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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 8, 2022

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Subhi Emad Sbeihat, left, and As’ad Yousef As’ad al-Rifa’i, from a West Bank town near Jenin, the alleged Palestinian perpetrators of the Elad terror attack on May 5, 2022, in which three Israelis were killed and several seriously wounded. (Courtesy)

Palestinian terrorists arrested for deadly Elad axe attack, after 60-hour manhunt

By Emanuel Fabian

As’ad Yousef As’ad al-Rifa’i and Subhi Emad Sbeihat captured in forested area near ultra-Orthodox city; video shows assailant confessing to security forces

A school in Elad where a pair of Palestinian suspects apparently hid after carrying out a terror attack in the city on May 5, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Palestinian terrorists believed to have hidden in nearby school after Elad attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Yonantan Havakuk, who was killed in the terror attack in Elad on May 5, 2022. (Courtesy)

Boy, 6, alerted Elad guards during attack: ‘There are terrorists, my father is dead’

Oren Ben Yiftah, 37, who was killed in the terror attack in Elad on May 5, 2022 (Courtesy)

Family of Elad victim decries online hate after he unwittingly drove terrorists

‘People of Israel, have pity on us,’ Oren Ben Yiftah’s relatives say. ‘How much hatred can come out when people’s fingers run freely on the keyboard’

Yousef As’ad al-Rifa’i, a Palestinian who confessed to committing a deadly terror attack in Elad, is seen smoking a cigarette shortly after his arrest, May 8, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Elad victim’s family furious after captured terrorist is given a cigarette

By Emanuel Fabian

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

Hamas vows suicide bombings, ‘unprecedented response’ if Israel targets its leaders

Terror group threatens ‘regional earthquake,’ massive rockets attacks if Sinwar, other leaders hit; Egypt reportedly mediating between Jerusalem, Gaza to prevent escalation

Defense Minister Benny Gantz gives a statement to the press at IDF Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem, March 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz on calls to target Hamas’s leaders: Such decisions mustn’t be political

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset, on January 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Liberman says Netanyahu prevented targeted killings of Hamas leaders

A Rosh Hashanah Crown Challah from Carol Ungar's 'Jewish Soul Food' (Courtesy )

From The Hartman Institute

The Peculiar Power of Jewish Food Influencers

Something to nosh on as we go inside the world of online Jewish food influencers with Shayna Weiss and Yehuda Kurtzer

Police officers at the scene of a stabbing attack at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, on May 8, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian shot after allegedly attempting to enter West Bank settlement

Tekoa incident caps off bloody day during which 19-year-old moderately wounded officer at Damascus Gate stabbing, IDF fatally shoots Palestinian trying to jump security fence

6:17 pm

Palestinian suspect who infiltrated settlement armed with knife -- local officials
6:10 pm

IDF to lift closure over West Bank Palestinians tonight
6:06 pm

Palestinian attacker at Damascus Gate said to have entered Israel illegally

Police commissioner Kobi Shabtai speaks to officers near the central city of Elad on May 8, 2022, shortly after two Palestinian terror suspects were arrested. (Israel Police)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 8: Elad terrorists found; Israel’s marking of Victory Day

ToI editor David Horovitz and military correspondent Emanuel Fabian discuss the Elad terror attack and the Hamas reaction, and Victory Day machinations

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem on May 8, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Amid deadly terror wave, Bennett calls for creation of civil national guard

By Michael Horovitz

Bennett: There won’t be any foreign interference in decisions regarding Temple Mount

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

PM’s comments come after Ra’am chief Abbas says his party’s possible return to coalition will be determined by talks on Jerusalem holy site held by Israeli-Jordanian committee

Israeli police accompany a group of Jews touring the Temple Mount on May 5, 2022, as the Jerusalem holy site is reopened to non-Muslim visitors. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks to Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas in the Knesset, on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am MK calls for party to quit coalition as opposition plans bid to topple gov’t

By Aaron Boxerman

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) attend a departure ceremony for an Israeli delegation flying out to set up a field hospital in Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 21, 2022. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Bennett, Lapid to meet coalition chiefs amid ongoing political crisis

Construction work in the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 28, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Coalition would fall if settlement homes plan not okayed, officials said to tell US

Initial proposal said reduced from a total of 5,800 homes to 4,000 following talks with Washington, with 1,000 housing units said slated for Palestinians

The challenge of reforming a powerless UN Security Council

The Russian Federation’s veto power reignites a long-running debate about reforming the world body’s most important organ

That time I protested Palestinian home demolition

Or how national pro-Israel groups launched a $1,000 smear campaign against my pro-Palestine student referendum

Senior adviser to the US president Jared Kushner attends a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Riyadh to invest millions in Israeli tech via Jared Kushner’s new fund — report

Reported plan will serve as the first public instance of Saudi Arabia directly investing in Israel; two companies said to have already been selected

In this photo provided by the White House, US President Donald Trump is joined by from left, national security adviser Robert O'Brien, Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary mark Esper, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Brig. Gen. Marcus Evans, Deputy Director for Special Operations on the Joint Staff, October 26, 2019, in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington, as they monitor developments in the US Special Operations forces raid that took out Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Shealah Craighead/The White House via AP)

Trump sought pre-election strike on senior Iranian commander, says ex-Pentagon chief

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad shake hands at the start of their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, May 8, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Syria’s Assad meets Iranian leaders on rare visit to Tehran

By AP

Screen grab of a video, which cannot be verified, that apparently shows the burning rubble at the site of the school in Bilohorivka, May 8, 2022. (Screen grab/twitter)

60 feared dead in Russian strike on school in eastern Ukraine

By Elena Becatoros and Jon Gambrell

Local governor says around 90 people were sheltering at educational institute in Bilohorivka, with 30 survivors pulled from rubble; building caught fire after it was hit

A view of the site of fire at an oil depot in Belgorod region, Russia, April 1, 2022. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

Mimicking Israeli stance on alleged strikes, Ukraine keeps mum on Russia explosions

By Paul Handley

People clear a residential area after a Russian airstrike in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on May 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia ramps up offensive in eastern Ukraine ahead of Victory Day parades

By Joshua MELVIN and David Stout

Jewish World War II veterans and their relatives take part in a ceremony for 'Victory Day' in Jerusalem, on May 9, 2021. The ceremony marks the day Germany officially surrendered to Alied forces. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett said to refuse Ukraine request to cancel ‘Victory Day’ ceremonies in Israel

According to Channel 12, Kyiv envoy and Zelensky asked PM to hold events on May 8, with other countries, or scrap them altogether so as not to appear to align with Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while addresseing a meeting of the Council of Legislators under the Russian Federal Assembly at the Tauride Palace, in St. Petersburg, Russia on April 27, 2022. (Alexander Demyanchuk, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin vows that ‘as in 1945,’ Ukraine will be liberated from ‘Nazi filth’

By AFP

Russian servicemen march during a dress rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on May 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Amid war on Ukraine, Russia holds ‘Victory Day’ rehearsal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli embassy in New Delhi said on high alert amid ‘serious’ fear of Iran attack

Security measures tightened, surrounding streets patrolled closely as site is ‘likely target’ for militias backed by Tehran, says report in opposition Iranian news channel

Police cordon off an area near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, on January 29, 2021. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP)

Iranian Mansour Rasouli denies being involved in an attempt to assassinate an Israeli diplomat in Turkey, in a video aired May 8, 2022 (video screenshot)

Iranian who allegedly confessed to plotting hit on Israeli says he was coerced

Some of the menu options at Ruhan, a previously kosher bistro cocktail bar at the Brown Jerusalem hotel, which was using vegan Redefine meat in some dishes in order to expand its kosher options (Courtesy Anatoly Michaelo)

Jerusalem cocktail bar drops kosher certification in bid for broader clientele

By Jessica Steinberg

The Brown Jerusalem hotel’s Ruhan cocktail bar switches to non-kosher menu after four months as a Tzohar-certified brasserie

Rochus Rueckel as Jesus and cast members perform during the rehearsal of the 42nd Passion Play in Oberammergau, Germany, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

German passion play makes post-pandemic comeback, minus the antisemitic tropes

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Villagers of Oberammergau have performed story since 1634; latest version no longer depicts Jews as Christ’s killers and shows clearly that Jesus was Jewish himself

Chef Uri Jeremias talks to members of staff at his seafood and fish restaurant 'Uri Buri' in the northern Israeli coastal town of Acre on May 2, 2022 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Year after deadly riot, iconic Acre proprietor rebuilds on sensitive foundations

Rabbi Daniel Bogard (left) and Shira Berkowitz (right) lead songs at Camp Ramot Amoona. (Courtesy Shira Berkowitz via JTA)

US Jewish summer camp veterans open stay-away program for trans kids

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Places at Camp Indigo Point were filled within weeks; organizers say they’re aiming to create an inclusive experience for participants that can’t be found elsewhere

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Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at Ben Gurion International Airport, on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel to scrap mandatory airport COVID testing on May 20

Illustrative -- Police tape in Independence Park on July 30, 2015 (Garrett Mills/Flash90)

Palestinian man suspected of impersonating cop to sexually harass teenage boys

In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, Saudi King Faisal walks with a cane as he leaves King Faisal Specialist Hospital with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, and entourage, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March, 16, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi Arabia’s aging King Salman admitted to hospital for ‘examinations’

The string quartet of Poland's Mozart Group, bringing 'Mozart Comes to Town' to Israel on May 19-21, 2022 (Courtesy Nicolas Fagot)

Easy listeningString quartet to bring lighter side of classical music to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

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