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What Matters Most On Monday, June 13, 2022

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People walk towards the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, Saturday, July 11, 2020. (AP/Emrah Gurel)

Live updates (closed)

Report details Israelis being whisked from Istanbul as assassins awaited them

By Joshua Davidovich

Israelis in city were called and told to leave immediately, without even gathering suitcases, after intel showing imminent danger amid Iranian attack threats, according to report

6:33 pm

EU frees funding for Palestinians held up over textbook reforms
6:18 pm

Look at the big brain on Tarantino: Hebrew U. gives director honorary doctorate
6:13 pm

UN passes hat to public for funds to get oil off decaying Yemeni tanker

A full moon rises above the iconic Haghia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, early May 16, 2022. (Mucahid Yapici/AP)

Israelis told to leave Istanbul, stay away from Turkey, amid Iran terror threat

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Severe travel warning issued for Istanbul, and Lapid urges against all travel to Turkey, after Israeli, Turkish security forces said to thwart plot to kidnap, kill Israeli tourists

Istanbul's skyline, with the iconic Galata Tower, January 29, 2021. (AP Photo/ Emrah Gurel)

Iranian kidnapping of Israeli tourists said thwarted in Turkey last month

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh speaks during a press conference in Tehran, March 14, 2022. (AFP)

Iran says any response to Israel ‘will not be in a third country’

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks during a plenum session in the Knesset on December 15, 2021. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Interview

Gideon Sa’ar to ToI: To save the government, our partners need to sacrifice more

By Tal Schneider

New Hope leader thinks other party heads in flailing coalition should start cracking the whip with rebel MKs; dismisses idea that only its left wing is being required to compromise

A view of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Sa’ar pans opposition bill ‘politicizing’ selection of Supreme Court judges

Jordan Valley Regional Council head David Elhayani attends a press conference of the Yesha Council outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesha leader faces rebellion for backing coalition bill crucial to settlers

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Analysis

Shuttering Damascus airport, Israel ramps up its efforts to foil Iran arms transfers

Syria's Damascus International Airport has been completely shuttered, possibly for quite some time, after an unusual series of strikes in recent weeks which have been attributed to Israel. The most recent attack, on Friday, disabled both runways and damaged infrastructure used for planes to navigate, as well as an old arrivals hall. Over the years,... Continue Reading

Repair works are seen at Syria's Damascus International Airport, after an airstrike attributed to Israel, June 12, 2022. (SANA)

A United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) convoy patrols the southern Khiam area near the border with Israel, on August 6, 2021. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

UN mission demands security guarantees from Lebanon after troops ‘threatened’

By AFP

President Joe Biden speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, May 31, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden says Israel’s national security part of reason for Saudi trip

President dismisses idea that his Riyadh visit is related to energy issues; Israeli official says stops in Jerusalem, Bethlehem will be on July 14, 15, but US says dates not final

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference after an extraordinary EU summit on Ukraine in Brussels, on February 25, 2022. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

With EU commissioner set to visit Ramallah, PA hopes for end to funding crisis

By Aaron Boxerman

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing on their lawsuit against former prime minister Ehud Olmert, at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ex-PMs battle after Olmert called Netanyahus 'mentally ill'

In fiery libel hearing against Olmert, Netanyahu denies having ‘psychiatric history’

Opposition chief calls defense lawyer ‘crazy’; his wife says she wasn’t admitted to psychiatric ward; former official says Netanyahu family’s behavior ‘took its toll on the state’

Analysis

Battle of Donbas region could decide outcome of Ukraine war

Day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland of its neighbor. With the conflict now in its fourth month, it's a high-stakes campaign that could dictate the course of the entire war. If Russia prevails in the battle of Donbas, it will... Continue Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the State Prize awards ceremony while marking Russia Day in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 12, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Former Russian PM: Putin is ‘out of it,’ Ukraine war could last two years

By Anna SMOLCHENKO

The gutted remains of cars sit along a road during heavy fighting at the front line in Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, June 8, 2022. (Oleksandr Ratushniak/AP)

Zelensky: Ukrainian, Russian forces fighting for ‘every meter’ in Severodonetsk

By Anna MALPAS and Benoit Finck

3 things we do wrong when we talk to our kids about Israel

Parents can interact meaningfully and memorably by switching the language, changing the location and, frankly, talking less and doing more

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

You don’t need a map to find antisemitism

Anti-Zionists may wrap themselves in the cloak of solidarity with the oppressed, but this movement is as conspiratorial and anti-Jewish as the far-right

I am not a ‘disease carrier’

The left’s venom against religious Zionists is dangerous and foolish – not least because it limits their ability to temper the actual extremists

Be subversive – celebrate Hebrew Book Week

I want a book that transports me to other places, that breaks the routine, and that suggests that the way I live – the way we live – is not the only path to humanity

MK Amichai Chikli at a Knesset House Committee meeting on the Yamina party's request to declare him a 'defector,' on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina defector Chikli appeals party ouster as undemocratic

MK asks district court to consider the obligations and allegiances of a lawmaker: whether they lie with the voters who elected him or only the party leader

MK Michael Biton attends his Blue and White party's faction meeting at the Knesset, May 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

In fresh blow to coalition, Blue and White MK renews boycott of coalition votes

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Beit Shemesh resident, 18, indicted for death threat against Liberman

By Tobias Siegal

Ahead of World Drug Day'Addiction is not a curable disease'

In hitting bottom, an alcoholic psychiatrist finds the key to fighting addiction

By JP O’ Malley

In ‘The Urge: Our History of Addiction,’ author Carl Fisher taps into both his own experience and humanity’s to argue that substance abuse isn’t a one-off solvable issue

A Magen David Adom health worker take a swab sample from at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing complex in Jerusalem, on March 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Vaccinated people who recovered from Omicron found to be best protected against BA.5

Doctor at Sheba Medical Center says a person who’d been infected with Omicron but hadn’t been inoculated against COVID ‘is not protected’ from other strains

People stand in line to be tested for the COVID-19, at a testing center on HaBima square in Tel Aviv, on March 28, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Key COVID-19 transmission figure hits 3-month high as renewed outbreak intensifies

This October 2021, photo provided by Pfizer shows kid-size doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in Puurs, Belgium. (Pfizer via AP, File)

US regulators: Pfizer’s COVID vaccine appears effective for kids under 5

By MATTHEW PERRONE and Mike Stobbe

Maj. Gen. Uri Gordin, chief of the IDF's Home Front Command speaks during a conference in the central city of Modi'in, June 12, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

At bleak conference, officials warn Israel unprepared to deal with major emergency

By Emanuel Fabian

Senior cop says force unable to provide ‘comprehensive response’ to ethnic unrest; IDF chief threatens Lebanon: ‘Power of our attacks will be something you’ve never seen’

A new Medium Robotic Combat Vehicle in a handout photo published June 1, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Israel unveils armed robotic vehicle for ‘forward reconnaissance missions’

By Emanuel Fabian

Former US president Donald Trump, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, February 26, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Members of Jan. 6 panel: There’s enough proof to indict Trump over Capitol storming

After first public hearing, several lawmakers in the US House committee leading the investigation say they believe there is a case against the former president

Authorities arrest members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event, June 11, 2022, after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear. (Georji Brown via AP)

Head of US white supremacist group among those arrested near Idaho Pride parade

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and San Metz

A woman listens to speakers during a rally near Capitol Hill in Washington, June 10, 2022, urging Congress to pass gun legislation. On display next to her are school notebooks representing children who have died from gun violence. (Susan Walsh/AP)

In modest breakthrough, US senators announce outline of gun control deal

In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran. (IRIB via AP, File)

Iran says its actions in contravention of 2015 nuclear deal are ‘reversible’

By AFP

Spokesman argues a new accord could turn back clock on Tehran’s accelerated nuclear development, as IAEA slams non-cooperation

In this Feb. 11, 2019 file photo, Iranian Revolutionary Guard members attend a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi, or Freedom, Square in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says 2 Revolutionary Guard members ‘martyred’ as regional tensions rise

By Nasser Karimi

Populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, speaks during a mews conference in Najaf, Iraq, November 18, 2021. (Anmar Khalil/AP)

73 lawmakers from Iraq’s biggest bloc resign, plunging country into uncertainty

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Photo essay

Venice ghetto’s synagogues undergo a restoration renaissance

By CHRIS WARDE-JONES

Effort underway to preserve historic neighborhood’s 16th-century houses of prayer, both for the small remaining Jewish community and for tourists

More Headlines

Israel Police conduct searches on June 5, 2022, for missing Acre mom Sapir Nachum. (Israel Police)

Police find body in northern Israel amid searches for missing woman

Illustrative: A soldier from a IDF's Military Intelligence unit works at a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

Three held on suspicion of leaking classified IDF information online

By Emanuel Fabian

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deficit drops to nearly zero for the first time in 14 years

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian hotel-casino November 6, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Ron DeSantis slams ‘woke gender ideology’ in speech to Jewish group in Manhattan

Israelis board a Kavim bus on the main street in the central city of Petah Tikva, June 24, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Bus driver blocks girl, 13, from boarding, says her clothing is ‘sexual harassment’

Corals growing on construction piles in the port of Eilat. (Israel Nature and Parks Eilat District Ecologist, Dr Assaf Zvuloni)

State-owned pipeline to pay NIS 250,000 for damaging corals, won’t admit liability

A screenshot taken from the cinematic trailer of the animated film "Lightyear," releasing on June 17. (YouTube/Pixar)

UAE bans Pixar’s new animation ‘Lightyear’ over same-sex kiss scene

By Jon Gambrell

In this photo from February 25, 2015, retired General John Allen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to examine the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Retired US general resigns as head of prominent think tank amid Qatar lobbying probe

By Alan Suderman and Jim Mustian

An empty classroom at a school in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hakerem on October 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Teachers renew partial strike as union dispute with Finance Ministry drags on

Aspiring pirates learn about marine life aboard the Coast Patrol's boat, Apparat, on June 11, 2022. (Egor Iggy Petrenko/Coast Patrol).

Shipping conservationAhoy, me hearties! Young buccaneers invited to learn about marine life

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