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What Matters Most On Monday, May 9, 2022

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People shop at the Givatayim Shopping mall on February 21, 2021, after it reopened following a few weeks of lockdown (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset passes in 1st reading bill to help businesses hurt by Omicron wave

Proposal would give financial grant to businesses that suffered a 35% drop in income in January and February of this year, in comparison to the same period in 2019

6:24 pm

Bill to increase penalties for illegal weapons passes first reading
6:06 pm

Prince Charles to stand in for queen at UK parliament opening
6:01 pm

Report: Israelis arrested in Sinai after filming themselves waving Israeli flags

Police officers at the scene of a stabbing attack at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, on May 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police officer stabbed in neck at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate; attacker shot

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

Cop moderately wounded after suspect draws knife during questioning in police holding area overlooking Old City entrance

File: Israeli soldiers stand guard near a hole in the security fence, as Palestinians try to cross into Israel, near Mevo Horon, April 10, 2022. (Flash90)

Unarmed Palestinian shot dead trying to illegally cross West Bank security barrier

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: Palestinian women cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 15, 2022. (Flash90)

Israel reopens West Bank crossings; Gaza to remain shut ‘until further notice’

United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindros (left) speaks during a panel held for Israel's 74th Independence Day at the Nehora high school yeshiva in the West Bank. Alongside him is Religious Zionism party MK Simcha Rothman, May 5, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

UTJ MK defiant amid criticism: 'I do not regret my words'

Haredi lawmaker says his dream is to ‘blow up’ the Supreme Court

By Tobias Siegal

Coalition lawmakers and former justices slam ‘shocking’ remarks made by MK Yitzhak Pindrus of United Torah Judaism during an Independence Day panel

A soldier-reporter for Israel's Army Radio, on November 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Panel tasked with finding new head for Army Radio despite looming end of station

By Emanuel Fabian

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.

While sipping tea with his wife: Tekoa resident recounts confronting terrorist

By Tobias Siegal

Yair Maimon says he spotted a Palestinian climbing fence meters away from his house, then grabbed his M16 rifle and shot him

A picture uploaded by Tekoa resident Yair Maimon to Facebook on May 9, shows him and his wife drinking coffee outside their home alongside the caption, 'Waiting for the next terrorist.' (Facebook)

A knife found on a Palestinian who infiltrated the Tekoa settlement on May 8, 2022. (courtesy, Rescuers Without Borders)

Palestinian shot dead after infiltrating West Bank settlement with knife – IDF

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

Israeli soldiers arrest a suspect in the West Bank town of Rummanah, May 9, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF raids terrorists’ hometowns, arrests 4 for allegedly aiding attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanon, Qatar cited as locations where strikes could occur

Israel said prepping teams to carry out targeted killings of Hamas leaders abroad

Jerusalem reportedly tells allies that hits on terror leaders are planned in retaliation for attacks; UK Times newspaper names Saleh al-Arouri, Zaher Jabarin as potential targets

(R) Saleh al-Arouri in undated YouTube video (Screen grab) and (L) Zaher Jabarin gives an interview to pro-Hezbollah television network al-Mayadeen on April 17, 2022 (Screen grab)

Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers in the village of Al-Sila Al-Harithi, near the West Bank city of Jenin, May 7, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel considering military op in Jenin or Gaza in response to terror wave – reports

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu leave Red Square after the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9, 2022 (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

As Putin speaks, his troops pummel steel plant in Mariupol

‘No place for hangmen, executioners or Nazis’: Putin ties Ukraine invasion to WWII

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In Victory Day speech, Russian president claims Ukraine, allies were preparing ‘an invasion of our historical lands’; despite reports, no announcement of escalation, mobilization

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Zelensky says Ukraine won’t allow Russia to ‘appropriate’ WWII victory over Nazism

By AFP and ToI Staff

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 and Putin double down on mutual Holocaust, Nazi comparisons

By Michael Horovitz and AFP

Russian troops in the Syrian district of Daraa al-Balad in Syria's southern province of Daraa, on September 1, 2021. (Sam HARIRI / AFP)

Russia said to pull troops from Syria to bolster forces in Ukraine

In worrying development for Israel, now-abandoned bases reportedly transferred to IRGC and Hezbollah; Moscow has been main force in Syria preventing Iranian expansion

Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev is covered with red paint in Warsaw, Poland, May 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Maciek Luczniewski)

Anti-war activists throw red paint at Russian ambassador to Poland

By AP

Illustrative: Teenage girls from the Atlanta Jewish community. (Courtesy of JumpSpark)

'Educational attainment doesn't always equal happiness'

Yentl’s revenge: Young American-Jewish women outperform all others academically

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Tulane University professor Ilana Horwitz’s research points to religious culture as reason for why Jewish girls surpass educational attainment of non-Jewish girls – and Jewish boys

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center, makes a statement at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting seated next to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)

Knesset reopens with government teetering, opposition seeking to bring it down

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Bennett’s 8-party coalition to steer away from controversial legislation as it fights for survival after losing majority; internal discord and Likud-led maneuvers could see it fall

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

Meeting with coalition chiefs amid crisis, Bennett vows government won’t fall

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a meeting with leaders of opposition parties, at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv on May 8, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to insist he won’t sign plea deal in corruption trial

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Daily Briefing May 9: Knesset starts summer session as Russia mulls options

Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses what’s ahead in the Knesset as diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman looks at Victory Day’s ramifications for Ukraine

What do we tell the children?

21 years to the day after my son’s murder, I am hiding from terrorists in the darkened bedroom with my daughter and her children

Another kind of terror: The battle for control over women’s bodies

In Israel, as everywhere, the invasion of politicians into the private lives of citizens chips away at the values that uphold free societies

Screen capture from video of a special Church of England ceremony to mark and apologize for the 1222 Synod of Oxford, held at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, May 8, 2022. (YouTube)

After 800 years, Church of England apologizes to Jews for laws that led to expulsion

Special service, attended by UK chief rabbi, marks anniversary of Synod of Oxford, aims to inspire Christians to reject contemporary antisemitism, archbishop of Canterbury says

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his wife Gilat and their four children at the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Naftali Bennett/Instagram)

Woman, 65, arrested over menacing letters, bullets sent to Bennett and his family

Suspect, reportedly a resident of Ashkelon, said to have also written threatening social media posts about the premier

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

Bennett refutes claim by terror victim’s widow that he wanted to visit with cameras

The two terrorists who carried out a shooting attack in Hadra on March 27, 2022: Ayman Ighbariah (left) and Ibrahim Ighbariah (right), pictured at Haifa District Court on June 29, 2016, when he was on trial for trying to join the Islamic State in Syria. (Screenshot)

Terrorists in Hadera attack buried overnight after Israel returns bodies

Funerals held for two Arab Israeli cousins in northern town of Umm al-Fahm, with police limiting attendance; some reportedly chant about martyrdom

The Arab village of Jisr az-Zarka in northern Israel. (Photo credit: Golf Bravo/Wikimedia)

Northern Arab town targeted by vandals in apparent hate crime

By Michael Horovitz

Damage is seen to a shrine, believed by some to be the burial place of the biblical Benjamin son of Jacob, following a fire near the city of Kfar Saba, on May 6, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police arrest Jewish suspect in arson of Tomb of Benjamin near Kfar Saba

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

Victim’s widow pleads: ‘Don’t murder him a 2nd time’ for driving terrorists unawares

Nofar Ben Yiftah calls on ‘keyboard warriors’ to show compassion to her and her six children, says husband Oren was just a shuttle driver

Israeli troops are seen operating in the home of a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank town of Rummanah, May 8, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF maps West Bank homes of Elad terrorists ahead of potential demolitions

By Emanuel Fabian

Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli in Tel Aviv, on February 22, 2022. (Avshalom sassoni/Flash90)

Elad terror victim’s family said to refuse condolence call from Minister Michaeli

Jerusalem’s ‘ugliest building’ slated for demolition to make way for luxury tower

By Danielle Nagler

Modernist eyesore from 1960s, a city landmark on King George Street, to be taken down later this year; 30-story residential building to be built on site

The Amir Center in central Jerusalem, June 2010. Built in 1961, it is scheduled for demolition in 2022. (By Sir kiss - Own work, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Illustrative. Heatwave. (iStock by Getty Images)

Israel advances its first Climate Bill in bid to hit emission goals

Draft law, met with lukewarm response from green groups, is a compromise between Environment Ministry, which wanted tougher targets, and Finance Ministry, which wanted none

More Headlines

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Blocking underworld hit, police defuse large bomb, say ‘huge disaster’ averted

A demonstrator holding a cross protests outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Washington DC, May 5, 2022. (AP/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Potential overturn of Roe v. Wade divides America’s faithful on abortion

By DEEPA BHARATH and LUIS ANDRES HENAO

Portland's Congregation Beth Israel. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Man charged for Oregon synagogue and mosque vandalism spree

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Drone bee orchid, Ophrys holosericea, seen near to the Rakit parking lot in the Carmel mountains, May 7, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel).

Creating a buzzIf it looks like a bee and smells like a bee, it may be a flower

The inside of a Tiberias synagogue converted into a cannabis nursery. (Israel Police)

High servicesPolice find marijuana nursery in disused Tiberias synagogue

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man found shot dead in car in northern Arab Israeli town

The entrance to the Beit Dafna shelter in Holon on May 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Health Ministry confirms contamination caused deadly food poisoning in Holon shelter

Afik Toibi, a border guard who is suspected of killing his comrade, Sgt. Naim Maadi, is indicted in a Haifa District Court on March 10, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Border Police officer confesses to killing comrade while playing with a pistol

Mourners attend the funeral of Abraham Ambon, one of the victims of the Meron tragedy, where 45 people were crushed to death during a Lag b'Omer event, in Jerusalem, May 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset approves NIS 500,000 compensation for each Meron disaster victim

Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine visits at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 8, 2022 (Courtesy Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Won't go home without youMaroon 5’s Adam Levine ‘super excited’ to be in Israel ahead of concerts

By Jessica Steinberg

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