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What Matters Most On Friday, June 24, 2022

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Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 19, 2022. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

UN claims Israel killed Al Jazeera journalist, with ‘seemingly well-aimed’ fire

By AFP and TOI staff

Human Rights Office says bullet which killed Abu Akleh ‘came from Israeli security forces,’ urges criminal probe; Israel says it can’t be sure who killed her without testing bullet

File: Palestinians visit the site where veteran Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed, in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

‘Where’s the bullet’: Israel rejects UN probe blaming reporter’s death on IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

In this undated photo provided by Al Jazeera Media Network, reporter Shireen Abu Akleh stands next to a TV camera above the Old City of Jerusalem. (Al Jazeera Media Network via AP)

Nearly half of Senate Democrats call for US involvement in Abu Akleh probe

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

Iran dismisses ‘ridiculous’ allegations of planned attacks on Israelis in Turkey

Tehran accuses Lapid of trying to ‘destroy relations’ between Iran and Turkey, day after Israeli foreign minister met his Turkish counterpart in Ankara

Hossein Taeb, former head of the intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), looks on during a meeting in Tehran on June 24, 2018. (Hamed Malekpour/Tasnim News/AFP)

IRGC replaces intelligence chief following killings, Israeli accusations

By AFP and TOI staff

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speak to the media after their talks, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

In Ankara, Lapid praises security ties with Turkey after alleged Iran terror bust

By Lazar Berman

Anna (Anya) Pavlikova on trial in Moscow, Russia. She was found guilty of being a member of the so-called New Greatness movement and planning to violently overthrow President Vladimir Putin's government.

Documentary filmmaker casts lens on Russian teen allegedly framed by Putin’s regime

By Renee Ghert-Zand

After fleeing to safety in Israel, director Anna Shishova completes ‘The New Greatness Case,’ portraying Russian use of cyber-entrapment against youth calling for more freedom

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a conference arranged by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 26, 2022, in Manhattan. (Shahar Azran via JTA)

Ambassador will also visit Israel and UAE on regional tour

US envoy Lipstadt plans Saudi trip next week to kick off global antisemitism fight

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Ambassador charged with battling Jew hatred abroad says Riyadh jumped on proposal to visit, noting Saudi influence on Muslim education worldwide

This photo taken in the 1950s provided by Italian news agency Ansa on February 23, 2020, shows Pope Pius XII in the Vatican. (STRINGER/ANSA/AFP)

Vatican publishes thousands of Holocaust-era files, including pleas to pope

By Nicole Winfield

Coalition snatches bills from rebel-held committee to stymie snap election delay

A coalition loyalist announced Thursday that he would attempt to fast-track key pieces of legislation calling for snap elections and keeping opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu from retaking power, moving the bills into the Knesset committee he heads and sidestepping a renegade lawmaker despite the Knesset's legal adviser... Continue Reading

Labor MK Gilad Kariv speaks at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on February 7, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a graduation ceremony for new pilots at Hatzerim air force base near the southern city of Beersheba, June 23, 2022. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Readying to leave office, Bennett says at IDF ceremony: ‘I did the best I could’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Poll shows no clear path to future government, with Netanyahu-led bloc weakening

Analysis

As elections loom, Arabs take stock of Ra’am’s year-long experiment in government

In the run-up to last year's election, most political analysts predicted that the Islamist Ra'am party would crash and burn thanks to its willingness to work with right-wing Israeli lawmakers. Among major pollsters, only Yousef Makladeh consistently predicted that the party would enter the Knesset. A year later, with elections once again on the horizon, Makladeh says the votes are... Continue Reading

MK Mansour Abbas, leader of the Ra'am party in the Knesset, on November 2, 2021. (Noam Moshkavitz/GPO)

Rabbanit Devorah Evron speaks to students from Ohr Torah Stone’s Women's Institute of Halakhic Leadership in an undated photograph. (Jared Bernstein)

After two decades, female religious advisers get state recognition and hope for more

By Charlie Summers

Government’s plan to pay salaries of female experts on Jewish law is important, says seminary head, but further steps are integral in bringing women into official religious life

French-Swiss Rabbi Eliora Peretz poses for a portrait at a synagogue in Jerusalem on March 22, 2022. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Born Christian, French woman becomes one of Israel’s few female Orthodox rabbis

By Michael Blum

‘I had no choice but to become a rabbi if I wanted to study what fascinated me,’ says 40-year-old former journalist Eliora Peretz

Elizabeth Brenner Danziger

Parshat Korach: I have been two wives

Once, I might have sent my family to join Korach. Today, I’m more like the midrashic wife of On ben Peleth, prizing kindness and honor over status or wealth

Grant Arthur Gochin

107 years late for dinner

When your grandmother’s last words make it clear that she’s not who you thought she was, you are willing to move all the mountains in Europe to get to the truth

Bishara A. Bahbah

7 issues President Abbas will raise with President Biden

In a post-Trump era focused on more immediate geopolitical matters, Palestinians face an uphill battle to repair damaged ties and return to peace talks

The rise of the French anti-system parties: Implications for European Jewry

The extremist blocs now flanking President Emanuel Macron’s party disagree on nearly everything, but they are both angry – and neither bodes well for the Jews

Javier Sinay visits the Jewish cemetery in Moise Ville, Argentina, during a visit to the village in 2013. (Paula Salischiker/ via JTA)

'It felt like an ancient call to learn about my ancestors'

A series of 19th-century murders connects an Argentine writer to his family’s past

By Julian Voloj

When Javier Sinay learned that his great-grandfather was a fellow journalist who covered the killing of shtetl immigrants, he connected with his Jewish roots – and wrote a hit book

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Come for the cabbage, stay for the fennel, says cooking maven Jamie Geller

Welcome to Times Will Tell, The Times of Israel’s weekly feature podcast. This week, we speak with Jamie Geller who just published her eighth cookbook, "Farmer’s Kitchen Cookbook: 50 Recipes Celebrating Israel’s Veggies and their Growers." The cookbook features 10 vegetables common to the Israeli kitchen, with guides for selecting, storing, and cooking with... Continue Reading

From Jamie Geller's 'Farmer’s Kitchen Cookbook: 50 Recipes Celebrating Israel’s Veggies and their Growers' (Courtesy)

Israel Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky is interviewed at his office in Kyiv, on February 16, 2022. (Screenshot, Ynet)

After Zelensky’s critique, Israeli envoy says Israel doing everything it can to help

By Tobias Siegal and Lazar Berman

Acknowledging Jerusalem and Kyiv’s ‘shared fate,’ Michael Brodsky says Israel has challenges of its own and ‘needs to think of its own interests’

Protestors in support of Ukraine stand with signs and EU flags during a demonstration outside of an EU summit in Brussels, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

European Union okays Ukraine candidacy for bloc membership

By Samuel Petrequin and Mike Corder

In this file photo from May 23, 2011, a launch truck fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) produced by Lockheed Martin during combat training in the high desert of the Yakima Training Center, Washington. (Tony Overman/The Olympian via AP, File)

US to send more rocket systems, other military aid to Ukraine

By Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee

Israelis set up tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, to protest against the soaring housing prices in Israel and social inequalities, on June 19, 2022. The placard protests soaring rental prices, and translates roughly as "Landlords need not be pigs" (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Inside story'Everyone has the right to live in dignity'

Protests gain steam as Israelis struggle with housing prices. But will they succeed?

By Danielle Nagler

A decade ago, people moved into tents to call attention to the high cost of living. After years of government promises, they’re back outside — and housing prices have only soared

Israel’s new housing starts must now go green, with energy efficiency labels

By Danielle Nagler

Housing snapshot: 10 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

Guns on display at Burbank Ammo & Guns in Burbank, California, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In major ruling, US Supreme Court says Americans have right to carry guns in public

By Chris Lefkow

Landmark 6-3 decision against New York law has far-reaching implications for states and cities across US confronting a surge in gun violence

Illustrative: Sales associate Elsworth Andrews grabs an AR-15-style rifle to show it to a customer at Burbank Ammo & Guns in Burbank, California, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Senate approves bipartisan gun violence bill for tougher background checks

From left, former Assistant US Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel, former Acting US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and former Acting US Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, watch video as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, June 23, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

At Capitol hearing, US justice officials outline Trump’s ‘brazen’ takeover bid

By Frankie TAGGART

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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)

Argentine probe into grounded cargo plane focuses on pilot’s alleged ties to IRGC

By AP

The Venezuelan-owned Boeing 747 with Iranian, Venezuelan crew has been grounded outside Buenos Aires for two weeks as authorities try to figure out ‘true objective’ of its arrival

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

Flights resume at Damascus airport nearly 2 weeks after strike attributed to Israel

By AP

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU foreign policy chief heads to Tehran in effort to revive nuclear talks

By AFP

Josep Borrell tweets that ‘diplomacy is the only way’ to return to the 2015 deal, while Iran says meeting will focus on ‘status of negotiations to lift sanctions’

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R front) arrives for a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov (L) at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran on June 23, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran says it’s ‘serious’ about reaching revived JCPOA, expects ‘realism’ from US

By AFP

Former US vice president Mike Pence pauses during his speech at the Iranian opposition headquarters in Albania, June 23, 2022. (AP/Franc Zhurda)

Former US VP Pence denounces Iran, urges Biden not to renew nuclear deal

By LLAZAR SEMINI

Gili Yalo, one of the singers in 'Los Angeles Darom,' a new Israeli musical documentary about Kiryat Malachi, at cinematheque theaters throughout Israel through June 2022 (Courtesy 'Los Angeles Darom')

Documentary brings a musical theater twist to a sleepy Israeli backwater

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Los Angeles Darom’ highlights real-life struggles in the development town of Kiryat Malachi, through a charismatic resident’s story and original music

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Illustrative: Suriname's Foreign Minister Albert Camdin with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on May 30, 2022 (Jorge Novomisky/GPO)

Suriname walks back pledge to open Jerusalem embassy, citing budget concerns

By Sara Serfaty

Efraim Gordon, an Israeli man shot dead in Baltimore on May 2, 2021. (Courtesy)

Baltimore teen pleads guilty to murder of Israeli man last year

By AP

A herd of cattle graze in the Golan Heights (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Government deal to boost beef industry pilloried as bad for climate, public health

An Israeli firefighting delegation lands in Cyprus, June 23, 2022. (Israel Police)

Israel helps battle forest fire in Turkey-backed north Cyprus

By AP and Emanuel Fabian

A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, Afghanistan, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)

Quake death toll rises as aftershocks rock hard-hit Afghanistan

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI

Illustrative: View of an empty school at in Tel Aviv, following a strike of the Teachers Union, on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Classrooms reopen Friday as teachers pause strike after two days

A map of purported connections between Jewish groups and other organizations in Massachusetts created by The Mapping Project. (Screenshot/JTA)

BDS movement disavows Boston project mapping Jewish groups

By Andrew Lapin

Two men, one in an IDF uniform, seen removing a gay pride flag in northern Israel on June 23, 2022. (Screenshot)

IDF disavows soldier filmed removing local government’s gay pride flag in north

Illustrative image of a criminal in handcuffs. (YakobchukOlena/iStock, by Getty Images)

Son of alleged predator rabbi accused of raping one of father’s complainants

Liberal Democrat Party candidate Richard Foord (center) arrives with his wife Kate at the count for district by-election results at the count center in Crediton, south-west England on June 24, 2022. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

In blow to beleaguered Johnson, UK Conservative Party blasted in by-elections

By Justin Tallis and Joe JACKSON

Rabbi Uri Lam (Screen capture: Twitter)

Brazil rabbi noted for Kaddish prayer honoring journalist, expert killed in Amazon

By Marcus M. Gilban

Artificial flowers on a fence on June 21, 2022, surrounding the site where the Champlain Towers South collapsed killing 98 people last year in Surfside, Florida. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

One year later, Surfside remembers 98 victims of condo building collapse

By Adriana Gomez Licon and Curt Anderson

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