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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 24, 2022

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MK Itamar Ben Gvir attends a march by right-wing activists through Jerusalem's Old City, April 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Shin Bet foils Hamas plot to assassinate MK Ben Gvir, bomb Jerusalem rail with drone

By Emanuel Fabian

Security authorities say 5 East Jerusalem men also sought to kidnap soldiers; far-right lawmaker blames left-wing activists, Bennett and Lapid for threat against him

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

In daytime raid, IDF clashes with Palestinian gunmen near Jenin refugee camp

By Aaron Boxerman and Emanuel Fabian

File - Mourners gather around the coffin of Iran's Revolutionary Guards colonel Sayyad Khodaei during a funeral procession at Imam Hussein square in the capital Tehran, on May 24, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Thousands at Tehran funeral for assassinated IRGC colonel, chant ‘Death to Israel’

By AP and ToI Staff

IRGC and Quds Force commanders pay last respects to Khodaei; ‘We want revenge only,’ mourners say; unconfirmed reports say he oversaw attacks on Israeli targets in India, Thailand

The body of a senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard identified as Col. Hassan Sayad Khodaei, who was assassinated in Tehran on May 22, 2022. Inset: Khodaei (Twitter/screenshot)

Slain IRGC officer reported behind 2012 attacks on envoys; Israel said raising alert

An illustrative photo of Iranian fighter jets flying over the mausoleum of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, during a military parade ceremony marking the anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Two Iranian pilots killed when fighter jet crashes, state media says

By AP

Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a plenum session in the Knesset on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Def. minister: I'm not prepared for politics to harm the IDF

Knesset passes veterans scholarships law after Likud agrees to Gantz’s compromise

Defense minister alters bill at last minute so that it covers 75% of ex-combat soldiers’ tuition costs instead of the originally proposed 67%, leading Likud to drop its opposition

Gideon Sa'ar, head of the New Hope political party, speaks during the conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar’s flagship PM-term-limit legislation dies, because coalition lacks the votes

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

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.

Analysis

FM’s visit shows Turkey eager to accelerate reconciliation, but Israel more cautious

Ankara’s energy minister had wanted to join FM Cavusoglu on his trip Tuesday, but Jerusalem is not looking to jump into a natural gas partnership

Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusolgu is greeted in Israel by Gil Haskel, the Foreign Ministry's protocol chief, May 24, 2022 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Activists: Likud legislator showed her 'true face'

Regev stands by call to oppose bills targeting rape, violence if it hurts coalition

Lawmaker says blame should be on person who leaked recordings in which she told fellow Likud MKs tactic is fine in bid to topple the government

Likud MK Miri Regev speaking to the media after testifying to the state commission of inquiry into the tragedy at Mount Meron on May 24, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MKs Miri Regev and Yuval Steinitz. (Collage/Flash90)

Likud MKs: Can’t be queasy voting against soldiers and rape victims to topple gov’t

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 24: Flags and prayer in the Old City; US envoy finds a home

Arab affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman on Jerusalem tensions to come; US correspondent Jacob Magid looks at Democratic primaries, ex-terror group Kach and US ambassador’s new house

Thousands of Muslim worshipers attend the first Friday prayers during the month of Ramadan at the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 8, 2022. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Authorities seek to tamp down tensions amid backlash over Temple Mount prayer ruling

By Tobias Siegal

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 defends route of Sunday’s controversial Jerusalem Day ‘Flag March’

Illustrative: Former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi, center, addresses a newly elected parliament during its first session in Baghdad, Iraq, September 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraqis communicating with Israel in any way could soon face execution – report

Bill also forbids ‘financial or moral assistance’ to Israel, UK’s Jewish News reports, raising concern for Iraq’s Jewish community; UK Jewish leader from Iraq calls bill ‘barbaric’

This photo taken on January 14, 2014, through the window of an airplane, shows the Red Sea's Tiran (foreground) and the Sanafir (background) islands in the Strait of Tiran between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia. (Stringer/AFP)

US said brokering talks to transfer islands from Egypt to Saudi with Israeli backing

Illustrative image: neurons in the human brain (iStock via Getty Images)

Israeli researchers discover gene mechanism thought to cause some forms of autism

Tel Aviv University study suggests existing experimental drug may lead to effective treatments for some cases of autism, schizophrenia and neurodegenerative diseases

SNC CEO Avi Hasson speaks at the 'Connect to Innovate' conference in Casablanca, May 23, 2022. (SNC)

In Casablanca, Morocco and Israel see the beginning of a beautiful tech friendship

By Ricky Ben-David

Organizations ink 13 agreements, as representatives declare that historic ties have become economic opportunities — though full diplomatic ties are still on hold

In this September 22, 2014, photo, members of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard march during an annual military parade at the mausoleum of ayatollah Khomeini, outside Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett: Biden notified me of decision to keep Iran Guards on terror list

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

PM lauds US leader ‘as true friend of Israel,’ says he made the ‘correct, just’ decision not to delist ‘world’s largest terror organization’

8:19 pm

VP swears in Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism envoy
8:17 pm

Al Jazeera journalist was killed in 'targeted attack' by IDF troops, CNN suggests
7:49 pm

Bennett: Biden notified me of decision to keep Iran Guards on terror list

People walk by the water tower on the ruins of Homesh, August 27, 2019. (Hillel Meir/Flash90)

Next coalition crisis? Ahead of High Court debate, Gantz says Homesh to be evacuated

Defense minister says by law, settlers must leave illegal West Bank outpost; issue is point of contention in coalition, but MK says all its members understand Gantz won’t defy law

A crowd of Jewish-Americans hold a rally in support of Israel near the White House, in Washington, D.C., June 8, 1967. (AP)

Interview'The US debates a mythical version of what's going on here'

What Americans don’t talk about when they talk about Israel

By Tal Schneider

A conversation with historian Eric Alterman, whose new book explores critical tension at the heart of US Jewish discourse on Israel and what is missed by debate without listening

Roberta Metsola

Europe will always back Israel’s right to exist

President of the European Parliament: We firmly support a 2-state solution, with the secure State of Israel living beside an independent Palestinian State

Judaism’s nuanced view on abortion is not about ‘choice’

But the halachic consequence of prohibiting abortion where it should be permitted are worse than those of allowing abortion where it is forbidden

Teachers from schools around the country hold a protest, in Tel Aviv, May 22, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Stop destroying the education system’: Teachers to strike next week over wages

By Tobias Siegal

Educators to walk out early on Monday to protest salaries; Teachers Union chief warns of educators leaving the system, says students will end up paying the price

Yeshiva students study in separation capsules in Jerusalem on September 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Treasury said planning funding reform to push Haredi schools to teach core subjects

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!

Ukrainian immigrants to Israel who fled fighting in Ukraine arrive on a rescue flight at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 17, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel to extend visas of Ukrainian refugees, allow them to work

Decision applies to Ukrainians who came after the Russian invasion; those who were in Israel illegally before won’t be allowed to work; Shaked to reexamine issue in 30 days

Undertakers lower the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Oleksander Matyukhin, 32, in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ukraine says 200 decomposing bodies uncovered in Mariupol basement

By Ricardo Mazalan, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and Elena Becatoros

Cars pass by destroyed Russian tanks in a recent battle against Ukrainians in the village of Dmytrivka, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

3 months since invasion began, Russia embroiled in Ukraine war with no end in sight

By AP

Inside Story

Sexual harassment, power abuse allegations rattle Germany’s liberal Jewish community

Rabbi Homolka’s husband accused of sending lewd messages to students; rabbi, others said to have covered up alleged misconduct in ‘biggest scandal’ to hit postwar Jewish community

Rabbi Walter Homolka, second from right, and other liberal and Reform rabbis in the liberal Jewish community's synagogue in Hanover, Germany, December 1, 2016. (Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

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17-year-old boy killed by gunfire during mass brawl in southern town

Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, with Knesset speaker Mickey Levy during a plenum session in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ FLASH90)

European Parliament president to Knesset: To be antisemitic is to be anti-European

By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn

A view of the ultra-Orthodox-majority city of Bnei Brak, August 06, 2019. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Looking inward: In Israeli cities, ‘densification’ seen as answer to housing demand

By Danielle Nagler

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

Turkey’s foreign minister to arrive in Israel Tuesday for 2-day visit

By Lazar Berman

Aerial view of the ruins of the now defunct Electrochemical Industries Company near the northern city of Acre. (Hillel Tatro/Channel 13 Screenshot)

Environment Ministry greenlights pollution rehab project at Acre Bay site

Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2022. (Flash90)

Battling inflation, Bank of Israel hikes interest rate for the 2nd time in 2 months

LeBron James holds hands with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto at the wedding of Jeffrey Schottenstein in New York City, May 22, 2022. (Screenshot from YouTube/Jewish Insider)

Court in the actLeBron James attends Jewish NYC wedding — holding hands with ex-convict rabbi

By Gabe Friedman

Zoë Kravitz, left, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, center, and Mila Kunis, right all were all included on Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. (Cindy Ord/Irina Yakovleva/TASS/David Livingston/Getty Images)

Jews in the newsZelensky, Mila Kunis among Jews to make TIME 100 influential list

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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 associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. A leading doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as 'a random event' that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/ CDC via AP, File)

Rare monkeypox outbreak likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe, expert says

Chinese President Xi Jinping raises his glass and proposes a toast during the welcome banquet for visiting leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People, April 26, 2019. (Nicolas Asfouri/Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli diplomats told not to meet Taiwan officials to avoid angering China – report

By Tobias Siegal

The United Nations flag waves in the wind on the top of a UN building in Geneva, Switzerland, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Russian diplomat at UN resigns, slams Moscow’s ‘aggressive war’

By Jamey Keaten

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks during a press conference hosted by her local MP Tulip Siddiq, in the Macmillan Room, Portcullis House, following her release from detention in Iran, in London, March 21, 2022. (Victoria Jones/Pool Photo via AP)

Freed British woman says Iran forced her to sign false confession to spying

By AP

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