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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 25, 2022

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A woman cries as she leaves the Uvalde Civic Center, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas, following a deadly school shooting in the town. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

All 19 children killed in Texas shooting were in same 4th grade classroom

By Acacia Coronado and JIM VERTUNO

Gunman barricaded himself in room and ‘just began shooting anyone that was in his way’; police broke windows to let others escape before tactical officers stormed in and killed him

A girl cries, comforted by two adults, outside the Willie de Leon Civic Center where grief counseling will be offered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. (Allison Dinner / AFP)

‘She’s gone’: Cries of anguish as relatives mourn children, teachers killed in Texas

By JIM VERTUNO and Heather Hollingsworth

Law enforcement personnel stand outside Robb Elementary School following a shooting, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Texas gunman kills 19 children, 2 adults in elementary school massacre

By EUGENE GARCIA and DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS

Biden: ‘When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?’

By Zeke Miller and CHRIS MEGERIAN

‘To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away,’ says US president, after at least 18 grade-schoolers killed in Texas school massacre

US President Joe Biden speaks about the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, from the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, as first lady Jill Biden listens. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

A demonstrator helps hold a large "Come and Take It" banner at a rally in support of open carry gun laws at the Capitol, on Jan. 26, 2015, in Austin, Texas. (AP/Eric Gay)

Texas elementary school massacre sparks yet another gun control debate in US

By Paul Handley

An officer walks outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. (Allison Dinner/AFP)

From Columbine to Uvalde: Two decades of horrifying school shootings in the US

By AFP

People leave the Uvalde Civic Center following a deadly mass shooting earlier in the day at Robb Elementary School, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Bennett mourns ‘horrific murder of innocent children and teachers’ in Texas massacre

By ToI Staff and AP

‘Our prayers are with the victims, their families and the American people,’ PM says after 19 kids, 2 adults killed in elementary school shooting; Lapid says he is ‘devastated’

Supporting young people’s mental health – with Jay Ruderman

Join Jay as he marks Mental Health Awareness Month with the Ted talk speaker and author of “Don’t Tell Me to Relax!” Sophie Riegel

Jewish nationalists wave Israeli flags during a Flag March next to the Damascus Gate, outside Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)

Air defenses readied as Gaza threatens ‘response’ to Jerusalem Flag March — reports

By Joshua Davidovich

IDF said to adjust Iron Dome deployments, increase alert level after terror groups reportedly warn they could take unspecified actions if there are ‘provocations’ at Sunday parade

11:18 am

German chancellor vows Putin won't win war in Ukraine
8:04 pm

US Embassy in Israel bans employees from Old City during Flag March
6:17 pm

WZO gives Russia list of Jewish sites in Ukraine to avoid, says some already damaged

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, center speaks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, May 25, 2022. (Asi Efrati/ GPO)

Cavusoglu visits Temple Mount and Yad Vashem

Lapid and visiting Turkish FM agree on path forward to return ambassadors

By Lazar Berman

‘We’ve always known how to return to cooperation,’ says Lapid; talks go overtime as they discuss Hamas, gradual process toward restoring full ties; Cavusoglu urges 2-state solution

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) speaks alongside his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, May 25, 2022. (Asi Efrati/GPO)

Israeli, Turkish FMs announce next steps to warm ties, but no mention of envoy swap

By Lazar Berman

Turkish top diplomat Mevlut Cavusoglu meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 in Ramallah (Credit: Thaer Ghanayem/WAFA)

Turkish FM meets with PA President Abbas, says stance on Palestinians won’t change

By Aaron Boxerman

IDF: Claim that Abu Akleh was targeted is entirely unfounded

CNN suggests Al Jazeera journalist was killed in ‘targeted attack’ by IDF troops

By ToI Staff and AP

Network says forensics and firearms experts believe evidence points to controlled bursts directed at Abu Akleh; AP probe also suggests IDF gunfire killed her, but notes uncertainty

Shireen Abu Akleh stands next to a TV camera above the Old City of Jerusalem, in an undated photo. (Al Jazeera Media Network via AP)

Israeli police confront mourners as they carry the casket of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, almost toppling it, outside Saint Joseph's Hospital during her funeral in Jerusalem, May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

Report: Shin Bet urged no intervention in Abu Akleh funeral; police ignored it

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (Stringer/AFP)

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

Official tells ToI Biden asked Bennett during April call not to publicize decision, as US fears it’ll complicate effort to restore nuke deal; PM only did so after decision leaked

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks with former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a Knesset plenum session, May 11, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Shaked to do ‘everything’ to prevent evacuation of illegal West Bank outpost Homesh

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opposition bill to allow Israeli citizens back to evacuated settlements fails; comments come day before government must respond to High Court over the planned evacuation

Blue and White MK Michael Biton chairs a meeting of the Knesset Economic Committee on May 25, 2022. (Knesset Spokesperson/Noam Moskowitz)

Blue and White MK to boycott votes due to planned reforms, in new blow to coalition

Days after government brought another rebel MK back into fold, Michael Biton accuses transportation and agriculture ministries of ‘hurting the weak’

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas (right) speaks with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (center) and Ra'am MK Walid Taha during a plenum session in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Millions in funds for Arab community approved in Knesset Finance Committee

By Michael Horovitz

Leader of the opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

After damaging leaks, Netanyahu tells party, ‘hold your tongues, this gets recorded’

Opposition leader tells Likud MKs in closed-door meetings to watch their mouths because ‘everything gets broadcast,’ in comments that were themselves leaked

Likud party head Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and faction chair Yariv Levin (R) lead their party's faction meeting at the Knesset, May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud says won’t bring Knesset dispersal bill for vote, with coalition back to 60

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Shlomo Filber, former director-general of the Communications Ministry, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, May 25, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Court criticizes prosecution’s request to alter indictment in Netanyahu graft case

The damaged vehicle belonging to MK Orit Strock's son, who was injured in a rock throwing attack near the town of Huwara in the northern West Bank, May 24, 2022. (Binyamin regional council)

Son, grandchildren of MK hurt in West Bank rock-throwing attack

Father, 2 kids treated 1st by Palestinian Red Crescent after stones made him lose control of car near Huwara; Religious Zionism lawmaker Orit Strock: ‘Arabs tried to murder’ them

Smoke from burning tires billows at the eastern entrance to Nablus in the West Bank, as Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers, on May 25, 2022. (Jaafar Ashitiyeh/AFP)

Palestinians say teen shot, killed in IDF clash during Jewish West Bank pilgrimage

By ToI Staff and AP

Jewish men dance with Israeli flags during the March of Flags near Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel said to appeal to Hamas for calm ahead of tense flag parade in Jerusalem

Jerusalem reportedly sends messages to terror group via middlemen in Egypt and Qatar, warning that it is ready to strike Gaza should rocket fire target march again

Jerusalem Day ‘Flag March’ will limit attendance at Damascus Gate, Western Wall

US slaps sanctions on Hamas moneymen funding $500 million terror finance network

Defense Ministry reinforcing kindergarten buildings near Gaza border

By Emanuel Fabian

Helen Gottstein

Their mourning is not about you. It’s their pain. If they want to tell stories, listen. If they want to be silent, let them. If they weep, pass a tissue. It’s not about you

Lithuanian Jews are still avoiding their country’s Holocaust distortion

What a shame that those who work to bring Lithuania’s large-scale participation in Holocaust crimes to light cannot be honored by the Jewish community there

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 25: Bennett claims victory on Iran’s Guard & Turkey’s FM flies in

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman explains why it’s more important which Turkish minister didn’t come to Israel (yet) and Tech editor Ricky Ben David reports from Casablanca

Archaeology

Stilled life: Why did farmers flee a homestead in the Galilee 2,100 years ago?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A salvage excavation uncovers a frozen scene of existential distress during the Hellenistic era and an earlier agricultural community from the Iron Age

'Coming here is like a tradition in my family'

In Uruguay, a ritzy resort city’s Jewish population has doubled during the pandemic

By Juan Melamed

Long a summer destination for international bigwigs and South American Jews alike, Punta del Este has seen the number of year-round Jewish families swell from 300 to 600 since 2020

'This business is such an ingrained part of our family'

47-year veteran of Brooklyn’s Acme Smoked Fish celebrates his final ‘Fish Friday’

By julia GERGELY

Gary Brownstein, 3rd-generation member of the Jewish immigrant family that founded the iconic company in 1906, has charmed customers with creative specials like Mango Avocado Poke

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Israeli forensic team members open Uziel Khoury's grave to take a DNA sample at the Segula Cemetery in Petah Tikva on May 23, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Pool via Flash90)

Second body found in exhumation of grave of suspected ‘kidnapped’ Yemenite child

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)

Some Ukrainian refugee families getting kicked out of absorption hotels — report

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on December 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

UK okays sale of sanctioned Abramovich’s Chelsea to group led by LA Dodgers owner

Former US president George W. Bush speaks at a memorial event on Sept. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

FBI says it thwarted Islamic State supporter’s plot to kill ex-US president Bush

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

Midge takes her act on the road in Season 3 of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.' (Courtesy)

Kibbitzing on a kibbutz‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ is filming an Israel scene, looking for ‘Jewish types’

By Lior Zaltzman

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sits in a courtroom, April 22, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File)

Unrepentant Taylor Greene wins GOP primary in Georgia, repeats conspiracy theories

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)

UAE becomes 2nd Middle Eastern country after Israel to detect monkeypox

By AFP

Rabbi Avraham Shemtov joins hundreds in attending the lighting of the National Chanukah Menorah on the Ellipse on the first night of Chanukah in Washington, DC, December 1, 2010 (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via JTA)

Chabad rabbis seeking return of texts are among many Jews on Russia’s entry ban list

People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file image, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, May 25, 2022. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea tests suspected ICBM and 2 other missiles, hours after Biden leaves Asia

By Hyung-Jin Kim and KIM TONG-HYUNG

Illustrative. A mobile phone connected to a 5G network. (AndreyPopov; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli-founded Amdocs to buy UK software company in bid to bolster 5G capabilities

By Ricky Ben-David

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on May 25, 2022, to attend the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (Daniel LEAL / AFP)

UK probe into ‘partygate’ blames Johnson and top officials for rule-breaking culture

By Jill Lawless

The entrance to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, January 30, 2011. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

3-year-old dies after drowning in pool over weekend

By Michael Horovitz

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