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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 21, 2022

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Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi arrives for an interview at the Channel 12 news studio in Neve Ilan on May 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett: Forming this gov't was most Zionist act of my life

Meretz MK who quit coalition says ‘alternative to existing government much worse’

Rinawie Zoabi insists she’s not walking back resignation, but acknowledges that she doesn’t want to see Netanyahu return to power and may cooperate with coalition from opposition

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on May 8, 2022. (Maya Alleruzzo/Pool/AFP)

Bennett: Government faces ‘a machine of poison and lies’

Joint List MKs Sami Abou Shahadeh (right) and Ahmad Tibi seen during a plenum session at the Knesset on February 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Joint List MK to submit bill to begin process of dissolving Knesset next Wednesday

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)

Israel reports first suspected case of monkeypox in man who returned from Europe

By ToI Staff and AFP

Man in his 30s is being isolated and monitored at Ichilov hospital; said to be in good condition; outbreak has now spread to at least 11 countries

This 1997 image provided by the CDC during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, and depicts the dorsal surfaces of the hands of a monkeypox case patient, who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. (CDC via AP)

African scientists baffled by unusual spread of monkeypox cases in Europe, US

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison concedes defeat in the national elections in Sydney on May 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Nazanin Tabatabaee)

Australian PM concedes defeat, ending party’s 9-year rule; was firm backer of Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Scott Morrison, who recognized west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, congratulates opposition leader Anthony Albanese, whose Labor party supports recognizing Palestine as a state

Illustrative: An explosion seen at the Syrian port of Latakia on December 28, 2021, after an alleged Israeli strike. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Syria says 3 soldiers killed in Israeli missile strikes near Damascus

By Emanuel Fabian

Unconfirmed report claims raid targets Damascus International Airport; state media says air defenses intercept most of the missiles, but damage still caused

Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, speaks to an AFP journalist during an interview at his residence in Maarab, north of the capital Beirut, on May 20, 2022. (Joesph Eid/AFP)

Lebanese Christian leader calls for Hezbollah’s grip on country to end

By Layal Abou Rahal

Fire at a garage in the southern town of Hura, May 21, 2022. (Screen grab/Kan)

12-year-old boy seriously burned in suspected arson attack in south

Police say suspects set phone store alight in Hura; child taken to hospital with second- and third-degree burns all over his body; two men in their 20s arrested

An ambulance at the scene where two children died after being trapped in a car on on May 20, 2022 (Magen David Adom)

Two children die after becoming locked in car in southern Israel

People gather at the Al Jazeera offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 11, 2022 following the killing of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot dead during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen as she covered an Israeli raid on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

57 House Dems call for US probe into killing of Al Jazeera journalist

Lawmakers cast doubt on Israeli account that reporter was caught between IDF, Palestinian fire; Israeli envoy fumes that letter ignores fact IDF operated in Jenin amid terror wave

Israeli soldiers are seen operating in the West Bank city of Jenin on May 13, 2022. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Palestinian teen shot dead in clash with IDF during operation in Jenin

An Israeli removes a Palestinian flag from a pole in the Palestinian town of Hawara on May 20, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Army filmed protecting settlers taking down Palestinian flag in West Bank town

A destroyed tank is seen near the village of Biskvitne near Kharkiv on May 19, 2022, amid Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

Zelensky: Only diplomacy can end conflict with Russia

By Charlotte Plantive, Dmitry Zaks and Patrick Fort

Ukrainian president warns continued fighting ‘will be bloody’; Moscow cuts gas supplies to Finland following NATO application

Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after leaving Mariupol's besieged Azovstal steel plant, near a penal colony, in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Friday, May 20, 2022. (AP Photo)

In rare victory, Russia claims to take full control of Mariupol

By Elena Becatoros, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN

A photo taken on May 12, 2022 shows pipes at the Gasum plant in Raikkola, Imatra, Finland. (Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AFP)

Russia halts gas supplies to Finland amid rift over NATO bid, sanctions payments

By AFP

Pouring a Nana Estate Winery rose while looking out toward the unlikely desert terroir of this Negev vineyard. (Courtesy: Nana Winery)

In the Negev, a new breed of vintners are making the desert bloom

By Jessica Steinberg

With the arid terroir producing a wine that’s ‘fruity but not jammy,’ the vineyards of the Negev are banding together in hopes of being recognized as a formal appellation

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Bribery charge against Netanyahu may be weakened but case not over, say experts

Credibility of state’s key witness Shlomo Filber is on the rocks after the defense punches holes in prosecution theories

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in his graft trial, May 17, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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!

The blessing of stability: Parshat Bechukotai

Just as pirates who lived life on the edge took comfort in the rules of their code, the Torah offers similar security in its equal-opportunity blessings and curses

Shoshana Ruerup

The parsha’s recipe for personal happiness

Walking in God’s ways means observing the Torah’s laws with mindfulness, and thereby coming to achieve enlightenment and closeness with the Divine

A member of the Jewish community lights a candle at a Jewish cemetery in Morocco's northern city of Meknes on May 18, 2022. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

Moroccan Jews return to their roots with pilgrimage to Meknes

By Kaouthar Oudrhiri

Visit this week was first of its kind since the 1960s, after the Muslim kingdom restored the city’s Jewish cemetery

Zachary Noah Piser is taking over the role of Evan Hansen on Broadway full-time, becoming the first Asian American actor to do so. (Matthew Murphy/ via JTA)

Interview

Broadway’s latest ‘Evan Hansen’ on his new role and being ‘Jasian,’ or Jewish-Asian

By EVELYN FRICK

Zachary Noah Piser is the most recent Member of the Tribe to take on the iconic character whose coming of age struggle brings audiences together from across the diversity spectrum

Anthony Hopkins and Banks Repeta in 'Armageddon Time.' (Courtesy: Focus Features)

In new Hopkins, Hathaway film, Jewish family navigates injustice in 1980s New York

By Deborah Cole

‘Armageddon Time’ premieres to glowing reviews at Cannes; director says he wanted to look at the moment when America lost its way

René Hadjaj, a 90-year-old French Jewish man who was pushed to his death by a neighbor. (Courtesy)

90-year-old Jewish man allegedly pushed to his death in Lyon, France

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Police rule out antisemitism as motive in killing of René Hadjaj, sparking outcry in community who note similarities to two other incidents of French Jews killed in recent years

Some CUNY students and faculty felt 'unsafe' after Nerdeen Kiswani gave the commencement speech at CUNY School of Law last week. (Courtesy)

Anti-Israel commencement speaker sparks fresh antisemitism debate at CUNY

Some CUNY students and faculty have said they’ve felt ‘unsafe’ after Nerdeen Kiswani gave speech at CUNY School of Law graduation ceremony

White nationalist and neo-Nazi groups carry torches at the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11, 2017. Participants were said to chant: 'Jews will not replace us.' (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

ExplainerWhite ‘replacement theory,’ the racist, antisemitic belief fueling deadly attacks

By David Bauder

An image depicting Jewish philanthropist George Soros as a puppet master, from a campaign video for Kim Crockett, Minnesota GOP candidate for Secretary of State. (Screen capture via JTA)

Minnesota GOP apologizes for video showing Soros as puppet master over Jewish Dems

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan (left) appears with journalist Peter Greenberg on a safari in Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania for the television show “The Royal Tour.” (Karen Ballard via AP)

7 years after Netanyahu played host, unique travel show back with another top guide

By David Bauder

In each episode, a different country’s leader serves as tour guide to US journalist Peter Greenberg; following pause for pandemic, latest show visits Tanzania

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Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 30, 2021, heading for COVID-19 tests. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel ends COVID tests for international arrivals as pandemic continues to recede

In this image taken from a video provided by the Turkish Presidency, Russian Roman Abramovich, center, listens to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting for talks in Istanbul, Turkey, March 29, 2022. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

Under sanctions, Roman Abramovich has seen wealth halved to $7.5 billion

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out in a forest near Shoresh, outside of Jerusalem, August 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israelis asked to avoid national parks amid fear of fires, falling branches

Illustrative: A teen holds up a flag which reads 'We are all Kahane' at a protest in support of a soldier charged with manslaughter in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on April 19, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

US removes radical Jewish group Kach, 4 others from list of terror organizations

Shaima Dallali (formerly president of City Students’ Union) takes over as president of the UK National Union of Students. (Screenshot via YouTube)

UK government questions student union head’s election over alleged antisemitism

By Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff

A picture taken from Cyprus' warship 'Ioannides' shows a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter taking part in the Multinational CIMIC Exercise, ARGONAUT 2019, Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations, a rescue drill in which the militaries of Cyprus, Greece, France, Britain, Israel, Germany and the US participated on May 30, 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)

Israel joins 6 other countries in Cyprus to drill evacuations from conflict zones

By AP

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)

3 more arrested for attacking Jerusalem hospital staff after overdose patient died

US President Joe Biden (left) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (Collage/AP)

US, Saudi officials reportedly discussing Biden meeting with crown prince

Workers pump water out of the foundation of the former Champlain Towers South building, Surfside, Florida, May 12, 2022. (AP/Marta Lavandier)

Dubai developer buys site of Florida’s Surfside building collapse for $120 million

By AP

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Hilltop Honey in Newtown, Powys, Wales, May 20, 2022. (Ben Birchall/Pool via AP)

UK’s Johnson vows to resolve Northern Ireland’s Brexit-related kosher food shortage

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Actors Michael Aloni and Yuval Scharf in 'The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,' a historical series produced in Israel by Yes Studios. (Courtesy: Nati Levi)

Looking goodIsraeli drama ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ makes Netflix debut

By CALEB GUEDES-REED and Gabe Friedman

In this file photo taken on May 02, 2022, Elon Musk arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Elon Musk accused of sexual misconduct by private jet flight attendant

By AP

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