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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 7, 2022

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Palestinians hold posters displaying veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen as she covered a raid in Jenin on May 11, 2022. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Abu Akleh killing ‘casting shadow’ over Biden’s upcoming trip, Israeli official says

Senior official takes issue with US-drawn ‘symmetry’ between ‘thorough’ Israeli probe and PA’s lackluster one; says progress on boosting Israeli-Saudi ties would be ‘game-changer’

L-R: Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Jonathan Shrier, and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked at the signing of the Preventing and Combating Serious Crime information-sharing agreement, July 7, 2022 (US Embassy in Israel)

US, Israel sign final agreement needed for visa waiver, but key bills remain stuck

By Lazar Berman

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Riga, Latvia, on March 7, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/AFP)

Blinken calls to congratulate new PM Lapid, stresses US support for 2 states

Prime Minister Boris Johnson reads a resignation statement outside 10 Downing Street, London, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Premier pushed out by his own party after series of scandals

UK’s PM Johnson resigns: ‘I want you to know how sad I am… but them’s the breaks’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Says he’ll stay on till ‘our Darwinian system’ produces another leader; touts Brexit, Ukraine support as achievements; defense minister Wallace, ex-chancellor Sunak frontrunners

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street, London, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)

From Olympics hosting to Brexit to Partygate, the ups and downs of Johnson’s career

By AP

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

In 2010, Johnson compared PM who didn’t quit to ‘illegal settler lashed to radiator’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bernard-Henri Levy at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on July 7, 2022. (Yuri Skvirski, i24NEWS)

Can Bernard-Henri Levy’s fast-tracked documentary stave off ennui about Ukraine?

By Melanie Lidman

In Tel Aviv this week, the French intellectual says Putin’s greatest ally is global fatigue, as he urges vigilance against Russia despite ongoing war’s fall from daily headlines

Russia taking ‘operational pause’ in Ukraine as its forces regroup, analysts say

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and OLEXSANDR STASHEVSKYI

Exiled from Russia, Pinchas Goldschmidt is formally out as Moscow’s chief rabbi

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ultra-Orthodox youths interrupt a bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on June 30, 2022. (Laura Ben-David)

Op-ed

Desecration at the Western Wall

What kind of Jewish education is producing youngsters who genuinely believe the foul behavior witnessed last Thursday constitutes the glorification of the divine power?

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)

Heads of major Jewish groups press Lapid after zealots overrun Western Wall prayers

By Judah Ari Gross

Area residents visit a memorial to the seven people who lost their lives in the Highland Park, Ill., Fourth of July mass shooting, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Amid the chaos of the Highland Park massacre, two strangers saved an orphaned boy

By Martha Irvine

2-year-old found smeared with blood, brought to stranger’s home after 4th of July Illinois shooting; he will be raised by his grandparents, Jewish immigrants from Russia

This photo provided by the Lake County Major Crime Task Force shows Robert Crimo, III. Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of First Degree Murder in the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, July 6, 2022. (Lake County Major Crime Task Force via AP)

Chicago July 4 shooting suspect confesses, admits contemplating 2nd attack

By Michael Tarm, KATHLEEN FOODY and STEPHEN GROVES

Rep. Brad Schneider, left, chats with a constituent two days after a mass shooting, in Highland Park, Ill., July 6, 2022. (Twitter via JTA)

‘Shattered in an instant’: Illinois Rep. Schneider describes Highland Park shooting

Illustrative: A man hangs a Palestinian flag on a lamppost in the northern West Bank town of Huwara amid clashes with Israeli troops on May 29, 2022. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Israel said concerned about West Bank security escalation during Biden’s trip

Defense establishment worried lack of major deliverable by president to Palestinians will spark unrest, passes message asking PA to increase counter-terror operations in Jenin

5:28 pm

Sri Lanka's president to step down on July 13, official says
6:35 pm

UAE president congratulates Lapid on becoming prime minister
6:23 pm

James Caan, 'Godfather' and 'Misery' star, son of German Jews, dies at 82

Israel and Turkey sign an outline civilian aviation agreement on July 7, 2022. (Boaz Oppenheim, GPO)

Israel, Turkey sign updated aviation agreement as bilateral ties continue to improve

By Lazar Berman

Accord now needs domestic approvals, which could be held up because of Israeli coalition’s collapse; Israeli carriers still locked out of lucrative market over security spat

A drone which the Israeli military says was launched by the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, is seen shortly before being intercpted by an Israeli fighter jet over the Mediterranean Sea, July 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Gantz says Hezbollah drones launched at offshore gas field were ‘products of Iran’

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister vows to increase funding and accelerate development of laser air defense system, set to be shown to Biden during his trip next week

An Israeli Sa'ar Class 5 Corvette guards the Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel at the Karish gas field, in footage published by the military on July 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

After Lebanese paper report, IDF confirms another Hezbollah drone downed last week

By Emanuel Fabian

Farid Fuad Mustafa, 46, a Syrian soldier reportedly killed in an Israeli drone strike in the town of Hader, near the border with the Golan Heights, July 6, 2022. (Social media)

Syrian soldier said killed in Israeli drone strike near Golan border

By Emanuel Fabian

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked in the plenum hall of the Knesset, on June 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked calls for ‘broad national government’ in 1st statement on elections

Yamina party leader warns of an ‘abyss of polarization’ in Israeli politics as she works to stabilize her faction after its tumultuous time in power

Illustrative image: A Jerusalem polling station for people who are in quarantine because of Covid-19, on election day, March 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 7: Election primaries primer; looming Palestinian evictions

Deputy Economy and Industry Minister Yair Golan announces that he plans to challenge Nitzan Horowitz for the leadership of the Meretz party in the upcoming primaries, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, July 6, 2022 in Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Elections 2022Meretz leadership in play as Golan enters race against Horowitz

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Analysis

Israel’s leaders can make friends abroad; why can’t they make things work at home?

Among Israel's many contradictions, perhaps most baffling is the dissonance between its diplomatic acuity and its domestic dysfunction. That discrepancy will be on full display when US President Joe Biden touches down in Israel this month for talks with Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who has held the post for just a few days and may... Continue Reading

Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Kenneth Jacobson

The insidious roots of the Boston ‘Mapping Project’

The real problem is how mainstream anti-Zionism has become – we must fight that new normal if we are to combat this domestic extremism

Improving Israel’s anemic proposed climate law

Regardless of its self-congratulatory claims, Israel remains a climate slacker: It’s time to put the job of reducing emissions into the prime minister’s hands

Shin Bet arrests Bedouin man who allegedly joined IDF to spy for Gaza terror group

By Emanuel Fabian

A Bedouin man from southern Israel joined the military in order to spy for a terror group in the Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet security service charged Thursday. The agency said Shehadeh Abu Alqian, 25, from a Bedouin village near Hura in the northern Negev region, was instructed... Continue Reading

Shehadeh Abu Alqian, 25, who is charged with spying for a Gaza-based terror group, is seen wearing an Israeli military uniform in May 2022. (Courtesy)

Yitzhak Dahan, 47, who was seriously hurt in a suspected terror attack between Bnei Brak and Gviat Shmuel, speaks to Channel 12 news on July 6, 2022, a day after the attack. (Screenshot: Channel 12 news)

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

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers are seen operating in the West Bank, July 6, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier suspected of looting Palestinian property near Hebron detained

By Emanuel Fabian

Deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Iran, Giles Whitaker. (Courtesy)

UK says diplomat who was allegedly arrested by Iran as spy left country 6 months ago

Iranian media has reported that deputy head of mission at the British Embassy, Giles Whitaker, was held for espionage along with other foreign officials, then expelled

The flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran flies outside its embassy in London, February 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant/ File)

UK denies Iran reports of senior UK diplomat, others arrested by Tehran for spying

(R to L) Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani give a joint press conference at the foreign ministry headquarters in the capital Tehran on July 7, 2022. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran denies US accusation it is making demands beyond terms of nuclear deal

By AFP

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’

ArchaeologyIf confirmed, it could be Jerusalem's earliest inscription

3,500-year-old stone is inscribed with curse on Jerusalem governor, claims professor

By Michael Horovitz

Expert claims to decipher ancient script on tablet he believes was used in voodoo ceremony; Antiquities Authority awaits further ‘scientific research and publication’

A page from the manuscript describing autos-da-fé trials in Lisbon from 1540-1669, during the Portuguese Inquisition. (Courtesy of the National Library of Israel)

National Library finds rare 18th-century text detailing Portuguese Inquisition

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: In this May 26, 2019 photo, a teacher supervises while Palestinian schoolchildren take a final exam during the last day of the school year, at the UNRWA Hebron Boys School, in the West Bank city of Hebron. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

UNRWA textbooks still include hate, antisemitism despite pledge to remove — watchdog

Israeli organization says that rather than taking the material out of the 2022 curriculum, the UN Palestinian refugee agency has merely taken it off its public education portal

Photo essay

Ahead of the 21st Maccabiah Games, photos from the archives of the ‘Jewish Olympics’

By jacob gurvis

Since 1932, every four years 10,000 or so athletes converge in Israel for the world’s largest Jewish athletic competition; here is a trip down the Jewish sports memory lane

Stage winner Australia's Simon Clarke, second left, is congratulated by teammate Britain's Chris Froome, center, and another member of Israel Premier Tech after crossing the finish line of the fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, France, July 6, 2022. (Tim De Waele/Pool Photo via AP)

In first, Israeli cycling team’s rider wins stage of Tour de France

IBM acquires Israeli startup Databand to boost data capabilities

By Ricky Ben-David

Deal finalized in June under undisclosed terms; Databand employees to join IBM Data and AI operations

This Feb. 27, 2018, photo shows electronics for use in a quantum computer in the quantum computing lab at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Toyota partners with Israel’s Quantum Machines for quantum computing solutions

By Ricky Ben-David

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Screen capture from video of national coronavirus czar Salman Zarka during a video press briefing, July 6, 2022. (Twitter)

COVID czar says health officials weighing return of indoor mask mandate

Screen capture from video of Dudi Ashkenazi after being released from a jail in Greece after two weeks, July 6, 2022. (Channel 13 news)

Israeli man released from Greek jail describes ‘inhumane’ detention conditions

Dror Smajda, age 7, who fell to his death in a Barcelona hotel on July 4, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Parents of boy who fell to death in Spain: ‘He leaned on window to watch kids play’

By Sara Serfaty

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the defense table during the penalty phase of his trial, July 6, 2022, at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Parkland school shooter’s swastika carvings are focus of US court fight

By TERRY SPENCER

An undated photograph of a Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy transport helicopter, which Israel signed an agreement to purchase from the United States on December 30, 2021. (Lockheed Martin)

Air Force to merge helicopter squadrons ahead of advanced heavy choppers’ arrival

By Emanuel Fabian

Actresses in a trailer for the musical "Basic Instinct." (Screen capture/Facebook)

Nixed musical about soldiers’ testimony on West Bank rights violations sparks outcry

Fungal threads. (Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Student harnesses fungi to create sustainable building material

New construction of residential apartments in Ashkelon, January 19, 2019. (chert61 via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: 9 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

Dr. Itay Roffman (bottom right corner), co-director of the new Israeli branch of the Jane Goodall Institute, addresses the 50th annual conference of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, against the backdrop of an undated photo of him with Jane Goodall. Tel Aviv, July 7, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel))

Primatologist Jane Goodall to set up conservation organization in Israel

Screen capture from video of British TV host Matt Lucas reading a page from Anne Frank's diary that describes his grandmother's cousin who lived with the Franks in 1942. (YouTube)

British TV cooking contest host discovers his family member lived with Anne Frank

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

Jack Abraham with his family Torah, which has been used by his family and the Jewish community around the world for almost two decades. (Courtesy via JTA)

New York man says precious family Torah stolen from Las Vegas hotel

Screen capture from video of the Dan Eilat Hotel. (YouTube)

Health inspectors stumped as dozens of guests at Eilat hotel report stomach ailments

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