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What Matters Most On Friday, April 29, 2022

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Left: An old unexploded artillery shell confiscated from travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv. Right: Travelers flee the area after security announced an evacuation of the airport area due to the bomb. April 28, 2022. (Airports Authority; Twitter screensnot, used in a ccordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

Panic at the airport as US family tries to board plane with souvenir artillery shell

Security clears Ben Gurion departure hall after tourists reveal unexploded munition in a suitcase; man sent to hospital after fleeing on luggage conveyor belt, falling off

Iranians burn representations of Israeli, British and US flags during the annual al-Quds Day rally in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Marking al-Quds Day, Iran general vows support for anyone ‘ready to fight’ Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President predicts ‘destruction of the Zionist regime’ as thousands of Iranians call for ‘death’ of Jewish state and US, burn flags in first rallies since before pandemic

In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran. (IRIB via AP)

UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has moved centrifuge workshop to underground facility

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Front page of Iran's state-run daily newspaper Kayhan on April 28, 2022. (Screenshot)

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iran paper publishes antisemitic piece praising Hitler

By Tobias Siegal

'Fiddler on the Roof' director Norman Jewison (right) on set in 1970 with Chaim Topol, who played Tevye. (Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films)

Documentary takes film lovers behind the scenes of making ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

‘Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen’ breaks down the movie magic of a beloved 50-year-old musical, and shows how the film brought gentile director Norman Jewison closer to Judaism

Special Event

Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner with Bob Dylan – Virtual Event on May 2

Join Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center CEO Stephen Daniel Arnoff for a special conversation on his new book, “About Man & God & Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan”

MK Itamar Ben Gvir shouts at then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session in the Knesset on October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir blasted by Bennett after blaming Shin Bet head for security blunders

By Tobias Siegal and ToI Staff

Far-right MK accuses Ronen Bar of failing to address terror wave and instead dealing with blocking him from Old City; PM accuses Otzma Yehudit politician of being ‘anti-Israeli’

Yoni Bennett, the son of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, on April 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Resign or we’ll harm your family, letters with bullets said to warn PM Bennett

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) speaks with MK Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamist Ra'am party, in the Knesset plenum on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Exclusive

Lapid and Mansour Abbas agree Ra’am will end boycott, return to battered coalition

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Islamist party to again back government, which will advance the faction’s priorities such as recognizing Bedouin towns and providing funding to Arab communities

The heads of the eight parties making up the new government meet in the Knesset on June 13, 2021. Left to right: Ra'am head Mansour Abbas, Labor chief Merav Michaeli, Blue and White head Benny Gantz, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Yamina chief Naftali Bennett, New Hope head Gideon Sa'ar, Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz. (Ariel Zandberg)

Mansour Abbas said to boycott coalition leaders’ meeting, as demands unaddressed

Palestinians wave Palestinian and Islamic flags as they rally at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, following the last Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on April 29, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Temple Mount prayers for last Friday of Ramadan end peacefully after morning clashes

More than 160,000 reported to attend; PA accuses Israel of fomenting violence at holy site; police vow not to let ‘extremists’ undermine freedom of worship

Security camera footage in a video released by police shows Palestinians clashing with officers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 29, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Palestinians, police clash at Temple Mount on final Friday of Ramadan

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, durning the hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 13, 2019. (Amr Nabil/AP)

Millions pray at Mecca’s Grand Mosque in largest such event since COVID hit

Anatomy of our departure from Russia, after Putin invaded Ukraine

The decision to leave my country was excruciating – we were happy. But they started silencing all dissent, and I’m ashamed of the pain wrought by the invasion

Elon Musk, with his technology and trolling, mirrors the biblical Nimrod

And just as the ancient world was ambivalent about the mighty hunter, we’re not quite sure what to make of the business magnate

Holocaust survivors take part in The March of the Living in honour of the victims of the Holocaust, at the site of the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

After 2-year pandemic hiatus, thousands take part in Auschwitz March of the Living

By Yaakov Schwartz and ToI Staff

Eight survivors lead 2,500 participants, with some believing this year could be last time they will be able to attend event; first official delegation from UAE also joins in

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, right, and Auschwitz Survivor from US Edward Mosberg, attend the March of the Living annual observance that was not held for two years due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, in Oswiecim, Poland, on April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

At March of the Living, Polish president ties Holocaust atrocities to war in Ukraine

By AP

Visitors to the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

In first, Arab Israeli delegation joins March of the Living at Auschwitz

At Lebanon multi-religious conference, calls to repeal ban on contacts with Israelis

Speakers at confab hosted by Maronite Christian sect’s chief cleric push for Lebanese neutrality rather than close alliance with Iran

A panel at the International Committee of the United Nations Resolutions for Lebanon Conference in Harissa, Lebanon, April 23, 2022. (Courtesy)

Remains of 12th century Medieval vessels discovered in Jerusalem's Old City, including (far right) a fragment of the sphero-conical vessel that was identified as containing an explosive material from Jerusalem, Israel. (Robert Mason, Royal Ontario Museum)

Archaeology

Was Monty Python’s ‘Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch’ fact? Crusader-era explosive found

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Analysis of 11th-12th century vessel shards excavated in Jerusalem’s Old City give support to Crusader-era accounts of exploding projectiles — such as depicted in ‘The Holy Grail’

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his secretary Marguerite Lehand and ambassador to France William C. Bullitt ride from the railroad station to FDR's Hyde Park, New York, home on July, 22, 1940, after a trip to Washington. (AP Photo)

Interview'Hitler lied constantly, clearly planned to dominate Europe'

Why did the US ignore diplomats who boldly raised an alarm about Hitler before WWII?

By Rich Tenorio

In new book ‘Watching Darkness Fall,’ former US ambassador David McKean illustrates how antisemitism, apathy and internal politics set America back in the war against Germany

White House to screen HBO’s ‘Survivor’ to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

A fire after a Russian rocket attack is seen in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine rails at Russia after deadly strike on Kyiv during UN chief’s visit

By david keyton and INNA VARENYTSIA

Journalist at US-funded Radio Free Europe killed in Russian missile barrage on Ukrainian capital; Zelensky accuses Moscow of trying to humiliate UN, urges ‘powerful reaction’

This combination of file photos shows Joe Biden (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Jim Watson and Grigory Dukor/Various Sources/AFP)

Biden blasts Russia over nuclear threats amid Ukraine invasion

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Transnistrian serviceman watches cars entering the self-proclaimed "Moldovan Republic of Transnistria" at the Varnita crossing with Moldova on April 28, 2022. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP)

Israel issues travel warning for Russian-backed breakaway region in Moldova

By ToI Staff and AFP

Britain's leader of the opposition Labour Party Keir Starmer arrives to attend a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London on March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK’s post-Corbyn Labour Party hosts Israeli Labor group in new sign of mending ties

Members of Israel’s Labor party join politicians campaigning in London’s local elections, describe rekindled contact with sister party as a ‘great relief’ after Corbyn years

Times Will Tell

Podcast: How does it feel? Bob Dylan thinker explores the singer’s spiritual wisdom

Stephen Daniel Arnoff speaks about the music, lyrics and lessons learned from a lifetime of Dylan songs

Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff, the author of 'About Man and God and Law, the Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan' (Courtesy Stephen Daniel Arnoff)

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)

2 Umm al-Fahm residents indicted for not preventing deadly terror shooting in Hadera

Prosecutors allege Muhammad Gassan Mahajina, Hassan Mahajina knew the IS gunmen who killed 2 border cops last month intended to carry out attack, with latter helping them get ammo

Stones placed on train tracks near Beersheba in January during mass Bedouin protests in the Negev. (Israel Police)

2 Bedouin minors nabbed for blocking train tracks amid Negev tree-planting protests

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre of Jews in 1941 in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 6, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

In Israel, Holocaust survivors from Ukraine ambivalent about the war-torn country

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Many Ukrainians killed Jews during World War II, collaborated with Nazis, and the country has honored antisemites, while others saved Jewish neighbors, say some survivors

Russian Jewish billionaire to donate $100 million for Ukrainian refugee relief

Mayor under fire for saying it was ‘easiest to despair, be killed in Holocaust’

By Michael Horovitz

Harold Livingston, one of the founders of the Israeli Air Force and a screenwriter and novelist, appears in the documentary, 'Above and Beyond,' in 2014. (Screen capture)

Harold Livingston, a founder of the IAF and Star Trek screenwriter, dies at 97

By Judah Ari Gross

Known as a wisecracking radio operator, who led a failed protest against the air force, he went on to have a long career writing movies, TV shows and novels

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Israeli soldiers place Israeli flags on the graves of fallen soldiers at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

56 soldiers added to list of Israel’s fallen since last Memorial Day

By Emanuel Fabian

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash and Head of Public Health Services Sharon Alroy-Preis speaking to the press during a visit to the Strauss Elit candy factory in Nof Hagalil, Northern Israel, on April 28, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Health Ministry shuts down Strauss factory after massive salmonella recall

Fire services at a deadly blaze at an apartment building in Jerusalem, on April 28. 2022. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Jerusalem apartment building fire kills 4-year-old who was trapped inside for hours

This May 2016 photo provided by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows bleaching and some dead coral around Jarvis Island, which is part of the US Pacific Remote Marine National Monument. (Bernardo Vargas-Angel/NOAA via AP)

World’s oceans face mass marine life extinction if warming continues — study

By AFP

This screenshot from video released by Peace Now on October 21, 2021, shows construction on new settlement units in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Top court rejects appeal against construction of new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves as he arrives to give a speech during a party parliamentary group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) in Ankara, Turkey, on April 20, 2022. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Turkish President Erdogan visits Saudi Arabia, in first since Khashoggi killing

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

A mural caricature of soccer player Steven Berghuis depicts him as a hooked-nosed Jew in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 2021. (CIDI)

Netherlands sees 10-year high in antisemitic incidents

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Shay Asher gives a Nazi salute at a soccer match in Newcastle, England, October 2021. (Northumbria Police via JTA)

English soccer fan fined, banned from games for Nazi salute he said was a wave hello

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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