesfer is pictured in Tahliya street in the capital Riyadh, on April 9, 2022. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

A boundary-pushing male model tests gender norms in a changing Saudi Arabia

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

Illustrative: An oil tanker is moored off Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Ship full of diesel sinks off Tunisia; environment minister: situation under control

Josh Mandel, a Republican former Ohio treasurer running for an open US Senate seat in Ohio, speaks during a debate against Morgan Harper, a progressive Democrat, on January 27, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

Jewish GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel runs campaign through churches

By Jill Colvin and JULIE CARR SMYTH

Jewish record executive Art Rupe in an interview with the Rock Hall of Fame in 2011. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Jewish record exec Art Rupe, who launched Little Richard’s career, dies at 104

By Hillel Italie

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby delivers his speech at the interreligious meeting 'Brother peoples, future land' organized by the Sant'Egidio Community at 'La Nuvola' (The Cloud) convention center in Rome, on October 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Archbishop of Canterbury: UK plan to send refugees to Rwanda goes against God

By Jill Lawless

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