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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 5, 2022

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Ayoob Entezari. (Photo used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Report claims Iranian scientist was deliberately poisoned, assassin has fled country

Iranian opposition outlet says Ayoob Entezari, who worked on missiles and drones, died last week after attending a dinner party, the host of which has since fled

Revolutionary Guard troops attend a military parade marking the 39th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, on September 22, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Israeli officials deny killing alleged spy IRGC colonel who ‘fell off roof’ – report

Telescopus hoogstraali, or Desert Tiger Snake, an endangered species of snake endemic to the Middle East. (Simon Jamison, Tel Aviv University)

One in every five species of reptiles worldwide is facing extinction, study finds

By Tobias Siegal

Covering over 10,000 species, study involving Israeli researchers is the most comprehensive of its kind to date; half of all turtles and crocodiles in danger of dying out

Michelangelo's fresco 'La Creazione' ('The Creation') on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)

Interview'I wanted to see this god in his natural cultural habitat'

Is God circumcised? How people in ancient times viewed the Heavenly Body

By Rich Tenorio

In new book, Francesca Stavrakopoulou displays God as portrayed by His early worshipers: with genitals, passions, powers – and a penchant for the monstrous

Israeli police officers scuffle with Palestinians on the Temple Mount, June 5, 2022. (Screenshot)

Police clash with Palestinians on Temple Mount as Jews visit during Shavuot holiday

Rioters barricade themselves in Al-Aqsa Mosque, throw stones at officers as Jewish groups tour flashpoint compound; no injuries or arrests reported

Illustrative: A man hangs a Palestinian flag on a lamppost in the northern West Bank town of Huwara amid clashes with Israeli troops on May 29, 2022. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Israeli troops arrest terror suspect during overnight raid in West Bank

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meeting at the PA presidential headquarters in Ramallah on January 22, 2020. (Wafa)

Macron speaks with Abbas over rising violence in West Bank

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Members of Lev Tahor prepare to depart their compound in eastern Sarajevo, February 3, 2022. (Courtesy/Davorin Sekulic/Klix.ba)

US court convicts 2 members of extremist Lev Tahor cult for international kidnapping

Cousins Mordechay and Matityau Malka took part in a scheme to kidnap two minors from their mother in upstate New York, smuggle them into Mexico

Front row from left, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles attend the National Service of Thanksgiving held at St. Paul's Cathedral as part of celebrations marking the Platinum Jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, in London, June 3, 2022. (Aaron Chown/Pool photo via AP)

Why was chief rabbi in St. Paul’s Cathedral if Orthodox rabbis don’t enter churches?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A London rabbinical court ruling from the 1970s says Jews can attend Christian ceremonies if requested by a monarch, opening door for Ephraim Mirvis’s attendance at queen’s jubilee

Queen Elizabeth II kicks off star-studded Jubilee gig with tea with Paddington Bear

By SYLVIA HUI and DANICA KIRKA

Reporter's notebook

‘Israel is back’: Revitalized ties in Africa touted at Paris conference

Officials from nations that don’t recognize Israel among those at event highlighting Jewish nation’s unique potential on continent; ‘Palestinian issue a non-issue,’ says envoy

Simon Seroussi, spokesman for Israel's embassy in France (L), Magatte Seye, Senegal's envoy to France, Ben Bourgel, Israel's envoy to Senegal, and Anne-Sophie Sebban-Bécache, director of AJC Paris, speak at the Israel Back to Africa summit in Paris, May 31, 2022. (MFA)

Sharon Nazarian

Missing the zeitgeist: Iraq legislates anti-Israel bigotry

Baghdad’s move to legislate anti-Israel and antisemitic prejudice holds onto a hateful and archaic past that refuses to see the light of normalizing ties with Israel

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Haiti’s plight: A Jewish response to reverse-reparations

The Torah teaches that a freed person must be given the resources necessary to build a free life from scratch, not be further extorted by their enslaver.

Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Al-Qaeda again finding a safe haven in Afghanistan under Taliban, UN report warns

By Edith M. Lederer

Islamic State now poses main military threat to new Afghan rulers as they try to consolidate hold over war-torn country

MK Michal Rozin at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Is there an alternative?’: MK Rozin says Meretz has no option on settlement bill

Left-wing lawmaker says if legislation doesn’t pass and government falls, ‘the right will pass it within a week’; stresses backing for two-state solution

Participants in Canada Israel Experience's LGBTQ Birthright Israel trip in Tel Aviv during Pride (courtesy)

Pride month

Double mitzva? Birthright’s gay participants embrace Jewish, queer identities

By Matt Lebovic

Once jokingly dubbed ‘Jewish baby-makers,’ Birthright Israel trips have evolved to ‘respect diversity’ among young Jews, say staff and participants

Illustrative: This March 16, 2019 file photo shows natural gas refineries at the South Pars gas field on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, in Asaluyeh, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran and Oman sign deals to build gas pipelines, oil field along maritime border

By AFP

Deal could be complicated by sanctions imposed on Iran; oil field is located in the strategic Strait of Hormuz near the UAE

Iranians rescuers scour the rubble at the site where a ten-story building collapsed, as rescue operations continue in the southwestern city of Abadan on May 24, 2022. (Tasnim News/AFP)

Death toll in catastrophic Iran building collapse rises to at least 38

By AP

The Greek-flagged oil tanker Prudent Warrior, one of the ships seized by Iran, is seen as it sails past Istanbul, Turkey, April 19, 2019. (Dursun Çam via AP)

Khamenei says two tankers were seized by IRGC after Greece ‘stole’ Iranian oil

By AFP

Smoke rising from several explosions that hit the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early in the morning, June 5, 2022. (Sergei SUPINSKY/AFP)

Russian missile barrage strikes Kyiv, shattering city’s month-long sense of calm

By John Leicester

Unspecified ‘infrastructure’ attacked in first airstrike on Kyiv since late April, showing Moscow is still ready to hit capital despite focus on Ukraine’s east

Smoke and dirt rise in the city of Severodonetsk during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops at the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 2, 2022. (ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)

Ukraine: Russia using ‘all its power’ to capture strategic city of Severodonetsk

By Blaise GAUQUELIN and Quentin Tyberghien

Ukrainian servicemen carry the coffin with the remains of Army Col. Oleksander Makhachek during his funeral in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Friday, June 3, 2022. According to combat comrades Makhachek was killed fighting Russian forces when a shell landed in his position on May 30. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

AnalysisHow long can Ukraine keep fighting as its troop losses mount?

By John Leicester and HANNA ARHIROVA

Philadelphia Police investigators work the scene of a fatal overnight shooting on South Street in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

3 dead, 11 wounded as gunmen fire into crowd in downtown Philadelphia

By AP

Two handguns recovered, no immediate arrests, after Saturday night attack in popular South Street area

Israelis seen at a celebration for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot in Kibbutz Sarid, in Emek Yizrael on May 16, 2021. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

'Kibbutz identity and Jewish identity are strengthened'

On the kibbutz, Shavuot is a time for remembering the movement’s glory days

By Hillel Kuttler

The biblical harvest festival resonates with the agricultural collectives’ largely secular residents and offers an opportunity for pageants, concerts, fairs and other celebrations

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Sapir Nachum. (Police spokesperson's unit)

Fears for safety of mother-of-two missing since Thursday; partner arrested

Illustrative: Police in Kafr Qara, June 4, 2022. (Israel Police)

27-year-old seriously injured in shooting in Kafr Qara; police launch manhunt

US President Joe Biden walks from Saint Edward Roman Catholic Church after attending Mass in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on June 4, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Biden briefly evacuated after plane enters airspace near his beach home

By AP

Logan Jones, 18, and five other individuals suspected of carrying out a hate crime against a Hasidic Jew in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in April. (NYPD)

18-year-old indicted for hate crime against Jewish man in Brooklyn

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, watches a military parade to mark the 90th anniversary of North Korea's army at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 25, 2022. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea test-fires salvo of short-range missiles

By AP

Real Madrid's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois celebrates after winning the Champions League final soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid at the Stade de France in Saint Denis near Paris, May 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Real DealReal Madrid’s Courtois said engaged to Israeli model Mishel Gerzig

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