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What Matters Most On Friday, May 6, 2022

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The victims of the Elad terror attack on May 5, 2022, from left to right; Boaz Gol, Yonatan Havakuk and Oren Ben Yiftah (courtesy)

Three fathers named as victims of Elad attack, leave behind 16 children

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Yonatan Havakuk, Boaz Gol and Oren Ben Yiftah killed by axe-wielding terrorists in ultra-Orthodox city; three others in serious condition in hospital

Medics at the scene of a suspected terror attack in Elad, on May 5, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

3 killed, 3 badly injured in terrorist axe attack in Elad at end of Independence Day

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

Mourners comfort a man overcome with grief at the funeral processions for Yonatan Havakuk and Boaz Gol, a day after they were killed in a stabbing attack in the central Israeli city of Elad, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

‘Impossible to comprehend’: Thousands at funerals for 3 killed in Elad terror attack

Live updates (closed)

Jewish shrine near Kfar Saba damaged in fire, police say

Law enforcement officials say circumstances still under investigation; site on Route 55 highway believed to be burial place of Benjamin, son of Biblical patriarch Jacob

8:56 pm

Jordan warns against eviction of Palestinians in South Hebron Hills area
7:07 pm

Police investigating fire at Tomb of Benjamin near Kfar Saba
6:14 pm

Ex-defense secretary: Trump sought to strike top Iranian officer for political reasons

Subhi Emad Subhi Abu Shqeir (L) and As’ad Yousef As’ad al-Rifa’i, named as main suspects in the Elad terror attack on May 5, 2022. (Israel Police)

Massive manhunt underway as police identify suspects in deadly Elad terror attack

As’ad Yousef As’ad al-Rifa’i and Subhi Emad Subhi Abu Shqeir, both from Jenin area, accused of killing 3 in central city on Thursday; Bennett: ‘We’ll ensure they pay the price’

Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack, in Elad, May 5, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Bennett: ‘Campaign of murder against Jews’ will never break our spirit

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

The victims of the Elad terror attack on May 5, 2022, from left to right; Boaz Gol, Yonatan Havakuk and Oren Ben Yiftah (courtesy)

Widow of Elad terror victim says he fought attacker, enabling others to escape

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Ramallah, on February 10, 2022. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool Photo via AP)

PA leader Abbas condemns Elad terror attack; Israel extends West Bank, Gaza closure

By Aaron Boxerman

After Elad attack, closure on Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza extended until Sunday; Defense Minister Benny Gantz vows Israel will exact ‘price for terror attacks’

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing at the US Capitol, on April 26, 2022, in Washington. (Bonnie Cash-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

US ‘vehemently’ condemns ‘heinous’ terror attack in Elad

Move comes weeks before Biden expected to visit

Israel set to advance 4,000 settlement homes, testing US opposition

By Jacob Magid and Aaron Boxerman

Officials deny report White House threatened to nix upcoming Biden trip over approvals, but say it made its position against the plan clear; 2 outposts to get retroactive approval

This file photo from October 13, 2021, shows construction in the Israeli settlement of Rahalim, located near the Palestinian village of Yatma, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

File: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, on October 22, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

'PM accepted apology of President Putin for Lavrov comments'

Putin apologizes for Russian FM’s ‘Jewish Hitler’ remarks, Bennett’s office says

Kremlin readout of call doesn’t mention an apology, says president spoke with PM about ‘historic memory,’ the Holocaust and the situation in Ukraine

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin prior to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on July 4, 2017. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Mercenary-linked Putin ally lashes ‘dying-out Western civilization’

By ToI Staff and AP

A serviceman of Donetsk People's Republic militia stands at a check point in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (AP/Alexei Alexandrov)

UN races to evacuate Mariupol as Russia seeks to mop up city ahead of V-Day

By Elena Becatoros and Jon Gambrell

Filmmaker Mayim Bialik. (Storm Santos)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Mayim Bialik on her debut film, being a Jew in Hollywood & missing Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

With the release of ‘As They Made Us,’ Bialik she wrote and directed, ‘The Big Bang Theory’ alumna has just added the credit ‘filmmaker’ to her already unbelievable resume

The frozen bagel and the synagogue

Who would have thought that my breakfast routine would lead me to daily communal morning prayers?

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Women’s independence: We’re not there yet

My daughter’s experience of Orthodox Judaism is richer than mine could have been, but even now, women’s participation and representation have a long way to go

Zabar's deli in New York City. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

'I wanted to be in the family business'

The appetizing history of Zabar’s, a New York City culinary icon

A new book from 3rd-generation Lori Zabar, who died months before its publication, traces her family history from pogroms in Ukraine to enduring fame on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Ra'am Party leader MK Mansour Abbas attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mansour Abbas: Ra’am won’t topple government, but will press coalition on key issues

Islamist party leader tells Saudi news site that he’s working with Jordan to resolve tensions surrounding Temple Mount; won’t rule out joining potential Netanyahu-led coaliiton

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas during a Knesset vote on the state budget, November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am’s advisory council to meet amid growing pressure to quit coalition

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Fernando and Josefina married in a Nazi-themed wedding in Tlaxcala, Mexico, April 29, 2022. (Jorge Carballo via JTA)

Mexican couple gets married in Nazi-themed wedding on Hitler’s anniversary

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

Local authorities and Jewish community leaders denounce pair, who reportedly named their kids after prominent Nazi figures

‘He gave his life for me’: Bereaved fiancée recounts Ariel shooting attack

‘I only cared about my Slava being injured’: Victoria Fligelman describes moments after her partner Vyacheslav Golev was killed while shielding her from terrorists’ bullets

An undated photo of Vyacheslav Golev, a security guard who was killed in a terror attack at Ariel on April 29, 2022, and his fiancée, Victoria Fligelman. (Courtesy)

A banner celebrating Raad Hazem, a 28-year-old from the Jenin camp after he carried out a terror attack on a bar in central Tel Aviv, in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

IDF issues order to raze apartment of terrorist who killed 3 in Tel Aviv

By Emanuel Fabian

Ido Avigal, who was killed in his home in Sderot by a rocket fired from Gaza, on May 12, 2021. (Twitter)

Boy is born on Independence Day, 1 year after his brother was killed by Gaza rocket

The Russian missile cruiser Moskva is purportedly seen in photos depicting it after being hit by Ukrainian missiles, prior to sinking, April 14, 2022. (Social media)

Official says US provided location intel that Ukraine used to sink Russian warship

By AAMER MADHANI, NOMAAN MERCHANT and Lolita C. Baldor

US source stresses that Ukraine alone decided to target and sink flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet using its own anti-ship missiles

Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo)

Mariupol steel plant defenders vow no surrender as Russian forces press assault

By Jon Gambrell and Cara Anna

Illustrative: In this image released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on May 1, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives for his meeting the day before with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky turns to crowdfunding to help Ukraine defeat Russian invasion

By AFP

Before working with a wholesale bakery, Meckler would wake up at 5:30 each Friday morning and bake two batches of 32 loaves for pickups in the evening. (Courtesy of Meckler/ via JTA)

'I’m here for people who have never had challah before'

How Dolly Meckler turned her challah-baking hobby into a fast-rising business

Featured in Forbes and the New Yorker, the baker says she wasn’t the ‘kitchen type’ before the pandemic, but social media savvy from working in entertainment has got her on a roll

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki talks about incoming press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 5, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Karine Jean-Pierre, who endorsed AIPAC boycott, to be next White House spokesperson

Israel Prize winner Prof. Ruth Berman, left, with Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton at the award ceremony in Jerusalem, on Israel's Independence Day, on May 5, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ending Independence Day, Israel Prize event celebrates top contributors to country

Iranians prepare to set an Israeli flag on fire next to a picture of late Iranian general Qasem Soleimnai during a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) day in Tehran, on April 29, 2022. (AFP)

US Senate passes non-binding motion against return to original Iran nuclear deal

A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 is consoled by another during cremation in Jammu, India, on April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Doubling official total, WHO reports nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID

El Al workers seen at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, on March 1, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Work dispute forces El Al to cancel participation in Independence Day flyover

By Tobias Siegal

Illustrative. A person in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Sweden says one of its nationals detained by Iran amid strained ties

By AP

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