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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 29, 2022

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Jews taking part in the Flag March pass through the Damascus Gate to Jerusalem's Old City on May 29, 2022, as Israel marks Jerusalem Day. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Racist chants and clashes as tens of thousands march in Old City for Jerusalem Day

By Aaron Boxerman and Emanuel Fabian

Turnout for Flag March estimated at 70,000; some chant ‘death to Arabs’ and ‘may your villages burn’; over 60 arrests; Palestinians, Israelis fight with rocks, pepper spray

Israeli youths march through the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City on May 28, 2022, on the eve of the Jerusalem Day flag parade. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Jewish youths parade in Old City on eve of Jerusalem Day march

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Young Jews waving Israeli flags dance at Damascus Gate to Jerusalem's Old Ciy on May 29, 2022, as Israel marks Jerusalem Day. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett orders ‘zero tolerance’ for provocateurs at Jerusalem Day march

40 Palestinians, 3 Israelis, 5 cops hurt in scuffles in Old City; clashes reported in Sheikh Jarrah; Israeli buses attacked in another East Jerusalem neighborhood

7:31 pm

Journalist assaulted by masked rioters in East Jerusalem neighborhood
7:20 pm

Police: Over 70,000 participated in Jerusalem Day Flag March
6:47 pm

Zelensky fires top Kharkiv official over city's defense

Jewish religious nationalists wave the Israeli flag on the Temple Mount, May 29, 2022 (Screen grab)

Former MK leads prayers at site in violation of status quo

Amid rising Jerusalem Day tensions, Jewish group waves Israeli flags on Temple Mount

Police say violators removed from site; Palestinian rioters barricade themselves in Al-Aqsa Mosque; 1,800 Jews visit compound, including far-right MK Ben Gvir; Hamas issues threats

File: Members of Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas terror group, attend a rally in Beit Lahiya, May 30, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Gaza terror factions at odds over response to Jerusalem Day march — report

Israelis wave national flags during a Jerusalem Day march, in Jerusalem, May 10, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Palestinian terror groups warn of ‘explosion’ ahead of controversial Jerusalem march

By Jacob Magid, Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Discover the Unexpected | TAUi Virtual Open Day | June 1-2, 2022

Discover a new kind of Education at TAU’s upcoming Open Day. Select from nearly 25 live sessions where you can meet with TAU’s academic programs and current students.

City of hearts: President Herzog on Jerusalem Day

The city promises freedom of worship for members of all religions and, no less importantly, a form of coexistence that does not diminish difference and tradition

Peta Jones Pellach

I love Jerusalem least on Yom Yerushalayim

It’s a day when the city is not being soothed and restored to wholeness; she is being brutally contested, pulled in multiple directions

I left Israel to give my kids the American dream. Is this it?

Just like the shooter at Robb Elementary school, I got my first rifle at 18, and I couldn’t help but think: I am too young and too stupid for this

How France nearly snatched half of Jerusalem over lunch

Dignified, respectful General Allenby wouldn’t give an inch of his command of martial law in newly conquered Jerusalem. So said Lawrence of Arabia, who was there

Israelis wave the national flag at the Damascus Gate to the Old City Jerusalem's as they mark Jerusalem Day, on May 29, 2022. - (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing May 29: Tensions flare in Jerusalem; Saudis and Israelis talk

ToI editor David Horovitz and US correspondent Jacob Magid discuss Jerusalem Day and the flag march, updates on the coalition crisis, and who’s been visiting the Saudis

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lapid to rabbi who said he’s worse than Nazi: My grandfather was killed in Holocaust

FM notes his father also faced death in Budapest Ghetto; Gantz says ultra-Orthodox Haredi cleric Mazuz’s remarks border on Holocaust denial; PM: ‘Must guard our tongues from evil’

Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Leading Haredi rabbi: Lapid, Liberman are traitors to their people, worse than Nazis

The Riyadh Tower in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at night. (MOHAMED HUSSAIN YOUNIS via iStock by Getty Images)

Dozens of Israeli business and tech figures visit Saudi Arabia — report

By Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

Businesspeople, entrepreneurs fly to kingdom on Israeli passports with special entry visas for talks on deals and investments, according to Globes

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Hebrew University Givat Ram campus, on Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After killings attributed to Israel, Bennett vows ‘no immunity’ for Iranian regime

‘Whoever funds terrorists, whoever arms terrorists, whoever sends out terrorists, will pay the full price,’ PM says

Managing Director of the Institute for National Security Studies, Tamir Hayman, speaks to Channel 12 news, May 28, 2022. (video screenshot)

Ex-IDF intel chief: Some form of nuclear deal with Iran is ‘least bad’ option

Iran's Army chief, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi and Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri visit an underground site with drones at an undisclosed location in Iran, May 28, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Iran airs footage of underground drone base, days after strike at Parchin facility

A woman cries in front of wreaths during a ceremony honoring the thousands of Ethiopian Jews who died en route to Israel from 1979 to 1990, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery on May 29, 2022. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Ethiopian Jews mourn the thousands who died on the journey to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Ethiopia-born Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata says work is underway to teach Israelis more about the community’s losses, and compensate their families

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

Coalition MKs granted free vote on banning Palestinian flag at state institutions

Bill sponsored by Likud MK is up for a vote on Wednesday, following controversy over display of Palestinian banner at Ben Gurion University

Archaeology

New segment of Jerusalem’s 2,000-year-old Low-Level aqueduct revealed

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Excavations in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood uncover a 40-meter piece of the capital’s main water carrier, 21 kilometers long, which was used until British Mandate

Aerial photos of the Low-Level Aqueduct in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. (Alexander Wiegmann, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Col. Arik Moyal and other IDF soldiers return a toddler to his mother, after the car he was in was stolen from a gas station in northern Israel and taken to a West Bank town on May 28, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Car with toddler inside stolen at highway gas station, chased to West Bank town

By Emanuel Fabian

Police, IDF search for vehicle after it was taken on Route 6, find it ‘after a few minutes’ in Far’un; infant is unharmed

Two wrecked cars involved in an accident along route 90 in the Arava, southern Israel, May 28, 2022. (Courtesy of Arava regional council)

Two children among four killed in car crash in southern Arava desert

Traffic jams on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, on December 2, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Traffic jams just a math problem, says Israeli AI firm

By Jonah Mandel

With nation’s congestion ranking near worst among developed economies, EcoMotion hopes to use algorithms to smartly direct flow

Israeli company’s tiny arachnids provide alternative to pesticide

Illustrative: Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a press conference in Gaza City on May 30, 2019. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Former jailer of Hamas head Sinwar: He’s a coward who used others for his dirty work

Betty Lahat says that while in prison, terror leader never took responsibility for incidents he helped instigate; remembers him ‘falling apart’ with fear when he had cancer

Israelis inspect a damaged house in the Tel Aviv suburb of Givatayim on May 12, 2021, after it was hit by a rocket fired from Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. (Alexandra Vardi/AFP)

Brother of Hamas leader Sinwar: Firing rockets at Tel Aviv as easy as drinking water

People stand in line outside Junior's restaurant to pick up food to go on March 16, 2020 in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images, JTA)

Iconic NYC cheesecake emporium Junior’s buys back guns to protect city it loves

By julia GERGELY

Taking dozens of weapons off the streets, Alan Rosen says he was touched by small differences he felt the event made in the community

More Headlines

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

Israel reports second case of monkeypox, in 30-year-old man

By Michael Horovitz

American businessman Todd Boehly (center) applauds as he attends the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Watford at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, May 22, 2022. (AP/Alastair Grant)

Group led by LA Dodgers owner signs $3.2b deal to buy Chelsea FC from Abramovich

By AP

Iranian Senior Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber (second right) visits the 10-story Metropol Building which collapsed on Monday, in the city of Abadan, Iran, May 27, 2022. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)

Iranian police violently disperse protest over building collapse that killed 29

By Jon Gambrell

Illustrative: A handgun and bullets. (Somboon Kaeoboonsong; iStock by Getty Images)

Jewish high school student in Nevada says phony anonymous gun tips used to bully him

Flowers, candles and pictures are pictured at a makeshift memorial outside the Uvalde County Courthouse in Texas on May 28, 2022. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)

Biden to travel to Uvalde to console residents of town rocked by school shooting

By Gerard Martinez

File: Israeli troops during an arrest raid in the Dheisheh refugee camp, in a photo released on July 23, 2018. (IDF Spokesperson)

Undercover border cop lightly injured, 3 Palestinians wounded in West Bank clash

By Emanuel Fabian

Smoke and dirt rise from the city of Severodonetsk, during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, May 26, 2022, (Aris Messinis/AFP)

Ukraine denies Russia claim to have encircled key eastern city Severodonetsk

By Dmitry Zaks and Patrick Fort

American singer Bob Dylan smiles as he performs during his show at the Colombes Olympic stadium in Colombes, France on June 24, 1981. Dylan’s entire catalog of songs, which spans 60 years and is among the most prized next to that of the Beatles, is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing Group. The deal covers 600 song copyrights. (AP Photo/Herve Merliac, File)

How many times?Dylan rerecords ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ for auction of one disc

By Michael Horovitz

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