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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 1, 2022

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Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's Gaza chief, speaks during a meeting in Gaza City, on April 30, 2022. (Mahmud Hamas/AFP)

Hamas’s Sinwar threatens a ‘regional, religious war’ if Al-Aqsa is again ‘violated’

By Aaron Boxerman

Terror group’s Gaza chief vows attacks on ‘thousands of synagogues’ worldwide if police raid Al-Aqsa Mosque; urges West Bank Palestinians, Arab Israelis to commit terror attacks

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on May 1, 2022. (Menahem KAHANA / POOL / AFP)

PM hits back at Sinwar, swipes at Netanyahu: ‘Maybe Hamas misses suitcases of cash’

Ra'am party leader MK Mansour Abbas (left) attends a conference in Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2022; Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's Gaza governor (right), speaks during a meeting in Gaza City, on April 30, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90; Mahmud Hamas/AFP)

Ra’am leader Abbas brushes aside Sinwar’s treachery claims: I don’t owe you anything

Israeli security personnel at the scene of a shooting attack, at the entrance to Ariel, in the West Bank, on April 30, 2022. Inset: Vyacheslav Golev. (Flash90; Courtesy)

Security guard killed in Ariel terror attack named as Vyacheslav Golev

By Emanuel Fabian

23-year-old from Beit Shemesh used his body to shield fiancée from gunmen; the two had recently moved to West Bank settlement after getting engaged

Yousef Sameeh Assi and Yahya Marei, arrested in the Palestinian town of Qarawat Bani Hassan on April 30, 2022, for a terror attack on April 29 at the entrance to the Ariel settlement in which security guard Vyacheslav Golev was killed. (Social media)

Suspects nabbed in killing of Ariel security guard; PM: We’ll reach every terrorist

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli security personnel at the scene of a shooting attack, at the entrance to Ariel, in the West Bank, on April 30, 2022 (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)Israeli leaders hail arrest of alleged terrorists in deadly Ariel shooting attack

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looks on as he gives a press conference after meeting Ukraine's Foreign Minister for talks in Antalya, on March 10, 2022. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Russian foreign minister: Ukraine can have Nazis, even Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’

Sergey Lavrov compares Zelensky, and his Jewish ancestry, to Nazi leader during interview with Italian TV

8:32 pm

Russian foreign minister: So what if Zelensky’s Jewish, so was Hitler
7:32 pm

Russian strikes kill 8 civilians in eastern Ukraine
6:48 pm

President Herzog speaks to PA’s Abbas for the first time since recent escalation

Startups respond to the Ukraine crisis:

Startups are applying technology to address the challenges raised by the war in Ukraine. Hear CEOs and experts in Telemedicine, Energy, Health, Food Supply and Cybersecurity.

Ukrainian immigrants to Israel who fled fighting in Ukraine arrive on a rescue flight at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 17, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Buoyed by aliya, Israeli population up to 9.5 million ahead of 74th Independence Day

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Country sees biggest immigration wave in 20 years, with 38,000 arrivals; latest stats find 73.9% of Israelis are Jews, 21.1% are Arabs and 5% members of other religious groups

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 1: Ariel terror attack & poison pen letters to the first family

Editor David Horovitz discusses Gaza Hamas head Yahya Sinwar’s explosive speech and its implications; military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on ripples of Friday’s shooting

Israeli security personnel at the scene of a shooting attack, at the entrance to Ariel, in the West Bank, on April 30, 2022 (Flash90)

Suspects in Ariel shooting scoped out attack site, saw it as a weak point – report

Israeli troops map out the home of an alleged Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, May, 1, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF raids hometown of Ariel attack suspects, maps houses for demolition

By Emanuel Fabian

The reckoning of an Orthodox feminist

When your role models lose that status, but the values they upheld are still the ones you hold dear, you can walk away or you can navigate some tricky terrain

Miriam Schacter

Yes, and: A response to JOFA and its crisis

Just because an organization does good, important work doesn’t mean it can’t make a mistake. We must do better, and without cancelling all that has been done

Sheikh Yusuf Albaz appears for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, on October 28, 2021. (Flash90)

Lod imam arrested for suspected incitement after Temple Mount clashes

Sheikh Yusuf Albaz questioned by police over comments on Al-Aqsa Mosque, his lawyer says; he was charged last year with incitement over online posts following May conflict

Israeli security forces guard as Palestinians make their way through an Israeli checkpoint near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on April 22, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF to close West Bank, Gaza crossings for Memorial and Independence days

By Emanuel Fabian

View of the Strauss Elite candy factory in Nof Hagalil, northern Israel, April 28, 2022. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

Pigeons, flawed oversight: Health Ministry report on salmonella recall slams Strauss

In initial report, ministry says pigeons in factory, construction work, and the lack of a food safety director could all have played a role in disease outbreak

Meretz parliament member Ilan Gilon at faction meeting in the Knesset, on May 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Honest man with huge heart’: Ex-Meretz MK, social activist Ilan Gilon dies at 65

Tributes pour in from across the political spectrum for former lawmaker who championed the rights of the most vulnerable in society

'We will assassinate these three for the Islamic Republic'

Mossad reportedly interrogated IRGC member in Iran over triple assassination plot

Mansour Rasouli said to have been released after admitting to being tasked with killing Israeli diplomat in Turkey, US general in Germany, Jewish journalist in France

Mansour Rasouli, 52, an alleged IRGC member who was reportedly interrogated by Mossad agents in Iran. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at this office in Jerusalem, on April 10, 2022. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Flash90)

Officials believe 2 different people sent bullets, threats to Bennett’s family

Investigators unsure whether threatening letters sent to PM’s wife and son last week are connected, after initially thinking the same person or group was responsible – report

Islamic State accuses Israel of slaying jihadist leader in Sinai airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian

Terror group says Abu Omar al-Ansari killed as Egyptian army launches new campaign in northern part of desert, with Israeli air support

Islamic State's affiliate Sinai Province at weapons training, February 6, 2016 (illustrative image: Telegram.me/HaiAlaElJehad5 via MEMRI)

Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)

Suspected Islamic State terrorists blow up gas pipeline in Egypt’s Sinai

By ASHRAF SWEILAM

ToI investigates

Shoshanna Solomon

Business owners who must repay undeserved COVID grants go to battle with the taxman

Israel Tax Authority demands return of funds paid out to small businesses and to self-employed professionals who didn’t lose as much income as they had thought during lockdowns

Israeli self-employed and small business owners participate in a rally calling for financial support from the government outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

First responders work at the site where a man set himself alight outside the Ashdod Municipality on May 1, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Homeless man sets himself on fire outside Ashdod municipality

Israel's Ambassador to Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, at the Medyka crossing point, on February 27, 2022. (Twitter)

Russia criticizes Israeli envoy to Ukraine for letter on renaming Kyiv streets

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman slams Michael Brodsky’s ‘flirting’ after he suggests to capital’s mayor that some public places be named for those who saved Jews in Holocaust

In this image released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on May 1, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, center right, and US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 30, 2022 (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Speaker Pelosi meets Zelensky on Kyiv trip, pledges US support ‘until fight is done’

A communal worker releases the wrists of a dead man, with his hands tied behind his back, in the town of Bucha, not far from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 3, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

More bodies with hands tied found near Bucha, as Russia shells Ukraine’s east

By Joshua MELVIN

Right to be forgotten: Israeli tech firm says it can delete your digital footprint

By Jonah Mandel

Tel Aviv firm Mine says over 10 million requests have been sent to firms by users of platform; expert says Israeli public relatively indifferent on matter, legislation inadequate

Co-Founder and CEO of the Israeli company 'Mine' Gal Ringel speaks during an interview in Tel Aviv, on April 26, 2022 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

In a promotional video for Kosher Dekal, a woman takes off the product from a kitchen counter. (YouTube/ via JTA)

'After Passover ended, the nightmare began'

A New Jersey firm thought it had a winning Passover product. Then things got sticky

After the holiday, customers receive a surprise when supposedly easy-off Kosher Dekal countertop covers adhere too well due to a factory error in China — resulting in huge refunds

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President Joe Biden speaks at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, April 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden roasts Trump, GOP, himself at first post-COVID correspondents’ dinner

By Farnoush Amiri and Will Weissert

Sari Bashi, the new programs director for Human Rights Watch. (YouTube screenshot/Open Society)

Jewish Israeli to become new programs director of Human Rights Watch

Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, takes part in a discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Feb. 26, 2022, in Orlando, Florida (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump’s effort to overturn election

By Farnoush Amiri

Avital Sompolinsky, whose appointment as a deputy attorney-general was approved by the government on May 1, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz)

Cabinet approves appointment of Avital Sompolinsky as deputy AG

By Rachel Bernstein

The scene of a hit and run incident near Shoham, April 30, 2022. (Courtesy)

Police officer wounded in hit-and-run near Shoham; terror ruled out

Father Georgy Edelshtein, an 89-year-old Russian Orthodox priest, speaks with AFP in his house in the hamlet of Novo-Bely Kamen on the banks of the River Volga in the Kostroma region on April 25, 2022. (Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)

Risking jail, handful of Russian priests condemn Ukraine conflict amid threats

By Romain COLAS

Illustrative: A researcher shows seismograph sensor readings from an earthquake in Mexico, on July 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Small earthquake rattles northern Israel

Smoke rises from the grounds of the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol on April 29, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Andrey Borodulin/AFP)

20 Ukrainian civilians leave Mariupol steelworks, say soldiers holed up there

By AFP

Israeli actress Geffen Kaminer. (Israel TV screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright law)

Autistic actor to portray a character with autism on Israeli TV for the 1st time

Israel's Noam Sason from Ganei Tikva, after winning the European school chess championship for children under 9 years of age, in Rhodes, Greece, April 29, 2022 (Ynet screenshot)

8-year-old Israeli wins European chess championship

Park Community Church Associate Pastor Trevor Lovell is silhouetted against the sky as he leads an Easter sunrise service while parishioners listen on Sunday, April 4, 2021, at North Avenue Beach in Chicago. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar, File)

Rabbis, imams, deacons: Chicago Interfaith Trolley offers tour of religion in US

By BOB SMIETANA

This Monday, May 26, 2014, photo shows a 7-year-old male Asiatic Cheetah, named 'Koushki,' at the Miandasht Wildlife Refuge in Jajarm, northeastern Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

SpottedFirst birth of an Asiatic cheetah in captivity takes place in Iran

By AFP

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