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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 16, 2022

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman looks at his notes as he meets with US President Joe Biden at the Al Salman Royal Palace, Friday, July 15, 2022, in Jeddah. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Saudi minister: Peace with Israel ‘strategic option’ but not before 2-state solution

After Biden hails Saudi okay to Israeli overflights as first step to normalization, Riyadh’s foreign affairs minister says Palestinian statehood must come first

US President Joe Biden, center left, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, center, arrive for the family photo during the GCC+3 (Gulf Cooperation Council) meeting at a hotel in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

Heading home, Biden vows US ‘won’t walk away’ from Mideast, doesn’t mention Israel

By Jacob Magid and AP

(L to R) Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi; Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa; US President Joe Biden; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; Jordan's King Abdullah II; Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani; and Kuwait's Crown Prince Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah pose together for the family photo during the Jeddah Security and Development Summit (GCC+3) at a hotel in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on July 16, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN / POOL / AFP)

After Biden raises Khashoggi murder, MBS retorts with question on Abu Akleh killing

Official says Saudi crown prince asks president what he is doing to ensure justice, in apparent effort to suggest hypocrisy in US human rights criticism

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, welcomes US President Joe Biden upon his arrival at Al-Salam palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2022. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Biden says he raised Khashoggi murder with Saudi prince in meeting after fist bump

File: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets US President Joe Biden, with a fist bump after his arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency (SPA) via AP)

Biden rebuked for Saudi prince fist bump: ‘Blood of MBS’s next victim on your hands’

Fireballs are seen following an Israeli airstrike in response to rocket fire, Gaza City on July 16, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

IDF strikes in Gaza in response to nighttime rocket attack; 2 more rockets fired

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says it targeted underground rocket production facility; another Hamas site struck after fresh warning sirens sound northeast of Gaza, projectiles hit open areas

An Iron Dome interceptor missile is seen over the southern city of Ashkelon, July 16, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

2 rockets fired from Gaza hours after Biden announces steps toward Saudi-Israel ties

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: An El Al flight takes off at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv, October 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli airlines said prodding Saudis to permit flights over airspace this week

According to TV report, El Al and Arkia are asking to reroute flights to destinations in the East to shorten flight times

7:20 pm

Police: 15-year-old girl lightly hurt after being shot in Lod
6:15 pm

Israel freezes move to let in 1,500 more Gazan workers after overnight rocket fire
6:10 pm

Israeli carriers said prodding Saudis to permit flights over airspace this week

Lead scientist believes screening tool ready in 3-5 years

Israeli lab says it developed brain scan to make early Parkinson’s screening routine

By Nathan Jeffay

A new Israeli brain scan technique could lead to routine screening to diagnose cases of Parkinson’s disease at its onset, scientists say. Pharmaceutical companies are expected to receive approvals in the coming years for drugs to treat Parkinson’s, and a major challenge for doctors is to identify early... Continue Reading

An image showing the results of Hebrew University's analysis of the brain detecting Parkinson's. In yellow are areas of decay, which indicate the onset of Parkinson's. (Mezer Lab/Hebrew University)

US President Joe Biden (C-L) takes part in a working session with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C-R) at the Al Salam Royal Palace in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, on July 15, 2022. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Biden: Opening airspace 1st tangible step to normalization

US to remove Red Sea island observer force, advancing steps toward Saudi-Israel ties

Move marks another foreign policy win for president, hours after he landed in Jeddah for controversial courting of oil-rich kingdom; direct Israel flights still under discussion

File: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets US President Joe Biden, with a fist bump after his arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency (SPA) via AP)

Biden lands in Jeddah, set to announce more Saudi steps toward Israel normalization

An 'Enlightenment' scene with guests in the home of Moses Mendelssohn, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856. (Public domain)

Author interview

Epic historical novel digs deep into Zionism’s less probed Western European roots

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘The Wealthy,’ Israeli author Hamutal Bar-Yosef uses 200-year saga of fictional German-Anglo Jewish family to highlight different take on how the Jewish state came to be

Satellite images of a Russian delegation visiting a showcasing of Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 drones at Iran's Kashan Airfield released by the White House on July 16, 2022. (White House)

Ahead of Mideast summit, US warns Iran is seeking to sell attack drones to Russia

Delegation from Moscow twice toured Iran base to view showcase of weapons-capable UAVs, Jake Sullivan says, revealing satellite photos of drones in flight during Russian visit

In this image released on, July 15, 2022 by the Iranian Army, a drone is launched from an Iranian warship during a drill in the Indian Ocean (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran announces naval division of armed drones capable of ‘regrettable response’

By AFP and ToI Staff

National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata speaks during the IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama on November 21, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

National security adviser says Israel not afraid to differ with US on Iran

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)

Israeli singer defends refusal to shake Biden’s hand on religious grounds

By ToI Staff and JTA

‘Those who say I have no respect should apologize to my parents,’ says Yuval Dayan, who claims she repeatedly informed staff at president’s residence of her beliefs

President Biden and the Maccabiah Games

When Biden joined the athletes, coaches, and spectators, he supported Jews everywhere who stand against racism, with Israel, and for acceptance and community

The chaotic origins of Israel’s international airport

Did Jewish airport employees abandon their posts, leaving confusion in their wake, when the British exited the new country?

Irish heartbeat

Sinn Féin, Gaelic and boxing: Biden and Herzog connect over Irish heritage

A noticeable thread ran through the warm public statements and private discussions between US President Joe Biden and President Isaac Herzog on Thursday -- pride in their shared Irish heritage. The first topic Biden brought up after stepping out of "the Beast" at the President's Residence was his Irish roots. Herzog, who received him with First Lady Michal at the... Continue Reading

US President Joe Biden (R) embraces President Isaac Herzog (L) during the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Analysis

US and Israel want to unite Middle East against Iran, but Iraq could pose a problem

WASHINGTON (JTA) — It has become a kind of mantra in Washington and Jerusalem: Integrate much of the Middle East, including Israel, into a single security system to keep Iran in its place. The issue came up as soon as US President Joe Biden landed Wednesday at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel for his first... Continue Reading

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi meets with Basra provincial Council members in Basra, Iraq, September 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi attends a Aharai! Youth Program ceremony, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on June 17, 2022. (Flash90)

Kohavi to visit Morocco on Monday, in first official trip by Israeli military chief

By Emanuel Fabian

Destination initially barred from publication, but gag order lifted after leak; last month Israeli officers observed a major drill in North African nation

UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash speaks to journalists in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

UAE mulls returning ambassador to Tehran, says ‘not part of any axis against Iran’

By AFP

Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox patriarch Theophilos III leads the Christmas Midnight Mass for the Greek Orthodox at the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem, on January 7, 2018. (Musa Al Shaer/AFP)

Meeting Biden, J’lem Christian leader describes ‘attacks by Israeli radical groups’

Greek patriarch of Jerusalem tells US leader there is an ‘unprecedented’ effort to drive Christians out of the holy city, through vandalism and property seizures

René Slotkin, photographed here by BA Van Sise, died July 10 at the age of 84. (Courtesy of B.A. Van Sise/Design by Mollie Suss)

Obituary

René Slotkin, one of the few surviving ‘Mengele twins,’ dies at 84

By Jackie Hajdenberg

After the war René and his sister Irene were adopted by an NYC family, and spent most of their lives there; in his later years he taught children about the Holocaust

The Henry Madden Library is the third-largest library in the California State University system. (Cary Edmondson via JTA)

California university to rename library building honoring Nazi sympathizer

By LILLIAN ILSLEY-GREENE

View of the Ben & Jerry's factory shop in Yavne on July 20, 2021. (Flash90)

Ben & Jerry’s, parent company to seek mediation over sale of Israeli vendor

Ice cream maker had filed lawsuit in US federal court against agreement between Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s Israel that allows sales in West Bank settlements

Chelsey Goldberg (R), captain of the Maccabi USA women's ice hockey team, posing for a photo. (Joya Create)

After being iced for years, women’s hockey teams finally lace up at Maccabiah Games

By Ethan Freedman

Following a nearly decade-long effort, Southern California Jewish Sports Hall-of-Famer Chelsey Goldberg helps field three teams to their inaugural tournament

New Israeli war drama revisits Egypt’s 1948 capture of a kibbutz

By Andrew Lapin

JTA -- The story of Israel’s 1948 war for independence is told through the eyes of one kibbutz in “Image of Victory,” a new Netflix film that’s being billed as the most expensive Israeli movie ever. Inspired by the real-life battle for control of Kibbutz Nitzanim, during which... Continue Reading

Actors playing Israeli soldiers guarding Kibbutz Nitzanim in the Israeli war film 'Image of Victory.' (Netflix)

More Headlines

Liza, a 4-year-old Ukrainian girl with Down syndrome who was killed in a Russian missile strike in Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, is seen in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

4-year-old Ukrainian girl with Down syndrome killed in Russian strike in Vinnytsia

By HANNA ARHIROVA

Zehava Galon speaks at a launch event of the 'Mehazkim' movement in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Former Meretz chief Zehava Galon to launch fresh bid to lead party — report

Illustrative: A man shops for bread in a supermarket in Jerusalem. (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Major supermarkets freeze bread price hike, as government scrambles for solution

A Russian serviceman guards in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Ukraine accuses Russia of using nuclear plant as base to shell surrounding areas

By AFP

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by female House Democrats, speaks at an event ahead of a House vote on the Women's Health Protection Act and the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US House passes bills to protect abortion access, Senate approval unlikely

By AFP

Blood stains are seen on a damaged car after a deadly Russian missile attack in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, July 14, 2022 (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Russia’s information war expands through Eastern Europe

By David Klepper

A plane flies above an apartment building in Tel Aviv. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Israeli housing prices continue to break records, up 15.9% over last year

By Danielle Nagler

Two people take a selfie opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Friday July 15, 2022. The British Meteorologic office issued a red warning for extreme heat, advising of a 'potentially very serious situation' in parts of England next week. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

UK to hold emergency meeting as ‘red alert’ issued for extreme heat wave

By DANICA KIRKA

Israeli pop star Mergui releases first single in English on July 15, 2022 (Courtesy Saban)

Star is risenIsraeli star Mergui releases first English-language single

By Jessica Steinberg

In this file photo taken on May 18, 2000, Ivana Trump arrives at the AMFAR (American Foundation for Aids Research) benefit party held at the Palm Beach Club during the 53rd Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Ivana Trump died of accidental ‘blunt impact’ to torso, official says

By AFP

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