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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 17, 2022

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks during a conference at Herzliya’s Reichman University, May 17, 2022. (Gilad Kvalarchik)

Gantz: Iran ‘weeks from enough fissile material for bomb,’ adding 1,000 centrifuges

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister warns cost of dealing with Iran will be higher in a year; warns Tehran against transfer of advanced weapons to proxies; says Israel’s position on Ukraine ‘ethical’

Illustrative: A 2008 photo of Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, where a number of foreigners and dual nationals have been detained over the years. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)

Iranian academic and author Said Madani arrested on national security charges

Screen grab from the video showing a blindfolded Syrian man pushed by a Syrian agent before being shot dead and thrown into a large pit full of bodies in the Tadamon neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo)

Hope evaporates for families of Syria missing as video exposes prisoner massacre

A woman wears a face mask on a flight from Ben Gurion International Airport to Rome on February 21, 2020. (Nati shohat/Flash90)

Israel to end mandatory masking aboard international flights on May 23

By Alexander Fulbright

‘We aren’t keeping unnecessary restrictions in place,’ health minister declares, while testing requirements for flying will end Saturday

Travelers arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel enter the COVID-19 testing area, July 1, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Starting Saturday, air travel to Israel won’t require any COVID tests

Posters expressing support for the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, hang on a main road in the capital Beirut, on May 14, 2022, on the eve of parliamentary elections. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Analysis

Despite Lebanon election setbacks, Hezbollah remains a growing threat to Israel

Shiite group and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, but Israel’s northern neighbor remains a dysfunctional state in which Nasrallah’s terror faction does what it pleases

Lebanon's former foreign minister and parliamentary candidate Gibran Bassil (C) meets supporters waving the yellow flags of the Lebanese Hezbollah at his residence after the end of voting in the parliamentary election in the northern city of Batroun early on May 16, 2022. (Ibrahim Chalhoub / AFP)

Hezbollah-led bloc loses parliamentary majority, full Lebanese election results show

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Hezbollah drone brought down by the Israeli military after it crossed the border into Israel, on May 17, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it downed Hezbollah drone that entered Israeli airspace amid major drill

By Emanuel Fabian

Meet your dream universities at the Access MBA Tel Aviv Event

Join business professionals and attend free panels, workshops, and presentations at Carlton Hotel Tel Aviv on May 23rd. Meet UC Berkeley, Duke, Bentley University, and many more.

Israeli security forces clash with Palestinians following the funeral of Walid al-Sharif, 23, who died of wounds suffered last month during clashes with Israeli police outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, on May 16, 2022 (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Cops attacked, violent clashes at J’lem funeral of Palestinian wounded on Temple Mt.

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

6 cops lightly injured, at least 15 Palestinians arrested; Red Crescent says 71 wounded as a funeral procession deteriorates into violence for second time in a week

Damage to the intensive care unit at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem caused by family members of a patient who died there, May 16, 2022. (Hadassah spokesperson)

Deceased patient’s relatives attack Jerusalem hospital staff, wreck ICU unit

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Alabaster for Herod the Great’s lavish bathtubs traced to quarry in Israel

Daughter-father scientific study rules out Egyptian quarries and shows ancient Holy Land industry was potentially much more developed than previously thought

Herod’s calcite-alabaster bathtub found in Kypros fortress (Prof. Amos Frumkin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Ambassador Ben Bourgel presents his credentials to Chad President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on May 17, 2022. (Foreign Ministry/Twitter)

Live updates (closed)

For first time in 50 years, Israeli diplomat presents credentials in Chad

Nonresident Ambassador Ben Bourgel takes up post following resumption of relations between Jerusalem, N’Djamena in 2019 after ties cut in 1972

6:25 pm

After 50 years, Israeli diplomat presents credentials in Chad
6:11 pm

Iran unveils new drone production line in Tajikistan
5:57 pm

Zandberg: Israel's marine protected areas to double

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 17: Violence at Temple Mount as bereaved brother hopes for peace

Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman breaks down 3 recent Palestinian deaths and their aftershocks; environment reporter Sue Surkes updates us on a Jerusalem cable car

Israeli police officers are seen in Saint Joseph's Hospital in Jerusalem, from where Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral set out, on May 16, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Video shows cops storming hospital before reporter’s funeral, hitting people inside

Israel Ambassador to Ukraine raises Israel's flag in front of the embassy in Kyiv, May 17, 2022 (courtesy)

'It's very moving to get back after three months'

After weeks of closure, Israel envoy to Ukraine raises flag in front of Kyiv embassy

By Lazar Berman

Ambassador Michael Brodsky in Ukrainian capital for 1st time since Russia invaded; meets with local officials to discuss Israel’s role in country’s reconstruction

Demonstrators carry placards and Ukrainian flags during a protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, May 8, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Court rules Israel must grant work permits to Ukrainian refugees

Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson gives a news conference in the capital Stockholm on May 16, 2022. (Henrik Montgomery/Various Sources/AFP)

Sweden joins Finland in seeking NATO membership, ending neutrality

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!

A screenshot of surveillance video shows Palestinian man armed with a knife charging at Israeli soldiers before being shot, May 17, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Palestinian tries to stab soldier in northern West Bank, is shot by troops, IDF says

Assailant ‘neutralized’ near HQ of regional military brigade; no soldiers hurt, no word on attacker’s condition; video shows man approaching 2 soldiers, apparently with knife drawn

An illustrative photo of an Israel Air Force Apache helicopter, taken on December 25, 2014 at Hatzerim Air Base in Israel ( AP Photo/ Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF mulling use of attack helicopters, drones to protect troops in West Bank raids

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Counting the Omer: On free speech and moral speech

Permitting a wide range of expression is crucial to freedom, but we can’t forget that Judaism gives us careful instructions for how to speak justly

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

An Israeli mom, a Palestinian mom, and the village that could be

Outside the hospital, tensions were high, but inside that nursing room, there was only compassion, gentleness and peace

MKs Idit Silman (R) and Nir Orbach arrive for a Yamina faction meeting at the Knesset on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ousted Yamina MK Kalfon: I didn’t defect or intend to do so

In shift, Bennett’s Yamina moves to strip rebel MK Silman of her committee posts

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Coalition said to tell Knesset it will remove Silman from panels after she wouldn’t back Kahana’s reappointment as religious services minister; Pinto to replace her on health panel

Then-minister of religious affairs Matan Kahana arrives to a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet advances reappointment of Yamina’s Kahana as minister

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) with MK Idit Silman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Aren’t you embarrassed?’: Bennett kicks Silman out of faction meeting

Russian S-300 air defense missile systems drive during the Victory Day military parade marking 71 years after the victory in WWII in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

In first, Russian military said to fire S-300 missiles at Israeli jets over Syria

TV says incident came last week as IAF fighters departed area after alleged strike and they were not in danger; move could signal a significant shift in Moscow’s ties with Israel

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits IDF Northern Command on May 16, 2022. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

After Syria strike, Gantz vows to stem Iranian transfer of ‘advanced capabilities’

By Emanuel Fabian

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Updated Nation-State Law that includes ‘equal rights’ clause unlikely to advance

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar slam proposals to refine or revoke contentious law that enshrines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-prime minister Naftali Bennett. (Menahem Kahana/AFP; Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu accuses Bennett of ‘gambling with lives’ as PM defends Ra’am partnership

By Tobias Siegal

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

Police officers guard ahead of the Lag B'omer festival, at the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, in Meron, northern Israel on May 15, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Scalpers offer fake Meron festival tickets, subverting new safety measures – report

Ticket sellers say they can provide passes for Lag B’Omer event even if site is full; claim to also have tickets circumventing time limits imposed in wake of 2021’s deadly crush

Gals Bio CEO and founder Hilla Shaviv with her Tulipon device. (Courtesy)

Women entrepreneurs are leading the charge to make Israel a femtech powerhouse

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Fed up with gender discrimination, founders are offering solutions to improve women’s lives, and investors are taking an interest

EU innovation program grants $1.35b to over 1,600 Israel projects since 2014

By Ricky Ben-David

Real estate promoter and Tel Aviv nightlife figure Alon Kastiel arrives at the Hermon Prison in the northern part of Israel to begin serving his sentence for sex offenses, August 26, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Victims outraged as Tel Aviv serial sex offender gets early release from jail

As parole board decides to free Alon Kastiel months before end of a term already seen by many as insufficient for his crimes, women he assaulted fear he’s still a danger

More Headlines

Robert Keith Packer seen during the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2020 (L) and in custody in Virginia, January 13, 2013. (Screen capture: Twitter/Western Tidewater Regional Jail)

Prosecutors seek jail term for Capitol rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt

By Michael Kunzelman

Investigators work the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, NY, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Police: Buffalo gunman aimed to continue to second supermarket if he got away

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, speaks at an abortion rights rally in front of the US Supreme Court in December 2021. (Courtesy of Danya Ruttenberg via JTA)

National Council of Jewish Women creates outlet for Jews to donate to abortion funds

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Members of Lev Tahor prepare to depart their compound in eastern Sarajevo, on February 3, 2022. (Courtesy/Davorin Sekulic/Klix.ba)

2 members of Lev Tahor cult extradited to US from Guatemala for prosecution

A Russian national flag flies by destroyed buildings in Mariupol on April 12, 2022, as Russian troops intensify a campaign to take the strategic port city. *EDITOR'S NOTE: This picture was taken during a trip organized by the Russian military.* (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)

Ukraine says more than 260 fighters evacuated from Mariupol mill as defense ends

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN

A memorial and awareness day for Yemenite children said to have disappeared in Israel's formative years, in Jerusalem on July 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MKs push to release report of Health Ministry’s action in Yemenite children affair

File photo shows the defendant coming to the continuation of the trial of the Neuruppin Regional Court, May 16, 2022. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)

Ex-Nazi guard, 101, could face 5 years in German prison

By AP

Assemblyman Eichenstein returns Collins' lost wallet (Courtesy via JTA)

Pay it forwardNY man thanks Hasidic family for returning lost wallet

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

WZO says cooperation with group that violently protested Women of the Wall was error

By Judah Ari Gross

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)

Zemmour acquitted of Holocaust denial for saying French Nazi collaborator saved Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

CEO Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Delaware, July 13, 2021. (AP/Matt Rourke, File)

Musk: Twitter deal can’t go ahead without proof under 5% of accounts are bots

By AP

A sandstorm engulfs a mosque in Iran's capital Tehran on May 17, 2022. (AFP)

Sandstorm blankets Tehran, closing schools and government offices

By AP

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