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What Matters Most On Friday, June 3, 2022

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) meets with Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on June 3, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Bennett to IAEA chief: Israel reserves right to act against Iran’s nuclear program

By TOI staff and Agencies

Hosting Rafael Grossi for talks, PM urges use of ‘all means’ to prevent Tehran from getting nukes, accuses Islamic Republic of concealing atomic work with ‘false info and lies’

This photo taken on September 22, 2018, shows members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) marching during the annual military parade that marks the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran. (Stringer/AFP)

2nd top IRGC officer dies within days; report claims he was killed as suspected spy

By TOI staff and AP

Religious Jews are escorted by Israeli police as they tour the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on September 24, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

1,000 Jews visited site in year 2000; Sunday saw 2,600

Fighting rabbinic ban, Jewish activists push Temple Mount prayer toward mainstream

By Judah Ari Gross

How a group of determined activists has been reinterpreting Jewish law, shifting public discourse and challenging the status quo at one of the most contentious places on Earth

'If we don't want to fall backward, we must all take action'

‘Make your voice heard’: Bennett appeals to public to help save teetering government

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett published an open letter to the Israeli public on Friday calling for support to keep the teetering coalition on its feet for the sake of political stability and a properly functioning government. The unusual missive, sent out on the one-year anniversary of the establishment of the government, comes as... Continue Reading

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

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

Sa’ar threatens ‘consequences’ for wobbling coalition as backing for bill flounders

Finance Minister and Israel Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Amid coalition crisis, Liberman says he won’t sit with Netanyahu in any government

Israeli troops hold a major drill in Cyprus, in an image published by the military on June 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

In Cyprus, IDF runs drills for potential war with Hezbollah, Lebanon ground assault

By Emanuel Fabian

Military simulates transporting thousands of troops by air and sea to operate in unfamiliar territory and hold back long-range rocket fire

Illustrative: An Iranian flag made from binary code. (Sergio Lacueva/iStock Photo by Getty Images)

Microsoft blocks Lebanese cyberattacks on Israeli firms, possibly directed by Iran

Screenshot taken from a video apparently released by Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq as evidence of its successful hack of state-owned CCTVs in Tehran. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Iranian dissident group says it hacked 5,000 surveillance cameras in Tehran

By AP and TOI staff

US President Joe Biden salutes as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden said due in Israel on June 23, will meet PM, Abbas, tour E. Jerusalem hospital

US president to visit as part of planned trip to the Middle East including Saudi Arabia; will reportedly meet Bennett and Herzog in Jerusalem, Abbas in Bethlehem, go to Yad Vashem

US President Joe Biden speaks at a change of command ceremony at US Coast Guard headquarters, June 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden decides to visit Saudi Arabia, turning back toward kingdom amid energy crisis

By AAMER MADHANI and Ellen Knickmeyer

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary General, Hissein Brahim Taha, at the State Department in Washington, May 25, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken: Saudi Arabia is a ‘critical partner’ in expanding Abraham Accords

Likud blasts Yesha council head after he urges party to back settlement bill

By Sara Serfaty

Yariv Levin, chairman of the Likud party's Knesset faction, assailed the head of the umbrella organization for settlements Thursday night after the latter, along with several other settlement leaders, urged the opposition to back renewing a law extending Israeli law to West Bank settlers. Likud and other opposition... Continue Reading

David Elhayani, Yesha Council chairman, speaks during a press conference outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina MKs Nir Orbach and Idit Silman talk in the Knesset on June 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Report: MK Silman to oppose bill renewing application of Israeli law to settlers

Chief Justice Esther Hayut arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, about the evacuation of the West Bank outpost of Homesh, June 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court gives state 2 months to provide update on Homesh outpost evacuation

By Aaron Boxerman

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Spielberg-produced documentary dissects 2016 Tel Aviv terror attack

Welcome to this week’s Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. This week, host Jessica Steinberg speaks to documentary filmmaker Tal Inbar and producer Nancy Spielberg, sister of Steven Spielberg, who premiered their new film "Closed Circuit" at DocAviv, Tel Aviv’s annual documentary film festival. "Closed Circuit" uses security camera... Continue Reading

A clip of security camera footage used in 'Closed Circuit,' the documentary film about the 2016 Sarona Market attack, which premiered at DocAviv in May 2022 (Courtesy Closed Circuit)

Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz

Ruth is the right model for Israel’s conversion rules

Israel’s new plan allows each convert to choose an officiating rabbi and a community to join, just as Ruth’s decision to join Naomi was a personal one

Another reason it’s a good idea to admit you’ve made a mistake

When the sotah woman is guilty, but won’t admit it, she is encouraged to come clean, rather than undergo the ordeal of the bitter waters. What holds her back? (Naso)

Illustrative photo: Soldiers in the mixed gender Cheetah Battalion participate in a squad exercise in southern Israel on November 16, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

Rabbis urge IDF chief to stop women’s integration into combat units

Statement signed by diverse group of national religious leaders, days after IDF says women will be able to serve in elite search and rescue unit, claims such moves will divide army

Thousands take part in the annual Jerusalem Pride Parade, June 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘A victory of light over darkness’: 7,000 march in Jerusalem’s 20th Pride Parade

Held under tight security, march ends peacefully; 10 arrested, suspected of disruptive plans; in 1st such appearance, Knesset speaker says: ‘You are entitled to love who you want’

Hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia on February 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Interview'Statistically, they're not more crazy than the rest of us'

Can jihadists truly deradicalize? Jewish author speaks with terrorists to find out

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘Home, Land, Security,’ Carla Power charts the return of extremists to mainstream society. Raised in the Midwest and Mideast, journalist has some advice for Western governments

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Russian businessman and billionaire God Nisanov in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, July 31, 2014. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images via JTA)

Russian Jewish oligarch hit with US sanctions, loses WJC leadership roles

State Department calls real estate developer God Nisanov ‘one of the richest men in Europe and a close associate of several Russian officials’

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin has cancer, survived assassination attempt, report claims

Citing US intelligence officials, Newsweek says Russian leader underwent treatment for advanced illness in April, escaped Russian plot to kill him

A portrait of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from the graphic novel 'Political Power: Volodymyr Zelensky'(Courtesy)

From our partnersZelensky transformed into comic hero in new graphic novel on his life

Smoke rises in the city of Severodonetsk during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops, in Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas on June 2, 2022. (Aris Messinis/AFP)

100 days of war: Russia presses offensive as Zelensky vows ‘victory will be ours’

By Quentin Tyberghien

File: Israeli soldiers stand guard near a hole in the security fence, as Palestinians try to cross into Israel, near Mevo Horon, April 10, 2022. (Flash90)

IDF says troops fire at three Palestinians after firebomb thrown; teen said killed

By Aaron Boxerman

Army says suspects threw Molotov cocktail at troops; witness claims 17-year-old was shot without cause; is third Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in 24 hours

A police car is seen outside a church in Ames, Iowa, where a deadly shooting occurred. (Screen capture: YouTube)

More US shootings: 2 killed outside Iowa church, 2 shot at Wisconsin funeral

By AP

Local police say man apparently killed himself after shooting dead 2 females in Ames; a day earlier, gunman killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa medical office

US President Joe Biden speaks about the latest round of mass shootings, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden urges Congress to pass tougher gun laws: ‘How much more carnage?’

By Zeke Miller and Will Weissert

Eight-year-old Jeremiah Lennon picks at a sign that reads "Uvalde Strong" which he helped decorate and stuck on an electric pole in front of his home on May 28, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Lennon was in a classroom just next to the room where three of his friends were slain when a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

‘Day by day’: Uvalde school shooting survivors begin healing process

By STEPHEN GROVES and Adriana Gomez Licon

Pravin Kukadia, director of Eminent Gems Ltd., shows diamonds to AFP during an interview at his office in the Israel World Diamond Center, in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Gan, May 16, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Diamonds forge cornerstone of ties between Israel, India

By Alexandra Vardi

Precious stones account for half of all trade between the countries, with Indian traders in Ramat Gan enjoying a special visa status

Meeting Modi in India, Gantz seeks to boost security cooperation

Illustrative: A Shavuot learning session at the secular Bina Yeshiva in Tel Aviv, 2015. (Courtesy Bina Yeshiva)

Four New York spots for all-night Shavuot learning in the city that never sleeps

By julia GERGELY

Originating with 16th-century Jewish mystics, the custom of Tikkun Leil Shavuot is now as much a part of the holiday as cheesecake. Here are some top picks for great classes in NY

'The Swimmer,' directed by Adam Kalderon, is about the sexual awakening of a young gay man competing for a spot on the Israeli Olympic swim team. (Israel Film Center/ via JTA)

'It's a window into a much truer reality of Israeli society'

Here are the films that are welcoming back NYC’s Israel Film Center Festival

Screenings run until June 8, and include documentaries, ‘Image of Victory’ by blockbuster director Avi Nesher and new episodes of the hit comedy series ‘Shababnikim’

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White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner during a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC on October 23, 2017. Right: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with Lebanon's Christian Maronite patriarch on November 14, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Photos by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images; Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)

US House panel probes whether Kushner’s Mideast policies tied to business interests

Illustrative: Medical staff at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon handle a lab sample in March 2020 (Flash90)

Software glitch at hospitals caused patients to receive inaccurate test results

By Sara Serfaty

Hadas Klein (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Police probe threats to key witness in Netanyahu gifts case – report

Belgian Andrée Geulen-Herscovici poses during a visit to the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, April 18, 2007. (Orel Cohen/Flash 90)

Belgian teacher who hid Jewish children during Holocaust dies at age 101

By Michael Horovitz

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi from Monsey, New York, tells Channel 12 News's Rafi Reshef that he does not retract his remarks on Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, June 1, 2022. (Channel 12 News)

NY rabbi says Bennett should be skewered, would welcome Liberman’s death

Housing construction in Holon. Illustrative. (100 via iStock by Getty Images)

New housing plans across Israel commit to delivering ‘non-standard’ homes

By Danielle Nagler

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse during jury deliberations in his rape trial in New York, February 24, 2020. (John Minchillo/AP)

Appeals court upholds Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction

By Michael R. Sisak

Illustrative: A service at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam near Berlin. (photo credit: Margrit Schmidt)

Interim head of scandal-ridden German seminary doesn’t commit to replacing top rabbi

By Toby Axelrod

The New York Post printed a blurred screenshot of the couple who engaged in synagogue Zoom sexual activity in May 2022. (Screen capture via JTA)

Sex act on bat mitzvah Zoom stream renews questions about online Shabbat services

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers at a base in northern Israel, May 19, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

IDF soldier seriously hurt by snake bite at northern base

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stands with a military honor guard, in Ankara, Turkey, June 1, 2022. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

Turkey is for the birds: Country in push to be known as ‘Türkiye’

By AP

Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, (2R) reacts as Britain's Prince Louis of Cambridge (2L) covers his ears, as they stand with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (L), and Britain's Princess Charlotte of Cambridge to watch a special flypast from Buckingham Palace balcony following the Queen's Birthday Parade, the Trooping the Color, as part of Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee celebrations, in London on June 2, 2022. (Daniel LEAL / AFP)

London kicks off Queen Elizabeth II’s historic Platinum Jubilee celebrations

By Martine PAUWELS, Phil HAZLEWOOD and Valentine GRAVELEAU

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