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What Matters Most On Friday, June 17, 2022

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

Staying in Istanbul despite danger? Lock your door and keep quiet, Israel advises

NSC places emphasis on being cautious at hotels amid reports there are still Iranian agents at large in Turkish city, readying to carry out attacks

A Venezuelan-owned Boeing 747 taxis on the runway after landing in the Ambrosio Taravella airport in Cordoba, Argentina, June 6, 2022. (AP/Sebastian Borsero)

Israel ‘concerned’ by Iran airline activity in S. America, hails Argentina response

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground Natanz nuclear site, as well as ongoing construction to expand the facility in a nearby mountain south of Natanz. Iran, May 9, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iran said building vast new underground tunnels to hold nuclear enrichment facility

New York Times says US and Israeli officials have been monitoring new construction at Natanz for a year; Defense Minister Gantz first alluded to site in speech last month

A mourning flyer for Islamic Revolutionary Guard officer Wahab Premarzian, who died on June 15, shared on social media. (Courtesy of Twitter)

Third IRGC officer reported dead within a week in Iran

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s president slams US for imposing new sanctions, says they undermine talks

By AFP

A video exhibit plays as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Panel: Trump pressured Pence to overturn election even though he knew it was illegal

Testimony at January 6 probe details how Trump taunted vice president, while rioters calling to burn Pence came within 40 feet of where he was sheltering

Vice President Mike Pence, returns to the House chamber after midnight, Jan. 7, 2021, to finish the work of the Electoral College after a mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington and disrupted the process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

What we know about how Pence’s day unfolded on January 6

Rodolfo Hernandez, Colombia presidential candidate in Bogota, Colombia, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

It's all relative

Colombia presidential candidate says Hitler praise was meant for Einstein

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rodolfo Hernandez, one of two nominees in runoff election, has won an unlikely following with a self-funded social media campaign despite history of off-color remarks

Rabbi Yosef and Chana Lipsker, fourth an fifth from left, cut the ribbon in front of the new Chabad hospitality center. (Courtesy)

'The bottom line is, we're all children of the same God'

In the US, some fading Reform and Conservative synagogues go Orthodox to stay afloat

By Cathryn J. Prince

Chabad Hasidic outreach programs reverse decline and bring growth to congregations through a host of programming designed to foster a more traditional community

Times Will Tell Podcast

Podcast: At 45, this Orthodox principal and father of four came out of the closet

Hear what happened next for Dr. Mark Shinar and his family in an open conversation marking Gay Pride Month

Op-ed

The imminent bid to quash the independence of Israel’s Supreme Court

Under revolutionary legislation submitted by the Likud-led opposition, the process of choosing our justices would be even more politicized than the US system, with fewer safeguards

Benjamin Netanyahu and Gideon Sa'ar at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, on November 21, 2005. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

As coalition falters, a prime ministerial reshuffle hangs in the balance

If the government collapses, Lapid or Netanyahu could be PM very soon, but so, just possibly, could incumbent Bennett. It all depends on the way things break apart

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett poses for a picture at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 26, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addresses the Knesset during a '40 signatures debate' in the plenum hall on June 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett reportedly weighs a possible alternative government with Likud

Locals inspect the bullet-riddled vehicle where three armed Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Jenin, on June 17, 2022. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Three armed Palestinians killed in clashes with IDF in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army says men opened fire on soldiers who were operating in the city and were killed when troops returned fire; 8 others wounded

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers walk though a Hebron market on June 19, 2014. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian security seen ejecting IDF patrol from Hebron market

Two handguns seized by IDF troops from a group of Palestinians and Arab Israelis near the city of Umm al-Fahm, June 16, 2022. (Israel Police)

IDF troops arrest suspects carrying guns on West Bank border

By Emanuel Fabian

A military observation balloon that landed in the Palestinian city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, June 17, 2022 (Screenshot: Twitter)

IDF observation balloon crashes in Gaza under disputed circumstances

By Emanuel Fabian

Military officials deny device shot down by Palestinian gunmen, say no ‘significant’ information breach; Palestinian media says it was collected by Hamas members

File: IDF forces are seen on the border with the Gaza Strip, in May 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF girds for Hamas surprise attack with Gaza border calmest it has been in a decade

By Emanuel Fabian

Report: Israel coordinates, gets approval from US on some Syria airstrikes

According to Wall Street Journal, process is meant to ensure Israeli attacks on Iranian targets do not interfere with American operations in eastern Syria

The al-Tanf military outpost in southern Syria, October 22, 2018. (AP/Lolita Baldor)

Illustrative: In this July 17, 2017, file photo, a fighter of the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. (Hussein Malla/AP)

US-led military raid in Syria captures senior Islamic State leader

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

A crater formed after a car bomb targeting the motorcade of Lebanon's most prominent politician, former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, is seen in Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 14, 2005. (AP Photo)

UN-backed court sentences 2 Hezbollah men to life for 2005 killing of ex-Lebanese PM

By Julie CAPELLE

A collage of documents relating to women's rights in Algeria, 2020, one of the displays being showcased at the Documenta 2022. (Photo by Hichem Merouche/ Courtesy of the Archive of the struggles of the women in Algeria/ Documenta press office)

Inside story'Anti-Israel perspectives are being thoughtlessly accepted'

Are organizers of a major German art festival gaslighting critics about BDS support?

By Miriam Dagan

Opening June 18, the 15th Documenta is curated by an Indonesian collective whose members have accused Israel of apartheid, touching a nerve in a country haunted by the Holocaust

Major German art show to open despite accusations of support for BDS

By Deborah Cole

For the love of Israel

Those spies didn’t know how good the land would turn out to be! In an attempt to atone for their words, here are 7 reasons to praise Israel instead (Shelach)

Joshua Hammerman

50 years after Watergate, Nixon’s ’Jewish Thing’ lives on

We won’t accept a world where bad presidents happen to good people: we speak truth to power, and pursue justice – as this week’s January 6 hearing reminds us

Violence erupts between Israeli security forces and Palestinian mourners carrying the casket of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh out of a hospital, before being transported to a church and then her resting place, in Jerusalem, on May 13, 2022. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

US calls on Israel to release findings from probe into violence at Abu Akleh funeral

By ToI Staff and AFP

Police said investigation was complete but did not divulge results; reports say no officers to be disciplined for storming funeral procession of slain Al Jazeera reporter

Illustrative: A yacht returns to Herzliya marina following the annual Ivy League yacht race, June 22, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Sky-high rental costs prompt a Tel Aviv couple to take to the sea; others may follow

By Danielle Nagler

Forget a cramped apartment: Living on a yacht in the marina could be the White City’s most economical option

Acting chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Yaakov Hagoel, left, shakes hands with the nominee for the position, Doron Almog, outside the organization's headquarters in Jerusalem on June 16, 2022. (Jewish Agency)

Former general Doron Almog tapped to head Jewish Agency, ending lengthy search

By Judah Ari Gross

Former commander who later opened a center for the disabled largely seen as a consensus candidate to replace Isaac Herzog, who left the semi-governmental group a year ago

More Headlines

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, left, awards Reut Rettig-Weiss the rank of colonel, July 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

In first, IDF appoints female officer to lead brigade

By Emanuel Fabian

An Iranian military speedboat patrols the waters as a tanker prepares to dock at the oil facility on Khark Island, Iran, on March 12, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

US targets Chinese, Indian energy brokers for breaking Iran nuke sanctions

By AFP

Medics at the scene of a suspected double murder in northern Israel on June 16, 2022 (Courtesy)

Two men found shot dead in vehicle in northern Israel in suspected double murder

From left to right: IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a military drill in northern Israel on November 16, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Bennett said seeking to interview candidates for IDF head, Gantz reluctant

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

Bus drivers strike Friday morning, demanding higher wages and greater safety

Illustrative: Students visit the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp site in Oświęcim, Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel nixes youth trips to Poland over Holocaust education spat

By AP and ToI Staff

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speak after their meeting in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, early Friday, April 29, 2022. Prince Mohammed is due to visit Turkey next week. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

Saudi prince to visit Turkey, in first since murder of journalist Khashoggi

By Remi Banet and Fulya Ozerkan

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, watches Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shaking hands with French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, as Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, right, and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi look on, in Kyiv, June 16, 2022. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Ukraine’s Zelensky to take questions at Hebrew University event next week

By AFP

Yaffa Ben-David, head of the Israel Teachers Union at a protest by teachers demanding better pay and working conditions in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Teachers plan one-day strike next week as talks with Finance Ministry crash

Church members console each other after a shooting at the Saint Stevens Episcopal Church on Thursday, June 16, 2022 in Vestavia, Alabama. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Two killed, one injured in Alabama church shooting

By AP

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