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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 19, 2022

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Travelers stand in line to check in at Ben Gurion Airport, June 13, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

With chaos at airports, Israelis traveling this summer advised not to take luggage

By Michael Horovitz

Israel Airports Authority spokesman says tourists should suffice with carry-ons; claims country in ‘excellent position’ compared to rest of world as airports struggle with staffing

In this illustrative file photo from March 10, 2020, El Al planes are parked at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Court refuses to step into El Al work dispute; more flights face cancellation

Students arrive at school in Modiin, central Israel, on January 30, 2022. (Flash90)

Schools nationwide open late as teachers union feuds with Finance Ministry

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 19, 2022. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

PM warns Iran: ‘Those who send terrorists to attack Israelis will pay the price’

Bennett cites ongoing plots against Israelis abroad, says ‘danger is still great’; also warns Gaza terror groups of ‘painful’ cost to disrupting relative quiet in southern Israel

A Turkish police officer walks in front of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, on June 14, 2022. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)

Gantz vows retaliation to any Iranian attack in Turkey; one said foiled in past day

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

Argentina president says plane grounded over fueling issue, not Iran Quds Force ties

By Agencies and TOI staff

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of the Union for Reform Judaism, stands in his office in New York in May 2022. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Interview

US Reform head hopeful on Israel-Diaspora ties, despite Jerusalem inaction

By Judah Ari Gross

In extensive interview with ToI, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of North America’s largest Jewish movement, stresses commitment to Zionism, strides in improving ties with Israel

Jewish Agency chairman-to-be meets Reform movement, sparking ultra-Orthodox furor

By Judah Ari Gross

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz gives a press conference at IDF Central Command headquarters on March 30, 2022. (Screen capture: GPO)

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Gantz: Israel preparing offensive options against Iran ‘if and when’ they’re needed

By Michael Bachner

‘I suggest that the Iranians not test these capabilities,’ defense minister warns amid efforts by Tehran to target Israeli tourists

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Bennett said to ask rebel MK Orbach to quit in exchange for role out of politics
6:22 pm

Macron set to lose French parliamentary majority, Le Pen strengthens -- projections
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Gantz: Israel preparing offensive options against Iran 'if and when' they're needed

Analysis

40 years after the First Lebanon War, Israel’s wounds still aren’t healed

"I don't have another land," Israeli lyricist Ehud Manor wrote 40 years ago during Operation Peace for Galilee, "even if my land is burning." Kiryat Shmona, a small Israeli city a short distance from the Lebanon border, had indeed been burning over the previous year. The Palestine Liberation Organization's Katyusha fire from inside Lebanon in... Continue Reading

Israeli troops in Lebanon, 1982. (Michael Zarfati / IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

File: Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at the International Convention Center, on February 1, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Chief rabbi slams ‘fool’ Ben Gvir for Temple Mount visits that ‘stir up the winds’

Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef lashes far-right MK for ‘blasphemous’ visits to holy site that ‘cross the line’; Haredi leaders fear some voters shifting to Religious Zionism

‘Sentient’ AI can’t count in a minyan, but it still raises ethical dilemmas

Bringing the inanimate to life with rabbinic magic has historically been problematic. Can we do better with artificial intelligence?

The privilege of being his father

When our son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease, we never imagined that he would be the source of our greatest strength and hope for the future

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu adresses the Knesset on June 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud said preparing to bring Knesset dispersal bill for preliminary vote this week

Channel 12 says decision won’t be made until last minute; Netanyahu’s party previously considered bill after Meretz MK quit; New Hope members vow not to sit with former premier

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 19, 2022. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Times of Israel podcastDaily Briefing Jun 19: Breaking up a gov’t is hard to do; looming judicial ‘reforms’

Israelis demonstrate in support of the Israeli government, in Tel Aviv on June 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

2,000 rally in support of coalition, urge renegade Yamina MK to ‘not break’

Israelis wear protective face masks in Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv, on September 13, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Officials said weighing indoor mask mandate, offering COVID shots for youngest kids

As new variant BA.5 gains ground, 158 patients in serious condition, up from 106 last week

A six-year-old receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Hartford, Connecticut, November 2, 2021. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

‘Monumental step’: US approves COVID vaccines for youngest kids

By AFP

An observation post in Gaza overlooking the Israeli border community of Netiv Ha'asara is rebuilt a day after an IDF strike, June 19, 2022. (Dadi Fold/Courtesy)

Day after IDF strike, Hamas rebuilds post overlooking Gaza border community

By Emanuel Fabian

Residents of Netiv Ha’asara have long complained about the structure, which was damaged but not destroyed by an IDF bombing Saturday in response to a Gazan rocket attack

Palestinian workers wait at the Erez crossing in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, as they wait to enter Israel for work, on March 13, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

Israel freezes move to allow in 2,000 more Gaza workers after rocket attack

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: Israeli border police officers guard near the security fence, near the West Bank village of Hizme, March 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops near Qalqilya security barrier

By Aaron Boxerman

Israeli army says troops opened fire at a Palestinian trying to enter Israel illegally; debate over fence’s effectiveness has been renewed recently following wave of terror attacks

Illustrative: Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley on July 31, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF arrests 7 after group of Palestinians attacks Israeli in West Bank

Mexican artist Erick Beltran, 2nd from right, explains his artwork during the press preview of the documenta fifteen, the world's most significant exhibition of contemporary art, in Kassel, Germany, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

German president calls on major art show to address antisemitism allegations

By AP

At opening of documenta fifteen, Steinmeier says ‘recognizing Israel is the basis and condition for debate here,’ says ‘there are limits’ to what artists can do on political issues

Screen capture from video of Palestinian poet and activist Mohammed Al-Kurd as he addressed a solidarity event at the United Nations, November, 2021. (YouTube)

Top German cultural institute revokes invitation to controversial Palestinian writer

By Stuart Winer

Newly elected leaders of Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel, left and Tino Chrupalla arrive for a press conference in Berlin, Germany, September 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Germany’s far-right AfD elects 2 new leaders after co-chair quits, citing extremism

By AP

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

Russia said preparing UN resolution condemning Israel for Damascus airport attack

Security Council draft proposal reportedly says strike violated international law, undermines regional stability and Syrian sovereignty; Israeli officials doubt it’ll pass

Israeli gymnast Daria Atamanov performs during the rhythmic gymnastics all-around final at the 2022 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships in Tel Aviv, June 18, 2022. (Israel Gymnastic Association/Courtesy)

Israeli gymnast, national team win gold medals at European Championships

Daria Atamanov, 16, scores 136.900 in rhythmic gymnastics all-around category, taking first in competition held in Tel Aviv

Israeli gymnast Daria Atamanov performs during the rhythmic gymnastics all-around final at the 2022 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships in Tel Aviv, June 18, 2022. (Israel Gymnastic Association/Courtesy)

Israeli rhythmic gymnasts win 5 medals on second day of European Championships

Left: Columbia University president Lee Bollinger speaks during a graduation ceremony in New York, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File); Harvard President Lawrence Bacow sitting for a photograph before joining a procession though Harvard Yard at the start of Harvard University commencement exercises, May 30, 2019, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Israel on campus

Two departing Ivy League presidents leave different legacies on Israel, antisemitism

By Andrew Lapin and CALEB GUEDES-REED

Lawrence Bacow of Harvard and Lee Bollinger of Columbia prepare to step down in 2023, part of a sea change in schools at the center of nationwide campus debates on these two issues

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A rally calling for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ending Israel's control of the West Bank, held in Tel Aviv on June 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

2 injured as electric scooter plows into Tel Aviv ’55 years of occupation’ protest

By TOI staff and Agencies

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked heads to Morocco on Monday, in 3rd visit by government minister

Illustrative: Nurses strike at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in protest of violence against medical personnel, July 4, 2018 (Courtesy Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital)

Ministers advance motion stiffening punishment for attacks on medical staff

Rescue services inside the well where a father and his daughter were trapped, June 18, 2022. (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)

Father, 4-year-old daughter rescued after falling into 15-meter deep well

Illustrative -- A resort in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on October 4, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israeli woman drowns on vacation in Sinai Peninsula

Revlon CEO Debra Perelman, the company's first woman CEO in its 89-year-old history, show products during an interview, August 18, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Cosmetics giant Revlon files for bankruptcy amid struggles in crowded market

By AP and TOI staff

FILE - North Carolina basketball star Lennie Rosenbluth is shown during a practice session at an unknown location, February 27, 1957. (AP/File)

ObituaryLennie Rosenbluth, Jewish Sports Hall of Fame basketball star, dies aged 89

By AP

In this file photo taken on August 9, 1974, the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, bids farewell to the White House staff. (Consolidated News Pictures/AFP)

50 years on, journalist who uncovered Watergate still wonders why Nixon did it

By Chris Lefkow

US President Joe Biden is helped by Secret Service agents after he fell trying to get off his bike to greet a crowd on a trail at Gordons Pond in Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Stop, drop and roll‘I’m good’: Biden unhurt after falling from bike

By AAMER MADHANI

Voters make their choice in a voting booth in a voting station of Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, June 19, 2022 (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

France goes to the polls again for vote that determines direction of Macron’s term

By Thomas Adamson

FILES - This combination of photos shows Colombian presidential candidates: Gustavo Petro (left), June 17, 2018; and Rodolfo Hernandez, June 2, 2022, in Bogota, Colombia. (AP/Martin Mejia, Fernando Vergara, Files)

AnalysisColombians face tough choice between populist and former guerrilla for president

By Agustin Lao-Montes

Paul McCartney performs during his "Got Back" tour, June 16, 2022, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)

Little help from friendsPaul McCartney marks 80th birthday with Springsteen, 60,000 pals

By David Bauder

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