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What Matters Most On Monday, May 23, 2022

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Col. Hassan Sayad Khodaei. (screenshot)

Slain Iranian officer said to have planned attacks against Israelis, Jews worldwide

Iran threatens revenge; TV reports say Hassan Sayyad Khodaei was behind recently uncovered attempt by Iran operatives to kidnap Israelis, alleged plot to kill Israelis in Cyprus

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks before departing Tehran's Mehrabad airport for a trip to Oman, May, 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran will ‘avenge’ killing of Revolutionary Guards colonel, president vows

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Family members of Col. Hassan Sayad Khodaei weep over his body at his car after he was shot by two assailants in Tehran, Iran, May 22, 2022. (Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA via AP)

Senior Iran Revolutionary Guards member assassinated in Tehran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and chief of staff Tal Gan-Tzvi (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Bennett’s chief of staff quits, in latest sign of discord in PM’s office

By Lazar Berman and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Tal Gan-Zvi, who has advised Bennett since 2013, is latest top aide to leave; rival Shimrit Meir is stepping down in coming days

Yamina MK Nir Orbach attends an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: After Meretz MK returns, Yamina lawmaker threatens to jump ship

Beauchamp Estates: Looking to buy luxury property in Tel Aviv?

Beauchamp Estates combines years of local knowledge and market intelligence from working in the heart of Israel with the benefits of an established international network of offices.

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews pray near the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, June 18, 2018. Officially, Jewish prayer atop the mount is forbidden. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ Times of Israel/ File)

Ben Gvir says he plans to visit flashpoint site on J'lem Day

Judge rules against Temple Mount ban for Jewish youth caught praying there

By Tobias Siegal and ToI Staff

PMO insists no change to status quo after Magistrate’s Court cites statement by police chief on freedom of religion for all; cops say statement was distorted; prosecution to appeal

Screen capture from video of man Jewish man detained by police for bowing down on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, May 23, 2022. (Twitter)

Two Jews prevented from praying on Temple Mount, a day after court ruling

Palestinian Muslim worshipers walk past the Dome of the Rock mosque, situated in the al-Aqsa compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, March 1, 2019, before Friday noon prayers. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Jordan: Court support for Jewish prayer at Temple Mount breaches international law

Amman warns ruling in favor of teens who recited ‘Shema Yisrael’ is also ‘a gross violation of international decisions’; Hamas warns decision ‘plays with fire’

PA refers Abu Akleh death to International Criminal Court prosecutors

By Lazar Berman

Army’s top lawyer says Israel still probing death of Al Jazeera reporter but best way to resolve incident is by examining bullet; decision on criminal probe will follow IDF inquiry

Protesters hold candles and a photo of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed while covering clashes between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen during an IDF raid in Jenin, in Haifa on May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Students stage pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protests at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba on May 23, 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Ben-Gurion University students hold flag-waving pro-Palestinian rally, drawing furor

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 23: Iran gets angry; Lapid gets vocal about disabilities funding

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian discusses a recent turn of events with Iran, as political correspondent Tal Schneider looks at Knesset debates over an IDF education bill

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When reality TV meets the reality of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate

Israel’s ‘Married at First Sight’ features its first same-sex couple, dating show ‘New Love’ includes a woman whose mother isn’t Jewish; all are unable to wed in the Jewish state

Guy (left) and Matan, the first gay couple to appear on Israel's 'Married at First Sight' reality show. (Denis Butnaru/Keshet)

Tens of thousands march in New York’s Israel parade in major show of solidarity

Top government officials from US and Israel join hundreds of Jewish groups in Manhattan, in a long-delayed affirmation for community after 3-year COVID hiatus

Russian Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin listens to his translator during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Russian soldier gets life sentence in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial

By Elena Becatoros, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and Ricardo Mazalan

Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating thousands of potential war crimes; in virtual address to Davos economic conference, Zelensky calls for ‘maximum sanctions’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky displayed on a screen as he addresses the audience from Kyiv on a screen during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, May 23, 2022. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Zelensky urges ‘maximum’ sanctions, oil and trade embargo on Russia in Davos talk

By Jamey Keaten

Patients rest at Pokrovsk hospital in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Ukraine defends eastern city from Russian bombardment

By Elena Becatoros, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and Ricardo Mazalan

Supreme Court Chief of Justice Esther Hayut speaks at an Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 02, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief accuses politicians of seeking to ‘destroy’ justice system

Amid harsh criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Esther Hayut warns that discourse about court is ‘deteriorating’ to ‘dangerous places’

Arnon Milchan poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Widows,' showing as part of the opening gala of the BFI London Film Festival in London, on October 10, 2018. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Netanyahu said to have offered to nominate billionaire Milchan for president

Frieda Vizel leading a tour of Williamsburg, New York, April 2022. (Danielle Ziri)

'I love to feel like I’m part of things on my own terms'

Ex-Hasidic woman gives tours of her former NYC stomping grounds from the outside in

By Danielle Ziri

Frieda Vizel takes participants on an intimate journey into the insular Williamsburg enclave. But far from a critique, she offers a detailed and objective look at life there

Then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, center, and then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attend a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Hours before Knesset vote, fate of coalition’s IDF veterans scholarship bill unclear

Some opposition leaders said to tell Netanyahu they’ll vote with his Likud party; Netanyahu says disputed funding should come from cash promised to Arab towns

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a plenum session in the Knesset on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Likud compromises with Gantz, giving veterans tuition bill enough support to pass

Netanyahu’s party agrees to defense minister’s proposal to alter legislation so that it covers 3/4th of the college costs for ex-combat soldiers instead of 2/3rds

11:43 pm

Coalition passes combat veterans tuition scholarships bill
10:56 pm

Likud agrees to Gantz's compromise proposal on bill for IDF veterans scholarships
10:41 pm

Likud convenes to discuss Gantz's compromise proposal on bill for IDF veterans' scholarships

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi arrives for an interview at Channel 12's Neve Ilan studios, May 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prospect of millions in funding for Arab towns ends 3-day coalition crisis

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Meretz MK Rinawie Zoabi reverses move to quit after facing pressure from Arab leaders, who expect already-earmarked funds to be released

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi seen after a meeting with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid outside the Foreign Ministry offices in Jerusalem, May 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In reversal, Meretz MK to stay in coalition, removing immediate election threat

The war is over; the good guys lost

Home to regular mass shootings, America does little to stop them – and then the next guy pulls his constitutionally guaranteed trigger and kills some more

Quick-fix politics on the deck of the Titanic

Overhauling the electoral system will do nothing to change the course of a country headed toward implosion

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!

In historic first, alleged ‘disappeared’ Yemenite baby exhumed

Sister of Uziel Houri, who according to records died in 1952, says she has doubts as to whether answers will be found regarding her brother’s fate

Screen capture from video of the exhumation of Uziel Houri, the son of Yemenite immigrants, whose family rejects official records that he died of illness as a baby in 1952. The grave was opened in Petah Tikva, on May 23, 2022. (Twitter)

Illustrative: Monkeypox virus (Udomkarn Chitkul/iStock by Getty Images)

Top health official, virus expert call for calm over monkeypox outbreak

By Michael Horovitz

There is currently only one confirmed case in Israel, and officials say it is unlikely to become a new pandemic

Illustrative: A young woman sits alone (torwai; iStock by Getty Images)

Report finds 360% increase in violence, anxiety among youth after pandemic’s onset

Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, on October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Patient pepper-sprays doctor at Beersheba psychiatric hospital

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Iranians gather at the site where a ten-story building collapsed in the southwestern city of Abadan on May 23, 2022. (Tasnim News/AFP)

At least four dead, 80 trapped under rubble in Iran building collapse

By AFP

US Ambassador Tom Nides is interviewed by The Times of Israel at the US embassy in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2022. (David Azagury/ US embassy)

US Ambassador Nides moves into new residence in Jerusalem

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Lapid in tears as cabinet discusses budget boost for people with disabilities

By Tobias Siegal

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

Gantz says US holding firm against Iran’s demand to remove IRGC from terror list

Palestinian mourners surround the body of Walid al-Sharif who died of wounds suffered during clashes with Israeli police at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, on May 16, 2022. ( AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Palestinian fatally hurt on Temple Mount wasn’t hit by sponge bullet – report

By Emanuel Fabian

An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian farm shed in the West Bank village of Masafer in Area C, in February 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel said to begin evictions, demolitions in W. Bank land declared a firing zone

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A female presenter for TOLOnews, Thamina Usmani, covers her face during a live broadcast at Tolo TV station in Kabul on May 22, 2022. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

‘We’ll use our voice’: Female Afghan TV hosts vow to fight against new burqa rule

By Jay Deshmukh and Abdullah Hasrat

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola (left) shakes hands with Yisrael Beytenu MK Yossi Shain after arriving in Israel on May 22, 2022. (Courtesy)

European Parliament president touches down in Israel amid spat over Spanish member

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: People in face masks ride the subway in Manhattan during the coronavirus pandemic, Aug. 27, 2020 in New York. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Man fatally shot on New York subway train; suspect at large

By AP

President Isaac Herzog (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential complex in Ankara, on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Turkey dreams of far-fetched gas pipeline with Israel

By Fulya Ozerkan

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