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What Matters Most On Friday, July 15, 2022

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US President Joe Biden waves before his departure to Saudi Arabia from Ben Gurion airport, Israel, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Lapid thanks Saudi leadership for opening airspace to Israel

Biden ends Israel trip, heads to Saudi Arabia; 1st president to fly direct to Jeddah

US president slated to advance Israeli integration in region after clinching deal to warm ties between Jerusalem and Riyadh, address energy concerns

Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi, gives an interview to The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée: Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia ‘heartbreaking’

By Ayse Wieting and Susan Fraser

An illustrative photo of an El Al flight taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside Tel Aviv, October 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Saudi decision to open skies will save Israeli travelers time and money

US President Joe Biden (left) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speak after their statements to the media at the Muqataa Presidential Compound in the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank on July 15, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

In West Bank alongside Abbas, Biden endorses two states but says ‘ground isn’t ripe’

By Jeremy Sharon, Agencies and Jacob Magid

US president says Palestinians need ‘political horizon,’ tells PA to combat corruption; Abbas slams Israeli ‘apartheid,’ wants PLO off US terror list: ‘We are not terrorists’

US President Joe Biden addresses his hosts upon his arrival in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport on July 13, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

PA fumes after visiting Biden dismisses likelihood of two states ‘in near term’

An Israeli soldier stands at the entrance to the Allenby border crossing, the main border crossing for Palestinians from the West Bank traveling to neighboring Jordan and beyond, Monday, March 10, 2014. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Biden to announce eased access for Palestinians at Allenby crossing, more measures

A long exposure picture shows the Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepting rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, as it seen from the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, May 14, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Hours after Biden leaves, 2 rockets launched from Gaza, 1 intercepted by Iron Dome

Sirens sound in Ashkelon; no physical injuries reported in attack; 2nd rocket hits open area

10:14 pm

IDF says 2 rockets launched from Gaza, 1 intercepted by Iron Dome
10:13 pm

No physical injuries in apparent rocket attack on Ashkelon -- medics
10:00 pm

Interceptor missiles reportedly seen over Ashkelon

A man stands under American and Saudi Arabian flags prior to a visit by US President Joe Biden, at a square in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Saudi Arabia opens airspace to all carriers, in first fruits of budding Israel deal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Announcement comes hours before Biden set to fly to Jeddah to announce successful brokering of deal that will also see Egyptian islands transferred to Saudis

Illustrative: Passengers watch aircraft on the tarmac as they wait for their flight at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 28, 2020. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Israel lauds Saudi decision to open skies as ‘first step’ toward normalization

President Joe Biden walks down the steps of Air Force One upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel Wednesday, July 13, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Biden hails ‘historic’ Saudi decision allowing Israeli flights over its airspace

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

US President Joe Biden walks after a speech during a visit to the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem on July 15, 2022. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

At East Jerusalem hospital, Biden pledges $100 million for Palestinian health care

By Jeremy Sharon and Jacob Magid

The US president stops at Augusta Victoria before traveling to meet Palestinian leader Abbas in Bethlehem; will take off for Saudi Arabia in the afternoon

Maccabiah Games 2022

Melanie Lidman and ToI Staff

Rainbow of flags as largest-ever Maccabiah kicks off in Jerusalem with Biden on hand

More than 10,000 athletes marched into Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium Thursday night, waving flags of their home nations alongside Israel's blue and white as the 21st edition of the Maccabiah international sporting competition kicked off with US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid in attendance. The games, often referred to as the “Jewish Olympics,” are one of the world’s... Continue Reading

The opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem. Thousands of competitors from all over the world will take part in the Maccabiah Games, dubbed the 'Jewish Olympics'. July 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Report: Saudis repeatedly rejected requests by PA’s Abbas to visit before Biden

Saudi Arabia rejected repeated requests from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the kingdom before US President Joe Biden’s trip to the region, according to a Thursday report. A few days ago, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman granted Abbas a short phone call, but no visit, an unsourced... Continue Reading

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks as he meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, March 27, 2022, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meeting at the PA presidential headquarters in Ramallah on January 22, 2020. (Wafa)

Palestinian Authority President Abbas to meet France’s Macron in Paris

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Presidential research

A Torah lesson from Biden shows grasp of Judaism’s quirky calendar

JTA -- Throughout US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel this week, he has underscored the ways that he believes the US and the Jewish state are aligned. But in his remarks Thursday afternoon after being honored by the Israeli government, he alluded to one arcane way that the two countries are not on the same page — literally. In... Continue Reading

US President Joe Biden reacts as he attends the the openning ceremony of the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

File: US President Joe Biden meets then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. At left is Secretary of State Antony Blinken; 2nd-left is US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides. (GPO)

Meeting Biden briefly, Netanyahu cites need for credible military option versus Iran

Opposition leader tells US president in ‘warm’ 15-minute sitdown that Tehran won’t be stopped without real threat of force

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the parliament in Tehran, on November 16, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

As US vows to prevent nuclear Iran, Tehran warns of harsh response to any ‘mistake’

President Isaac Herzog presents the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor to US President Joe Biden at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. on July 14, 2022. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Israel 'has forged peace before and can do it again'

Accepting medal, emotional Biden says Israel’s success ‘close to miraculous to me’

By Lazar Berman

US leader stresses his deep love for Jewish state, says it ‘will never be alone,’ invites Herzog to White House

US President Joe Biden, left, and Prime Minister Yair Lapid give a joint press conference in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2022. (Atef Safadi /AFP)

Biden, Lapid press conf.Full text: Yair Lapid and Joe Biden deliver remarks, answer questions in Jerusalem

Right wing activists from the Nachala Settlement Movement build a temporary structure at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, as part of a protest calling to establish new communities in the West Bank, on July 12, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Settler group openly planning establishment of 3 illegal outposts next week

By Jeremy Sharon

Nachala Settlement Movement making unprecedented effort to set up outposts en masse; scouts for group reportedly killed Palestinian in fight; Peace Now sets up opposition operation

It’s time the West understood the new Middle East

Misconceptions and outdated stereotypes held by most Westerners about the Middle East are jarring – and detrimental to the economic growth of both regions

Pinchas needed God’s ‘covenant of peace’

Indignation and passion won the zealot his day, but God makes it clear, generations later, that even righteous hot-headedness is not ideal (Pinchas)

Left to right, US president Joe Biden, President Isaac Herzog, singer Yuval Dayan and singer Ran Dankner during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Out of hand

Israeli pop star shows fist-bumping Biden how to avoid physical contact

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

Religious singer declines to shake hand of president for reasons of modesty, leaving leader of the free world hanging amid his own half-hearted attempt to keep away from others

Dr. Noya Rimalt, a University of Haifa law professor at the forefront of Israel's battle for full reproductive freedom (Courtesy)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Law prof. looks at Roe vs. Wade and woman’s right to choose in Israel

Dr. Noya Rimalt, a University of Haifa law professor, discusses Israel’s legal path toward reproductive freedom

View of the compound of Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 10, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

1 hurt after Israelis come under Palestinian fire at Joseph’s Tomb

Pilgrims enter West Bank shrine without military escort; their vehicle overturns during escape from gunmen

Illsutrative: An imprisoned man whose eyes are blindfolded (nito100; iStock by Getty Images)

Watchdog accuses Palestinian Authority, Hamas of routinely torturing detainees

Illustrative: An ambulance and IDF troops are seen on Route 443 near Beit Horon, on August 15, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli man climbing fence sets off security alarms in West Bank settlement

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Members of the crowd holding signs that read 'This is not a game,'and 'B”H (Thank God) for Abortion' at a pro-abortion rights rally organized by the National Council of Jewish Women in Washington, DC, May 17, 2022. (Julia Gergely)

'We want to protect the surrogate mother who's helping us'

Groups launched to help Jewish couples with IVF face uncertainty after Roe reversal

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Organizations providing fertility services must navigate carefully when Jewish law seeks to protect the mother’s life but contravenes local statutes prohibiting abortion

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Citing security needs, AG says new IDF chief can be selected before election

By Emanuel Fabian

After reading classified dossier, Gali Baharav-Miara says despite legal difficulties, there’s ‘urgency’ for next chief of staff to enter role at start of 2023

Illustrative image: A patient having their brain activity using an encephalography, which Israeli scientists say could be used to assess whether people in comas are processing sounds around them (romaset vis iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli study: Brainwaves may be key to gauging awareness in unconscious people

By Nathan Jeffay

Peer-reviewed research finds correlation between alpha-beta waves and sound processing

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Outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg attends a discussion regarding violence in Arab society on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK Zandberg to take political time out, in latest resignation from left-wing Meretz

By Michael Horovitz

ToI investigatesNetanya accused of abusing fragile beach ecosystem with facility for Maccabiah Games

Socialite Ivana Trump attends the Angel Ball, hosted by Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, Oct. 23, 2017. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Ivana Trump, first wife of former president, found dead at NYC home

By Jill Colvin and Jennifer Peltz

The flag-draped casket bearing the remains of Hershel W. 'Woody' Williams is carried by joint service members into the US Capitol, July 14, 2022 in Washington, to lie in honor. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP)

Congress honors Hershel Williams, WWII hero of Iwo Jima, with ultimate salute

By KEVIN FREKING

Franco Albrecht, a German army officer accused of planning a neo-Nazi attack, at a Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on July 15, 2022. (Boris ROESSLER / POOL / AFP)

German court sentences ex-soldier to 5 and a half years for far-right terror plot

By Sarah Maria Brech and Deborah Cole

Supporters of the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran protest outside Stockholm's district court on the first day of the trial of Hamid Noury, in Stockholm, August 10, 2021. (Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Iranian gets life in prison in Sweden for war crimes during war with Iraq in 1980s

By AP

A illustrative view from Mount Carmel of the Haifa port and the Mediterranean Sea, January 2021. (Svarshik via iStock by Getty Images)

From the webIsrael sells Haifa Port to India’s Adani Ports, chemicals firm Gadot for $1.2b

A US Secret Service officer takes a position in the street as US President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the White House on Nov. 8, 2020, a day after he was defeated by President-elect Joe Biden. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US Secret Service accused of erasing texts linked to Capitol insurrection

By Farnoush Amiri

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