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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 29, 2022

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid during a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset, on June 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset dispersal vote again pushed to Thursday after MKs rushed back for nothing

Bill set to be brought before plenum at 8 am after it was frantically moved up amid reported fears that new Yamina head Shaked might seek to form alternative gov’t at last minute

8:53 pm

Liberman says party will block Knesset dispersal bill so long as Metro Law isn't passed
8:47 pm

Knesset dispersal vote pushed again to tomorrow morning after MKs called back for nothing
8:42 pm

Justice Minister slams 'corrupt' Likud proposal to revoke rebel status of ex-Yamina MK

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)

Israel has drastically damaged Iran’s intelligence operations, Iranian officials say

NYT: Israeli distrust-sowing moves see Revolutionary Guard intel chief ousted after foiled Turkey plot, senior officer nabbed; Israel ‘infiltrated deep’ into Iran security circles

Illustrative: Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani listens to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, June 23, 2022. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Nuclear talks with US end without deal in Qatar, claims Iranian report

By AP

Explainer

Carrie Keller-Lynn

With the Knesset set to disband, what happens next?

With the ideological ties that bound Israel’s big-tent coalition having frayed, the 24th Knesset is set to dissolve itself, just over a year after being sworn in. After that happens, three big changes will take place: Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will succeed Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as premier; Israel will go to its fifth elections since 2019 in the fall;... Continue Reading

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in the Knesset, June 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The new Allenby underground station of the light rail Red Line in Tel Aviv, June 23, 2022. Some of the mass transit system runs underground. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Metro Law’ in the balance as opposition seeks leverage over election schedule

By ToI Staff and Danielle Nagler

The Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour Street, Jerusalem. (Yaakov Saar/GPO)

With PM’s residence under construction, Lapid to live in nearby apartment — reports

US Ambassador to Israel Thomas (Tom) Nides visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem on December 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Nides: Don’t lose momentum now; put Israeli citizens first

In rare plea, US ambassador urges MKs to back bills needed for Visa Waiver Program

By Carrie Keller-Lynn, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Tom Nides makes unusual public appeal for support from Israeli lawmakers; embassy asks Likud to not vote against legislation

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speak ahead of the preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve the Knesset, on June 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

MKs gear up to dissolve Knesset in final votes; Lapid set to assume premiership

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 26, 2022. At left is Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Yoav Dudkevitch/POOL)

Last-minute campaign funding deal challenged before Knesset’s planned dispersal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at the Cyber Week conference in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2022. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz says Iran and Hezbollah tried to hack UN peace force, steal deployment data

By Emanuel Fabian

Speaking at Cyber Week event, defense minister warns Tehran is a leader of cyberterrorism, using ‘terrorists with keyboards’ as proxies

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)

Egypt warns Iran not to target Israelis on its soil — report

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

Prof. David Weiss Halivni in Israel, ca. 2016 (Meir Meiersdorf, via wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)

Obituary

David Weiss Halivni, pillar of Talmudic scholarship, Holocaust survivor, dies age 94

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A prodigy, Halivni received rabbinic ordination at 15, won the Israel Prize and molded generations of scholars in US and Israel, teaching well into his 90s

Hamas said offering deal for all sick Palestinian prisoners

Father of Hamas captive says prepared to wait for release of all Israelis in Gaza

The father of an Israeli held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday he is prepared to wait for his son to be released if it means that all Israelis held in the Palestinian enclave are returned home. Sha’aban al-Sayed spoke to Radio 103FM the day... Continue Reading

Screen capture from vide of Sha'aban al-Sayed, father of Hisham al-Sayed, held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, on June 28, 2022. (Screen capture/Ynet)

Footage of a man who Hamas claims is Israeli captive Hisham al-Sayed published on June 28, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Hamas releases footage showing Israeli captive hooked up to oxygen

By Aaron Boxerman

My abortion story

It’s time to talk openly: We wanted a miracle, but my life was at risk, and the rabbi was clear. Thanks to him, we saved my health and my reproductive future

Putting the ‘b’nai’ back into b’nai mitzvah

When tweens engage with their families’ storytellers, the rite of passage can become a beautiful amalgam of intergenerational conversation

Illustrative image: a tired doctor (Iker Martiarena via iStock by Getty Images)

Tired doctors often leave patients in unnecessary pain, Israeli study finds

By Nathan Jeffay

At night, patients are 20% to 30% less likely to get painkiller prescription than from day-shift physicians, research shows

Two wrecked cars and a truck involved in an accident along route 90 in the Arava, southern Israel, May 28, 2022. (Courtesy of Arava regional council)

76% of Israelis fear car accidents… and half of drivers admit regularly speeding

In survey, over one-quarter admit to reading phone messages while behind the wheel, 16% say they sometimes tap out texts too

Police officers stand guard as they close off access to the Damascus Gate entrance of Jerusalem's Old City, on June 28, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Palestinian arrested after trying to stab officers near Temple Mount, police say

By Emanuel Fabian

No security personnel hurt in alleged assault in Jerusalem’s Old City; suspect in his 20s from Bethlehem area detained at al-Aqsa Mosque compound

Israeli soldiers operate in the West Bank, June 29, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian reported killed in clash with IDF soldiers in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Firearms seized by Israeli soldiers during an alleged smuggling attempt on the border with Jordan, near the Dead Sea, on May 22, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF intercepts guns intended for terror on Jordanian border near Dead Sea

By Emanuel Fabian

A local resident places a vase with flowers on a broken window in his house damaged by the Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 26, 2022.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

NATO chief says alliance faces ‘most serious security crisis’ since WWII

By Jill Lawless, Joseph Wilson and Sylvie Corbet

30 leaders to hear from Ukraine’s Zelensky after Russia’s invasion shattered Europe’s peace, drove NATO to pour troops, weapons into Eastern Europe on scale not seen since Cold War

Zelensky pushes NATO for more weapons, pleads for further support

By AP and ToI Staff

UK military chiefs evoke fight with Nazi Germany in mobilization call over Russia

In ‘historic’ shift, Turkey agrees to support bid by Sweden and Finland to join NATO

By Jill Lawless and Joseph Wilson

‘Let my people in’: Trump tried to join armed rioters on Jan. 6, aide says

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Eric Tucker and MICHAEL BALSAMO

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former US president Donald Trump dismissed the presence of armed protesters headed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and even endorsed their calls to “hang Mike Pence,” a key former White House aide told House investigators Tuesday, describing chaotic scenes inside and outside... Continue Reading

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, co-founder of ZAKA, speaks at a conference in Jerusalem, March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meshi-Zahav dies a year after attempting suicide amid rape allegations

Police were reportedly set to arrest ZAKA founder before he tried to hang himself in April 2021; he was accused of dozens of sexual assaults, including against minors

Fidaa Kiwan. (Courtesy)

UAE court overturns Israeli woman’s death sentence for drug possession

Fidaa Kiwan, arrested in March 2021 for cocaine, will receive a jail sentence instead of execution, her defense attorney says

Lines for check-in at Ben Gurion Airport, June 26, 2022. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)

Airport boss sorry for chaos; MK calls on government for help

Ben Gurion Airport head says canceling flights would ease lines but raise prices; says he hopes to hire Haredi staff, offer university tuition incentives to workers

Film review

Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?

By Andrew Lapin

Despite its theme, the film doesn’t have a particularly Jewish bent – which works to its advantage as it deals with the aspects of the coming-of-age ritual everyone can relate to

The main gate at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, on February 4, 2022. (2nd Lt. Logan Thomas/ US Air Force via AP)

NATO office on Texas Air Force Base removes print of noted Nazi pilot and his plane

German Air Force colonel comes under fire for the display outside his office of a portrait of decorated ace fighter Wolfgang ‘Bombo’ Schenck and his swastika-bearing aircraft

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Israeli players celebrate a goal during the UEFA Under-19 European Championship semi-final football match between France and Irsael at the DAC Arena in Dunajska Streda, Slovakia on June 28, 2022. (VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP)

Israel national youth soccer team upsets France to reach historic 1st European final

Ghislaine Maxwell attends a press conference on the Issue of Oceans in Sustainable Development Goals at United Nations headquarters, June 25, 2013. (United Nations Photo/Rick Bajornas via AP, File)

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for her part in Epstein sex crimes

By AFP

Drugs seized during a smuggling attempt on the Egypt border, on June 29, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF nabs $2 million cocaine shipment on Egypt border

By Emanuel Fabian

Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy takes a knee in front of the US Supreme Court after his legal case, Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District, was argued before the court, April 25, 2022. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

Leading US Orthodox group praises Supreme Court backing for football coach’s prayer

A view of apartment buildings in the Givat Olga neighborhood in Hadera, on June 22, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Second round of Israeli housing lottery to offer 5,500 discounted units

By Danielle Nagler

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., at the Capitol in Washington, June 2, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Jerry Nadler’s campaign urges support for ‘last remaining NYC Jewish congressmember’

Illustrative: Police in Tel Aviv, on May 1, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man shot dead in northern Israeli town, as Arab community crime wave continues

Israeli security forces and volunteers search for Moshe Klinerman, a 16-year-old who has been missing for three months in the Meron area, near Safed, June 22, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Search for missing teen intensifies after arrest in months-old case

A JetBlue Airways flight flies in to Salt Lake City International Airport, Oct. 18, 2019, (Rick Bowmer/AP)

Kosher certification agency sues JetBlue, saying it falsely put its stamp on snack

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative image of a car being refueled at a gas station, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Gas prices to climb to NIS 8.08 per liter this week

Spanish tenor Placido Domingo to perform in Tel Aviv on September 4, 2022. (Courtesy: Floreno Niccoli)

Operatic highs and lowsOpera legend Placido Domingo to perform in Tel Aviv in September

By Jessica Steinberg

The ancient Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, March 2021. The caves are the best-known of a dozen sites in the area where a wealth of important fossils and stone tools have been found. (Charles Van Rooyen via iStock by Getty Images)

Early human ancestors one million years older than thought

By Juliette COLLEN

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