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What Matters Most On Monday, April 18, 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)

Jordan ‘salutes’ Palestinian rioters on Temple Mt., summons Israeli envoy for rebuke

Kingdom’s FM bids to convene Arab League to address Israeli ‘aggression’; PM slams pro-Zionists defiling Al-Aqsa; Abdullah speaks to Egypt’s Sissi on ‘provocative Israeli measures’

Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the royal palace in Amman on August 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Khalil Mazraawi/ File)

Jordan’s Abdullah, Turkey’s Erdogan condemn Israel over Temple Mount clashes

IDF soldiers are seen operating in the West Bank, on April 14, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 Palestinians shot in West Bank clashes with IDF; army says they attacked troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Jewish worshipers participate in prayers for Passover at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Western Wall Passover prayer event ends peacefully, with relatively low turnout

Semi-annual priestly blessing event draws only a few thousand Jewish worshipers to Old City, as police face ongoing threat of Palestinian violence in capital

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews attacked by a mob on their way to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 17, 2022. (Screenshot)

Video shows Orthodox Jews assaulted in Old City while on way to the Western Wall

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

A Satmar Orthodox man volunteers to deliver free food provided by Met Council at a distribution center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard run by the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, on April 10, 2022. (Jacob Henry/JTA)

In Brooklyn, some rabbis ask followers to turn down free food from ‘Zionists’

A faction within Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community is warning followers not to accept holiday charity from Met Council because it holds ‘all the abominations of the world’

Kosher in the Bahamas

Inspired by Israeli cooking techniques, Atlantis’ Kosher dining service offers contemporary fare with an array of classic and novel dishes. For events and group functions.

Declarative move at this stage, because Knesset is in recess

Ra’am freezes its coalition and Knesset membership amid Temple Mount tensions

Move coordinated with Bennett and will last two weeks, in bid to ease pressure on the Arab party while preventing permanent break with government

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks to Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas in the Knesset, on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra'am Party leader MK Mansour Abbas attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am chief warns party’s temporary pause from coalition could become a walkout

MK Mansour Abbas, leader of the Ra'am party in the Knesset, on November 2, 2021. (Noam Moshkavitz/GPO)

‘Like a diet during Ramadan’: Joint List mocks Ra’am for freeze amid Knesset recess

Jewish worshippers cover themselves with prayer shawls as they pray in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren talks politics; Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben-David discusses our new real estate section and sheds light on Tel Aviv’s new solar-fabric umbrellas

Bob Marley’s personal ‘exodus’

With clear references to the Passover story, some of Marley’s lyrics actually mirror distinctly Jewish teachings related to the Festival of Freedom

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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi reviews the army troops parade commemorating National Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, outside Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2022. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Raisi: If Zionists make ‘tiniest move’ against us, we’ll target center of regime

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran’s president tells military parade Iranians are watching Israel closely, adds that the strength of the armed forces deters Tehran’s enemies

A knife used in a stabbing in Haifa, April 15, 2022. (Israel Police)

Father of teen girl suspected of terror stabbing says online videos incited attack

After 15-year-old Arab Israeli stabbed a man in Haifa, her dad says she watched YouTube videos of Temple Mount clashes shortly before the incident

A screen grab from an undated video in which the two terrorists who killed four Israelis in Hadera on March 27, 2022, swear allegiance to the Islamic State terror group (Screen grab)

Islamic State calls on supporters in Israel to launch more terror attacks

By ToI Staff and AFP

In Ramadan speech, spokesman for jihadist group criticizes ‘secular terrorists’ of Fatah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, says Jerusalem can only be liberated by return of caliphate

Wasim a-Sayed arrives for a court hearing on murder charges at the District Court in Jerusalem, April 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Islamic State supporter indicted for murder of three Jerusalem residents

By Tobias Siegal and Emanuel Fabian

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Russia summons Israeli envoy for dressing down after Lapid’s ‘anti-Russian attack’

Some officials insist relations not deteriorating with Moscow, which last week condemned FM remarks after UN vote, but others worry about impact for Israeli action in Syria

A nun praying in the Alexander Nevsky Church, adjacent to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, April 11, 2022. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ Times of Israel)

Report: Putin sends letter to Bennett demanding handover of Old City property

Footage emerges purportedly of Russia’s stricken cruiser Moskva before it sank

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pictures, video show ship listing to port with smoke pouring from damaged superstructure, life rafts missing and no sign of crew on board

The Russian missile cruiser Moskva is purportedly seen in photos depicting it after being hit by Ukrainian missiles, prior to sinking, April 14, 2022. (Social media)

Smoke rising from a building in Lviv following Russian strikes in the western Ukrainian city, April 18, 2022. (Screen grab/Twitter)

6 killed as Russia hits Lviv with five ‘powerful’ missile strikes, Ukraine says

By AFP

Moshe Reuven Azman, chief rabbi of Ukraine, waits for a guests before the Passover Seder at a synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/ Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine rabbi hopes for Passover miracle, says Israel can learn from Ukrainian unity

Chief Rabbi Azman says 3 communal Seders were held under fire in Kyiv, accuses Putin of genocide in Mariupol; Jewish community sent Seder kits and matzah to Zelensky and Kyiv mayor

Pro-Russia troops from the Donetsk People's Republic militia walk past damaged apartment buildings near the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Ukraine vows to ‘fight to the end’ in Mariupol as Russia’s ultimatum expires

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

An elderly woman walks in a hallway at the Mercy House shelter for people in need, on the outskirts of Dnipro on April 15, 2022. (Ed Jones/AFP)

‘This is my third war’: Ukraine’s elderly are conflict’s forgotten victims

By Joris FIORITI

Israelis cross into Egypt through the Taba Border Crossing, in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, April 17, 2022. (Flash90)

Exodus slowed: Huge Passover congestion at airport and crossings to Egypt, Jordan

Long lines reported at Aqaba border; Amman shuts down terminal without prior warning due to masses of people, stranding hundreds of Israelis

An Emirati official stands near an El Al plane that carried a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE following a normalization accord, upon its arrival at the Abu Dhabi airport, in the first-ever direct flight from Israel to the UAE, on August 31, 2020. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

UAE to take part in Independence Day flyby for the first time

Participating alongside Israeli civil airlines will be two Emirati carriers, Ethihad Airways and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, which will take off after showing military aircraft

Illustrative: Participants at the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference, Israel's largest international high-tech gathering, featuring hundreds of start ups, VCs, angel investors and leading multinationals, held at the Old Train Station complex in Tel Aviv on September 27, 2016. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

Some Jewish tech workers won’t ever return to the office: They’ve moved to Israel

Working from the Holy Land while retaining a Bay Area tech job is feasible thanks to the willingness of many Silicon Valley firms to allow employees to work remotely — indefinitely

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Girl, 3, dies in blaze at vacation home in northern ecological village

Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past a Brooks Brothers store in New York, on July 8, 2020. (Frank Franklin II/AP)

Brooks Brothers, dressers of presidents, coming to Israel

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Driver in his 60s dies after hitting camel in southern Israel

Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of Public Health Services at the Health Ministry, attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Health Ministry urges security for top official accosted by protesters at her home

Orthodox Christians mark Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a place where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried, and resurrected, in Jerusalem, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo/ Oded Balilty)

Christian faithful mark Easter Sunday in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre

By AP

In this photo released by Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, speaks during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 14, 2021. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Saudi Arabia pushed Yemen’s president to step down, report says

By AFP

New York Mets staff and former players pose with Jay Horwitz as the press box is dedicated in his honor before the start of a baseball game against The Arizona Diamondbacks, April 17, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)

New York Mets rename press box in honor of longtime PR director Horwitz

By LARRY FLEISHER

(L-R) Raquel Nobile, Jodi Snyder, and Maya Jacobson together form the trio 'The Mamales' with a goal to eventually release a concept album of Yiddish song covers. (Courtesy/via JTA)

Red hot MamalesThis singing trio wants to make Yiddish sexy again

By julia GERGELY

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