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What Matters Most On Friday, May 13, 2022

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Mourners gather during the burial of slain veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at the Mount Zion Cemetery outside Jerusalem's Old City on May 13, 2022. (HAZEM BADER/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

TV: IDF chief given ‘very likely’ scenario reporter hit by errant troop’s fire

Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh buried in Jerusalem after a tumultuous funeral procession that saw police clash with mourners, almost topple casket; incident condemned by US EU

10:04 pm

Blinken says US 'deeply troubled' by police conduct at Abu Akleh funeral
9:20 pm

Police say officers intervened after 'rioters' seized slain reporter's coffin
7:47 pm

Armed Palestinian who allegedly sought to commit attack arrested near Tzur Yitzhak -- police

In this undated photo provided by Al Jazeera Media Network, Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist for Al Jazeera network, stands next to a TV camera with the Old City of Jerusalem in the background. (Al Jazeera Media Network via AP)

Initial IDF probe of reporter’s death proposes 2 scenarios for who fired fatal shot

Interim probe hasn’t determined who killed Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin, but cites an instance of indiscriminate Palestinian gunfire and a case of possible errant IDF sniper fire

An outdoor screen shows a picture of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and Arabic that reads, "Goodbye Shireen, the voice of Palestine," in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 11, 2022, hours after she was shot dead in Jenin. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

IDF probe said to zero in on firefight 150 meters from where reporter was killed

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on May 11, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett says he expects PA’s ‘full cooperation’ in probe of reporter’s death

By Tobias Siegal and ToI Staff

Police commando Sgt. Maj. Noam Raz, 47, who was killed in an operation in Jenin on May 13, 2022. (Police)

Islamic Jihad calls for Palestinians to 'defend Jenin'

Police commando killed during fierce gunfights with Palestinians in Jenin area

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. Maj. Noam Raz, 47, dies of wounds after being airlifted to hospital; video shows security forces surrounding home of Islamic Jihad suspect, firing missile toward building

The smashed front window of an Israeli car after a Palestinian allegedly hurled a cinderblock at the vehicle near the West Bank settlement of Beit El, May 13, 2022. (Courtesy)

Palestinian hurls cinderblock at Israeli car in West Bank, is shot by soldier

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Suspect seriously hurt; army says he tried to open door of vehicle near Beit El settlement; firefights reported between Palestinian gunmen, Israeli troops in Jenin area

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

Lod imam indicted for incitement to violence at Temple Mount

By Michael Horovitz

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat-Michigan, listens during a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on February 12, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Israel ‘murdered’ reporter, Rep. Tlaib charges, drawing condemnation from ambassador

By Tobias Siegal

Herzog says congresswoman ‘acting as the judge, jury and executioner,’ after she explicitly blames Israel for Abu Akleh’s killing

Palestinians surround the Palestinian flag-draped body of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, as it is brought to the news channel's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 11, 2022. (Abbas Momani/Pool via AP)

Ahead of Friday funeral of Al Jazeera journalist, cops summon her brother to station

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Shireen Abu Akleh out of the office of Al Jazeera after friends and colleagues paid their respects, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Massive crowds expected for burial of slain journalist in tense Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A young egg with the newly-documented zygotene cilium. (Courtesy of Hebrew University)

With chromosome find, Israelis open possible new path to fight infertility

By Nathan Jeffay

Researchers say they’ve discovered a key mechanism in ensuring DNA strands inside eggs are organized correctly

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Returning to coalition at pinnacle of tension, Ra’am aims to solidify paradigm shift

Islamist party leader Mansour Abbas chose this particularly fraught week to support a flagging government, in a gamble that is at once practical and ideological

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

Ahmad Tibi in the neighborhood of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem on May 12, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

Police accuse MK Tibi of abusing immunity by helping suspect escape

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Two educators teach us how to love a good argument

Veteran educators Abi Dauber Sterne and Robbie Gringras talk about the art of fighting and the stories that inspire disagreement

Abi Dauber Sterne and Robbie Gringrass, educators and authors of 'Stories for the Sake of Argument' (Courtesy PR)

Yardaena Osband

This bird you cannot change

The Torah’s jubilee year and its mandated release of slaves gives a whole new meaning to the expression, ’as free as a bird’ (Behar)

Of black swans and sabbatical years

The biblical injunction to let the land lie fallow for a year sparks a radical recalibration of society, teaching that what was is not what must be

In this 2013 file photo, President of the United Arab Emirates Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrives to meet Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor in England (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool)

UAE ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan dies at 73

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Country declares 40 days of mourning for its leader; Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, long the de facto ruler, is expected to succeed

National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata speaks during the IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama on November 21, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

Israel not trying to drag US into military conflict with Iran, PM adviser says

With talks stalled for months, Eyal Hulata quoted saying Israel doesn’t see confrontation with Tehran as solution; suggests new, good agreement rather than a return to the old one

AnalysisBiden seen personally resisting IRGC terror delisting, dividing Democrats

File: In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, right, shakes hands with President Ebrahim Raisi during an official arrival ceremony at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, on May 12, 2022. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Qatar and EU working to revive stalled negotiations with Iran

By Payam DOOST MOHAMADI

Ilana Sporta Hania, a 65-year-old resident of Ashkelon, suspected of sending envelopes containing bullets to the family of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, arrives for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on May 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu condemns woman who allegedly sent PM and family menacing letters, bullets

By Michael Horovitz

Opposition leader says political activist Ilana Sporta Hania, 65 of Ashkelon, will be expelled from Likud if claims proven true

Ilana Sporta Hania, a 65-year-old resident of Ashkelon, suspected of sending envelopes containing bullets to the family of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, arrives for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on May 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu supporter named as woman who sent threatening letters to Bennett

New illustrations in the new NFT collection, 'xoxo,' of Israeli comic artists Maya and Yehuda Devir. (Courtesy)

Famed Israeli comic artists explore new worlds with NFT collection

By Ricky Ben-David

Maya and Yehuda Devir, the pair behind a viral series of illustrations, delve into new tech to deliver new art

In this photo from October 25, 2021, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (L) meets with Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin during the The North Atlantic Council's (NAC) visit in Helsinki. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/AFP)

Russia warns of ‘military-technical’ retaliation as Finland moves toward NATO

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI

Finnish president tells Moscow to blame itself for Helsinki’s decision to seek membership in alliance: ‘Look in the mirror’; Kyiv holds war crimes trial for Russian soldier

Illustrative: A general view of the room hosting a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Ukraine, in Geneva, on May 12, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

UN Human Rights Council launches probe into alleged Russian war crimes

By AFP

Surveillance footage published by CNN shows Russian soldiers shooting two civilians in the back on March 16, 2022, on the outskirts of Kyiv. (Screenshot)

Video shows Russian soldiers shooting Ukrainian civilians in the back

By ToI Staff and AFP

Deborah Lipstadt, nominated to be the US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, with the rank of ambassador, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Now official US antisemitism monitor, Lipstadt warns hate must be taken seriously

In first address, official says antisemitism ‘does not come from one end of the political spectrum’ but ‘is ubiquitous and is espoused by people who agree on nothing else’

Crew members wearing masks stand at the door for the first direct flight between Tel Aviv and Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 17, 2022. (Flash90)

Israel said set to scrap in-flight mask mandate

Move would follow in the footsteps of EU decision; Israel also nears end of mandatory COVID tests upon landing

A Magen David Adom health worker take a swab sample from at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing complex in Jerusalem, on March 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel’s COVID transmission rate rises above 1 for first time in two months

A funeral service manager transports a body to the funeral home in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, April 24, 2020. (Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Biden urges continued vigilance as coronavirus claims millionth victim in US

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A photo of a letter handwritten and signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to Danish journalist Karen Stampe Bendix in 1936, in which the renowned physicist urges the free world to attack Nazi Germany. (Kedem Auction House)

Letter in which Einstein urged world to attack Nazis up for auction

Singer Michael Ben David performs on behalf of Israel during the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 12, 2022 at the Pala Alpitour venue in Turin. (Marco Bertorello / AFP)

Eurovision hopes dashed as Israel comes up short in semi-final

This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, on May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)

Black hole at the center of our galaxy captured on camera for the first time

By Seth Borenstein

Report: FBI weighed operational use of Israeli firm NSO’s Pegasus spyware

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: Cheese production at the Tnuva Tel Yosef dairy plant, on December 21, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Health Ministry suspects contamination in Tnuva powdered milk production

By Tobias Siegal

Eric Zemmour gestures as he takes part in the political show 'Elysee 2022' on French TV channel France 2, in Saint-Denis, near Paris, on March 17, 2022. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Following failed presidential bid, Zemmour to seek French parliament seat

By Anne Renaut and Adrien de CALAN

This December 29, 2016 photo shows an Israeli Air Force F-15 plane in flight during a graduation ceremony for new pilots in the Hatzerim air force base near the city of Beersheba. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

2 Israeli fighter pilots escaped from burning plane in December accident — report

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republican Leader McCarthy, four other GOP lawmakers subpoenaed by January 6 panel

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

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