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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 17, 2022

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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud speaks during a press conference after the end of Security and Development Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Contradicting Biden, Saudis deny opening of airspace is step toward ties with Israel

Riyadh’s FM says move ‘has nothing to do’ with diplomatic relations; also states he’s not aware of any talks on Israel-integrated air defense alliance, after US hailed notion

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

Israeli airlines said prodding Saudis to already allow overflights this week

President Joe Biden arrives at King Abdulaziz International Airport, July 15, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 17: Did Biden’s trip yield closer Israeli-Saudi ties? Jury’s out

Police officer Barak Meshulam, killed July 17, 2022 (Courtesy)

Cop killed in central Israel ramming by Palestinian teen driving stolen car – police

Father of two Barak Meshulam, 29, found dead in road; 17-year-suspected of hitting officer at checkpoint near Ra’anana during chase; tries to flee on foot but is later arrested

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony marking the change of the Home Front Command's chief, July 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

IDF chief: Israel has ‘moral obligation’ to ready military response to Iran’s nukes

Days after Biden vowed Tehran would never achieve nuclear weapons, Aviv Kohavi says military ‘continues to prepare vigorously for an attack on Iran’

6:21 pm

IDF chief: Israel has 'moral obligation' to ready military response to Iran's nukes
5:55 pm

Poll shows Religious Zionism party would soar if headed by Ben-Gvir
5:05 pm

Gantz holds meeting with visiting CENTCOM chief

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

From The Hartman Institute

The Antisemitism We Tolerate

When Haredi men recently attacked American Jews celebrating a Bar Mitzvah at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, there was little outrage in Israel. Why is that?

After Gaza rockets, PM says Israel will respond ‘swiftly, forcefully’ to any attacks

After four rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza a day earlier, Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Sunday that Israel will respond "swiftly and forcefully" to any attacks from the Strip. "This government's policy has not changed. To any fire, any incendiary balloon -- we will respond swiftly... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Yair Lapid heads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2022. (Haim Zach / GPO)

File: Palestinian workers enter Israel after crossing from Gaza, on the Israeli side of Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

After Gaza rockets, Israel freezes move to allow in 1,500 more workers

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli military vehciles are seen in the West Bank city of Tubas, July 17, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Palestinian gunmen clash with IDF troops in early-morning West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Michael Kurilla, head of the United States Central Command (left) meets with IDF chief, Aviv Kohavi, on July 17, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

US Central Command chief arrives in Israel to discuss air defenses

By Emanuel Fabian

Visit follows recent ‘war games’ discussion between visiting CENTCOM delegation and senior IDF officers; Biden viewed Israeli defense tech during trip last week

The state of the campaign

Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman

Allied with Sa’ar, Gantz sets out to crack the ‘soft right’

In microeconomics and game theory, the median voter theorem states that “in a majority rule voting system, the candidate or party most preferred by the median voter will be elected.” While Israel has an extremely diverse political landscape, with 13 parties in the current Knesset, modern Israeli politics has often been a battle over this... Continue Reading

Yochi Rappeport

Nazis and heretics and whores – oh my!

The same young people who tore up prayer books of fellow Jews – and would do it again — are fasting to repent for the past mistakes of the Jewish people

The problem is not baseless hatred

We Israeli Jews must learn to coexist with 2 million Arab Israelis, not because we’re doing them a favor, but as a profound existential need of our society

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, talks to Jacques Fredj, head of the Shoah Memorial ,as they leave the train car symbolizing the Drancy camp, July 12, 2022 in Drancy, outside Paris (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

French Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Vel d’Hiv roundup of Jews

By Angela Charlton and jade le deley

Over 2 days in 1942, police herded 13,152 people, including 4,115 children, into the Winter Velodrome of Paris before they were sent on to Nazi camps; very few survived

This file photo taken in May 1941 shows Jews getting off the train in Pithiviers (AFP)

Macron to speak at ceremony marking 80th anniversary of WWII round-up of Jews

By AFP

From left: Alan, Diego, and Eugenio Garfinkle in an undated family photo in Montevideo, Uruguay. (Courtesy Eugenio Garfinkle)

Maccabiah games

3 generations of Uruguayan athletes suit up for abuelo’s ‘bar mitzvah’ Maccabiah

By Melanie Lidman

82-year-old Eugenio Garfinkle takes to the tennis courts in his 13th appearance at the Jewish Olympics, while his son and grandson represent on the football field

Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli attends a press conference at the new Allenby underground station, part of Tel Aviv's developing light rail system, June 23, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Michaeli expected to hold onto Labor leadership in primary — a first in decades

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Incumbent expected to easily win Monday’s vote, but underdog challenger Eran Hermoni says Labor needs to shift to the center if it wants to be a ‘ruling party’ again

Outgoing deputy attorney general Raz Nizri in a retirement interview with Channel 13, aired July 16, 2022. (Screenshot/Channel 13)

Outgoing deputy AG warns of ‘extreme’ discourse on Netanyahu trial, backs plea deal

By Tobias Siegal

A firefighting helicopter flies over a wildfire near Bustelo village in Amarante, north of Portugal, on July 16, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)

Massive forest fires cause deaths, force evacuations in scorching southwest Europe

By Karine Albertazzi

Blazes burn large swaths of land in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece; climate change blamed for intense heatwave set to break temperature records in Britain

An Iranian student from the Islamic Basij volunteer militia burns a US flag in Tehran, on July 16, 2022, during a protest against US President Joe Biden's visits to Israel and Saudi Arabia (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Tehran says US used ‘Iranophobia’ to ramp up Mideast tensions during Biden visit

Iranian foreign ministry makes accusation after US president wraps up trip to Israel, West Bank and Saudi Arabia

Illustrative: Iranian mourners gather around the coffins of Revolutionary Guards members who were killed in a suicide attack, during their funeral in southeastern city of Isfahan on February 16, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran says naval officer ‘martyred’ in latest mysterious military death

Illustrative -- Iranians spend time in Urmia Lake near Urmia, northwestern Iran, August 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran arrests several for protesting drying up of lake once seen as Mideast’s largest

By AFP

An image of the illegally sold 'zero fat' weight loss drug, which contains the illegal drug ecstasy and the banned active substance sibutramine. (Health Ministry)

Illegally sold weight loss drug contains ecstasy, Health Ministry warns

By Michael Horovitz

‘Zero fat’ also contains sibutramine, which was banned over a decade ago; ministry tells public to only buy medicine from pharmacies

Gantz narrows IDF chief of staff race down to two candidates

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday narrowed down the number of candidates in the race to become the next chief of the Israel Defense Forces. Last month, Gantz named three senior Israeli generals as candidates to replace Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, whose tenure is expected to end in January 2023. The candidates were Eyal... Continue Reading

Major Generals Eyal Zamir (right) and Herzi Halevi (left) are seen in official, undated photographs. (Israel Defense Forces)

Actors are pictured in the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood of Damascus during the filming of "Home Operation," produced by actor Jackie Chan and inspired by real events of the emergency evacuation of Chinese and foreign nationals and diplomats during the early days of a civil war in Yemen, July 14, 2022. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Shooting

Former Islamic State stronghold in Syria hosts Jackie Chan film set

By Maher Al Mounes

‘Home Operation’ was inspired by China’s 2015 operation to evacuate its citizens and other foreigners from Yemen amid civil war, but film only mentions fictional country ‘Poman’

Ex-Moscow chief rabbi fears return of ‘Iron Curtain’ blocking Jewish emigrants

By ToI Staff and JTA

Pinchas Goldschmidt, who until recently served as the chief rabbi of Moscow, has expressed concerns that Russia may move to prevent Jewish citizens from leaving the country, in a return to Cold War-era Soviet policy. "There is a fear today that the Iron Curtain will close completely, and... Continue Reading

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France on Oct. 10, 2018. (Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)

A Ukrainian serviceman carries a 155 mm artillery shell before firing at Russian positions from a US-supplied M777 howitzer in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

At least 16 civilians reported dead in Ukraine as Russia steps up its offensive

Illustrative: Iranians attend a rally commemorating the 37th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, under a Shahed-129 Iranian drone, displayed by armed forces, in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Russians visited Iran twice in June to assess combat drones for Ukraine, US says

By AFP

More Headlines

The crash site of an Antonov An-12 cargo aircraft, a few kilometers away from the city of Kavala, Greece, July 17, 2022. (Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP)

All 8 crew members killed after cargo plane goes down in Greece

By Katerina NIKOLOPOULOU and Jovan MATIC

Illustrative: The Ramle police station in an undated photo published by Israel Police on July 3, 2022. (Israel Police)

Couple indicted for man’s alleged rape of child stepdaughter with mother’s consent

An undated photo of Ruti the hyena, who was run over and killed outside of the central city of Modiin on July 16, 2020. (Effie Cohen, a volunteer with the Israel Nature and Parks authority)

Ruti the celebrity hyena run over and killed near Modiin

Part of a mural by Indonesian art group Taring Padi on display at the Documenta 15 art festival. On the right, a man is depicted with sidelocks often associated with Orthodox Jews, fangs and bloodshot eyes, and is wearing a black hat with the SS-insignia. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Chief of German art festival quits after antisemitic works go on display

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi talks during a meeting with US President Joe Biden, July 16, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iraqi PM says he is ready for regional dialogue, but refuses to comment on Israel

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Paris Saint-Germain soccer club's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi plays at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on December 7, 2021. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)

For kicksIsrael to host Messi and PSG for French soccer league curtain-raiser

By Michael Horovitz

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