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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 1, 2022

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Israeli F-35 fighter jets fly in formation during the military's Blue Flag exercise in October 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli Air Force simulates widescale strike on Iran nuclear facilities

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says dozens of fighter jets conduct ‘long-range flight, aerial refueling and striking distant targets’ maneuvers over Mediterranean

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot addresses a conference on June 1, 2022 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Ex-IDF chief: If not for Israeli action, Iran would have had nukes 7-10 years ago

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) is shown a new laser-based air-defense system at a Rafael weapons manufacturer complex in Israel, on May 31, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Touring laser air defense system under development, PM lauds ‘strategic tiebreaker’

By Emanuel Fabian

Reporter's notebook

Carrie Keller-Lynn

There’s no place like Homesh: The West Bank’s most politically charged hilltop

Jewish sovereignty, religious imperative, and security arguments meet on the road to an illegal outpost

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech looks out at the Homesh hilltop, from her Shavei Shomron home, May 26, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein on the set of 'Maestro' (Netflix via JTA)

Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in Leonard Bernstein biopic sparks ‘Jewface’ debate

By Gabe Friedman

Netflix releases images of Cooper looking unrecognizable as iconic conductor, with many on social media saying makeover is antisemitic, especially since actor is not Jewish

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.

A Palestinian boy rides a donkey in the E-1 area near the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, December 5, 2012. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Israel puts E1 settlement project back on agenda, weeks ahead of Biden trip

After shelving plan bisecting West Bank in January amid international pressure and assuring US it wasn’t moving forward, Jerusalem places project back on docket for meeting in July

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deliver a joint statement following their meeting at the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)

In call, Abbas tells Blinken US must ‘turn talk into actions,’ end ‘silence’

By Jacob Magid and Aaron Boxerman

The United States Consulate in Jerusalem, March 4, 2019. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

US insists it’s committed to reopening consulate after officials tell ToI otherwise

A Palestinian flag is removed from a building by Israeli authorities after being put up by an advocacy group that promotes coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, in Ramat Gan, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Palestinian flag comes off Ramat Gan tower after outcry

Left-wing group says it hung flags in support of coexistence; police reportedly warned city there could be ‘disturbances of the peace’

Israeli woman reunites with mom after seeing her begging for help on TV in Mariupol

Tatiana Goldin’s mother Ludmila was living alone in besieged city without food or medication; Ashdod mayor had told the municipality employee he would help get her mother to Israel

Tatiana Goldin and her mother Ludmila speak to Channel 12 news, May 31, 2022. (Screenshot)

In this May 23, 2011, file photo a launch truck fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) produced by Lockheed Martin during combat training in the high desert of the Yakima Training Center, Wash. The Biden administration is expected to announce it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium range rocket systems, US officials said Tuesday. (Tony Overman/The Olympian via AP, File)

Biden says US sending advanced medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

By Lolita C. Baldor

Smoke and dirt rise from the city of Severodonetsk, during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on May 30 2022, amid Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. (Aris Messinis/AFP)

Governor says Russia controls ‘most’ of Ukraine’s Severodonetsk, city is destroyed

By AFP and AP

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

Live updates (closed)

Bill to ban Palestinian flag at state-funded institutions clears initial reading

By Joshua Davidovich

Bennett’s Yamina, coalition’s fellow right-wing New Hope party back opposition measure to outlaw display of flag at universities, other public bodies

8:30 pm

Israeli, US national security convene meet of strategic group aimed at addressing Iran
8:03 pm

Sheryl Sandberg, longtime No. 2 at Facebook, steps down
7:49 pm

PA report death of Palestinian critically wounded in clashes with Israeli troops

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar (right). (Flash90)

New Hope MK calls reports 'fake news' by Netanyahu acolytes

Sa’ar’s New Hope said holding talks with Likud over potential new government

As coalition wobbles, Bennett to hold meeting with party leaders; Levin proposes early elections; lawmakers to vote on controversial flag legislation

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Minister: Vote on renewing civil law for settlers a test for coalition survivability

UTJ MK Yaakov Litzman arrives for a meeting with leaders of opposition parties at the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on May 8, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Haredi leader Litzman departs Knesset as part of plea deal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

What happened to Yom Yerushalayim?

When Jerusalem Day is a success because no rockets were launched at Israel from Gaza, then the day has become little more than a display of political power

Walking with God after Uvalde

The Bible warns against a world where hearts are closed and cool, numbing us to the kind of grotesque, chaotic evil that takes the lives of children

The thunder of Sinai echos outside of history

The power of revelation lies not in a mythic moment said to have occurred in the distant past, but rather in the countless retellings by Jews

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

On friars and flowers

Due to my ongoing status as a non-native Hebrew speaker, I’m not always sure if I’m being offered a deal or played for a fool. Then again, it’s not so bad to be a fool

Wolt workers shop for customers at the Wolt Market grocery store in Neve Zedek, in Tel Aviv, May 2022. (Shai Azeri/Wolt Israel)

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Daily Briefing June 1: Israeli market expands with UAE deal, NFTs and Wolt groceries

Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses Knesset conflicts; Tech editor Ricky Ben-David reviews trade with Dubai, Wolt Market and digital art auctions

Wolt workers shop for customers at the Wolt Market grocery store in Neve Zedek, in Tel Aviv, May 2022. (Shai Azeri/Wolt Israel)

Wolt launches grocery delivery from new Market store in Tel Aviv

By Ricky Ben-David

Top defense officials slam settler ‘incitement’ against Central Command chief

By Emanuel Fabian

Campaign castigates Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs for blocking settlers from reaching illegal West Bank outpost Homesh, while purportedly not acting against Palestinian rock attacks

Posters criticizing Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, commander of the army's Central Command. The slogan reads: 'Tough against Jews in Homesh; weak in Huwara' (Social media)

The knife the military said a woman used to try to attack a soldier near the Al Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank, June 1, 2022 (Israel Defense Force)

IDF soldiers kill Palestinian woman who approached them with knife in West Bank

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, May 19, 2022. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

UN names Palestinian media program for slain Al Jazeera reporter

By AP

Attorney Bakari Sellers, a South Carolina lawyer and former state lawmaker, speaks with The Associated Press on Oct. 28, 2021 in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

New super PAC aims to elect pro-Israel Black Democrats including challenger to Tlaib

Group endorses 5 Black Democrats who have positions that are friendly to AIPAC, and is spending heavily to defeat Rashida Tlaib, Israel’s most strident critic in Congress

Enhanced cannabis plants grown by Israeli researchers at Hebrew University, May 2022. (Hebrew University)

Israeli researchers use repurposed plant virus to grow ‘enhanced’ cannabis

By Tobias Siegal

How ketamine works: A schematic representation of ketamine's newly discovered and previously known mechanisms of action. Ketamine molecules directly inhibit a receptor for the neurotransmitter glutamate (top left), generating a cascade of biochemical reactions that increases the expression of potassium channels (KCNQ) in neurons belonging to the glutamate network in the ventral hippocampus (right). (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Israeli-German study hopes to pave way for use of ketamine as an antidepressant

By Tobias Siegal

Archaeology'Any who open this grave will be cursed,' inscription warns

Do not open: Odd 1,800-year-old grave marker for Jacob the Convert found in Galilee

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ominously worded Greek-language inscription warns against opening the grave of a 60-year-old ‘proselyte’; marker stumbled upon during conservation work at Beit She’arim park

The Rhodes Torah (Amit Dekel Productions via National Library of Israel)

National Library shows off rare Torah scrolls, including one mufti saved from Nazis

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in his trial at the Jerusalem District Court on May 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

State mulls bid to convict Netanyahu on unlisted charge after court setback

With bench rejecting request to amend indictment, attorney general says prosecutors may make use of legal clause allowing judge to convict on evidence not mentioned in charges

Shlomo Filber, former director general of the Communications Ministry, at a court hearing in the trial against Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court, June 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid apparent contradictions, state witness Filber insists his testimony stands

Former prime minister and current opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu during a court hearing in his trial, at the Jerusalem District Court, May 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu aide files police complaint over online death threat against former PM

MKs, Jerusalem Pride march organizer receive death threats referencing murdered teen

‘The fate of Shira Banki awaits you,’ reads message sent to lawmakers and activist, naming 16-year-old killed by Haredi extremist in 2015; lawmakers decry incitement, vow to march

File: Jerusalem Pride Parade marchers on August 2, 2018 carry a poster commemorating 16-year-old Shira Banki, murdered by an ultra-Orthodox extremist in a pride march in the capital in 2015. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

Author and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild (Courtesy/ via JTA)

Interview'This name is like a magnet for cranks'

A conspiracy-debunking Rothschild is writing the book about Jewish space lasers

Professional mythbuster Mike Rothschild isn’t related to the well-known banking family, but he’s out to expose the antisemitic theories that, left unchecked, can lead to violence

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Illustrative image of an eye test (Visivasnc; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli hospital finds rise in eye disease caused by stress during COVID pandemic

In this photo released on May 27, 2022, ruins of the under-construction 10-story Metropol Building remain after it collapsed last week, in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)

Iran disrupts local internet as demonstrators rally over deadly tower collapse

Illustrative: Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot summer day, on July 6, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Heatwaves kill some 45 people in Israel every year, study finds

Pallbearers carry the casket of Amerie Jo Garza to her burial site in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Garza was one of the students killed in last week's shooting at Robb Elementary School. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Uvalde begins burying massacre victims with small caskets and overflow crowds

By NATHAN ELLGREN, Adriana Gomez Licon and JIM SALTER

People take part in demonstrations demanding civilian rule in Sudan's capital of Khartoum, May 26, 2022. (Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images via JTA)

US suspends Abraham Accords assistance to Sudan, urges Israel to call for democracy

Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a Blue and White faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz heads to India after flight delayed over opposition refusal to offset his vote

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Emanuel Fabian

Israeli president Isaac Herzog speaks at a conference of Israel's National Student and Youth Council in Jerusalem, May 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

President: Israelis accusing each other of treason, comparing to Nazis is a red line

File: Israelis on board a flight to Turkey during the Passover holiday, April 12, 2009. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Israeli travel agencies see drop in Turkey interest after security warning

Minister of Housing and Construction Ze'ev Elkin attends a conference in Modi'in, December 5, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Housing minister promises law change that benefits homebuyers

By Danielle Nagler

Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, are displayed at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt displays newly discovered ancient artifacts from necropolis of Saqqara

Illustrative: Headcovering for Orthodox Jewish women for sale at a shop in the Jewish quarter in Antwerp, Belgium, on December 9, 2014 (Johanna Geron/FLASH90)

Tinsel tabooProminent Hasidic rebbe bans glitzy head coverings for women

Syrian oud player Wassim Mukdad (left) and Druze Israeli singer Eden Cami from the Kayan Project band perform the song 'Ayo Hasaki.' (YouTube/Kayan Project)

Israeli-Syrian band brings Middle Eastern tunes to Germany

By Kirsten Grieshaber

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