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What Matters Most On Friday, May 20, 2022

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(L) Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and (R) Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi. (Danny Shem Tov/Knesset Spokesperson)

Ra'am's Abbas visits lawmaker 'to see where we stand'

‘It’s not over’: Despite MK’s defection, Lapid says too early to eulogize coalition

Rinawie Zoabi won’t rule out resigning from Knesset, which would return seat to Meretz; says will support coalition ‘for now’; Horowitz said to have ‘long, good’ talks with her

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi addresses a Knesset committee. (Danny Shem Tov/Knesset Spokesperson)

In first comments, rebel Meretz MK ambiguous on support for new elections

AnalysisNew elections creep closer with resignation, but coalition of 59 not buried yet

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Author Joshua Prager and his new book, 'The Family Roe.' (Author portraint: Peter van Agtmael, Magnum Photos)

Times Will Tell

PODCAST: How the clash of sex and religion spawned America’s abortion saga

Joshua Prager, author of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for non-fiction ‘The Family Roe,’ dissects potential fallout of a leaked Supreme Court decision overturning Roe V Wade

Abortion rights demonstrators rally on the National Mall in Washington, during protests across the country, on May 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Oklahoma legislature passes ban on nearly all abortions

By AFP

Former head of Department of Homeland Security disinformation board Nina Jankowicz, May 19, 2022 (Screen grab/CBS)

Inside StoryCrush of sexist, antisemitic abuse driving women from high-profile positions

By AMANDA SEITZ

An Israel Dog Unit volunteer searching Mount Meron for missing persons. (Courtesy IDU)

ToI investigates'I'd like to think he's not here; if he is, he's not alive'

Thousands go to Meron to find themselves spiritually. Three have never come back

By Marissa Newman

The cradle of Jewish mysticism is also where Moishy Klinerman, Moshe Ilowitz and Haviv Ben-Abu were last seen. As Lag B’Omer’s throngs leave, searchers remain to scour the mountain

Environment Ministry reports reduced Lag B’Omer bonfire pollution

Explainer

As more COVID rules axed, Israel in stable state, but not yet at endemic stage

In a Times of Israel Q&A, epidemiologist Michael Edelstein says that while Israel has COVID calm, and is abolishing travel-related rules, big fluctuations in cases still possible

Illustrative image: In April 2021, when the requirement to wear masks outdoors was dropped, an Israeli man cut through a huge face mask in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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)

IDF identifies soldier’s gun that may have killed journalist, needs bullet to verify

By Josef Federman

Military official calls on PA to turn over bullet and cooperate in probe of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, which it has been refusing to do due to lack of trust in Israeli authorities

In this April 20, 2017 file photo, a Hezbollah fighter holds an Iranian-made anti-aircraft missile, right, as he takes his position with his comrade, left, between orange trees, at the coastal border town of Naqoura, south Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

IDF: Soleimani’s son-in-law using civilian flights to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah

Tehran and terror group endanger civilians by transporting advanced armaments on civilian flights to Damascus Airport, warns Israeli Army’s Arabic-language spokesperson

A spoof email sent by alleged Iranian operatives to an Israeli academic, in a video published by the Shin Bet on May 19, 2022. (Shin Bet)

Israel says it foiled Iranian operation to lure Israelis abroad, possibly nab them

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right, meets with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on May 19, 2022. (Shmulik Almany/GPO)

Gantz asks Pentagon chief to bolster anti-Iran coalition in Mideast

By Tobias Siegal

Medical staff told to watch out for monkeypox as outbreak in Europe grows

By ToI Staff and AP

Health Ministry says no cases in Israel, but with the disease spreading in Europe, urges precautions, recommends those from abroad who develop fever and lesions seek treatment

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with a 2003 outbreak. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

ExplainerWhat is monkeypox and where is it spreading?

Illustrative: Doctors and nurses at the emergency room of Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, August 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Patient attacks doctor at Wolfson hospital in third assault on medics this week

Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Autumn Rowe. (Courtesy/ ICON PR)

Interview

How Shabbat dinner helped launch Grammy-winning, Black-Jewish songwriter Autumn Rowe

By Jordan Hoffman

After collaborating with Diana Ross and Jon Batiste, the artist dishes about pulling herself up by the bootstraps and how she’s paying it forward with The Songwriter Fund

Screen capture from video of opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and fellow Likud party member MK Yoav Gallant, May 19, 2022. (Twitter)

Likud vows to oppose coalition’s scholarships bill for IDF combat veterans

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Party says it will only back bill if it covers 100% of tuition for former soldiers, instead of proposed 67%, after some members had expressed support for the coalition legislation

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi addresses the Knesset plenum. (Danny Shem Tov/Knesset Spokesperson)

Despite resignation, Meretz MK reportedly unlikely to vote for new elections

Illustrative: Residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al Hiran walk to their homes after a protest against the town's demolition, on August 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Finance official said to propose child benefit cuts to Bedouin who practice polygamy

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!

I was an Iran hostage too, and I say the West must not let this man die

Any party that takes hostages, even without executing them, cannot be a good faith partner – freeze all negotiations until Iran’s hostages are released

The girls at the gate

Ahh, they say, so you admit that there were Arabs here. Yes, I say, I know it was an Arab village.

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. (Video screenshot)

Russia ‘disappointed’ by recent Israeli statements — senior official

By Lazar Berman

Deputy foreign minister says Moscow expects a balanced, objective approach on Ukraine war from Jerusalem, as ties come under strain

US approves $40 billion for Ukraine as Biden gets behind Sweden, Finland NATO bids

By Aurelia End and Camille CAMDESSUS

Zelensky mockingly compares Russia’s laser threat to Nazis’ fake weapon propaganda

From the webVideos, witness testimony show how Russians executed Ukrainians in Bucha

From left: Este Haim, Alana Haim, and Danielle Haim arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Concert review

On tour, US-Israeli sister-trio HAIM are having the time of their lives

By Jordan Hoffman

At Madison Square Garden, the multitalented rockers have as much – or more – fun as their audience, with a quirky and charismatic stage presence that makes the huge venue intimate

This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows Frank Atwood, who was sentenced to death in the 1984 killing of 8-year-old Vicki Hoskinson in Pima County, Arizona. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

Arizona inmate whose Jewish mom fled Nazis will be executed, but not in gas chamber

By JACQUES BILLEAUD

Frank Atwood declined to pick a method for death sentence to be carried when asked by officials, so default of lethal injection to be administered

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Turkish foreign minister said planning to tour Temple Mount during Israel trip

Turkey’s top envoy, Mevlut Cavusoglu, is set to visit Jerusalem next week in a diplomatic breakthrough, but his plan to go to holy site is causing tensions with Israel, report says

Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin al-Hussein delivers his speech during the plenary session at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, December 17, 2009. (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Jordanian king puts ‘erratic’ half-brother under official house arrest

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas attends The Anthology Film Archives Benefit and Auction in New York City, March 2, 2017. (Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Anthology Film Archives/ via JTA)

Historian says NY’s Jewish Museum sanitizes filmmaker’s WWII record in new exhibit

Einat Admony, the pioneering Israeli chef who brought couscous and other Israeli treats to her New York restaurants. (Maya & Michelle Creative)

'As an Israeli, being onstage lets me speak my mind'

Israeli star chef Einat Admony cooks up a new gig: Standup comedy

By julia GERGELY

The culinary queen credited with popularizing Israeli food in the US is revamping the Comedy Cellar’s Olive Tree Cafe — and dishing out some off-menu jokes onstage

More Headlines

One of Carl Jung's many letters to his student, Dr. Rivkah Schärf Kluger. (Kedem Auction House)

Window into the selfLetters by Jung showing interest in Jewish texts up for auction

The ammo confiscated by Israeli security at the Reihan Crossing in the northern West Bank, May 20, 2022. (Defense Ministry Spokesperson)

Security forces thwart attempted smuggling of 4,000 bullets into West Bank

Illustrative: A view of the upscale Mamila neighborhood in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2015. Most of the luxury apartments are owned by foreign residents or by Israelis who use them as vacation homes. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Housing prices in Israel rise as mortgage borrowing slows

By Danielle Nagler

A van police say was driven toward troops at the Hizma checkpoint, May 20, 2022. (Israel Police)

Van driver tries to hit security forces at West Bank checkpoint, police say

A military convoy carrying APCs near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, on July 19, 2014. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

IDF practices protecting convoys from riots during war, attack on army HQ

By Emanuel Fabian

Amar'e Stoudemire speaks in an Instagram video about his leaving the Brooklyn Nets, May 18, 2022. (Screenshot via JTA)

Traveling violationAmar’e Stoudemire drops Nets coaching gig to focus on Shabbat game

By Gabe Friedman and CALEB GUEDES-REED

Police hold off violent insurrections loyal to then-US president Donald Trump as they try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021. (Julio Cortez/AP)

GOP lawmaker asked to testify on suspected ‘recon’ tour ahead of Jan. 6 insurrection

By AP and ToI Staff

Boaz Levy, the CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries, speaks to The Associated Press at the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 15, 2021. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

Vying for talent, IAI jabs at darker side of Israeli tech sector

By Ricky Ben-David

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, with Rabbi Sharon Kleibaum, left, and Rabbi Rachel Timoner, right, speaks at a press conference after meeting with 55 women rabbis at City Hall, May 19, 2022. (Gili Getz via JTA)

NY mayor meets with women rabbis to discuss antisemitism, climate change

Dudi Sela of Israel returns the ball to Spaniard Rafael Nadal during their men's singles match, on the second day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Israeli Dudi Sela’s French Open tennis match probed for suspected fixing — report

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police in Tel Aviv, on May 1, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man shot to death in mini-market in central town of Jatt

Ilana Sporta Hania, a 65-year-old resident of Ashkelon, suspected of sending envelopes containing bullets to the Bennett family, seen as she arrives for a court hearing in Rishon Lezion, May 18, 2022. (Flash90)

Right-wing activist indicted for sending death threats, bullets to Bennett family

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