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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 21, 2022

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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) welcomes his Emirati counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan at Sde Boker in southern Israel, on March 27, 2022, ahead of the Negev Summit. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Emirati FM tells Lapid he welcomes Israel’s steps to calm tensions in Jerusalem

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Jacob Magid

Day after UAE summoned Israeli ambassador for rebuke, foreign minister tells al Nahyan that nations must keep working to promote peace between Israel and Middle Eastern Arabs

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

Erdogan says Jerusalem tensions won’t affect ties with Israel

Palestinians seen on the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 17, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Senior Israeli diplomat takes Jordan to task for harsh Temple Mount criticism

Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi is seen next to a section of a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip that landed near a home in the southern city, April 20, 2022. (Courtesy)

Gazan rocket hits near Sderot home after day of Jerusalem tensions

By Emanuel Fabian

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

Flames and smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes in the central Gaza strip, on April 21, 2022. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

IDF hits Hamas sites during pair of overnight raids in response to Gaza rocket fire

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Iranians lift national flags during a ceremony in the capital Tehran, on January 3, 2022, commemorating the second anniversary of the killing in Iraq of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani (portrait) and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a US raid. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Iran Guards say won’t abandon avenging Soleimani killing to end sanctions

Commander says Tehran’s enemies ‘have asked us several times’ to give up avenging slain general, ‘but this is a fantasy’

7:08 pm

Car near Egyptian border hit by gunfire, apparently erroneously
4:58 pm

Iran Guards say won't abandon avenging Soleimani killing to end sanctions
3:38 pm

Russia slaps travel ban on Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg

CNN's Christiane Amanpour interviews Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on April 20, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)

‘Simply a lie’: Bennett spars with CNN anchor Amanpour over Jerusalem tensions

‘No, sir, you cannot say that to me,’ Christiane Amanpour tells prime minister after he calls her comments on settler violence, West Bank ‘blatantly false’

Palestinians, cops clash at Temple Mount as Jews make last visits until Ramadan ends

Police arrest 7 suspects for throwing firebombs at officers from Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday; clashes come hours after IDF strikes targets in Gaza in response to rocket fire

Palestinians and police clash at the Al-Aqsa Mosque as Jewish visitors tour the Temple Mount on April 21, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Palestinians make their way through the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah, to attend Friday Ramadan prayers at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits atop the Temple Mount, on April 8, 2022. (Flash90)

IDF shutters West Bank, Gaza crossings to Palestinians on last days of Passover

By Emanuel Fabian

A woman looks at T-shirts with M-16 rifles printed on them, displayed in a shop window at a market in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 20, 2022. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Lone-wolf Palestinian terrorists show private gripes now top ideology, say analysts

By AFP

MK Itamar Ben Gvir joins right-wing activists participating in a 'flag march,' planned to reach Jerusalem's Old City, but ultimately stopping beforehand at Tzahal Square, on April 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem ‘flag march’ curbed as police block nationalists from Damascus Gate

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Police presence and strategic roadblocks contain crowd of several hundred protesters, including far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir, who vows to erect a temporary office in area

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)

Shin Bet said to warn allowing Ben Gvir at Damascus Gate would start a Gaza War

Op-ed

Itamar Ben Gvir’s incendiary patriot games

MK banned from Damascus Gate presents himself as a flag-waving defender of Israel, but shows indifference to the deadly dangers, including to Israelis, he risks exacerbating

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) faction of the Religious Zionist party, raises an Israeli flag in Safra Square in Jerusalem on April 20, 2022, at the start of a planned nationalist march. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Then deputy economy and industry minister Yair Golan, poses during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2022. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

Coalition roiled anew after lawmaker says Ra’am Temple Mount demands being mulled

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov speaks to the media at the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Russian envoy: We’ll ‘respond accordingly’ if Israel gives Ukraine defensive gear

Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov issues vague warning after Gantz announces shipment of helmets and flak jackets to Ukrainian emergency services

Ukrainian emergency services carry bodies of civilians killed by the Russian troops over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

In policy shift, Israel to send flak jackets and helmets to Ukraine

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C), and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Combo photo: AFP)

Israeli envoy to Russia: Would be ‘honor’ to host Putin-Zelensky talks in Jerusalem

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

Putin claims ‘liberation’ of Mariupol, but orders troops not to storm last holdout

By Joris FIORITI and Joshua MELVIN

PMs of Spain, Denmark visit Kyiv in latest show of Western support as Biden hails Ukraine for resisting invasion: ‘They’re tougher and more proud than I thought’

Holocasut survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova, 91, died in Mariupol earlier in April. (CHABAD OF MARIUPOL / CHABAD.ORG)

Holocaust survivor dies sheltering from Russian strikes on Mariupol

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, and opposition leader Vadim Rabinovich, right. (AP/Seth Wenig/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine adds local Jewish leader to list of pro-Russian ‘traitors’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this handout photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service on April 20, 2022, the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in Russia's northwest. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP)

Russia tests new intercontinental ballistic missile, threatens West

By AP

Putin hails successful launch, saying Sarmat will make countries ‘think twice’ about aggressive intentions against Moscow

If Philo observed Passover from my porch

This festival has always been about family and friends and large pots of soup — and it grants us renewed strength to return to the post-holiday routine

The Temple Mount and the mounting violence

Palestinians are losing hope, Israelis are turning a blind eye to their distress – the future depends on Israel facing, not ignoring, the problem

In bitter debate, Macron accuses Le Pen of being ‘dependent on Mr. Putin’

By Stuart Williams and Adam PLOWRIGHT

Little cordiality shown in bruising 3-hour exchange ahead of Sunday’s election, with incumbent battering far-right challenger’s record on Russia, while she focuses on gov’t ills

A picture shows a TV screen displaying a live televised between French President and La Republique en Marche (LREM) party candidate for re-election Emmanuel Macron (L) and French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) presidential candidate Marine Le Pen (R), on April 20, 2020. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Illustrative: A man wears a kippah at a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German intel agency warns antisemitism is filtering into mainstream discourse

By AP

BfV chief Thomas Haldenwang says hateful imagery present at protests over COVID restrictions, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Russia’s war in Ukraine

Dion Marsh, convicted of hate crimes and carjacking for an antisemitic crime spree in New Jersey, in a photo released by the Lakewood police on April 8, 2022. (Courtesy/Lakewood Township Police Department)

New Jersey man charged with federal hate crimes for alleged antisemitic attack spree

Beanie Feldstein stars as Fanny Brice in the Broadway revival of 'Funny Girl.' (Matthew Murphy/via JTA)

Interview'Fanny Brice opened a door for all of us'

Beanie Feldstein: ‘Funny Girl’ role ‘incredibly meaningful for me as a Jewish woman’

By Linda Buchwald

The first-ever Broadway revival of the Barbra Streisand classic is currently in previews; the show officially opens at the August Wilson Theatre on April 24

Illustrative image of hacking, hackers, ransomware and a cybersecurity attack. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Airports Authority website targeted by pro-Iranian hackers in suspected cyberattack

Authority says site back online with no damages to operational systems after DDoS attack; group based in Iraq says offensive meant to coincide with anniversary of Soleimani killing

People walk through a corridor of Imam Mosque in the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran, on April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran claims to arrest three people accused of spying for the Mossad

By AP

New modern high-rise residential buildings under a blue sky in city of Ashdod, Israel. July 2021. (rglinsky via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing prices keep soaring, up 15% from last year

By Danielle Nagler and Ricky Ben-David

Prices for homes reach new highs as government hopes for market to ‘moderate’; investor activity drops

‘We found nothing’: Thousands seized by Islamic State in Iraq, Syria remain missing

By Bassam Mroue

Years after jihadis’ territorial defeat, journalist whose brother disappeared while reporting on Syrian civil war is working on platform to help families get info on loved ones

This frame grab from video shows Syrian workers of the Civil Council of Raqqa digging for human remains at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of civilians and Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, Syria, on July 14, 2019. (AP Photo, File)

A thread about Easter from the Twitter account 'Jew Who Has It All.' (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA; images from Getty Images and @JewWhoHasItAll)

Twitter account goes viral for sharing Easter explainer thread using Jewish jargon

By Jackie Hajdenberg

One of the people behind ‘JewWhoHasitAll’ handle says goal is ‘to make people more aware of the dominant culture, more aware of the Christian-normative society that we live in’

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