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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 22, 2022

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Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) smiles ahead of a preliminary vote to dissolve the Knesset for new elections, on June 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset passes initial vote to disperse, setting Israel on path to elections

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Earliest parliament is expected to complete process of disbanding is Monday; opposition MKs rejoice as coalition lawmakers decry ‘sad day for democracy’

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi (L) speaks with Ra'am MK Mazen Ghanaim (R) during a Knesset discussion on a bill to renew the application of some Israeli law to settlers, June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rebel Ra’am, Meretz MKs bow out of their parties after turbulent stints

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, second-right, attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on June 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset appears to kill bill that would bar Netanyahu from becoming premier

Workers hang an election campaign billboard for the Likud Party showing a portrait of its leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lower right, and opposition party leader Yair Lapid, upper right, next to a billboard of the Yisrael Beitenu Party showing its leader Avigdor Lieberman, in Bnei Brak, Sunday, March. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Polls point to return of dreaded deadlock in next elections, unless alliances shift

By Michael Horovitz

Surveys aired by major TV networks show Likud at top but without enough allies for a government; nearly half of respondents to Channel 12 survey want Netanyahu back as PM

Voting slips for Knesset elections on March 23, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Expected upcoming election will cost Israel up to NIS 2.9 billion, experts say

Defense Minister Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on June 21, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Gantz throws cold water on possibility of reuniting with Netanyahu

ToI Original VideoIsrael’s natural wonder is turning into a salty puddle

Into the Land: Dead Sea Walking

The first episode of The Times of Israel’s original ‘Into the Land’ docuseries – taking a deeper look at some of Israel’s most complex social, environmental and historical issues.

Diabetes: A Word, Not A Sentence

Can diabetes be reversed? Could having COVID-19 increase my risk? We talk types, triggers and tools in managing diabetes in our new episode with Prof. Avivit Cahn, MD.

Aerial photographs of the 7th century mosque near today's Rahat. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyDid nomadic traders convert Byzantine Christians to Islam?

One of the oldest known mosques in the world uncovered in Negev Bedouin city Rahat

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

New discovery joins a second very early mosque dated to the 7th century, when Islam was just beginning to spread in the Holy Land

In this image taken from video from Bakhtar State News Agency, Taliban fighters secure a government helicopter to evacuate injured people in Gayan district, Paktika province, Afghanistan, June 22, 2022 (Bakhtar State News Agency via AP)

At least 920 killed as earthquake hits eastern Afghanistan

By FAZEL RAHMAN FAIZI

Rescue efforts likely to be hampered by lack of international organizations in the country since Taliban takeover; rescuers arriving by helicopter

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (not pictured) hold a joint press conference at the Knesset on June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Set to become prime minister, Lapid faces critical test against resurgent Netanyahu

By Josef Federman

Foreign minister, expected to be sworn in as caretaker PM next week, vows to face Israel’s challenges as country hurtles toward another round of elections

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 3, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Lapid gets extra security, plans to live in PM’s residence without family — report

Azzam al-Ahmad, head of Fatah's Central Committee and delegation, speaks during a press conference at the end of two days of closed-door talks attended by representatives of 13 leading political parties held in the Egyptian capital Cairo on November 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)

Little hope for change in Ramallah as Israel switches out governments again

By Aaron Boxerman

Illustrative: An empty classroom in Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem on February 10, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Teachers’ strike to continue for second day in row

Daycares and elementary schools to remain closed Thursday in latest move by Israel Teachers Union as labor talks with Finance Ministry deteriorate

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Israeli, US military officials discuss plans in case of escalation on northern border -- report
6:15 pm

Israel to allow in 2,000 more Gaza workers, after move frozen over rocket attack
6:03 pm

Report: Biden administration working on 'roadmap' for Saudi Arabia normalization with Israel

Palestinian stabbed to death during West Bank brawl with settlers

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

A Palestinian man died Tuesday after being stabbed in an apparent brawl with Israeli settlers in the central West Bank, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry and an Israeli rights group said. The incident occurred near the West Bank Palestinian village of Iskaka, adjacent to the large settlement of... Continue Reading

Illustrative: Israeli security forces near Ariel in the West Bank, on March 17, 2019. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Construction work begins to upgrade a section of the West Bank security barrier, June 21, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

After terror attacks, Israel reinforces part of West Bank barrier with 9-meter wall

By Emanuel Fabian

The knife found on a suspect who turned himself in before carrying out a stabbing attack at the Temple Mount on June 21, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police: Would-be Palestinian stabber turns himself in after having second thoughts

By Emanuel Fabian

Marjorie Ordene

‘Arabs hid my father’s family during the Hebron massacre’

The matriarch of the family was a righteous woman who had made the Hajj to Mecca. When the mob said, ’We know you are hiding Jews’ she told them, ‘No, we’re not!’

4 lessons from Israel’s Government of Change

How can diverse parties come together once again and agree to put certain hot-button issues aside to get things done and create a better country for all?

Newly appointed Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara seen during a welcome ceremony for her in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG says new IDF chief can be chosen during election season only if ‘essential need’

By Emanuel Fabian

Gantz insists appointment is ‘critical impact on the security of the state’; says he’ll consult with everyone who’s relevant to the process, including ex-premier Netanyahu

Defense Minister Benny Gantz during a Blue and White party faction meeting at the Knesset, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Gantz vows to tap next IDF chief as opposition moves to block new appointments

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (center), Police Commisoner Kobi Shabtai (right), Public Securiry Minister Omer Barlev (left) stand with Border Police officers at an Israel Police station, June 21, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Officials unveil ‘Israeli Guard’ riot police unit to handle internal unrest

By Emanuel Fabian

Mourners gather around the coffin of Iran's Revolutionary Guards colonel Sayyad Khodaei during a funeral procession at Imam Hussein square in the capital Tehran, on May 24, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Israel keeping US out of loop on alleged covert attacks in Iran — report

Sources tell CNN that US not informed about Israel’s efforts against Iran’s nuclear program, including assassination of IRGC Colonel Khodaei

Russian fighter jets on the tarmac at the Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia province, in the northwest of Syria, February 16, 2016. (AFP/Stringer)

After Damascus airport strike, private Syrian airline flies to Russian airbase

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami addresses the crowd During a rally in front of the former US Embassy commemorating the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran Guards chief says Israel in ‘political collapse’ as government crumbles

Illustrative: Commuters take a ride in a ferry crossing the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey in April 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Despite warnings of Iranian threats in Istanbul, life for local Jews hasn’t changed

By David I. Klein

Turkey’s chief rabbis say Israeli officials’ calls to heed danger have had little impact on expats or city’s 15,000-strong local Jewish community

"We need to adopt a temporary grandma to care for our kids'

1.5 million children at home as teachers union ups the ante with full-day strike

The Israel Teachers Union held a full-day strike on Wednesday, shuttering kindergartens and elementary schools, and leaving parents with the headache of what to do with the some 1.5 million children who were stuck at home. The daylong strike came after educational institutions had, for a number of days, been opening their doors... Continue Reading

View of an empty school in Tel Aviv on June 19, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Long lines seen at Ben Gurion Airport's Terminal One on June 22, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Chaos at Ben Gurion Airport seems to worsen as lines stretch out of terminal

By Tobias Siegal

Eli Rosenbaum, former head of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, poses next to a World War II map of Germany showing the locations of concentration camps, March 29, 1995, in Washington. (AP Photo)

US taps top Nazi hunter as lead investigator into war crimes in Ukraine

By AFP and TOI staff

Eli Rosenbaum was involved in over 100 cases to deport or revoke citizenship from Nazis; US attorney general during Ukraine visit: ‘There is no hiding place for war criminals’

Ukrainian photographer and documentary maker Maks Levin poses in Kyiv on October 10, 2019. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Ukrainian journalist, soldier killed in April were ‘coldly executed,’ watchdog says

By John Leicester

The Metallurgical Combine Azovstal, damaged during fighting, is seen from the Mariupol Sea Port in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo)

‘The impossible’: Ukraine’s secret, deadly rescue missions to Azovstal

By John Leicester and HANNA ARHIROVA

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked meets with Alejandro Mayorkas, the US Secretary of Homeland Security and other officials on November 18, 2021. (Shmulik Almani/Interior Ministry)

US official: Demise of coalition could delay planned visa-free entry for Israelis

By Lazar Berman

Senior embassy staffer says Bennett government made unprecedented headway on joining Visa Waiver Program

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 27, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Bennett, Blinken stress ongoing cooperation on Iran, despite political turmoil

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Blinken speaks with Bennett, Lapid, vows support for Israel amid political turmoil

By Agencies, TOI staff and Jacob Magid

Interview'If you are spreading hate, I will fight against it'

NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom brings Holocaust education to Muslim school in Brooklyn

Raised in Turkey, the basketball center is outspoken about human rights violations in his home country and around the world, and believes knowledge of the genocide can unite people

Israeli soldiers climb on a wall as they conduct a mock assault during an urban warfare exercise at an army training facility, in Tzeelim army base, southern Israel, Jan. 24, 2022. (Oded Balilty/AP)

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‘Mini Gaza’: The IDF’s Urban Warfare Training Center, a town that’s known only war

By AP and TOI staff

In maze of tight alleyways and drab buildings, decorated by army’s sole official graffiti artist, soldiers hone skills needed for conflict in Gaza Strip, West Bank or even Lebanon

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Part of a mural by Indonesian art group Taring Padi on display at the Documenta 15 art festival. On the right, a man is depicted with sidelocks often associated with Orthodox Jews, fangs and bloodshot eyes, and is wearing a black hat with the SS-insignia. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Banner with Jewish soldier as pig being removed from German art show, after protests

By AP

Rusty Bowers, Arizona state House Speaker, from left, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, and Gabe Sterling, Georgia Deputy Secretary of State, are sworn in to testify as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘Counter to my oath’: GOP state officials detail Trump pressure to overturn election

By LISA MASCARO and Farnoush Amiri

Illustrative: In this photo taken August 8, 2017, Megan Mitchum decorates the outside of a classroom in preparation for the start of the school year at the Mountain View Christian Schools in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

US Supreme Court says religious schools can’t be barred from state tuition aid

By AP and TOI staff

Former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio, running for Congress in District 10, meets with members of the Borough Park Orthodox Jewish community, June 19, 2022. (Courtesy of Reuvain Borchardt/Hamodia. Used With Permission/ via JTA)

Bill de Blasio seeks forgiveness in bid for Orthodox votes in Borough Park

Jozef Walaszczyk, who died aged 102-years-old on June 20, 2022 and saved more than 50 Jews during the Holocaust, tells his story at a restaurant in Warsaw, January 28, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

Polish man who rescued dozens of Jews during Holocaust dies at age 102

US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks during an event at the Library of Congress for the 2022 Supreme Court Fellows Program hosted by the Law Library of Congress, February 17, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

US Supreme Court justice: Ruling may lead to more public funds for religious schools

Sandy Koufax, left, with sculptor Branly Cadet. (Jacob Gurvis via JTA)

Pitching inJewish baseball legend Sandy Koufax immortalized with a statue

By jacob gurvis

Law enforcement, and other first responders, gather outside Robb Elementary School following a shooting, on in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)

Texas police chief: Response to Uvalde shooting was ‘abject failure’

By JIM VERTUNO and Jake Bleiberg

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

US-based Leonardo DRS acquires Israel’s RADA in major defense deal

In this December 4, 2006 file photo, Syria's President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh in Damascus, Syria. (AP/Sana, File)

A decade after split, Hamas and Syria said in talks to renew ties

By Michael Horovitz

Cannes Palme d'Or winner "Triangle Of Sadness," from Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund will open the 39th Jerusalem Film Festival on July 21, 2022 (Courtesy PR)

Sinking feelingDesert island drama ‘Triangle of Sadness’ to open Jerusalem Film Fest

By Jessica Steinberg

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos (left) with actress Shira Haas during a conversation at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television (Courtesy Sam Spiegel)

Full stream aheadNetflix CEO tells Israeli students he’s looking for ‘local stories’

By Jessica Steinberg

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