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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 19, 2022

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Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, center, leads a march to Homesh alongside MKs Itamar Ben Gvir, second right, Idit Silman, right, and Bezalel Smotrich, left. (Samaria Regional Council)

Ex-coalition whip Silman joins, underlining her defection

Palestinians clash with troops in West Bank as settlers march to former settlement

Organizers say some 20,000 marching to dismantled Homesh outpost, including right-wing politicians Smotrich and Ben Gvir, after IDF reaches deal on securing shortened event

Jewish men dance with Israeli flags during the March of Flags near Jerusalem's Old City, on June 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police reject plan by right-wing activists for march Wed. around Jerusalem Old City

Security forces scuffle with settlers who had barricaded themselves in an attempt to prevent the demolition of illegally constructed buildings, at the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank town of Ramallah, on July 28, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Settlers block opening of West Bank road to Palestinians after 20 years

Rocket fired from Gaza, intercepted over southern border communities – IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Sirens sound in Kissufim and Ein HaShlosha; local authorities say no injuries reported; PM and top defense officials meeting on possible response

File: Iron Dome missiles intercept rockets fired from Gaza over southern Israel, on March 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

File: Smoke and fire following an airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, early on January 2, 2022. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF says it struck Hamas weapons depot in Gaza in response to 1st rocket in 4 months

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-prime minister Naftali Bennett. (Menahem Kahana/AFP; Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Bennett, Netanyahu trade barbs over Gaza rocket fire

By Tobias Siegal

‘You failed against Hamas,’ PM charges after opposition chief calls his coalition ‘weak’ following first launch of projectile from Strip in months

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 3, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Lapid cuts vacation short amid Jerusalem tensions, Jordan’s hostile response

Religious Zionism Party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks next to former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting of opposition parties at the Knesset, on June 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK Smotrich requests urgent plenum session to vote on dissolving Knesset

Muslim worshipers wrapped in Palestinian flags pray during holy Islamic month of Ramadan in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Live updates (closed)

Jewish visitors to be blocked from Temple Mount until after Ramadan — report

By Joshua Davidovich

Widely reported move, which occurs every year, aimed at de-escalating tensions as diplomacy ramps up, but angry nationalists accuse government of folding to terror

8:42 pm

Ukraine receives fighter planes, parts to bolster air force, says Pentagon
7:50 pm

Six killed, 24 wounded in explosions at Shiite school in Kabul
6:49 pm

Temple Mount reportedly to close to Jews until Ramadan's end

Natasha Lyonne as Nadia Vulvokov in episode 201 of 'Russian Doll.' (Courtesy of Netflix © 2022)

Warning: Spoilers!This is a show Jews will feel deeply in their bones

Here we go again: Netflix’s ‘Russian Doll’ is back, and even more Jewy than before

By Jordan Hoffman

Because Natasha Lyonne is one of the great creative personalities of our time, even the specter of Nazism can’t bring this wild, weird show down. Season 2 airs from April 20

It’s time for absentee voting in Israeli elections

Israelis living abroad have strong ties to the country – they are worthy of the privilege of participating in our great democratic adventure

In the war on terror, not all means are justified

Harsh measures often have unintended consequences – and, when it comes to collective punishment, they also have troubling moral implications

Jerusalem: Amman 'backing those who... resort to violence'

Rejecting Jordan’s praise for rioters, Bennett decries ‘incitement to violence’

Amman summons Israeli envoy, urges end to ‘violations’ at Al-Aqsa Mosque; Justice Minister Sa’ar calls comments by Jordanian officials ‘grave and unacceptable’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Jordan's King Abdullah. (Composite/AP)

Israel's Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi. (Video screenshot)

Russia avoids dressing down Israeli envoy after summoning him over Lapid’s ‘attack’

After initial reports said Ambassador Michael Ben Zvi would be reprimanded, Moscow leaves out public rebuke in readout from envoy’s meeting with deputy foreign minister

File - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting in Bethlehem, January 23, 2020. (Alexander Nemenov, Pool via AP)

In call with PA’s Abbas, Putin said to criticize Israeli policies at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli police officers, during clashes outside the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City on April 17, 2022. (Jamal Awad/ Flash90)

UN Security Council to hold emergency consultation on Jerusalem unrest

Palestinians shoot fireworks at Israeli police officers in the Old City of Jerusalem, on April 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Remand extended of 20 suspects arrested in Jerusalem Old City riots

Police say detainees include those who threw rocks at buses, assaulted Orthodox Jews going to pray at Western Wall

Israeli military vehicles drive in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, on April 9, 2022. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Young Palestinian woman dies after being hit during last week’s IDF raid in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

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

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing April 19: Ra’am’s Abbas in political storm as VP serves settler wine

Political reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn reviews Islamist party Ra’am, while US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses UN response to Temple Mount and West Bank wine served at VP seder

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

As Ra’am freezes ties with coalition, some ask if party should ever renew membership

After 10 months in which Ra’am chief Abbas has had little to show for decision to join the government, a crisis on the Temple Mount is revealing deep fissures within the faction

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas in the Knesset (Courtesy)

Russian military vehicles move on a highway in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces near Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

In latest ultimatum, Russia urges Ukrainian troops to lay down arms ‘immediately’

By AFP

Russian defense ministry calls on Kyiv ‘to show reason’ and surrender, as Moscow ramps up plans to ‘liberate’ eastern Ukraine; Kremlin refuses to shed light on sunken flagship

Russian military vehicles move on a highway in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces near Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Ukraine says Russia attacking ‘along nearly the entire’ eastern front

By Adam Schreck

A photograph taken from Novodruzhesk village, shows smoke rising in Rubizhne city, on April 18, 2022, on the 54th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

Russia’s Donbas offensive advances with fall of Kreminna

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a speech on immigration, at Lydd Airport, in southeast England, on April 14, 2022. (Matt Dunham/Pool/AFP)

UAE used Israeli-made spyware to hack UK PM Johnson’s official residence — report

Researchers at Toronto-based Citizen Lab say Pegasus was also used to hack British Foreign Office at least five times in 2020-21

Former deputy president of the Catalan regional government Oriol Junqueras, center, walks with the current Catalonian president Pere Aragones, 2nd left, in front of an 'estelada' or Catalan pro-independence flag after being released from the Lledoners prison in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada near Barcelona, Spain, June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/ Joan Mateu, File)

Israeli spyware used ‘extensively’ on separatists in Spain, group says

Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 4, 2022. Cheney raised almost $3 million in campaign contributions over the first three months of the midterm election year, her campaign said April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

One influential group of Republicans remains loyal to Liz Cheney: Pro-Israel donors

Although she’s at war with GOP head Donald Trump, Cheney still has friends in the party, including the Republican Jewish Coalition

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps take part in a demonstration in Tehran on January 3, 2020, following the killing of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in a US strike on his convoy at Baghdad international airport. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

US: Iran must offer ‘reciprocity’ if it wants to negotiate status of IRGC

State Department spokesman says that if Tehran wants to discuss issues beyond restoring nuclear deal, it needs to address US concerns

Travelers line up wearing protective masks indoors at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, on December 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

US federal judge strikes down CDC’s public transport mask mandate

By AFP

Requirement to wear face coverings on airplanes, subways, trains, buses and taxis no longer in effect; TSA subsequently announces it won’t enforce directive at airports either

White House COVID-19 Coronavirus Response Coordinator Ashish Jha poses for portraits in his office at the White House, on April 8, 2022. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

White House COVID czar: Israeli data shows efficacy of second booster for over-60s

Illustrative: A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on a counter at a pharmacy in Portland, Oregon, December 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Moderna seeking to update COVID vaccine against Omicron by the fall

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

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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Cultivated steak. Illustrative. (Elena Dy via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli cultivated meat consortium kicks off with $18 million government grant

By Ricky Ben-David

Actor Liev Schreiber arrives for the 75th Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Stream thisLiev Schreiber to play Anne Frank’s dad in new Disney+ series

By Andrew Lapin

After patent win, Wilk on track to produce animal-free cultured milk and breast milk

By Ricky Ben-David

People hold Ukrainian flags in front of the Ukrainian Embassy to show their support for the people of Ukraine after Russian invaded Ukraine, in Tehran, Iran, on February 26, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Russia’s war in Ukraine exposes Iran’s political fault lines

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Guard at Haifa hospital fires in the air in response to suspicious individual

Shooting practice for Border Police officers, March 18, 2013. (Nati Shohat/ FLASH90)

Police minister Barlev eases gun license requirements for former cops

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