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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 20, 2022

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Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to the media at Safra Square in Jerusalem ahead of a right-wing march on April 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nationalists, firebrand MK Ben Gvir barred from marching to Damascus Gate

By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Far-right lawmaker vows to go to Old City site anyway; organizers say they will go ahead with parade despite police rejecting request to secure route through Palestinian areas

Israelis hold a "Flag March" near Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas says ‘finger on the trigger’ ahead of planned right-wing Jerusalem march

Palestinian rioters throw a Molotov cocktail from inside Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, April 20, 2022 (MFA Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinans inside Al-Aqsa Mosque throw Molotov cocktails; right-wingers plan march

Palestinian rioters hurling petrol bombs spark small fires at mosque, amid minor clashes; Israeli parade organizers say it will go ahead, despite police ban on current route

Jewish worshippers cover themselves with prayer shawls as they take part in the priestly blessing for Passover at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, April 20, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Thousands attend Passover priestly blessing at Western Wall in tense Jerusalem

Rockets fired by Hamas terrorists in Gaza into Israel, seen over the central Israeli town of Kiryat Gat on May 18, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gazan rocket hits near Sderot home after day of Jerusalem tensions

By Joshua Davidovich

No injuries reported in second attack this week, but four treated for shock; unclear why Iron Dome missile defense battery not utilized; house lightly damaged

8:28 pm

Video appears to show rocket attack from afar
8:05 pm

Police say rocket, not shrapnel, hit Sderot, sappers at scene
7:56 pm

Rocket fired at Sderot, home slightly damaged

Amotz Asa-El

From Daniel Gordis

Has Israel altered the self-destructive DNA of Jewish history?

A conversation with Amotz Asa-El, author of ‘The Jewish March of Folly,’ a fascinating book on the lessons of Jewish history and failure of Jewish leadership.

Face masks hang on a fence in Glilot, central Israel, on February 14, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After two years, Israel scrapping indoor mask mandate from Saturday night

By Alexander Fulbright

Move must still be okayed by Knesset; comes after US judge struck down mask rule on public transit; Israelis have been subject to requirement for all but 10 days since April 2020

Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, on October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Health Ministry reports 12 cases of mysterious liver disease in children

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: European Council President Charles Michel, right, greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky prior to a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of an Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels, on December 15, 2021. (Kenzo Tribouillard, Pool Photo via AP)

‘History won’t forget war crimes,’ EU chief says in Ukraine; 5 million flee country

Charles Michel tours devastation in Borodyanka as he becomes latest Western leader to visit country in show of support amid Russian invasion

A serviceman of the Donetsk People's Republic militia walks past a damaged mosque during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Ukraine gets warplanes from unidentified source; besieged Mariupol faces ‘last days’

By Anatoly Stepanov

A woman walks next to a damaged building after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Russia pours in troops, assails eastern Ukraine in potentially pivotal battle

By Adam Schreck

Israeli security forces stand guard, as a group of Jews visit the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa) compound in Jerusalem, on July 18, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Non-Muslims to be barred from visiting the Temple Mount during the end of Ramadan

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland briefs, over video conference, the Security Council on the 'Situation in the Middle East,' including the Palestinian question, on January 26, 2021. (Daniela Penkova/UNSCO/File)

UN envoy avoids casting blame for Jerusalem violence during Security Council huddle

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing April 20: Why doesn’t Israel better explain Temple Mount clashes?

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian discusses tensions in the Temple Mount and Gaza, as senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur looks at why Israel avoids offering explanations

New York University campus. (Cincin12/Wikimedia Commons)

Pro-Palestinian group at New York University Law alleges ‘Zionist grip on the media’

When praying is a crime and fanatical violence is a virtue

To maintain peace, Israel is forced to compromise even on the fundamental freedom of religion of its Jewish citizens

Jews must protest UK plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

Sending those seeking refuge to a country with a deplorable human rights record contradicts core values of mercy, humility and kindness

Masked Palestinians take positions during clashes with Israeli security forces at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

US dispatches top officials to region in bid to de-escalate

UAE summons Israeli envoy over ‘attacks on civilians, incursions into holy places’

As Abu Dhabi blasts Israeli response to Palestinian rioting on Temple Mount, Blinken holds marathon calls with Lapid, Abbas and Jordanian counterpart aimed at calming tensions

An Etihad Airways plane carrying a delegation from the United Arab Emirates on a first official visit lands at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

UAE pulls out of Independence Day flyby amid tensions over Temple Mount clashes

President Isaac Herzog (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential complex in Ankara, on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Turkey’s Erdogan expresses concern over Temple Mount tensions in call with Herzog

By ToI Staff and AFP

Members of Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of Islamic Jihad terror group hold shoulder-launched anti-aircraft systems during a military parade in Gaza City, on January 5, 2022. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Analysis

Gaza’s anti-aircraft capabilities are neither new nor likely to be effective

Expert says 50-year-old Soviet Strela-2 shoulder-fired system, hyped by Hamas, is easily countered and has limited functionality, with aging missiles and makeshift power solutions

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, center, tours a Border Police base in the West Bank, with the commander of the Border Police, Amir Cohen, right, on April 19, 2022. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Gantz threatens Gaza if rockets continue, vows Temple Mount status quo protected

By Emanuel Fabian

Islamic Jihad shows off ‘tunnel city’ as it readies for next campaign against Israel

By Adel Zaanoun

During media tour in Gaza, terror group claims it has defensive and offensive tunnel systems, with the latter to be used for taking soldiers captive and repelling ground offensives

Inside Story

Key French-Jewish institutions endorse Macron, fueling debate on role in politics

CRIF and Consistoire have become increasingly partisan over past decade; CRIF warns that individual freedoms, social diversity, tradition and France’s stability at stake on Sunday

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are headed for a presidential election rematch in France. (Ludovic Marin,Stephane De Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images, JTA)

Madeline Forman. (Courtesy of the Forman family/via JTA)

'Wherever there was a microphone, I got up and sang'

80 years after being told she had a future, this Jewish singer is getting recognized

By Victor Wishna

Madeline Forman quit her nascent musical career to help sustain her Russian immigrant family in New Jersey. Now, experts are lauding her long-buried recordings

Incoming New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times via AP)

New York Times makes Joseph Kahn its 5th Jewish executive editor since 1964

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner assumes newspaper’s top journalist job after working as managing editor

Singer Shlomo Gronich performs at a concert, June 14, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Singer Shlomo Gronich under fire for racist comments at music festival

Artist tells audience he’s glad they’re all ‘Ashkenazim’ and uses derogatory term for Mizrahi Jews; later apologizes, as family explains he suffers from dementia

More Headlines

Israel’s Eytan Stibbe enters the International Space Station, on April 9, 2022. (Screenshot/SpaceX)

Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe’s return to Earth delayed yet again due to weather

A view of the fence around the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center where soccer's World Cup draw was held on April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Israel’s counter-terror bureau weighs warning against travel to Qatar for World Cup

Illustrative: Dutch police officers near the scene of a stabbing attack near the central daily station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on August 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Alex Furtula)

Israeli murdered during armed robbery in his Netherlands apartment

General view of the Lahav 433 police unit headquarters in the city of Lod, on November 4, 2019. (Flash90)

Police investigator suspected of providing criminals with internal info

Marvin Chomsky. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Marvin Chomsky, who won Emmy for influential TV series ‘Holocaust,’ dies at 92

By Andrew Lapin

Rendering of the new Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in downtown Orlando. (Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle and The Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity/via JTA)

Orlando’s Holocaust museum is getting a huge expansion

By Jackie Hajdenberg

People walk outside the Alexander Nevsky Church in Jerusalem's Old City, on January 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Putin aide says Jerusalem Old City property dispute is at top of Russian agenda

Jeffrey Epstein, on March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

Warden of jail where Jeffrey Epstein died quietly retires amid federal probe

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and Michael R. Sisak

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in the 1993 movie 'Schindler's List' (Screen capture)

Belgian state TV apologizes for video parodying ‘Schindler’s List’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: A building in Kiryat Bialik undergoing urban renewal as part of Tama 38 regulation, on October 24, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Government gives urban renewal provisions another year

By Danielle Nagler

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured English literature professor at Linfield University, was fired from his job in 2021 after calling out what he said was antisemitic speech by its president. (Courtesy of Pollack-Pelzner via JTA)

Panel says US university was wrong to fire Jewish professor who alleged antisemitism

By Andrew Lapin

'Schindler's List' leggings for sale on the artisan site Redbubble. (Screenshot via JTA)

Hot pants‘Schindler’s List’ leggings draw mockery online

By Andrew Lapin

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