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What Matters Most On Friday, May 27, 2022

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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)

Three reserve Border Police units called up

‘We march as we want’: Jerusalem Day parade to go ahead through Muslim Quarter

Israeli leaders decide march will follow traditional route despite terror group warnings; Gantz: ‘You will not threaten our sovereignty’; PM stresses march doesn’t go to Temple Mt.

Border Police officers stand guard near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 25, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Gazans said to ready rockets, Israelis prepare shelters ahead of Jerusalem Day march

Outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg attends a discussion regarding violence in Arab society on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition members tear into coming controversial Flag March, others defend it

Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, on May 19, 2022. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

PA probe claims IDF deliberately shot journalist as she fled; Israel: A blatant lie

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians release findings of investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, saying she was killed while running from a sudden burst of Israeli gunfire; Gantz issues denial

Palestinians visit the site where veteran Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed, in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 18, 2022. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

ExclusiveUS won’t run own probe of Abu Akleh killing, hopes PA will share bullet with Israel

Shireen Abu Akleh's casket almost hits the ground outside Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Jerusalem, May 13, 2022 (Screenshot / Washington Post)

Police probe said to conclude its use of force at Abu Akleh’s funeral was avoidable

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers at a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on November 13, 2019. (Sara Klatt/Flash90)

Female IDF officer blocked from leading swearing-in ceremony at Western Wall

By Sara Serfaty

Military says officers ‘made error in judgment’ by agreeing to prevent soldier from heading event; pluralism groups accuse body that administers site of ‘working to silence women’

Soldiers from the Israeli Air Force's elite Unit 669 take part in an exercise in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

Elite IDF search and rescue unit to be open to women for first time

By Emanuel Fabian

Archaeologist Prof. Jennie Ebeling at the Jezreel Expedition. (Ashley Motes, courtesy of the Jezreel Expedition)

Times Will Tell

PODCAST: In ancient Israel, a woman’s place was in the home making beer

Through careful analysis of oven placement and grindstones, archaeologist Prof. Jennie Ebeling shows how women in antiquity had much more agency than previously thought

Any ties with Israel punishable by death or life in jail

US slams Iraqi law banning ties with Israel: ‘Promotes environment of antisemitism’

By Jacob Magid and AP

State Department says legislation jeopardizes freedom of expression, contrasts with progress being made by Baghdad’s neighbors who joined Abraham Accords

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a poster with his photo and wave an Iraqi flag as they celebrate the passing of a law criminalizing the normalization of ties with Israel, in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gather in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on May 26, 2022, to celebrate the passing of a bill that criminalizes normalization of ties with Israel. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq passes law making contact with Israel punishable by death

By AP

National Security Council chairman Eyal Hulata (L) and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in front of the White House on October 5, 2021. (Jake Sullivan/Twitter)

Israel’s top security aide said set to visit US for talks focused on Saudi Arabia

Winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere (NASA Worldview)

Israeli study: Climate change already causing storm levels only expected in 2080

Weizmann Institute of Science examination of recent Southern Hemisphere storms finds ‘considerable intensification’ that is heating poles and threatening communities

Stacie Rojas Stufflebeam

My son’s big fat gay Jewish wedding in Israel

When he first came out to us, I feared he’d have to give up his Jewish observance in order to have the family he wanted. Today, I thank God he can have it all

Don’t eat cheesecake this Shavuot

You surely don’t want to hear the details of the cruelty to the cows that produce the milk that makes our dairy products, but I’m going to tell you anyway.

Mourners attend the funeral ceremony of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, shown in the poster, who was killed on Sunday, in Tehran, Iran, May 24, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

WSJ: Khodaei planned to kill philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy

Israel said to fear Iran will target Israelis abroad in bid to avenge slain officer

Political and security chiefs hold consultations after leak that pinned shooting of IRGC colonel on Israel; official warnings against travel to UAE, Bahrain, Azerbaijan expected

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's newest ship, the Shahid Mahdavi, center right, under construction in a shipyard west of Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 21, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iran’s Guards building massive ship to project naval power beyond Persian Gulf

By Jon Gambrell

Actors Niv Sultan and Sia Alipour in a scene from the second season of the TV show 'Tehran.' (Apple TV)

Iranian ‘Tehran’ actor says he got death threats after castigating Israeli forces

Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during the 51st annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, May 26, 2022. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Top Iran diplomat says IRGC listing not holding up nuke deal, but ‘Zionist lobby’ is

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Speaking in Davos, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says lifting sanctions still main sticking point, accuses Israel of holding US foreign policy hostage to block agreement

Crewmen speak aboard the Iranian oil tanker Fortune during its arrival to El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, May 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Ernesto Vargas)

Iran protests seizure of oil tanker in Greek waters under alleged US pressure

By AP

Iranians gather at the site of a 10-story building that collapsed in the southwestern city of Abadan on May 24, 2022. (Tasnim News/AFP)

Hundreds protest in Iran as death toll from building collapse rises

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a Spike anti-tank missile (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0, Dave1185)

J'lem feared Russian soldiers could be killed by its weapons

Israel refused US request to transfer anti-tank missiles to Ukraine — report

Washington sought Jerusalem’s approval for Germany to supply its Spike weapons, made under license locally, to Ukrainian forces; Jerusalem balked over impact on ties with Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from Kyiv on May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Invoking Holocaust, Zelensky rips Kissinger for proposing Ukraine cede turf to Putin

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looks on as he gives a press conference after meeting Ukraine's Foreign Minister for talks in Antalya, on March 10, 2022. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

Russian FM: West has declared ‘total war’ on Russia

By AFP

The cross at the gravesite of Irma Garcia, a teacher who was killed in this week's elementary school shooting. Her husband, Joe Garcia, died two days after the shooting. Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Husband of teacher slain in Texas school shooting dies of heart attack 2 days later

By AFP

Joe Garcia, 50, passes away ‘due to grief’ after returning from laying flowers at wife Irma’s memorial; she was murdered while trying to protect her students

A policeman talks to people asking for information outside of the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at the Texas elementary school, killing multiple people. AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Texas gunman entered school ‘unobstructed,’ was inside for hour before he was killed

By Jake Bleiberg, JIM VERTUNO and Elliot Spagat

Activists join Senate Democrats outside the Capitol to demand action on gun control legislation after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school this week, in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Republicans reject domestic terror bill, blocking gun control debate

By Farnoush Amiri and LISA MASCARO

Israeli troops prevent Palestinian, Israeli and foreign peace activists from moving a rock that is blocking a road that passes close to the Israeli Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Yair, Masafer Yatta, West Bank، Friday, May 13, 2022. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

US envoy, lawmakers warn Israel against ousting Palestinians from South Hebron Hills

Envoy to UN raises concern at UNSC, 83 Dems write to Blinken asking US to intervene after court okays plan to evict 1,300 Palestinians from Masafer Yatta to build IDF training zone

A Israeli man removes a Palestinian flag from a lamppost in the West Bank town of Hawara, near Nablus, May 22, 2022.(Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Why are soldiers snatching flags in a Palestinian town? So settlers won’t, they say

By Emanuel Fabian

Author Rich Cohen (left) and his father Herb Cohen with 'Mick Jagger,' New York, 2016. (Courtesy of Rich Cohen)

Interview'Every human conflict is solvable,' even Israel-Palestine

From Brooklyn gang to the Oval Office: Meet negotiator extraordinaire Herb Cohen

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Rich Cohen’s latest book, ‘The Adventures of Herbie Cohen,’ is part biography and part family memoir, centering on his father, an international deal-making guru

US antisemitism envoy: Buffalo shooting reflects ‘pervasive antisemitic ideology’

Days after taking up post, Deborah Lipstadt says shooter’s ‘first objective was to kill Blacks, but the Jews would be dealt with in time’

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a conference arranged by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 26, 2022, in Manhattan. (Shahar Azran via JTA)

The words 'free Palestine' spray-painted on the facade of a cafe owned by an Israeli in London, May 14, 2022. (Michael Levi/JTA)

Israeli-owned cafe in London vandalized with ‘free Palestine’ graffiti

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Headstones of Sephardic Jews lie on the ground at the Altona cemetery in Hamburg, Germany, September 9, 2012. (Wikimedia Commons)

2 Jewish cemeteries vandalized in Germany amid jump in antisemitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Tunisian Jewish boxer Victor Perez, left, is featured on the new podcast 'Holocaust Histories.' (Jeff Dickson/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)

'There's so many other podcasts, but we need this right now'

A new podcast chronicles the little-known stories of boxers from the Holocaust era

By jacob gurvis

‘Holocaust Histories’ by Canadian sound designer Jonathan Bonder is already getting a warm reception after its first episode release; the series will have a new theme each season

Mabrouk — whose name is an Arabic-language greeting that is said to congratulate someone on an achievement — looks nothing like the typical couscous eateries that dot Paris. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

'It’s Jewish Tunisian without reminding you constantly'

In Paris, two friends draw crowds with their Jewish-Tunisian grandparents’ couscous

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Alexandre David and Alexis Memmi serve family recipes without pretense at Mabrouk, a kosher-style eatery in the city center, and their diverse clientele is eating it up

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View of the barrier along the Israel-Gaza border, on December 8, 2021. (Flash90)

IDF: 2 Gazans armed with grenades, knife captured along border

By Emanuel Fabian

The suspects, members of the Shalom Domrani-led criminal gang, arrested last night outside of Ashkelon. All five men, residents of Southern Israel in their 20s, are in police custody. May 26, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police: Hit squad arrested in south while headed to kill member of rival gang

Illustrative: Israeli Home Front Command soldiers take part in a defense drill simulating a building collapse Abu Gosh, November 8, 2015. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF drills for multi-front war, including 1,500 rockets a day fired from Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

In this October 13, 2014 photo, a man shows an Islamic State flag at an Islamic bookstore in the Fatih district of Istanbul. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey said to have captured Islamic State leader in Istanbul

Visitors outside the Louvre Museum, in Paris on April 29, 2022. (AFP)

Ex-Louvre director charged with fraud in acquisition of ancient Egyptian artifacts

By Murielle Kasprzak and Joseph Schmid

An artificial pond in a public park in Beersheba. (Roman Mykhalchuk via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: 10 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

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