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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 12, 2022

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Saudi special forces troops salute in front of a screen displaying images Saudi King Salman, right, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after a military parade in preparation for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

On eve of Biden trip, White House says Israel-Saudi ties will be a ‘long process’

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stresses integrating Israel into region will be a focus of Biden’s visit, but plays down hopes for speedy normalization with Riyadh

Joe Biden, right, stands in the Oval Office of the White House during a meeting between then-US president Barack Obama and King Salman of Saudi Arabia, on September 4, 2015, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden to bring tidings of progress on Saudi-Israel ties, senior diplomat hints

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Then-US vice president Joe Biden waving as he boards his plane at Ben Gurion Airport after a two-day visit in Israel on March 10, 2016. (Matty Stern/US Embassy of Tel Aviv)

Hamas escalation during Biden visit will bear a heavy price, Israel said to warn

A worker at the President's Residence prepares for the upcoming visit of US President Joe Biden on July 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Biden to forgo meet and greet with Israeli dignitaries at sweltering tarmac welcome

Officially, VIPs told ban due to scheduling issues and hot weather, but some speculate on effort to prevent repeat of shenanigans when Trump arrived in 2017

Israeli supporters of Donald Trump wave United States and Israeli flags to support his candidacy outside the US embassy in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90/File)

Biden less popular among Israelis than Trump, but seen as less dangerous

US President Joe Biden arrives at Andrews Air Force Base after delivering remarks in Cleveland about the American Recovery Act, July 6, 2022, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Six things to watch during Biden’s trip to the Middle East

By CHRIS MEGERIAN

Joe Biden, right, stands in the Oval Office of the White House during a meeting between then-US president Barack Obama and King Salman of Saudi Arabia, on September 4, 2015, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

From the blogs

Biden’s visit: Think big and go for a broad 3-way deal

Some bold strategic moves by Israel could lead to diplomatic achievements far greater than mere flight rights over Saudi Arabia

The Myths of Menopause Debunked

Women experience menopause differently and it’s important to recognize those experiences. We debunk myths and more with Dr. Drorit Hochner of Hadassah Hospital Mt. Scopus.

This image provided by NASA on July 11, 2022, shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI via AP)

'We are going back almost to the beginning'

1st image from NASA’s space telescope takes us closer than ever to the dawn of time

By Seth Borenstein

‘Deep field’ image from James Webb Space Telescope brims with stars and galaxies from edge of universe, including light from soon after Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago

US President Joe Biden listens during a briefing from NASA officials about the first images from the Webb Space Telescope, the highest-resolution images of the infrared universe ever captured, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, July 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

More breathtaking cosmic images to be released by the James Webb Telescope

By AFP

A man holds a child for photos near a cherry blossom tree in Beijing on March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

UN: World’s 8 billionth person expected to be born on November 15

By AP

At Board of Governors session, members demand Jewish Agency act on Western Wall

By Judah Ari Gross

Members of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors demanded the organization work to address the situation at the Western Wall on Monday, as anger continued to smolder after religious zealots overran several bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies at the holy site's egalitarian section last month. "Several of us... Continue Reading

A view of the egalitarian plaza, often referred to as 'Robinson's Arch,' at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on December 30, 2021. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)

InterviewNew Jewish Agency chair calls for free religious expression at the Western Wall

By Judah Ari Gross

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz leads a Meretz party faction meeting in the Knesset on June 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Nitzan Horowitz to step down as Meretz chairman ahead of elections

By Jeremy Sharon

Health minister will still run for a seat on left-wing party’s Knesset slate, and keep his ministerial role until new government is formed

Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich, left, and Itamar Ben Gvir of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party at an election campaign tour at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on March 19, 2021(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich rejects Ben Gvir criticism, urges him to run in Religious Zionism primary

By Tobias Siegal and ToI Staff

Gideon Sa'ar (left) and Benny Gantz at a Justice Minister ceremony on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90/File)

Elections 2022Polls see Gantz-Sa’ar party as Israel’s 3rd largest, but election deadlock unbroken

Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in a new housing project in Har Homa in East Jerusalem, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Live updates (closed)

‘Surrender to terror’: Right-wing MKs slam government’s gestures to Palestinians

By Michael Bachner

As opposition lawmakers issue angry statements, Interior Minister Shaked appears to push back against Lapid, says East Jerusalem housing plans will be delayed by just a week

7:19 pm

Report: Israel agrees to sell anti-drone technology to Bahrain
6:49 pm

Politically homeless Hendel promises 'big news' coming soon
6:34 pm

US envoy: Biden will 'emphasize again and again the vision of a two-state solution'

Illustrative: A man barbecues during the Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 5, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Exposure to sunlight may make men hungry, but not women, Israeli researchers say

In peer-reviewed study, Tel Aviv University scientists find that sunshine stimulates release of a ‘hunger hormone’ in males, boosting appetite

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, back to a camera, on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, June 29, 2022. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin set to meet Erdogan and Raisi in Iran next week

By AP and ToI Staff

Trip announced a day after US warned that Tehran could provide Moscow with hundred of UAVs, some of them weapons-capable, for its war in Ukraine

Illustrative: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Gen. Hossein Salami, left, and the Guard's aerospace division commander Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh talk while unveiling a new drone called 'Gaza,' in an undisclosed location in Iran, in a photo released on May 22, 2021. (Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, via AP)

Iran to deliver armed drones to Russia for Ukraine war, White House says

By Zeke Miller and Josh Boak

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a graduation ceremony at the National Security College, July 11, 2022. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel to update Biden on progress toward regional anti-Iran military alliance

By Emanuel Fabian

New Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, right, is joined by incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left, as he speaks to reporters after winning the election in Mogadishu, Somalia, February 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Netanyahu and Somalian president met secretly in 2020, ex-diplomat claims

By Lazar Berman

Amid sporadic reports of warming ties between countries, official says Trump didn’t want the Arab League member in Abraham Accords; Netanyahu’s office does not confirm

Tahani Alqahtani of Saudi Arabia, left, and Raz Hershko of Israel react after competing in their women's +78kg elimination round judo match at the 2020 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Israelis split on prospect of Biden cementing peace with Saudi Arabia

Daphne Lazar Price

Shaming women who have abortions is not a Jewish ethic

Male rabbis who perpetuate damaging taboos keep women from telling their stories – but after Dobbs, we no longer have the luxury of silence

David E. Bernstein

How American Jews (stayed) white

The Jewish community has always pushed back against official moves to classify it separately from other Americans

Rescue workers clearing rubble of destroyed house after a Russian attack in a residential neighborhood in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Israel to send new batch of defensive equipment to Ukraine

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Minister Benny Gantz approves aid package of helmets, protective vests and more, continuing policy of not supplying Kyiv with offensive weapons

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi massacres, at Babyn Yar, in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, on September 29, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP/File)

US accuses Russia of exploiting Jewish suffering to push anti-Ukraine propaganda

Left to right: Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images), Petr Aven (Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty Images ), Moshe Kantor (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images), Roman Abramovich (Ian Walton/Getty Images) All images via JTA.

With their planes grounded, Russia’s Jewish oligarchs see consequences of Putin ties

By MADELINE FIXLER and Asaf Shalev

Palestinian healthcare workers are trained in remote care for pregnant women at Sheba Medical Center in this undated photo (Courtesy)

Israeli hospital trains Palestinian health workers in remote care for pregnant women

Tel Aviv-area Sheba announces OB-GYN Beyond program to improve healthcare for women in Hebron area, hoping it will eliminate some logistical, bureaucratic, security obstacles

In this photo taken March 21, 2017, Ahlam al-Tamimi is photographed during an interview in her home in the Jordanian capital of Amman. (AP Photo/Omar Akour)

US still seeking extradition of Sbarro bomber as victim’s parents ask to meet Biden

By AP

A banner that includes an Israeli flag and a Palestinian flag, as part of a campaign by left-wing group Peace Now, in the lead up to US President Joe Biden's official visit, on display in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2022. "President Biden, welcome to the two states we love the most," it reads. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv Municipality okays banner for Biden displaying Palestinian flag

Part of a new 15 million euro solar plant during its official inauguration at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, on November 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

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Trailblazing models show green windfall from Israel-Jordan-PA water, energy alliance

First-of-its kind-Oxford University project indicates that making Jordan a solar energy hub could speed carbon emission cuts in all three countries, save $47 billion by 2050

Hadas Klein arrives in court to give testimony in the trial against former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on July 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Witness details Sara Netanyahu suicide threat over pool refit; $46,000 bracelet gift

By Jeremy Sharon

Hadas Klein details high end jewelry and clothing sent to Netanyahus from benefactors Milchan and Packer, plus meddling by Hollywood mogul in choice of national security adviser

Archaeology

Busted: Thousands of ancient coins and arrowheads seized from northern Israel home

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israel Antiquities Authority theft prevention unit says Afula man illegally dug up and traded in ancient finds, likely also smuggled items abroad to public auctions

Jerry Stahl is the author of 'Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust.' (Akashic Books/ via JTA)

Interview'I wanted to go somewhere where my despair was justified'

A writer faces his demons — and history’s — on a guided tour of Holocaust sites

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In the nonfiction ‘Nein, Nein, Nein!’ novelist and screenwriter Jerry Stahl explores how we remember the tragedy and whether it’s possible to properly mourn and honor its victims

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British composer Monty Norman is seen in this March 19, 2001 photo. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA via AP)

Monty Norman, Jewish composer of James Bond theme music, dies at 94

Iran agent who was helped by Israelis contacted another 20 citizens – report

Torched synagogues, cars and vandalized stores in Lod, following a night of ethnic rioting in the mixed Jewish-Arab city in central Israel, May 12, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Jewish Israeli sentenced to 38 months for racist assault on Arab last year

The Reading Power Station and the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90/File)

Electric shock: Power authority says prices to rise 10% starting August

By Michael Horovitz

Medics try and resuscitate a man who drowned off the coast of Rosh Hanikra in northern Israel on July 11, 2022 (MDA)

Man dies while saving daughter from drowning at northern beach

Four women join local residents for a two-minute moment of silence at 10:14 a.m. at the Highland Park, Illinois memorial commemorating the seven people who lost their lives during the town's Fourth if July parade, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Highland Park honors victims of July 4 shooting with moment of silence

By AP

Col. Yaki Dolf, then-commander of the Paratroopers Brigade, at a military ceremony in June 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF general previously censured over troop deaths tapped to lead West Bank division

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: A special force police officer patrols near the department store Ahlens following a suspected terror attack on the Drottninggatan street in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Killing of woman at Sweden political event now labeled a far-right terror attack

By AP

Lea Michele appears at the 75th annual Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2022, left, and Beanie Feldstein appears at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 19, 2021. Lea Michele has been tapped to step in and lead the Broadway revival of the beleaguered 'Funny Girl' this fall, an announcement made just hours after current star Beanie Feldstein revealed she was leaving the show sooner than anticipated due to the show taking a 'different direction.' (AP Photo)

Beanie Feldstein cuts short ‘Funny Girl’ gig on Broadway, Lea Michele to step in

Noa Kirel performs during the 70th Miss Universe pageant in Eilat, December 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit/File)

Chart-topper Noa Kirel chosen to represent Israel at Eurovision 2023

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