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Israeli family risks it all to retrieve rare Ethiopian version of the Book of Psalms

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (JTA) — When they flew out of this country for Israel three decades ago, Askabo Meshiha’s family left something valuable behind. Unlike many other Ethiopian Jews who were airlifted to Israel in 1991, they didn’t say goodbye to any relatives. They also left behind a centuries-old Book of Psalms written in Ge’ez,... Continue Reading

Ayanawo Ferada Senebato, right, and his family shown in Ashkelon, Israel, holding an ancient Orit book that they retrieved near Gondar, Ethiopia, in February 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/ via JTA)

Likud MK Yuval Steinitz speaks to Channel 12 news in an interview that aired July 8, 2022. (Video screenshot)

Departing Likud MK: Political discourse leaves me worried for democracy’s future

Yuval Steinitz critical of his party’s attacks on law institutions, but blames all sides for polarization and maintains Netanyahu remains most qualified to lead

Arnon Milchan poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Widows,' showing as part of the opening gala of the BFI London Film Festival in London, on October 10, 2018. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Billionaire Milchan blasts ‘threats’ against his aide testifying in Netanyahu trial

A car which is believed to carry the body of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives at his home, July 9, 2022, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

‘Undeniable’ flaws in Abe’s security ahead of assassination, says local police chief

Head of Nara prefectural police says has ‘no bigger regret than this’; ex-investigator says area behind Abe was insufficiently guarded; former PM’s body arrives back in Tokyo

A hearse transporting the body of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his residence in Tokyo on July 9, 2022. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP)

Japan mourns as body of assassinated former prime minister Abe is returned to Tokyo

By Tomohiro Osaki, Kyoko HASEGAWA and Sara Hussein

In this image from a video, Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a campaign speech in Nara, western Japan shortly before he was shot, July 8, 2022. (Kyodo News via AP)

World leaders pay tribute to Japan’s assassinated ex-PM Abe; footage shows shooting

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protestors jump into pool at president's residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 9, 2022. (Screen grab/Daily Mirror Sri Lanka)

Sri Lanka president flees as thousands of protesters storm palace, jump in pool

By Amal JAYASINGHE

Gotabaya Rajapaksa said to have been escorted to safety as demonstrators protest unprecedented economic turmoil; at least 3 people shot, others hospitalized after inhaling tear gas

Israeli judoka Sagi Muki embraces champion Saeid Mollaei after their match, at the 2022 Judo Grand Slam in Budapest, July 9, 2022. Mollaei is now representing Azerbaijan. (Video screenshot)

Israeli judoka Muki loses to Iranian defector and friend Mollaei in 1st-ever matchup

Former Iran champion, now representing Azerbaijan, fled after being forced by officials to avoid facing his now ‘friend for life’ in 2019

David Ben-Gurion at home. (GPO)

‘No confidence I’m fulfilling my roles’: Archival trove reveals Ben-Gurion anxieties

Founding-PM’s diaries, in which he recorded everything he did — from watching theater to resigning — to be exhibited at Sde Boker, along with rest of ‘dream come true’ archive

If you’re not sure if it’s okay to ask, it probably isn’t

I’ve been open about my daughter’s eating disorder and her death by suicide, but I don’t want to talk about how she died. Ask me about how she lived!

Yehuda Meshi Zahav: A life lived in Jerusalem’s bright light ended in darkness

In an obituary, you want an arc, a life well-lived. You want anger to melt into kindness, but some furies are resistant to kindness; they will not dissolve

Linda Straus, widow of Stephen Straus, who was killed Monday in a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park arrives for a funeral service with family members at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, July 8, 2022, in Evanston, Illinois (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Mourners say farewell to synagogue staffer, grandfather slain in July 4 shooting

By KATHLEEN FOODY and CLAIRE SAVAGE

Jacki Sundheim’s daughter tells Chicago North Shore congregants to fill void left by mother’s death with ‘joy, kindness’; art-loving Stephen Straus described as ‘sweet, generous’

Illustrative: Marchers bearing the insignia of the white supremacist group Patriot Front parade through Boston Common on July 2, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Explainer‘They’re all lying to us’: The dangerous rise of conspiracy theories

By David Klepper

Rodney Glassman. (Courtesy via JTA)

Jewish candidate for Arizona attorney general touts endorsement from far-right Gosar

By Mala Blomquist and Andrew Lapin

A view of Jerusalem Old City with the Dome of the Rock shrine, center, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Interview

New ‘biography’ of Jerusalem Old City focuses on holy flashpoint’s diverse residents

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘Nine Quarters of Jerusalem,’ Matthew Teller challenges conventional theories of how the one-square kilometer is divided, and introduces readers to little-known communities

Great white pelicans at a water reservoir in the Hefer valley, in central Israel, on October 22, 2021. Pelicans stop off in Israel during their annual migration from the Balkans to Africa, where they enjoy a mild winter before returning to Europe. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli nature loses equivalent of a medium-sized city to development every year

Annual State of Nature report highlights negative consequences of galloping urbanization amid population growth, but notes increase in protected open space

Green and brown sea turtles make their way to the Mediterranean Sea after being released by the Sea Turtle Rescue Center, run by the Israel National Nature and Parks Authority, in Beit Yanai beach, Friday, July 8, 2022 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Slow progressRescued sea turtles released back into the wild

By Oded Balilty

Problems keep mounting for Yamina as Netanyahu reportedly plans campaign offensive

Problems keep mounting for Ayelet Shaked, the new head of the Yamina party, as opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly planning to batter the faction in his election campaign and one of its few remaining lawmakers may break off to form his own party. Shaked, the interior minister,... Continue Reading

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks to a waiting car as he leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on July 6, 2022. (Daniel Leal/AFP)

UK leadership hopefuls jostle for position as Johnson digs in for his final weeks

By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA

Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak launches campaign to replace departing PM, as some Conservatives call for him to step down even before leadership elections

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, center left, and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center right, walk past a memorial for Heavenly Hundred, near Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 9, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

‘The man is cool’: Ukrainians still admire Boris Johnson, regret his resignation

By DANICA KIRKA and HANNA ARHIROVA

Illustrative: UK Labour leader Keir Starmer during a visit to the Brewdog Pub and Brewery in the City of London. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

UK Labour leaders cleared over ‘beergate’ meal during COVID lockdown

By AP

Abu Akleh’s family rails at US ‘betrayal,’ asks to meet Biden during trip next week

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The family of a Palestinian-American reporter killed during a gunbattle between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen while covering an Israeli raid in the West Bank lashed out at US President Joe Biden in a letter released Friday over his administration's response to her death. Relatives of Al Jazeera... Continue Reading

A mural of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on display, in Gaza City, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

New form of proton therapy for cancer starts trial in Jerusalem

By Nathan Jeffay

A new form of proton therapy to treat cancer patients has started a clinical trial for the first time in Israel, providing dozens of people access without having to fly abroad at a high personal expense. The therapy is in demand in many countries, as its high-energy beams of protons — subatomic particles... Continue Reading

The new facility for proton therapy at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem; a patient in a chair wears a plastic mask that covers the face to protect it from radiation (Courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)

US President Joe Biden signs an executive order on abortion access while US Vice President Kamala Harris (left), Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra (second from right), and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco look on at an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, July 8, 2022. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden signs executive order to soften effects of Supreme Court abortion ruling

By Seung Min Kim, Zeke Miller and CHRIS MEGERIAN

President’s move aims to mitigate potential penalties, protect privacy of women forced to cross state lines to get procedure; he admits he has limited ability to take action

This image from Maxar Technologies shows a nursing home in the eastern region of Luhansk, Ukraine, on March 22, 2022. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

UN says Ukraine stationed troops in nursing home, bears some blame for March attack

By Richard Lardner and Beatrice Dupuy

Dozens of elderly, bedridden Ukrainians were killed in deadly assault; human right’s office report says military made the facility a target by taking up positions there

Explainer

Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim

Why Jewish giving to Israel has been on the decline since 2009

THE CONVERSATION via AP -- American Jews donate at high levels to charity. One way they support causes in the US, Israel and other places is collective, often through large grant-making organizations. In researching this organized philanthropy, I’ve observed that the proportion of Jewish institutional giving to Israeli causes has fallen since 2009. I believe... Continue Reading

Illustrative: A pro-Israel demonstrator waves flags toward the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

More Headlines

Illustrative: Scene of the shooting in Rameh on August 15, 2021, in which politician Sahar Ismail, 50, was shot dead. (Israel Police)

Two Arab men shot dead within hours in central and northern Israel

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Elon Musk backs out of $44 billion Twitter purchase deal; company says it will sue

By Barbara Ortutay, Tom Krisher and Matt O'Brien

A fragment of jawbone from an ancient human found in Spain and believed to be 1.4 million years old. (Twitter screenshot)

Researchers in Spain find jawbone believed to be Europe’s oldest human fossil

By AFP

Muslim worshipers offer Eid al-Adha prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, July 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Millions of Muslims around the world commemorate Eid al-Adha amid soaring food costs

By amr nabil and Isabel Debre

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks on the anniversary of the death of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, shown in the poster at top center, at his mausoleum in Tehran, Iran, June 4, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran arrests former politician who criticized Khamenei over stalled nuclear talks

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during the Presidential elections in the town of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, file)

Assad tours battle-scarred Aleppo for first time since outbreak of Syrian civil war

By AFP

Dan Snyder, co-owner and co-CEO of the Washington Commanders, poses for photos during an event to unveil the NFL football team's new identity, February 2, 2022, in Landover, Maryland. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

NFL team owner misses dates to testify before Congress for yahrzeit trip to Israel

Shira Haas plays a teen dealing with a degenerative neurological illness in 'Asia,' screening in Israel at the end of June 2021 (Courtesy PR)

Killing itShira Haas to play detective in new Netflix murder mystery

By Michael Horovitz

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