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What Matters Most On Monday, April 25, 2022

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French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on January 22, 2020. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Bennett: Israel-France ties 'will continue to grow stronger'

Israeli politicians hail Macron win: ‘A good night for France, Europe and the world’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid lauds the French president as a ‘true friend of Israel’; Sarcelles-born MK Yomtob Kalfon says he hopes for even closer French-Israeli ties

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen mobbed by supporters during a campaign rally in Perpignan, southern France, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)

AnalysisDespite loss to Macron, Le Pen and the far-right are mightier than ever

By John Leicester

French President Emmanuel Macron addresses his supporters in Paris, France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

Victorious Macron vows ‘new era’ and search for answers as far-right support surges

By Stuart Williams and Adam PLOWRIGHT

IDF artillery fires shells at targets in Lebanon on April 25, 2022, after a rocket was fired into Israel (IDF Spokesperson)

IDF fires dozens of shells at targets in Lebanon after rocket attack on Israel

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Military says rocket landed in open area near Kibbutz Matzuva, close to border, without causing damage or injuries; no warning sirens sounded and army says alert levels ‘normal’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz meets with Druze officials during celebrations of Nabi Shuayb at the tomb of the Prophet Jethro in northern Israel, April 25, 2022. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Gantz warns Israel will use ‘necessary force’ if any more Lebanon rocket attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Inside story

Status woe: Temple Mount is an enduring thorn in Israel’s ties with Jordan

Israel nixed a US-proposed committee with Jordan to iron out disagreements on flashpoint site after 2021 war; now, those unresolved issues have come home to roost

A group of religious Jews walk past the Dome of the Rock during their visit to the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif (The Noble Sanctuary), in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 20, 2022. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

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.

Muhammad Yassin and Yasmin Shaaban, two suspects arrested over an alleged bombing attack planned by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror cell in the West Bank, in a photo combination released on April 25, 2022. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it busted West Bank terror cell that planned bomb attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Security agency says 40-year-old mother of 4 from Jenin area was in contact with members of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, passed instructions to local cell members

Rabbi Shai Ohayon, who was stabbed to death in a terror attack at Segula Junction, on August 26, 2020. (Courtesy)

Palestinian who murdered Rabbi Shai Ohayon in 2020 gets life in prison

Eytan Stibbe egresses from the Dragon space capsule after returning to Earth with the Axiom-1 mission from the International Space Station, April 25, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli astronaut returns to earth after mission to space station

‘Welcome back to Planet Earth,’ mission control tells Eytan Stibbe and other members of Axiom-1, the first all-private mission to travel to International Space Station

6:22 pm

Biden calls to preserve Temple Mount status quo in call with Jordan's king
6:09 pm

Eytan Stibbe, Axiom-1 team egress from space capsule
6:07 pm

NY judge finds Trump in contempt for not fully responding to AG's subpoena

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid gives a briefing to journalists at the Jerusalem-based Foreign Ministry, April 24, 2022. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Israel also working hard 'to stop Jewish extremist elements'

‘Non-Muslims only visit’: Lapid insists Israel committed to Temple Mount status quo

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

FM avers ‘no change’ to policy barring Jewish prayer at flashpoint site — though ‘somebody might sneak by, now and then’; says Hamas incitement is core issue in Jerusalem unrest

Jordan's King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh el-Sissi and United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan meeting in Cairo, Egypt, on April 24. 2022. (Royal Hashemite Court)

At Cairo summit, leaders of Jordan, Egypt, UAE discuss Jerusalem tensions

People watch an IDF Air Force flyover on Israel's 73rd Independence Day celebrations at Sacher Park in Jerusalem, April 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Independence Day flyover to pass over Hebron, Kiryat Arba for first time – report

A badly-needed new approach to quelling the violence

The US and Israel can change the equation by pressing Qatar, the PA and Hamas itself to cease terror acts – even if it means suffering a costly short-term backlash

…and the Israeli public will not blink an eye

IDF soldiers detain Palestinians as young as 8, treating them as suspects, not children. For Israeli news media, that’s a non-story.

It doesn’t have to be this way

A competitive mentality hurts all Israelis, but a cooperative approach that replaces disillusionment with hope might yet yield real happiness

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The ‘Libs of TikTok’ founder’s Jewish identity was fair game

Including the detail that Chaya Raichik is an Orthodox Jew helps shed light on the growing connection between faith and right-wing politics

US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to visit Israel in the next few months, says White House

US president speaks to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett via phone about Iran, Jerusalem tensions; no firm date set for Biden trip to Jewish state

IDF artillery fires shells at targets in Lebanon on April 25, 2022, after a rocket was fired into Israel. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing Apr 25: Temple Mount tit-for-tat, with Jordan; rocket fired in north

US correspondent Jacob Magid exposes rejected US-initiative for Israel-Jordan cooperation on Temple Mount; military correspondent Emanuel Fabian visits new Negev Yad Vashem branch

Defense Minister Benny Gantz is seen during a meeting at the IDF Southern Command base in Beersheba, alongside military chief Aviv Kohavi (left), and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar (right), among other officials, April 24, 2022. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Gantz indicates Hamas may face harsher Israeli action in response to rockets

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister says Israel to ‘show civil and economic generosity’ to Gaza only if security stability maintained; Erez Crossing to remain closed for Palestinian workers Monday

Screen capture from video of a Ramadan prayer service in Ramallah that included a call to 'exterminate the Jews.' (YouTube)

Imam on PA TV calls for ‘destruction of the tyrannical Jews’

Smoke billows from a beach shack in Gaza City following an IDF strike in which four children were killed, July 16, 2014. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Top Israeli court rejects appeal in 2014 Gaza beach airstrike that killed 4 children

By AP

Israelis fighting with Ukrainian forces pose for a video that circulated widely on social media on April 24 2022 in which they thank Israel for supporting them (Screencapture)

In videos, Israelis fighting with Ukraine thank Israel, Jewish people for support

In clips from unspecified forested areas, Israelis in Ukrainian military uniforms also thank local chief rabbi for providing them with kosher food to celebrate Passover

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, April 24, 2022. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/ AP)

Report: Putin has lost interest in Ukraine deal, wants as much territory as possible

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (US Department of Defense via AP)

Wrapping up cloaked visit to Kyiv, Blinken says Russia is failing in war aims

US secretary of state declares Ukraine ‘succeeding’; after meeting Zelensky, Defense Secretary Austin reports president in ‘mindset to win,’ US wants to help

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards a plane for departure, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md, April 23, 2022. (Alex Brandon/AP)

In Kyiv, Blinken and Austin announce more military aid, diplomatic surge for Ukraine

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

Russia’s new missile, touted by Putin, can carry hypersonic weapons, officer says

By AP

Hannah Arendt conducts a seminar at The New School in Manhattan, February 19, 1969. (Neal Boenzi/New York Times Co./Getty Images/ via JTA)

'Arendt doesn't tell us what to think, she helps us think'

Follow in Hannah Arendt’s footsteps on this New York walking tour

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Biographer Samantha Rose Hill shows the personal side of the sometimes-controversial philosopher who fled Hitler’s Germany to become the center of NYC’s intellectual scene

MK Amichai Chikli at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina adviser says party’s remaining MKs sticking around ahead of Chikli ouster

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Following Chikli’s ‘defector’ status hearing, there is a small but real potential to immediately stabilize government if the renegade lawmaker resigns from the Knesset

Idit Silman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Silman said to accuse Bennett of portraying her as ‘a weak and stressed woman’

MK Amichai Chikli attends a Knesset committee meeting, on December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina MK Chikli withdraws his High Court petition over party’s bid to oust him

The entrance to Tuba-Zangariyye, northern Israel, on January 10, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Man found shot dead in truck in northern town

Police believe killing was part of a feud between two families; checkpoints set up around Tuba-Zangariyye as forces hunt for suspects

Handguns and cash seized by Israeli security forces during a gun-smuggling attempt along the border with Jordan on April 25, 2022. (Israel Police)

IDF, police seize 24 handguns from Palestinian gun smuggler in Jordan Valley

By Emanuel Fabian

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev attends a ceremony at the Israel Police National Headquarters in Jerusalem, September 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Police minister says Rahat violence ‘intolerable,’ reinforcements to be sent in

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A guard post is seen outside Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's home in the central city of Ra'anana, June 30, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

PM rejects report on home spending, says his expenses far lower than Netanyahu’s

A rooftop tent, advertised as a single-room apartment, in north Tel Aviv, April 24, 2022. (Yad2)

Intent to rentTent on Tel Aviv rooftop available to rent for $1,680 per month

Apartments under construction in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. (Lior Mizrahi/ Flash90)

Construction worker, 68, falls to his death from crane in Ashkelon

By Stuart Winer

The Ax-1 crew, including Israeli Eytan Stibbe, sit in the Dragon capsule ahead of their return to Earth from the International Space Station on April 24, 2022 (Screencapture/Axiom Space)

After several days of delays, second Israeli in space begins journey back to Earth

By ToI Staff and AFP

A man looks at a video on an Israeli website that was hacked by Iran-based hackers group calling itself 'Hacking Saviours', at an office in Jerusalem on May 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s cyber directorate issues annual warning ahead of Iran’s ‘Jerusalem Day’

By Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

Moshe Strugano, in 2013. (Facebook screenshot)

Israeli attorney Moshe Strugano indicted in US for insider trading

By Simona Weinglass

Police officers investigate the site where two people were shot by police in Paris on April 25, 2022. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Paris police shoot and kill two people, thwarting apparent car-ramming attack

By AFP

Jon Stewart poses for a portrait in promotion of his film, "Rosewater," in New York, Nov. 7, 2014 (Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)

Jon Stewart to receive Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in humor

By ASHRAF KHALIL

Yair Netanyahu greeted by supporters as he arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court on April 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu takes the stand in libel suit, calls proceedings ‘Kafkaesque’

A joint Iftar and Mimouna celebration in Beersheba on April 23, 2022. (Courtesy, Hagar Association)

Better togetherJewish-Arab feast marks coinciding of Passover and Ramadan

By Jessica Steinberg

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner watches as the leader of the British Labour Party Keir Starmer makes his keynote speech at the annual party conference in Brighton, England, September 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

CrossfireUK MPs slam ‘Basic Instinct’ slur against deputy Labour leader

Rapper 50 Cent will perform on July 4, 2022, in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy PR)

In da clubRapper 50 Cent to perform in Israel in July

By Jessica Steinberg

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