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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 11, 2022

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Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, a veteran Al Jazeera journalist who was shot and killed during clashes between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen while covering an IDF raid in Jenin on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Courtesy)

Veteran Al Jazeera journalist shot dead during clashes amid IDF raid in Jenin

By Aaron Boxerman

PA says reporter Shireen Abu Akleh killed by Israeli fire; Israel says initial findings indicate Palestinian gunmen likely shot her, offers joint investigation

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)

LiveUpdated 49mo ago

Gantz says Israel needs Palestinian cooperation in probe of journalist’s death

Defense minister says Israel aims to ‘expose the truth’ in killing of Al Jazeera reporter, will continue to act against terrorists in West Bank

11:46 pm

Initial IDF probe says Israeli troops did not fire at Abu Akleh -- report
11:22 pm

Arab nations at UN call for probe into reporter's death in West Bank
11:00 pm

Gantz: We have asked the Palestinians for the bullet that killed Abu Akleh

Analysis

Expert says journalist’s death will fuel revenge attacks, no matter the explanation

The diplomatic crisis over the death of a Palestinian-American reporter is solvable, eventually, but further radicalization of those hostile to Israel is already underway

Palestinians hold a poster displaying veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, who was shot dead during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen as she covered an IDF raid on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp on May 11, 2022, in the West Bank city of Hebron. The poster reads in Arabic, "the Martyrdom of Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh". (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

File: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, with Minister of Defense Benny Gantz during a plenum session at the Knesset, on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli leaders: Al Jazeera journalist likely killed by Palestinian gunfire in Jenin

By Amy Spiro and Aaron Boxerman

PM slams PA’s Abbas for ‘throwing blame at Israel without basis’; Gantz: Initial findings show no IDF fire directed at Shireen Abu Akleh, cites ‘indiscriminate fire by terrorists’

People gather at the Al Jazeera offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 11, 2022 following the killing of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot dead during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen as she covered an Israeli raid on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

UN, EU, US mourn Palestinian journalist killed in Jenin, call for investigation

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians look at homes which were demolished by Israeli authorities in the West Bank village of Khalat Aldabe, south of Yatta, on June 17, 2019. (Wissam Hashlamon/Flash90)

EU slams Israeli court ruling okaying expulsion of Palestinians from IDF firing zone

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas delivers a statement to the press at the Knesset, May 11, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud pulls bill to dissolve Knesset after Ra’am gives coalition another chance

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

MK Walid Taha to lead negotiations with coalition leadership on fulfilling party’s outstanding demands; opposition’s bid for new elections scuttled for time being

MK Mansour Abbas, leader of the Ra'am party in the Knesset, on November 2, 2021. (Noam Moshkavitz/GPO)

Ra’am delays statement on Knesset dissolution bill, citing reporter’s death

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

AnalysisWill bill to force elections advance, signaling beginning of the end for coalition?

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

ToI@10 event

Tickets here! J’lem, May 24: Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen’s Yom Kippur War tour

Join us for the first evening in our ToI@10 series: Author Matti Friedman in conversation with ToI’s David Horovitz at Jerusalem’s First Station — plus a Leonard Cohen cover band!

Analysis

‘Very bad options’: Putin’s muted Victory Day rally shows he has little to celebrate

As Mariupol holds out and Ukraine prepares for a counterattack, signs of Russia’s problems are difficult to ignore

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during the Victory Day military parade marking the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov gives a statement to the media at the Russian Consulate in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Russian envoy leaves Knesset V-Day event after MKs voice Ukraine war criticism

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to watch the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow on May 9, 2022. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

US says Putin prepping for prolonged Ukraine campaign, could utilize nuclear weapons

By AFP and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 11: Israel’s biodiversity is in decline. So are COVID cases

Environment reporter Sue Surkes brings a startling comptroller report; health reporter Nathan Jeffay explains global urgency of vaccine booster and talks of ‘prejudice psychology’

Analysis

France’s Macron expected to boost Israel ties during second term

Country is one of ‘Israel’s closest and more capable allies,’ ambassador says, with French president emerging from election as leading European statesman

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he leaves Percy military hospital after visiting soldiers injured during external operations and caregivers, in Clamart, near Paris, France, on April 28, 2022. (Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool/AFP)

Israeli troops spot a suspected smuggling boat making its way from the Gaza Strip to the Sinai Peninsula on April 8, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel says it foiled Hamas attempt to smuggle arms production parts via sea

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says top smuggler previously jailed in Israel was arrested as he and two others made their way toward Egypt’s Sinai

Police chief Kobi Shabtai and Border Police chief Amir Cohen visit first sergeant M at the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem after he was stabbed by a Palestinian assailant at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, on May 9, 2022. (Israel Police)

‘It was either me or him’: Officer recounts tussle with Jerusalem stabber

Screen capture from video of former police officer Daniel Motza who was injured as he stopped a Palestinian terrorist carrying out a knife attack. (Kan)

Cop injured confronting terrorist sues police force for firing him

Mount Meron celebrations to go ahead as MKs approve safety regulations

Entry requires an admission ticket and is limited to 4 hours, and there will be only 1 central bonfire at the pilgrimage site, after last year’s Lag B’Omer event ended in 45 deaths

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate during a Lag B'Omer gathering on Mount Meron in northern Israel on April 29, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)

A security guard patrols the fence around the West Bank settlement of Efrat on April 8, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Comptroller says budget gaps leave settlements, border towns vulnerable to attacks

Nava Anne Grant

Religious Jews shouldn’t applaud Roe’s demise

Justice Alito and Rabbi Shafran have the same male privilege: relating to abortion theoretically. They should leave it to the women who must be practical

Hate in the heartland: Welcome to America

My Asian American wife recounted her experiences of discrimination and I wrote off what she said, in light of historic antisemitism – until I saw it for myself

A missile purportedly from an Israeli strike in Syria streaking through the sky, in a video shared on May 11, 2022. (screen capture: Twitter)

Israel said to strike Syrian Golan in missile attack; damage reported

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Shelling reportedly targets area near Hader, north of Quneitra; artillery strikes reported nearby hours later

In this October 24, 2015 photo, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses a crowd in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

‘No Steins’: Nasrallah rejects Israel-born US envoy to maritime talks with Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi addresses a panel at the Doha Forum in Qatar's capital on March 26, 2022. (Ammar Abd Rabbo/MOFA/Doha Forum/AFP)

Jordan’s FM says Jerusalem holy sites are ‘occupied Palestinian land’

After Bennett’s office denies deal with Amman to expand Waqf staff on Temple Mount, Ayman Safadi accuses Israel of impeding trust’s work and its ability to maintain security

The Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal at the Wadi Araba crossing between Israel and Jordan. (CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia, NYC2TLV)

Group of Israelis barred from entering Jordan over tefillin in baggage

Horticulturalist and activist Ed Rosenthal. (Christian Peacock/ YIVO)

'Cannabis is for intellectuals'

Is weed the Chosen People’s drug of choice? These artifacts suggest it may be

By Jordan Hoffman

A new exhibit running through December at the YIVO Institute in NYC fires up the Jewish people’s relationship with marijuana from biblical times to the ‘Old Country’ and today

American novelist Joshua Cohen, who won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, 'The Netanyahus,' poses for a portrait in Jerusalem, May 10, 2022. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

In Jerusalem, author of prize-winning ‘Netanyahus’ says Trump real target of novel

By Joseph Krauss

Joshua Cohen wanted to illuminate life under rulers forged in ‘reality show’ families, using story about ex-PM’s father to ‘say certain things about liberalism’

Israeli entrepreneurs take part in the EU-Israel EIT Hub Calling2Scale program. (Shlomi Znati)

EU-Israel innovation hub taps 13 startups for growth program

By Ricky Ben-David

EIT Hub Israel, a branch of the EU’s innovation and tech arm, will work with 6 Israeli startups and 7 European and UK-based outfits over 3 months

YL Ventures' team in Israel. (Courtesy)

VC firm YL Ventures launches $400m fund to back Israeli cybersecurity startups

By Ricky Ben-David

A Watergen water-from-air generator in Gaza, 2021. Illustrative. (Courtesy)

Israel’s Watergen provides ‘water-from-air’ units to medical facility in Syria

By Ricky Ben-David

More Headlines

Women hold a prayer service at the Western Wall as demonstrators protest against them on May 2, 2022. (Women of the Wall)

Jewish Agency pans violence against Women of the Wall at event its own chief backed

By Judah Ari Gross

Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli speaks during a press conference in Ashdod port, southern Israel, on April 6, 2022. (Flash90)

Merav Michaeli sues right-wing pundit over tweet on Beersheba terror attack

Couple takes part in a mass same-sex wedding in Tel Aviv, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Same-sex couple wins NIS 80,000 from wedding venue that turned them away

Israel's U17 soccer players, taking part in the U17 Euro finals that begin May 16, 2022 (Courtesy Israel Football Association)

Getting some kicksPromising young soccer players head to Israel for U17 Euro finals

By Jessica Steinberg

In this file photo taken on November 29, 2016 Lufthansa airplanes are parked at the airfield of the Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in Munich, southern Germany. (Christof Stache/AFP)

Lufthansa apologizes after report all visibly Jewish passengers barred from flight

By JTA and ToI Staff

Britain's Prince Charles reads the Queen's Speech as he sits by the Imperial State Crown, in the House of Lords chamber, during the State Opening of Parliament, at the Houses of Parliament, in London, on May 10, 2022. (Alastair Grant / POOL / AFP)

From our partnerQueen’s speech to parliament includes bill to counter BDS efforts

Illustrative image: A screen with different faces, like those used in Hebrew University research which concluded that people tend to over-estimate the presence of minorities. (iStock via Getty Images)

Prejudice psychology? Israeli study finds brain inflates numbers in minority groups

By Nathan Jeffay

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk talks with then US president Donald Trump after viewing the SpaceX flight to the International Space Station, at Kennedy Space Center, on May 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Elon Musk says he would lift Twitter ban on Trump

Illustrative: Magen David Adom respond to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Hadera, May 11, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Pedestrian killed by truck in Hadera

File: Palestinian men gather to apply for work permits in Israel, at Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 6, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Israel said to nix 1,100 Palestinian entry permits over relatives’ terror ties

A man smokes a cigarette (Orel Cohen/ Flash90)

2 hospital patients die of burns sustained when one lit up cigarette while on oxygen

New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov leads a protest against antisemitism in Brooklyn, New York, on January 2, 2022. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

Jewish NYC politician pulls donation to Holocaust museum over alleged DeSantis snub

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