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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 6, 2022

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Both parents of 2-year-old boy found alone at Chicago parade named among dead

By GRANT SCHULTE, CLAIRE SAVAGE and HARM VENHUIZEN

AP -- Aiden McCarthy's photo was shared across Chicago-area social media groups in the hours after the July 4 parade shooting in Highland Park, accompanied by pleas to help identify the 2-year-old who had been found at the scene bloodied and alone and to reunite him with... Continue Reading

Kevin McCarthy, 37, and Irina McCarthy, 35, who were among the seven people killed in the attack on the Chicago-area parade. Their 2-year-old son was found alone after the shooting (Courtesy)

FBI agents work the scene of a shooting at a Fourth of July parade on July 5, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images/AFP)

Chicago parade massacre suspect charged with 7 counts of murder

By Michael Tarm, KATHLEEN FOODY and STEPHEN GROVES

A barricade in place the day after after a mass shooting in the northern Chicago suburb of Highland Park, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

7th victim of Chicago shooting dies as police say gunman planned attack for weeks

By Robin LEGRAND

Brooke and Matt Strauss, who were married a day earlier, pause after leaving their wedding bouquets in downtown Highland Park, Ill., near the scene of a mass shooting, on July 5, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Highland Park, shaken by July 4 shooting, has long and notable Jewish presence

By Gabe Friedman

Brooke and Matt Strauss, who were married Sunday, look toward the scene of the mass shooting in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, after leaving their wedding bouquets near the scene of Monday's mass shooting, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

In Highland Park’s Jewish community, few are untouched by deadly mass shooting

By Leslie Hirschfeld and Andrew Lapin

Shooting leaves a trail of devastation in the heart of the Chicago suburb of about 30,000 where about half of residents are Jewish

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the US Embassy's Independence Day celebrations on July 5, 2022 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

At July 4th event, Herzog sends condolences to US after Chicago parade killings

By Tal Schneider

Law enforcement search after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, a Chicago suburb on July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Israeli consul: As many as 4 Jews may be victims of shooting at Highland Park parade

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Netanyahu embarks on a campaign that’s shaping up as his last hurrah

It was a remarkable show of unity in Likud’s top ranks. On June 30, Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, the party’s no. 2, announced he was withdrawing his bid to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu in the coming party primary for the leadership. “At this time, ahead of an election critical for this country, I can’t drag the Likud movement into a confrontation within... Continue Reading

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu hails the collapse of the Bennett-Lapid coalition, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ExplainerAs Likud primaries near, final date and procedures still in the air

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Meretz minister says he won’t run in next election, urges party chair to step aside

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 6: Could the November elections be Netanyahu’s last stand?

Hadas Klein, aide to Arnon Milchan, arrives to testify in the trial of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at Jerusalem District Court on July 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Milchan aide testifies Netanyahu introduced her boss to Kerry to help him get visa

By Jeremy Sharon

Underlining alleged quid pro quo in Case 1000, Hadas Klein says ex-PM called Milchan to ask him to buy Sara a necklace and ring, worth $2,000. Milchan said: ‘There’s no choice’

Hadas Klein, aide to Arnon Milchan, arrives to a court hearing in the trial against former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on July 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Key witness at trial describes the Netanyahus’ incessant demands for gifts

By Jeremy Sharon

A ramp leading to a bridge where a man was stabbed in a suspected terror attack between Bnei Brak and Givat Shmuel, July 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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Palestinian arrested over suspected Bnei Brak terror knifing, Shin Bet says

Condition of Yitzhak Dahan improves day after stabbing on pedestrian bridge outside Tel Aviv; most details of case remain under gag order

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US slaps fresh sanctions on Iran oil sales to east Asia
6:19 pm

Army says West Bank shooter turns self in, soldier suspected of stealing nabbed
6:13 pm

Two more bodies spotted near Italian avalanche debris field

Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, then-outgoing IDF deputy chief of staff during a ceremony July 11, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief of staff candidate suggests ramping up assassinations of IRGC leaders

By Emanuel Fabian

In 74-page document titled ‘Countering Iran’s regional strategy,’ Eyal Zamir warns that Tehran-backed militias in Syria would join Hezbollah in battle

Energy Minister Karine Elharrar visits the Karish gas field off the coast of Israel on July 5, 2022. (Micha Banano/GPO)

After foiled Hezbollah drone mission, Israeli energy minister visits Karish gas rig

Four Iranian military vessels seen in the Red Sea in satellite images revealed by Defense Minister Benny Gantz, July 5, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Gantz: Iran’s maritime activity in Red Sea is ‘most significant’ in a decade

By Emanuel Fabian

Pages torn from a siddur by young Orthodox men at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on June 30, 2022. (Masorti Movement)

After youths invade Western Wall pluralistic plaza, Lapid warns: This can’t continue

By Judah Ari Gross

After lag, PM denounces last week’s ultra-Orthodox protest against Conservative services, says all Jews should be able to pray in accordance with their faith

A police officer stands between a group of ultra-Orthodox youths and a bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on June 30, 2022. (Laura Ben-David)

US antisemitism envoy ‘deeply disturbed’ by Western Wall egalitarian services fracas

By Amy Spiro and Judah Ari Gross

Ice cream containers at the Ben and Jerry's factory near Kiryat Malachi, on July 21, 2021. (Flash90)

Ben & Jerry’s sues parent company in bid to block deal allowing sales in settlements

Ice cream maker files lawsuit in US federal court against agreement between Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s Israel, saying it violates acquisition deal and firm’s social mission

Illustrative: Anti-Israel BDS activists in New York City, May 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Jewish group calls for investigation into NYC public college over BDS support

To Presbyterian Church USA: Your anti-Israel resolution bears false witness

Why demonizing Israel as an apartheid state would be a poor decision for PCUSA – and 5 constructive steps to help Palestinians to take instead

Haviva Ner-David

The woke tweets of war

Posting bigoted rhetoric from the safety of America, a self-appointed anti-colonialist with no grasp of our lived reality hurts Palestinians and Israelis

Avram H. Herzog

Of infertility and loss – a father’s perspective

I will never know what it feels like for a woman to give birth to a baby she knows will be stillborn. But I know what it felt like to be the hopeful father

Joshua Z. Rokach

The coming religious conflict in the US

In two recent rulings, the US Supreme Court justices opened the way to allowing Christians to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of America

Lapid: Europe and the US feel there will be no return to Iran deal

By Lazar Berman

PARIS -- In his meeting Tuesday with France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Yair Lapid stressed the importance of a credible military threat in order to push Iran into a nuclear deal that is acceptable to Israel. "Our claim is that if Iran won't agree to this deal,... Continue Reading

France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Prime Minister Yair Lapid speak at the Elysee Palace in Paris, July 5, 2022 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron hold a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 5, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

In Paris, Lapid urges response to Iranian nuclear violations, warns Hezbollah

By Lazar Berman

US special envoy for Iran Robert Malley and United States' top negotiator for Iran nuclear talks, center, speaks at the Doha Forum in Qatar, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Lujain Jo)

US ‘alarmed’ at Iran’s nuclear progress, deal may become ‘thing of the past’ — envoy

Prime Minister Yaïr Lapid with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee palace in Paris, on July 5, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom / GPO)

Lapid won’t rule out meeting with PA’s Abbas, but says it’s not on the agenda

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

After meeting Macron, PM tells reporters that he told French leader there would be no new settlements; slams incident at Western Wall

Screengrab said to show Israeli troops escorting detained Palestinians in Silwad, West Bank on July 6, 2022 (Screen grab/Twitter)

Palestinian shot dead near Jenin; IDF: Terror suspect targeted trying to escape

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (center) holds a rare meeting with Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh (fourth from right) under the auspices of Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune, on Tuesday July 5, 2022, in Algiers. (WAFA)

PA leader Abbas, Hamas’s Haniyeh hold first face-to-face meeting in years in Algeria

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

From left: Prof. Jodi Magness (George Duffield © J3D US LP); Ashes from the 586 BCE destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians at the excavation site in the City of David Park in Jerusalem. (Shai Halevi/Israel Antiquities Authority); Dr. Joe Uziel (courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)

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The Israelite commander Barak depicted in the Huqoq synagogue mosaic. (Jim Haberman)

Earliest depictions of biblical Deborah, Yael found at 5th-century Galilee synagogue

Mosaic uncovered by archeologists digging at the Huqoq site depicts Book of Judges story featuring the two heroines defeating the Canaanite commander Sisera

Interview

‘Shaked not right-wing, not trustworthy,’ charges Religious Zionism MK Rothman

MK Simcha Rothman of the far-right Religious Zionism party accused Yamina party leader Ayelet Shaked of being “untrustworthy” and “not right-wing,” in the latest effort by Shaked's former allies to poach Yamina’s voters. Rothman told The Times of Israel that his nationalist party would never consider running alongside Yamina due to what he said was... Continue Reading

Religious Zionism party MK Simcha Rothman in his Knesset office, July 5, 2022. (Jeremy Sharon)

MK Mansour Abbas, left, leads a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset on June 29, 2022; Rabbi Haim Drukman attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party on February 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90); (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Top right-wing rabbi came close to endorsing Likud-led coalition with Ra’am – report

By Tobias Siegal

Vladimir Kritsman, left, the principal of Kyrgyzstan's only Jewish school, Pri Etz Haim, gives a tour to EU Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Eduard Auer on June 27, 2022. (EU in Kyrgyzstan)

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Inside the international campaign to save Kyrgyzstan’s only Jewish school

By Judah Ari Gross

When Pri Etz Haim-Ort was served an eviction notice, a Jewish leader got Israel, the EU, US and others to pressure local authorities to come to the aid of the tiny community

Illustrative image: A medical professional in protective equipment takes a short break, in the coronavirus ward of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli drug candidate achieves 93% COVID count reduction in hamsters’ lungs

By Nathan Jeffay

Human tests expected within a year; inventor says approach has potential for many viruses, including influenza, Zika, West Nile, and hepatitis B

Three-year-old Sofia Espinoza receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Israel gives final nod to COVID shots for under-5s, stops short of recommendation

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Palestinians prepare posters with pictures of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and Arabic that reads, "Shireen, the pulse of Palestine," at the office of Al Jazeera channel, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

US says only its experts were allowed to examine bullet that killed Abu Akleh

By Jacob Magid and AFP

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, July 6, 2022. (Frank Augstein/AP)

Despite resignations, rapid decline in support, Boris Johnson vows to stay on as PM

By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless

A vehicle burns after an apparent car bombing in Zichron Yaakov on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy)

Man killed in apparent car bombing in Zichron Yaakov

US special envoy to monitor and combat antsemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at the New Tools in Combating Contemporary Antisemitism forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July 5, 2022. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Antisemitism envoy Lipstadt sees Jew-hatred declining in Mideast, rising in US

By Yaakov Schwartz

A screenshot from an undated video showing Ahmad Motevasselian, military attache of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, right, who is one among four Iranian officials who went missing in Lebanon during the country's war with Israel in 1982. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Iran says it’s still looking for 4 diplomats whose disappearance it blames on Israel

By AFP

Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine in uniform as an admiral, in Washington DC on the day of her swearing-in, October 29, 2021. (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health via JTA)

Biden’s Jewish transgender deputy health secretary decries ‘bullying,’ lauds Israel

Illustrative: A police car and ambulance in Petah Tikva, August 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Police probe suspected kidnapping attempt of 16-year-old girl in Pardes Hanna

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)

State appeals release of sex offender nightclub owner: ‘Significant risk to victims’

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Smoke rises from the Al-Jalaa tower in Gaza City, which housed apartments and several media outlets, including The Associated Press and Al Jazeera, after an Israeli airstrike, May 15, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

AP opens new Gaza bureau; last one was in tower destroyed by Israel in 2021 conflict

Yeshiva students at a checkpoint blocking the road to the illegal outpost of Homesh in northern West Bank, May 26, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

IDF: Troops targeted in drive-by shooting in northern West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

An illustrative photo of an Uber car (Skoda) in Warsaw, Poland, in 2019. (MOZCO Mateusz Szymanski via iStock by Getty Images)

Uber to relaunch ride-hailing operations in Israel with licensed cab drivers

By Ricky Ben-David

Writer/director Ruben Ostlund celebrates after winning the Palme d'Or for 'Triangle of Sadness' during the awards ceremony of the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 28, 2022. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Marooned in Sultan's PoolSwedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund to headline Jerusalem film fest

By Jessica Steinberg

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