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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 28, 2022

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

Israel eases Istanbul travel warning, but says threat remains throughout Turkey

By Lazar Berman

Lifting of highest-level alert comes after arrests and counter-terror operations against Iranian-backed operatives; Bennett thanks Erdogan, Turkish security forces

Robert Malley, US Special Envoy for Iran, is shown in Vienna, Austria, June 20, 2021. (Florian Schroetter/AP)

US, Iran chief negotiators arrive in Qatar to resume nuclear talks

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speak during a Knesset discussion, June 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Law that would have barred a PM under indictment put aside

Knesset passes 1st reading of dispersal bill; final vote set for Wednesday at latest

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

After day of debate, coalition and opposition agree elections will be held October 25 or November 1; some Netanyahu supporters still trying for long-shot alternate government

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and lawmakers during a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Public funding for political parties’ campaigns to increase by some NIS 30 million

Defense Minister Benny Gantz with MK Bezalel Smotrich during a plenum session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz vows to ‘do everything’ to prevent alternative government led by Netanyahu

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Tobias Siegal

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the annual Cyber Week conference in Tel Aviv, June 28, 2022. (Cyber Week, Tel Aviv University)

‘Mess with Israel, you’ll pay a price,’ PM warns Iran, after steel plant cyberattack

By Emanuel Fabian

At Cyber Week event, Bennett says ‘wreaking havoc in Tehran’ not a policy, but Israel will respond to assaults; ‘smart folks’ at keyboard can do what commandos do without the risks

A screenshot from what is believed to be closed-circuit footage obtained from Iran's Khuzestan Steel Co. factory floor, where a piece of heavy machinery on a steel billet production line malfunctions and causes a massive fire, June 27, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Large cyberattack on Iranian industrial sector targets three steel plants

By Isabel Debre

Laying a pipe that will channel desalinated water to the Sea of Galilee, June 3, 2021 (Firas Talhami, Water Authority)

Inside story

Israel to be 1st in world to pipe desalinated water into a natural lake, the Galilee

Underground channel set to start operating in spring; Sea of Galilee expert says tests indicate more pros than cons, but full effect on ecosystems will only emerge with monitoring

Israel's midfielder Oscar Gloukh celebrates scoring the opening goal with his teammates during the UEFA Under-19 European Championship semi-final football match between France and Israel at the DAC Arena in Dunajska Streda, Slovakia on June 28, 2022. (VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli national youth soccer team makes first ever European final, upsetting France

After under-19 squad made history by qualifying for semifinal match, team hangs on to beat undefeated France 2-1 in UEFA European Championship

8:38 pm

Chicago man pleads guilty to illegally exporting US technology on orders from Central Bank of Iran
7:56 pm

Israeli under-19 soccer team wins semis, reaches its first-ever European final
7:35 pm

'There was ketchup dripping down the wall': Ex-aide tells Jan. 6 panel Trump threw lunch after AG denied election fraud

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing June 28: Abortion reforms pass; Knesset takes next step to elections

Carrie Keller-Lynn recaps another tumultuous day in the Knesset, Aaron Boxerman updates us on Hamas hostages, Amanda Borschel-Dan discusses a seafaring mosaic’s journey home

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends an award ceremony for the "Emet Prize" for excellence in the arts, science and culture, held at the Jerusalem Theater on June 26, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bennett said to eye election run, amid reports to the contrary

By Tobias Siegal

US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Richard Nides during his swearing-in ceremony as new ambassador to Israel, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US warns Israeli election wrangling will hold up visa exemption program

By Lazar Berman

Ambassador Tom Nides calls Interior Minister Shaked over key database legislation being held up by opposition in demand for earlier election date

Ksenia Svetlova

I won’t attend the Genesis Prize ceremony, nobody should

In light of the carnage in Ukraine, and regardless of whether the Russian ’Jewish Nobel’ founders formally stepped down, attending Wednesday’s event is immoral

Israelis held in Gaza in a 2021 combination picture: Clockwise from top left: Oron Shaul, Avera Mengistu, Hadar Goldin and Hisham al-Sayed. (Flash90/ Courtesy)

Israel said to seek clarification on Hamas claim captive’s health deteriorating

Officials reportedly turn to Egypt for information after terror group makes unusual announcement regarding condition of one of its two hostages

Israelis held in Gaza in a 2021 combination picture: Clockwise from top left: Oron Shaul, Avera Mengistu, Hadar Goldin and Hisham al-Sayed. (Flash90/ Courtesy)

Hamas claims health of Israeli captive ‘deteriorating,’ in rare announcement

By Aaron Boxerman

Roe v. Wade – The Truth v. My Truth

When it comes to abortion, Torah says no. Law says no. Truth says no. But the truth I feel in my heart says it’s nuanced

Sarah Golubtchik

To Yaffa Ben-David: There has to be a better way

Striking the last week of school undermines your cause: it hurts the children, who just need routine, and your own dedicated teachers, who can’t close the year

Israel to ask Biden for okay to provide air defense laser to Saudi Arabia – report

Request said to be part of move toward regional cooperation against Iranian threats, with Israel part of an alliance that includes countries it has no official ties with

The 'Iron Beam' laser-based air defense system is seen intercepting a target over southern Israel, March 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Israel’s Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz (L), Bahrain’s Undersecretary for International Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa (C), and Director-General of Morocco's Foreign Ministry Fouad Yazur (R) at the Negev Summit follow-up in Bahrain, June 27, 2022. (Bahrain Foreign Ministry)

Israel, Arab allies agree to tighten cooperation ahead of Biden visit

By Lazar Berman

Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a meeting of his Blue and White faction at the Knesset on May 9, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz: Israel is building a Middle East air defense alliance against Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry and military engineers work to construct bomb shelters in homes
in the northern town of Shlomi, June 28, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Facing Hezbollah threat, Israel ramps up bomb shelter construction in north

By Emanuel Fabian

Dozens of safe rooms being built adjacent to Lebanon border in Shlomi; bids for construction begin in several other towns, with plans to eventually place them in 21 locations

An Israeli navy vessel is pictured off the coast of Rosh Hanikra, an area at the border between Israel and Lebanon (Ras al-Naqura), on June 6, 2022. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

US says progress made toward elusive Israel-Lebanon maritime border deal

Football fans stand beneath a large banner depicting Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (C) and his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) as they attend the World Cup 2022 Asian qualifying match between Palestine and Saudi Arabia in the town of al-Ram in the West Bank on October 15, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP / File)

AnalysisDo signs point to an emerging Israel-Saudi normalization deal?

By Haitham el-Tabei

Illustrative: A Yeshiva University building in New York City. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

In US federal court, student charges Yeshiva University with covering up rape case

Plaintiff says university held ‘sham investigation’ into alleged rape last year to shield its fundraising efforts, basketball team; school calls claims ‘categorically false’

Real estate promoter and Tel Aviv nightlife figure Alon Kastiel arrives at the Hermon Prison in the northern part of Israel to begin serving his sentence for sex offenses, August 26, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Rapist nightclub owner paroled on condition he stay out of Tel Aviv

By Judah Ari Gross

Audrey Strauss, acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York, on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Ghislaine Maxwell set to be sentenced in Epstein sex abuse case

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays

Former Nazi camp guard Josef S. covers his face in the courtroom in Brandenburg, Germany, June 28, 2022. (Michele Tantussi/AP)

Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year prison sentence

By David Courbet

Josef Schuetz, oldest person to go on trial for Holocaust crimes, found guilty of being accessory to murder at Sachsenhausen camp, though he says he was unaware of killings

An American flag waves in front of the US Supreme Court building, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

US Supreme Court decision on prayer throws doubt on 1992 victory for Jewish family

Jewish groups say 6-3 ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton could roll back church-state separations that have protected schoolchildren from religious coercion for decades

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Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters clear debris at a shopping mall burned after a Russian aerial attack in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, June 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Rescuers scramble to find victims in wake of Ukraine mall bombing

By FRANCESCA EBEL and YURAS KARMANAU

An image taken from a security camera video showing the explosion and the poisonous gas leak that followed in Jordan’s southern port city of Aqaba, June 27, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Jordan gas leak kills at least 13, injures some 250, authorities say

By AP and ToI Staff

Teachers protest outside the home of Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Monday, June 28, 2022. (Courtesy Israel Teachers Union)

Teachers end strike, return to negotiations with treasury

By Jeremy Sharon

In this image taken from video, then New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a virtual press conference, in New York, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP Photo)

Ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio says he no longer supports AIPAC

Yitzhak Abergil, convicted of murdering 3 bystanders during an attempted assassination of a rival, receives his sentence at the Tel Aviv District Court, June 28, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Mob kingpin given 3 life sentences for murdering bystanders in failed hit

Traffic on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, January 20, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Plan approved to cut car commutes by a million a month

A man fills up his car at a gas station in Jerusalem, March 11, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Gas prices set to surpass NIS 8 per liter

Israelis protest outside the IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv, calling to release information about a Military Intelligence officer who died in prison, on June 7, 2021 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90/File)

Police find intel officer who died mysteriously wasn’t killed by ‘a deliberate act’

By Emanuel Fabian

Drugs seized during a smuggling attempt on the Egypt border, on June 27, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF, police seize millions of shekels’ worth of marijuana on Egypt border

By Emanuel Fabian

Dudi Ashkenazi, an Israeli citizen arrested while vacationing with his wife Racheli on Kos Island, Greece. (Courtesy)

Israeli arrested in Greece for drug dealing is victim of a mix-up, Jerusalem says

By Michael Horovitz

Yeshiva student Moshe Klinerman, 16, who was last seen on March 25 at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Mount Meron. (Courtesy)

Police arrest suspect in disappearance of Haredi teenager last seen in March

US President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the opening session of the G20 summit at the La Nuvola conference center, in Rome, on October 30, 2021. (Erin Schaff/Pool Photo via AP)

Erdogan to meet Biden at NATO summit for crucial talks on Russian invasion

By Fulya Ozerkan

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