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What Matters Most On Monday, May 16, 2022

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Illustrative. An Israeli Air Force Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter, June 8, 2012. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90/File)

Live updates (closed)

IDF said considering use of attack helicopters during fierce firefights in West Bank

TV report says Arab Israeli hospitalized in Haifa after being wounded fighting against Israeli forces during intense clashes near Jenin in which police commando was killed

8:10 pm

Clashes erupt during East Jerusalem funeral of Palestinian wounded on Temple Mount
6:16 pm

Arab Israeli took part in fighting against security forces in Jenin -- TV
5:59 pm

Turkey's Erdogan: 'Won't say yes' to NATO membership for Finland, Sweden

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa speaks at Saint Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem on May 16, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Top Catholic clergyman condemns police violence at Al Jazeera reporter’s funeral

By AP and ToI Staff

Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa says incident was a ‘disproportionate use of force’ and ‘severe violation’ of fundamental human right of freedom of religion

A mural of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on display, in Gaza City, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Bellingcat probe suggests Israeli fire most likely killed journalist; but not 100%

By Josef Federman

Israel police at the funeral procession of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh at St Joseph hospital in Jerusalem, May 13, 2022. (Jamal Awadl/Flash90)

Police violence at journalist’s funeral said to be over waving of Palestinian flags

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked holds a press conference at Ben Gurion Airport on March 13, 2022. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

As calls to amend Nation-State Law gather steam, Shaked says Yamina will veto plans

Minister calls on fellow lawmakers to not ‘amuse themselves’ with moves that violate the coalition agreement, as Blue and White pledges to bring equality bill to committee debate

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on January 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman urges boycott of PA’s Abbas, in apparent swipe at Gantz

Lt. Col. Mahmoud Khir al-Din (right) and his wife Nahed, in an undated photograph published by the military on May 15, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Druze officer killed in 2018 Gaza raid had denounced Nation-State Law

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.

Election officials count ballots shortly after polling stations closed, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah and allies dealt a blow in Lebanon election, early results show

By AP

Christian Lebanese Forces party, among Iranian proxy’s most vocal critics, says it won at least 20 seats, making it largest Christian bloc in parliament

This photo released by ImageSat International on May 15, 2022, shows sites allegedly struck by Israel in the Masyaf region of Syria. (ImageSat International)

Satellite images show Syria site ‘completely destroyed’ in raid attributed to Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

President Isaac Herzog meets his new UAE counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan to pay his condolences on the passing of the Gulf state's late leader Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2022. (President's Office)

Herzog, ministers meet new UAE leader during condolence visit to Abu Dhabi

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Axe carried by Palestinian suspect arrested by police in the West Bank, May 16, 2022. (Israel Police spokesperson)

Police arrest axe-wielding Palestinian suspected of planning terror attack

Suspect — a 22-year-old resident of Al-Bireh — found with suicide note in his possession; security forces arrest nine Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids

An Israeli man attacked after entering the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiyah on May 15, 2022 (Twitter)

Jewish man said attacked, beaten after entering East Jerusalem neighborhood

Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, the terrorist who killed an Israeli civilian and wounded four others in a shooting attack in East Jerusalem's Old City on November 21, 2021. (Facebook)

Education Ministry, Shin Bet said cooperating to identify terror-backing teachers

Broken roads: Leadership, authenticity and sexuality

I’ve done the very best I could to avoid facing what many of my childhood bullies already knew: their vocabulary – gay, fag, homo – was painfully laced with truth

Haredi women and girls protest against sexual assault in their community outside a school in Ramat Shlomo, March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI investigates'It was like an earthquake. Kids grew up on these books'

6 months after the Walder abuse scandal broke, has the Haredi world seen change?

Activists and observers say much work remains to counter sex abuse and the culture of silence in the ultra-Orthodox community and its media: ‘I think the dust hasn’t settled yet’

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!

Yemenite Jewish children and their toys in the Hashed camp near Aden, Yemen. 1949. (David Eldan/GPO photo archive)

For first time, grave of alleged ‘disappeared’ Yemenite baby to be exhumed

At request of surviving family, authorities plan to take DNA sample next week in effort to determine if interred child really is Uziel Houri, who was said to have died in 1952

Polish writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature Olga Tokarczuk poses for a photo after a press conference in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

In Israel, Nobel-winning author Olga Tokarczuk reflects on Poles, Jews and a messiah

By Jessica Steinberg

Writer says she doesn’t like to get involved in politics, but notes that Poles share Ukraine’s ‘sense of danger that Russia presents to the free world’

Netanyahu on prosecutors’ request to amend corruption indictment: ‘In your face’

The prosecution has asked the court to change the charge sheet after seemingly self-contradicting testimony by key state witness Shlomo Filber

Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in his trial, at the District Court in Jerusalem on May 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A guard post is seen outside Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's home in the central city of Ra'anana, June 30, 2021. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Lobbyists petition High Court to force Bennett to move to official Jerusalem home

Joint List party members Ahmad Tibi, left, and Ofer Cassif during a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem August 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police ask attorney-general to allow criminal probes of Joint List MKs Tibi, Cassif

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 16: In besieged Mariupol, Jews fight alongside infamous Azov Unit

Tech Israel editor Ricky Ben David speaks about two troubling new reports; diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman updates us on the Ukraine war and Lebanon’s recent elections

Victoria, 7, uses a plastic Kalashnikov rifle to shoot balls at a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a street attraction in the center of Lviv, Ukraine, on May 14, 2022. (Emilio Morenatti/AP)

NATO sees Ukraine victory possible as defenders continue to foil Russia

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN

Jewish tradition ‘permits’ abortion. That’s not enough.

The religious justification is still rooted in a system that does not support bodily autonomy or the ability to make decisions about one’s own body

Israeli high-tech doing fine, thanks

Insufficient government spending in the tech sector? A dire talent shortage? No, that’s not what the Israel Innovation Authority report showed.

A view of houses in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Sawaneen in Israel's southern Negev Desert, on June 8, 2021. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Ra’am touts housing wins for unrecognized Negev villages in new deal with government

Party says agreement reached to eliminate fines and threat of demolition for homes up to 70 square meters in size; opposition says coalition selling out for political survival

AnalysisMoving Kahana back to the Knesset is Bennett’s attempt to circle the wagons

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Harel Hershtik works at his lab in Rehovot, May 11, 2022. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Convicted Israeli murderer is brains behind Rehovot health tech startup

By Tia Goldenberg

Decades after murdering snake trapper Yaakov Sela, a former friend, Harel Hershtik is behind a startup poised to make millions of dollars with backing of prominent public figures

S&P affirms Israel’s AA- rating, citing resilient economy despite security risks

By Ricky Ben-David

Housing prices soar by more than 16% in past year, highest rise in over a decade

Artists' impression of cable cars crossing Jerusalem's Hinnom Valley from a promotional video. (YouTube screenshot)

High Court rejects petitions against plan to build cable car to Jerusalem’s Old City

Ousting stigmas, Israel’s first mental health expo happening Monday – in English

By Nathan Jeffay

Event in Jerusalem will tackle stigma surrounding mental health and give much-needed guidance as pandemic has brought many challenges to the fore, say organizers

Illustrative image: a young man facing mental health challenges during the pandemic (lightspeedshutter via iStock by Getty Images)

Magen David worker take a COVID-19 rapid antigen test from Israelis, at a Magen David Adom drive through complex in Jerusalem, March 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases in Israel drop below 100 for first time in months

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People march to the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Officials say Buffalo shooter researched, targeted black neighborhood

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Illustrative: Right wing activists attend a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem on November 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

US set to remove Kahane’s ‘Kach’ group from foreign terrorism blacklist

By AP and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: Women, one, wearing a 'burkini,' a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women, walk in the water on Ghar El Melh beach near Bizerte, north-east of the capital Tunis, August 16, 2016. (AFP/FETHI BELAID)

French city rekindles burkini brouhaha with pool rule change

By Amelie HERENSTEIN and Adam PLOWRIGHT

Illustrative: Palestinians wave national flags as they march in a rally marking the 74th anniversary of the 'Nakba' or 'catastrophe' of Israel's founding in the West Bank town of Ramallah, on May 15, 2022. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

Nakba Day commemorations pass largely peacefully; 3 arrested at Tel Aviv rally

By Aaron Boxerman

A flyer during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Brussels for Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian academic detained in Tehran, February 13, 2017. (DIRK WAEM / Belga / AFP)

Iran to consider postponing death sentence of academic convicted of aiding Israel

By AFP

Palestinians carry pictures of Daoud Al-Zubaidi during a protest in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 15, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Jenin gunmen protest death of Daoud Zubeidi, brother of jailed terror chief

People fighting at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market with chairs and tables, May 15, 2022. (screenshot).

Brawl erupts at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market between Jews and Arabs

Illustrative: A Palestine viper in Israel. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Guy Haimovitch, Wikimedia Commons)

Air force commando in serious condition after snake bite

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

Does Putin have cancer? Oligarch close to Kremlin claims Russian leader ‘very ill’

Israeli teachers protest as they demand better pay and working conditions in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Teachers union threatens strike over new salary agreement

People celebrate Lag B'Omer near a bonfire, in Kiryat Sefer on May 22, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Fire chief bans bonfires on Lag B’Omer festival outside of designated areas

Investigators gather outside the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2022 after a fatal shooting. (Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register via AP)

1 killed, 4 critically hurt in shooting at California church, suspect in custody

By DAMIAN DOVARGANES and Christopher Weber

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