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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 18, 2022

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Helmets and flak jackets are shipped to Ukraine, May 19, 2022 (Defense Ministry)

In first, Israel sends 2,000 helmets, 500 flak jackets to Ukraine

Defensive equipment to be handed over to civilian organizations, ministry says; aid is latest sign of Israeli policy shift on Russian invasion after initial attempt to stay neutral

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C), and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Combo photo: AFP)

ExclusiveSenior Zelensky aide to ToI: We are waiting for Israel to change its stance on war

By Lazar Berman

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky appears via remote link during the opening ceremony of the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Invoking Chaplin’s Hitler, Zelensky urges Cannes filmmakers to find anti-war voices

Inside story

Judah Ari Gross

Entry limits, structural fixes as Israel aims to avoid repeat of 2021 Meron disaster

With drastic changes to the rules and a clearer delegation of responsibility, organizers prepare for an influx of revelers after 45 people were crushed to death last Lag B’Omer

Police officers guard the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, on Mount Meron in northern Israel on May 15, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Tools that police believe suspects intended to use to sabotage the celebrations planned for the Lag B'Omer holiday on Mount Meron in northern Israel, which were seized on May 17, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police arrest group suspected of planning to sabotage Lag B’Omer events at Mt. Meron

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jets and a refueling plane fly in formation over Nevada during the United States Air Force's Red Flag exercise in August 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

As Gantz heads to US, and CENTCOM chief arrives in Israel

Report: In 1st, US refuelers to take part in major Israeli drill for strike on Iran

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Collaboration involving Israeli fighter jets and American refuelers seen as message to Iran regarding potential for US assistance in an actual Israeli attack

Illustrative: an F-16I jet at an airbase. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli military to hold large-scale drill simulating widescale strike on Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Minister Benny Gantz arrives to a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz leaves to US for security talks centered on Iran, Ukraine

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.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (with back to camera) pays a condolence call to the family of Sgt. Maj. Noam Raz, a policecounterterrorism officer killed last week by a Palestinian gunman, May 18, 2022 (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Son of slain counterterrorism officer tells Bennett he is as much to blame as killer

PM gets cold shoulder from mourning family of Noam Raz, says they have right to say what they feel; Netanyahu gets warm welcome

Threatening letter sent to the Bennett family in April 2022: 'This is the bullet that will hit your soft underbelly Naftali Bennett and directly hit Yoni Bennett if you do not resign' (Courtesy)

‘This bullet will hit your son’: Suspect to be charged for threats to Bennett family

Right-wing activist Ilana Sporta Hania to be indicted for sending letters with bullets to PM and his family; investigation finds she previously threatened former AG Mandelblit

People march during the annual Pride Parade in Haifa, June 18, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Pride march in Netivot nixed after bullet sent to organizer’s mother

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)

Doctors to strike Thursday at hospitals, clinics to protest violence against medics

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 18: Tense preparations at Mt. Meron; WZO says sorry

Religion reporter Judah Ari Gross reviews plans for Lag B’Omer event and an apology to Women of the Wall, as political writer Tal Schneider discusses a Knesset scholarship bill

Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with MK Miki Zohar during a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, January 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Arabs are taking over the country’: Likud aims next campaign at far-right voters

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Netanyahu’s party to propose deporting terrorists’ families, jail terms for flying the Palestinian flag or burning Israel’s, stripping citizenship for demonstrating during war

Ra'am party leader MK Mansour Abbas speaks during a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, May 17, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Mansour Abbas: Arab-Jewish political cooperation should be an end, not a means

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Chief of police Kobi Shabtai attends a ceremony honoring Israeli security forces, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police chief slams MKs who clashed with police: ‘We’re not part of a political game’

Police detain Palestinians during clashes after the funeral of Walid a-Sharif in East Jerusalem, May 16, 2022 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Police said to beat relatives of seriously hurt Palestinian man in the hospital

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

Suspected robber shot in Jerusalem after he’s mistaken for terrorist

A car that was burned during recent clashes between Jewish and Arab residents of Lod, in the central Israeli city of Lod, May 23, 2021. (Flash90)

Prosecutors say more than 600 indictments filed over last May’s Jewish-Arab violence

Employees of US embassy in Ukraine raise the US national flag at the US embassy, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 18, 2022. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Live updates (closed)

US reopens Kyiv embassy months after fleeing west ahead of invasion

By Joshua Davidovich

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says move a result of US arms helping Ukraine fend off Russian advance; safety precautions put in place for diplomats returning to capital

8:07 pm

Over a year on, Senate confirms appointment of Biden nominee for senior State Dept. post
7:08 pm

Student visa brouhaha with US could hurt waiver campaign -- report
7:05 pm

Authorities plead with first Meron pilgrims to leave, as time limits go unheeded

Shlomo Filber, former director-general of the Communications Ministry, at a hearing in the trial against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on May 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Filber again seems to change testimony on Netanyahu, who hails ‘death’ of case

State witness tells court that damning evidence he gave regarding a meeting with the then-PM may have related to a different chat with Bezeq’s Elovitch

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (left) and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wife, Sara, and son, Yair, in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, January 10, 2022, during a preliminary hearing in a defamation lawsuit. (Avshalom Sassoni/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahus ordered to testify in their libel case against Olmert — report

Elchanan Poupko

Spiteful Synagogue Syndrome stories

I know first-hand (and many times over) that it’s no fun to get yelled at in a new shul; the trick is to not let that unpleasantness drive you away

To keep Israel safe, it is time to break the walls

We must see things as they are, instead of how we would like them to be; we must seek compromise, out of respect for each of Israeli society’s many diverse parts

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!

Illustrative. In vitro fertilization (IVF) of an egg cell. (iStock by Getty Images/ man_at_mouse)

Health minister allows artificial insemination for ‘chained’ women

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel has until now refused to let women whose husbands deny them a divorce get pregnant through donated sperm or IVF, due to fierce rabbinate opposition

Fire chief says Jerusalem-area towns fiddling as surrounding woods set to burn again

As the nation girds for fire season, communities in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council threatened by a large blaze last year are being accused of ignoring advice to avoid a repeat

A brush fire west of Jerusalem, August 15, 2021. (Ariel Kedem/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal (to his right) pose with members of the President's Climate Forum, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 17, 2022. Dov Khenin is third from right. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

President’s Climate Forum developing ‘sparks of ideas’ to present at COP27

Emily Levi. (Facebook)

Dramatic help

Israeli diagnoses her own rare condition while watching Grey’s Anatomy

Emily Levi suffered from joint dislocations for years until she found answer in medical drama; today, she is the CEO of a clinic in Petah Tikva that aims to assist others like her

American novelist Joshua Cohen speaks during a meeting with journalists as part of the International Writers Festival, in Jerusalem, May 16, 2022. (Courtesy Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

ToI Podcast

Ironies pile up as author of satirical ‘The Netanyahus’ talks Pulitzer win

By Jessica Steinberg

Listen to newly minted award-winning author Joshua Cohen speak about using art to ‘obliterate political divides’ in a bonus Times Will Tell podcast

Lily Toth, left, in an undated photo with her parents prior to their deaths in 1944. (Courtesy of Toth/ via JTA)

'The Holocaust drove people to preserve beautiful things'

Holocaust survivor’s collection of over 1,000 miniature books reflect a sad chapter

Born in Budapest in 1925, Lilly Toth lost her family to the Nazis. The valuable texts, on display May 15 at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library, show her attachment to her native land

GOP’s Minnesota secretary of state candidate says Soros controls Jewish incumbent

By Andrew Lapin

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Finland's Ambassador to NATO Klaus Korhonen, left, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Sweden's Ambassador to NATO Axel Wernhoff attend a ceremony to mark Sweden's and Finland's application for membership in Brussels, Belgium, May 18, 2022. (Johanna Geron/Pool via AP)

NATO chief hails ‘historic moment’ as Finland, Sweden apply

Louisville, Ky., mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg arrives to vote in the state's primary election, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. (AP/Piper Hudspeth Blackburn)

Jewish candidate who escaped shooting clinches Democratic nod for Louisville mayor

By PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN

Unusual corals like this one have been discovered in the deep sea area of the Palmachim Disturbance 30 kilometers off the Tel Aviv coast. (Haifa University Department of Marine Biology)

Dazzling undersea array found off Tel Aviv to be protected as marine reserve

Lilienblum Street 13 in Tel Aviv, March 2020. (Israel Preker, CC BY, Heritage Conservation Project - Tel-Aviv via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project @pikiwiki.org.il)

Historic Tel Aviv villa built by early city founders goes on the market

By Danielle Nagler

Ricky Gardiner plays with Beggar's Opera in 1971 (Screen grab/YouTube)

Guitarist Ricky Gardiner, whose riff opened Iggy Pop’s ‘The Passenger,’ dies at 73

The central city of Netanya and the Mediterranean Sea, December 2020 (Alexey Firsov via iStock by Getty Images)

Away for 2 years, foreign owners flock back to Israel homes as COVID rules are eased

By Danielle Nagler

A Jewish pilgrim writes her wishes on an egg before putting it back in the cave at the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba on May 18, 2022, during the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the synagogue. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Jewish pilgrims return to Tunisia after a COVID-induced hiatus

By AFP

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)

Israel’s Eurovision contestant accuses media of antisemitism

By Michael Horovitz

France's newly appointed Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne delivers a speech during a handover ceremony in the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon, French prime ministers' official residence, in Paris on May 16, 2022. (Ludovic MARIN/POOL/AFP)

Macron names 1st French female PM in 30 years; her father was Polish Jewish refugee

By Michael Horovitz

Russian-born former Israeli diplomat Yaakov Kedmi in Moscow in 2017. (Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Ex-Israeli diplomat on Russian state TV: Moscow could bomb UK ‘back to Stone Age’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

Israeli envoy presents credentials in Chad after 50-year hiatus

Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray points to a video display of a UAP during a hearing of the House Intelligence, Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing on 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,' on Capitol Hill, May 17, 2022, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Saw them at SinaiUS Army vets say they saw UFOs on Israel-Egypt border in 2014

By ToI Staff and AP

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